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Stumped About Starting in Niche Marketing?

Laura Childs — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:50:47 +0000

There’s a nifty piece of software I’ve been using lately to uncover untapped niche markets based on popular keyword searches over on Google. Now before you click away thinking this is some pitch to purchase some new-fangled software that you’ll buy and never use, just hear me out, because I will talk about the software, but I will also show you why, if you’re stumped, you need to read this article.

Countless times a month I receive emails from people who want to start their own online business but don’t know what to do or how to do it, nor do they know what ‘type’ of business they want. All they do know is that they want to quit their jobs, quit their commutes and start working toward a better future – on their own terms.

New keyword and trend research tool tells you what's hot, which products are under-marketed, and how to promote them.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Online business is like an offline business – not exactly, but similar enough to say so. You can’t gain skills, get loans, invest time, rent space and buy product to sell until you know what kind of business you want to open or run. Determination of a mission, goal, and business model is primary.

If you take a step back for a second and examine your desire to start an online business you may find that your goal is not really about running an business, it is about making money online. And to do that, you’ve got to gain some skills to pay the bills!

This is why I love the concept of niche marketing for newbies. It’s a good ‘in’. Newbie marketers can test the waters with free web pages (such as those found on Squidoo, Ezine articles, Blogger, etc.), learn how to get and add affiliate links, and over time learn how to promote their pages. To think you can just walk into the online marketing arena and make a bundle of money overnight is ludicros – could you do this in the real world without knowing how to promote your business? Could you do this in the real world without knowing with market to target? Which product to sell? (I have more questions to drive the point home, but I think you get my drift.)

Now here’s the kicker. The reason so many newbie marketers fail in their first year online (while they’re acquiring the skills needed) is that they don’t know the group of people they’re targeting and they don’t know how to choose a winning product. It’s basic, but we all miss it. Know your target market, get in front of them, and show them something they want, and you’ll make sales. If you aren’t making sales then you either have the wrong market or you have the wrong product.

This is where the software I’ve been testing the last week comes in to save the day. Yes, even a seasoned marketer like myself…

A Brief Look At The Software

It’s called MicroNiche and in a nutshell here are the bare bone basics of what it does:

Shows you # of searches on your choice of keywords, plus related keywords. AND supplies current price other marketers are paying on Adwords (this is a big hint on how lucrative the market is). AND shows how strong the competition is (a big time saver and the closest you’ll get to a guarantee that you can quickly corner the market and make some money, so choose wisely for easy targets).
Shows you the hottest trends in online searches. Particularly exciting for pre-Christmas marketers looking to make some fast cash with new products.
Shows you random hot product searches. Can’t decide what to promote, which niche to enter? The brainstorm feature gives you ideas.

I’m purposely trying not to talk too much about the software. There is a lot more to it than those three points above, but seriously if you have any knowledge in either marketing or business, online or off, you know this is a ‘no-brainer’ – the software is worth ten times what they’re asking for it just in the time it will save. And, honestly, I don’t care whether you want to get into affiliate marketing (as the training videos suggest), or in writing and selling ebooks, or setting up a virtual shop — you need to perform some research first. This does not limit you to tiny, micro niches only. It’s just a name.

Other features include a fast link to the support desk, automatic saving of your past searches (which you can also delete if the market isn’t a winner), quick links per keyword to GoogleTrends, affiliate program searches, ClickBank and Amazon product searches, current Adwords campaigns, Ezine articles targeted to that keyword, and domain tools. (I’m probably missing some features here…)

Honestly once you have been marketing for a while you’ll know that you have to have six Explorer or FireFox windows open to do any market or keyword research – not now. Here it is all in one place. Software built by a marketer, for marketers.

Getting Back to Making Money

If knowning about the software doesn’t get you excited then you’re new and there’s nothing wrong with that, I promise. However my goal is to make the newness of you slip away as quickly as possible. You need to get busy creating products or promoting products as soon as possible. The easist way to gain the skills mentioned in the first part of this article is to create some pages on Squidoo or write some articles for Ezine articles, and link to products that earn you a decent commission on sale. I’m suggesting those two properties because they are easy to contrbute to and carry a lot of authority with Google (i.e. free visitors to your offers).

Below you should find a video on how to create pages on Squidoo. If it won’t load – while I work out the bugs – the direct link to the video is here.

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Free Courses – Internet Marketing and Website Promotion

Laura Childs — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:19:04 +0000

Free Course on Viral Website Promotion and Visitor Generation

Wondering what the heck Viral Traffic is?

Check out this free training course by the Grandfather of Internet Marketing, Mark Joyner.
Over an hour of free audio.

For many years Mark has been silent about some of his past success, but he has come out into the Internet Marketing spot light once more to show you the answers to questions like:

“How did Mark Joyner create both the 36th and the 198th most popular sites on the Internet in just 3 months…generating over one million downloads?”
“What behind the scenes traffic generating, profit-pulling secrets did he use to create the top 2 online viral marketing systems?”
“How did Mark build another viral marketing system that generates more visitors than ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and even Harry Potter?”

Get the free viral visitor training here.

There are a pile of online marketers I trust and whose advice I followed to get to where I am today. On this page you’ll be able to subscribe to some excellent free courses on website promotion and marketing…

Free Course on Getting Top Search Engine Placement

The BEST Keyword related, Search Engine Course I’ve Ever Read

I’ve been online creating websites for clients since 1997. I’ve even done some search engine optimization for those clients…but in all those years I hadn’t gleaned as much information as I discovered in this free 6-part course!

This course is, in my books, so instrumental to website success that I practically force my RSS Feed customers to take it and apply it!

