by Gene Patterson

Created on: August 12, 2010   Last Updated: August 22, 2010

So you want to make money on the internet?  Lots of it I assume.  Maybe you have heard of affiliate marketing and know what a great source of revenue that internet marketing can be? It certainly can be, as long as you know what you are trying to sell and have an idea whether the product you are trying to sell is in a profitable niche.  This leads us to two obvious questions:

•  What are profitable niche ideas?

•  Where can I get these ideas that can lead to a life of leisure?

First off let me be completely honest.  I do not know if there is ONE SINGLE idea or niche market that will lead to a life of leisure.  It is very possible that a series of these ideas that lead to a very comfortable passive income; or one idea that you are able to exploit over and over again  can do so as well.  But you are not going to do a little work and be set for life.  Anyone who describes this internet marketing as an unending internet ATM machine with no effort required is trying to scam you somehow.  THAT BEING SAID... If you do understand the real concept of what makes a "profitable niche" you can do quite well, though.

What can you learn about profitable niche ideas?

95% of all profitable niche ideas will fall into one of four very broad categories.  These are the ones you want to narrow down again and again until you get your proper profitable niche idea. 

These four areas include:

• HEALTH

• WEALTH

• RELATIONSHIPS

• PASSIONS

What you are looking for is the sub sub sub topics of these broad categories and those will be your potentially profitable niches.  Where can you get profitable niches idea?  One place is here:  Profitable Niche Ideas.  You can of course also look for it on your own. 

Use the broad titles to get rough ideas and then narrow it down.  Try a formula like this:

♦ Health > Illnesses > Cancer > Ovarian Cancer > Understanding Ovarian Cancer Side Effects.

That last one would be your "profitable niche".  You could do well in such a topic if you have a lot of history with the topic.  If you are passionate about it.  And if you have a lot to say about it.  You can read blogs, web-pages and real life papers to become a relative expert in your profitable niche and then set up the site to help people.

What can you do with the example above if it was your niche?  You could create an eBook to help people understand the side effects.  Perhaps guides to other products that might lessen the severity of the effects.  The important thing is to always only offer only good and solid information from your profitable niche.  Of course one of the easiest and most profitable ideas brings us back to the topic of affiliate marketing.  When you have a narrowed topic like this you can easily find good affiliate products out there for this that you can sell.  If there are none, perhaps even better for you can make one and get people to be an affiliate for you.

♦  Profitable niche ideas are everywhere. 

You simply have to learn where to look.  Once you have seen a few and played around about you will quickly be able to understand the difference between a profitable niche idea and any old niche idea.  The difference is subtle but it is huge and it can be the difference between a nice passive income for your time invested or almost nothing from your time invested.

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