• How do You Find a Niche?

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    LukeMoulton
    Published on January 15th, 2010 05:50 AM
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    Thought this might be a good topic for discussion as everyone has their own methods for finding niches.

    How do you come up with niche ideas and discover a market before registering a domain, building a site, developing a product or marketing an affiliate product?

    Here are some ideas to kick things off:
    • Local newsagent - magazines can be a good indicator that a topic has a solid readership. Flicking through mags can give you ideas of micro niches
    • Trawl through Amazon sub-categories and popular products
    • Twitter trends
    • Google Keyword Tool (you need a niche idea before starting your start digging though)
    • Google Trends & Insights
    • Website trading sites (Flippa etc)
    Let's hear your niche finding and trend spotting ideas, tips and tools.
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    Comments 3 Comments
    1. Rover's Avatar
      Rover - July 15th, 2010, 11:23 PM
      There is a tool called tattler that is part of drupal that can mine information for you on any topic you want. You can spot new trends before anyone else does.
    1. Clinton's Avatar
      Clinton - July 16th, 2010, 03:10 AM
      Cool, thanks for that Rover. Do you know of solutions for other CMSes?
    1. hooperman's Avatar
      hooperman - July 16th, 2010, 03:16 AM
      I don't tend to search for niches. I usually start off with what I'm interested in, what I feel I have something to say about, and then investigate whether it might be a profitable project to build a site around.

      Humbug.

      EDIT: Although saying that, I once saw a profitable site for sale in the SP Marketplace and replicated it with some success. I had no real interest in the subject matter so I hired a writer.