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Reviewing products and services for others looking to buy them is a great business model suitable for any niche. By following a sequence of steps, you can build a thriving and profitable business around it, starting from scratch.

Find a Niche

You may prefer a 'follow the money' approach, or to 'pursue your passion'. Whichever you choose, make sure the niche you decide upon has a wide enough range of products or services you can review, has a large audience interested in buying these things, and it is easy to find and attract your market to your niche review website.

Choose a Vendor

The next step is to find locations where you have access to products you will be reviewing. You could search for vendors of individual products, or you can look for larger retailers who sell multiple products in a particular niche. Good places to look are Amazon (www.Amazon.com), Clickbank (www.Clickbank.com), Commission Junction (www.cj.com) and even eBay (www.eBay.com)

Pick a Product

Once you've chosen a vendor, select a range of products and services in your niche to review. While there are many ways you can go about this process, it is best to make sure that you look for these in products you review:

- high quality

- appeal to your audience

- affordable price

- easily available

Outline a Review

There are many angles to pick for your niche review website. You could position your review on the basis of:

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Facts: write about technical specifications, features and information

- Opinion: review the product or service from your (or others') unique viewpoint

- Experience: base your review on your personal use or purchase of the product

- Expertise: review it in light of your own expertise in the niche or with similar products

Create a Review

You can write your review in the form of a brief outline of the product, or even a longer, impassioned analysis of what it can do for your audience. You may present your review as an audio recording, or even interviews with others who are experts or users/buyers of the product.

Video reviews are also popular with the explosion of video sites like YouTube. You can record yourself using the product, or screen capture videos of the ordering process or how it works, or even a PowerPoint presentation of relevant facts.

Spicing Up Reviews

In the first part of this article, we have looked at the initial steps to building a niche review website, including picking a niche, choosing a vendor, selecting products to review, outlining a review and creating one.

There's a lot more to creating a niche review website. In the second part of this article, we'll look at adding social proof, creating a review website and monetizing your reviews in a variety of different ways.

As you can see, building a niche reviews website does involve some time and effort. A quick way around this which will let you get started right away is to buy a set of ready-made niche review websites and simply customize them to your taste.