You may have been told in the past that the business opportunities which you should pursue are those which you are passionate about, but also reside in an overlooked niche market. This is absolutely what you should be pursuing. Consequently, you ponder your interests and search for matching keywords and search phrases. If you find that certain keywords are being frequently searched each month, and then a potentially niche market exists in your targeted area.
Now that I have gotten your hopes up, it is time for a reality check. There is more than just having an interest in a target market and search volume at issue here. You have to also make sure that the market which you are targeting is actually the one which will be most interested in what you have to offer. It might be that the key phrases which you thought were relevant to your target market may have missed the mark. Once you are able to clearly identify your niche market, you still have the task of educating this market on your concept, and explaining to them why they should want your product or service. This seems like more trouble than it is worth.
Well, rather than attempting to locate a market which has to be taught about your offer, and then convinced that they need it, choose a market which is already familiar with the what you are presenting. For example, nearly everyone is familiar with the concept of weight loss. However, within the niche market of individuals who are interested in losing weight, there are those who need to lose weight, and those who simply want to lose weight. The former may need to lose weight for health concerns, and the latter may want to lose weight for an upcoming event, such as a wedding. Do you see what we did? We took a niche market, and further segmented it into sub-niche market. This is were the business opportunities exist.
You need to worry about attempting to discover what you think may be a niche market. This would not only require that you educate this niche on your new concept offer, but also convince them that they actually want or need your offer. Not only will it take you months, if not years to conduct the research to even identify your target market, it will cost an absurd amount of money.
Of course, we have another option. One which takes advantage of the time and money spent by someone else on researching and identifying a target market. Your task is to take full advantage of someone else’s work. You can do this by first choosing your niche market. Once you have done this, locate the prominent companies within this market. Make sure that you visit their websites. I will need you to pay close attention here. You must identify what steps they are taking to illustrate to their visitors that they will achieve their goals by taking advantage of the companies’ offers.
Here is the fun part. Think back to the weight loss example that we spoke of earlier. We were able to break the niche market for weight loss offers down further. We stated that there are those who need to lose weight for health concerns, and those who want to lose weight for whatever reason. Larger companies tend to focus on weight loss in general. Thus, they tend to offer packaged meals shipped to your door so that you can eat like a man and still lose weight. Sound familiar? I would venture to say that most people wanting to lose ten pounds for their best friend’s upcoming wedding are not willing to spend their money on an expensive plan. Such an individual might be more interested in software which can tell them if they eat this, this, and this per day, and exercise for such amount of time per day, then in “x” amount of days, they will lose the ten pounds that they want to lose. This software does exist, and may be a great solution to the problem that those in this sub-niche market face.
So we have identified out sub-niche market. What do we know about this market? One thing that we know is that they do not need to lose weight because of a serious health concern. We also know that they only want to lose a minimal amount of weight. Furthermore, we know that they are on a deadline, but do not want to spend a whole lot of money on weight loss products. Can you see how we are identifying the wants of this sub-niche market? These wants are how you can identify this market’s hot buttons. Their hot buttons are the things that they need to hear from you in order to compel them to make a decision to buy. You have to show the buyer how their concerns are solved by your products. The buyer must see what they will be getting out of it. Your job is to put the focus on the buyer, and enable them to envision satisfying their goals with your product. They must feel that if they do not purchase your product, they will be out of luck and will fail to reach their goals.
All you need to do is a little bit of research and creative thinking, and you can locate business opportunities which others have overlooked.
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