For many people and businesses, digital marketing is a mystery and they don’t understand all the benefits of marketing online. To the rest of us digital savvy people, success is sometimes determined by the online niche you choose online. How are you going to choose a niche for your business that you can build from the ground up that you can use to promote your business on the web?
First, what is your passion? What do you find interesting and what drives you? What do you care about? If you don’t care about the topic you are targeting, is it really worth it?. If you are targeting a topic that you don’t care about, you will burn yourself out, lose interest, and sometimes not having anything to show for all your efforts. That is why it’s so important to choose a niche that you love and that you want to pursue. Don’t choose a niche based on the level of competition or only based on the income potential.
If there isn’t any income potential in the niche you are targeting, then it’s quite a tough decision whether you want to go after the niche or not. You can always run it as an online hobby website, but if your sole intent is to make your hobby a business that can work for you, then you will have to do your research and find a way to make money with it. Are there other people targeting the same niche that are making money from it? If there are, how are they doing it?
The bottom line is that you should choose a niche that is right for you. Choose one that you have an interest in and make it something you know a bit about. If you really care about the niche, you will enjoy creating magnetic content for it, and it will be fun marketing your business online.
Hello Anton. I’m going through a lot of retrospection right now and one thing I have realized is that I need to find a very targeted niche. Since I’m in web design and social blogging, I thought I’d zoom in on the South African Market. What do you think. I think South African companies can learn a lot from my experiences.
Most definitely. Even though there are many (world wide) in the same industry, there are always room for improvement and a different point of view. Join a couple of local communities/blogs to see what is already happening in South Africa in your niche and start planning your campaign.