{"id":837,"date":"2012-03-28T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/?p=837"},"modified":"2015-01-26T08:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:27:26","slug":"five-popular-website-niches-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/tips-and-ideas\/five-popular-website-niches-in-2012","title":{"rendered":"Five Popular Website Niches"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing website buyers like more than a successful, proven niche \u2013 but the truly intrepid buyer is always on the lookout for the next big thing. WebsiteBroker.com is home to websites in all kinds of niches, of course, but we want to help steer both website buyers and sellers<\/a> in the right directions by listing the top potential website niches?<\/p>\n

Why focus on niches? Easy: a niche is essentially a market. All website trades are contingent on the success of a particular market, and the more markets are seen as valuable, the more websites there will be to buy and sell. So without any further fanfare, let\u2019s take a look at what we believe may just be five stellar website niches to buy and sell.<\/p>\n

1. Learning a musical instrument. <\/strong>Music is a major industry in the modern world. You can\u2019t turn on your TV without being influenced by it somehow or search through Twitter trends without seeing some kind of musical fad making it big. Learning a musical instrument has always been a top priority for a great many people; in 2012, we think it\u2019s set to truly explode as a niche. Whether your site is about learning how to play piano, drums, or guitar, there\u2019s a real market to make the world of music more accessible to those newbies who haven\u2019t so much as picked up an instrument in their past.<\/p>\n

2. Education.<\/strong> Okay, say the word \u201ceducation\u201d online and you\u2019ll probably think the topic\u2019s going to be a little bit boring. But with the recent news that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going to offer some courses online for free, we figure it\u2019s time that education got the recognition it deserves. Sure, the concept of \u201ceducation\u201d is a little big to be considered a niche, but don\u2019t forget that any niche can be combined with \u201ceducation\u201d and learning in order to create something new and original. People want to be taught!<\/p>\n

3. Weight Loss. <\/strong>We know, we know \u2013 weight loss is always<\/em> a niche, 2012 or otherwise. But that\u2019s no reason it won\u2019t be big this current year, and that\u2019s as good a reason as any to make sure that you\u2019re somewhere within the niche. It is<\/em> a large niche, however, so you\u2019ll want to guard against trying to conquer the market yourself. But don\u2019t ignore the weight loss niche in 2012 \u2013 or any other year.<\/p>\n

4. Dating.<\/strong> Between Dr. Phil\u2019s ever-present advice and new, popular books on the subject of dating and male\/female relationships, there\u2019s no better time than now to get involved in the dating niche and offer some poor souls out there some useful advice \u2013 or whatever it is that your website can do to help them.<\/p>\n

5. Gardening.<\/strong> Rising food prices means people are looking for new ways to eat and save money, and growing one\u2019s own produce is one of the best ways to do just that. Many people are suspicious of the food they find in the supermarket anyway \u2013 it\u2019s better to grow your own food at home. And we\u2019re sure you\u2019ll have a website soon that tells people exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing website buyers like more than a successful, proven niche \u2013 but the truly intrepid buyer is always on the lookout for the next big thing. WebsiteBroker.com is home to websites in all kinds of niches, of course, but we want to help steer both website buyers and sellers in the right directions by listing the top\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[435,433,436,432,431,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}