This concept isn’t for everyone, but if your more interested in long-term income, and CPA offers have you bummed out then making your own small niche may just tickle your fancy!

This post is about creating your own niche or entering a niche with no advertisers/products (or very little), creating your own product (digital or physical), so you don’t have to worry about all the downsides of CPA such a pulled offers, payout changes, competition and traffic sources hating on you etc. Don’t get me wrong CPA marketing is my bread and butter, but mixing it up never hurts anyone.

The goal is to create a product in a niche with no competition. It’s a bit different then becoming an advertiser in a competitive niche such as weight loss (this has a lot more steps/complications to launch).

The idea:
- To get very creative and create a product where no man has created one before
- It should be in a niche/area with very low or no competition at all
- You can sell via SEO, PPC, anyway you like, just have a marketing plan!
- You want to capitalize on something specific that no one else is capitalizing on (this is the main goal!)

Just to clear the air to make sure your thinking the right way, here are some examples of what you should and shouldn’t do:
(YES) Creating a ebook on spending $50/week on groceries for families
(NO) Creating a weightless ebook
(YES) Buying blank hats in bulk, hiring a designer, and writing “i love rihanna” on them. Targeting people going to rhianna concerts.
(NO) Creating a snoring solution pill
(YES) Buying bulk vampire contact lenses, make an awesome sales page, and target twilight and true blood fans
…The last one is my best example! and is definitely something that can be done.

A proven example is the story of a guy who created an ebook on ‘how to jump higher’ and is now making atleast $75,000 a month. This is more of a longterm example, but he pretty much created a product in a niche that didn’t have many products, and now he owns that niche. You can read more here: http://stackthatmoney.com/2010/11/09/how-1-ebook-makes-75000-a-month/

Another example (in a much smaller niche) is an ebook on how to meet japanese girls when going to japan (made for foreigners to Japan). This is a PRIME example because it caters to a very small specific niche, and has a lot of opportunity for unique advertising options with NO competition at all.

Becoming a advertiser in a small nice gives you a lot of power. The main benefit is long term campaign with unique advertising opportunities.

More benefits
- Way less competition!
- Longer lasting profits
- Not worrying about campaigns dying
- Not worrying about scrubbing/pulled offers
- Not worry about traffic source disapproval/bans
- Unique advertising packages you can find on smaller sites related to your niche

The main cons
- Refunds
- Merchant issues
- Support

The money is usually smaller when running a campaign like this, but i enjoy the longer lasting campaigns, which you can build up for months, tweak several times and still have it running after. It’s also profitable month after month and lot less stressful.  This whole operation takes time and you need a solid marketing plan, but if you have a unique idea in a non competitive niche, you could put your affiliate marketing skills to use and see some longterm profits with tons of room for expansion! I wrote a complete guide on this in the forums which explains exactly how I’ve done this twice, and I’m the #1 seller in my current niche and it looks like it may last for years to come. It’s not the same money I’ve seen from big campaigns, but the longevity of it is a very nice change from my usual work!