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I was at a friend's house recently. She is a real estate agent, and she is currently struggling.

Not because she is bad at her job. She is genuinely good at her job.

She is struggling because the interest rate went up, and the borrowing power of her customers went with it. People who would have bought a year ago are sitting still. The market that was essentially closing itself when money was cheap now requires everything she has just to produce results that used to arrive without effort.

Same agent, same skills, same work ethic. Completely different outcome.

That conversation has been sitting with me, because it is such a clean illustration of something I try to explain to people when they are choosing a market to enter. The quality of your marketing matters. The quality of your product matters. Your work rate matters.

None of those things matter as much as whether money is already flowing in the direction you are trying to push it.

Most people choose a market based on what they are passionate about. They like woodworking, so they go into woodworking. They are into fitness, so they build something in the fitness space. The logic seems sound — you know the subject, you enjoy it, you have something genuine to say about it, and you will probably stay motivated long enough to build something real.

The problem is that passion does not tell you whether there is a market. And finding out the hard way, after months of building, that you have selected a niche where the audience is not spending freely is an expensive and demoralizing lesson.

There is also no easy way to read the signals in a niche you are unfamiliar with. If you go into woodworking, you genuinely have no idea whether you chose well. If you go into health or wealth or relationships, you have a million existing products as evidence that the market is real and active and spending.

There is a simpler way to filter. Ask whether you are in health, wealth, or relationships. These three broad categories have been evergreen for as long as marketing has existed, and they will remain evergreen long after any current trend has peaked and collapsed.

People will always want to lose weight, build muscle, stay healthy, make more money, improve their relationships, and develop themselves personally. These desires do not go away when an interest rate changes or a cryptocurrency exchange collapses.

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Now, as I was saying…

Compare that to someone who built a presence in the crypto market — genuinely invested, building an audience, producing content — and then watched the FTX collapse take the confidence out of that entire space in a matter of weeks. The market did not fail them because their marketing was weak or their work was poor. The market failed them because the underlying consumer confidence evaporated, and no amount of effort could have anticipated or prevented that.

Evergreen markets do not have that problem. They are not immune to difficulty — the floor holds, though, and that is the point.

Within an evergreen market, there is a second filter I apply, and it might be the more important one: is the consumer emotional?

I will give you an example. I do not play golf. I genuinely do not understand the appeal.

Grown adults chasing a small ball across an enormous amount of grass, playing the same course repeatedly, obsessing over the difference between a score of four and a score of three. It escapes me entirely.

Those same people will spend a thousand dollars on a set of clubs without blinking.

Not because they evaluated the clubs on a rational cost-benefit basis and concluded that this particular set was the most efficient use of their discretionary income. They are buying those clubs because they want to beat their friend on Saturday. They want the small, precise satisfaction of outperforming someone they compete with every week. They want an edge, and they will pay for it, and the money moves easily because the desire driving it is not practical — it is personal.

Now consider someone shopping for a commodity. A memory card. A router. A spare part for a machine.

That consumer wants the lowest price that meets the minimum specification. (If the spec matches and the price is right, they buy. If either condition is off by even a little, they are gone.) You are not marketing to them so much as competing to meet their predetermined criteria.

Marketing to an emotional consumer who is buying something for reasons they could not fully justify to a skeptical friend is a different exercise entirely. The emotional investment is already there. Your job is to give it a direction, not create it from scratch.

The golfer is in an evergreen market. The desire to perform, compete, and feel the satisfaction of beating someone you care about does not go away. The spending is irrational in the best possible sense — it is not driven by need, it is driven by want, which means price resistance is lower and emotional resonance in your marketing does more work.

You want to be in markets where money flows toward you. Where the consumer is already motivated, already spending, already looking for something that matches what you have. The work you put into building a campaign should be amplified by the market you are in, not absorbed by it trying to create demand that was never there.

My friend, the real estate agent, did not do anything wrong. She is in a great market. She is just in it at the wrong moment, when the external conditions have turned against her through no fault of her own.

Pick the market where that kind of reversal is less likely. Then pick the emotional consumer inside that market — the one buying with their heart rather than their spreadsheet, the one who already wants what you have before they have ever heard your name.

P.S. If you enjoy these ideas, you’ll love the deeper conversations we have on the List Building Lifestyle podcast.