For example, let’s say you are big fan of the South Beach diet. That may have been a great niche to get into ten years ago, but now that diet is considered passé. People have moved on to other diets.
The data in the image above is based on only US search data, and the US only takes up 4.2% of the entire world’s population. Let’s just assume the world only has 250 million people – the population in America. Your website will still be discovered by 140 people every single month! Now, let’s scale it up by 18x to the global population excluding China, and you’d have 2,520 searches per month.

Affiliate marketing is a method of using the Internet and other digital channels to promote a product or service by referring customers who register or make purchases via an affiliate link. By putting one on your website, blog, or social media profile to entice people to click, fill out the form, take specific actions, etc a publisher will be compensated for promoting products for other advertisers.
What I find interesting about Etsy is that a surprising number of people I know have either bought something on Etsy, or are selling their own handicrafts on the platform.