While this is not a secret technique, I figured that I would share it anyways for those of you who may not know it. eBay is a great way to find popular niches that you know people are looking to spend money on (since they are, after all, visiting eBay). So, first step: go to eBay Pulse: trends, hot picks, cool stuff and popular searches on eBay.com The first 10 most popular searches that show up are far to broad and popular to be good niche markets, so the next step is to use the category drop-down menu and narrow your target by selecting a category and then even a subcategory. For example: Collectibles -> Clocks. Now the 10 most popular searches in this category are displayed, and these have some good niche potential. Like result #2, "Seth Thomas". Click on that link to see what kind of things are being sold and how much they are selling for. This is simple and easy way to find good niche ideas! And best of all, you know people are looking to spend money on these items.
No problem jared. You will find that there are a ton of great ways to collect good niches if you just look around a little bit.
Hi Possibilty Here's another method using eBay to uncover worthwhile niche markets. On the eBay Home Page hover your mouse over the categories tab and a menu will drop down. This will display 34 General Categories (or in IM speak general keywords) Click on one of the 34 general categories lets say "crafts" doing so will bring up the sub categories within the General Category "Crafts" of which there are 39 or so. Lets pick one of those, Tole Painting (Thats Painting on Sheet Metal Decoratively) Now thats an unexplored niche site waiting to happen. and within the Tole Painting sub category you'll find 8 sub sub categories (Long Tail Keywords) so to speak. Its slightly more involved than that and I covered a lot of this information in my eBook Published in December of 2007. "Public Domain Cookbook" EZ Product Recipes. Here's another easy methods to locate niches that have real buyers. Go to the Bookstore of your choice and head to the magazine rack. I prefer the National Chains because of the huge diverse magazine displays. These racks are usually broken down into sections (General Keywords) and within each section there is a diversity of magazines for sale, each magazine represents a potential niche for the intreped Internet Marketeer. Grab any issue and Magazine Publishers change the covers and material each addition right. So everytime you look at a specific issue its chalk full of "Long Tail Keywords) with proven buyers in that market. Just by returning everyonce in a while to the same Magazine you discover valuable material and information pertaining to your niche site but really most Magazine Publishers now days have an online version and you can usually locate back issues that contain even more valuable free research in some really obscure untapped niches. Paul P.S. One of my favorite eBay places to get niche ideas is under the General Category "Everything Else"