Okay, you’ve defined your niche market, you know there’s a lot of interest, some healthy competition, you have an idea of what type of money people in that niche are prepared to spend on their all-consuming interest – so, what then, can you make to sell to them?

Don’t Write A Book!

First off, don’t write a book. (Yes, I – an author and ebook writer – really did say that, read on to see why…).

A book tells about something. A course tells how to do something (how to make money, how to find success, how to…). A book has nowhere near the value that a course does. So before you even start writing a book, tell yourself that your writing a course, or creating a course, or any other non-book designation you can think of.

Hmmm, you’ve got the market pinned down and researched their needs, now what?

And, if you’re wondering what particular type of course is suggested, a step-by-step course is best for profits and positioning.

Teach Your Niche – You’ll Succeed on Two Counts

If you can show a potential customer that you can solve their problem, or ensure their success, by teaching them a technique that they can follow in a step-by-step process, then you will have a hot product for your market. Where you’ll find that you not only win financially but you also position yourself as an expert in the niche market – essentially ensuring your future success selling to that market.

How to Set Up A Course for Your Niche Market

You can set up an online course (behind password protection), an email course, or a downloadable ebook.

You know by now I’m sure that can sell nothing but e-books and be plenty successful. But there are times when other venues are more lucrative or are perceived
to have a higher value than a $20 ebook. It’s simply a matter of knowing how much your market is willing to pay, and defining how you want to work at your business – or on any one particular project.

Niche Membership Sites

Here’s why online courses (in password protected directories), also called membership sites, are so popular with marketers right now:

1. With the right software, you can protect your course from people redistributing it freely across the net. I use ClikGate Pro which only allows people to access the membership area from a pre-designated number of IP addresses. If their username and password access the area from too many IP addresses, ClikGate Pro allows you to easily delete their username and password. But this isn’t something to fret too much over. It doesn’t happen that often (this sharing of userids), as most people interested in self-improvement and learning have high moral values and would never do that.
2. You can update the content easier. With an e-book, you have to update the page, create the new e-book, then send it to all of your customers and hope they re-download it again. With an online course, you just update the material as you would any other website page. It’s always a good idea to have your customers on file with a mailing list service for times like these so you can easily alert everyone to the new content. Once you become skilled as an online marketer you’ll discover that this type of ‘easy access’ to your customers opens up new income streams for you as you can promote new backend products to a rabid list of buyers as soon as you discover the product.

I truly believe that selling “how to” courses (whether in the form of an ebook or membership site), is simply the easiest way to make money online. If you can show people how to solve one of their most pressing problems – whatever it may be – you will be off to a powerful and lucrative start.

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About Build A Niche Store (BANS) and Smartzville

First off, let’s clear the air on the relationship I have with the Build A Niche Store website building script…

I did not create, write or recommend features of this script.

I’ve been using this script since it was first released to the public, and I love it. I don’t plan on stopping my use of it anytime soon. I’ve been online, working from home, since my daughter was nearly 3 years old and she’s just turned 13. Only in the last 3 years have I become a public figure.

Throughout the years I have tried many ways to run an online business and earn a profit. Some days I’m bold enough to think I’ve tried everything and know it all.

I am a purchaser and a user of this script – from version one to the latest version that includes creating online stores for the United Kingdom.

All things considered (namely that I don’t know it all), this website building script is still my top pick for earning money online. Truly I don’t believe there is any easier way to build a website, ready to earn money, within one day of owning the software.

I do not personally know the programmers, the marketers, or the owners of this script.

My only contact with the programmers has been through their email support and my very verbal support of their diligence and generosity of sharing this script with us. The programmers have always been fast to reply to my questions and very helpful.

Every testimonial, every review and every blog post I have written has been my honest opinion of this product, personal experience, and income results.

Q and A with Laura Childs (Smartzville) about BANS

As good as it is, I do get questions from people just like you that I’d like to share.

Q: Do the developers support the product and their customers?

A: Some of the best support I’ve seen in the business. Just last week I had to use the support desk because my laptop had a hard drive failure and I lost my BANS files. Within 12 hours I had a fresh link emailed to me and a personal note.

A: An entire member’s only forum is available where other BANS owners, the program developers and graphics and script-savvy helpers on hand.

