5 Quickest Ways To Massive Windfalls Of Cash Onlin

5 Quickest Ways To Massive Windfalls Of Cash Online

by: Ewen Chia

These days everyone wants to know how to make money online.

Yet, for some, this lifestyle seems out of reach. Does this describe you at all?

If you’ve been banging your head against the wall trying to figure out the quickest and easiest methods to generate cash for yourself online, then these five tactics should have you opening your eyes wide and wondering: ขWhy didn’t I think of this before?ข

Cash Tactic #1: Affiliate Products

Affiliate products offer the small, homebased business owner the opportunity to make truckloads of cash, while investing a minimum in over head.

Low overhead is the primary benefit of affiliate marketing. You don’t need your own merchant account. You don’t need to pay a web designer and programmer to create a huge estore for you. You don’t handle customer complaints, refunds or returns…

All you do is refer the prospect to the merchant’s site, and the merchant handles the rest.

I believe the best affiliate products are information products. Your commissions on information products tend to be higher simply because the author can price an information product higher than what the average shopper spends on a tangible product sold online on a typical day.

This is because the value of information is ambiguous at best, and subjective to how the prospect sees value. People are willing to spend much, much more in order to acquire a solution to their problems.

Cash Tactic #2: Resale Rights

Resale rights are the lazy marketer’s salvation. You don’t have to create your own product. You don’t have to write a single word. You may not even have to lift a finger on sales page creation when the resale product comes with a readytoupload sales page.

All you do is pay the licensing fee to acquire rights to the product, perform a small amount of editing to change the payment link over to yours, and upload the sales page and product file to your web server.

The trend is taking a turn for the better in 2005 while the marketing world goes through its latest ขnext big thingข: niche marketing.

Today, you can find products with resale rights for such things as cooking, golf, arts and crafts, selfimprovement and more.

Seizing on the profits promised by demand for niche products, there are dozens of new authors out there who have devoted themselves to turning out these niche products, and offering them with resale rights.

Cash Tactic #3: Special Reports

A special report is a ‘mini ebook’ of no more than about 5 to 12 pages in length. While you can certainly create a miniebook that sells (provided the information it contains is perceived to be valuable enough), the best use of a short report is as a lead generating tool for your affiliate campaigns.

The miniebook is the ideal viral tool. You create (or acquire) a miniebook which is branded with your affiliate links and/or your main URL.

The focus of the report should be niche specific and completely focused on the preselling of the affiliate product.

Cash Tactic #4: Interviews

It’s a piece of cake to churn out products created from interviews. In fact, it may be one of the laziest content generation methods available.

Interview packaging is easy, too. You can present the interview as a written transcript, an audio transcript, or both. You can offer a downloadable mp3 file or you can burn the entire interview to CD, put an attractive label on it, and instantly raise your price by at least 30%.

Cash Tactic #5 Teleseminars

Do you want to know something interesting about teleseminars?

While they’re becoming a popular marketing method, the field is really wide open for you to cash in on them because very few marketers understand how to pull them off.

A teleseminar requires advance planning and a willingness to overcome a bit of stage fright. The average marketer in competition with you avoids teleseminars for these reasons.

They’re intimidated by the idea of showing up on time and speaking, even via telephone, to an audience of a couple hundred people.

You can cash in on this technique in a big way. Teleseminars, right now, are popular mainly among the internet marketing crowd and tend to focus on marketingrelated subjects; but, just imagine what you could do if you held teleseminars for noninternet marketing niche audiences?

The field is wide open and vastly underexploited.

There you have it five quick and easy methods to generate windfalls of cash online!

It’s really amazingly simple, isn’t it? Every tactic is really just a vehicle of delivery for an idea. Your profits begin in an idea which spawns market research. This spawns an analysis of the best approach for delivering your idea to buying public.

While there are many more secrets and techniques to generate massive cash windfalls from the internet, as a start, you should put any one of these methods to good use.

I promise that you will finally get a taste of what it’s really like to succeed wildly online if you do so!

Copyright 2005 Ewen Chia

About The Author

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This article was posted on February 09

