In the last Tip for finding a profitable blog niche post we talked about how to research and find your blog niche online, Using ebay.

What I want to talk to you about with this post, is how to find and solve problems in your chosen niche. I can’t remember if I have posted about this before, but here’s a good starting to point and something to think about when coming up with niches that solve problems.

The vast majority of people who go to their favorite search engine to solve their problems are really trying to do 3 things.

1. Start something
2. Stop something
3. Change something

Those three words START, CHANGE and STOP are very powerful motivators for people. I think of the three words “stop” being the most powerful. Generally the word stop implies a desperation or an urgency. Something that needs to happen right now or in the very near future.

For example (maybe not a good example) STOP smoking. In that vein we could also look at The stop smoking niche market

• stop smoking drugs,
• stop smoking patches (do people really smoke patches? :-P)
• stop smoking medication
• stop smoking tips

How about another niche where people people are looking to stop something. SPAM.

What about the word Start.

Off the top of my head. I could come up with a niche where people are trying to start something. Things that people are motivated to do.

• Start a business
• Start a blog
• Start a small business
• Start Fitness

What are people wanting to change in their lives.

• Personal change
• Change windows
• Change desktop wall paper in windows
• How to change passwords
• Change a toilet
• Change relationship
• Change a job

You could of course get very creative with these three words.

Niche marketing at its best helps to solve real problems that real people live with everyday. If you can come up with a product or service to promote in a niche market that will help people solve their problems then you will have a profitable niche market blog and can quickly build a long list of potential customers.

The things that people view as ‘problems’ run the gauntlet of possibilities, everything from a hang nail to a golf swing to a chronic disease are people problems that they are looking for help to solve.

Mining Forums For niche markets

A good way to find out what people consider a problem is to visit the online forums. People talk about anything and everything online. They discuss subjects that they wouldn’t talk about with their best friends for the simple reason that they can remain anonymous. They look for solutions online for the very same reason. What this gives you is a look at people who are motivated to find a solution to a problem FAST.

By visiting forums and taking note of what people are most concerned about you can search the internet for products and services that will help them solve those problems. Gather the information about the topic.

Write or have written for you articles about the topic. In this way you can find a topic and build a content-rich website for niche marketing that helps with the problem you have identified and that will serve the needs of people.

An additional way to use forums to help you build a niche market blog is to join a forum, identify the problem being most often discussed, post a question that will produce many responses and use those responses to write an e-book on the topic. The fact is that many people will buy an e-book that is filled with information they could actually gather for themselves. They will also purchase e-books that will tell them what other people with the same problem they have think about or are doing about their common problem.
How to find a blog niche series and Other posts you might find useful

• how to find a blog niche
• Do niche market research with google trends
• Niche market Selection Case study part1
• Niche market Selection case study part 2
• Best fat burner niche blog workout
• 10 great niche marketing resources and tools
• How do I know what to blog about
• How to discover Low competition high demand niche markets
• Use ebay to easily find a blog niche market
• 9 basic and easy steps to building a niche blog
• Internet advertising tutorial program
• How to use googles keyword tool to find a seasonal blog niche
• My girlfriend is such a niche
• Tips for finding a blog niche

But if you’ve followed the steps here, I’m pretty sure you will find your own niche market very soon. I hope you enjoyed this how to find a niche market for your blog series

I have a question for you my current feed readers and for my future feed readers.

Do you prefer a full or partial feed for this blog.?

The reason I ask is because I want to be able to give you more of what you want and if that’s a full RSS feed then that’s what you’ll get, or do you even care. I personally dont care I subscribe to few blogs that dont use full feeds and it doesnt bother me in the least. I read the caption and or first few lines they have as their feed and if I want to continue reading I will click through.

Secondly I am having all sorts of problems with getting a full feed from Feed Burner. I have the full text feed plug-in and it doesn’t seem to have any effect. So anyone with a fix please do lend a helping hand because I could use it. I’m not sure if it is because I am redirecting my feed from this blog to feed burner or if its the more tag thing, which isn’t being handled by the full text feed plug-in, or if it is my feed settings on feed burner.

there has in the past been some debate over the full or partial feed topic. here’s some links for you to read and make your decision.

Problogger: Full or partial feed debate

I ultimately blog because I want to communicate something and I want people to read my content. As a result I think full feeds are great as they put all my content into anyone’s hands who wants itI’m sick and tired of finding others publishing my feeds in full - quite often with no attribution to me as an author and quite often with no link back. Partial feeds solve this problem - at least ‘partially’

Scobleizer : Blog herald doesnt understand why full text feeds work

So, let’s get to it: what are my views?

