Niche Marketing – The Basics

June 26, 2009

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Niche marketing is marketing that is focused specifically on the needs of a very targeted group of users.

Such a market is typically not large, so that the competition is manageable for the less established players.

Online, niche marketing usually refers to the technique of entering a niche market in which the search engine competition is low compared to the potential or profitability of the market. Usually, you will go about it in this way:

* Research keywords that a surfer will use to find what they want. Look out for those particular keywords which has a good potential for profit and not a lot of competition in the search engine rankings.

* Build a website or blog for Adsense revenue or revenue from other ad networks. You can also aim to sell your own or affiliate products.

* Use on-page SEO techniques to optimize the website for the targeted keywords.

* Get other websites and blogs to link to your website using the usual link building techniques like link exchanges, article submissions, directory submissions, etc.

* Keep building inbound links until your website ranks at the position you want in Google for your targeted keywords.One Week Marketing Compleat Pack

There are many variations of the above steps as they will depend on your strengths, your long term goals and the topic of the blog or website in question. What is listed above are the normal steps carried out.

Investment Needed

Your own domain name and your own web host are two things that you really must pay for. A domain name will set you back less than $1 per month while a web hosting account would cost about $10 per month. If you pay for nothing else, you must pay for this.

Other than the obligatory domain name and web hosting, there are some services that can increase your productivity:

* Good content for your blogs, articles and websites is key to your success and, unfortunately, also takes the most time to generate. Paying for content might be a good investment.

* Submitting your articles to all the various article directories, websites and blogs is time-consuming and probably one of the most boring activities known to man. If you can afford it, you really must get a service that automates the submission.

* Services that reduces the time it takes to get good anchored backlinks to your site.

Recommended Skills

You will need at least passable skills in the English language. If you can write with minimal grammatical and spelling errors, and you can get your message across clearly, that should be good enough.

There is a lot of computer and web related work to do. On the computer, you might find yourself touching up some graphics, or installing a software application, or even doing some html. On the web, you would probably need to update your name servers and configure your hosting account. You don’t need to be an expert to do all these, but some level of computer literacy would be needed.

Niche marketing cannot be seen as just a sales job but must be seen in the larger context of a business. And by its very definition, each business is unique. Although I have broken niche marketing into a few simple steps, you must look at those steps as an integrated whole, that is, as a business. As a niche marketer, you are not a salesman but a businessman.

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