Finding Your Niche In Information Marketing

by Carl Pruitt

Before you begin selling information products on the Internet, you want to make sure you're targeting a niche that will be profitable for you in the short and long-term. A niche just means your target audience.

Some niches, you will quickly discover, are not as profitable as others. You need to put a lot of thought into whether your target audience is both willing and able to spend money for the solutions to their problems.

For instance, golfers have deep pockets because the game of golf in itself is expensive. They're also rabid fans of the game who would do anything to improve their score or beat their competitors on the links.

On the other side, a target market of single moms on a budget may not be willing to let go of $67 for your eBook on how to get organized. Sometimes, though, it depends on which of their problems you are trying to solve. They would like to get organized, but they need more money. Targeting this exact same niche of single moms, you might find that many are willing to pay $47 for your eBook showing them how to make more money working from home.

One excellent place to begin is with checking out online groups and forums. You can visit iVillage, or Yahoo groups, Google groups, or Boardtracker and determine what sort of groups garner the most posts. Men's groups such as AskMen might provide some insight into which types of information products this segment of the population might need which you can provide at a handsome profit.

You're not only looking for large group of people to market to - you are looking for the large group that has a lot of problems in common which need solutions. As you start creating information products, you will want to concentrate on building a whole line of products in one niche to begin with. This will allow you to market to loyal existing customers who will buy from you many different times.

In some instances, you'll find a large niche market and then realize you need to develop your information product line around a more targeted, narrow section of that niche. For example, parents are a group with plenty of problems you could potentially address. Raising intelligent kids, saving money, preventing drug and dealing with discipline, use might be a few.

But you can then narrow that niche to moms or dads and dig deeper by focusing on parents of multiples or parents raising kids with physical ailments. Just remember that an information product is not really a product at all - it's a solution, so it needs to be marketed as something that will improve lives

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