Most businesses these days have to do some sort of Internet niche marketing if they want to keep their head above water. If you are a small-business owner like me, chances are you have had to learn some niche marketing strategies in order to survive, perhaps even begrudgingly. I know myself, I would rather be focusing on learning more about my craft and my business itself, not the ins and outs of niche marketing. Yet niche marketing has brought me a greater appreciation for my customers and their needs. In fact, I even enjoy it now.

In this article I will share with you general approaches for one of the most viable free traffic sources on the Internet: Craig’s List.

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The big “Internet gurus” are just finally getting around to noticing this incredible source of free traffic. Yes, Craig’s list is a Goldmine of marketing opportunities awaiting you if approached correctly. If approached blindly however, you can waste a lot of time and not see any reward. There are a few unique strategies that I employ now that have sent my click rates through the roof.

You see, I live in San Francisco. (the birthplace of Craig’s List) I have seen Craig’s List grow from a very small list into a worldwide phenomena. I have been marketing on Craig’s List for 10 years and know all the tricks. In fact, I have spoken with Craig many times (yes there is a real guy named Craig). To some people the Craig’s List web site might look a little complicated. Do this right now, open up another browser window and I will walk you through a few areas of the web site, highlighting the potential free niche marketing options.

In the upper left-hand corner is this box. Listed as subheadings are “activities”, “artists”, “general”, “pets”, and others.

The “General” category is an excellent place for any kind of free report or other free promotional activity. Really, anything goes in this category. Having said that, you do not want to post anything in here that mentions a fee or even has prominently displayed fee based services on your landing page. If you do, it will likely get flagged, quickly.

However you can market your free newsletters, free reports, free tele-classes. If you have a niche product that corresponds to one of the subheadings, all the better. For instance if you are promoting a book on dog training, the “pets” category here could be a gold mine.
Personals

You may think “personals” is a total waste of time unless you are looking for a date, however, the “missed connections”, “rants and raves” and “miscellaneous romance” could be a viable place for marketing a free newsletter or free products or relationship tools or similar things. Again, be careful with fee-based products. The Craig’s list community will flag them very quickly.
Discussion forums

It speaks for itself. In general, these are focused discussions on an array of topics. Currently there are 72 discussion forums active. The discussions are worldwide, existing on every Craig’s list. Personally, I have not spent much time here, but I bet you could have great success if you found an appropriate niche. These are real-time discussions. (Hmm, I have to try this myself)
For Sale

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Yes, For Sale. How have you overlooked this before? These are free classified ads going out to thousands and thousands of people interested in what you are selling in every major city in the world. These are focused niche categories. There are many ways to promote products. For instance, there is a “computer” category. Presumably, those that click on this category will be looking to buy a computer or computer related products. What if you wrote an e-book on how to maintain your computer? Sell it here. “Registry Cleaner Affiliate”, sell it here. There are categories like “sports”, “musical instruments”, “motorcycles”, “general”. Check this out. It is a real goldmine. I still promote Free stuff here, with the “For Sale” items at the landing page.
Services

“Services” is where independent businesses can place free ads. Niches include, “financial”, “legal”, “therapeutic”. This is also a category where you can flat out promote your services. And it is all free.

How to Leverage the Power of Craig’s List.

Craig’s list is operational in hundreds of cities all over the world now. This gives the opportunity to put free ads in front of thousands and thousands of people every day, focused and targeted toward your niche. However, who has the time to post hundreds of advertisements? I certainly do not. And, one thing about the Craig’s List niche marketing strategy - you must post a lot of ads and rotate them regularly.

This is not easy as Craig’s list has duplication flag that will not allow you to post the same message in more than one location or at one time. So, the way around this is to write several different ads. Just change the wording; it is simple. Yet, it takes time. You only have to do it once. It is time well spent.

What I do is write several different ads/postings for different categories.

For example: I have “Free Stuff” Ads for the Community and other non-sales areas. I have several free reports and several e-mail newsletters. So, I have four or five different versions of each “Free Stuff” Ad.

I have “Paid Products and Services” Ads For the Sale and Services Sections. I also have four or five different versions of several paid products that I list in the “For Sale” and “Services” section. Part of my business is in the therapeutic section.

Every day I have at least 15 to 20 Craig’s List ads targeting specific niches. I generally post in the most populated and active communities. I rotate the ads so as to not set off the duplicate content filters.

Niche Marketing to Craig’s List can be very profitable if it is done correctly. It can also be very time-consuming. As someone who has grown up in the Craig’s List community, I have seen the ins and outs of of it for years (since 1997 to be precise) and realize its quirky nature. The methods I now use took me about six or seven years to develop and research.

