Eben Pagan explains why successful information products are found in three mega-niches: money/business, health/fitness, and relationships. He teaches the counterintuitive strategy of narrowing your niche to 20% of the market to actually capture more customers.
Thinking Terms Niches
How to Choose and Test a Profitable Niche -- Eben Pagan's systematic approach to selecting and validating niches that have high probability of success
Money, Health, Relationships Sell 5–20x More Than Other Niches
Three mega-niches dominate information product sales: money/business, health/fitness, and relationships, selling 5-20 times more than other niches
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Neutrogena's Narrow Niche That Won a Category
Neutrogena became #1 in their categories by starting with the narrow message of 'use every couple weeks to wash off residue from other soaps'
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Focusing on the Most Powerful 20% to Alienate Non-Prospects
Focus on only the most powerful 20% and eliminate 80% - you want to alienate your non-prospect so your ideal customer feels understood
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Narrowing Your Niche Captures More Market
Narrowing your niche intelligently captures more market than trying to appeal to everyone
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Widening When You Should Be Narrowing
Most people widen their thinking when they should narrow - like changing from 'weight loss book' to 'total health makeover'
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How to Choose and Test a Profitable Niche -- Eben Pagan's systematic approach to selecting and validating niches that have high probability of success
Three-Question Niche Viability Test
Use the three-question niche test: Does your prospect have an emotional irrational need? Are they proactively looking for solutions? Do they have few or no perceived options?
Money, Health, Relationships Sell 5–20x More Than Other Niches
Three mega-niches dominate information product sales: money/business, health/fitness, and relationships, selling 5-20 times more than other niches
Carving Dating Out of Relationships as a Niche
Eben carved off dating from relationships because people didn't know where to go for dating advice, unlike cars where everyone knows Ford or BMW
Neutrogena's Narrow Niche That Won a Category
Neutrogena became #1 in their categories by starting with the narrow message of 'use every couple weeks to wash off residue from other soaps'
Focusing on the Most Powerful 20% to Alienate Non-Prospects
Focus on only the most powerful 20% and eliminate 80% - you want to alienate your non-prospect so your ideal customer feels understood
Widening When You Should Be Narrowing
Most people widen their thinking when they should narrow - like changing from 'weight loss book' to 'total health makeover'
Narrowing Your Niche Captures More Market
Narrowing your niche intelligently captures more market than trying to appeal to everyone
Security, Health, Relationships: Hardwired Irrational Needs
These aren't logical issues - they're irrational, emotional, deep things we're wired from birth to want. We want security, health, and relationships and will do anything for them. Without one, all your attention goes to fixing it.
Using the Three-Question Test to Validate a Niche
Use Eben's three-question test: Does your prospect have an emotional, irrational need? Are they proactively looking for solutions? Do they have few or no perceived options? Three yeses means high probability of success.
Three Mega-Niches Sell 5-20x More Than Any Other Category
The three mega-niches are money/business/finance, health/fitness, and dating/relationships. These sell 5-20 times more than other niches because they address fundamental human needs from Maslow's hierarchy.
Alienating Non-Prospects Makes Ideal Customers Feel Seen
You want to alienate your non-prospects so your ideal customers feel deeply understood. When your message turns off non-prospects, your real prospects say 'somebody gets me - you're speaking my language.'
Headache Medicine vs Medicine That Cures Everything
It's like putting headache medicine in a bottle labeled 'medicine - cures everything.' People with headaches want headache medicine, not generic medicine. Specific solutions sell better than broad ones.
Narrow Your Niche to Capture More of the Market
You should narrow your niche. Counterintuitively, narrowing your focus actually captures more market than trying to appeal to everyone. When you talk to everyone, you're talking to no one.
Security, Relationship, Health: What Humans Will Do Anything For
We want security, we want relationship, we want health, and we'll do anything for it.
Become Narrow-Minded to Win Your Market
The trick is to narrow. We actually want to become narrow minded in this case.
A Niche Is a Living Thing — It Evolves
A niche is something that's a living, breathing thing that evolves over time.
Talking to Everyone Means Talking to No One
You're talking to everyone, you're talking to no one.
The Three Mega-Niches That Make the Most Money
What are the three mega niches that make the most money in information products?
The Problem with Positioning as a Complete Solution
What's wrong with calling my product a complete solution for everything?
Should You Narrow Your Niche or Widen It
Should I narrow my niche or make it broader to reach more people?
Why the Mega Niches Earn Disproportionate Revenue
Why do the mega niches make so much more money than other niches?
Eliminating 80 Percent to Focus on the Right 20 Percent
How do I eliminate 80% of my market to focus on 20%?
How to Test If Your Niche Will Be Profitable
How do I test if my niche idea will be profitable?
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Eben challenges the common belief that choosing a niche is like picking a lottery number. Instead, he teaches that niches are living, breathing entities that evolve through testing, customer feedback, and continuous refinement over time.
Money/business, health/fitness, and relationships sell 5-20 times more than other niches because they address Maslow's hierarchy of needs. These create irrational emotional responses where people will do anything to fulfill these fundamental human drives.
Through examples like Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo and Neutrogena soap, Eben demonstrates how narrowing your focus actually captures more market. When you try to appeal to everyone, you end up speaking to no one.
Eben provides a systematic way to test niche viability: emotional irrational need, proactive solution-seeking, and few perceived options. Most ideas get three no's, but three yeses indicates high probability of success.
Claim: “Pick your niche once and you'll be successful - choosing a niche is like picking a lottery ticket number”
Reframe: A niche is a living, breathing thing that evolves over time through testing, refinement, and narrowing based on customer feedback
Claim: “Widen your market appeal to reach more customers - expand from 'weight loss' to 'total health makeover'”
Reframe: Narrow your focus to capture more market - like Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo becoming #1 for both babies and adults
How To Test If Your Niche Will Make Money with Eben Pagan
Discover the simple three-question test that reveals whether your niche will generate profit or leave you struggling to find customers.
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Targeting The Right Niche
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Marketing Communication Gets Customers
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Right Marketing Business
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