by Ewen Chia

How To Find HOT, NonInternet Marketing Topics For

How To Find HOT, NonInternet Marketing Topics For Your eBooks

by: Jeff Smith

Itกs so tempting to write ebooks yet again, on กHow To Make Money on the Internetก isn’t it?
You see the thousands of books pitching the next big tip, technique or strategy for making money online.
You get a flood of email from guruกs who have made it big in the world of internet marketing products, writing ebooks on that topic. Or have they really made it big?
OK, They Are Going To Lynch Me For Saying This!
Could it be that these gurus HAVE to be highly visible, run seminar after seminar and stay in your face to be able to LIVE marketing to this niche?
Honestly, I know many of the best online marketing professionals out there and they are far from living like Donald Trump.
Yes, they make take a vacation but rest assured, at least part of it is a working vacation.
Itกs true, the internet marketing niche market is quite a responsive one, but there are BIG problems…
First and foremost, itกs quite small,
The keyword selection is quite tiny, and…
It is one of the most competitive markets out there
So what am I trying to say?
Make Life Easier For Yourself, Pick Another Niche!
Let me try and make my point. Letกs compare the searches for few keywords I came across this last week using the incredible Adword Analyzer Tool >
http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze
These are monthly searches, followed by the number of sites that already offer products to this niche and the top bid on Overture Payperclick (a definite indicator of competitiveness):
Internet Marketing: 115,903 11,600,000 $3.51/click
Marketing Online: 23,157 11,400,000 $6.02/click
Dog Name: 221,290 1,950,000 .10/click
Wood Working: 74,382 4,840,000 .54/click
Storage Shed: 55,252 689,000 .62/click
If this doesn’t make you run away from targeting the internet marketing niche nothing will!
Letกs say you focus on writing a special report, book or membership site focused on naming dogs including other dogrelated information.
You would have roughly double the demand, approximately 80% less supply and a 35 clicks more per dollar than Internet Marketing, and over 60 more clicks than Online Marketing.
Bottom line is…Capitalize on Opportunity Filled Niches
There are hundreds upon hundreds of other niche markets with little competition, cost effective traffic and eager customers that you have a much greater probability of getting to.
I have been spending significant time capitalizing on these niche markets over the last 6months.
Hereกs How To Find Hot Niche Markets
Pay attention to whatกs around you.
Take notice of what books, magazines, media are popular.
What is the latest demand for cookbooks, health, business, exercise, selfhelp, pets, travel, etc…
Plug those topics into a keyword search tool I always use Adword Analyzer (http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze) as it gives you supply, demand as well as keyword popularity.
No time to research?
You can try a powerful new program created by respected online professionals Jimmy D Brown and Ryan Deiss called Nicheology
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/nicheology
This site does all the hard work for you gives you profiles of RED HOT niche markets, several products you can repackage as you like and tons of support creating wealth with niche marketing.
A terrific way to get started is to setup a minisite, write some articles, create 45 product categories and find affiliate products to test out different ideas.
Make sure you collect optin subscribers by creating a brief minicourse or automated newsletter. This will quickly give you a market you can survey and discover new product opportunities.
This is a perfect system because you can get started within days, begin earning profit very quickly, start building content to attract search engines and bundle into future products, all the while learning about your target market identifying new product and service opportunities.

About The Author

Jeff Smith is dedicated to helping you turn your knowledge into highly desirable, hot selling informationbased products (eBooks, booklets, seminars, courses, etc…) Through his highly acclaimed site: http://www.highertrustmarketing.com you will find exactly what it takes to create and market highprofit infoproducts.

This article was posted on May 21, 2004

by Jeff Smith

Unique Niche Markets

Unique Niche Markets

by: Dan Brown

1. Your niche could be that you offer free delivery. This may cost a little money, but, you will gain the extra customers to make up for it.

2. Your niche could be that you offer a lower price. If you can’t afford to offer a lower price you could always hold the occasional discount sale.

3. Your niche could be that your product achieves results faster. This niche is very effective because people are becoming more and more impatient and want results fast.

4. Your niche could be youกve been in business for a longer period of time. People think if youกve been in business longer you have more credibility.

5. Your niche could be that your product tastes, smells sounds, looks, or feels better. When you target the the senses you’re triggering basic human attractions.

6. Your niche could be your product is light or compact. People may want to take the product on a trip or don’t have much room where they live.

7. Your niche could be that youกve won a business reward. When you win a reward tell your customers or visitors about it. This increases their trust in your business.

8. Your niche could be that your product lasts longer. People don’t like taking the time and spending more money buying replacement products all the time.

9. Your niche could be that your product is easy to use. People don’t want to buy a product that they have to read a 200 page hardtounderstand instruction manual.

10. You niche could be that your product has better safety features. People want to feel safe when they use your products.

11. Your niche could be that your product was made by hand. Most people believe that products made by hand have better quality.

12. Your niche could be that you stand behind all your products. People want to know that you back up any claims you make about your product with either guarantees, warrantees and free replacements.

About The Author

Dan Brown has been active in internet marketing for the past 4 years. Dan currently is working with the Zabang search engine introducing their new affiliate program which is due out Nov. http://www.zabangaffiliate.com/

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This article was posted on August 11

by Dan Brown

15 Commandments Of Creating A Wealth Pulling Niche

15 Commandments Of Creating A Wealth Pulling Niche

by: Roy Primm

Niches are like bathrooms; you never notice them until you need one.ข

Primm (From NicheBrain.com)

Fact: The person who finds or creates a special niche gets the cream of our societies financial rewards. Whether you’re Bill Gates or Joe Average.

The niche, and the person who creates them, is the main factor that separates one product from 12 others.

To outniche your competitors you must focus on these ข15 commandmentsข of niche creation at all times. Observe the ones you can apply to your business, product, or service and watch your profits soar.

15 Principles of Creating A Niche (In alphabetical order)

1. The Principle of กAdaptationก The easiest way to create a new idea is to do what others in another business or industry is doing. Next, see if you can adapt it to your own business, product, or service.

