Episode 177

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Published on:

14th Oct 2024

Finding God’s Path in Business: How to Discover What People Need Online

How to Find a Niche - pt 6

Are you seeking God’s guidance on what your business should offer? In this episode, we’ll explore how to find out what people are searching for online—by looking at trends, advertising, and where the demand really is. I’ll show you how to tap into what God may be leading you to offer, so you can build a business that not only serves others but also glorifies Him. Let’s discover together where the opportunities lie for your faith-based business!

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Takeaways:

  • To choose a profitable niche, identify areas of interest through online advertising trends.
  • Sustained advertisements on major platforms indicate potential profitability and market demand.
  • Take note of classified ads as they reveal what products are currently being sought after.
  • Understanding your niche's audience is essential for providing solutions that meet their needs.
  • Tracking advertisements over time can help you gauge market interest and competition viability.
  • Aligning your business offerings with God's guidance ensures your efforts serve others and glorify Him.

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Transcript
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:

Hello, everyone everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to the faith based business podcast for today.

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We're so blessed you're joining as we're continuing our study and how to choose a niche.

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I mean, we're launching now into the second week and we got some great information for you today.

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Amen.

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Let me go ahead and get this here started off and make sure that all this is set up correctly.

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And that's it right there.

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Praise the Lord.

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And you should be seeing me now.

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Praise God.

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Now, we need to find areas of interest online.

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The last time, when we left off last week was what are some ways to determine what areas online people are interested in?

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And of course, you know, we're still talking about how to choose a niche for your podcast.

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Youre a online marketing platform, your sales platform, your ministry, whatever the case may be.

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Amen.

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So we covered last week how important it is to first select a niche that you are interested in and that you have products and services that will help support that niche and that the people of that niche, they have a problem that they're wanting to get solved.

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Okay, so what are some ways to determine what areas online people are interested in?

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Well, one way again, we simply go online, go somewhere where there's a lot of advertising dollars being spent.

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Maybe you know, any of the news websites, a lot of the news websites have what's called classified ads on them.

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Okay?

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Just take a look at those classified ads and you can look at the topics of those classified ads and see if there's something in there that is in your niche.

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You can even take a screenshot of the classified ads today and then do it a week from now and a month from now.

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Take another screenshot, see if the same people are advertising the same products, because that's going to tell you a lot.

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In fact, in the advertising world, many people just advertise one time.

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If it fails, they don't advertise again.

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The only way to know if advertising works is to buy the advertising.

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We talked about opening a restaurant.

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The only way you're really going to know if that restaurant is going to be profitable is if you go through all the expense, headaches and heartaches and time of opening it.

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I mean, you can do all the research you want, but you'll never really know until you actually do it.

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And it's the same way with running ads.

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Okay, before, you know, I've done that before, I bought ads that didn't work.

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I only bought it one at a time.

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But if I buy it again and again and again and again.

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You can assume that I'm doing one of two things.

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I'm either trying to throw the competition off.

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Amen.

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Or just trying to get them all to buy the same advertising so they'll waste their money, or I'm actually making money with this ad.

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Okay.

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The truth of the matter is, 99% of the time, when you see advertisers advertising month after month after month after month, they're doing it not because they want to trick their competitors, but because they're actually making money.

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Amen.

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Look at the ads on the big websites, you know, like the big news sites and all that.

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If you take a screenshot today and take a screenshot a month from now and they're running, they're the same advertisers running on the same ad, you can probably guess those people are making some money.

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Does that tell you there's a big demand?

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No, it doesn't tell us anything about demand.

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What it does tell us, though, is there are some people in that niche making some money.

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And really, if you get down to the bottom line, that's all it tells us, isn't it?

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Next time, I'm going to share some information on is there room, though, for more competition in our niche?

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And that's what we're going to talk about next.

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Amen.

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Praise the Lord.

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So till next time, this pastor, by reminding you to be blessed in all that you do and go down, click the links, hit the subscribe button there so you know when our next episode comes out.

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They get all the training as part of their membership.

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Just check it out.

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Faithcasteracademy.com till next time, it's Pastor Byromion.

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Be blessed and all that you do.

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Robert Thibodeau

Bob Thibodeau started podcasting in 2009. Within six months, he was approached with an offer to be on nationwide AM Christian radio (which he accepted - broadcasting into four major markets for a year)!

He founded and launched "Evangelism Radio" on October 2010. Starting with one broadcaster (himself) and one listener (himself), Evangelism Radio grew to be rated #1 in the world in the "Christian Talk Genre" by Shoutcast. com within 2 years time!

Now with listeners in over 160 nations and all 50 states and supporting almost 50 ministries sharing the Gospel around the world, he still manages "Evangelism Radio" on a daily basis.

Bob started "The Kingdom Cross Roads Podcast" in January 2018. In the four years (through 2022), he has interviewed almost 900 individuals and has published over 1200 episodes, achieving over 164K downloads!

He launched the "Revelation Warning" Podcast in August of 2022 and has already achieved over 16K downloads in the first five months!

Bob has established many contacts in the Christian podcasting niche. He has interviewed author, recording artists, athletes, business owners, coaches and entrepreneurs who have one thing in common - the Christian Faith!

With this podcast, the "Faith Based Business Podcast," he is going to bring these successful Christian influencers in to simply allow them to bless YOU with tips and ideas on how YOU can achieve success in your endeavors.

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