1) That I won’t subscribe to any feed that isn’t full text. Well, except for my brother’s blog.
2) That treating RSS readers well will get you more Web browser readers.
3) That full-text sites will be more profitable because of this than partial-text sites.

Feed burner blog: Ricks rumination full feeds

First of all, I think the primary justification often given for partial feeds - that it will drive higher clickthroughs back to the publisher’s site - is off-base. As people subscribe to feeds, they subscribe to more feeds. And that means they’re consuming more content, which means that each click out of the feed reader is taking the reader away from more content. In other words, feed reading is consumption-oriented, not transactionally focused. We’ve seen no evidence that excerpts on their own drive higher clickthroughs.

SO should I figure out how to get you a full feed or just leave it as is, partial feed?

Hey Gang !!

Sorry about the lack of posting. The past week has just been chaotic for me and my family. Last weekend our realtor called us up to say he had a house he wanted us to look at. (we’ve been looking for a while now). We put in an offer and won the bidding war !!. you’d think it would be that simple, then came all the other stuff papers, financing inspections and what not. And on top of that our trusty chrysler sebring ran into some engine problems so we decided to just buy another car. So within two days we had to buy a car and a house. Now that all the dust has settled i’m back to business here and a few other projects i am working on.

So what does this mean for you? Well as sort of a celebration, Call it an early house warming gift (I’m in a good mood because of the house and car) I’ve decided that I am going to give away the six ad spots on the right there. Not sure for how long or if this is even a good idea. But who cares.

My motto is give to get.

So what do you have to do to snatch those ad spots there. Send me your 125×125 ad and a link to your blog or website. First come first get. If more than 6 send me their ads. I’ll rotate them. So you all get even coverage.

Don’t have a 125×125 ad?

No worrys Jay over at datmoney.com does some great ad and banner work on the cheap. And I do mean cheap. Go visit this link >>> Banners done cheap to see what he does and what his rates are

Now here are some stats for you.

From my stats meter account:

From My google analytics account

My Rss Readers is as of this writing 162 people and growing daily.

So what you’re getting is:

• a site wide ad,
• Visible on all posts and pages
• 212 posts
• 31 categories
• SO what this amounts to is your ad being seen 3,487 times, thats quite a few impressions, to 2,240 people.
• To sweeten the pot for you call this an incentive, I’ll also ad your link and RSS Feed address. To my blog roll and my Blog community post

I may at some point in the future decide to charge for these so grab them while you can.

Want to pay: no problem

If you like the option of paying you’re more than welcome to do so. I only accept paypal at this point. I don’t have an automated thing for that yet. Let me know what you’d be willing to pay me to advertise, paying will guarantee you a top placement for a full month.

As well if you’re interested I am offering adspots on some of my posts that get the most traffic. These are paid spots. Open for negotiation

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4. /blog/what-is-rss-and-how-do-i-use-it/ 156 101 00:02:44
5. /blog/make-money-on-facebook/ 98 86 00:04:39

6. /blog/relevant-ads-increase-adsense-profits/ 90 59 00:01:44
7. /blog/tips-for-finding-a-blog-niche/ 88 64 00:03:19
8. /blog/guides-and-e-books/ 80 62 00:03:37
9. /blog/rss-and-feed-guide/ 66 39 00:01:55

10. /blog/how-to-discover-low-competition-high-demand-market-niches/ 65 58 00:05:12
11. /blog/use-facebook-to-get-your-new-blog-or-website-indexed-quickly/ 55 48 00:03:53
12. /blog/tips-for-finding-a-profitable-blog-niche/ 49 38 00:03:00
13. /blog/who-am-i/ 47 40 00:02:51
14. /blog/how-to-leverage-the-viral-power-of-facebook/ 46 37 00:02:00

15. /blog/3-easy-tips-to-get-one-way-backlinks-from-high-pr-blogs/ 44 22 00:03:18
16. /blog/how-to-promote-your-product-or-an-affiliate-product-with-facebook/ 40 35 00:02:20
17. /blog/piggy-back-forum-traffic-and-get-paid-to-do-it/ 35 29 00:03:00
18. /blog/find-niche-markets-using-ebay/ 33 23 00:02:30

19. /blog/use-facebook-to-increase-your-rss-feed/ 28 25 00:03:07
20. /blog/blog-community-and-collaboration/ 27 23 00:08:21

if your blog or website is related to any of the post topics you see there, then i’ll edit the post with your image ad in the post.

Again all you have to do is email me your info, including your link, or a place where I can go grab it.

email me: mmblogging @ gmail.com

use the title adspot so I know its about!!