Think about this: Do you think the gurus want to make money from you? Pretty easy answer, eh? Of course. And do you think they will show you the inner most secrets so that you are well equipped to start your own journey towards financial freedom? Certainly not. Do you think they want to loose you as a hungry customer for more information on how to crack the money-code wide open. No! Well, that's why the guru's are wrong when they say you should start your efforts with finding cool keywords and why you should do that with the super-uber-coolest-mega-bling-bling keyword tool THEY are promoting. See the light? Good! This paragraph is now officialy over and we can continue our journey towards a more professional tactic for you on how to find your niche.

Remember the smell of delicious cakes walking past a bakery? Do you also remember your reasoning in your mind? That a few dollars weren't that much for a wonderful cake to take with you to the office. This is demand/supply and you should always have this in mind when niche-hunting. Always start finding a demand and then, only then supply a solution for that demand. That's how to find your niche. Think about finding things/subjects people are almost crazy for, on the verge of panicking and frustrated in not finding a good cure/solution for. And how do you do just this? Simple, look for what companies are advertising or better yet, look for what people are buying. There are numerous ways you can do this. Let's check out some of them.

Ok, the demand (hungry buyers) comes first. Not keyword-research. Well, where are they. Easy, they sits right here on the internet waiting for you to discover them. Where? That's easy to, here's one hang-out for hungry buyers:

http://www.amazon.com/bestsellers/

Do you see they beauty and simplicity of this method? It's really common sense. I will give you some more tidbits along the same lines as the above...

http://www.amazon.com/new-releases/

This one is also amazon.com but instead of a proven track record it's hot new products. This can be a really good source of early info on what's gonna sell. If amazon.com thinks it's hot don't you think they have done their homework?

http://product-index.ebay.com/best_selling_1.html

ebay.com - a giant and simply put. What's popular with them IS popular. Period. If the link changes, just go to BUY then scroll down to popular products.

You could go on and on finding these kind of resources. Here one more.

http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm

Perhaps the largest repository of digital downloadable products. Choose the category Home & Family, then sort on highest gravity. You will get up and coming products right away. How's that for free market research. Aim for gravity from 40-60 to 190-210.

There you have it. Now you can go out there yourself finding every kind of source for this type of valuable and free info. But what should you do with this information. Read on...

By now you may have discovered that people are crazy because their computers keep crashing on them and therefore searches and buys noadware softwares. Bingo! Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and check for adware and you will get many many variations on that theme that people are searching for. And this...is the search-phrases you will do your promotions on. The scope of this article don't cover the exact details on this keyword-research business, neither am I gonna show you exactly how to optimize your webpages for those exact keyphrases you will find. Check my other articles for this info. Until then, happy buyers-hunting and good luck finding those niches inside the bigger buying-areas. Because you will have to dig deep inside that adware-group for instance, don't go for the whole group. Find a niche inside the group. Preferably a niche of people who searches for a specific adware-software. That will be a niche and it will be people who practically has their credit-cards in hand. You just have to show them the goodies and write a good article/review etc on the product.

Cheers

Tomas

Tomas Coox writes about internet marketing in general. Visit his website at longtaildiggers.com. Please comment if you have questions about this article about how to find your niche.