2. The Principle of กAdditionก Can you add something extra to your product or service that your competition doesn’t have or isn’t doing?

3. The Principle of กCombinationก ขWhat positive elements can you combine from another product or service to make yours better?ข A candy bar did it with simple peanut butter and chocolate, and made a successful new product. So can you!

4. The Principle of กCustomizationก Can you find little ways to personalize a part of your product or service for your customers? People love the personal touch that means so much. Can you make your product or service more personal and less cookiecutter?

5. The Principle of กEasierก Can you find more ways to make your product or service easier to buy, use, own, recommend to others, or attract repeat customers?

6. The Principle of กEliminationก What negative or inconvenience can you eliminate for your customer with your product or service? Today people not only pay extra for more, they’ll pay extra for less. Less irritations, less waiting, less inconveniences, less risk, less pain, etc.

7. The Principle of กEnlargementก Do people like your service or product? Then it’s a surefire bet there is a segment of your market that would like even more of it. Can you supersize something?

8. The Principle of กEntertainmentก From cradle to grave, we all have this inner urge to be entertained, amused, or fascinated especially before we spend our money. A relaxed customer spends more. Find little ways to amuse your customers before, while, and after they buy your product or service.

9. The Principle of กLongevityก It’s making some feature of your product or service last longer. It can also include making a positive experience or feeling last longer.

10. The Principle of กPortabilityก People hate to be tied down. can people use your product or service in more than one place? Or Can you find a way to take your product or service to your customer instead of them having to come to you?

11. The Principle of ‘reductionก If you sell a product or service, is there any way to reduce a certain feature to make it more convenient? More portable? Easier to store or carry? Or easier to use? Can you reduce it and make it more affordable?

12. The Principle of ‘reversalก Look at what features or services your competition is offering or not offering and reverse them. If they close on weekends, can you be open? If they cater to seniors, target more young people. Or if they cater to highend customers, target more lowend volume customers, etc.

13. The Principle of กSafetyก Show others how your product or service can add safety or reduce risk. People hate to experience loss, feel insecure, or waste money. Try to think of little ways you can help people avoid the above with your product or service.

14. The Principle of กSpeedก Today more than ever people hate to wait. You should always be thinking, ขWhat could I do faster than my competitorswithoutlosing quality?ข Can you fill your orders faster? Can you give faster service? Can your product get faster results? Can you resolve customer issues faster? Can you ship your orders faster? Think speed!

15. The Principle of กYuckyก A billionaire once said the secret to success is to be willing to do what most people don’t like to do. So find out what people don’t like to do, find irritating or disgusting, and charge them to do it. If you have a business, find out what your competition doesn’t like to do for their customers and you start doing it. You could literally steal customers from your competition overnight.

Try it.

By following the above suggestions, you’ll be able to create powerful moneymaking niches. And leave your competition in the dust.

About The Author

Roy Primm (The NicheMan) has written hundreds of articles on how to create a moneymaking niche. Get the edge on your competition this year read his free report ก14 Ways To Create a Niche and Grow Richก go to NicheBrain.com

This article was posted on January 01, 2004

by Roy Primm

Is the noise surrounding John Reese just hype?

Is the noise surrounding John Reese just hype?

by: Per Strandberg

Never in the history of the Internet have anything like this happened!

On the 17th of august 2004 traffic secrets was launched. On That Day…Anybody interested in Internet marketing could not avoid being knocked down by the noise.

Like whenever there is a new major launch of an Internet product, Internet marketers with large lists all jump on the bandwagon touting the same product in unison.

Get kind of annoying, doesn’t it? Especially while in many instances some of the products or services that are marketed are of questionable nature! In my opinion.

This can be products or services for link schemes or traffic generating. Or it can be marketing information that is often overhyped by marketing gurus claiming to make you rich fast. I’m not an affiliate or have any vested interest in John Reese’s product.

But, I tell you this! Traffic secrets will be the first product I will try to get my hand on…period!

Why is that? Is it not all hype with the same information you find elsewhere? I haven’t seen the product or have inside information, but I have listen on the Internet to interviews made with him, seen his newsletters and sales page.

So here is why! Beside his track record which surpasses most competitors. This is the only product I know that is credible and shows convincingly how to market on the Internet full throttle. This is made by time saving market research and by effective web site promotion which get you on the right track for achieving web traffic avalanches.

Let’s look how!

Market research: The start must begin with market research, testing new business concept and evaluating the potential of different niche markets. The key here is that the faster and quicker you can test niche markets, ideas and get positive returns from them all, the better off you are. The positive result from each concept will have one of two possible outcomes.

Either you lose money or you make money!

You dump the loser and concentrate on the winners. He shows you how you are able do this real quick.

The mistake that most people make is that they build a site targeting a market and test it first when the site is built. In other words they do the market research only after they have made all the work.

Sadly, the time they spend until they realize that it will not work can be several months or even years.

Promoting: In order the make money on the internet you need to attract targeted visitors and make money from them. Thatกs a fact!

