How small does your niche need to be? How small is a good niche for public domain products? You need to get into a smaller segment of a large market.

This niche must be tightly focused so that you can reach an audience. You know… have traffic that can find your site and fall in love with your new product.

It really is best to work on something you can live with doing for a very long time, not based just on making money… but because you love to talk about it and could write enough great articles about this hobby or interest to fill a book.

Also… it’s good to be giving in your niche. Spill out everything you know and how to do it on a blog… really. Give it all up… and then learn more and share that as well. It’s like a huge wave of people will come and find you and latch on to your coat-tails. You are building yourself up as an expert and when someone finally gets the point that you are… they will buy almost anything your recommend. It works… it takes time… but it works!

Find something in an area you are comfortable in that isn’t saturated on the internet. Competition is good… that means their is an interest. To much competition in your tiny little niche is a bit harder to overcome. (please don’t create another dating, gambling or porn site)

• Cars is to broad

• Old Cars is a niche

• Radical hot rods is a focused niche

Their are thousands of untapped niches… by race - age- demographic or occupation.

Let’s take age for example:

• I have used 50th birthdays as a niche… I haven’t used public domain information to create a product yet. Why? Because… I’m still testing the niche to see what product they are not finding yet. What “itch” I can scratch. Am I selling affiliate products? Yes… most definitely.

• Think of the baby boomers that are coming of age. Think of the baby boomer women? What are their problems. Lot’s of us boomers use the internet everyday in search of answers specific to our problems.

How about location... where you live. Could you do a blog and provide useful products related to your area?

• How about a blog on the topic of Southwest Travel… hmm I’ve done that… could I use public domain material that is available about the southwest us? yep… been their - done that.

• How about a calender using public domain images from your home town? Haven’t done that yet… but it’s on the list.

What hobby do you have? What do you collect? How about scrapbooking? What’s available in the public domain that you could use in scrapbooking?

• How about creating printed 8 x 11 sheets of old ephemera… (that is stuff like pictures, receipts and ticket stubs). Did I do that? How? I found old stuff and set it up so that the images could be easily cut out and pasted in scrapbooks. I used a high quality scanner to print these images, using inks that didn’t run and were archive safe. Where did I sell them? On eBay of course.

What do others ask your help with? Do you have a talent that others are always asking you for help with? Could you share this information with others? Don’t you think that there is information on this subject in the Public Domain? Of course! There is even information about computers and internet available in the Public Domain.

There is stuff in your head that others will pay to learn… Really! We all know something that someone else doesn’t know… and we can fill in with Public Domain information where we have gaps in knowledge.

Key to this: The fact that someone else knows the same information you do… isn’t the point. Someone asks you about this information because they trust you! They find you easy to talk to and you help them through their problem. They love you for that. Get the point?

Do you love to travel? Maybe you love to go to Disneyland? Hmmm… would that be a good niche. Guess what I found in my stash ‘o stuff from my mom’s house? An old movie that my grandfather took at disneyland when I was about the age of 1… that was over 50 years ago. Now… as a Disneyland buff would you like to see what it looked like over 50 years ago? You would if you were a die hard Disney freak. This stuff sells on eBay like crazy. I had it digitized into a DVD format for about $25… and guess what? I’ll bet you can guess…

You can find stuff to sell online even in your own families treasures. Have you looked for old films yet? They can be digitized for a reasonable cost and then you can sell it over and over again. What a windfall?

Okay… so maybe you think some of these ideas are just plain silly… or not anything you are interested in.

• Pottery
• Glass Blowing
• Sewing
• History of…?
• Beekeeping
• bookbinding
• hypnotism
• magic
• maps of…?
• basket making
• trains
• wooden toys

Did you know that public domain information is available in all these niches? Maybe you did. But… maybe you didn’t know that you can find ton’s of information about any subject to do with gardening? Has gardening really changed all that much over the years? Are their secrets and old ideas that might be useful for someone new to gardening?

Refinishing old furniture… could someone use information about that? What do you think? Is their information in the Public Domain? Yes.

What style of furniture are you going to be teaching how to refinish? How about GUSTAV STICKLEY and the CRAFTSMAN style? Now that’s a tiny niche with rabid fans… (I’m giving away an idea I should have kept to myself!)

Okay… if you still can’t find your niche, you can always ask me to help. Yes… I will help you find a niche topic… and it’s one-on-one!!! Yep, I am going to help you find a profitable niche. One that shows so much promise that you would be just plain silly not to exploit it!

How do I do this… I have my own way of doing market research. I use a tested “path”… and it works like a charm. Has every bit of my research produced profitable niches? Yes and no… for every niche that I truly devoted the energy to make an online presence… it has proved profitable.

What do you have to do to get me to help you? It’s really pretty easy… just click on this link: Public Domain Niche Help.

and see how easy it will be to get started today!

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