Monday, June 28, 2010

Why My Niche Strategy is Making Money

Richard Taylor asked:

Internet marketing has been my addiction for several years. During that time I have some very successful periods, but no consistency, well at least that was the case until the last 12 months.

I’ve tried a bunch of other methods for making money online with very little success, and bought many of the hyped products and not so hyped ones as well! None have really delivered. In late 2008 I made a huge decision. I decided to spend a thousands bucks to become a member of Google Conquest when Alex Goad launched his new membership site. Spending that kind of money was certainly a big decision, but if that was not enough, I also had to keep spending a further $97 per month to remain a member!

Now don’t worry, I’m not about to try and talk you into spending that kind of money on Google Conquest, because whilst it had some cool tools, it was not really worth the money, especially the ongoing monthly fee. But, that said, I did learn quite a bit and discovered some excellent tips for ranking niche sites consistently. More than anything else, spending that kind of money, really kept me focused on the niche marketing strategy taught by Alex. Focus is something I’ve struggled with over the last couple of years, as I’ve said above, I own so many ebooks and courses its ridiculous!

The focus I employed through 2009 on building niche sites really paid off. Now, I’m actually making regular Clickbank commissions plus affiliate income from other schemes as well. When you stick to applying the basics of search engine marketing over and over again for a period of time, you suddenly find that your sites consistently rank well and your income consistently grows, not overnight, but certainly over time!

I would definitely recommend niche marketing as the most consistent way to make money online, particularly for beginners. And if you use legitimate none black hat methods to get your rankings, you will be loved by the search engines for a long time giving you earnings well into the future! But you must stay focused and have an achievable plan if you are to be successful.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Goo-Gool, Affiliate Espionage, and World Conquest

Tom Thompson asked:

What if the entity known as Google is really an expeditionary force from the planet Ker-N-C, a small green orb in the far-away constellation known only to astronomers called Moo-Lah?

Their chain of command would be: Goo-Gool, the supreme leader, who lives aboard that giant triangular space ship that occasionally shows up over one or the other cities on earth in order to download financial records. Goo-Roos, the field commanders whose job it is to convince earthlings to transfer their funds to Goo-Gool, and the lowest echelon, Soo-Per-Ahf-E-Le-Ahts, who perpetuate the myth that Goo-Gool will make earthlings wealthy, if only they transfer enough of the planet`s resources to Goo-Gool.

Earthlings being the greedy, lazy, and naive masters of the most desirable planet in the galaxy, are fat pickings for these crafty aliens, who will soon own our planet outright, since all our money, from all over the planet, will be in the hands of Goo-Gool and his minions, due to all this espionage.

In the meantime, Goo-Roos and Soo-Per-Ahf-E-Le-Ahts will recruit more and more hapless earth dwellers into the Make- Money-From-Home legions, until governments all over the world are forced to borrow money from Goo-Gool, and soon thereafter, turn over the reins of power to the only “person” on the planet who actually possesses resources.

A bit far-fetched, you say? Well, that theory is downright logical compared to the blind obedience we Super Affiliate wanna-bes show the “gurus”, who keep unloading their re-hashed garbage on us on a weekly basis and telling us it’s the “Next Big Thing” in our struggle to make a living from home.

You see, there are only a few things we really need to know in order to make money from affiliate marketing.
>How to pick products to sell.
>How to build a squeeze page.
>How to build a list.
>How to drive traffic to our squeeze page.

If you know these things, and know them well, you will make money from affiliate marketing. Hey, it ain’t alien technology! You probably have all this knowledge stored on your computer even as you read this whimsical little article. But what if you are new to affiliate marketing and DON’T have this information? Well, shopping for “systems” will make you poor quicker than Captain Kirk’s phaser can turn your body into unassimilated molecules! So, what’s the answer, you may ask? What if you could spend just a little money and get software that would show you exactly what successful marketers are doing in their PPC ad campaigns to make money?

And what if you could copy these profitable campaigns down to the last keyword, knowing before hand exactly how profitable each keyword was?

Live Long and Prosper, Tom Thompson.