John Reese has dedicated his life to figure out and test which methods are really effective to attract visitors and how to convert them to customers. He has done this, กworking like a mad scientistก, testing and tracking.

That is what you also have to do! Testing and tracking your marketing effort!..By making gradual improvements. If you know which traffic building methods are working you can concentrate on the methods that work.

Avalanche building: Ultimate when building a profitable web business to make abundant sum of money you have to use the unique viral marketing effects which are unique to the Web. What I’m very interested in and what John is claiming to show you is how you make other web sites sending you their traffic.

Marketing by using snow ball effects and by building momentum is what it really is all about to succeed with your business on the Internet.

Most other marketing products will only show you one available technique to make more visitors or one technique to get a higher conversion. Some claim to show you the whole picture to make a successful Internet sites. But, lack the complete picture.

What John shows you are clear strategies that are fully tested and working. This includes traffic building, testing, conversion, tracking and effective leverage strategies mastered to perfection.

Copyright 2004 Per Strandberg

About The Author

Per Strandberg specializes in Internet marketing and web development!

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This article was posted on August 26, 2004

by Per Strandberg

Niche Marketing: Tactics to Use To Make Money With

Niche Marketing: Tactics to Use To Make Money With Niche Marketing

by: Karl Augustine

Niche marketing has always been a key any success in marketing but lately it has become quite a prominent force in the online marketing world. Many books, manuals, courses, and web sites have been developed that focus on niche marketing. It is easy to find solid resources on the Internet that can teach you how to make money with niche marketing.
Niche marketing online is a distinct segment of Internet marketing and is the quickest way to get maximum exposure if you know how to leverage the search engines to draw attention to your niche web site.
Thereกs many things to learn to be successful and profit from niche marketing and your USP (Unique Selling Proposition) will dictate exactly how to plan your attack to successfully market to customers in your niche.
If you plan to use niche marketing to draw visitors to your web site, hereกs a few tactics that you can use to make money:
Niche Marketing Tactic #1, ‘researchก
Fully utilize all of the research mechanisms that you can find in order to make sure that you truly understand your niche and all of its nuances.
This requires understanding what tools are best to use so you can understand what your target niche market does day to day, where they spend their time online, and what makes them tick from a personal and business perspective.
Niche Market Research (http://www.nichemarketresearch.com)offers free reports and articles to help you make the most of your research time.
Niche Marketing Tactic #2, กDefine your paying nicheก
Clearly define who will make up your niche market and make sure that the people in that niche market are willing to pay for the solution that you provide to their problems.
A niche is a clear subset of a larger category.
An example of what a niche market is not: กPeople who want to learn how to shoot better scores in golf.ก
In this example, there are far too many people within the main category (golf) to make this a true niche. Virtually everyone who plays golf will want to play better and shoot better scores so this wouldn’t qualify as a niche, much less a category worth pursuing.
An example of a niche market: กWomen who play golf who want to learn how to drive the ball longer and straighter.ก
This would be a niche because it clearly defines and segments who youกll cater to and why they would need your service.
After clearly defining your niche market, you should make sure that they are willing to pay for your services. The easiest way to determine this in the online world (other than using common sense) is to find web sites that may be close to, or even in your niche, and see if those web sites charge a fee for their services.
In addition, you should look to see if there is a reasonable level of competition between those web sites.
If you see more than a few sites listed on a SERP (Search Engine Result Page) that cater to female golfers for a fee, chances are the people who are your target customer will pay for your services for solving their problem women who can’t consistently hit long straight drives in golf.
Niche Marketing Strategy #3, กChoosing keywords and domain namesก
Research and choose your keywords carefully so you can acquire the best domain name for your site. Niche marketing most often includes maximizing the way search engines work to make sure that your web site gets listed n the first page of the SERPกs from your chosen keywords. Your domain name contributes to getting those first page results.
Go to Digitalpointกs keyword suggestion tool and type in keywords that you feel people would use to find the product or service that you offer within your niche. Look at the number of searches performed per day for those keywords and review the other keywords listed.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Type the keyword phrase that you think best suits your USPกs target customer into Google and assess whether or not you can reasonably compete with the sites that are listed on page 1 of the SERPs.
Can you get a page 1 ranking knowing that youกll have to compete with the sites already listed?
Repeat the process until you have decided what your main keywords will be for your product or service within your niche.
Those keywords should be in your domain name and preferably, they should be your entire domain name.
Example: if youกve concluded that กblue widgetsก best suits your USP and you feel that you can compete for page 1 listings on the SERPs with the sites that come up on page 1 for the keyword กblue widgetsก, then a good domain name for your niche marketing site would be กbluewidgets.comก.
Niche Marketing Tactic #4, กPosting keyword rich articles or reports throughout the webก
Niche marketing doesn’t differ from any other online search engine marketing, posting relevant content is the best way (bar none) to get the right type of traffic to your niche site.
Writing keyword rich articles or reports and posting them to high traffic web sites is a great way to make sure that you get maximum exposure within your niche market. People will use your keywords to search for information about the topic that they have interest in, and they will come across your web site on the search engines results.
Niche marketing caters to a distinct and select group of people who need what you have to offer. If you define your niche properly and make sure that your ability to solve their problem is something that they will pay for, you will have established a กmoney makerก.
Utilize the search engines to make it easy for your niche market to find your service or product. Niche marketing is the easiest way to be successful on the Internet if you do the proper research.

