Niche marketing used to be very easy a few years ago when it’s ‘new’.

Right now, you’ll have tough competition to sell another ‘dog training’ or ‘stop smoking’ e-book online!

The reason is because there are already plenty of authorities in most of the profitable niche markets out there.

Secondly, anyone can get into the market easily with private label rights content or hiring cheap freelance writers.

**BUT** there’s another huge goldmine in niche marketing that many are still unaware of…

By going into local niche marketing.

Not only it’s easy to start making money online with local niche marketing, it has the potential to make hundreds of thousands because you’re dealing with ‘real’ people.

You can start now with almost zero competition in your market!

This is **NEW** but it won’t be long if you let others to get ahead of you, find out how to do this now…

By the way, you’ll be stunned by how much it costs.

You can use this new Niche Content tool (BETA) at no cost, courtesy of my friend Howie Schwartz…

He made a video explaining everything it does and how to put it to work for you.

Also, he’s looking for a couple more people to become his Apprentice and dominate Google with his step-by-step affiliate marketing system.

Better hurry and grab the tool while you can because he’s about to take the page OFFLINE. You will also receive 2 keyword research videos, and a new PDF of Howie’s step-by-step system.

Picking the right market can make or break your online business. People trying to get into Internet Marketing often stumble on this step, because they simply have no idea which markets are worth getting into. After all, nobody wants to spend months creating a website that ends up with very little traffic simply due to the fact that there is very little demand for the topic in question.

So, how does one go about finding hot niche markets? Some Internet marketers suggest choosing a niche that you are either enthusiastic about or are familiar with. While this may work out in the end, the more logical approach is to determine what people are actually searching for and base your Internet business around that. Learning the demand for a particular market is the very first phase.

One way to do this is to take advantage of some free tools, such as the free Wordtracker keyword tool. Type in a search term and Wordtracker will return the amount of daily searches for up to 100 related terms. You want to choose a term that has a decent number of daily searches—any number 10 or greater is worth considering. You may notice that the fewer number of words in a particular search term, the more searches it generally gets. Conversely, search terms that have more words receive less traffic, but are usually easier to rank for.

Next, go to Google and type one of the search terms in quotes. In the upper right hand corner of the search results page, you’ll see the number of pages indexed by Google that are exact matches for your search term. In general, when you are just starting out, try to target terms that have 20,000 or fewer competing pages when using exact match. Anything higher than this will require some heavy-duty SEO to rank well.

Once you find that a certain subject with good search volume and reasonable low competition, it’s time to head over to the Google AdWords Tool to learn the monetization potential of the market. Type in your term and see if there are many advertisers bidding for your search term. If there are a good number of advertisers, it suggests that there is indeed money to be made in your market. If you don’t find any advertisers, the search term you’ve selected may not be commercial in nature, and thus may be hard to monetize.

You’ve now uncovered a niche that has great search volume, little competition, and good monetization potential. Once you know how to find quality niches like these, you will be well on your way to raking in some big money online with niche marketing.

Since the launch in December 2008, Google Conquest members have been stealthily raking in a boatload of money online, and today, Alex Goad is taking new members into this incredible Internet and niche marketing system. This relaunch is predicted to sell out even quicker than the first time. Click here to find out what’s in store and reserve your spot.

WP Zon Builder 2 allows you to easily add hundreds of Amazon products to any WordPress installation in minutes.

All aspects of your site can be controlled from the WordPress admin panel, meaning WP Zon Builder is very easy to use.

The plugin integrates with the Amazon affiliate program, so you can get paid a commission whenever you refer a sale to Amazon.

That makes it IDEAL if you’re at the learning stage and want to get a project up and running quickly to help you learn the ropes and quite possibly, earn some $$$ along the way.

Having your own unique Amazon store can make a world of difference with some customization. Watch the video to see it done in 11 minutes!

Earlier this year, Amazon has made a policy change disallowing the use of direct Amazon links in PPC ads, but you can still use PPC ads to send visitors to your affiliate site. “One Grand A Day” is a report by Georg Rauh revealing how he uses advanced and surprising techniques to exploit Amazon to the max with AdWords. He even has a campaign creator software tailor-made for his strategies.

(According to Amazon’s policy, you also can’t “purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the words “amazon,” “endless,” “kindle,” “javari” or any other trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, or variations or misspellings thereof (for example “ammazon,” “amaozn,” “kindel,” “endlss,” “enldess,” “javary,” etc.) (“Proprietary Terms”) for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service.”)

You can also set up a WP blog from a subdirectory and sell from eBay too. Use this free eBay plugin. An example blog is found at Bonsai Training. The theme used is iNove.

You’ve got to get your hands on this controversial report…

It reveals a simple 4-step formula you can use to amass a huge fortune from virtually any niche!

