1. People are looking for information on the topic
2. That there are genuine buyers and not just freebie seekers
3. That there are actual products that you can sell or be an affiliate for. 

1. KEYWORD RESEARCH

Initially, you’ll do your keyword research.  That is, identifying a possible niche and running it through Market Samurai to see if it’s got potential.  You want a keyword that has a decent number of people searching for it (so your new site gets traffic) but also doesn’t have too much competition.

2. MONETIZATION

Next, we ensure that the niche can be properly monetized.  Are there products you can create and sell, or simply affiliate with, within the niche?  If not, the niche is dead and we should move on to another.

To check that a niche can be monetized, we can use the “Monetization” Module inside Market Samurai.

We can also do a Google search and see if any of the top results or Adwords ads displayed on the right have affiliate programs.

Checking sources like Clickbank, Datafeedr, Ebay, Amazon, Commission Junction and ShareASale can identify further affiliate opportunities.

You want to have a laundry list of products you can sell on your site, so when it’s time to build, you know you have an offer for site visitors.

Also, make sure the products you’re identifying are a tight match for the keyword you identified with Market Samurai.  If you identify people as searching for “How to make your own soap,” you don’t want  attempt to sell them a candle making kit.  Yes, people interested in making their own soap might well be interested in making their own candles too, but it’s not a perfect message-to-market match.  You need a perfect match from what your users are searching for and what you’re selling to encourage sales.

3. SOCIAL MEDIA BUZZ

Checking the social media buzz for a niche serves two purposes:

1. Ensuring that people are talking about your niche.  If they’re not, it’s dead.  People must be interested enough in it to talk about it, otherwise they’re probably not buying.
2. Give you a point of entry to use social media marketing in your campaign.  Checking the buzz allows you to identify the social media sites, forums, blogs etc. that are most active within your niche.  When it’s time to promote and build links, you’ll already know the hotspots for your niche.

You can go to each social media site individually and use the search function to check if there’ buzz, but that’s tedious.  Plus, it leaves out blogs and forums, which can be a huge source of conversation and potential traffic.

Instead, use the service WhosTalkin.  You simply search for your keyword and you’ll get a look across all kinds of social media platforms where people are sharing images, articles, thoughts, videos and chatter.  Plus, it gives you an RSS feed for your search so you can subscribe to it in Google Reader and catch everything people are saying within the niche and respond to it once your site is up.

Another place to check is SocialMention.  While this service isn’t as comprehensive as WhosTalkin, it gives you a look, in the sidebar, of the reach, passion, positive & negative percentages and top users talking about your topic.

4. TOPIC TRENDING

You don’t want to climb on a niche bandwagon when it’s just about to die.  So check with Google Trends and Google Insights to identify any patterns in your niche.  Does it peak at certain times? Is it generally climbing upwards or downwards?  Where is it right now in relation to where it’s been in the past?

Don’t beat a dead horse (or niche).  If it’s time in the spotlight has ended, take a pass on it and find another niche with a longer lifespan.

5. VERTICALS & RELATED MARKETS

You may have identified other related markets (that may be more profitable, or could provide you with other categories, topics or subtopics for your site).  We’ll investigate those further to ensure we’ve covered all our bases in our keyword research.  Simply follow the tips above for any related markets, keywords, niches or sub-niches you’ve found.

To identify additional related markets, check with the following sites:

• Keyword Spy
• SpyFu
• SEMRush

With each of the above resources, you’ll be able to get an idea of the advertising spend in the market, as well as other, related keywords you can look into further.

1. Stop Browsing the Internet Aimlessly!

The beauty of the internet and technology is that we can find anything in the world we want, whenever we want. This is great when we need to get information in a hurry to pitch an offer or close a sale. We need to know what our competitors are doing. However, it is very easy to be sucked into the wireless web and get lost for hours.

The fact remains that Internet marketing does require time online. This time needs to be used for checking out the competition and looking for ways to not only build your online business but improve the efficiency of your business. This should include networking on different sites that pertain to your business model. Responding to posts on blogs and forums that are related to your niche and or product. I easily spend a good hour or two doing this each day.

2. Invest in Time-Saving Tools and Resources

You are in business for yourself. Which means the success of your business depends completely on your work ethic and skills. This doesn’t mean that you have to do everything yourself. The key to productivity is to use tools that are going to help you do the same work in half the time. There are a number of products on the market that will help you do parts of your job in half the time. Just to name a few – RoboForm, Article Marketer, and TicketDesk Pro are products and services I use everyday to help maintain and grow my online business, while saving me a significant amount of time. I use this extra time to work on other marketing aspects of my online business.

