I have rolled out a marketing guide, that will make money. How to setup and follow steps to make money online. This is not hype, or sales, and I do not make any money on this valuable information ; nor is it about gimmicks like how to transfer money overseas; etc. These are marketing steps on building a successful marketing system, and make money online, with your own home based business. Results are based on how much you build and promote your business. These are solid guidelines to start, a point many never even achieve, so it will take some courage and initiative to take the first step, simply clear your mind for a moment and just do it.
Step 1 Set Goals : You have heard this before, but most fail right here so lets jump start the process for you. Roll out a 1 year goal , break it down by each month. I built factories in many countries so how do you think I did this. I had no option to fail . So I am going to take the first step for you. Here is your 1 year goal : resign from your factory job. Lets just use this term as your 8 to 5 job. Sounds scary but actually a very realistic goal. Now you can change at will, but at least make a commitment.
Step 2 : Goal Month 1. Decide on what info product you are going to focus on, market, and make money. Sounds as if I made the decision for you, and I did. Simply any successful marketing person that did make money online , and is making money, sells information. Info is in constant demand, the internet; your marketing money maker, has an endless thirst for info. You now have a starting point, with a realistic direction. Look at all those companies moving offshore, downsizing, closing shop. So, go write an e-book about something you really enjoy, sports, hobby, travel, something you always had a passion for, and start writing now. Find someone to complete it , if need be. Go read up on how to information, it is out there, but at least read up and take action.
Step 3 : Complete drafting goals for months 2 through 11. This is really simple, and again lets make this easy. Month 12 goal is very clear on what you are planning to achieve, the goal is written, you signed it, your wife loves it, simply because she sees how excited you are for another life. Here is how you approach filling in your monthly goals. Start at month 12 goal, and work your way back, making adjustments, as your goal structure takes place.
Step 4. Planning stage ; creating a plan of action under each months goal. Now this might look like itemized action items, to be completed in each month time frame. See, you have already established the foundation to a marketing plan, and making money business on the internet, topic of desire, and now its time to think through each step of how you will get there, month to month. A simple way to do this is use excel format for each month, tape it to your wall, and you will have a 12 roadmap to your final 1 year goal. You have time to think through details, adjust as you build your ideas, etc.
Step 5. Select the following partners as you are going to start building your Marketing Machine, to make money. First, select a domain company, and your first domain name, like Go Daddy. Web host company,say Host Monster; I use them for almost all my sites, because they have the best 24/7 people tech support, I have hired and fired, over 35 Host companies, simply they do not know how to conduct business, enough said. There, saved you a bunch of money. There are many options to build your first website, even a Host will offer a simple format. Now, here is a very important rule, never let these things slow you down, there are so many options for building a website, which should be a simple, flexible, low cost process, not years of learning HTML.
Step 6. Recap ; You have a 1 year goal, you have an info e-book written, domain, host acct., a website, your e- book is setup on your site, priced accordingly, priced right for qty at 19.95 each special time limited offer, and 3 free bonuses , and most Hosts provide auto responders to build the list of potential customers. , read up on this, plus all the marketing advice possible. Seek out good Forums for information on your topic, say baseball forum, search Google, you will be surprised, and get all reasonable questions resolved.
Time to launch, but make this count, first register your site , yes by hand, sound scary, but free and simple because the top three SE companies will ask you to type in the code shown, to verify you are not a robot, spamming them to register every 10 minutes for high SE rankings. So, here they are: Google, Yahoo, MSN. The forms are so easy it might take you over one minute each. Save money, do it yourself, its simple and fast, plus these 3 are 90% of the internet .
Step 7: Bottom line real marketing, making money. Go talk with, Build it, Site Sell; it is a great company that can provide all the needs to get you up and running, domain, hosting, website, marketing, and turn traffic into customers. Now you will pay a fee, but skip many steps, save you lots of time and money. So there, you cannot fail, no room for excuses. This Marketing model can apply to any topic, subject of choice, just do it, and you will be rewarded. Last, persistence wins, remember this message, if you follow step 7 alone, you will be successful, and this is a 1 year retirement plan , every tool, step, promotion method ,traffic, customers, and a proven money making model, that will get results. Enjoy your new life.
People are going on like this is something NEW!!
Well sorry if I am coming across as a bit blunt or even arrogant here with this as an introduction to the basics of "Niche Marketing", but I did warn you all that I don't hold back, and, well, phooey!!!
I CANNOT BELEIVE, that anyone who is seriously thinking of starting a business of their own, (remember I know your here to learn to be a good Internet marketer, and IM is a business too, first and foremost) didn't do what any *Serious* business *Should* do as STANDARD before even venturing into starting up, and thats assess their target market, determine what the core needs of that market are, and then Realize Why your product is giving them something that no other product quite could.
