Saturday, January 6, 2007

Top 5 Niche Marketing Tips

by Mike Merz

Defining, and targeting, specific niches to sell to is easily the best way for the online small business owner to compete ... and profit.

Heres 5 tips to making the most of your niche marketing campaigns ...

1) Define your niche market.

What, specifically, do your current customers have in common? In what unique way do you satisfy the needs of the aforementioned, compared to your competitors?

2) Find out what your niche market buys and wants.

The best way to find out is to ... ask them!

Add a survey to your site, send one out to your lists, visit niche related forums, bulletin boards, and newsgroups and post your queries.

3) Offer the products your niche wants.

Develop your own product/service, or find existing ones, that satisfy the needs youve defined from your research.

4) Get focused!

Create your unique selling proposition, site content, and advertising campaigns based solely on these specific demographics.

5) Research, test, track ... continuously.

Its important that you stay on the cutting edge of anything and everything that appeals to your niche. Everyone wants the inside line to the latest trends, and those on the horizon ... its up to you to deliver.

Include these five tips in your niche marketing plan, and Im sure youll see positive results. ;)

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Regards,

Mike Merz Internet Marketing For Newbies LLC

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Mike Merz is the owner/webmaster of Internet Marketing For Newbies LLC, publisher of The IM4Newbies Update, administrator of The IM4Newbies Internet Marketing Forum, and has had articles published on many of the internets most popular sites, his main focus being Internet Marketing start up consultation, specializing in affiliate program related campaigns. Mr. Merz retired the #1 rated Internet Marketing expert of now defunct AskMe.com, and is a featured contributor for DEMC E-Magizine.