Magazines are one of the best sources for finding profitable niches.  Magazines are a  businesses, and no business can survive without making any money.  If there is a magazine about it, you can guarantee there is an audience who is willing to spend money on that subject.  Magazines survive on ads, and if not enough ads are sold, then that magazine wil die.

The real value in the magazine is not just in the headlines, but in the advertising found in these magazines.  Small businesses usually cannot afford to buy ads in these magazines, so you will normally have large businesses advertising in these magazines.

Large businesses usually have the budgets to have a marketing division or the ability to hire an advertising agency.  Advertising agencies will test their ads in all markets and will track their effectiveness.  When you start seeing alot of ads for a specific type of product in a magazine, than you know that that product is working in that market.

So start buying those magazines and do your research.  Look at what stories are on the cover.  Magazines need to sell you at first glance.  These stories should be on your site and on the front page.  Look at the design.  Those colors should be on your site.  Find the leading magazine in your niche and try to emulate them as much as possible without completely copying them.  This takes all the guessing out of developing your site.  They’ve already done the research for you.  Now go out there and take some of that market and make that money.

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