If you didn’t get to read part 1 go here.

I was on a call a few days ago with Mark Ling of Affilorama and he covered some really cool things about the internet marketing/make money niche. Here is the continuation:

In the IM niche the traffic and leads typically convert better than in other niches, so where in the dog training niche, lets say, you may have 200,000 subscribers and make 2 or 3 dollars per subscriber which is a lot of money, but in the IM niche you can have a list of say 18,000 and make 50 or 60 dollars per subscriber. I know a guy that makes over 30,000 dollars per month with an IM list of only 2000 people, that’s insane! He works hard and provides quality products, but how long do you think it took him to build that list? Not long at all.

Once you get your feet wet in the IM niche and learn what triggers and approaches people respond to, you will be a lot more likely to do well in other niches. If you try to use the same approach you are using in another niche in the IM niche, chances are that it will not be as effective as learning the ropes in the IM niche.

It is very easy to build a list in this niche at the same time you are making sales of affiliate products or your own products. When people see quality info and products and that your list isn’t just another automated pitching machine, they will respond. They will want to be on your list to see what you will have for them next, so they wont mind giving up their email address for a good free gift. Point your advertising to a squeeze page with a video, audio, or just great copy telling them what they are going to get when they join your list. Give them a taste of it then when they optin give them the rest. Then, once they have opted into your list and received their gift forward them to your sales page. You would be surprised how many of those people will buy, especially if your gift pre-wets their appetite for the paid product.

A lot of people overlook some excellent long tail keywords because they don’t get a ton of searches per month. In other niches your keywords need to get a lot of monthly searches but in the IM niche that isn’t exactly true. You can rank fairly easily in the search engines with long tail keywords that don’t get more than a couple hundred searches per month and still make good money from the traffic. It doesn’t really take all that much traffic in the IM niche to make money as long as it is targeted traffic.

I hope you have gotten a few good nuggets of information you can use from this article, I learned a lot from Mark and I will be following what he does from now on.

Entire courses have been written on the art of finding a profitable niche so it is not always cut and dry, everyone has their own system for determining what is a hot niche. There are some guidelines you can use to help you find niches that you have a good chance of being successful in and ways of invading niches quickly so the “not so hot” niches you try won’t take up too much of your time.

Start by brainstorming a list of possible niches, things that you may be interested in writing about. Come up with as many niches as you can think of in 5 minutes, then stop and look at your list. Pick out the few that you are most interested in out of those niches on your list. Then do a little research to see if those niches will most likely be profitable.

Pick your favorite potential niche, then start looking online to find the places where the people in that niche hang out. A good place to start is forums, you can often find out everything you need to know about a niche in the forums related to that niche. There are people asking questions and others answering them, that right there is a very powerful way to do niche research. When you see a common question or problem, one that is asked more than a couple times, you have an idea for a potential niche invasion tactic. If you can create a product to solve the problem these people are having, it becomes very easy to sell to them.

Look around the forum or related sites and see if there are people paying for advertising to advertise a solution to those people. If people are paying money to advertise to those people you can bet most of the time that people there are buying. Look to see if anyone is advertising that niche on Google Adwords. If you do a Google search for that niche and see that several people are paying for Adwords ads to advertise a solution to those people you can bet they are buying.

Do a search for affiliate products related to the niche. If there are several high converting competing products then you are in good shape. If nobody has created an affiliate product for that niche you have to wonder if it’s because that niche doesn’t buy. So look for niches with at least a few competing affiliate products, you can use them to monetize the back end of your niche invasion offer you enter the niche with.

If you are having trouble thinking of possible niches to investigate, have a look around popular social areas on the net. Look to see what people are talking about and what “buzzwords” are coming up over and over again. Ask your friends what new cool stuff they have been hearing about or participating in and find out what makes them want to look for something online.

There are many ways and methods for finding profitable niches online, these are just a few of the ones I use when I’m looking for a new niche to invade. When done properly this is a very easy way of making money online. We aren’t just looking for needs or wants to fill, we are looking for those desperate “hair on fire” wants that people will do anything to fill and we are creating an inexpensive product that fills exactly their immediate need. Selling online doesn’t get much easier than that.

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