Himanshu Bisht

How to Find Your Perfect Niche – Life and Business

Have you ever wondered what’s so special about rich and happy people? They know their niche. Choosing the right corner is always essential. As a blogger or entrepreneur, it’s vitally important to understand and research upon a specific niche for your every single project.

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As they say:

Riches stay in Niches

This post about “finding your goldmine” is a guide for bloggers who always struggle to generate more revenue from their blogs, businesses who often run tight on their budget, and solopreneurs who often fight to get the “right clients.”

Why?

Because many startups shut down early just because they fail to understand what they exactly want to do.

Your right niche is not just about building a fitness blog or establishing your next mechatronics company! If you learn the art of finding the niche, you will automatically become more evident in your goal setting, and you will get another eye to see the opportunities (just a metaphor ;) )

So, here is your perfect guide and an ancient secret from Japan, which has helped millions of people to find their “purpose” of life.

IKIGAI, which you can roughly translate as “a reason for being” (Wikipedia’s definition of Ikigai).

I came to know about IKIGAI when I passed out from my college without a clear goal in my life. IKIGAI is a finding for people who often feel useless and live with a feeling of emptiness even after having almost all the pleasures of their lives.

In all my passive income trainings, I talk about IKIGAI, because if you are not clear about your purpose, your mind will automatically start dragging you down.

Here is the step by step guide for you.

If you are ready to start your journey of freedom, I share what I am building and learning in The Letter.

Select Your Niche of Life with IKIGAI

Ikigai: a system to find your niche

Before I explain how to use IKIGAI to you, let me ask you something!

Have you ever noticed, how the energy and passion you have when you start working on a niche starts disappearing; as you go ahead in the project? Especially, when you are not getting results from it?

It happens with almost everyone!

And the only reason for happening this is the lack of clarity in your mind.

IKIGAI explains how to find your “perfect niche” without complicating things.

Step 1

Ask Yourself: What Do You Love Most

Make a list of ten things you can do all day without ever getting bored. At least make a list of five. Don’t leave playing video games, watching videos and everything else you can think of.

Step 2

Filter This List based on What Are You Good At

You may not have all the skills right now, but still, filter this list based on your knowledge in the topic. The idea behind this exercise is this: If you love to do something, you will eventually become good at it.

Step 3

Think: How Can You Get Paid For What You Do

Think all the different flavours you can add to your work so that you can get paid for it. For example, if you are passionate about Health and Fitness, you can get to teach others about it. Don’t worry about the competition while doing it.

There is no competition if you focus on creation.

Remove all the other options and keep at most 3.

Step 4

Filter: Does the World Need What You Offer?

Doing a job you love to go on is a fantastic idea. But if nobody needs it, it’s useless. Doing something which other people need brings a sense of satisfaction. Also, as everyone needs it, you will cut the uncertainty of the market.

How to select your niche in blogging

Steps for Profitable Niche Selection

One of the most daunting tasks for most bloggers (and creative people) is to come up with a new idea for every new project. Especially, if you are a newbie and exploring the ways to make money online, you may have thousands of questions about your first blog. If the previous words are touching your mind, the followings are definitely for you.

Even though, I can not tell, which niche would be perfect for you because it depends on your “four factors” I have already shared, but still, here are the top three niches which work every single time.

No matter, in which era you are in. No matter, how old or how young you are, here is the list of all the possible (and best) niches to immediately start working upon. Now, let me say this again, this post is not about how to build a business, instead, it tries to give you the clarity about your niche. So don’t expect it.

Ok!

So, let me share the top three evergreen and profitable niches for your next project:

  • Health and Fitness

Health and fitness is the hottest topic on the internet. Different micro-segments like meditation, nutrition, lifestyle and even specialized disease prevention, protection and cure come under health and fitness.

The big challenge in this domain is to find out good companies to partner with (if you are looking for affiliate programs).

  • Wealth and Money Making

Money, investment, management and wealth creation is another most popular topics you can start working upon. My personal favourite topic in this niche is affiliate marketing.

  • Relationship and Parenting

The fast lifestyle and new generation environment have impacted our lives a lot. Relationships and parenting are from those topics where people struggle hard. If you are already a life-coach or trainer, public speaker or already working in similar domains, this is for you.

You never know, how many lives you can change if you learn to build the right business system around your niche.

Helping others to achieve their dreams is the best profession on the planet. I am glad that I am doing it.

There is Always More

Learning and growth is a never-ending process. You don’t learn first and implement next. It’s a duo and you have to run both in parallel. This is why I run a community, The Creator Circle on Skool, where we learn and implement together so that your mind doesn’t find excuses on the path of peace and freedom.

2 comments

  1. Kods

    Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?

    1. HimanshuAuthor

      Sure! go ahead. I am glad that it was useful.

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