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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is more likely that you become a market leader within a niche market. Businesses pioneering certain markets usually become market leaders and maintain their positions. Being the first to serve your niche, you will capture the largest market share. As a market leader you have the power to set trends, prices, and direction. Others following in your foot steps will have to become followers, or create their own niche. Although you can&#8217;t avoid competition, you will have the leg up.</p>
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Niche businesses don&#8217;t have to work so hard to find customers. You are not competing for the same customers with huge corporations. If you get your message out, people will find you. Word of mouth marketing can do wonders for niche businesses.</p>
<p>Niche businesses work with larger profit margins because they are not in a constant race to the bottom. Don&#8217;t expect to gouge your customers, but you are going to have to be less price conscious than mainstream market players.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve built a successful niche business, you will have the understanding to build more. As you become familiar with the process of finding a niche market, you will be able to build a business around it.</p>
<p>Examples of Niche Markets</p>
<p>To be absolutely positive about what isn&#8217;t a niche market product, go to any big box store. If they carry it, it is not a niche product. For the most part, niche markets are too small for big companies to bother.</p>
<p>A small specialty bakery, specializing in hand made bread and pastries is an example of a niche market. Customers embrace specialty food companies. They understand that hand made bread requires tender loving care, and they are willing to pay the higher price. In addition, you don&#8217;t have to worry about your local groceries store competing with you. Such a model is too expensive for large chain stores.</p>
<p>The gift basket market is a multi billion-dollar market packed with fierce competitors. Instead of competing with established large companies for the same customers, you could focus on a smaller market within the gift basket arena. Gift baskets for cats, dogs, or other pets would allow you to become a specialist within your market. It is a tiny market, but you will find it easier to break into than the much larger general gift basket market. While large gift basket companies may offer some pet related gift baskets, their product line is too large to focus on such small market.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Articles are a great way to promote your website. And article marketing research can be rewarding. You can use one of the oldest research resources known to humankind to increase your online sales, the public library. When you write an article and submit it to an article directory submission service you are promoting your website in an effective way. You might take a half hour to write an article or even two hours to write an article. But your work will be out selling for you as long as the internet is alive.</p>
<p>People needing content for their websites go to the article directory where you have submitted your article. They take your three hundred to five hundred word article which has your bio and link to your website and place it on their website because they want people to visit their website.<br />
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They let their visitors know of an article on such and such a subject. The website owner wins because he or she has new content. The reader wins because they get valuable information. And you win because people might click your link in your article and visit your website.</p>
<p>In your article, whet the reader&#8217;s appetite. You do not want to give all the information away. You want the reader to click your link and visit your website for more information. Most people who start to write an article they do their research online. But if all you do is take information that is already online you will look like all the other articles out there. You will have less chance of being picked up since you are simply like all the other articles out there.</p>
<p>Instead use books from your library or go to your local public library. Books are what we used before there was an internet. But most online marketers have forgotten about them. So when you use books for your research your articles will be unique and more likely chosen from all the others. You can start with your research online. But then go to the books for the unique information. If the book has a lot of great information on your subject, check it out and use it for more articles on your subject.</p>
<p>This is a three to five hundred word article. You do not have to use the whole book of course. But one book can help you write several articles. And of course it will help you write content for your website. You will have in-depth information on your website so when people visit your website after reading your article they will see you as the expert. And all of this because you used a book. This is high school stuff, using the library for research. But so many online people have forgotten the basics that you will look like the expert in your field.</p>
<p>The library is perfect for article marketing research. You of course do not want to copy from the book. But you can adapt what you read in the book with what you already know with what you have read online. From all of this you can write articles to help grow your online business and build your internet profits.</p>