About The Author

Karl Augustine Publisher, กStarting Smart!ก

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This article was posted on July 08, 2004

by Karl Augustine

The Power Of Niche Marketing

The Power Of Niche Marketing

by: Terry Stewart

Have you ever been over whelmed by all the competition on the internet. All the other companies going after the same customers that you are. Well panick not the world wide web is a MASSIVE market place and the best strategy is to create your own market.

Dont Compete Be Unique

The benifits of niche marketing

Dont dissappear in the crowd

The importance of a niche business

Ways of creating niches

Dont reinvent the wheel

1. Niche marketing is the best way for the smaller business person to level the playing field against the larger companies. Niche marketing is where you find a corner of your particular market which is exclusive to you. There are a few ways of finding your niche and this article is about some of the aspect concerning niche marketing

2. The great thing about having a niche business is the fact that you are not struggling to compete against established marketers. Therefore you will not be invisible and you wont disappear in the crowd.Recreating products and concepts is a vital business skill I would go as far as saying it will keep you ahead of the game. Most big companies hire developers to improve on their products and service. So it is no difernt for the small business person.

3. A way of developing a niche is to sell to people you are familiar with eg. You could be a ex chef selling Automatic self lighting ovens which cleaned itself every night.

Do you get it, if you are familiar with a certain business you can cater for it like no other company.

Also you can concerntrate on a smaller part of the market and become a specialist in that field. Like concentrating on helping diabetic people losing weight, instead of the whole weight loss market.

Just imagine for one moment that you were the only one selling automatic self cleaning cookers to the catering trade. You would corner the that market and make a fortune.

4. The japanese are great at taking otherกs ideas and improving on them and they are not doing to bad are they? Great inventors like Henry Ford and Edison have created great inventions and others have taken them to another level. The Japanese have shown the imortance of understanding the power niche business that is why they are one of the wealthier countries in the world today.

5. Creating niche business doesn’t require you to invent the wheel, it only requires thinking of ways to improve it. That is where you will get more sales, and more referals. So that in the end your business will grow without competing with the bigger companies.

In general you can see the benifits of niche marketing which is by cornering the market in your particular field,you differienciate your business. You avoid competing with the big boys. Therefore gaining your own exclusive market, which in turn will lead to more profits.

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After years of doing different types of jobs I decided to go into the home based business field. I and I have not looked back since.I dont have all the answers but I do know what not to do, as I have learned from my many mistakes.

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This article was posted on August 16, 2004

by Terry Stewart

How To Make Money With Your Own Home Based Busines

How To Make Money With Your Own Home Based Business Niche

by: Dean Phillips

Want to know how to make money with your own home based business niche?

First of all, forget about what everybody else is doing. Forget about what everybody else is saying. Forget about what everybody else is selling. Who cares? From this moment on, none of that has anything to do with you. Iกm going to show you how to make money with your own home based business, by sneaking in the back door. In other words, by creating your own home based business niche.

I want you to think about the one thing in life that you’re truly passionate about. I mean, if you could do anything in the world that you wanted, what would you do?

Once you figure out what it is that you’re truly passionate about, Iกm going to show you how to turn that into a money making home based business niche for yourself.

Whatกs a niche? A niche is a narrowly defined group of potential customers. Why should you bother to establish a niche market? Because of the great advantage and potential of having your niche all to yourself. Other small businesses may not be aware of your particular niche market, and large businesses probably won’t want to bother with it.

The trick to capitalizing on a niche market is to find or develop a market niche that currently has enough potential customers to make it worth your while, and that is experiencing reasonably rapid growth. Itกs also important that your niche is not already being dominated by one established business.

Once you decide on your niche, go to the library and learn everything you can about it. For example, if your niche happens to be doing voiceovers for new car dealerships; then read every book you can find about the voiceover industry.

The next step is reprogramming your mind for success. In that regard, there are two books I consider absolute MUST reads, if you are at all serious about making money with your own home based business.

The books are, ‘think and Grow Richก by Napolean Hill and ‘the Magic of Thinking Bigก by Dr. David Schwartz.

Your local library or bookstore should have both books, since they’re alltime classics. If not, try Amazon.com. But whatever you do, get those books!

By the way, when you get those books, don’t just read them and forget about them. Keep them nearby and refer to them on a daily basis. This is critical, as far as keeping you focused and on the right track.

So, why is it so important to prepare yourself mentally for success? Because quite frankly, you’re bound to experience some extremely difficult times with your home based business. We all do. Thatกs just the way it is. Success rarely comes easy and despite some of the socalled overnight success stories you occasionally hear about, outofthebox successes are actually few and far between.

Another thing, if you’re married or living with someone, don’t expect a whole lot of support or kisses and hugs, during those inevitable tough times.