3. Create A Schedule and Stick To It

I don’t live and die by my schedule but I do keep one because it helps me stay on track. My schedule may not be the most ideal schedule for you, so take a moment or two and create one that is going to meet your lifestyle and fulfill your business requirements. If your work day doesn’t start until 3pm and lasts until 10pm you need to make sure those 7 hours are productive. Make a “To Do List” for your day.

4. Outsource As Much As You Can

Believe it or not there are a lot of people out there that will help you do your job more efficiently than what you can do yourself. This is where outsourcing comes into play. If you need content for your site or product, instead of spending the time writing the article yourself, outsource to a writer.

5. Joint Venture with a Trusted Person

This could be one of the most lucrative tips out there. I say this because you have to know that while you may be good at one aspect of your business there are other aspects that you could use help. Consider undertaking a joint venture, but just make sure you can trust the person you are partnering with. For example, if I wanted to take my knowledge of Internet marketing and create an eCourse, I may enter into a joint venture with a writer who can put together a killer eCourse using my extensive knowledge and we would share the profit.

6. Break the Email Habit

Do what I do, check your email once in the morning and once at the end of the day. Email is a wonderful luxury and a necessary evil. Marketing requires you to be available to your marketing world 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This does not mean that you spend 7 hours going through your email. It isn’t going anywhere, and if there is something that is earth shatteringly urgent you may get a phone call. Most emails can wait a few hours to respond to.

7. Automate as Much as You Can

Take advantages of pinging services, RSS feeds, autoresponders and email providers that combine multiple accounts such as Google or Outlook so that you are still sending out updates, checking emails and taking care of other menial tasks that need to be handled, but can be done through an automated service. This gives you time to tackle other projects.

I cannot make you more productive. I can only provide you with tools and tips that will help you take your business to the next level. If you decide to step up to the plate and use the seven tips I have provided, you will find that you will be more productive and your business will be more lucrative. To end it with a quote:

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. Paul J. Meyer

Not only does the course break down the whole process of finding a Niche Market, but also introduced me to a piece of software which is one of the best that I have see and I am now using it myself to help with my business. It help you streamline the whole process of researching the viability of a niche, to looking at your competition. The software of course is Market Samurai, produced by some fellow Aussies.

Market Samurai can hardly be called a “Keyword Research” only tool anymore. In the last month they’ve released TWO NEW MODULES, and a ton of new functionality:

NEW MODULE #1: Monetization Module – In minutes, find the best affiliate offers that relate to your keyword, and create high impact ads with a few clicks (no copywriting required!), and publish these to your blog (with full click-tracking)! You can even add Adsense, Ebay, Amazon or Clickbank ads to your blog in just a few clicks. Turning traffic into cash has never been so easy.

NEW MODULE #2: Publish Content Module – Publish keyword optimized content to your blog, automatically social bookmark it, submit it to website directories, RSS directories, and add it to Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module so you can monitor your new article in the search engines, in just a few clicks. And here’s a roundup of some more of the new functionality that they’ve rolled out over the last 30 days: – NEW: (SEO Competition Module) – This is completely sick!… Spy on your competitors backlinks with a single click and reverse-engineer their back link strategy which you can then use for your own site!

NEW: (Find Content Module) – You can now take articles that you find from this module and send it to the new Publish Content module, edit, and publish to your blog in just a few clicks! -

NEW: (Promotion Module) – Support for Google’s new “Forum” search engine. Find hundreds of quality posts that you can use to get backlinks from. -

NEW: (Monetization Module) – Calculate the key critical business metrics for your online business, and work out expected profitability in just seconds! -

NEW: (Monetization Module) – Answer critical questions that relate to the success of your Adwords campaign. And this is ON TOP OF all the new functionality which they’ve rolled out over the past few months, like: -

NEW MODULE: Rank Tracker – Monitor your search engine positions in Google, Yahoo and Bing, in just a few clicks. It’s the only rank tracking solution that supports tracking for MULTIPLE blogs, and MULTIPLE WEB2.0 pages – the way that the SEO game is played by the pros in 2009. -

NEW: (Keyword Research Module) – Added the new Google long tail keyword source “Google Search Keywords” – find up to an additional 800 long tail keywords. – NEW: (Keyword Research Module) Zero in on high-profit keywords using the “Adwords Advertiser” column (AWA).

SO, SHOULD YOU BUY MARKET SAMURAI?