All of your efforts will do no good if your postings get flagged by the community or if your delivery and approach is wrong. In short, niche marketing to Craig’s List can be an absolute gold mine if done correctly. If done incorrectly, you can waste a lot of time and not see any results.

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Niche marketing is a great way to make money online. The process is actually quite easy when you know how. If you are new to niche marketing, you may find a great deal of information that can seem overwhelming to you, but it does not have to be that way. To begin with, the most important part of niche marketing is figuring out what niche you want to be a part of. Once you dominate one, you move on to another. So let’s begin with the first one.

There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. No matter what method you use, you want to think of a list of preliminary keywords that you can research. Once you have a few, you can use the Yahoo Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool to help you figure out which related keywords are getting searched. Then you want to find out what kind of competition you’re going to have, which is as easy as going to any of the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) and typing in those keywords to see the number of results. Last, you want to know whether or not people are making money in these niches by seeing what people are willing to pay for Pay-Per-Click ads.

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The more they’re willing to pay, the more they’re making. Your niche marketing efforts won’t pay off if you’re in a poor niche, a saturated niche, or a niche with nothing to sell in (unless you want to create your own products, which is only a good idea once you have a feel for the marketing part). If you want to know what niche marketers are willing to pay for PPC, you need to have a Google Adwords account. Create a campaign that you are not going to actually publish the ad for, but rather just use to see what you need to bid to get good placement. Then choose your keywords and look at the Google estimator. That will give you a pretty good idea of what you’re looking at.

There is actually a software called Niche Inspector that will do all of this work for you. It’s about a hundred bucks, and it will cut your research literally by hours. Once you’ve got a niche that looks potentially profitable, you need to decide how you’re going to make the most of it. Selling affiliate products is one of the best ways, but there are some others, as well. If your niche marketing business concentrates on affiliate products, you need to be sure you have an auto responder with follow up messages regarding the product at hand and a landing page to send your prospects to so that you can capture their email addresses and get back to them in the future. The list is where the money is, so be sure to get those names and emails.

About seven to ten follow up messages should work to make the sales that are going to be made. Remember, niche marketing is just that- marketing. If you don’t want to sell affiliate products, another good way to generate income is through Adsense. Build a content website or blog (I recommend blogs) and put your Adsense code on it. You are able to have two sets of Adsense ads on any given page. Do you need content? Add an RSS feed to your site and go to forums to see what people in your niche want to read about. There is a resource called Super Blogging that will show you the best way to lay out your blog to maximize the potential to get ad clicks.

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Of course, you can always put links to affiliate landing pages on blogs, as well, and when you go to those forums to find out what the readers want, you can send them to your blog. You can even start a newsletter and post an opt-in form on your blogs. Whatever you want to do with your niche marketing business, you can do it. It really isn’t that hard to make it happen; you just have to be willing to take action. I really suggest trying out the niche inspector software to help you out if you want to cut down on your niche marketing research time.

But with any method that you choose, as long as you have a good niche without too much competition but a lot of money exchanging hands, you are sure to find niche marketing success www.youradsenseprofits.com and www.reprintarticlesite.com
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A niche market is a focused targetable portion (subset) of a market sector.

By definition, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. A niche market may be thought of as a narrowly defined group of potential customers.

A distinct niche market usually evolves when a potential demand for a product or service is not met by any traditional supply form, or when a new demand arises due to changes in society, technology, or the general environment.

Niche market ventures may become profitable even though they are by nature small in comparison to the mainstream marketplace, due to the benefits of specialization and focus on small identifiable market segments; even without the benefit of economy of scale. Niche markets may be ignored or discounted by large businesses due to what they consider to be small potential. This small potential can translate into larger profits for a savvy niche marketer. This in part is the basic concept that makes the niche markets available to smaller businesses. The key to capitalizing on a niche market is to find or develop a market niche that has customers who are accessible, that is growing fast enough, and that is not owned by an established vendor.

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Etymology

The term “niche” was first used by ecologists to describe a species’ position and use of resources within its environment. When used in business the term implies a situation or an activity perfectly suited to a person or a given type of personality. This concept has been extended from persons to products within a market segment. Whereas a niche in the strict sense can be a working position or an area suited to a person who occupies it, the market niche is perfectly suited for a product of human labor. Marketing in and for niche markets

Niche marketing is the process of finding and serving profitable market segments and designing custom-made products or services for them. As mentioned earlier, for big companies, those market segments are often too small in order to serve them profitably as they often lack economies of scale. Niche marketers are often reliant on the loyalty business model to maintain a profitable volume of sales.