In this free secret report, you’ll discover:

* The real truth about niche marketing and how you can profit from it quickly (page 5)…

* A ‘no-brainer’ 4-Step Niche Fortune Formula to penetrate and amass huge fortunes from a variety of niches (page 6)…

* The single, most important thing you must do when marketing to any niche market (page 7)…

* How to generate immediate content without work for credibility and incredible cash, and it’s not what you think (page 19)…

* What “Reciprocal Profits” is, and why you’ll ALWAYS make more money when you apply it (page 23)…

* How to command instant traffic for life (page 27)

* …and more!

Get your copy of “Niche Fortune Exposed” quickly before Ewen Chia and Brian Terry add a $97 price tag…

When a guru makes thousands from one e-mail, the skeptics say this is simply sugar-coating reality.

The reality is a college girl named Katherine Hayles had made $8,000 in 9 days and get this—Kath isn’t in the “make money” market. Not by a LONG shot. It’s cooking, for Pete’s sake. Download her case study here.

What made her successful is a new niche marketing course that is slowly taking the marketing world hostage.

Niche Prophecy stands out to be a winner in every class of action, showcasing a really different method than the one that is thought by the others.

Check it out fast though, as only 350 people will ever know the secret. And the last time i went there, it’s selling out fast. Maybe this is what you will need to bring your income to six figures this year.

If you are currently doing niche marketing, you should really take a look at this new report by Suthan M. called Micro Niche Domination.

You will actually learn:

1. A Method That Teaches You To Find Golden Micro Niches

2. A Method That Teaches You What Sites To Build, i.e review site, a blog, and a sales page

3. A Method That Reveals Where To Market And How To Market

4. A Method That Is Replicable and Usable In Many Different Niches

5. A Method That Is Fully Automated From Start To Finish.

This MND programme has received tremendous good reviews by the marketing community for being Different, REAL, and Hype-free (you can even spot some well-known marketing legends giving it a thumbs-up).

During this time of economic crisis, its better to fall back on methods that deliver the goods rather than burn a hole in your wallet. The best thing is, Micro Niche Domination is usable by everyone—from the Internet greenhorns to the well-versed experts.

The potential is pretty limitless, if you ask me.

Just take a look here, you don’t lose anything.

Do you recall seeing that there was much higher demand for certain products including Wii, iPod, and Xbox back in December 2008?

That was the Christmas season and as affiliates, you should know there is a only one famous and trusted online affiliate program that outsells everyone else during that time: Amazon.

How would you like to prepare for the next shopping cycle and start cashing in over Christmas 2009 and for that matter, all year round?

Now Anthony Hull and Nikola Jankovic have made it extremely easy for you to make money selling hot products with your own plug-n-play Amazon affiliate websites.

You just need to upload them, that’s all.

There are 10 templates altogether…for only $7!

That’s not all. I have a custom-made WordPress theme that will add value to your affiliate sites in a tremendous way and you can have it free. You can see it in action here.

OK, 730 pixels fixed width…left sidebar…I know it looks simple, but simplicity is the key. Download the ZIP file. Read the readmefirst.txt file inside and find how the theme came about.

The last time Niche Blueprint was launched, it sold out in 36 hours. At this very time, it is now relaunched for you to take another stab at access before it shuts its doors again!

The Niche Blueprint System is created by Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton, who are the creators of the equally successful Commission Blueprint. Niche Blueprint contains their latest secrets to making money online via simple-to-setup niche e-commerce sites, and they had previously made $173,000 out of selling bird cages. Who could have thought that? If you think bird cages are ‘outlandish’, you could have made even more if you can find a more popular niche.

But more than just niche research, Niche Blueprint covers all these modules:

Module 1 – Introduction To The Program
Module 2 – Choosing Your Niche
Module 3 – Finding The Suppliers And Pricing Your Products
Module 4 – Finding A Domain Name
Module 5 – Building Your Niche Blueprint Store
Module 6 – Getting Customers
Module 7 – Running Your Niche Blueprint Store
Module 8 – Outsourcing
Module 9 – Selling Your Site

In all there are 9 modules, 23 videos and 26 step-by-step PDF manuals, plus Tim and Steven’s proprietary software that enables you to set up your very own e-commerce store. Coming from these 2 multi-millionaires, I trust that you can see amazing results within 45 days or it’s your money back.

Neil Shearing has gone totally nuts this week! One of his “test websites” showed him a super-easy way to get traffic and make money on Monday, and by Thursday he’d perfected the Niche Treasure Hunter system.

Using only no-cost content added automatically to his blog, and with ZERO promotion, Neil’s blog got over 400 visitors last month, earned him AdSense income and the traffic logs showed him a lucrative niche that was super-easy to dominate!

Now, the Niche Treasure Hunter System will show YOU exactly how to do the same, in Neil’s hard-hitting, no-nonsense style. Neil is an ex-scientist whose little “experimental websites” end up making people tons of cash…and now he’s done it again!

