Posts Tagged ‘niche markets’

Do you want to make massive cash on the internet? Don’t rush into things and sell whatever that comes to mind. You need to conduct proper market research.

Want to know how to research hot markets for free? These are useful tools that might help.

1. Google Keyword Tool External is the first one that you need to check. Most people who look for information, product or services will use Google. Therefore, you will get lots of good, long keywords to target by using this tool.

When generating keyword ideas, try to enter a specific keywords rather than a broad ones. For example, let say you want to enter digital camera market. Don’t just enter the word camera or digital camera in the tools and generate. Be creative and try to enter popular camera brands like Sony Cybershot or Olympus inside it.

2. Browse Clickbank marketplace as well. Clickbank is the largest online retailer for digital products. They depends heavily on traffic from affiliates to survive in this business. Hence, in return, they will provide useful information for affiliates when choosing a good product and hot market to attack. If you browse the marketplace, you will notice values like gravity and popularity.

There are lots of terms like gravity, popularity and recurring commission. The most important value that you should look at is the gravity. This one will give you the idea on how many unique affiliates are successfully selling the products in the past eight weeks.

3. Google Trends. Similar to the keyword tool external, Google Trends returns results based on search volume at Google search. You will get the idea on how many times one keyword is searched for certain period of time, from the past ten years, to the past thirty days. Some keywords are frequently searched at certain times only in one year. For example, big events like World Cup, Olympics, festival and holiday season.

Smart marketers will take advantage of this fact. Most seasonal keywords are untapped keywords, with little or no competition on search engines. Therefore, you can expect to get ranked easily on Google for these terms and receive tonnes of traffic once the event is happening.

4. Amazon Best Seller section is hot. Unlike other tools, Amazon Best Seller will return list of profitable buyer keywords. This is due to the fact Amazon is the largest online marketplace. People who browse and buy something at Amazon are real buyers and not just freebie seekers. If you browse the best seller section, you will get profitable keyword ideas to target on SEO or PPC campaigns.

5. 4 Dummies website. 4 Dummies creates and sell books on the internet. Just like the name suggest, this company sells products for beginners. They made lots of research before publishing and selling one book.

One amazing fact is most topic listed in 4 Dummies websites are untapped niches. Which means, not many marketers are promoting it, yet it is still profitable and worth targeting since most of 4 Dummies books are hot selling at Amazon marketplace.

6. Use CB Engine website. There are lots of websites on the internet use data from Clickbank marketplace. Two of them is CB Analytics and CB Engine. While you can view basic information about one product in Clickbank marketplace, there are some information can be obtained from Cb Engine only. For example, the product past performance and refund rate.

More information about market research is told inside Clickbank Cash Supreme program. Read this Clickbank Cash Supreme review for full information.

Everyone knows that niche marketing is the way to go these days.  I’ve blogged about what niche marketing is before on this site. 

Niches allow you to focus your efforts for maximum effect – you’re not wasting time trying to cover a huge area – rather, you’re spending your resources pinpointing a target market.  The best way to build a niche following (of targeted potential customers) is by building a blog.

People love blogs.  Blogs are great places to find an ongoing flow of information that is relevant to a certain topic or subject area.  Some people think blogs are only for the internet marketing niche or personal blogs for people wanting to talk about their holidays.  Not so – they work brilliantly with all niche markets. 

All you have to do is choose your niche and start your blog.

Yes, I’m being a bit over simplistic by saying that – but really, blogs aren’t difficult to create and maintain and a blog is a great way to publish your content – the content that marks you as an expert in your field.

To build a niche following with a blog, you’ll want to first choose your niche keywords carefully.  Once you’ve done that, you can create content – your blog posts, even podcasts and videos that you embed in your blog, that center on those keywords.

Keep your blog fresh and updated on a very regular basis, and make sure you’ve search engine optimized your blog.  You’ll find that the search engines are more than happy to give it a good page rank.  This leads to more traffic and more traffic leads to a growing following.  

Create a blog to support your niche.  You’ll brand yourself as an expert quickly and it is just one more way for people to find you.  And with lots of good quality content presented in one place, they will keep coming back.  It’s true it can take a lot of effort – but it will reap rewards for you!

When you’re hoping to make money online, your initial instinct is to cast a wide net and see how many spenders you can catch within a niche.  You might think that by targeting a broad niche like dieting, you’d have more of a chance at success than someone who drills down in the niche for something more targeted.

But in reality, those who start with micro niche markets and expand from there are some of the most powerful Internet Marketers in today’s marketplace.  It’s true that the number of potential prospects dwindle as you drill down into a niche.

However, the more you hone in on your target audience, the more likely you are to find someone who is really ready and willing to spend money for a solution.  You can think of niche marketing in terms of keywords to begin with.

Someone who types the keyword golf into a search engine, for example, may just be looking for basic information – what the game is about, who won the latest tournament, or even online golf games.

You can target a specific niche market like women’s golf or senior golfers and make more money because there are fewer competitors.  Or, you could focus on the products – like golf equipment.  Someone who types in the brand name of a particular golf club is usually looking to hit the order button right then and there.

Think of your Internet Marketing empire as an inverted pyramid.  Start with highly targeted narrow niche markets and build on that success. Your websites and promotional efforts can all be connected as time goes on, but you’ll find it easier to dominate a niche with one area already mastered.

Just figure this – if driving the Internet traffic to your website is tough, getting them sign up for your products is twice as difficult. Regardless the money you spend on building a good website, great content and an insane number of inbound links to your website, everything falls flat when the bounce rate at your website defies gravity. But, let’s face it – no matter how big or small a business is, nobody can fully ensure that they can drive the same amount of traffic to their website every season. So, how do some webmasters make more money despite low niche traffic to their website? Well, the secret to raking in consistent profit or building a successful online business lies in converting the prospects into sales. 

