Unlocking The Niche Code - Part 2

The eBay Pulse site is a great place to start looking at sub-niches. What I will do is select the category first (using the topics I’ve gathered from looking at the previous sites), then look for profitable sub-niches by then selecting a sub-category.
The best chance for success is if I am as specific as possible with my niche selection. In the example below, I don’t want to sell to the “crafts” niche.
I want to sell to grandmothers who enjoy giving their latch rug hooking gifts to their families and friends. Whatever. You get the idea.





Also, I’ll always check the largest stores as well to see what they’re selling. There has to be a reason they are the largest stores. They must be doing something right.

eBay also puts out a PDF report of their hottest categories each month, available at
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf.


Now that I have some potential sub-niches to work with, I want to see how much of a market there is there.

Just because a sub-niche is popular doesn’t mean people spend money on it.
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com

Amazon is a great place to see what currently exists for any given sub-niche.

Chances are, the more books there are written on that subject, the more that market spends on those topics.


For example:



First I specify “Books” to search. Then I enter my niche, in this case “crafts.”

Uh oh. There are WAY too many books returned. This niche is not targeted enough. It is too “mainstream.”



Much better! There are possibilities here.

We now suspect the following:

This sub-niche may be targeted enough.

This sub-niche may spend money.



to be continued .....


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