I've long felt that a major downside of the IM
products is that the heavy focus is all around
promoting the IM niche. There are very few
who actually provide examples beyond IM or
dog training.
Personally, I have a hard time promoting
a product unless it is strategically sound,
I've made money using the strategies or
the software, plugin, etc. is actually useful
in my business.
You're absolutely right though Alexander,
people are hesitant about sharing niche
secrets. I picked my newest niche and built
the site around an informercial product.
Those guys do some serious research and
the commercials are filled with great copy
hitting the pain points and offering solutions.
I researched the market and products on
both Amazon and ebay, all of which show
a rapid growth trend. Quantcast gave me
the demographics and I built my site around
solving their problems. It's a new site and
time will tell but it is an evergreen market.
I did get a lot of the strategies I'm using,
including the research steps from a WSO.
What I liked about it was that it was about
non-IM products!
I've been asking for non-IM, Niche related content since we set up the categories, but ... as you and Alexander say, it appears no one want to share any of it. :P
Funny thing is that one of the handful of things folks bust my chops over regarding JVNP is the lack of Niche related content ... you can't win.