The single biggest challenge most people face when building an online business is finding the right business idea, yet most netrepreneurs don’t realize this. Their common questions include how to get traffic, what to sell and how to make it all ‘autopilot’, but most lack a skill as elementary as research. In fact, if you can get your research right, the answers to subsequent questions will fall into place. Research will determine in an influential way how you make later decisions in developing your online business.

If you’re stuck for lack of better ideas, let Nitro Marketing come to the rescue! Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill has just released a complete list of 241 niches, and not just any niches and keywords included liberally. This is the result of 5,254 possible niche markets filtered over 5 months of work done by 6 people, and every niche is categorized, listed with products that people are already buying and keywords people are using to search right now. All the work has already been done for you.

That doesn’t mean you have acquired the necessary skillset for research yet. Fortunately, the know-how lessons are contained in all 4 accompanying bonuses. You will come away knowing exactly the entire research process used to find the 241 proven niche markets so you yourself can find your PERFECT online niche and start making money asap.

Go check out the details of the “Proven Niche Markets” e-book and the bonuses and take advantage of the special discounted price before it’s too late.

Every Internet marketer knows the importance of discovering good and profitable niches. Many gurus have a very simplistic way of teaching about niche discovery. The sum total of some gurus’ teaching on this can be summarized as:

1. Choose a topic that you like, have experience or are interested in.

2. Take the main keyword from this topic and plug it into a keyword research tool.

3. Look at the search count. If it is about 30,000 per month, it’s a good niche. If it is below 30,000 searches, there is very little market and therefore it is not a good niche. If it is way above 30,000 searches, there is probably too much competition and therefore it is risky to enter this niche market.

That’s it. Based on those 3 steps, you are supposed to find a niche. What’s wrong with such a teaching?

Firstly, there is no research into the competition. No step is taken to discover how strong a competition you face in that niche.

Secondly, there is no research into long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords are defined as keyword phrases of at least 4 words (the more words, the better). Every marketer knows the importance of long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords can lead you to lucrative sub-niches.

Thirdly, there is no research into the tendency of the searchers to buy. It’s not only a matter of whether the searchers have money or not. Some people in a particular niche market may have money but are not intending to buy anything.

So here’s how the gurus really do their niche and keyword research:

1. Examine your own interests, abilities, knowledge, experiences. Anything from these may be a potentially good niche to market to.

2. Identify what’s hot in the market i.e. what is currently the most talked-about thing, what’s buzzing or new in town. Is this a potential niche?

3. From the above 2 steps, identify potential niches. Then run these potential niches through these ‘filters’:

a. Are people in this niche ready to buy and not merely information seekers or looking for freebies? For example, ‘how to score an ‘A’ in your SAT examination’ would probably not be a very lucrative niche because it would interest only students who may not have the money to buy anything much.

b. Is there a problem that the people in this niche cannot solve themselves? Any niche involving technical expertise would nicely fit into this criteria. For example, ‘how to solve Windows Vista registry problems’ would likely be a good niche because very few people are technologically competent enough to deal with these problems.

c. Do the people in this niche have an urgent crisis that needs to be overcome? The more urgent the better. For example, ‘how to stop your teenager’s drug habit’ is an extremely urgent crisis that begs for answers.

d. Is there an ‘evergreen’ need in this niche that is not a just a fad? ‘How to improve your golf swing’ is an evergreen need compared to ‘strategies for World of Warcraft’ (World of Warcraft is a PC game). Once the fad for World of Warcraft is over, the market in this niche disappears.

Obviously, the more ‘yes’ answers you get to the above questions the more potentially profitable a niche is.

4. Once you have identified a potentially profitable niche based on the steps above, it is time to look for some long-tail keywords. These long-tail keywords will reveal some sub-niches which you can further profit from. For example, if you type in ‘golf swing’ into Wordtracker, you would get a whole list of related searches. Look for keyword phrases with four words or more. Some of them are ‘stack and tilt golf swing’, ‘biomechanics of golf swing’, ‘what is the proper weight distribution during the golf swing’ etc.

5. To find out how much competition there is in this niche, simply type in all the keywords you have into Google’s free keyword analysis tool. This tool will give you the estimated advertiser competition (which is the same as marketer competition), average search volume for the previous month and average monthly search volume. The great thing is that this tool also gives you synonyms for the keywords which means you get more keyword suggestions. You identify keywords with as little competition but as many searches as possible.

The steps above represent a much more complete way of niche discovery. You will not only find profitable niches but also the relevant keywords that go with these niches. By doing this you make a solid start in your niche marketing.

I first got to learn of the name “Howie Schwartz” from Dr. Mike when he came down to Singapore to run his AdSense Immersion workshop 3 years ago. Since then Howie has established himself in the public eye as the guy who dominates seasonal niche markets (like Halloween and Christmas) fast by overtaking all top 50 listings on Google.