What Are the Secrets of Transforming Visitors into Customers?

Let me spill the beans here – In the internet marketing world, most webmasters dwell in the delusion that higher traffic leads to higher business; whereas, the truth is virtually all websites on the World Wide Web are prone to a higher bounce rate. Many researches, conducted on the search behavior of the Internet traffic, have proved that online visitors to a website often turn away when they do not find what they are looking for in the website. Surprisingly, even some niche and prospective customers make their buying decisions on the spur of the moment based on some critical factors related to the websites they land on. So, it is not just the amount of niche Internet traffic to your website that is the definitive factor to getting more sales, but how you handle your niche visitors on that very moment becomes a make-or-break factor to your online traffic-to-sales conversion process.  

Can You Make Big Money from Little Traffic?

This is the million-dollar question that you might now be thinking about. The answer is YES. If you know the art of converting your niche internet traffic (no matter how small it is) into sales, you can sustain your internet business and see through any recessionary phase. However, the key lies in finding the right guidance to make a great website that works along with some successful online marketing tools that work in tandem with your well-built website. Wouldn’t it be nice to find a complete program that offered both? Well, the good news is there is, and interestingly it costs much less than what many webmasters spend to build the so-called “decent” amount of traffic. So what’s that program? – it’s called TrafficTrickle. 

TrafficTrickle – What On Earth Is It?

In a layperson’s term, TrafficTrickle is a program, developed by Samuel Baron, which teaches you how to make BIG bucks with just scanty traffic at your website. The program reveals that hidden secrets of building website and some smart internet marketing approaches that help you convert your traffic into sales, everyday!!! Unbelievable, well, it pays to at least drop by the website to find more about this unheard-of traffic-to-sales conversion program. Log onto www.traffictrickle.com now and stop worrying about the volume of traffic to your website. 

Samuel Baron fanatically believes that conversion rate optimization is the only key to any website survival online… and this is true especially for a new LOW traffic websites. “TrafficTrickle” delivers effective solutions to a new and even seasoned webmasters to dramatically increase conversion rates on their LOW traffic websites during a recession.

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OK – I’ve wanted to post about Twitter for a while but to be honest, I’ve been too busy tweeting! 

It took me a while to actually join Twitter – largely because I thought it was one of those social sites that was mostly populated by teens with loads of time to have a social life!  However, on one of Alex Jeffrey’s coaching modules before Christmas, he said it was vital to have a presence on Twitter.  And as I bought into his coaching program to learn, I decided to take some time to ”get” Twitter.

The facts are: - 

• If you’re not online on social platforms, you’re missing out on a huge percentage of potential subscribers/customers/affiliates/jv partners ie your market.
• But it’s not good enough to **just** be on these social platforms, you need to build a presence, a following, establish a “brand”
• And that means you need to understand the strategic marketing implications of these social platforms at the deepest level.

But the mistake a lot of people made in the beginning of social media marketing, myself included, was assuming that we needed to belong to vast numbers of communities in order to be visible to the bulk of our niche markets.  Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others – all of which needed to be updated regularly was very time consuming.  After all, it isn’t possible to be on these sites for a even one hour a day each and still have time to build your business.  (Hint: you don’t have to be – use your RSS feed not your blog URL - but that’s for another post)

But all this isn’t necessary it seems.  Serious internet marketers have now largely left MySpace, and also to an extent, Facebook.  And as YouTube is now the third most surfed site (after Yahoo and Google) and Twitter is the “next big thing” these are the two “biggies” that you MUST be seen to be on if you are going to make it big online.  

And “big” is whatever you need it to be in your niche to make a living off your blog. 

So the number of social sites you work with daily regularly should be fewer in 2009 than previously, but your presence on them, your “brand online” should be much more significant. Your blog should be “YOU” online and your brand should be syndicated to Twitter (and Facebook – according to Maria Andros, and who am I to argue?) - to keep your followers “fresh”.

Not spreading yourself so thinly, but engaging in an online community much more deeply, means that you connect with people more significantly.  Your tweets are more likely to get retweeted and when they do, your traffic will go viral.  It really spreads.

But make sure you are actually present on Twitter at least part of every day.  By this I mean you need to actually **answer** Tweets rather than posting to Twitter only through TweetMyBlog – or exclusively automating your account using TweetLater.  Both of these are plug-ins I highly recommend, and which should definitely should be part of your Web 2.0 arsenal – but don’t forget that the power of Twitter is as a SOCIAL relationship building site.  That means you need to be there – at least sometimes. 

And you must be genuine - help first, receive later, and you’ll not go far wrong.  And don’t be shy to tweet about everyday life stuff.  It helps people connect with you.  And when they connect, they begin to trust you.  Which means that even if you don’t have your own product to sell, you’ll be in a much stronger position to be able to recommend affiliate products, because you’ll be trusted! 

As you progress, you will find people finding you in the most unusual ways and becoming avid fans, customers and evangelists for your “brand”.  So when you find someone you truly connect with, click to see who they’re following… and then follow their followers.  This gives you instant access to people who may be interested in what you’ve got to say, but whom you may not have come across otherwise.

So Twitter is not just the latest novelty to stay in touch with friends – it is actually the ”next big thing” marketing wise.  It is strategically a very powerful tool for generating more traffic to your blog.  Twitter is a cutting edge marketing tool.

Get on it!  Get Tweeting and start a following!  Follow me, I’m SusanOT.  Check my Tweet Counter and see how I’m building my following! 

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