Looking For Your Next Niche

A niche that most people overlook in the internet marketing world is bringing offline businesses online. If are searching for the next niche to dominate or become an authority in, consider this. Right now the overall economy stinks. There are a lot of local small businesses out there that need your marketing abilities. Why not use your internet marketing abilities to promote the local businesses in your area for a fee.

Most small businesses have a website and some are pretty good, while others are not so good. You work in marketing and know how to build websites, promote products, drive traffic, set-up an email marketing campaign, perform keyword research, SEO, etc…

To the local small business owner you are a marketing expert and this gives you instant authority! Why not take your skills offline and talk to the local business people and find out what type of marketing they currently have and if it has gotten them any results. If they have not gotten any decent results to speak of then ask them if you can be their marketing consultant. Find out what your local marketing companies are charging for their services and then blow them out of the water.

You work on the internet in marketing already and if you know SEO, then you know how to outrank most of their competitors. There are a huge amount of businesses that need and want our help right now! We can quickly and easily put together a marketing campaign, charge the going rate and help the economy at the same time. It is a win, win situation!

Where do you start? Start with the places you shop and you eat. I am sure you would hate to see your favorite restaurant or store go out of business, wouldn’t you? Well that is how I feel and that is exactly why I haven’t made a post in a while. You see, I would never recommend you try anything I haven’t tried myself and that is what I am currently up to. There are plenty of places in your own backyard that has had a significant decline in business due to the economy. Not only will you help them drive traffic to their business but you will make money at the same time.

Another niche idea would be to put together a seminar for local businesses and teach them how to market their businesses better. Teach them SEO, Teach them how to build a website. The possibilities are endless. Remember that in their eyes YOU are the expert, YOU are the internet marketer, YOU are the authority!

You could put a membership site together with tutorial videos geared towards local businesses. If you are a member of an existing site that already has this info than get them to join under your affiliate link. It is less work and you only have to concentrate on getting people to sign up.

You could also build a local business directory with a monthly membership fee and just promote the directory. There are plenty of great ways to make money on the internet in niches but sometimes you have to think a little differently than everyone else if you want to stand out or make a difference! The best part of the above mentioned ideas are that you may keep your local businesses from going under and that will make you feel really good about your work.  The other plus is that it gets you out of the office for a while to go out and talk to these people and I am pretty sure we can all use some of that. Like I said earlier, “The possibilities are endless”.

To Your Success,

Randy Drummond