Ok... sorry another stupid question

When people talk about finding a niche they usually mean a niche market, often associated with one or more keywords or keyword phrases that are popular enough to potentially make it profitable to market to.

Your niche is more about discovering the environment and activities that are most suitable for you and incorporating them into your life.

Does that make sense?

I think "niche" has gotten to be so overused so that it can mean almost anything. As it is commonly used, niche is just another word for field or topic. However, it's usually recommended that a niche be targeted in a more narrow or specific direction; building a business is rather broad. That makes it harder to attract attention and website traffic, as millions of blogs have similar topics. For example, building your online bookstore, using videos to market your business or writing articles to promote your affiliate business are all a little more specific, though even these niches are fairly competitive. To me, the more directed it is, the more of a niche it is. On the other hand, if it's too narrow, you won't have enough potential customers, so it's a balancing act.

Hi...

Yeah that word "niche" has been so overused (and misused). I, myself, misuse it in a sense.

I do freelance keyword research, and I see "niches" as incredibly targeted and closely related keyword phrases.


So most people would "strollers" as part of the "baby" niche. But I don't. I would consider "strollers" as a niche of its own. It may be a subniche of the larger "baby" niche, but I would definitely target "strollers" directly.

I also create my niche blogs targeting niches by my definition. So it would be very unlikely for me to start a blog for the broad "baby" niche. Instead, I'll focus on a closely related niche (or subniche) like "strollers".

Did any of that make sense?

KateD

Lauren, this is going to sound harsh, but I'm struggling to find a way to say this nicely. So let me just say it...

If you don't know what a niche is, then publishing a blog about how to build a business isn't really a good idea. How can you teach others if you don't yet know the basics yourself?

See, there's nothing wrong with not knowing what a niche is. But that IS a problem if you're trying to establish yourself as an expert to teach others about business.

For example, imagine if I set up a football blog. And imagine if I went on a football forum and asked folks how many points were awarded for a touch down.

I'd instantly lose credibility.

Same goes for a dog trainer who asks what "clicker training" is or a copywriter who asks what a "call to action" is.



My suggestion: Build a blog around something you know more about. You may be pleasantly surprised to see how much easier it is to make money when you can honestly establish yourself as an expert.

Cheers,
Becky

A "niche" is a section of a market.. usually a small section of a larger market.

When people are looking for a "niche", they mean they are looking for that small section of market that they intend to target with their selling.

Essentially, your "niche" (judging by your blog) is network marketing...

Peace

Jay

Thanks to everyone who helped me out... The things is, I feel as though I can help many build their businesses in "network marketing" so, yay!! that is my niche! I just am unaware of the termonology used online.

Hi lauren,

there are no supid questions...don't be afraid to ask
well niche marketing is finding a sub category in a particular industry...e.g. the little
components that makeup the bigger one. To explain I will give you an example.

so let's say you want to focus on internet marketing. But the competition is really big so you want to focus on a sub category (i.e. NICHE) like "affiliate marketing."
Now let's take it a step further and limit the competition so we focus on a subset of "affiliate marketing" like "affiliate marketing with articles." So this could become our primary keyword that our business is targeted around.

We build our blogs, websites, web 2.0. articles etc....all targeted towards this keyword and related keywords. This is niche marketing. Taking the big picture and breaking it up into little parts and then concentrating on those little parts which have lower competition.

Also, as a tip...when you first start out don't try to focus on too many diff niches. Just focus on 1 or 2 and make money from those first before expanding

cheers!
zeze

Hi Lauren,

Based on the fact that you are relatively new to certain terminology, your question isn't stupid at all.

Another thread you may like to read is...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-new-read.html

Reading through those links should get you up to speed. Just be sure to stay focused on one thing at a time.

All the best,
Michael

A niche market is a group of people who are searching the internet for a solution to their problem and not finding many relevant results.

Examples are:

Trying to cure dandruff

People who want to find a replacement hood ornaments for their Jaguar Automobiles

People looking for a solution for how to potty train their dog

and the list goes on...

A niche is a very specific term and is different from a demographic which is a group of people who share arbitrary characteristics such as "soccer moms", "men between the ages of 18 and 29", "golfers."

hope that helps some