For this reason he bestows upon himself the title of “peeping tom”, but this is a gross understatement. I rather call him Sherlock Holmes for his sleuthing skills at uncovering some of the strangest yet most profitable markets online. Just watch videos 1, 2 and 3 on how he uses Google Hot Trends, Google Insights and the AdWord Keyword Tool, eBay and Amazon to determine the viability of markets before I go any further.

Like how the videos conclude, instead of spending a 4-figure bomb to attend his ‘live’ training program, you can get—as a downloadable, take-home study course—all 12 weeks of his webinars, all of the step-by-step guides, all the resource lists, access to all the FAQ sections for a much cheaper investment, and you still get to cut in front of the line if you want to be a part of Apprentice 3 which begins in March.

Howie Schwartz is certainly a brainy guy to learn from but I suggest you quickly preview his Apprentice Voyeur package before he takes it down on the 15th!

There’s been a lot of buzz and chatter about Brian Johnson’s release of SEO Press Formula, and this is something you must know if you’re into social networking/bookmarking and SEO.

Brian has been a fairly successful affiliate marketer over the past 6, 7 years, good enough to be featured in the “Players With Money” forum put together by Alex Goad. He is a student and master of 3 things: SEO, WordPress, and Niche Marketing. According to Brian, knowing these 3 components will give you an edge to tap into thousands of non-stop free and targeted prospects from the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. This kind of website traffic has allowed Brian to enjoy an income of up to $900 per day.

You won’t find explanations of complicated and expensive processes like PPC and video marketing. For that matter, it’s not even about blogging too. You see, anyone can blog, but no one can make as much $$$ as Brian. That’s the difference. WordPress is simply a tool that is used to create a powerful website quickly and easily.

With SEO Press Formula you will know how to:

* Identify niche markets with large profit potential (and little competition)
* Structure your search engine-friendly site based on Brian’s “Money Word Report”
* Easily launch an advanced Web 2.0 traffic magnet (as easy as pushing a couple of buttons)
* Create a site based on recommendations from Google
* Multiply your efforts by leveraging on others

SEO Press Formula is a huge course that offers 5 solid hours of video tutorials, a 76-page e-book, 2 SEO optimized WordPress themes and other useful tools. Best of all, you can save $20 when you purchase it during the launch phase, which is NOW. Brian has promised to increase the price several days after launching…

This is a 10-step niche marketing process you can use as one of your ways to make money for a long time to come. You may not make much money right away but you will be building a group of sites that will give you a steady income stream down the line. If you want to work from home on the Internet, you need to build sites that will generate a steady income for you.

When you hear or read about “niche marketing” or “niche websites”, they are probably talking about some variation similar to this system. Remember, this is a simplified version and not everyone does it the exact same way or sets it up to make money in the same fashion as outlined below.

In order to make this system work you will need to accumulate a large collection of PLR (private label rights) e=books that you will sell to the viewers of your many sites. You may also take advantage of the many forms of advertising (such as AdWords and affiliate products) to make additional money from each site. Let’s begin!

Step 1 – The first step is to find a niche, preferably one you are interested in so that you have some knowledge of the subject. This may be the hardest part and may take some time.

Step 2 – It is now time to research the niche. I use the “WordTracker + Google Trends” tool at which has worked well for me. Once I’m there I would type in the niche I have chosen. Let’s say for this experiment it is ‘bowling’. The results will show a list of search terms related to “bowling”. The one I see there with some potential is “bowling tips”. It gets searched over 16,000 a month.

Step 3 – Next I would want to check to see if a domain is available with those keywords. If you are able to register the keyword or words you are targeting as a domain name you will have a much better chance of getting a good ranking in Google and the other search engines. To check for domain names I would go to GoDaddy to see what is available. After entering the name ‘bowlingtips’ I find that bowlingtips.net is not taken! That’s great and it looks like I can get a domain name for my search term that gets searched 16,000 times a month for under $9!

Step 4 – My last research step is to type “bowling tips” into Google to see the competing results. If it is under 100,000 I am confident I will be able to get a great ranking with my domain name. Yes…as of this article date it was at 907. So, I’m very confident that bowlingtips.net will get me a high Google ranking (with some work I might add).

Step 5 – The next step is to register that domain name bowlingtips.net with GoDaddy or any other company.

Step 6 – Once you have your domain you can find a free WordPress template (there are tons of them all over the Net) or use a free template from OSWD.org.

Step 7 – Now it is time to start creating content for your site. You can write 10 to 15 articles on bowling tips or you can hire someone to write them. It is your choice. Simply write the articles on all things to do with bowling and bowling tips. It is best to write each article around a different keyword. For instance, one article might be about bowling shirts, which gets nearly 400 searches a day. Another article might be on bowling balls or bowling alleys.

