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High
Demand vs. Low Demand Niches
The
classic retail rule-of-thumb, sell products with
high demand and low competition, makes you think
that products simply fall into two generalized
categories: "High demand products" and "Low demand
products".
It makes you think that high demand products are the
only products worth selling and when comparing
demand numbers the obvious choice would be to pick
the product that yields the highest count—but that’s
not true by a country mile in the world of online
selling.
Consider this table of product research results:
Folding Chair = 17,000 search count
Garden Gnome = 8,500 search count
In the example above, if you pick a product based on
the highest demand you would determine that folding
chairs are high demand products and garden gnomes
are low demand products—therefore garden gnomes
would be bad products to sell and folding chairs
would be good products to sell.
Now consider this table of research results:
Camping Tent = 39,000 search count
Folding Chair = 17,000 search count
In this table, now folding chairs are the 'bad' low
demand product and Camping Tents are the high. You
could do this all day long; playing king of the
mountain looking for the products that have the
highest demand count and thinking that all of the
products with lesser numbers are not good products
to sell.
This kind of thinking trips people up all the time.
They get in a rut with their research constantly
looking for that product with biggest numbers and
ignoring all others. It becomes an endless cycle
that becomes both confusing and very frustrating.
"Demand" numbers are relative.
Remember: Don’t dismiss product ideas based solely
on low search counts. Compared to most common
mainstream products, Niche Products will show a "Low
Demand". (because Niche Products appeal to a very
targeted group of consumers.)
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