<p>Niche Marketing is one of the fastest growing and single most effective ways to make money online, let us help you =&gt; Learn more effective article marketing strategies and submit your niche content to our directory today, visit us NOW =&gt; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.enichearticles.com" target="_new" >http://www.enichearticles.com</a> eNiche Articles is a free article directory for authors and publishers alike spanning a diverse array of niche topics.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Internet marketing evolves, you&#8217;ll find it more difficult to remain at the top of your markets. More competition means that you&#8217;ll be working harder and probably making less money for your efforts. Working harder for less money doesn&#8217;t sound too appealing, does it?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all seen the hyped up ads -</p>
<p>  &#8211; Work Only 15 Minutes a Day and Make Thousands of Dollars Every Week!</p>
<p>  &#8211; Secret Ebook Reveals Easy Path to Wealth Without Work!</p>
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<p>  &#8211; Sign Up for Free and Make Money Today!</p>
<p>Although the ads paint a bright picture of the good life, those things never worked for me or anyone I know. If there is some &#8216;magic button&#8217; that brings instant wealth, I&#8217;ve never been able to find it. But there is a way to drastically improve your bottom line, while minimizing your investment of time and money. It&#8217;s called Niche Marketing.</p>
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What exactly is Niche Marketing?</p>
<p>Niche marketing is the process of finding a small segment of the market that&#8217;s highly focused and presenting that market with the exact product they&#8217;re looking for. By a small segment, I&#8217;m referring to a group of prospects that has a special interest that&#8217;s probably not currently being addressed by most marketers.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say for example that you want to sell car insurance. If you go to google and search for car insurance, you&#8217;ll see there are over 150 million webpages that you&#8217;ll be competing with, so your chances of making money in that market don&#8217;t look too promising. However, if you narrow your search down to &#8220;car insurance for teenagers with bad driving records&#8221;, there are zero webpages, so there&#8217;s virtually no competition!</p>
<p>Do you think there are many teenagers that have bad driving records? You betcha! And do you think those types of drivers end up paying high premiums? You betcha! Do you think there&#8217;s easy money to be made in such a lucrative market that has little or no competition? You betcha!</p>
<p>Of course, car insurance is just being used as an example and you may be involved in an entirely different business altogether. But the basic idea of niche marketing can be applied just about everywhere.</p>
<p>Suppose you want to be an affiliate marketer. You can open a free account at Commission Junction, LinkShare, ClickBank or countless other affiliate related sites. Then you&#8217;ll be able to choose from thousands of different products that you can start marketing right away. And since you&#8217;ll be an affiliate, you won&#8217;t have to bother with creating a product, shipping, credit card processing or customer service. All that will be handled directly by the product vendor, so you can concentrate strictly on marketing &#8211; and that&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll make your money.</p>
<p>Now that you have the general idea of what niche marketing is, how it works and how it can make you money, you&#8217;ll need to locate a potential niche market and provide that market with just the type of product they desperately want.</p>
<p>Finding Niche Markets -</p>
<p>There are several places you can look to discover niche markets. You could visit Dummies.com &#8211; that&#8217;s the publisher that produces all those top selling &#8216;For Dummies&#8217; books. They&#8217;ve already uncovered lots of hot niches for you. Just browse thru their book selections and you should be able to come up with several good niche marketing ideas.</p>
<p>You can also check pulse.ebay.com to see the current top ten sellers, so you can see what&#8217;s selling now. Be sure to also look at the top sellers at Amazon for even more ideas.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve found an interesting niche market, look thru the affiliate products available at ClickBank, Amazon or whatever affiliate site you&#8217;ve signed up for. When you find a good product match, checkout the product sales page to make sure it does a good job of selling the product.</p>
<p>Next, search thru google and see how much competition there is. You&#8217;ll want to enter markets where the competition isn&#8217;t too fierce, so you&#8217;ll have a better chance for success.</p>
<p>Exploiting Niche Markets -</p>
<p>When you&#8217;ve decided upon a particular niche market and you&#8217;ve found a good product match that doesn&#8217;t have too much competition, you&#8217;ll need to use Pay-Per-Click(PPC) or some other form of advertising to get prospects to the sales page, thru your affiliate link of course. PPC is a good choice because of fast results &#8211; you can start generating traffic within minutes of placing an ad, so you&#8217;ll quickly know if you&#8217;ve chosen a good niche.</p>
<p>When placing PPC ads, you&#8217;ll want to make sure that you use the proper keywords to attract the niche market you&#8217;re targeting. There are free online keyword tools you can use, as well as specialized software you can purchase to help with this task. With proper keyword selection for your PPC campaigns, you&#8217;ll be able to attract genuinely interested prospects while keeping your click cost as low as possible.</p>
<p>The real beauty of niche marketing is it&#8217;s so targeted that you&#8217;ll be offering just the right product to the prospects that are in desperate need, so when they look at your ad or sales page, they&#8217;re already half-sold right from the beginning!</p>
<p>Automate the Process -</p>
<p>Finding niche markets can really pay off, but you may not want to take the time to find those markets manually. This is a great time to put your PC to work &#8211; let it find those lucrative niches for you. With the right software, you can automate the somewhat tedious process while you concentrate on other aspects of running your business!</p>
