Released on: March 19, 2008, 10:39 pm

Press Release Author: www.freeearningtips.com

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: I\'m sure that you\'ve heard about how many startup companies
fail when they first begin, and the reason that most (if not all) of their failures
is because they don\'t create a good fountain to build on.

Press Release Body: I\'m sure that you\'ve heard about how many startup companies fail
when they first begin, and the reason that most (if not all) of their failures is
because they don\'t create a good fountain to build on.

If we start right, it is easy to go right all the time. But if we start wrong, it\'s
much harder to go back and get it right. So please pay close attention, get out your
pen and pencil, and let\'s get to work.

When you first start, you need to decide which niche you are going to conquer.

When I first started my online business, I made the same mistake that 99.9% of
people make. I read an eBook about how to make money online, and I decided that I
would...

can you guess...?

I wrote my own book about \"how to make money.\" I compiled all of the regurgitated
information I could find, put a twist on it, and started to sell it. After 2 weeks
and a little over $30 in sales I started to think:

\"Why am I selling a book about how to make money... when I have NEVER in my life
made any real money!?!\"

You may laugh, but it took me a few weeks before I realized that there was a problem
there. I decided to stop selling my book, and started to look for other ways to make
money online. What I stumbled upon next really gets exciting.

I was going to college at the time, and my degree is in \"Computer Information
Systems.\" I knew some things about programming, but not enough to create anything
real. What I did know is where programmers spend their time online.

So I started visiting places where you could hire programmers and got to know a few.
I then started to search for a market that needed something.

What I came upon was the \"Resale Rights\" market. Basically this was people buying
and selling digital products (eBooks and software) that they could then go and sell
to other people. This concept really excited me. I purchased a lot of these
products, but struggled to sell them because all of the products had links back to
the author\'s websites.

These authors were making money every time I sold these products... on the backend.
When I realized that, the first thing I thought was,

\"I wish that had a way to brand all of these files with my own links.\"

And there the idea was born. I just needed to create a product that would brand
these \"resale rights\" products. I wouldn\'t be competing directly with that market,
but make a complementary product that would benefit them all.

I went back to the programmers that I had been building relationships with, and gave
them my idea. Within a matter of weeks they created a product that is now known as
Zip Brander. (You can see the product at www.ZipBrander.com)

I\'m not going to go into how I marketed it in this lesson (I\'ll save that for
another day), but with the one product I made over $1,000 my first month with it,
and it made us over $50,000 in 2004 alone.

Since then I\'ve been able to branch out to a lot of various niches and have had
amazing success in most of them. In other issues I will share exact case studies of
these that you will be able to model in your businesses.

How To Pick The Right Niche

I want to show you know how to choose your niche. Just follow these 3 simple steps.

Step 1 - Do not choose the \"how to make money\" niche. I\'m not sure why, but I made
this mistake along with thousands of other people. This is the most competitive
niche in the world. If you want to fight against the marketers, good luck. But there
is a lot more money (and it\'s made a lot easier) in the niches I\'ll explain below.

Step 2 - Look at your personal talents, and start from there. I have had this
conversation more than once - usually every time I discuss an online business with
someone.

I ask them what their hobbies are that we could market, and they almost always they
tell me that they don\'t have anything they could sell. The problem is that people
usually look at their current job, and can\'t think of ways they can market that
skill.

Don\'t look at your current job, but look at what you do on your free time. The thing
that is your passion. This is where you\'ll find your niche.

Here are examples of the last 3 conversations I\'ve had:

Friend #1 - works construction, and couldn\'t think of a marketable skill. After 3
1/2 minutes realized that he has twin girls. Found there was a huge market for
informational product in this niche and him and his wife are now working on their
first product.

Friend #2 - works as a manager at Office Depot. One the weekends loves to shot guns
with his dad. They are creating a software program that helps people to increase
their accuracy when shooting. They are also creating video demonstrations on how to
improve your accuracy.

Friend #3 - came to me asking for help promoting a \"how to make money online\"
course. He had to call me using a video relay because he\'s deaf. I told him that he
was going in the wrong direction with what he was promoting. He had no experience
making money online. I asked him what his hobbies were, and surely enough told me he
didn\'t have any that he could sell. Before I even asked that question I knew what
his niche was. He\'s been speaking through sign language his whole life, and there
are thousands of people searching every month on how to learn sign language.

What do you do in your free time when no one else is around? Are you good at video
games? Are you a good cook? Do you play any sports? Do you throw dinner parties? Do
you collect anything? Can you play an instrument? What is your passion? When you can
answer this... then you know what your niche is.

Step 3 - Research your market. Don\'t worry - this part isn\'t nearly as hard as you\'d
think. Within about 5 minutes I can usually tell if a niche is worth looking at.
There are 3 things you need to do, and you\'ll know if it\'s the right niche.

First - Check out the search engines. There are a lot more advanced tools then this,
but this one is completely free to use. Go to http://inventory.overture.com and type
in your niche. This will show you how many times that word was searched for that
month on their search engine. If there are a lot of people searching for it each
money, the it\'s likely a good niche.

Second - Search for online communities related to your niche. People with similar
interests migrate to the same places online. Wrestlers hang out at wrestling forums,
poets hang out in poetry message boards, etc... Go to www.google.com and type in
\"________ forums\" or \"_________ message board\" or \"_______ groups\" (put your niche
in the blank). Visit these forums and see if they are active and how many members
they have. You can often find forums with 10,000+ members in it. If you find good
communities focused around your niche, then this is another good sign.

Third - Search for similar products. If you can find others selling products in your
niche, then it\'s usually a good sign that there\'s some life there. Purchase their
products and get to know your competition (because they are going to become your JV
partners in another lesson).

After getting this far, you should have a good idea about which niche you would like
to conquer, as well as some idea about if it is a profitable niche.

In the next lesson we are going to discuss how you can turn those talents into a
product. Product creation is one of the most exciting parts of the game for me, so
look out for that lesson coming soon.


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