Niche Marketing – How I Found My Niche
Note – This is an unbiased review of the Keyword Academy. If you would like to visit their site and get more info about who they are and what they do, Click Here.
When I started internet marketing in late 2003, I had no idea what niche marketing really was. I had heard the term a few times, but dismissed it out of hand as something that I would probably not be successful at. That was my first mistake.
I found a program that offered to make me a millionaire overnight, and followed it to the letter. I didn’t become an instant millionaire, of course, so like most internet marketers, I kept dabbling at things, looking for my “niche”. Yep, it turns out that I was “niche marketing” the whole time. I wasn’t succeeding for several reasons:
- I didn’t know that I was dealing with niche markets
- I was trying to succeed at one of the most competitive niche markets on the internet (the “make money online” niche)
- I didn’t have the experience and skills to be able to compete in that arena
- Despite the vast pool of “gurus” that offered to make me rich, if only I would…, not one of them was willing to take me step by step through a process that would insure my success.
I actually did have some success with a couple of multi-level marketing programs. The problem is that, unless you are exceptionally good at MLM, any success that you get will be short lived. People stop joining, or buying the product, or whatever it is they needed to do to make me money, and the trip down money lane comes to an abrupt halt. It was time to find something else.
I was looking around the internet and found a site that talked about niche marketing. They ran through some of the basics and talked about the Keyword Academy (TKA). I bookmarked the site and kept looking around. Over the course of the next couple of days, I did a lot of searching and reading. I set up a blog and played with it a bit, but it didn’t do much. I understood the premise behind niche marketing and why it would be profitable, but I still lacked the “step by step” part. I had read a few articles that mentioned the Keyword Academy, so I went to their site to check them out.
Now there are some plusses and minuses with niche marketing and TKA. The first minus was that it is not free. They ask for a monthly membership charge. They did, however, give me the first month for $1. I figured that for $1 I can check out their program and see how it goes. If I don’t like it, I can cancel, so I signed up.
I found out a few things right away:
- I had no idea how to find a profitable niche that I could actually rank for.
- I didn’t know how to properly target keywords for a profitable niche even if I found one.
- Even if I found a profitable niche and knew which keywords to target, I had no idea how to rank high in the search engines for it.
The most important thing that I learned is that they know how to find profitable niches, how to rank high for the keywords that will make me money from those niches, and they took me by the hand and showed me, step by step how to do it!
Here is their site, so you can see for yourself.
There are a few things that you need to beware of, though. First of all, you need to be serious about wanting to make money with niche marketing, because it does take some actual work. This is not a way to “get rich quick”. You will need to set aside time to develop your business. You don’t need to do it full time, but you do need to take the time to learn how to do niche marketing properly. TKA will walk you through it, but you have to actually DO what they tell you.
You will have to spend a little money to do this right. Not a lot, but some. Domain names for your niche sites ($10 a year or so) and web hosting (you can usually get good web hosting for about $10 a month for multiple domains) are your main expenses. Most of the other aspects of building a niche business can be done for free, although there are some things that you may want to invest in that make it easier. One of those is Unique Article Wizard, which I will explain in a later post.
It takes time to see the fruits of your labor. Niche marketing depends on the bulk of its business from search engine traffic. You can be the best in the world at search engine optimization and Google may still decide that you should wait in their sandbox for 3 months before they show your site for your primary keywords. There are ways to minimize the risk of that happening, and you will learn them at the KWA, but it still happens sometimes. Niche marketing requires patience.
All that said: the benefits of niche marketing far outweigh the negatives:
- It is fun – It’s a great feeling when you search for your keywords and see your site ranking #1 in the SE results; to see people flocking to your niche sites by the hundreds and clicking your ads.
- It’s good money – You can easily build up a network of niche sites over time that will bring you a six-figure income.
- It’s residual – You will have sites that earn money for you for months and even years with little to no maintenance.
- It is 100% legal and ethical – Unlike some of the other “make money online” businesses, niche marketing is a win/win for you and your customers. People don’t feel cheated by you, you won’t get banned from Google, and you won’t have to worry about anyone accusing you of running a ponzi scheme.
I hope that you have enjoyed this niche marketing and Keyword Academy review. I will be reviewing Unique Article Wizard in my next article. Hope to see you then. In the meantime, here is that link again for TKA:
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