NetBizSimplified

When I first started Internet Marketing (doing Niche Marketing to be precise), I have been told plenty of times to select only topic that I personally like. Well, that is the most dangerous mistake newbie niche marketer is going to make.

But the fact is, 9 out of 10 seasoned marketer that you consult will advise the same saying that by doing so, you’ll not get bored easily, don’t expect to make quick bucks; so that you’re going to stay longer working out on that niche to finally reap the rewards. Now, I am not going to totally disagree with this but a lot of us started doing internet marketing with the same one mission and that is to…

Quit the damn boring and stressful day job so that you can have more quality time to spend with your family and friends, right?

Okay, and it was a coincidence that I saw a few threads the other day on the forum where people asking how to find a profitable niche and make money from it. And I see a lot craps being discussed (IM needs time to learn, energy etc., not possible to explain in one forum post, better doing this and that and a lot of links to “everywhere”).

Come on!

What doesn’t take time? Unless you outsource..

And there’s really no logical explanation on to why you should only target things that you love (unless you love all popular niches). Me for example has no specific hobbies or interest and a lot of people are like me too. Even if they do, do you think that a man who likes to keep copy of people’s identity card with unique and weird surname going to make much money online? Hehe.. you bet!

Instead, go for the “money”…

Let’s just have a better understanding of what a niche is before we go further..

Niche = A special area of demand for a product or service.

Okay, now this is my way of working out a profitable niche and build upon them. Basically, I am doing it differently from most people.

I don’t find niches. I find products and then investigate if it’s profitable and checking on the competition before getting into it.

Imagine spending your previous time working on a niche that has big demand just to find that it’s very difficult to monetize!! You’ve got the traffic (targeted traffic) but there’s little room to monetize it. So, here’s how I am doing it (from the affiliate marketer point of view) – the simplified version.

• Basically, you will need to go to any category in CB, Paydotcom, Amazon etc. it doesn’t matter. Find a product that you want to dip into.
• Check the source page to see the keywords,
• Expand the keywords with Google keyword tool,
• Filter away those with less than 1000 searches / month
• Check them on Google (if there’re a lot of Adwords ads; that’s the most basic sign that people are spending money into it).
• See what pages pop up in the search results – if pages appears to be from free sites (article directories, social sites – Squidoo, Youtube etc.), save that keywords into a separate notepad.
• Repeat for all keywords (long tailed – more than 2 words long).
• If you can have more than 10 long tailed… for that niche, it’s a profitable niche to venture.
• If you have some cash to spend, don’t build a complete website targeting the niche. Instead, setup a simple campaign in Adwords for all keywords and check the conversion rate.
• If you can get a sales conversion of more than 1%, I personally consider that’s a good niche.
• Then you can invest in building a whole site for it; get SEO traffic and save your PPC.
• Rinse and repeat for the next niche.

I am not saying this without grounds. It’s a proven way to make money online with niche marketing and following it will in fact save you a lot of time and hassle. If you’re into Clickbank (as an affiliate), then I sincerely urge you to get a the limited Lifetime Membership to CBengine. It easily helps to filter out the loser and let you have the winner. How? You’ll have to spend some time reading the page to find out – I mean, there’re a lot to it. Just check out…

Let’s “Niche Marketing” the profitable way!

Cheers!
Waken

Thrilled as most people are especially newbie that are just starting out where $19.00 per month to have an Aweber account is impossible.

Well, we’ve heard it many times to build lists. As the saying goes “Money is in the list” which is all true. Some other variation people comes up with are “Money is in a responsive list”.. etc. But it doesn’t matter as the point here is to have a list.

And the prerequisite to build a list is to have an autoresponder that allows you to follow up with the people that have opted in. Don’t forget that autoresponder helps to leverage your effort. Say for example you drive traffic using PPC to your offer, if you can get people opted in your list, you have the chance to direct them to any future offers that you may have without paying anymore. That’s leverage!

And I trust that you know that the conversion rate is going to be higher too simply due to fact that a lot of people don’t buy on any website during the first visit, right?

Okay, enough for that. So, you need an autoresponder. A good autoresponder with all these features:

• You can send unlimited follow up emails
• You can also send unlimited broadcasts
• You can send both Text or HTML emails or a combination of them
• You can track the links in your autoresponder (this is no brainer, you can track which links that get the most clicks)
• You can manually add subscribers
• You can have the full stats of your list – open rate, remove rate etc. which allows you to work on a better email subject.
• You can add the form in your website or any of your Web 2.0 property without knowing complicated HTML

Just look at this.. doesn’t it looks professional?

And you don’t have the money?

Well…no problem.

You don’t need to pay monthly fee with Listwire. It’s Free for life.

