Benefits Disadvantages Is dropshipping for you?

When thinking about sustainability, ask yourself what the lifespan 
of the niche is. Do you see this niche being as popular a year from 
now? What about five years? What do experts think?
This can be a tough nut to crack, and sometimes there will be risk involved 
because it’s impossible to predict the future of any given niche. Just be sure you’re 
not pouring all your money into a fad that will be over a month or a year from now.

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3. Choosing Your Niche
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Niche evaluation in action
Now you know all of the strategies for selecting which niche to choose, but maybe 
you’re a little confused about how it all comes together. So let’s put all of this into 
practice by looking at an example.
Let’s say you’re looking to set up your first dropshipping store, and you’ve searched 
the Internet for some niches that are ripe for new businesses.
You have a list of 4 niches:
dz Travel products
dz Custom T-shirts
dz Coding
dz Fidget spinners
To narrow this list down to just one final choice, you can ask the questions listed in 
the 2-step process above. Here’s how that might look.

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QUESTION 1:
 Is this a product-based niche?
The first step is to filter out the niches that don’t have a large need for physical 
products. But even once you’ve done that, you want to gauge how well physical 
products could perform in the remaining niches.
Right off the bat, you can answer ‘no’ for coding. Coding has a few physical 
products associated with it, but for the most part it’s a digital-based niche. So you 
could remove that from your list.
The other three niches all have specific physical products associated with them, so 
they get a ‘yes’ for this question.
Now onto part 2 of this question. Exactly how big of a need does each niche have 
for products? You could argue that all three have fairly large needs, so for now you 
can keep considering all of them.