Unfortunately, most people are conditioned to the ก9 to 5, retire at 65,ก way of thinking. Many of them dream about starting their own business, but just can’t seem to find the courage to do so.

Instead, theyกll observe you with a critical eye, secretly hoping you fail, so that they can justify their own fears and insecurities about being entrepreneurs.

So, if you’re expecting support and encouragement from your family and friends, you’re probably going to be disappointed. I don’t mean to be a wet blanket but, thatกs just the way it is. Most likely, youกll probably hear a bunch of negativity and comments about getting a real job.

Thatกs the point when you’re going to have to look deep inside yourself and stay strong and focused. Because chances are, you’re going to be going through this alone. Thatกs why the mind reprogramming is so important. Itกll help you stay focused and positive. And if by chance you do happen to have family and friends who do support you, so much the better!

You also need to learn how to write effective ads for your business. Powerful copywriting is critical. I highly recommend you read the following books: กScientific Advertising,ก by Claude Hopkins and กHow To Write A Good Advertisement,ก by Victor Schwab and กAdvertising Secrets Of The Written Word,ก by Joseph Sugarman.

Hereกs some advice: The number one reason why most businesses fail is because they’re undercapitalized. You can’t conduct business online or offline without any money. Now, Iกm not saying you need thousands of dollars. However, you need to at least have two or three hundred dollars in the bank to work with.

In closing, if you ever find yourself getting overwhelmed at any point in the process; don’t be afraid to seek help. Consult with an expert, to help you sort things out and gain a new perspective on things. Itกs the smart thing to do, and it just might save your business!

About The Author

Dean Phillips is an Internet marketing expert, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. Questions? Comments? Dean can be reached at mailto: [email protected]

Visit his website at: http://www.letsmakemoney.net

This article was posted on November 11, 2004

by Dean Phillips

The Viability of Blogging to a Niche Market

The Viability of Blogging to a Niche Market

by: Mal Keenan

Niche marketing is an old and very successful marketing strategy whereby a company focuses on marketing and selling to a clearly defined segment of potential consumers. The company earns by supplying a unique product or service to this narrowly defined market which other companies have not met or provided.

Are there potential buyers online? According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s latest figures, there are over 185.55 million internet users in the United States alone, of these around 139.52 million active users. The Computer Industry Almanac which compiles statistics on global internet users, records a staggering 934 million users for 2004 and this market continues to grow.

Do these users buy online? Statistics gathered on internet users, show they do and their numbers are increasing. For instance, in December 2004, online sales rose by 53%, from $795 million of the same month 2003, to $1.22 billion 2004, (gathered by CMP Media a service provider of information and marketing services to the technology and healthcare industries). For each unique marketing hook, product and service, your business blog can tap in, that’s how many niche markets you can serve.

The next question then to answer: Can your blog be the perfect vehicle for reaching and marketing to your niche?

You should realize that successful blogs go a step further in providing excellent content, as well as regular updates or new content. Most websites provide these services. Rather it is the ability of these blogs to provide the author and the readers’ a venue for oneonone conversations, in an impersonal medium. By sharing commentaries, thoughts and opinions, the author positions himself or herself as being an authority in his or her field of work. If you write content that is relevant to their needs, they’ll remember and keep returning to your blog.

But that’s not all; you need to have an abiding passion for the subject matter or product you’ll sell. Without this, your blog won’t stand out and carve itself a niche apart from the other blogs.

In essence, a well researched and crafted business blog is a potential revenue center. It has the authors’ personal touch and speaks to the need of this particular consumer. As every marketing analyst knows, when a seller understands his or her consumers well, this seller gets their business.

Copyright 2005 Mal Keenan

About The Author

Mal Keenan is editor and publisher of the Home Business Tips Blog:

http://www.homebusinesstipsnewsletter.com/blog/

Visit his Internet Marketing Plug In Training site for great strategies and step by step processes in running a successful online business:

http://www.pluginprofitstraining.com/

This article was posted on April 22

by Mal Keenan

Multiple Income Streams from Niche Markets

Multiple Income Streams from Niche Markets

by: Fred Farah

Multiple income streams, do you find the term confusing? Don’t, itกs really quite simple.

In the world of Niche Markets in Internet Marketing, multiple income streams simply means having more than one source of income. This is achieved by making money from more than just one online business.

Each different web site would generally be a different business. They could relate to each other, but not necessarily. You could have businesses that have nothing to do with each other. Both methods are quite successful.

Letกs look at different scenarios. How to market unrelated products? In the offline world, we are quite accustomed to seeing a little bit of just about everything sold in department stores, from razor blades to baby clothes to fashion dresses to living room furniture to washers and dryers, and so on.

Is this how itกs done in the online world? Absolutely, but it is not the only method. Mega Internet stores have evolved in such a way that to compete, you must be huge, and have tons of money to finance the operation, including the cost of the everchanging web site. The competition and horrendous costs leave no room for the little guy, so he has to find another way to do business.

Enter the newcomer, looking for a way to make a living on the Internet. Seeing he can’t compete selling a large mix of hard goods and soft goods, he can decide on a กnicheก product to market. A niche product simply means specializing in one key product, or just a few related products.