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<p>Carson Danfield is an &#8220;Under the Radar&#8221; Internet Entrepreneur who&#8217;s been quietly selling various products for the last 8 years. </p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Let&#8217;s talk a little bit about doing research for article marketing. Everyone talks about how important it is, right? Why then&#8230;do so many people do it so badly? The simple truth is that the amount of time, effort and energy you put it to doing keyword, and product research (especially if you are an affiliate marketer) can be the difference between making a ton of easy sales, and wondering why you&#8217;re still not making any money.</p>
<p>Okay &#8211; let&#8217;s look at the best way to do article marketing research if you are an affiliate marketer first.</p>
<p>Pick a product that converts. How do you know it converts? Very simple. You look at the data the affiliate network gives you. ClickBank? They&#8217;ll give you Gravity, and pretty much everyone knows that, right? But are you checking the other networks for EPC and other key metrics that will tell you what&#8217;s selling?</p>
<p>You should be&#8230; because it&#8217;s the easiest way to emulate successful campaigns that are converting like crazy.</p>
<p>One more note on market research. Never forget to use the most POWERFUL free tool that&#8217;s out there: Your brain. And your gut. Instincts count &#8211; and I&#8217;ll take my intuition over number crunching any day of the week. For example &#8211; NONE of us need to be told that people buy weight loss programs in the summer. Or on January 1. They do &#8211; our real world experience tells us as much, and as smart marketers, we need to go with our gut when it&#8217;s rumbling.</p>
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<p>What about research if you&#8217;re NOT an affiliate marketer? It&#8217;s equally as important &#8211; but you have a bit more leeway to be imaginative. If you&#8217;re selling your services, for example &#8211; keywords are still super important, but creativity and passion in your writing is probably an easier way to stand out in the search engines than careful keyword selection. (obviously both are important)</p>
<p>I prefer to study my competition very closely when I&#8217;m selling my own stuff. Read blogs, read free reports, and sign up for as many lists as you can.</p>
<p>Nothing is better &#8220;inside intelligence&#8221; than being on the newsletter of your biggest competitor&#8230; and the chances are, if you&#8217;re reading THIS and are in my industry, I&#8217;m probably on YOURS right now..:-)</p>
<p>Bottom line?</p>
<p>Stay smart &#8211; do your due diligence, and stay plugged in. But DON&#8217;T analyze this stuff to the point of paralysis&#8230; it&#8217;s FAR more important to get your face muddy, make some mistakes and just see what sticks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;ve read here that get paid to write web sites like HubPages and Associated Content are a good way to build a portfolio but earning money through AdSense that way is slow. If I just use my own blog(s), or else combine my blog(s) with the write for pay sites, what&#8217;s the best strategy?</p>
<p>Should I make several blogs on the same topic to increase hits to the same AdSense ads? </p>
<p>Should I stick to just blogs, or do Iuse HubPages (or another) as well?</p>
<p>Is there any blogsite there that allows AdSense besides Blogger?<br />
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How many articles per day and how many hits per day do I need to get to receive a paycheck every month or every two months?</p>
<p>What if I find a niche topic that I like? Can I realistically expect to make money from it just because I&#8217;m knowledgeable in it and can write about it? Or is the market simply dominated by specific subjects?
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<p>Traffic is the key to earn from AdSense. More traffic you get more you will earn. Also Ad Placement and keywords matters too.</p>
<p>Having your own sites would be better than blogs if you thinking long term. because you can place ads where ever you wants.</p>
<p>Its making too many blogs would be useless if you don&#8217;t have traffic for them.</p>
<p>As far as I know Blogger is the only free blog site which let you use AdSense.</p>
<p>Well its hard to say how much content you need. Again it depends on Ad Placement , Quality of traffic and your content.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite many industries laying off thousands of workers or even outright shutting their doors in today&#8217;s tough economic climate, there is one industry that is thriving and helping thousands of regular people make money. Affiliate marketing programs can provide unlimited money making opportunities. Affiliate marketing is not a complicated process their method of compensation usually [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/size-of-affiliate-marketing-industry">Size Of Affiliate Marketing Industry</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite many industries laying off thousands of workers or even outright shutting their doors in today&#8217;s tough economic climate, there is one industry that is thriving and helping thousands of regular people make money. Affiliate marketing programs can provide unlimited money making opportunities.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is not a complicated process their method of compensation usually rewards marketers that promote their programs and products on the worldwide web. Affiliates are paid commissions connected with their performance. Basically, affiliates get paid each time they refer new customers to the website of the company they are promoting.</p>
<p>Becoming an affiliate can be one of the most lucrative online money-making opportunities out there, and the diversity of products that are offered for promotion as an affiliate is unbelievable. Affiliate marketing provides a cost effective option for both the small business owner and the large corporation to make their products available to a much wider audience of potential buyers. Affiliates are not limited to just a single Company website. These companies regardless of their size can offer an affiliate program and have their products promoted in mass on hundreds or even thousands of different sites, and there will be no advance fees to them.</p>