Step 8 – Having written your articles you will now need to monetize your website. This is done in several ways. The first is AdSense. You can put AdSense on your site but not too much of it. You don’t want the viewer to feel like they are only there for the ads.

Now comes the tricky part. At the top of each one of your pages (each page has one of your articles), put a description about an e-book you own. It’s best if you have e-books with covers so that you can show the picture of the e-book and then give a rundown of what that e-book offers. You will need to find some e-books on bowling (or whatever your topic) and you can do that by googling PLR and finding sites that sell PLR e-books. You should be able to buy tons of them for anywhere from $1.00 to $5.00 per book on almost all subjects.

The ad on your site would take them to another of your sites (a separate domain) that is solely set up to sell e-books. Each page of your bowling site would then have an ad for an e-book that could be bought on your second e-book site. So, in summary, how it works is that someone finds your bowling site and reads your article. They then might be interested in the book and click on the ad which takes them to your book site where they would hopefully buy the book.

Step 9 – Promote your site. You can submit it to all the major search engines so that it will be indexed and crawled. You then might write more articles about bowling and submit them to Ezine Articles. Make sure you have a link back to your site in the author profile section. Another thing you can do is make a Squidoo lens for bowling which again links to your bowling site.

Step 10 – Repeat the process over and over. Remember that every site will not perform the same. Some topics you choose will be better than others and some articles will help convert better than others as well. This is not easy work. It is hard but if you continue on and build 100 of these sites, you should see a very nice passive income stream develop which will be there for years. Work hard now and benefit from it later. Nice!

The most common tough question I get from people who are new to Internet Marketing is always “How do I get traffic?”

The SECOND tough question is “What should I sell online?”

Good question.

In fact, I get this question all the time and I can understand why. I think it’s the toughest question for any beginning marketer to answer but it’s also the most important question a person could ever ask before they get started.

Choosing the right profitable niche is the most important decision you’ll ever make.

When you start into any business, it’s critical to know that you’re selling a product:

- That people really want
- That people are willing (and able) to pay for
- With enough demand for it
- Where there’s not so much demand that the market is too competitive

But there’s another key component that you cannot do without. And this is where a lot of internet marketers are misled:

- You must have a love for the market that you choose.

In other words, you must sell a product where can put your heart into it because you sincerely believe that it’s the very best solution for your customers.

So ask yourself this question instead:

Do you possess particular knowledge or do you know of a product that will help people…

* Be better at something (sports, hobbies, playing an instrument, training pets etc.)
* Make money
* Save money
* Save energy or effort
* Save time
* Be healthier
* Be more popular…prettier…sexier

If something immediately comes to mind, you may have discovered what you ‘love’ and what could be the ticket to your financial future…

But finding what you ‘love’ is only the first step.

Like I mentioned before, you still have to make sure that your product idea is something that people really want, they’re willing to pay for, where there’s enough demand and without the marketplace being too competitive.

So how do you do that?

Recently I’ve been reading Dan Lok’s latest e-book “The Niche Formula” and I’ve been blown away with just how much he’s boiled down the “profitable hidden niche search” to a real science.

This isn’t just some e-book about looking up keywords on the sites everyone already knows about. His methods are advanced and thorough and some might even make you uncomfortable. Some of his tactics are so ‘sneaky’ I found myself shaking my head, wondering, “You can really do that? Is that even legal?”

Of course, he’s got the goods to show for it. Dan Lok has personally made over $5 Million online and his personal coaching clients have made millions more with his instruction. In fact, it was because of the urging from one of his successful clients that he finally agreed to release “The Niche Formula” to the public.

In fact, he’s so confident that by using his methods that you’re guaranteed to have found not one or two, but dozens of red-hot untapped profitable niches, all dealing in a subject matters that you love.

You have the right to know with 100% certainty what you love MUST make you huge profits.

Stop wasting time wondering wafting back and forth, wondering “I wonder if this product will sell to this market” or “I’d really like to pursue the ????? market, but I’m not sure if it will work”.

Have the confidence that you’re using the secret hidden niche-finding formula of an Internet Millionaire. Pick your copy today.

It’s a rare thing to find someone ready to give away something of this much value, but Cindy Battye knows how to move the free line!

Through her website “Daily Niche Idea“, you will be sent an e-mail with a niche suggestion every single day! That’s what I get in my inbox now, without fail.

You’ll also get the PPC value for the niche keywords and the statistics of how many people have searched for the niche, giving you a good idea of your target audience.

In some e-mails you will also receive some article packages that you are able to alter them in any way you like.

Within the same e-mail you also receive a ClickBank link to a high converting affiliate product related to the niche/topic, so you can put the information together with the website builder tools (inside your membership account) in next to no time!

