Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Niche Marketing Has Numerous Advantages

By Gunnar Berglund


Recently, niche marketing has become the powerhouse of making money in the business world. These businesses don't just include work with bricks and mortars, but also, and probably even more so, on the Internet.

The fact that there is enormous competition in the industries of every markets industry and businesses is acknowledged with niche marketing. Businesses such as Target or Wal-mart and other enormous businesses are what are they are trying to compete with. When entering into competition with them a new business is likely to fail. This is truest when there is not a significant amount of start up capital. When starting a small business chances are you can not afford to undersell the competition for a smaller profit. Larger businesses have the ability to do this do to the fact that they have a much larger amount of merchandise on hand.

You leverage something that few others have with niche marketing which is a specialized knowledge or in interest in a narrow, more focused field. A certain niche or specific area is fitted into. That is where the name niche marketing comes in. Those with an interest or need for the products within that niche are the ones being targeted.

Here you will find your competition greatly reduced over what it would otherwise be, because: there aren't nearly as many competitors within a narrow niche as there are across the broad range of an industry; those competitors that are there have to compete on quality and uniqueness, since they are all knowledgeable and being in the same business need to make similar profit margins; and, people who are shopping within a niche generally care less about price and more about quality, service, and "finding something a little different".

There are more and more success stories of people who get involved with, either from the beginning or during their business careers, affiliate marketing and niche businesses on the Internet. The Internet is able to provide the broadest, fastest, and least expensive way of reaching a large amount of possible prospects and customers within a niche. The best part is that it is much less expensive to create and maintain a niche marketing website. You can even handle a few of them because they are very inexpensive.

Commissions are earned from the sales of products off the website with an affiliate marketing program. You can own a business and pay people a percentage of the sales made on your behalf or you can become an affiliate yourself. This is where you sell something for others. You bring people to the website and they buy the niche products and you earn commissions off of them.

The important thing about your niche business is that it must offer a product or service that interests you. If something interests you, you are far more likely to learn everything about it, become an expert in it. And in the niche marketing game, having a level of expertise that sets you apart gives you an enormous competitive advantage. If something interests you, you also project authentic enthusiasm for it, and your prospects will pick up on this energy and be more apt to buy from you.

And the other important thing, once again, is that your niche is something narrowly focused and unique. It may be selling the secrets of growing the perfect tobacco at home, or it may offer a one-of-a-kind customizable discounted greeting card making and mailing service, or it may offer pre-paid legal services that cost only a few dollars a month. Whatever it is just must interest you and be as unique as possible.

Niche marketing done correctly can make you much more profit and give more freedom than you will ever get from a regular job.

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