If you’re familiar with any of my "Elite" software products then you know that I believe in strong keyword research and in spying on the competition.
This, too, will help you hone in on the absolute best niche for your first series of Kindle books.
Of course, you may do all of this manually if you’ve the time and inclination - or you may simply use the tools in AK Elite to target the hottest niches.
One thing you should do is make sure your demographics are suitable for targeting the segments of society that are ready, willing and able to buy your books.
Simply go to Google and search for the niche keyword you've decided to go after. In my illustration, that will be "healthy aging" so I do a Google search for that phrase.
Interestingly, one site claims authority in the first two search engine positions, so that will be a good site to feed into Quantcast.net to discover the demographics (i.e., we want to know what kind of people search for
8"healthy aging" information).
We are interested in several things: their sex, ethnicity, income, age - i.e., we want to know if the profile of those visiting the site at the top of a Google search for our keyword will be a good target market for a series of books on this topic.
Now comes a bit of deductive reasoning on my part. I see the visitors to this site are
Primarily female
Age 55 - 65+
In an income bracket above $50,000 per year
Are well educated
Primarily African American
With this information I am confident I have chosen a great niche for my first series of Amazon Kindle books.With the main reason being the avg income
is over $50,000.
You don’t want to dive into a niche to sell to people with no money. Sounds obvious, but you would be surprised how many people completely ignore this. With that said, I now want to verify this niche just a little further by searching on Amazon for what people are searching for in that niche.
To do this, go to the Kindle Books department and type in the word "aging" and you’ll see a list of topics people are searching for.
These are topics people are searching for on Amazon. And, there's even more. Just add a space after the word "aging" and you’ll see how the list changes.
Now, start adding the alphabet after the space ... like this "aging a" and you’ll see even more choices.
If you do this with each letter of the alphabet you’ll soon have a list of EVERYTHING people are searching for that niche on Amazon. How cool is that?
AK Elite does this all for you, and will return a nice big, ordered list for everything searched on Amazon for a specific niche. But you can do it the manual way above to get familiar with the process/idea.