Plus, Cindy has just completed her new e-book “Turning Niche Ideas Into Profits” which is rebrandable so you can download your copy and give it away to potentially earn from OTO offers and build downlines for various traffic and 2-tier affiliate programs inside the DNI system.

It’s all about giving you the ideas, tools and tips to help you on the road to financial freedom!

Previously I had mentioned some resources to aid your product research. You can read through the page numbers at the end of this post. This time I reinforce the idea of optimal use using the sites to get better profitable evidence for the type of products you should sell.

When it comes to niche marketing, it’s better to let business sense take over your passion because there are many things that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Things like furniture sets, cabinets, beds and mattresses, electronics and jewelry fall under such categories. Well, they are either bulky or shiny.

Let’s say I’m going to attack the “jewelry” niche, and for goodness’ sake, you would think I’m the last marketer on earth to deal with it because I know next to nothing about it. Actually, I rather go into “home theater” but let’s see how deep I can venture into this.

So I go to Amazon which I feel is the best indicator for bestselling items. There’s a main category for Jewelry. There’s also a “Bestsellers in Jewelry” category. On the left menu of both pages, what I see are various departments of jewelry according to material, design, purpose, brand names and price ranges, which is incredible to say the least because the data is so comprehensive.

For a newbie marketer in jewelry like myself, I just need some time to let all the specifications and keywords sink in, and take good notes. Having noted the types of jewelry at Amazon, I’ll then research on those keywords with SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool and the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and see which of these types of jewelry are the ones that Internet surfers actually search for using the engines.

If I were to set up a niche blog. I would have literally duplicate some of these categories and departments. For a start I’ll have to be selective instead of covering “everything under the sky”. You may like to dispute with me, but where business sense is concerned, price is everything. Under “Shop by Price” from the main jewelry page, I can check out all the shiny stuff from $500 onwards if this is my minimal price criteria. Of course, in my niche blog I want to have a mix of bestselling (no matter how cheap) and expensive jewelry to appeal to the power of choice in the prospects’ mind.

I’ll start with earrings. This is Amazon’s page for earrings for $500-$999. 4,879 results is very nice. I go to the AdWords Keyword Tool and type ‘earrings’. In the expanded list, I find various types like ‘hook’, ‘clip’, ‘stud’, ‘teardrop’, ‘chandelier’, ‘pearl’ etc. I can go to SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool and repeat my search process to get a firmer idea for a slightly different set of search terms and statistics. I can also drill down each types to expand the earrings list even further at sub-levels.

I’m going to look into Froogle too. This resource is so rarely spoken of that it also slips my mind! You can sort your search results by price, relevance and ratings. There’s a “refine results” section at the bottom of the search results page. Again, note specifications like 14K, 18K, carat weight, white gold, diamond etc. and brand names.

As if it is not enough, go to eBay and click on the ‘Buy’ link at the top right corner. Holy Batman! Look for “Jewelry & Watches” and click “Earrings”. You can refine your search by looking at the left column, and I’ll stick to my price range from $500-$999. I have 737 results. Judging by the lack of bids, it seems like no one buys jewelry on eBay. Anyone like to comment on this?

Microsoft has changed the design of its page for the DOCI tool. This powerful tool reveals the “commercial intent” degree to which people are inclined to buy something. According to DOCI, what truly sells are items that don’t require much explanation, like gifts, HDTV, digital cameras and the like. Play with the DOCI tool long enough and you’ll get a solid idea what consumerism is all about.

Not only that, there is a “Demographics Prediction” companion tool. With “earrings”, I found 70% of customers are female, which is expected of course. If you drill down to more specific types of earrings the men-women ratio will be slightly different, but the majority still rules. I also know that purchasing power lies with those in the 25-34 age group. So when you sell your earrings in your blog, you write as if to address the needs and concerns of…you guess it—young professional women who wants to better project their image or look more beautiful to attract guys.

Here’s where we reach the fun part: how to be an affiliate for earrings. Type “”(earrings type)” +affiliate” in Google! Example: “teardrop earrings” +affiliate. Look around the various sites to see what they have in their online stores and judge for yourself if it’s worth signing up for their affiliate programs. If there are too few results, consider if you need to eliminate a jewelry category/department. You also don’t want to sign up with too many different programs, otherwise you may scatter your earnings and it gets harder to have your cheque mailed to you if you need to hit a minimum sum. Usually, Commission Junction has the most comprehensive range of hard products affiliate can sell for, so you want to go there first and foremost. Associate Programs is another great place to search for highly regarded affiliate programs. This is the page for earrings. Some of the affiliate programs can help you with RSS product feeds so you don’t have to manually create blog posts yourself.

Once you have all your affiliate registrations in place, you can set up your niche blog. You want to have consumer advice and education to mix with your product recommendations and descriptions, like how to maintain your jewelry shiny, the right occasions for the right jewelry, what jewelry colors go with what clothing, the significance and purpose behind different jewelry and their implications on self-image, self-esteem and relationships, who knows? You’ll unexpectedly find “crossover topics” to write about too, like fashion (don’t veer too far though).