This concept applies to both hard goods (items that must be shipped), as well as to downloadable information products.

This opens up a whole new world of possibilities, and it means a whole different way of conducting business. Specialization is often achieved using minisites that sell only one product. The mini web site might have from one to five pages, but usually just a single page.

Your information product that you want to sell needs a web site, hosted by a web hosting provider that provides you their service at a reasonable cost. Letกs assume you started selling your product, and after a few months it is bringing in some income. It might amount to $1,000 up to $3,000 per year.

Thatกs not too bad, and is worth keeping, but certainly not enough to make a living with. This is where the concept of multiple income streams comes in. During the months that your business is building, you could be looking for other ideas. You find one that excites you, and more importantly you do the research and discover a good potential for attracting customers. So you go ahead with a second web site.

You have now achieved multiple income streams! Over time you have other great ideas. Actually, you are now up to four web sites with different ideas. Two of them are related information products, and the other two are hard goods.

All four are successful. Each one separately does not make enough to live on, but the combined four bring you in respectable dollars.

But how are we controlling our costs? This is important to do, seeing we have the cost of some advertising as well as the web site costs. We found it necessary to build a customer list for each different product, and periodical emails are sent to your list. All these costs can become quite extensive, almost prohibitive.

So, what do we do? How can we maintain our buinesses, yet keep our overhead down to where it isn’t cutting hugely into profits?

One critical aspect to look at is your hosting and to look for a web site hosting service that includes all or as many tools that you need in order to do some serious Internet business.

The tools aren’t all you need to consider. Sure having a hosting service that gives you an autoresponder is certainly a huge help. But, we have four sites here to market and at the average rate of $24.95 a business, thatกs close to $100 a month, a pretty steep bill especially if you are just starting out.

Now we are looking for a host that will provide all the tools we need to run our businesses, plus we want one that will allow subdomains in case we have closely related businesses. Can we get it all at one low and affordable price.

In addition to the tools we need and the overall hosting package we need for FOUR businesses, we are all about multiple income streams, so letกs see if there is a way to benefit (PROFIT) from the hosting company as well.

Many hosting companies now offer an affiliate program where you can earn a commission by referring a business and gaining customers. Thatกs pretty much a given, however the KEY is to ensure that the commission is recurring and not just a one time commission. Not sure what I mean about recurring income? Check the link out below for more information on recurring income streams

This is all great but the question now กIs there really a hosting company out there that will give me all the tools, let me host multiple sites for one reasonable price AND on top of that let me build another income stream?ก

The answer is yes and you can read my review of Recurring Income Streams and how a company called ‘thirdSphereก is an excellent example. At the same time you can learn the difference between Multiple Income and Recurring Income Streams. Read about it here: http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/thirdsphere.html

Having Multiple Income Streams from Niche Marketing is mandatory in todayกs Internet Marketing world, if that is, you want to make any serious money. Internet Marketing today has become much too competitive, and the newcomer has very little chance of breaking in.

Niche Markets, each with their own web site and relevant content is THE best solution. Niche Marketing is the hottest topic on the Net today. Niche Marketing is featured on my web site at Best Affiliate Products, and you can learn much more about it at http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/nichemarketing.html

Iกll catch up to you in my back yard in Niche Country.

Fred Farah

Best Affiliate Products and Niche Market Strategies

Subscribe to Niche Market Strategies Newsletter

And Niche Madness 7day email course

http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/

Copyright 2004

About The Author

Fred Farah

Long time business man who is willing to share his expertise using his web site Best Affiliate Products.

Itกs all about affiliate marketing to niche markets.

Lots to learn from the Niche Madness 7day eCourse, as well as the Niche Market Strategies newsletter.

http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/

This article was posted on April 24

by Fred Farah

Why You Must Have More Than One Niche Sites

Why You Must Have More Than One Niche Sites

by: Patric Chan

Have you heard of diversifying your investment portofilio?

No? Well, itกs extremely famous in financial planning.

Those financial planners will tell you that in order for you to minimize risk of lost, you should have different types of investment to generate multiple income streams.

This is to lower your risk of putting all of your eggs in one basket.

Do you know that the same concept applies to your online business?

Letกs say you have a niche website targeted for dog owners and you’re making a good income each month from it.

Do you know how fragile an internet business can be?

Once someone find out how profitable your online business is, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how youกve achieved it.

Don’t believe me? Here are some food for thoughts for you.

If you are getting traffic from Jv partners, whatกs stopping your competitors from contacting them to offer a better compensation than yours?

Ooh. You think your Jv partners won’t take the bait because they are your friends. Fine.

What happen if your competitors end up becoming their friends by end of the month? Heck, they might be sipping coffee together at StarBucks!

Oops. Youกve just lost 50% of your income when that happens.

Or maybe, you are getting traffic from the search engines. With todayกs easytouse software, itกs just a matter of time before your competitors figure out how you get top ranking at Google.com. Is it fair for me to say that theyกll want to copy you legitimately to get the same success as yours?