Now, you’ve got to pay attention here… When you click this link you’ll end up on a sales letter. In the left column of that page is a free course sign up. The real meat starts on day 2 — stay with it, there’s lots to learn!

Grab this free pdf training on getting top spots in the search engines. Your author won the top spot on google and yahoo for a number of years, for a number of highly competitive search terms, through some simple website tweaks. He’ll show you, step by step, how to do it – all for free. Plus he shares a number of website promotion tips.

These are the same methods I have used to also gain top spots in the search engines on some of my other websites and not one of the suggestions are difficult to perform.

Free Courses on Marketing To, and Building, A Subscriber List

List Profit Secrets – Free Webcast

The free webcast has passed, but you can still listen to the call!

Visit the site, (I know, it’s expensive, think of all the time you’d save fast-tracking to marketing success though – at any rate, follow the instructions below to get the free training).

When you click the window to leave you’ll be invited to sign up for the free e-course – go for it! You’ll get more solid info in that free e-course than you usually get had you paid for someone else’s!

Free Courses on Making Money Online with Niche Marketing

Niche Marketing Course

This is Smartzville’s own free online course – An Introduction to Niche
Marketing.

You’ll learn the concept of niche marketing right through to your first order. Included are tips on idea generation, help on website hosting, how to get people to your site, accepting credit card payments and much, much more!

Article Marketing Course

Although this, in it’s entirety, is not fully fleshed out, the basics to article marketing and how it works to bring you website traffic, branding in your marketplace, and higher search engine ranks, is explained.

Free Work at Home Info from Phil

Phil is one of the most friendly and helpful internet marketers you’d ever want to meet online. He’s helped many kick-start their work at home ventures – simply by following his tips and techniques in his free newsletter.

Imagine what you’d get if you actually bought one of his products…but save that for later…you want to make sure he’s a ‘fit’ for your learning style first.
Sign up here for free work at home training.

Free Courses on The Latest Website Promotion Crazes…

Blogs and RSS Feed Course

Although I swore I’d never try to enter into ‘guru territory’ I just couldn’t help myself when I discovered the power of RSS Feeds to get traffic to a website. My little niche site grew in readership by over 600% in less than 3 weeks just because I added one little .xml file to the marketing mix. I simply had to tell other online marketers about this! So I teamed up with ‘marketing great’ Joe Vitale to create this info product and list of RSS Resources. A mere 10 days after Joe’s acceptance The Stampede Secret was launched!

Free Courses on Copy Writing

Joe Vitale’s Hypnotic Copywriting Secrets

Getting this audio interview from marketing guru Joe Vitale can be a bit of a trick – but it’s worth the two minute wait. Here’s how to get it: Click the link below, read the offer and if you aren’t buying, simply close the window. A pop up window will appear. Answer a quick 3 question survey and an audio interview (plus transcripts) of Joe’s Hypnotic Marketing Formula Interview will be sent to you. Powerful ‘writing to sell’ tips and information – soak it in and put it to use!

And, a free audio series from Joe Vitale here.

Million Dollar Online Advertising Strategies

Interesting in learning more about writing copy that sells?

Then go grab the first 3 chapters of this training manual for free. Even master copywriter Joe Vitale says “…insights are brilliant. They teach you about human motivation, sales copy, and what it takes to make a living with your words….”

What you’ll receive are part of the Robert Collier letters, dissected and analyzed (so you’ll see ‘why’ they worked so well), which you can apply to your own online sales letters.

Free Courses on Promoting A Site with Auto Responder Email Accounts

The Power of Auto-responders for Profit

This is a free course, delivered via email on using auto-responder accounts and services in your marketing. This is one of the way we marketers put our income on autopilot. By following up with our customers and newsletter subscribers via an auto-responder. Click the link above to grab a free auto-responder account, plus a great free course to help you prepare for auto-pilot income!

Free Courses on Writing and Selling an Ebook

Write An Ebook In Seven Days Mini-Course

This is one of my favorite all time ebooks.

It takes a new info-product marketer by the hand and prepares them to have a product to sell in 7 days. I think the book currently sells for $37 but you can sample the flavor of the ebook before you buy!

Sign up for the free marketing course at the bottom of this page. When you are duly impressed (and you can’t help but be duly impressed), return at any time and grab your copy. Then put the knowledge to use and get selling online!

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Learn Internet Marketing – Help by Topic

Laura Childs — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:56:51 +0000

Learn from those who are already making money online. These top marketers and website promotion experts will gladly give away some of the secrets to their success in free ecourses. When you find the marketer who ‘fits your style’, who you can easily learn from and whose strategies work with your own mandate for making money online, follow their advice and when you start seeing an income, buy their products for more advanced tips!

Some of My Favorite Specialty Trainers

Lots of help is now available to online entrepreneurs in every category imaginable. You’ll find such help on blogs (websites managed by a CMS script) or in free email courses, or in paid training manuals (ebooks).

This wasn’t so when I first started out. None of us were giving our success secrets away! Every thing had a price tag!

Below you’ll find the beginning of my compilation of trainers (gurus if you must), website testers and trackers who share results freely, and authors that I trust, and either know personally or have just been reading and learning from for years.

These are some of the sharpest marketing minds online…and not the ones who would tell you anything just to make a sale. You might not agree with them from time to time – perhaps not even like what they say – but they’ll always be shooting from the hip and giving you their personal best.

As a matter of fact I feel so strongly about the people on this page I invite you to challenge me on the integrity of any of them. Contact me and show/tell/disclose anything they are doing that is not on the level. I’ll call them on it and reward you somehow. It’s that important to me that I only send you off to a trusted source…

Help on Writing and Creating An Ebook(product)

Killer Copy Writing Tactics(product)