To start your home based business, the first thing you need to do is find your
niche . If you want to enjoy what you do then pick a
niche you have an interest in. Now I know you are thinking I dont have any interests. Of course you do, it could be anything from dvds to walking - think, yes you do, you do have interests.
First, write a list of all your interests or things you are good at - these are your maybe
niches. This could be anything from parenting to tuning in the TV. If its parenting, what bits do you love? What bits do you not enjoy as much as others? What parts of parenting do you like to talk about? You need to ask yourself many questions before finding what
niche you would like to work with. Take time over your list. Ask for the help of your friends and family, they my be able to contribute as to what your qualities are. Once you have your list, surf the net to find out whats happening in the world of your proposed
niches. Visit chat rooms, look at websites, find out what people are searching for. Validate your niche by
finding keywords with little competition.
You could choose to ignore all of the above and actually use
Niche Marketing Software to find niches with little competition first, then find an affiliate link after. This is just doing exactly the same but the other way around.
With all the
Niche Marketing Software out there it is hard to know which one to choose. I use (on a daily basis) the
Micro Niche Finder. It is linked to google. The
Micro Niche Finder lets you know with one click what competition your
niche has and if it is worth continuing with. It also lets you narrow your search to find keywords linked to the same
niche with little or no competition. It even finds you affiliate links. Like I said, it is an excellent tool. Amongst, no probably the best tool I have bought to asssist me with my internet marketing:
Marketing Niche Software.
When you have done it -
found your niche. Next, its research. Write some articles, blogs, squidoo lenses on your
niche, all of course with a link to either your website or affiliate link. Twitter is an excellent tool when marketing, but it needs using correctly. If you are familiar with Twitter you will know that you need to get a large number of followers. I spent a long time on this only to discover that none of my followers were remotely interested in my
niche - waste of time! However, after a couple of wasted months I came accross a course to help me get
automated Twitter followers, followers all interested in my
Niche. I have not looked back since:
Best Twitter traffic.
My squidoo lens has more information on getting more Twitter traffic