Every Internet marketer knows the importance of discovering good and profitable niches. Many gurus have a very simplistic way of teaching about niche discovery. The sum total of some gurus’ teaching on this can be summarized as:

1. Choose a topic that you like, have experience or are interested in.

2. Take the main keyword from this topic and plug it into a keyword research tool.

3. Look at the search count. If it is about 30,000 per month, it’s a good niche. If it is below 30,000 searches, there is very little market and therefore it is not a good niche. If it is way above 30,000 searches, there is probably too much competition and therefore it is risky to enter this niche market.

That’s it. Based on those 3 steps, you are supposed to find a niche. What’s wrong with such a teaching?

Firstly, there is no research into the competition. No step is taken to discover how strong a competition you face in that niche.

Secondly, there is no research into long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords are defined as keyword phrases of at least 4 words (the more words, the better). Every marketer knows the importance of long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords can lead you to lucrative sub-niches.

Thirdly, there is no research into the tendency of the searchers to buy. It’s not only a matter of whether the searchers have money or not. Some people in a particular niche market may have money but are not intending to buy anything.

So here’s how the gurus really do their niche and keyword research:

1. Examine your own interests, abilities, knowledge, experiences. Anything from these may be a potentially good niche to market to.

2. Identify what’s hot in the market i.e. what is currently the most talked-about thing, what’s buzzing or new in town. Is this a potential niche?

3. From the above 2 steps, identify potential niches. Then run these potential niches through these ‘filters’:

a. Are people in this niche ready to buy and not merely information seekers or looking for freebies? For example, ‘how to score an ‘A’ in your SAT examination’ would probably not be a very lucrative niche because it would interest only students who may not have the money to buy anything much.

b. Is there a problem that the people in this niche cannot solve themselves? Any niche involving technical expertise would nicely fit into this criteria. For example, ‘how to solve Windows Vista registry problems’ would likely be a good niche because very few people are technologically competent enough to deal with these problems.

c. Do the people in this niche have an urgent crisis that needs to be overcome? The more urgent the better. For example, ‘how to stop your teenager’s drug habit’ is an extremely urgent crisis that begs for answers.

d. Is there an ‘evergreen’ need in this niche that is not a just a fad? ‘How to improve your golf swing’ is an evergreen need compared to ‘strategies for World of Warcraft’ (World of Warcraft is a PC game). Once the fad for World of Warcraft is over, the market in this niche disappears.

Obviously, the more ‘yes’ answers you get to the above questions the more potentially profitable a niche is.

4. Once you have identified a potentially profitable niche based on the steps above, it is time to look for some long-tail keywords. These long-tail keywords will reveal some sub-niches which you can further profit from. For example, if you type in ‘golf swing’ into Wordtracker, you would get a whole list of related searches. Look for keyword phrases with four words or more. Some of them are ‘stack and tilt golf swing’, ‘biomechanics of golf swing’, ‘what is the proper weight distribution during the golf swing’ etc.

5. To find out how much competition there is in this niche, simply type in all the keywords you have into Google’s free keyword analysis tool. This tool will give you the estimated advertiser competition (which is the same as marketer competition), average search volume for the previous month and average monthly search volume. The great thing is that this tool also gives you synonyms for the keywords which means you get more keyword suggestions. You identify keywords with as little competition but as many searches as possible.

The steps above represent a much more complete way of niche discovery. You will not only find profitable niches but also the relevant keywords that go with these niches. By doing this you make a solid start in your niche marketing.

It's a Birthday Blowout Sale (7 days only)!

Posted January 16th, 2009. Filed under Internet Marketing

Dave Lovelace, is having a birthday today and he’s celebrating by having a Birthday Blowout Sale.

So what he did? He’s going all out by slashing the price on his bestselling products. These are high quality products covering the most requested, highest demand topics.

These include list building, info product creation, affiliate marketing, traffic generation, etc…All the things that are most important to your online success.

And Dave’s letting everything go for a massive 80% discount!

But to secure your limited discount, you’ll have to hurry because the sale expires soon.

Listen to Launch Addiction private call FREE!

Posted January 16th, 2009. Filed under Internet Marketing

You’ve most likely been bombarded with numerous offers and product launches and you know these guys are making bank from all this. So what would it be like if you could be on the receiving end of all the moolah they’re raking in…

My friend Howie Schwartz knows how to do it. In fact he has launched more original products in the last 6 months than many marketers do in a lifetime.

Here’s where it gets a bit crazy…He was on the phone yesterday with one of his project managers (planning out another launch) and the private call happened to be recorded!

He decided to actually POST IT online to let people eavesdrop on this behind-the-scenes, private strategy call (just for you).

