The Marketing Niche Factor

Written by F. Terrence Markle


The Marketing Niche Factor

By F. Terrence Markle http://www.QuikSystems.com What’s allrepparttar talk about niche marketing? It’s all about marketing to a special area of demand for a product or service! There are plenty of opportunities available if you haven’t got into niches yet. As everyone knows…repparttar 146601 Internet market is huge. Niches are everywhere and they are here to stay. Dorepparttar 146602 research and you can find one or more profitable niches that will make you smile allrepparttar 146603 way torepparttar 146604 bank.

Should you pursue Internet marketing products or niche marketing?

There are a lot of newcomers and more experienced marketers wanting to sell Internet marketing products. Unfortunately, it isrepparttar 146605 absolute worst choice unless you are an experienced and successful marketer! The arena is saturated with marketers that have a strong foothold and are not about to relinquish their firm grip. They are only interested in pushing their products. Can you blame them?

Forget it whenrepparttar 146606 gurus say.. I want to see you succeed and I will show you how.” What they really mean is… “I want you on my prospect or customer list so I can promote my products and sell to you forever.” It’s a simple matter of protecting your turf.

Get smart and getrepparttar 146607 heck out of trying to sell Internet marketing products online. You are most likely setting yourself up for failure if you try to compete withrepparttar 146608 established marketers. Instead… go after niche marketing with a passion. It’s a very dynamic and wide open marketing opportunity.

What is niche marketing anyway?

Niche marketing has been around a long time. However, it is getting a lot more attention in Internet marketing and will continue to grow. A niche is a tightly defined group of potential customers with a specific “want or need”.

Large businesses are not interested in small niche markets. They want to sell torepparttar 146609 large masses. The niche marketer, however, can make a very comfortable living marketingrepparttar 146610 right product or service to a niche market. It’s what I callrepparttar 146611 “Niche Factor”.

The trick is to find a niche you can capitalize on and has a potential customer base with unsatisfied wants or needs. Develop a product or service to satisfy that customer base and you are on your way. Don’t makerepparttar 146612 classical mistake of developing your product first and then trying to find a market for it. Fightrepparttar 146613 temptation and do itrepparttar 146614 right and profitable way.

Niche marketing is all about satisfyingrepparttar 146615 wants or needs of a specific group of people. As an example, assume that an individual wanted information on “Louisville Slugger” baseball bats. The market segment could be “baseball”,repparttar 146616 niche could be “baseball equipment,”repparttar 146617 sub-niche could be “baseball bats” andrepparttar 146618 sub-sub-niche could be “Louisville Slugger baseball bats”. This classification could go down to even deeper levels depending onrepparttar 146619 market category.

A focused or tightly defined niche will enable you to assessrepparttar 146620 worthiness ofrepparttar 146621 potential market. You need to be unique and highly specialized in order to define a niche where you can compete on a level playing field.

The Internet has tons of information on just about any topic you can possibly imagine. People are always searching for products and services onrepparttar 146622 Internet. Most individuals want free information. If necessary, however, they are willing to spend money forrepparttar 146623 right information.

There are more niche markets than you can shake a stick at. You can put just about any keyword or keyword phrase into a major search engine and get back search results that range in a huge number of sites to just a handful. No matter what your skill, hobby or special interest.. you can rest assured other people are looking for information on that specific topic.

Find out what people are searching for and develop or acquire a product or service to sell to them that satisfies their wants or needs. Just make sure it’s in a profitable niche.

Improving Search Engine Rankings

Written by Brett J. Daly


Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one ofrepparttar latest trends in marketing. Websites have proven to be successful drivers of traffic and revenue. Naturally, companies are examining how to improverepparttar 146499 number of quality leads to further drive profits onrepparttar 146500 web. Givenrepparttar 146501 overwhelming amount of traffic that Google and Yahoo's search engines receive,repparttar 146502 focus is often on improving rankings on these search engines.

Now, let us take a quick look at how you can improve your webpage's rankings. First, figure out what keywords your customers are likely to enter. Good keywords is a freeware program that can help you find words that are commonly searched for in your business. Once you have created a list,repparttar 146503 next step is to optimize appropriate web pages to those keywords.

Findrepparttar 146504 pages that best fitrepparttar 146505 keywords. Don't force words in, simply look for ones that will potentially benefit those who search. Includerepparttar 146506 word or words inrepparttar 146507 title and meta description. While most search engines do not considerrepparttar 146508 meta key words, it is still probably worth entering. Search engines often look forrepparttar 146509 term inrepparttar 146510 title, meta description, and copy. If you overstuff key words intorepparttar 146511 copy, many search engines catch that and penalize you.

Your PageRank (by Google) is also considered. This basically examinesrepparttar 146512 number of sites that link to you. Linking to link farms will not work, as they have no benefit, and will result in a penalty if you are linked to them. They often have a PageRank of zero. Linking to quality sites isrepparttar 146513 key. Partner and exchange links with reputable sites where both sides can benefit.

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