You’ll hear Internet Marketers perpetually talking about niches, and they’re usually centered around product or brand categories, such as the Nintendo Wii or Ps3 game consoles, or weight loss/hair loss products or ones related to diet and fitness.
But how about going beyond these to look at seasonal niches.
They could be underserved by Internet Marketers who might be clustered in the ‘traditional’ niches…
Take a look at the Google Trends charts for 3 holidays I’ve selected:
While Christmas has high demand, it likely will have a huge number of marketers creating niche sites intended to cater to this holiday. So it likely will be as competitive as the product niches like weight loss.
Going by our gut feel, Valentine’s Day is a seasonal niche which will likely be overserved too. (more…)
A complaint I hear is that “blogging takes too much time”.
And then I find out the Internet Marketer has only filed one or two weeks worth of posts before giving up.
Here’s a strategy of developing blog content quickly.
As you’re surfing the net for research, build a file of interest content, note down their URLs, network with your fellow Internet Marketers, catch up on trends.
- Develop a Position/Opinion
Think of how the development affects you, or your niche. What is the impact, what are the implications? How will it affect your current plans. Come up with (more…)
Take heed affiliate marketers! I’ve noticed that a few high profile product owners have implemented some practices which could potentially be detrimental to your affiliate marketing efforts.
I’d typically recommend looking for high converting affiliate programs for newer Internet Marketers.
After all, while you’re getting your feet wet, you might like to focus on traffic generation and your marketing efforts (the conversion has a lot to deal with the product owners sales/landing page) and rather than get into the thick of product development immediately, you can sell someone’s product first (ie. affiliate marketing).
So if a product owner has switched their sales pages to an opt-in page, it could have major implications for your marketing efforts.
An opt-in page is designed to help build the product owner’s list.
Ostensibly an opt-in page consists of:
- A catchy headline
- 5-7 bullets
- A form for you to fill in your name and email address
Seems simple.
Here’s an example of an opt-in page, Rick Raddatz’s Wednesday Minute (it’s got a funny video on it).
A sales page looks like what you’d see at the Secret Blog Weapon sales page. It’s much longer and pushes for the sale (which is what will continue to keep you in Internet Marketing) (more…)
If you actively use blogging for branding or income generation, take note of the WordPress upgrades available.
A number of prominent Internet Marketers WordPress 2.0.5 blogs had been hacked into, and the WordPress development team launched WordPress 2.0.7 to address the issue within a short timespan, even as they were about to launch their next major upgrade, the WordPress 2.1 series.
I’d been holding back on upgrading, even though test WordPress 2.1.1 installations showed that the blogs were running much faster, due to a major factor.
In this case, slower adopters stand to benefit, as a number of plugins have been shown to be not fully compatible with WordPress 2.1.
If you’re a WordPress blogger, you’d know that WordPress plugins are the lifeblood of any serious blogger. They add an unparalled degree of functionality and bring the WordPress platform to a whole new level, compared to other blogging platforms.
After reading that the new WordPress has difficulty playing nicely with my major Tag-related plugin, Tag Warrior, I’d held back till there seemed to be some stablity.
I’d finally launched into the new platform, wishing for the best.
Besides a hiccup with (more…)