Q: "I’m wondering how BANS is working for you? I have a url registered with GoDaddy…could you share a little of your experiences with me? My goal would be to utilize my site with sub-domains and build a site very similar to your niche store. By that I mean having real value added information rather than what the other success story links at the official BANS site shows…"

A:I don’t mind answering your questions on Build A Niche Store – I do love the program so. I don’t know how well any of the other sites do with their eBay stores, but my stores (even the low traffic, not well indexed, non-promoted stores) make money every month without fail. I’ve never gone the route of a sub-domain but I know that many have. A few nice features of BANS is that the programmers are two of the most helpful product owners I’ve ever run across and there is a busy and helpful member’s only forum included. I’m not sure what else I could tell you…I like to tweak and modify my templates (which slows down getting my stores up and running) and for me, a very low-level programmer, this takes some ‘quiet time’ – away from interruptions like the phone and children. Again, the guys are very helpful if you plan to go this route. Let me know if there’s any way I can help you further. http://www.smartzville.com/ebay.htm

Laura Childs

Q: "I’m one of your loyal followers and I take your advice and recommendations quite seriously. That’s why when I read your review about the product – Build A Niche Store (BANS), I immediately became interested to order it right away. However, since I live in the Philippines where a PayPalsubscriber like myself could only send money to purchase products online but are not allowed to withdraw money through PayPal (unfair but true), I just want to know how I may get myaffiliate commission from eBay should I make a sale from my BANS? Do they issue checks for non-PayPal countries? Please help me clarify this as I really would like to order the product. It’s just what I need to earn extra income on my websites and blogs. Any advice from you will be very much appreciated."

A: Commissions received as a result of eBay sales are processed through CommissionJunction.com – Getting an account with them is free and they send checks in the mail or do direct deposit for a fee. I understand your concern about PayPal and have read that before from other subscribers.

What I’m not 100% certain on is CommissionJunction’s ability to pay to the Philippines – perhaps you already know that answer? Actually, here’s what I suggest you do regardless. Sign up for a free CJ account and apply to the eBay program within. You don’t want to buy BANS only to find that eBay is being selective! With that said, the guys who sell BANS are awesome – they would grant you a refund in moments if you had any trouble with the script or with eBay’s affiliate program. In 1997 or 98, I signed up for my first CJ account. Back then, they had trouble with Canadian accounts if you can believe it – gosh we’re only a few inches away from the US. I opted to be paid in US dollars and I think that eased the process. I do think that now though they’ve got it all together with all the countries. I have a friend who is a Canadian and he uses US addresses as his place of business. The US post box forwards his mail to his Canadian address. I wonder if that would be something you could do as well, if you’re really stuck? Now, my last little bit of advice. Sell hot and expensive products with your BANS store – electronics, website opportunities, etc. I have quite a few stores now running on autopilot in several niches but I love my higher priced product sites best! There’s a little link at the bottom of every BANS store you create that links to BANS with your affiliate link. I edited mine all out, but as you know it’s a ClickBank product so you can earn money there too. Order BANS or get your free ClickBank affiliate account.

Q: "I’ve been trying to make money online for 5 years now and I’m still struggling to earn a decent income each month. All I get is a measly $100.00 average from Google Adsense. I presently have four websites but the sad fact is,  none of them is making much money. If you can spare some time in the near future, kindly give me moreadvice on how I can succeed in this business. My focus right now is to build a website where I can introduce my BANS stores…"

A: I freelanced from home building websites for the first few years as well for a high $ rate, but soon decided that there was more money and less time constraints building sites for myself – way more! This is exactly what you should be doing, you’ve already got some experience with online business, now get building! You can get a hosting account for $8/month that lets you host multiple sites with one account. (You probably know that though.) Lose the Adsense, it’s a pennies game – not worth losing traffic over. Build your Ebay stores with BANS and instead of Adsense promote some affiliate products in the sidebar. The Adsense makes the site look spammy sort of…and you’ll make more off Ebay when you control the clicks leaving your website. Besides what do you think those Adsense publishers are going to do with your traffic once they get them for 2 cents a click? They’re going to make money off them! You get 2 cents and they make tens of dollars. Be smart and careful about traffic leaving your sites.

My Make More Money with Ebay Niche Stores (BANS) tips:

Add content that is uniquely yours to your website via a blog, html pages or visitor forum. It doesn’t take much, just a few pages to make your website unique and more ‘searchable’ for the search engines. Then again, the search engines aren’t the only way to get website visitors…UPDATE: BANS 1.3 is a complete website building script – now allowing you to change advertising from Adsense to your choice of adverts as well as create content pages! I didn’t think this software could get better, but it has!

As stated above, once your store is built, lose the Adsense ads – you don’t make anywhere near as much money off an Adsense click than you would with an Ebay purchase.

If not enough of your visitors are buying products they find in your Ebay site listings, then ad other affiliate opportunities in your sidebar. You’ll already have an account with  CJ – I’m sure you’ll find lots of worthwhile and high-converting products to promote in the sidebar of your ebay niche stores.

Stop back in later to read more tips about this great income-producing website script or just go ahead and order now. Purchases get a detailed step by step guide to creating an ebay store, access to a member’s only forum, an 8 week money back guarantee, and fast support from the product creators. If you can’t make money with a BANS store, then it’s time to give up trying to make money online…

Laura Childs, Smartzville Marketing

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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…

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Let’s get right to the point – information sells online!

So if you really want to make money from an online business, you’ll want to get busy creating some info products to sell. Stay with me, it can be easy…

It doesn’t really matter which market you serve, if it’s online or offline…the easiest to sell and the most in demand products are, at their very core, informative.

