6.Building a Niche Store

What Is A Niche Store?

In this article we are going to look at what exactly a niche store is. If you are thinking about setting up an e-commerce shop because you want to sell something on the Internet, then I’m absolutely convinced that the niche store model is for you.

You probably know that the biggest online store in the world is a Amazon.com. They sell everything. They started out selling books, now they sell kitchen equipment, they sell electronics, they sell clothes, music, they sell air conditioners, they sell toys, they sell all kinds of stuff.

And since Amazon.com is a very successful company, you might think it’s a good idea to emulate them and to also offer a broad range of products to sell in your online store.

But that is really not the strategy you want to use in 2009. Amazon was one of the first big online stores in the world. They have the first mover advantage. They have created a huge brand that was well known among the Internet before they really went broad and started to sell other things than just books.

The Internet in 2009 looks very different than the Internet in 1999. If you get started now you really do not want to be a horizontal store, because nowadays the money is in the verticals. You cannot compete with Amazon.com on everything.

But you can build a niche store that is only serving a very specific kind of people. Maybe your store is only selling organic cosmetics. If a woman wants to buy organic cosmetics online and she finds your shop and sees that your store is only about organic cosmetics, she will be much more likely to check out the store really thoroughly than when she is just visiting the store that is selling all kinds of cosmetics, including some organic cosmetics.

It’s also a great way to establish yourself in the eyes of your customer as trusted expert. People tend to believe that you are a specialist much more if you focus only on one kind of product group. It also helps you a lot in being found online. Because you are so much more relevant than a general store.

This is important for the search engines. Because if you want to get free visitors, free traffic from Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines than you need to be relevant to what the people are searching for. And if you have a highly focused niche store then you are relevant. And the search engines are going to recognize and appreciate that – and they’re going to “thank you” for being so relevant and providing a good experience to end-users by giving you higher rankings in their SERPs (search engine result pages).

I hope this article helped you to better understand what niche store is and why, if you are thinking about setting up a store, only a niche store is a good choice. In fact I recommend that if you want to sell two different markets that you actually set up different niche stores instead of one store where you sell all kinds of stuff.

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Niche Market