Niche Marketing Is Not For Everyone

by Vic on August 29, 2008

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A ‘niche market Also known as Focused Market’ is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing; therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact.

Every single product that is on sale can be defined by its niche market. As of special note, the products aimed at a wide demographic audience, with the resulting low price (due to price elasticity of demand), are said to belong to the mainstream niche—in practice referred to only as mainstream or of high demand. Narrower demographics lead to elevated prices due to the same principle. So to speak, the Niche Market is the highly specialized market that tries to survive among the competition from numerous super companies.

In practice, product vendors and trade businesses are commonly referred as mainstream providers or narrow demographics niche market providers (colloquially shortened to just niche market providers). Small capital providers usually opt for a niche market with narrow demographics as a measure of increasing their gain margins.

Nevertheless, the final product quality (low or high) is not dependent on the price elasticity of demand; it is associated more with the specific needs that the product is aimed at satisfy and in some cases with brand recognition with which the vendor wants to be associated (e.g., prestige, practicability, money saving, expensiveness, planet environment conscience, power, &c.).

An often used technique for affiliate marketers is Internet-based niche marketing. By appealing to smaller segments of larger markets, referred to as niches, a website can be developed and promoted quickly to uniquely serve a targeted and usually loyal customer base, giving the affiliate a small but regular income stream. This technique is then repeated across several other niche websites until a desired income level is achieved. A bigger niche is harder to market to as the expense of online advertisements increases according to the popularity of the keywords used (on Adwords, for example).

Some niches may become saturated with marketers, increasing competition and thus, according to the economic law of supply and demand, reducing the slice of the pie available to each competitor. One solution is to find smaller, “undiscovered,” but still profitable, niches, usually by searching out the best keywords to target. These lower cost keywords are called long-tailed keywords, as in the long tail of secondary keyword phrases that usually follow the main keyword in popularity of number of searches conducted by internet users. Some are too obscure and may have very few or even no clicks per month, and therefore not much use to target.

The concept of niche marketing can be well understood by the following example: A number of television channels cater to the need of a particular niche; for example, sports channels like STAR SPORTS, ESPN, STAR CRICKET, and TENNIS SPORTS target a niche of sports lovers.


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    Sami Laakkonen August 29, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Nice to know that you will cover these routes at the academy too. I'm really looking forward about the academy and I'm pretty sure that it will be my way to success. If I'm just going to do the actual work and not just dream about it.

    I wanna succeed in both one big blog site and those small niche sites too!

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    Vic August 30, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    I know many people really would one to do the one blog thing so I will teach how to do it ;)

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    MJ August 29, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Ya know Vic, one of the things that's been throwing me off is the mentality of bloggers.

    I started making websites 4 years ago so I'd consider myself a webmaster, not a blogger. If someone told me 4 years ago that they wanted to create websites with no focus about anything they thought of and they expected to make great money I would have that they were crazy.

    Now, when I look at what bloggers are doing, it makes me question their sanity: creating a website specific to a topic you're knowledgeable in (ex.bowling) should be your first instinct, not an MMO website…

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    Vic August 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    I joined the blogosphere last year and as many people do I started reading John Chow, and Rowse and man every time I kept reading what they said to do I would step back and say mmm huhhhh? Just totally ass backward to what real internet marketeers do just insane as you said.

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    Diane August 30, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Bowling for Dollars! LOL!

    Looking forward to learning OpenX.

    I want to be the next 'M' lister. M = Money

    I hear you on the flagship blog, I haven't posted on mine in ages…think I better go put up some backdated posts…LOL!

    I am looking forward to diversifying my income stream. So far only BANS. Ready to expand.

    Thanks for all the videos today, Vic.

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    Vic August 30, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    ‘M’ lister LMAO!!!! Amzing how I started with one video and suddenly I had 4 to make :0

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    Woodshed August 30, 2008 at 8:11 am

    I love what Frank is doing. When I first subscribed, I was annoyed with all the random posts. Then I started analyzing them and learning way more than I did from 99% of MMO blogs.

    On the subject of flagship blogs, it's incredible what they can do for you. I have a blog I post to every day in an area I'm passionate about and in the last month I've been mentioned in the New York Times and got a book deal. It's fuckin' hilarious.

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    Vic August 30, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    It is amazing what you are able to accomplish if you stick to writing about things people search and talk about in a smart way like Frank does.

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    Mark Nelson August 30, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    I am looking forward to your academy. I do have a blog. Make no money and don't have much traffic. Guess that goes hand in hand.

    I want to learn how to make money.

    I just bought a macbook and I'm trying to wade through that.

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    Vic August 31, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Well I look forward to walking you and others through the steps ;)

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    D.Wep September 1, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    I don't think I will ever blog about the mmo niche, but I am still a noob at this so I am just blogging about what I know, like billiards and fishing, same with bans stores, trying not to get too far ahead of myself, I can't even maintain the 15 sites I have, I have no idea how you guys maintain so many sites and stiLL make some doLLar off of them. Working fuLL time as a handyman sucks the life out of me, then when I come home I have to write about it to maintain the blog…even though I only post a new topic a few times a month, stiLL, Vic I admire what you teach, and watch mostly aLL your videos :)

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    Mike September 2, 2008 at 3:14 am

    Vic,

    Thought I'd swing by and say hi. Hope you are doing well.

    Mike
    The "Golf Guy"

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    bandisusi December 19, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Hi..May I join with you? I like your articles and you right about you said on niche marketing.

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