In my opinion upgrading to the full version is a no-brainer. I can’t imagine running an internet businesses without Market Samurai.

Actually that’s not true…

I CAN imagine running my internet businesses without Market Samurai because I used to do it and quite frankly – it sucked!

If someone had handed me a copy of Market Samurai when I first started looking at Niche Marketing I would have been like a kid in a candy store. Back then it literally took DAYS to do what Market Samurai now does with a few clicks of your mouse.

Heck, even TODAY it would take DAYS to do what Market Samurai can do in minutes. The only problem I can see on the horizon is our Thirty Day Challenge secret weapon is not so secret anymore.

The word is definitely getting out and more and more people are using Market Samurai to dominate their niches. This is great if you get in early and become a dominator instead of being dominated… but it also means the longer you wait to get started, the harder it’s going to be to compete.

I have just come across a piece of software that looks really interesting.

If you are like me and find it hard to find to time, with kids, family and a day job to boot, to write relevant articles for your products, then this may be the answer.

You know what it is like when you ned to write an article to be submitted to the directories. You need to find the topic that you want to discuss, research it, write it up, proof read, review it again and then submit it. Well this software can help reduce the time involved.

It’s called Instant Article Wizard Pro 2.

How does it work?

It extracts relevant pieces of research from a large variety of online indexes based on keywords you provide. That research is grouped and organized in a way that puts related research together. This makes writing your articles much, much faster and easier than trying to go out and do the research yourself.

It currently supports searching Google, Yahoo, Bing, Google Blog Search, Articles, Google’s US Government index, Google Scholar, Google News and Google News Archives. Having multiple sources for gathering research makes it much easier to compile relevant, authoratative information to help you write top quality articles fast.

How does it prevent duplicate articles?

Instant Article Wizard Pro has a random factor that prevents the same research from being gathered for the same keywords each time they are run. That way an article you write on a set of keywords will be different, based on the research found, than another user who writes an article on the same set of keywords.

Even better, this means that you can create multiple unique articles on the same topic keywords. That gives you the ability to post to as many blogs as you want, submit to article directories as many times as you want and get as much content about a topic as you want. The benefit to you is more content, more pages indexed by the search engines and more backlinks to your sites.

Anyway, check it out. Every bit of spare time we can find help.

Instant Article Wizard Pro 2.

It’s called Weebly. Weebly is a San Francisco, California based company that was founded in 2006. It was named one of  TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2007.

It has some pretty cool features, such as:

• Powerful, Drag & Drop Website Editor
• It is completely free to create and publish a website with Weebly
• Hosting Included – No Restrictions. They provide the hosting so you don’t need to pay for a hosting provider.
• 65+ Professional Designs (or Customize Your Own). Deciding on a look for your website couldn’t be easier.
• A Variety of Content Elements. Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.
• Powerful Blogging Features. 
• They don’t place advertising on your site, and never will.
• If you already own your own domain, use it with Weebly, at no charge.
• Customize your favicon, set your footer message, tweak advanced SEO settings, integrate with Google Webmaster Tools, password protect pages and much more.

So go check Weebly out.

What else can be done with PPC Web Spy:

*You can quickly and easily uncover any Google Adwords advertiser’s keywords in only a few seconds! Then, simply take those keywords and advertise your own product or service and get ready for the money to come rolling in!

*See critical Adwords data relating to each keyword. Data such as:

- The actual Adwords ads your competitors have written for each keyword
- The Cost Per Click, or amount your competitors are paying for each keywords they’re bidding on
- Your competitor’s Adwords rank,so you’ll be able to determine how much money your should be spending to get your site to a similar rank, to expect similar results.
- The total daily amount your competition is spending vide Google Adwords
And much more!

* PPC Web Spy can generate your own giant list of keywords based upon any of the individual keywords your competition is using!

* PPC Web Spy can also generate a giant, targeted keyword list by inputting your competitor’s domain name, allowing you to build an even larger, more targeted keyword list!

* You Can immediately see which Adwords advertisers are people promoting Clickbank.com, Paydotcom.com, or Amazon.com products! Doing will allow you to find potential super affiliates. Once you’ve done that, you can use PPC Web Spy to “steal” their keywords, advertise the same product, and bank the money yourself!

* See the exact landing page(i.e. destination URL) that each Adwords advertiser is sending visitors to, WITHOUT actually clicking on their Adwords ad and charging them money.

All in all its a great & latest tool with the great options!! Best Of All ITS FREE…

Get your copy NOW for free by clicking here.