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When Is A Niche Market Over-crowdedWhen investigating starting a business on the Internet, the advice you'll very frequently get is to build a business in a very targeted niche. You'll even be advised to find a niche within a niche in some cases. By focusing on a very tight niche, and offering only products, services, and information within that niche, the market naturally gravitates to you. The world will begin recognizing you as the expert. When someone is searching for information on that topic in the search engines, since your site is so focused, it naturally ranks higher. Since you've spent a lot of time really researching the topic and related keywords, you should naturally perform better in the pay-per-click search engines too. Your focus will enable you to uncover advantages that others miss.
As you initially choose a niche and begin to do your research, you may notice that there are already a LOT of people in that niche. There are already a lot of established competitors. So you begin to doubt whether or not to get into that market. How can you be sure that you're not wasting your time by getting into an already saturated market My rather bold statement to clients who ask me this questions is that as long as you differentiate yourself sufficiently, you have NO competition. If you enter a market where there are already a lot of sellers, that's a good sign. It means that people are interested in that product category. If you check at the pay-per-clicks and there are already 500 bidders, that's a good sign. Usually, that means that the demand is so high that it attracted all of those bidders. Your challenge, again, become to find a unique, unfilled need in that crowded market and fill it. How do you do this You begin with research. Keyword research is the easiest way to do it.
Absolutely the best tool that I've found for assessing the competition in a given niche is a piece of software called Ad Word Analyzer. With this tool you enter a single word or phrase. The software then queries the Overture (pay-per-click) search engine database. It finds all of the related terms that people did searches on in the past month. Next, Ad Word Analyzer queries both the Google AdWords and Overture databases to see how many pay-per-click campaigns are already active. This gives you a very powerful snapshot of: - How many searches were done for each term last month
This is the place to start in researching your market. Your focus should be on doing keyword research and spending a LOT of time investigating the market before you start building a website or promoting a product. Marty Foley and I have done two recent tele-seminars centered around choosing keywords, using pay-per-clicks, generating traffic, and increasing website conversions. Altogether these two tele-seminars are more than 4 hour of discussion and insights into building a finely-tuned marketing machine. I encourage you to check these out. You can grab both transcripts at: https://MasterThePayPerClicks.com Getting back to the very basic question of when is a market overcrowded - it's overcrowded when you can't make a satisfactory return on investment in that niche. What you consider a satisfactory ROI is a personal judgement. It depends upon what you could get if you invested your resources in an alternative investment. Frank, I don't see why you'd want to enter an arena where the competition is already very fierce... such as Internet Marketing. I've already shared with you (in earlier articles) that there are people quietly making six or even seven-figure incomes off in fairly obscure niches. My friend John Evans wrote about nine such people in his book Success Alert. This book is required reading for anyone I mentor or coach and is available at: https://Success-Alert.com
Hopefully you do thorough research, but don't let a little competition stop you from entering a market. If there is no competition in a market, it's often because others have already investigated that niche and determined it to be a total waste of time. Sometimes it's good to follow the crowd... Just figure out a way to stand out in that crowd.
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