Online Niche Marketing

Online niche marketing is often used by affiliate marketers. By seeking out smaller segments of larger markets, a website can be developed and promoted quickly to uniquely serve a targeted and usually loyal customer base, giving the affiliate a small but regular income stream. This technique is then repeated across several other niche websites until a desired income level is achieved.

Niche blogging is the act of creating a blog with the intent of using it to market to a particular niche market. While it could be argued that all blogs are, in some form, a niche blog, the term as it applies to marketing refers to a particular kind of blog.
Neither blogging nor niche marketing is a new concept. However, only in recent years has the concept of a niche blog come into being.

Usually, niche blogs will contain advertisements of some sort (pay-per-click or products or both). In some cases, the purpose of the niche blog is to incite the reader into visiting another website which may then attempt to sell the reader a product or service.

Niche blogs are sometimes referred to as splogs, but this is a misnomer. Even though the desired end result for the niche blogger is to make money, the niche blog itself often contains valuable information. Most pay-per-click advertising is content-sensitive, so it is vital to the niche blogger to have useful content that is related to the chosen niche.

Why are niche blogs are popular?

The popularity of niche blogging among new marketers can be attributed to several factors, including cost, adaptability and traffic generation. All of which are conducive toi start up business, particularly those that originate online.

Cost

The most significant reason for the popularity of niche blogging is the cost. Using services such as Blogger and Wordpress, niche bloggers can quickly and easily create a blog for free. In this way, the marketer can determine the viability of the selected niche before making a large investment of time and money.

Adaptability

Because people’s interests often change over time, it is important for a successful marketer to stay up-to-date on current trends. By using free services, the niche blogger can quickly adapt to the changing market and create a new blog marketed to that niche.

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Traffic generation

In order for a website to be profitable, it must have visitors. Normal websites require search engine optimization or paid advertisement in order to gain visitors. Blog services like Blogger, on the other hand, incorporate Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Using this technology, the niche blogger can inform various online directories of the blog’s existence. They, in turn, provide links to the blog. Visitors to these directories are then exposed to the blog’s listing and may choose to visit the blog. Thus, the directories act as a marketing tool for the niche blogger.

William Lockhart is owner of CyberIncomeSolutions a web site that offers research tools and resources for those interested in creating products and services aimed at niche markets.

It is a competitive world out there and if you want your business to thrive then you should know how to find niche markets. However, the question of how to find niche markets is easily asked than answered. Entrepreneurs who knew how to find niche markets are already in the forefront of different industries. You too can be up there if you know the different strategies to find market segments for your business venture.

The secret to surviving a market place dominated by the big players who have all the resources to attract customers is to be able to know how to find niche markets that have not yet been explored by others before. Let the big players focus on an already saturated market that requires more resources and investments. By learning how to find niche markets you will be able to start a niche campaign for a new service or product that will cater to a specific market segment.

There are software programs that will teach you the basics of how to find niche markets. You can also read books on how to find niche markets so that you are not solely reliant on technology. Market research will help you how to find niche markets that will enjoy longevity and not just last for a couple of months.

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The Internet is a powerful marketing tool especially if you know your target market. Use this to your advantage by searching for keywords that will point to the products and services you are offering. Thus, when your target market starts looking for products and services in that niche then they will be pointed to your site.

Most entrepreneurs are faced with the challenge of finally starting to know how to find niche markets only to find out that the demand for that certain niche has already dwindled or others have already beaten them to the idea. That can be very frustrating but then you have no choice but to start again and make sure you do it faster this time since you have already learned how to find niche markets.

It is not enough that you learn how to find niche markets. It is also important that you learn how to find niche markets that will cater to the long-term needs of your target market to make sure your business will have staying power. It is always wise to go back to man’s basic needs which are food, shelter and security. Consumers will work hard and spend money to meet these needs even when money is tight.

One of your best bets is to find a need that is not being served or is being neglected by your competitor and focus on that niche market. Do not be overwhelmed even if you are faced with a big player because by focusing on a certain niche market which that big business has taken for granted for one reason or another you are strengthening your hold on that niche.

Once you get that target market make sure you provide a more personalized service not offered by your competitors. Respond to the needs of your target market and use that as leverage against the big players. If you have done your research on your niche market then you are in a better position to serve them better.

The difference between a novice and an expert is their understanding of how to find niche markets. By using the same strategies that the experts use on how to find niche markets like software, keyword search and market research you are on your way to becoming an expert marketer yourself.

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