Is your market Saturated? Are there hundreds of other people offering the same product as you? If there IS, then you only have two ways to survive(Three if you count bailing out and moving on!)
1 - The Hard way, or 2 - the Easy Way
If you attend ANY Business related education from the most basic to the highest level degree, Basic Business Marketing, will tell us to find our Unique Selling Point. and identify a target market that our product or service will appeal to.
Now, if we have lots of competition then the hard way would be to use the Brute Force type method and and perhaps try and saturate the market, be the cheapest, or pay big bucks to get some high profile adverts or whatever, some thing like this is Fine, BUT Its the hard way because it is like Brute Force, you need Big Resources, Lots Collateral to pull it off, ITS HARD,
However, if you take the EASY Way, you cleverly analyze every piece of information you can gather about the broadest spectrum of consumer that may possibly buy your product, then you identify a SPECIFIC Need that the Brute Force competitors are too busy to even notice, and ADAPT your product to suit their needs.
Identify Several, perhaps, and have several "Spin offs" of your original product?
THATS Niche Marketing
NO
Thats Basic Business 101, Didn't you take that class?
Business isn't about anything other than Knowing what your resources are, and getting THE Most out of them, Niche Marketing, Sensible Business thinking more like, is about realizing HOW Flexible YOUR Resources are, then using your brain and your Market Research to come up with unique ways of appealing to markets No one else is catering for.
Pause for a minute.
Seriously, let it soak in because if your starting to wonder what I am rambling on about the penny will click in a minute.
In case you haven't noticed yet, people make a product out of anything. Depending on what their particular Resources are will determine what sort of flexibility any person may have in Coming up with "niche" Products.
Examples of resources would be; Expendable Collateral, or simply Money to spend Personal Skills and expertise Expertise and skills of partners/co-workers/employees Physical Inventory, Specialist equipment etc, Thats just a few examples,
What are YOUR resources? Sit down, think about it, write a list.
Now, think about this, could you actually do something *Totally* different to what your doing now with the resources you have?? Do you even KNOW all the different things that you and the combination of your resources could produce?
I mean obviously you have thought about all these things, after all your planning on or are in business for yourself, BUT, when you start doing this ONE SIMPLE Thing differently, when you start looking at your business in this One Lateral Perspective, Niche Marketing as the people have hyped it up to be is going to be Natural Consideration in your Clever All Round Marketing Plan.
That perspective is this -
The KEY to Niche Marketing, the KEY to successful marketing, the KEY to any business, is COMPLETELY Understanding your market, through *Market Research*!
I Cannot stress this enough, Gathering As Much Data about your market as Humanly Possible means you can pin-point specific desires and needs, that No one or Hardly Anyone is addressing or serving!
Step Back, Look at your market, find a hole, and plug it with your "New Niche" Product, catered specifically for that group.
Now, step back again and review your resources, do you think you could plug ANY Hole in ANY Niche? Remember, Information nowadays is a much sought after product especially if it's an area of interest with little or no information, or good information is hard to find.
What Other Resources do you have at your disposal? Could you plug holes with products no one else has ever thought of? I can vouch, that once you have the right tools to analyze a Broad spectrum of information you will find holes, and you will *Make* ways to get a product for that "Niche".
Niche Marketing = Simple Common Sense ;
Find the best ways to get the most information about what the most people are doing, buying, searching for, andfind something that people want, that no one else is offering and Give it to them.
Does that sink in, theres no big secret, seriously there isn't, no Niche Marketing Secret, if you think there is then read through this again, if you understand, and are wondering, well great what now?? Ha Ha, you didn't think I would leave it there did you?
Here is a couple of tools I Use Daily to help me make my choices, and also I will discuss in some other articles Later here about how to Maximize Your Resources and find Fresh New resources to Increase your potential Product Portfolio.
Step by step though, so, Have you got a list of all your resources, have you thought about any new products off the top of your head, could you write something about a subject that interests you, seriously even if its sports, or Mahogany Wood Chairs, all this information You or Someone you know/works for you are RESOURCES -
And heres the Market Research Resources I use and recommend http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html Find out what the trends are currently on ebay, a good way to see what people are buying and even what people Cant Find yet!
Http://inventory.overture.com helps to give an estimate as to the popularity of a particular keyword, this tool bases its results on words searched and clicked across the Overture PayPerClick network, including Yahoo among others, it isn't Conclusive, but gives a good idea as to Keyword Popularity.
Cross check your Overture Keyword results with the New Ideas you have from the Ebay Hot products pages, and go to Google.com to see how popular a Keyword is, or how “Competitive" it is, by seeing How many other pages are listed for that keyword/phrase too. Anything under 1 million pages is gonna be Reasonable to achieve good Search Engine exposure, You make your own choices though, based on your resources, and your New Found Market Information.
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