Click here now to get your free autoresponder before its cap is full.

Okay, I’ve never promoted anything without trying it myself and I basically don’t make my living online in the IM niche. Hence, I wish to make known to you something that Alexa reminded me.

Now, if your business model evolves around an autoresponder (eg. if you have similar business model like Affiliate Money Machine etc.), then your list is the lifeblood of your business. Hence, the last thing you want is to build a list and then lose it.

I am not a skeptic but being a business owner, here’s something we must be aware of.  What on earth would a man offer this for free if it’s not for charity?

“How are they going to remain in business? What’re their income sources?”

Now these are important questions that we need to know. It’s also the reason why all those lifetime hosting that offers unlimited space and bandwidth for a one time fee failed. There’s no free lunch!

It will be disastrous to have your list of 10,000 subscribers suddenly gone if they were out of business right?

And what’s more confusing is that, the guy behind Listwire (Gary Ambrose) also owns a paid autoresponder service. If this free autoresponder is that good, then he will be losing all his customer in EmailAces. Don’t it makes sense?

Well, nobody knows but Gary has given his informal assurance in forums…

But that’s not enough. We need some facts to back up. So, I have dug deeper to find out. Here are some of the limitations I found with ListWire so far that at least satisfied some of my reasonings that Listwire is legitimate.

• You can only set up to 12 autoresponders lists
• You can only have up to 10,000 subscribers per autoresponder list

But Gary says it’s not a hard limit which means, the system won’t stop adding your subscribers after you’ve reached the limit..

Still thinks 10,000 is not enough? Do your math, 12 lists x 10,000 = 120,000 subscribers! And have a look at other free services:

• You can only add a maximum of 10 subscribers manually per day
• There’s an ad on all links you created with the inbuilt link tracker

This ad operates on a credit system and probably these are some of the monetization that Gary uses. Perhaps, this at least make some sense that Listwire will last for long.

And there’s an affiliate program offered by ListWire. Perhaps, they will offer option to upgrade later to remove above limitations. Who knows? And this again make more sense to me that they will be in business for long.

Okay, other than all these ListWire is perhaps one of the best ads-free (no ads in your emails), Free autoresponder so far. There are a lot more to it. Here are other interesting features it offers:

* Unlimited Follow-up Messages
* Send Text Only Messages / Send HTML Only Messages
* Send Combined HTML/Text Messages
* Visual WYSIWYG HTML Editor
* Personalization. First Name, Last Name, Email, Etc.
* Advanced Personalization. Create Your Own Values.
* Message Open/Read Rate Tracking
* Use Your Own “From” Email Address and Name
* Turn Off or Skip Individual Messages
* Turn Off or Pause Entire Campaigns
* Send Broadcast Messages Instantly
* Schedule Future Broadcast Messages
* Copy Campaigns Including Custom Prospect Fields
* Include Attachments With Your Messages
* Import Single Prospects
* Edit Prospect Data Individually
* Create Custom Fields For Advanced Personalization
* Automatically Capture & Store Prospect IP Address
* Blacklist or Block Individual Email Addresses
* HTML Subscribe Form Generator With Tracking
* Customizable HTML Subscribe Forms
* Recycle Prospects
* Support Ticket System and members’ forum
* Co-registration system (display your list for members who has signed up)

Impressed? Well, go try it out it yourselves for free. Just click the banner below..

Best wishes to your new list building venture!

Cheers!

Waken

This is not exaggerated at all. And that 5 minutes include uploading your video on Youtube as well.

Check out one of my videos here that I have just created with the tool. It looks very professional too. Don’t you agree?

Well, there’s really nothing technical about it. The tool is almost self explanatory that will guide you step by step and cost you nothing.

If you know how to play around with the AIDA formula, creating search stories videos is a piece of cake. There’s absolutely nothing to install on your pc, nothing to buy and click click click easy.

Okay, here’s the link: Youtube Search Stories.

The last step allows you to post the video to your Youtube account. You can enter a catchy title and brief description about it. All other setting like sharing and rating options will be at its default.

The only 2 columns that you need to change once you posted the video to your account are:

• The tags: include your keywords here
• The categories: choose the right category for your video

You can change above by clicking on the “edit” button of that particular video.

Don’t forget to take some time to decipher the trends of the top rated and most viewed search stories videos there. There must some resemblance that we can copy.

Here’s free ebook that will explain further..Creating A Stream Of Affiliate Commissions With Video Commercials.

Cheers!

Waken

P.S. If you’re serious to make video marketing as one of your traffic generation methods to make you more money, I recommend you to get your hands on this – Recipe for shooting and distributing sales pulling video commercials.