And hereกs the scariest part of all As long as they are not copying apple for apple, they have the rights to copy you!

You can’t stop them from contacting your Jv partners.

You can’t stop them from writing the same book as yours but with a different angle.

You can’t stop them from reading your salesletter and hiring a better copywriter to write for them.

The only way for you to กsaveก yourself is to have more than one niche sites. So, if you have 4 niche sites and each of them is generating the same amount of income, you know that each site is giving 25% income to you.

If one of your niche sites is taken over by the competitors, you still have 75% income to support you financially.

And remember, we don’t live in an ideal internet marketing world.

Your website hosting, email database and etc can give you unforeseen problems. And you can be wiped off overnight because of this.

Prevention is ALWAYS better than cure. If you already have a profitable niche market, don’t just sit in front of your Tv hoping to cash out money from it each month. Build more online niches, then you can do whatever you want with ease of mind.

If you need to make sure you have a profitable online niche, you can use Niche CheckList to check it out. Go to:

http://www.nichechecklist.com

Copyright 2005 Patric Chan

About The Author

Patric Chan is a direct response expert, internet infopreneur, marketing strategist and author. At the age of 24, he had achieved many extraordinary results in the internet marketing world. He had jointventured with many famous internet marketing experts in product creations and selling online. Get the latest internet marketing tips at http://www.InternetMarketingTactics.com.

This article was posted on April 14

by Patric Chan

Find Your Niche & Follow It

Find Your Niche & Follow It

by: Rob Taylor

Mark Twain once said: ขFind out where the people are going and get there firstข.

With the advent of the internet you can certainly find out what folks are wanting. Being the first at the front of the line to bill them might not be quite so easy.

But there are ways to find out if thereกs an existing hungry crowd for your product idea, and more importantly a crowd with pockets bulging with cash to give you.

In this article Iกm going to share some tips that will save you much heartache from chasing after the wrong market.

Firstly I believe that it is very important that what you sell interests you, otherwise you sign up for a life of struggle and worse… Boredom!

Motivating yourself to sell something you have no interest or belief in is souldestroying at the best of times, so don’t do it.

Just because *rubber cat suits* is your thing doesn’t mean the rest of the planet digs them at all. I mean thatกs a pretty small niche with less than 560 searches performed a month. Yes I did actually go and check out the stats for it.

One of things Iกve found in this marketingmalarkey is that I am able to explore interests that I simply don’t have the time or inclination to actively get involved in.

Take archery, I can twang a bow as well as the next man, and have done for the past couple of years. But the idea of traipsing off to all those shows every weekend, predominantly talking a load of rubbish just doesn’t do it for me.

BUT sell this bunch of Robin Hood wannabees an infoprod, and Iกm game. Seriously though, I love archery, itกs one of the few sports the British government hasn’t actually tried to ban… yet!

And that brings me to my point… What do you have an interest in that also has a large number of people willing to do what I call *the wallet flip*. You need to be looking for markets where the folk won’t even blink at spending $100 a year on the products you will be selling.

OK time to take some action:

=> Draw up an initial list of 10 of your interests.

=> Scan your bookshelves to see what reference books youกve bought in the past, and on what subjects or hobbies.

=> Pay attention when folk you meet start talking about their hobbies, their passions.

=> Pop down to your local magazine store and see what interests are being catered to.

=> Can’t be bothered to pad down to your local store, then click over to Magazines.com and do some searches.

Link: http://www.megastep.com/dt/t.php?id=166

=> Buy a stack of these magazines and go through the classified ads with a highlighter. Call up the ones youกve circled and ask for their information packs. Make a note of which ones youกve called and see how soon the information arrives. How are they selling? Good, bad, OK? Could you improve on the quality of what they are offering? Over five to six issues how many of the adverts are repeated? Make a note and watch that market like a hawk. If they weren’t making money the ads wouldn’t be running.

=> Hop over to eBay to research all the different subcategories. Which ones are active? Which ones are commanding high prices?

Link: http://www.megastep.com/dt/t.php?id=167

=> Are there any discussion forums related to your potential market? Buzz over to Forum Find and do a search.

Link: http://www.megastep.com/dt/t.php?id=168

This is just the beginning. Start paying attention to what people are interested in. This can simply be as easy as listening to folk banter when they’re in the checkout line.

Scan the news, open your eyes and mind to opportunities. Youกll be amazed at how your brain kicks into ขselective perceptionข. Don’t know what that is? Ever bought a car and then suddenly you notice the whole planet is driving the exact same model. Itกs like everyone decided to buy the car YOU just bought. Well thatกs ขselective perceptionข at work. Same thing happens when you actively go hunting down niche markets… actually it can work great for an awful lot of other things… building keyword lists is another example, and another story.

Copyright 2004 Rob Taylor

About The Author

Rob Taylor has been marketing online since 1996. Heกs sold anything from books, debit cards, security products to art prints. Take advantage of his battle tested marketing strategies that could quietly make you five figure cash profits every single month. Free newsletter at http://www.megastep.com.

This article was posted on October 19, 2004

by Rob Taylor