Calling all Digital Warriors:
Are you tired of working your butt off and not seeing any money from your effort? I know I am.
One of the key differences between people who make money with online marketing and those who dabble for awhile and quit is their understanding of niche marketing. The internet marketing money makers who have preceded you understand the depth of what internet millionaire Steve Olcher teaches:
“The riches are in the niches.” –Steve Olcher, Internet Training Guru
Let me make this real simple.Besides having a website as a platform to promote the products and services you offer, you need three things to make money online:
1.A specifically targeted, starving crowd of people (The Right Audience)
2.A good understanding of what your audience needs(Understand Their Urgent Pain or Burning Desire)
3.A top solution to the problem/need they have(The Money-Making Solution)
Prior to joining Wealthy Affiliate I built three websites.When I say “I built” what I mean is I hired a web designer to build my sites. The sites were beautiful to look at but I didn’t make a dime.
Truthfully, coming from a middle class back ground with a hopeful belief in “work hard and you’ll make money” that was a hard fact for me to face. My first fleeting thought was, “I guess this internet stuff doesn’t work.”
Thank the Good Lord that was a fleeting thought. You see, I’m somewhat of a serial entrepreneur.I’ve been self-employed for more than twenty years.
Like any entrepreneur, I learned to tweak my business model, roll my sleeves up and hunker down to learn what I need to know and do in order to hit my money success goals. If you are not making money in your online or off-line business, common sense says you need to figure out why and fix it.
And you wouldn’t be the first entrepreneur to start in one direction and make a shift in pursuit of ultimate success.Henry J. Heinz did that.He started out manufacturing horseradish and failed forward into his niche of “Heinz 57 Sauce” and several varieties of ketchup.Once he hit on the right formula, he went on to make a fortune.
Your fortune begins by identifying a profitable niche. Some would argue that every niche is profitable but I disagree.A profitable niche for you is one in which you have a passionate interest and can build enough expertise in to stand out among competitors.
So yes, selling pony tail clips and sparkling shoelaces to pre-teen girls can be a huge seller but it’s not a good niche for someone with no day-to-day knowledge of teeny boppers and no desire to work the business of marketing to them.
Notice I said, “can build enough expertise”. That means you need some knowledge of your subject area but you do not have to start off by being an expert. Expertise leads to authority and your authority will be built over time as you continue to research and create valuable content for your website.
In this training module you will learn:
1.What is a niche?
2.Four ways to identify a niche
3.The top 3 questions you need to answer before determining your niche
4.Identifying big market categories and breaking them into niches
5.Breaking niches into profitable sub-niches
6.Finding the pain in your starving audience
7.The Importance of Keyword Research in determining your niche
8.The Five Minute Niche Profitability Test
Let’s get started!
I came to your site after I read Ive Tried That's training on hot topics and gives you credit with helping him do his research.
I read all 14 pages of your training. You have helped me in many areas regarding my niche.
I decided to follow you because of this. I know I will need your help sometime in the future, and I think it would be better if I followed you.
Chuck
I know that in order to succeed at the affiliate we need a number of tools. I want to happen to see a site
That you can create the best landing pages on the web, all in copy and paste. The service is free for 7 days. If someone from here is interested I will provide him with the information
India Hicks; its a MLM and been in business 3 years and is
doing great. I bought a sample kit for $700 and my first launch Get Together it’s called is feb10th. They provide you with lots on training, a web site and make your invitations. People can but on
line or at the Get Togethers, the idea it to get other people to be Ambassadors to sell the products, then you move up the more you produce. The products are good quality and some are expensive, but lots of people are buying them because of the brand India Hicks, she is building her brand st a fast pace.
In 6 months my friend became a director she gets lots of perks and has made quite a bit of money. Your thoughts ?
I've enjoyed reading this article, very helpful thank you! I'm doing keyword research on Natural remedies for join pain and have found some low competition keywords. I also looked up keywords for Natural remedies for back pain too. Join pain and back pain are sort of similar as a lot of times the pain is emanating from the skeletal tissue (the joints). So I'm wondering do you think it would be smarter to choose one or the other vs choosing both as my key niche? As I understand it better to stay narrow in the beginning and then I can broaden out in time?
Thank you so much,
Shawna :)
I have four months to show an income stream to the bank to keep my house off the courthouse auction steps. Here goes..
It's like you were sent to me to personally answer all my questions and wipe away my fears.
Words cannot express how grateful I am to have found this article... thanks to Steve: IveTriedThat... who included the link in one of his blogs.
Knowledge is power... We all have to be passionate enough to educate ourselves, step out and utilise the information we have acquired along the way.
From the bottom of my heart thank you so much Rebeccas... Thank you... may all your heart desires be fulfilled.
There are people online asking ridiculous prices for courses that are so inferior to what you have provided to us here, just for the prices of being a premium member of WA. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is so well written and easy to understand. You are "The Bomb!"
Amazing training!! This is such a well written, comprehensive, step-by-step course that will be beneficial to everyone who is still struggling to find their niche.
Thank you so very much for helping us!
This is one of the most valuable training I've encountered here.
Your expertise is astounding!
Thank you again!
Cindy
You could literally box up this training and fetch a pretty penny for it. My goodness, the value is incredible.
Have you ever thought of creating a Udemy or Skillshare course? Even a free one that would build your online resume?
Any interest in doing a joint venture? Don't know what that would look like, but if you have an interest send me a PM. If not, no worries.
Thanks again for the training.
Thanks!
Rebecca, I would love to see your websites so I could study them. Could you give a list so I could check them out?
Also, is there a list somewhere on WA of active websites run by WA members that us newbies could study?
I was thinking of sharing my life experiences.. for example, how do i manage with unemployment, sister's marriage, life after graduation.. basically telling people out there that it is okay to go through it, i have gone through it, this is what i did.. i wonder where does this category fall under?
Could it be self help? unemployment?
Would be great to get opinions from you and anyone who can relate to my train of thoughts!
Thanks!
You really have opened my eyes to finding a profitable niche. I have toyed with a couple of different niches but I couldn't decide on one that I thought would either be profitable or me having enough knowledge to make my site authoritative in order to drive traffic and potential customers to a website.
I am going to read your training again possibly a few more times and take notes.
The training here at WA is beyond words how good it is but they ask you to pick a niche in the beginning of the training and create a website based on that niche but they do not go into detail like your training here and I think it confuses members on what is the best niche to pick just as i have experienced but I think after reading your training it will give me a better understanding of what to decide on for a good profitable long lasting niche.
Thank you Again,
Craig
This was very well done, while being thoughtfully laid out for the student reader. I was really intrigued and impressed by the level of sophistication and expertise, which was evident in your presentation.
The material also contains an exceptionally high level of focus, on the relevant subject matter, while going into lengthy detail about the specifics involved (how it works).
Yet as I've seen before with Wealthy Affiliate Lesson plans it was pleasantly straight forward and was rather easy to comprehend due mostly to its clarity.
Finally, I enjoyed following along with your step by step concepts through how to actually profit online, because they really did illustrate quite well to me, where the money is.
Again, thank you so much for sharing this, because it was truly an awesome learning experience for me!
It seems I've been living this niche for the last 30 years.
Now I know something about it to write about i!
I think in everyone out there that there is some inner thought will eventually rise to the surface of your mind and you can use it!
I hope to have my site up soon and will show you what I mean!
One question though...I am on lesson 12 and I don't understand the purpose of checking Google, Clickbank, Skillshare etc? I can understand using these sites for the example givin-How to pass the bar exam, but what if you are selling a physical product-like specialty clothing?