Why?

Because people search for and buy products they want to know more about, on the topics they’re passionate about. And they will continue to search for and buy products that they can learn from.

Think about your own buying habits. After all, you’re no different from your potential customer. In the past, when and why have you searched for and purchased information?

Discover The Secrets To Making Money with an Online Business from Easy-To-Create Info Products. It’s Quicker and Easier Than You’d Imagine!

You’ll Make Money from Your Online Business Selling Info Products

You probably don’t need me to tell you this but the info product industry is
a hot market! Information sales are now responsible for BILLIONS of dollars in profits every year!

And one thing’s for certain:

“If you want to start an online business and rake in an income on a consistent basis, then you’ll need to focus your attention and your business on selling information.”

Furthermore, you need to sell the right information to the right people – precisely when they are searching for it.

Making Money From Information Products Can Be Easier Than You Think

I know it might not sound easy to make money with an online business, but it does help to have a road map, especially if you’re new to creating info products.

That’s one of the first real secrets to a successful online business (having
a process to follow).

The question remains though…

How Will YOU Profit From the Online Multi-Billion Dollar Info Product Industry?

There are a number of ways, many of which you’ve probably already tried:

• affiliate marketing (commission based),
• resale rights (buying ready made products to sell that others are also selling),
• building information rich content sites (and making money with Adsense or other advertiser related earnings),
• or selling info products on eBay.

All viable ways to make money from an online business, although each one has their own set of challenges.
And each may be something you want to check out and experiment with at a later date, but to really boost any online income, what you really need are YOUR OWN information products.

Once you have your own products, you’ll find that you’ve moved into a new position – a position of choice and power – where you set the price, the commissions paid, the back-end sales…but I’m getting ahead of myself again.

The point is that having your own info product to sell will put you into a position of power.

As simplistic as it sounds, it took me awhile to realize this, but many of the big gun marketers (including the writer of the report I’ll tell you about below), have known about this for years and have been diligently working at building their own information empires.

And each and every one of them have been in the same position you likely are right now.

Tell me, how would you like to…

• achieve financial independence,
• live the lifestyle you’ve been dreaming of, and
• have the power to write your own paychecks and pay increases anytime you want?

It’s more than possible, and it is all completely up to you.

Think it’s hype? Think again. I’m doing it now and so are many other ‘every day’ people just like you and I.

To read more about one of the ebooks that launched my own success online in the info product business, check out Instant Info Riches at 123webs.com

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If you already know a thing or two about me, you’re probably wondering how I survive financially in this one horse town and still have time to home school my daughter, run a farm, craft and spend time with my family…

The answer is Niche Marketing!

What I’ve been doing, you can surely do as well!

Are you interested in making money online to either subsidize or replace your current income? It’s not as hard as you might think, but there is a learning curve.

"If you are ready to commit to online success, don’t wait a moment more. The answer is here for you – invest this time in yourself and your future today."

Turn your interests and hobbies into an online source of income. You could potentially and dramatically change your lifestyle, your surroundings and your peace of mind about the future.

Some will tell you that you can work when you want and that it all runs on autopilot, but that’s not entirely true…

You see you have to learn the ropes of making money online. Work with the tools and automate your efforts. When you’ve reached a relatively high level of success you’ll be much freer – no reporting Monday to Friday from 9 to 5 – and continue earn as you learn. It’s all up to you, there’s no fast and super easy route – but once you learn how to do it, you can apply the principles and techniques into more profitable markets and keep increasing your income.

(It took me nearly a year to learn and replace my income – now I’m working on replacing my husband’s income so he can retire as well.)

There’s nothing terribly difficult about it if you’re dedicated.

And if you are dedicated, then this introductory course on niche marketing is for you!

I originally wrote this course while I was learning the ropes myself. You’ll find the text is geared for up and coming entrepreneurs to grasp quickly. Putting this knowledge under your belt will move you into the next phase of internet marketing in short order – the money-making phase!

This is:

…a short learning program to an entrepreneurial activity that you can duplicate at will, once you have the concept down.

…knowledge you can absorb within twenty minutes (that will empower you to start an online venture in a weekend’s time).

…a great way to earn some money for retirement or to buy that country home you’ve always wanted.

… the niche marketing technique and list of tools I have researched and used (that I discovered by watching and listening to some high-income earners online).

This will require some time, some brain matter, and some money. Stay with me for 20 minutes – not much of either money or time are required. All I want is your time, this course is completely free – you can keep your wallet tucked safely into your back pocket.

What this isn’t:

…not a get-rich-quick scheme.

border=0 width="6" height="9"> …not an MLM opportunity.

…not a scam, nor do you have to scam anyone to make money.

…not a ‘pitch’ to get you to buy something from me.

If you want to know how to do what I do, and leave the grind behind, read on to Making A Living Online.

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