Custom Search
|
|
The Highest-selling Niche Markets For Making Money
are those whose keywords have: 1. A lot of search requests (over 200 a month on the free Wordtracker keyword tool), and 2. A low number of pages to search (under 300,000 or so on a Google search). This is just a rule of thumb, though. If everybody is selling Wii’s and making money, then sell Wii’s, too. When everybody’s doing it, unless you want to specialize, don’t compete. Copy. Copy everything you can from top sellers and expose yourself as much as you can to their traffic. Expect modest earnings, not a fortune from this. You can sell all kinds of stuff, both niche and popular. If you sell enough modest stuff, you make a fortune. Next you need a site to sell the stuff on. Learn HTML sites, do WordPress, or set up a free site like a hosted blog, Squidoo or a Web 2.0 site. Learn the options. There’s tons of assorted crap out there to teach you. For a small niche site, you need about 5-10 pages of quality content and your offer, which will send the reader to a sales page. Make it pretty to look at and that’s about it. You can pepper it with Adsense if sales are down. Don’t be fooled by a lot of blah blah blah about blogging. Treat blogs as niche presales sites or backlink pages. End of blogging course. You can make Adsense sites with blog farms, etc., but products give you more money per sale. Learn to sell products. Then learn to make Adsense sites. That’s the best sequence in my opinion unless you’re a real geek or math freak. If you can learn the shit-through-the-snake sales page techniques, all the better. (This means your reader starts at the top, goes through a long scroll until he hits bottom and comes out by clicking to the order page.) Lots of hype, testimonials, fake high prices that you discount, fake reviews, freebies, big ugly “Buy Now” buttons all over, and other techniques. There’s oodles of stuff on this. They are usually called landing pages or sales pages. They are crap but they work. That’s why people use them. If you have trouble learning the techniques, find a good sales page that impresses you and copy the damn thing. Then replace the dude’s stuff with your info. Sales pages don’t get any search engine attention, so you can copy up a storm. IMPORTANT. Make sure you can get paid and accept credit card payments. Set up accounts with Paypal, Clickbank, some other places (look for them). Get a merchant account (the best option, but do the others as well). Make sure you deliver promptly. For digital products, make sure there is a way to download it. Those who sell other people’s stuff online don’t have that problem, but they need to learn how to cloak their commission link (usually called a hoplink). It’s pretty technical but doable. Even if you don’t do it, you still make money. You are just ripped off sometimes. If you are starting out with your own digital product, protect the download page, but not too rigorously. It’s good for Black Hatters and other clever fellows and gals to grab it for free and comment about it. Your name grows as it spreads. They’re going to steal it anyway, so don’t even worry about it. Just make it a little challenging to keep the newbies out. Of course, it’s better to get paid, but remember that if you completely isolate yourself and you are a nobody, you will get 100% of nothing. As to physical products, like I said, there’s shipping and you have to deal with it. This isn’t rocket science, though and the literature is easy to find. Look for “drop shipping” and you will get all kinds of places to sell goods and let others worry about shipping. I didn’t say too much about one aspect of your product: what you sell. You can sell other people’s stuff, your own stuff or try to get them to do stuff like click on an ad, fill out forms or install programs on their computers. I didn’t say much on purpose. There are gazillions of ideas, techniques and so-called secrets out there. Find what tickles your fancy, find the instructions for getting it or making it on a Google search and simply do that. But none of this is nearly as important as making sure your product or information solves the problem of people who buy stuff. Or it tickles their dream or they think it’s cool. If you get to them and offer them they want, you sell. That’s the only real secret and any kindergarten kid can tell you that. Make sure you choose decent profits, too. At least $15-20 a sale. Otherwise, don’t waste your time. On advertising, I will deal with this below. White Hatters fall in love with their product and market regardless of sales. Gray Hatters do the market research donkeywork and sell what people want. Black Hatters sell home loans and penis enlargers and so forth by spam with no research, or try to get people to do stuff often by tricking them. As regards customer profile, remember that it is easier to sell one person out of 2,000 an item (and a dream) for $2,000 than it is to get 2,000 people to buy something for a dollar. You only need to lay down some bullshit to get the first, but you need a whole lot of bullshit to get the second and the money is the same. There is a lot of literature on this so make sure you become familiar with it. I will go into it a bit below on BS Riches Tributary. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com |
|