Content creation is the biggest challenge for niche marketers because it’s ongoing, but thank goodness, Digital Point is where you can engage article writing and blog posting services. There are many other services you can engage like link submissions so check this marketplace.

What’s a great blog template to use? Try Branford Magazine. It looks professional and easy to the eye.

That’s it! To summarize:

1. Get an indication of bestselling products from Amazon. Narrow down your departments. FOCUS.

2. Note niche keywords and specifications.

3. Go to SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool and AdWords Keyword Tool to get an expanded list of keywords.

4. Look into Froogle. Compare with Amazon and try to determine the biggest merchant sources for your niche products.

5. Get further evidence from eBay. Start with the ‘Buy’ section.

6. Play with Microsoft’s DOCI tool. It would be more interesting to input brand names.

7. Search for affiliate programs based on your niche keywords and products. Dropshipping is recommended as you can possibly earn more than 50% of the cost price of the things you sell.

8. Setup niche blog. For educational stuff, search “product” +advice. Example: “earrings” +advice

9. Consider outsourcing content creation. If you want to get ‘free’ service, here’s how: Get in touch with product dealers/merchants and ask them if they’re keen to blog on your site. The win-win proposal is you get content while the dealers can better expose their presence. Or if they’re already blogging somewhere, get their RSS feeds, or ask for their kind permission to publish existing corporate materials.

10. Later if you’ve a good idea for creating a mailing list, design a compelling offer to get visitors to subscribe. You would want to setup your niche blog at www.website.com/blog first.

So what else do you need? A $97 e-book? Well, I’m going to write one; so many marketers need to read this, but you know it here first. Cheers to your niche profits guys and gals!

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Just in this past few days I’ve seen some incredible free stuff and tips being given away at several fronts. One of the loudest news (as usual) is the first Going Natural 3.0 video by StomperNet which reveals what it takes to be successful at AdWords. Apart from the video production (as usual), there’s nothing fancy about the AdWords lesson. Don’t get me wrong but I mean it’s no secret you may never heard of. It’s just the old-school principle-based AdWords strategy that you MUST learn by heart because it will keep you safe no matter what drastic changes AdWords will go through in the future, and I am really glad the StomperNet staff has explained the AdWords Triangulation Method in perfect clarity.

Look out for the Microsoft tool that gives a number for commercial intent on any keyword you fill in. Now this is something I’ve never heard of! I was literally jumpin’ off my chair and letting loose a verbal tirade on this tool, but I gotta love Microsoft for it.

Throughout the video you will hear mentions of Brad Fallon’s Corner Stock Baby Gifts. Brad’s baby gift site offers an affiliate program, and has a storefront layout. In my experience with niche marketing, I’ve come to realize not all niches can be treated equally. I’m sure you as a niche marketer would feel the same too, that some niches can be approached using a squeeze page, some niches must be explained with proper personal reviews and perhaps some others convert better with a storefront. If you want to build a storefront for CSBG for yourself quickly and easily, you can create an account with PopShops and use their widgets. Here is a special page by PopShops for CSBG.

PopShops is the largest searchable collection of affiliate products (over 44 million and growing) that spans all of the major networks: Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, and Performics. Free Basic users can add affiliate products one page at a time using JavaScript. Pro ($5/month) and Enterprise ($30/month) users have the added advantage of creating an unlimited number of keyword-targeted pages quickly using its AutoFeed technology and dynamic searchs. PopShops also offers a WordPress plugin so you can sell products on your blog rather than on a web page.

Most people would do fine with a $5 monthly subscription but I strongly urge you to at least try it out as a free user to see how it works. Read more about PopShops in the FAQ section. This is a website by Bill McRea selling guitars through PopShops, and using PopShop’s AutoFeed to build more pages as new guitars come in.

The 2nd source is not exactly a continuous feed for fresh product content. The Affiliate Blog Builder is a plugin for WordPress whereby you can choose from an immediately updated list of Commission Junction products according to your chosen keyword. Select the products you want to promote and it will be reflected in your blog. You can watch a demo video at the ABB site.

Coming back to Microsoft’s DOCI tool, this thing has definitely changed how I should consider what to sell. Consider the school of thought that people will immediately pay the price for something to ease a pain, so logically you would think about going into a health niche. Surprisingly, without the DOCI tool, I wouldn’t have known that it seems folks are not ready to buy a solution (at least online) to cure insomnia. I’ve searched most possible insomnia-related keywords which don’t yield a good number for commercial intent.

Apparently, what truly sells are items that don’t require much explanation, like gifts, HDTV, digital cameras and the like. Play with the DOCI tool long enough and you’ll get a solid idea what consumerism is all about, certainly food for thought here. What does this say about the “secret of the storefront”?

