Once you focus on smaller, sub-niche market, it is time to analyze the profitability of the niche. There are two things to keep in mind when determining the market value of a potential niche, the size of the buyer’s market and the existing competition.
It’s always important to verify that there is enough demand for products or services in any given niche but we don’t want to spend a lot of time and money trying to penetrate an over-populated market where the competition is so incredibly stiff that we’d constantly struggle to secure even a tiny share of the market.
We have to balance these two things out.
There are many ways to analyze the profitability of a potential niche, including conducting searches to see what types of existing products are being offered to this niche.
- Visit Competing Sites – You will want to search for existing sites that would eventually become your competition if you do decide to explore this niche. Check to see what products they are offering, and what price points they are using. You want to focus on the websites that appear in the top search results in Google (or other search engines) when you enter in specific keywords.
- Visit The Popular Marketplaces – Take a few minutes to visit www.Amazon.com and search for products currently available. This is an easy way to determine whether the niche market is viable based on whether Amazon offers a lot of content (books) relating to the subject.
- Paid Ads – Visit www.Google.com and search using relevant keywords for products in your niche market. Check to see whether there are paid advertisements in the right hand results column. If people are paying to advertise on Google, odds are the niche market is doing well enough to justify it.
- Visit Communities – Browse the search engines for related community forums, message boards and blogs. Are there a lot of people discussing subjects relating to this niche market? Are there people asking specific questions that you could create a product about and solve these problems/address these issues?
- Check for Sub-Niche Markets – When you are browsing for information and the viability of a specific niche, don’t forget to also pay attention to sub niche markets where you could possibly venture into, create products for and make money with.
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