On this page you’ll find everything you need on niche research – articles, tools, and other resources.
Here’s what you’ll find on this page:
Let’s start with a couple of quick definitions:
Niche [nich] noun: a distinct segment of a market.
In a nutshell, niche marketing involves serving one part of a market, not just promoting a single product.
A niche can be sliced out of a larger market in many different ways. A niche market can consist of:
When a lot of people first get into Internet marketing, they’re often told to pick a product and start promoting it (usually by going into the Clickbank Marketplace and choosing a product that has high gravity).
There are a couple of BIG problems with this technique: what if that product suddenly gets pulled off the market? What if a new (cheaper or better) product comes on the market, and the product you’re promoting suddenly stops selling?
On the other hand, if you focus on serving the needs of a whole niche you won’t get burned when a product you’re promoting disappears or becomes uncompetitive – you can simply find another product to promote!
Just think about it for a minute: niches have multiple needs, but products don’t.
Your job is to serve as a “guide” for your niche, helping them solve their problems.
Here are the niche research articles on this blog, in the order I recommend you read them:
This article crushes the myth that you have to be an expert in order to start a website or online business related to a specific topic. I know this from personal experience. I’m not an expert in any of the niches I make money from (except this blog!)
Three Evergreen Niches You Can Serve for the Next 30 (or 300) Years
Did you know that there are three massive niches that will never, ever go away (online or offline)? Read this article to find out what they are, and how you can profit from them.
Hidden Gems: How to Find Uncompetitive Online Niches
One of the things I strongly recommend to IM newbies is to start with a niche that they can make a little money in – to build confidence. The best way to do that is to start with a niche that doesn’t have too much competition. Read this article to find out how.
Find Your Audience: How to Identify a Niche Audience to Serve
One of the things I stress in my free report on finding a profitable niche is that when you’re starting out, it’s much better to choose an audience to serve than choose a product to promote (because products can become unpopular, but audience’s can’t).
Read this article to learn how to find an audience.
Finding a Niche Market: 9 Little-Known Brainstorming Techniques
Start with this article when you’re trying to brainstorm a niche market to serve.
Should I Enter This Market? 7 Questions for Information Marketers
Once you’ve brainstormed a list of niche markets, it’s time to narrow down your list to the ones that have the highest potential for success.
Find Your Market’s Pain Points: 5 Proven Online Research Techniques
Once you’ve chosen an audience or market to serve, read this article for some tips on how to understand their pain points.
5 Quickest Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Market
The title says it all…
Desperate Buyers: 3 Proven Techniques to Find Them
“Desperate” buyers are people who have a problem that’s so serious that it keeps them up at night. You should be talking to them! Learn how to find this coveted species in this eyebrow-raising article.
How to Do Niche Research Using Question & Answer Websites
Here’s a quick-and-dirty way to find out what’s on the mind of your market.
Niche Research Through Email: 3 Quick Tips
If you already have an email list (even a small one), or you have access to someone else’s list, this article outlines three solid ways to find out what products and services subscriber’s want.
How to Predict the Profitability of an Affiliate Product…Before You Start Promoting It
This article isn’t strictly about niche research, but it’s a great primer on how to choose a Clickbank product to promote without getting killed by the competition.
How to Find Affiliate Offers to Promote: 3 Essential Tools
Another one that’s a little outside the realm of niche research, but provides three sites that you can use to find affiliate offers to promote
Niche Site Duel 002 – Finding a Profitable Niche: My Process Revealed
In this blog post, Pat Flynn, of the uber-successful SmartPassiveIncome.com blog, describes his “passions, problems, and fears” process for finding a profitable niche.
How to Brainstorm for Profitable Affiliate Niche Ideas
Great list of brainstorming ideas by Sugar Rae on how to find a niche to sell affiliate products in.
How To Find A Niche Market in Just A Few Minutes
This blog post by Ryan Cruz is a good tutorial on finding a niche using keyword research and SEO competition.
How to find a profitable niche with Wordtracker
This article is on the Wordtracker blog, and also focuses on using keyword research to find a niche.
FREE Report: “Finding a Niche, It Doesn’t Have to Be a Bitch: How to Find a Hungry Market in 4 Simple Steps”
If you haven’t read my free 60-page report yet, you’re missing out on the best primer to finding a profitable niche!
The report has been downloaded by thousands of IM newbies since I first released it 4 years ago. I recently updated it for 2014.
The report covers:
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Niche Sherpa Video Coaching Course
Find a profitable niche in the next 60 days with my Niche Sherpa Video Coaching Course!
This is an in-depth, step-by-step course that will take you by the hand and show you exactly how to find a niche that you can make money from AND enjoy.
The course consists of:
Click here to learn more about my Niche Sherpa Video Coaching Course.
One-on-One Coaching
If you’re stuck finding a profitable niche, I can coach you one-on-one via email or Skype. Things I can help you with:
Click here to learn about my coaching services.
Have I missed something? Feel free to leave a comment below, or shoot me an email: moe at keywordsblogger dot com