<p>The affiliate marketing industry can be a virtually unlimited income source for those who aggressively promote product and services. Affiliates have been continually reaping the rewards of larger profits as the affiliate marketing industry continues to grow in popularity. Affiliates have been constantly reaping the benefits of a larger piece of the profits. The affiliate marketing industry become a viable income source for many.</p>
<p>Affiliates can easily earn anywhere from 25-85 percent or more of the profits from every sale that comes from customers that purchase products using their unique affiliate code. Refer, Some affiliate programs offer recurring monthly payouts for their products which in turn can mean larger earning for the affiliate.</p>
<p>&nbsp;CPA marketing, is a system that allows affiliates to earn money by referring traffic and have visitors fill out a short form, spending money on a product is not required. This is one of the latest hot trend in affiliate marketing. This trend will ignite the excitement and profitability of affiliate marketing for quit sometime.</p>
<p>There are no specific criteria for becoming an affiliate, except a commitment to work hard plus acquiring some knowledge of Internet marketing. Furthermore, how to research and promote the offers that bring the maximum amount of profit.</p>
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<p>I am interested in affiliate marketing and sharing my research and knowledge with others. I always have been amazed with the communication process, especially through the penning of creative thoughts on paper.<br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How is affiliate internet marketing like the 1849 gold rush in the United States? The Gold Rush started at Sutter&#8217;s Mill, near Coloma, California. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall, a foreman working for John Sutter, a Sacramento pioneer, found pieces of shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter. The property was next to the American River. Marshall quietly brought what he found to Sutter, and their tests revealed the metal to be gold. Sutter was dismayed by this; he was afraid that his business plans for an agricultural empire would be disrupted if there were a mass search for gold.</p>
<p>How does this relate to affiliate internet marketing? The myth of &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; entrepreneurs on the Internet is dying. Oh yes, you do have to work to succeed in an online business. However, it takes a community of customers, sellers, marketers, manufacturers and distributors to create that success.</p>
<p>An online affiliate business relies on merchants who willing share commissions for those who direct buyers to their web sites or portals. The profits that affiliates earn depend upon the amount of sales made through their affiliate links from those vendors.</p>
<p>Find and refining gold through affiliate Internet marketing is much easier in modern times. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, e-commerce is growing dramatically. Many people are too busy to visit stores; they can search online to find products that serve every imaginable need and desire. However, since you don&#8217;t meet the seller face-to-face on the Internet , people need to build trust in the online marketing community. In 2003, Professor Robert Putnam Ph.D of Harvard University published a popular book about the decline of community and trust in America.</p>
<p>In &#8220;Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,&#8221; Professor Putnam illustrated how families spend less time eating dinner and going on fewer picnics together, and don&#8217;t share time or activities that build social contacts like being on a bowling team or attending church. This lower level of trust has isolated people from each other. In his lectures and his book, Professor Putnam calls people to form community by bonding and bridging in social networking.</p>
<p>Affiliate products come in many sizes, shapes and from many sources. For example, affiliate networks like Share-A-Sale or Link Share, which has many different physical products you can sell through your website portal. Another source is a network of affiliate merchants like Double Click Performics, which offers physical products from clothing to gift cards to sporting goods or even percentages of online merchant sales like Walmart or Home Depot.</p>
<p>Both niche retailers and mega-retailers have online affiliate programs where you can earn a commission on sales. Depending on the merchant, you can earn from 2 to 20 percent of the sales. Mega-retailers like Best Buy or Sears offer smaller percentages, while niche sites can offer up to 20% of a sale.</p>
<p>The goal of the merchant is to increase sales, which other people can promote and make money. All you need to do is to complete an online form at the affiliate networks of your choice and you can get links and creatives to start selling their products.</p>
<p>When affiliate internet marketing is done well, you can develop a business that serves your income needs. At the same time, you can build a network of social contacts with new links of service and community. That is what the Internet fosters, working together in cooperation and service.</p>
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<p>Learn how you can increase your effectiveness in creating additional online income through a portal publishing system. You can learn more about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.portal-profits.com" >affiliate internet marketing </a>by visiting Dave&#8217;s blog at<a target="_blank" href="http://www.portal-profits.com" > </a><a href="http://www.portal-profits.com"  target="_blank">www.portal-profits.com</a>.</p>
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