Jun 05

From: www.sell-egoods.com

Beginning Internet marketers often wonder what the right niche is for them. It is important to understand the difference between a niche and a sub-niche.

A niche can be make money whereas a sub-niche could be make money from home, money making online, and so forth.

Once you understand how many categories a niche can have, you can be better prepared to choose a sub-niche that you can market to your target audience.

It is important to realize, in most cases anyway, that the niche you choose has probably already been done dozens of times unless it is something truly new.

That’s why specializing in a sub-niche is so important, but even then you must have something different to offer visitors to your web site.

For example, if the niche you choose is work at home and your sub-niche is work at home opportunities, what can you offer your visitors that other sites don’t? Think about all the issues that surround work at home opportunities and you might hit on something that few sites will have information about.

Common Beginning Internet Marketers Question

“How do I know a niche or sub-niche is right for me?”

The easiest answer is do what you like. In other words, if you love to get paid for doing surveys online and you have accumulated a bit of knowledge about this subject, then this could be your niche.

If you love a certain subject and are passionate about it you are more likely to stick with it through the various struggles every Internet marketer encounters. Not only that, but your passion will show in your work and you will be far more successful than if you were to choose a niche about something for which you have no personal feelings. It’s just the way it works.

Often, when people have a hard time finding a niche they really like, it is because they have overlooked what it is they are already passionate about. They simply don’t realize they already have a marketable idea.

This is understandable so the easiest way to remedy that problem is to do a keyword search of the niche you’re already interested in. Maybe it is your hobby or a cause that you care about and you just haven’t thought about it in terms of a marketable idea before.

Remember, when you do a keyword search you don’t want to choose a niche that is already saturated. If too many search results come up, this means many people are probably already marketing within that particular niche so it may not be as profitable.

Still, you can use those searches to see what isn’t offered, which may, in fact, turn into a profitable sub-niche for you. While fewer search results gives you room to grow, you don’t want to choose a niche that no one is interested in.

Although less competition may be more attractive in the beginning, you want to choose a niche that people are already interested in. Try to do around ten keyword searches and than take the best five keywords and break them down into sub-niches. The sub-niches are where you will make the most profit because you will be able to target your audience. Take a moment to consider the following example:

Let’s say your niche is leads and your sub-niche is home business leads. When people search for leads or home business leads, they are liable to come upon your site. However, you can specialize even more. You don’t have to stop there though, as you can break it down into home business lead generation or home business lead broker and so on.

No matter which niche you choose, though, make sure it is something you truly care about because your writing be be a reflection of your true attitude throughout the site.

Article submitted by Ed Zivkovic for http://www.sell-egoods.com/ where you can get fresh new ebooks and software to sell every week with reprint and resale rights. This article may be reprinted (no text editing) on your web site, ezine or ebook as long as this resource box remains intact with a live link back.

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May 11

Just a quick note to wish all the Mothers out there a very warm and happy Mother’s Day!

A Mother is…

  • The person who worries about you day and night even though you’re a 47 year old man
  • The one who helped you type your school and college term papers the night before they were due
  • The women who believed in you when everyone else loss faith
  • The person who showed you how to hold the door open for people and act like a gentlemen
  • The one who told you that those pants were to full of holes to wear to school, but let you wear them anyway
  • The one who said get your own mailing address now that you have your own apartment
  • The one who took you to the hospital when you cut your arm jumping over a fence you shouldn’t have been on in the first place
  • The one who cuts the crust off your bread even when she said it will give you curly hair
  • The saint who cried with you when your dog was hit by a car
  • The tough gal who bitched out the recess monitor for making you stand under a basketball net  getting hit by balls, because you were bad
  • The one who got you up to go to school and packed your lunch everyday
  • The woman who bought you the train vest that you hated, but wore it anyway so you didn’t hurt her feelings
  • and about a Million other things!!!

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Mar 31

Before you can start building your online empire, you need to first understand the four elements that make up every online business. It’s your job to master each of these and then bring them together into an operating unit whose end result is the creation of cash flow into your bank account. The FOUR elements are:

1. TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE - The Internet is a digital network, and everything you do online is converted into digital data and moved and processed by computers and software. So online businesses require lots of technology. The more technology employed the less work you need to do and the more leverage you get.

Even simple micro businesses require Websites, marketing and selling systems, credit card systems and business systems. You need such components as hosting services and Webservers, Website builders, audio and video systems, email autoresponders, customer databases, product delivery systems, merchant accounts, tracking and accounting systems and more.

Just as if you were going to open a store in a mall to sell books, you would need to lease a location, install the shelves and lighting, purchase inventory, lease cash registers, and hire sales people — all before you could open for business.

Likewise, your online business requires that the technology infrastructure to perform these same functions be put in place before you can start getting traffic or making money.

2. PRODUCTS - The way you make money is to sell something people want. In the online world, there are two categories of products you can sell: (1) third-party products that pay commissions or (2) your own digital products.

Selling third-party products is a huge and well-established business on the Internet. It’s called the “affiliate income business”. It’s easy to do. You sign up as an affiliate for a product or company and send them Internet traffic. When any of your traffic makes a purchase, you earn commissions that range from 5% to 75%. Last year over $8 Billion in affiliate commissions were paid out to thousands of people, just like you.

You can also develop and sell your own digital products. While they require a bigger upfront investment, you can get others to become your affiliates and sell your products and make even more money.

3. TRAFFIC - Once you have your technology infrastructure in place and you’ve selected the products you’re going to sell, the third element is getting traffic to your online business.

Putting a Website online does NOT mean you’ll get any traffic. A Website is like a store in the desert, nobody knows you’re there unless you market with advertising or some other method.

Without traffic your product and technology investments are worthless, so learning traffic strategies is your number one job. The first thing to learn is that all traffic is not equal. What you want is “targeted traffic”. If your site is selling baby books, then traffic with lots of golfers is worthless to you. You want traffic with new parents or “prospects”, called targeted traffic.

There are hundreds of different traffic strategies, so it takes time to identify the best ones for your particular sites.

4. CONVERSION - Traffic is worthless unless you have the tools and know the strategies for “converting” your prospects into customers and collecting their money. In the offline world, this is called “selling” or “closing the sale” and is normally done by salespeople. In the online world, selling is called conversion.

Conversion is achieved through the written sales copy, graphics, page designs, audio and/or video sales messages, the offers you make and your guarantees. Learning conversion skills is key to big incomes online. Conversion is measured as a percentage of the “buyers or purchasers” divided by the total traffic. Generally conversions range from 0% to 5%.

Making money online requires that you learn and manage these four elements and coordinate each to work as a part of a successful business unit.

About the Author

Wayne Van Dyck is the CEO of Six Degrees Media in Sausalito, CA and is a developer of Internet tools and technologies for building online businesses. To get your FREE “Money Making Analysis” and FREE copy of “How to Make Your First $50,000 Online…While You Sleep” go to: http://SmartMoneyWebsites.com.

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