Niche
Marketing
"Niche
Marketing: Tactics to Use To Make Money With Niche Marketing"
- by Karl Augustine
Niche
marketing has always been a key any success in marketing but
lately it has become quite a prominent force in the online marketing
world. Many books, manuals, courses, and web sites have been developed
that focus on niche marketing. It is easy to find solid resources on
the Internet that can teach you how to make money with niche
marketing.
Niche
marketing online is a distinct segment of Internet marketing
and is the quickest way to get maximum exposure if you know how to leverage
the search engines to draw attention to your niche web site.
There's
many things to learn to be successful and profit from niche
marketing and your USP (Unique Selling Proposition) will dictate
exactly how to plan your attack to successfully market to customers
in your niche.
If you plan to use niche marketing to draw visitors
to your web site, here's a few tactics that you can use to make money:
Niche Marketing Tactic #1, "Research"
Fully utilize all of the
research mechanisms that you can find in order to make
sure that you truly understand your niche and all of its nuances. This
requires understanding what tools are best to use so you can understand
what your target niche market does day to day, where they spend their
time online, and what makes them tick from a personal and business perspective.
Niche
Market Research offers free reports and articles to help you make
the most of your research time.
Niche Marketing Tactic #2, "Define your paying niche"
Clearly define who will
make up your niche market and make sure that the people in that niche
market are willing to pay for the solution that you provide to their
problems.
A niche is a clear subset
of a larger category.
An example of what
a niche market is not: "People who want to learn how to
shoot better scores in golf."
In this example, there
are far too many people within the main category (golf) to make this
a true niche. Virtually everyone who plays golf will want to play better
and shoot better scores so this wouldn't qualify as a niche, much less
a category worth pursuing.
An example of
a niche market: "Women who play golf who want to learn
how to drive the ball longer and straighter."
This would be a niche
because it clearly defines and segments who you'll cater to and why
they would need your service.
After clearly defining
your niche market, you should make sure that they are willing to pay
for your services. The easiest way to determine this in the online world
(other than using common sense) is to find web sites that may be close
to, or even in your niche, and see if those web sites charge a fee for
their services.
In addition, you should
look to see if there is a reasonable level of competition between those
web sites. If you see more than a few sites listed on a SERP (Search
Engine Result Page) that cater to female golfers for a fee, chances
are the people who are your target customer will pay for your services
for solving their problem - women who can't consistently hit long straight
drives in golf.
Niche Marketing Strategy #3, "Choosing keywords and domain names"
Research and choose your
keywords carefully so you can acquire the best domain name for your
site. Niche marketing most often includes maximizing
the way search engines work to make sure that your web site gets listed
on the first page of the SERP's from your chosen keywords. Your domain
name contributes to getting those first page results.
Go to Digitalpoint's
keyword suggestion tool and type in keywords that you feel people
would use to find the product or service that you offer within your
niche. Look at the number of searches performed per day for those keywords
and review the other keywords listed.
Type the keyword phrase
that you think best suits your USP's target customer into Google and
assess whether or not you can reasonably compete with the sites that
are listed on page 1 of the SERPs. Can you get a page 1 ranking knowing
that you'll have to compete with the sites already listed?
Repeat the process until
you have decided what your main keywords will be for your product or
service within your niche.
Those keywords should
be in your domain name and preferably, they should be your entire domain
name.
Example:
if you've concluded that 'blue widgets' best suits your USP and you
feel that you can compete for page 1 listings on the SERPs with the
sites that come up on page 1 for the keyword 'blue widgets', then a
good domain name for your niche marketing site would
be 'bluewidgets.com'.
Niche Marketing Tactic #4, "Posting keyword rich articles or
reports throughout the web"
Niche marketing
doesn't differ from any other online search engine marketing, posting
relevant content is the best way (bar none) to get the
right type of traffic to your niche site.
Writing keyword rich articles
or reports and posting them to high traffic web sites is a great way
to make sure that you get maximum exposure within your niche market.
People will use your keywords to search for information about the topic
that they have interest in, and they will come across your web site
on the search engines results.
To learn how to write articles
that are optimized for the search engines for better rankings, go to
Article
Optimization.
Niche marketing
caters to a distinct and select group of people who need
what you have to offer. If you define your niche properly and make sure
that your ability to solve their problem is something that they will
pay for, you will have established a "money maker".
Utilize the search engines
to make it easy for your niche market to find your service or product.
Niche marketing is the easiest way to be successful
on the Internet if you do the proper research.
Be humble, work hard, work
smart.
Karl Augustine
To find out how
to be number
one in your niche, read Priya Shah's superb eBook, "Number
One in Your Niche!".
I have read it
and used the information in the book to profit handsomely from a specific
niche. This eBook is a must read.

Click here to read
about "Number
One In Your Niche!"
|