Next time you are tempted to sell the next ‘bestselling’ ClickBank product, run through the subject matter with the DOCI tool and you may find that numbers may not match positively. By the way, quicky get your free CBSpy membership before Rod Beckwith changes his mind.

Well, hear from you about your opinions whatever you may have about niche marketing.

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If you’ve been aware of how the Internet has grown exponentially over the years then you’re probably also aware how niche marketing has increased dramatically as well.

One thing has not changed: there have always been plenty of niches in the world. Just look at any bookstore or library in your local community!

However, there has not been a better time than NOW to PROFIT from these niches!

As a result, many individuals have capitalized on these niches and created legitimate businesses from them. What’s so special about this is that just about anyone can create their own path to success from the wealth they create, resulting in more freedom for themselves and their families!

The business world is a competitive market and big businesses make extremely large amounts of money.

So how can you compete with this?

Well, by Niche Marketing of course!

As a small company, you have the ability to find a perfect niche market that the large businesses have overlooked, don’t have time for or wouldn’t be profitable enough for them.

As a small business owner, you can target specific niche markets, whether it’s a service or product, and capitalize on areas where people are eager to buy and willing to spend whatever money is necessary to get what they want.

There is a huge market out there where profits can be made and ARE being made right now!

NOW is the time to get your piece of the pie by benefiting from the endless supply of niche markets online or even offline.

I may not be the first to get you all excited over niche marketing, and perhaps you may have even felt jaded by what I say because someone else have told you that anyone can create their own product…This may be true. However, most if not all these people don’t make 1 cent!

This is unfortunate, but true…

Of the hundreds or so books that are published to help you, do they show you how to set up your business with the proper foundation, how to research a profitable niche, how to chose it, how to develop it and ultimately how to promote it to your market?

Absolutely not!

To be perfectly honest with you, this kind of information requires more than just the basics…

That’s where this new book, “The Niche Sourcing Blueprint” comes into play.

Eric V. Van Der Hope’s “The Niche Sourcing Blueprint” is not some 50-page report that attempts to reveal a few secrets but a 276-page home study course manual that will cover everything you need to know about researching, deciding, creating, and promoting a niche product while at the same time providing a thorough explanation of how to start your business on a solid foundation!

First, it requires that you plan your business like you’re going to succeed; that’s your goal right? To Succeed! You must plan everything and know what your next step is so that you don’t get strayed from your ultimate goal.

Some valuable tips, techniques and strategies you will find:

- If you are having difficulties coming up with a niche idea, these 9 thought-provoking questions will drastically improve your brainstorming sessions! (Page 40)

- The 2 mistakes that inexperienced individuals fail to do when attempting to choose a potentially profitable niche market. WARNING: You’re doomed to fail if you do not fully grasp the explanation. (Page 44)

- 5 “Niche Sourcing Qualifiers”—the success of a particular niche that you’ve decided to concentrate on depends on specific demands, what I’d like to refer to as ’qualifiers’. Once you’ve targeted a potential niche, it should at least satisfy 4 of the 5 qualifiers to increase your chance of developing the niche into something sustainable yet profitable. (Page 45)

- Determining the profitability of your niche market is crucial to the success of your business. Therefore, before you accept any financial risk with your business, it’s essential that you have at least reviewed 15 of the most common fees that new business owners tend to forget about. (Page 58)

- Top 10 “Niche Sourcing Methods” proven to expose exactly what people are researching for and want and most important what they are currently purchasing! UPDATE: Now, 113 additional “Niche Sourcing Methods” are revealed to maximize your choice of niche markets! (Page 60)

[Sidenote: Quite honestly, if you can't find an idea from any of these 123 sources that are bursting forth ideas, trends, fashions, etc., you either are not trying at all or you're just not 'cut-out' for the expanding, free thinking, entrepreneurial world!]

- Having difficulties in finding your market? Not anymore. Choose from 9 tested and effective business models that will prevent you from having to re-invent the wheel and to start generating a passive income stream even while you sleep! (Page 89)

Why end up wasting the next weeks, months or years trying to figure it all out while you can see and read for yourself exactly what you should be doing with “The Niche Sourcing Blueprint”?

Just imagine, you can learn everything without having to waste your money, time and extra effort by making the same embarrassing, yet disastrous mistakes as others!

Now with that said, don’t put off today what you think you can do tomorrow.

I cannot guarantee that “The Niche Sourcing Blueprint” will be priced at such a low price as it is right now.

Fact is, there’s not much you can buy for just 21 cents per day for the next full-year period—except this valuable resource of course!

Go ahead, try “The Niche Sourcing Blueprint” at no risk for a full 60 days. If it doesn’t pay for itself many times over, ask for a complete, no-questions-asked refund!