Internet Marketing For Newbies

I’m not kidding! It’s called Chat To Text and it allows you to get text messages from your friends on Facebook, Bebo, and soon MySpace (they’re working on a MySpace one now). You just put this little widget on your profile page and your friends can send you a text message, and you can reply from your cell phone.

You don’t need any fancy cell phone, any cell phone that can text will work. It’s kind of like Instant Messaging through text messaging through your Facebook/Bebo/MySpace page.

Anyway, check it out for yourself:

http://www.chattotext.com

As you’ll see in the video, the best part is that you can make some serious cash just by spreading the word…like I am right now!

Let me know what you think - I’m excited!

In my last post titled "How to Explode Your Affiliate Income!" I was talking about video marketing. Here is a link to one of the many products I put out there. This eBook is called " Commission Blue Print ", check it out and see how the video process works. If you think it’s something you want to do, then check out Affiliate Power Videos .

Now onto a different topic for just one second.

I don’t care how great your site is or how great your product is, I can guarantee you will have NO sales if no one can find your site or product.

There are plenty of ebooks out there that you could buy or already have on this topic but most only give you part of the story and your still left to figure it out on your own.

Check out my next post…

This is a 30 day course, step by step, over 700 plus pages. It explains how to set up your site for maximum profit, how to drive traffic to it, how to set up opt-in pages, autoresponders and more. And, if your not excited yet this one should get you, it’s free!!

You don’t want to miss this one! If you don’t already have my RSS feed, grab it from the top of this page.

Type to you soon!

I thought I’d share this with you. This is something I recently started to do and I’m very excited about the possibilities. Let me explain…

When videos started to grow popular on the Internet in
the past couple of years, the Internet Marketing
landscape started to change.

Affiliate Marketing was not exempted, either.

The most classic mistake people tend to make in
affiliate marketing is not capturing the opt-in leads
first before sending their visitors to the merchant’s
website.

So what smart marketers often do is that they would
have their own Squeeze Page for the visitors to opt
into their list, before sending them to the website
they are an affiliate for.

This is so the affiliate marketer can build his own
opt-in list and do his follow-ups later.

A few but exceptionally smarter marketers, on the other
hand, take this to the next level.

=====> THEY IMPLEMENT VIDEO MARKETING, TOO.

You probably notice most top Internet Marketing experts
are now using videos on their Squeeze Pages. And
smarter affiliates are also doing the same for their
own, for one obvious reason:

=====> VIDEOS CAN SKYROCKET YOUR TRAFFIC AND SALES
CONVERSIONS!

Unfortunately, the problem with video marketing is that
to begin with, you have to know how to make your own
videos.

And even if you could do your own videos, what if you
learn that the affiliate program doesn’t convert well
for you after all?

Affiliate Power Videos remove all these barriers.

=> Affiliate Power Videos

At Affiliate Power Videos, you get 10 unique, high
converting Video Squeeze Pages, and 5 new ones every
month.

So all you have to do is:

Step 1: join any or all of the listed affiliate
programs (free)

Step 2: Upload the video and squeeze pages to your web
host

Step 3: Start driving in traffic, build your opt-in
list and rake in affiliate sales!

You might be thinking that this is going to be a costly
monthly membership - maybe $97, $197 or even $297 a
month.

You’re going to be in for a pleasant surprise — this
one’s on the house (read: zero cost)!

Here it is again:

=> Affiliate Power Videos

Sign up for your free Silver membership access now and
don’t delay - because I know you could very well have
your own string of affiliate video businesses up and
running by tonight, with or without any techical
experience on your part!

Warm Regards,

Robert Friedrich

P.S. If you want to find out how you can maximize your
traffic and sales conversions, I really urge you to
check out the One Time Offer too right after signing
up:

=> Affiliate Power Videos

What is a “Niche”?

Wikipedia says this:

“A niche market is a focused targetable portion (subset) of a market.

By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. A niche market may be thought of as a narrowly defined group of potential customers.”

How To Find A Niche

Before you find your niche you first either find a product then look for a niche market  or find your niche market then find a product for your niche. Either way is fine,  just pick the one that works best for you.

Let’s say you found a ebook on clickbank you wanted to promote and it’s about losing weight. If you run with losing weight , you’ll get hammered because it’s an industry not a niche. To find a niche within your industry just ask yourself “why “. Why do people want to lose weight?

• Getting married
• Want to look good at the beach
• New Years resolution
• Health issues - diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure
• Want to lose the weight gained after giving birth

If you can answer the “WHY “, you’ll find your niche! You can also drill down in your niche and find sub-niches. Take health issues from above; health issues is a niche but you can further break it down into the different health issues like heart disease or diabetes. The further you go down into sub-niches, the further you get away from your main niche, health issues, and the less competition you will probably have.

How Do You Come Up With A Product

To find a product/niche start with what you are interested in, flying, golfing, hiking. There’s a product, an ebook or audio book that you can promote on just about any niche you come up with.

Let’s take hiking. Go to Google search engine and type in “affiliate program +hiking”, you’ll get something like this:

You can do this with any idea you have to locate an affiliate program for that product. You can also do a search on the different networks such as clickbank, CJ, paydotcom, etc… to locate an affiliate program in your niche.

How Do You Come Up With A Idea

Other ways to come up with ideas. Just listen to the people around you, the radio, news papers and magazine. I just heard a radio commercial for migraine and cluster headaches. I new a guy who got cluster headaches, he would have sold his first born to get relief (luckily he had no kids). Go to Google, type in “affiliate program +cluster headaches” and you’ll find some affiliate programs there to promote for a niche market.

Get into the habit of looking for niches. When you see or hear of something that gives you an idea jot it down on paper (I carry a digital voice recorder, I do alot of driving which makes writing things down difficult and dangerous). Don’t skip this step. If you skip it, you’ll forget it, Jot It Down !

Tools

A tool that I use alot is “Micro Niche Finder “, this tool you’ll have to buy but it has alot of uses (I’ll be posting on this to give you an idea of it’s power).

If you want an excelent How-To eBook on PPC, I highly recommend Beating Adware! Absolutely the BEST eBook on the topic of PPC.

Well, sort of. I bought Blogging to the Bank 3.0 thinking it was just updated and if I learned one or two new things it would be worth the money. I didn’t expect what I found. This little (58 pages) eBook is packed with on topic information and little to no fluff! Personally, if I see fluff, I move on. I just don’t have that kind of time. So, Blogging to the Bank 3.0 has past my first two major hurdles.

1. Must be recently updated or new - What worked last year may not work today!
2. NO fluff - Not enough time in a day to be reading dribble

Here are some of the topics within this eBook:

• Market Research & Keyphrase Lists
• Creating Your Blog
• Optimizing Your Blog
• Content
• Promotion & Backlinks
• Advanced SEO Techniques
• Web 2.0 Strategies
• Outsourcing & Building Your Blog Empire
• Selling Your Blog

There’s more but you get the idea.

I can definitely recommend Blogging To The Bank 3.0 for Newbie’s and even experienced IMers. In the next few weeks when I get some free time, I plan on putting BTTB 3.0 to work. I’m going to follow it step by step and see how well it performs.

Right now I’m still working on my last two projects, ExtensiveInfo.com and BestRealSpyGear.com and I’m taking an Pay-Per-Click Marketing Accreditation Course from Wealthy Affiliate University. More on the PPC course in my next post.

Till then…