We are all great at performing day to day activities that are involved with running our businesses. We do well working "in" our businesses. But we also need to break out and work "on" it as well. By that I mean breaking out of your bubble and using some of strategies above. In addition to that, I also mean taking some time each day or once a week even and read something that will help you gain new business. That is working "on" it.

We get all wrapped up at doing our work to make customers happy once we have them. We forget that we also need to be doing things that make customers come to us in first place. We figure that out a little too late and scramble to try and bring in business. If you just changed your mindset a bit and took time to drive business in on a consistent basis then you would have a steadier flow ;o)

It's a balancing act but it is one that is not hard to do. Just schedule in time everyday. It won't happen over-night but if you keep at it, you will start to see how it pays off for you!!

I am thinking about niches like, oh...perhaps Real Estate Agents. A few friends are in market for a new house. Every week they get in mail (snail mail) new listing sheets for all houses listed that week. The idea is that they go through these sheets and see if any of houses peak their interest and then they are to call their Agent and ask to view them.

It was an ok system, but imagine how much time and MONEY a Real Estate Agent could save if they had an autoresponder service?

All they would have to do is create new listing templates, enter email address and names of their client base (even that is automated) and blast out new listings once a week, or more often if they wanted to. No more printing costs and gone are mailing costs and time factor you have saved them is PRICELESS!

See potential here???

Are you beginning to get idea about finding other market segments (customers) for your products/services??

If you are an affiliate for an autoresponder service you could promote autoresponders to Dental Offices. They send out appointment reminder cards...imagine cost savings for them if they had an autoresponder service, not to mention time savings of having staff to stick labels and post them out??

It is just a matter of seeing what they do and how your service can save them time and money. AND...the best part about this thinking is that not many take on this sort of business stance.

Now lets get away from "online marketing niche" for a second and think of other ways of creating profit through niches.

Another thing is to look to your hobbies and interests.

Lets say you dabble at DJing on weekends as a hobby. With that very hobby you could create profit by creating a little niche site geared towards DJing. Your site could focus on showing someone how to break into weekend DJ business and provide sites that offer good DJ equipment (that you are affiliated with of course).

The idea about NICHE Marketing is that you DON'T have to stick within "Online Marketing" niche. You can find a niche based on an affiliate program, a hobby or a special interest.

Some of top marketers have found other niches like; stop smoking, weight loss, online dating, model trains, travel, golf and yup even cooking.

Don't limit yourself to niche of online marketing. Step out and find other market segments that are not being served or where there is limited competition and build your niches around those. It's like taking a path of least resistance and a path to more profits!