If you want to know the REAL LAUNCH secrets straight from the inside, I suggest you listen now, but you’d better hurry. Howie is starting his ‘LIVE’ training very soon and this private call will be taken offline.

Frequently, people don’t realize that in spite of spending a huge amount of time each day in setting up and then updating their niche marketing stores online, they are not able to make enough money to make it worth the time and effort. What most of these people don’t appreciate is the simple fact that by using out-of-date techniques and ancient software, they’re simply wasting their precious time and traffic.

So what’s the answer? What should you do if you are also facing a similar situation of too much work and not enough income?

Well, my suggestions are to be smart and innovative, and to root out what it is that’s working. There are several approaches to earning an income through Internet Marketing and there are even more ways in which you can lose that money. The biggest issue with most of the Internet Marketing stores is that the vast majority of visitors leave within just 30 seconds of arriving at your site. It’s an incredibly common problem.

So what are the causes of this behavior? There’s only one actually. You’re not giving your visitors what they’re looking for. Not enough content to read, not enough videos to watch and not enough products to browse and buy.

This is the reason why StoreStacker was developed. StoreStacker is different from all other affiliate site builders because the authors simply uncovered the secrets to keeping visitors on your website and aiding you in making more money from it at the same time.

StoreStacker enables you to quickly and easily increase affiliate income. It’s a stand-alone site builder that lets you create a website, fill it with articles, populate it with products and populate it with videos. It will also automatically add in your affiliate IDs and thousands of products from different online stores onto your website. Site built with StoreStacker are automatically updated and are fully search engine optimized.

No other affiliate marketing tool has ever been able to help its users realize their dreams like StoreStacker.

StoreStacker Software Overview

Most Internet Marketing software and tools are big on promises but don’t deliver in terms of value. And the sheer cost of buying such a tool is frequently not covered in the returns that it produces. More people incur a net loss after buying internet marketing tools. So does that mean you should steer clear of this billion dollar industry? No way! You just have to approach it the right way and select the right partners to ensure you make huge, instead of measly profits.

Consider StoreStacker, not because you’re being advised to, but because, like its current users, you can make use of it to truly make a difference in your income. It’s just not like any other product ever launched in the niche market.

The solution to the biggest issue online is StoreStacker—by converting internet traffic into sales. It is the only program that guarantees that more people will visit your site, continue coming back and make purchases.

StoreStacker is easy to set up and will help you build a unique niche-based affiliate store. If you’ve already tried affiliate marketing you probably know how difficult it can be to set up a store, populate it with products, get visitors and then convert the traffic into sales. Let’s face it, this isn’t even the end of the road—you also have to constantly keep on updating the content, spending hours finding and composing content, highlighting new products, etc. It’s a hard row to hoe.

But with StoreStacker it takes you only a few minutes to do all of this. You’ll set up an online niche store quickly with thousands of products, videos and articles ready for a visitor to buy. You can put your store anywhere you want—on a blog, your old website or even a new one. Products on sale at Clickbank, eBay, RegNow, Overstock, Amazon and more, are automatically placed on your site. And your affiliate ID is automatically embedded. This way, you’re sure to get the commission for every sale made through your website. And every product comes with a full description, links, pricing and even pictures. What’s more, even the search engine optimization is done for you.

What Makes StoreStacker Unique?

1. It’s Easy To Load and Install—it was made to be usable with the barest of knowledge. To create a complete StoreStacker website, you simply upload your files to your domain, fill out a form, check a few boxes and pick a niche you want to target. It’s that simple. Once you are done, StoreStacker takes control and handles everything else for you.

2. StoreStacker loads hundreds, if not thousands of affiliate products into your site.

3. Saves Time—time is money and often in niche marketing, most people, in an effort to become successful, have a tendency to spend weeks on preparing their content. When they get around to actually selling something, it becomes irrelevant and therefore both time and money goes down the drain. With StoreStacker, all of your content is handled for you. Articles, videos, products, pictures, descriptions, etc. You name it, StoreStacker will do it for you.

4. Videos are a great way to get visitors to keep coming back. Plus videos are a great tool for explaining a product and giving your surfers topical information. As a rule-of-thumb, visitors leave within 1 minute of getting to a website, but with videos and for that matter, articles on your website, they’re hooked.

5. Search Engine Optimized content—Your entire StoreStacker store is optimized for the search engines automatically.

6. Automatic Updates—Your store can be set to automatically update so you NEVER have to touch it again. Fresh videos, products and articles can be uploaded daily without you having to lift a finger.

StoreStacker is a fantastic affiliate marketing tool which is more than just ‘worth a try’. It is a revolution. Don’t miss this opportunity.

If you decide to order StoreStacker, use one of the links in this article and you’ll be able to get a free StoreStacker plugin of your choice with your purchase.


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