Techniques to Helping Decide on My Niche
Thanks for following this journey so far.
Now we get into the nitty gritty, where we need to make a decision on which niche to go with. Many people tell you should follow something you are very interested in, or passionate about. I’m not too sure about the practicality of that, although it does have its positive aspects which means that you probably wont lose interest in the topic, whereas if you pick a niche that holds very little interest to you at all, then chances are, once you start seeing little of no results for all your hard work, you’re more likely to let it go, than if you were interested in it. So, I’ll leave it up to you to make up your own mind as to whether or not, you’d prefer to follow a niche of interest.
Now, when it comes to finding a niche to do the research on, I have several ideas that help kick start my decision making process.
1) I look to books like ‘dummies’ series, as these are all thoroughly research proven niche markets that the ‘dummies’ company has done all the work for you in researching whether or not there is a viable market in that particular niche or sub niche. You really cant go wrong selecting a niche along the lines of one of their books
2) Research the bestselling books (non fiction generally) on Amazon.com. Amazon being the biggest book seller in the world, provides a wealth of information on which topics are hot, and their range of subjects and topics is as wide as your imagination
3) One of my personal favorite methods in addition to the above, is to browse through the PLR sites, that offer Free PLR Ebooks, and articles. Their subject matter, and topics, are also often highly sought after, valuable niche markets, where there is an evergreen need for specific products. Be careful with this method though, as the content from these free PLR sources is likely to have been used thousands of times, so whatever you do, don’t make the mistake of copying these PLR articles and ebooks for future use, as this will just impede your progress in getting ranked in Google (more about this later) due to Google’s demand, and requirement for original high quality content.
For my own niche market selection, I like to spend a lot of my time on picking the right niche market, and then once I’ve narrowed down two or three niche markets, hopefully within the same vertical, I will then spend the vast majority of my time researching the keywords.
So, between now and the next post, I will make a decision on my niche and then I’ll reveal the processes I go through to discover my primary keyword.
Till next time.
