Sometimes we have a Brilliant Idea for a Niche and rush out and buy a domain and build a website and well for one reason or another  it turns out not to have been such a good idea. Well why not test your idea on Squidoo, you can have a site up in 20 minutes or so? They no longer allow spammy sites but if it is a genuine subject and you have real content you can test the waters and see what Niches take off immediately or gradually and also perhaps most importantly whether you personally have a real interest in the Niche.

Here are some of my niches that that have proved themselves on Squidoo (sometimes after a long time)

• www.squidoo.com/TopToysforXmas
• www.squidoo.com/Salt-Pipes
• www.squidoo.com/hot-water-bottles
• www.squidoo.com/slankets

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Finding your niche is one of the first decisions you need to make when you start a website.  It can be a very difficult and frustrating process to find the perfect niche.  It may take hours of researching and browsing the internet.  Sometimes I even have a hard time figuring out what niche to start a website in.  To help you out, I have put together a short list of questions to ask yourself when you are deciding on your niche.

1. What Are Your Hobbies? – The first thing to look at is your hobbies.  Hobbies are usually things you like to do and have basic knowledge of.  They are a great place to start when you are trying to decide on your niche.  Picking a niche that you enjoy and want to talk about will only help your site succeed.

2.  Can You Make Your Niche Unique? – The second thing to keep in mind is uniqueness.  A lot of new sites are successful because they have something unique to offer visitors.  Many sites fail because they are just like other sites about a specific topic.  Take facebook.com.  It is successful because it offers a unique way of communicating with people you have met. When picking your niche,  look for uniqueness.

3.  Is There A Lot of People In Your Niche? – The third thing to keep in mind is how saturated is your target niche market.  It will be a lot easier to start a successful site in a niche that has less competition.  An example of this is the niche of making money online.  There are hundreds of blogs out there on this niche and because of this it is very hard to enter into this niche.  Find a niche that is not saturated.

4.  Did You Do Research? – Whatever your answer is, you need to do more.  Research what current trends are and what future trends may be.  Research other successful niche sites to see what their process was to enter into their niche market.  Research to find out if there is even a market for your niche.  The more research you do the better off you will be.

Finding the right niche can be a long and hard process.  Ask yourself these questions to make the process much easier.

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Could you become an Expert in a Niche that you currently know absolutely nothing about and yet be earning your living from it by next year? Well why not? Plenty of others have already done it, that’s the Magic of the Internet which celebrates overnight success. It is just a question of finding the right lucrative niche and then running with it. That’s what the Zulu Principle is all about the possibilty indeed the necessity of being able to become an Expert in a Niche virtually overnight.  This website is full or resources and link which will help you to discover the Niche which will make your fortune.

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