If you’re new to making money online, you’ve heard the term “niche marketing”, and were told to “find a niche.” Six months later, you’re more confused than ever. You don’t know where to start. Here’s how.

1. What Magazines Do You Read?

Niches are basically topics. To find a profitable niche, check which magazines you read regularly. Do you read gossip magazines? Do you read fashion magazines? As well as checking out your own reading habits, look at what your spouse and children are reading.

Magazines are always created around topics which are profitable, because magazines depend on advertisers to survive. Once you know that there are advertisers in an area, you know that money is being spent.

Next go to your favorite search engine, and type in the topics you found. Find websites and blogs on these particular topics, and read them. Do these sites carry advertising? If they do, the sites are making money.

2. Choose a Topic

Your next step is to choose a topic which you like. The more interest you have in a topic and the more knowledgeable you are about it, the easier it will be for you to make money in this area.

3. Write Down Your Opinions

Everyone has opinions. Your opinions matter, because the more passion you have for an area, and the more honest you are, the easier you’ll find it to make sales, because you’ll be real and credible to your audience.

Write down your opinions about the topic you’ve chosen. Be honest.

(If you go back to the sites which you found, you’ll see that each site has its own point of view.)

4. Find Products to Promote

Now you’ve found a topic, and you’ve decided on your own particular point of view, it’s time to find some products to promote. Go back to your search engine, and type “topic + affiliates” in the search query field.

Sign up for several affiliate programs. Now start promoting those programs.

5. Create a Niche Website

You may be tempted to spend a lot of money and time setting up a website — don’t do that. Create a site as quickly as you can by using any of the free site-creation tools which are available online

Follow this simple process and you’ll become a proficient niche marketer without tears.

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From talking with my Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) students, I know that many want to find tiny niches with X number of searches and Y results pages. I always advise against this.

Here’s why:

* Small niches mean small search numbers, and fewer high-paying affiliate products in the niche

* It’s an overused strategy that worked well in 2004. Times have changed

* It takes just as long to get traction in a teeny niche as it does in a “big” niche.

An, as Don’t Be Afraid of Big Niches | Click Consultants Affiliate Marketing Blog points out:

“Big niches are more saturated and there is more competition, but there is also a ton more volume and keywords that work in these niches.  In smaller niches, if you start getting into the long tail keywords of 3 or more words, you very quickly realize that you’re just not able to get any decent volume, while in bigger niches, you are able to go into these long tail keywords and still rake in the volume because there are just that many more people searching for these products or services!”

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1. You Can Create a Mini Site in Just 30 Minutes

Although many people are making money online by creating Web sites and promoting products on them, creating a website and monetizing it is usually a long process. Most people would laugh if you suggested that you could create a money-making site in under a week.

The boast of the Mini Site Formula however is that you can create a mini site in just 30 minutes.

Does this work? Yes it does. I timed myself using the exact process in Mini Site Formula, and managed to create a site in 15 minutes. Of course, this is because I’m experienced in site creation. However even if you’re totally new to creating these tiny websites, you should nevertheless be able to do it in around 30 minutes.

2. Set Yourself a Schedule to Create Your Sites

One of the things I liked most about the Mini Site Formula was that the program lets you scale your site-building activities. Obviously if you’re making three dollars a day per site, the more sites you can create the better.

However scaling up a successful operation is difficult for most people. The Mini Site Formula program shows you exactly how to scale your site-building activities, and how to stay organized, as your income increases.

3. All the Information You Need to Scale from One Site to Hundreds

The Mini Site Formula program consists of 19 videos. Although this is annoying in some cases because you’ve got to watch a ten minute video to check whether the information is useful in it to you, it’s also beneficial.

This is because you can see exactly how something is done. In fact that may be the biggest benefit of the Mini Site Formula program: you can see exactly what you need to do, and can watch the videos as many times as you need to.

So can you really make money from these 30 minute websites? Since the sites you create with the Mini Site Formula are professional, well-designed fully functioning websites, yes you can.

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