Uncovering Your Niche Ideas – Part 2
There are a few places that you can find your niche market. The first place to visit is the eBay Pulse page, which shows you what is currently selling best and raising the most interest on the world’s largest auction site:
On the left-hand side of the page, you can see the 10 most popular searches on eBay on any given day. This is information that is updated daily.
On the right-hand side of the page, you can see the most popular eBay store sites. These are all popular for a reason, which is that they do their job very well and are therefore a success because of that.
Always be prepared to learn from those who are evidently experts in what they do, as there is never any point in trying to re-invent the wheel. If someone is already doing an excellent job, learn from them rather than trying to start all over again from scratch yourself.
Take a look at the top five stores to see what products they are selling and what kind of promotional materials they are using, because whatever it is that they are doing, it is working.
Looking again at the listing on the left hand side of the page, however, you can see that the iPhone, iPod and the wii are all extremely popular searches at the time of writing.
However, I know from my own experience that these are incredibly competitive market places, and that it is going to be very difficult to find niche markets using these particular products as a guide.
It is not necessarily impossible, just extremely difficult and probably time consuming as well.
The results at number four and number nine are however extremely interesting. Who would have ever thought that anyone would ever look on eBay for car or auto insurance? The very oddity of this would make it something I would investigate further at some time in the future. Not at the moment though, because we still have a niche to find!
