My Software Gold Mine Web Log

Archive for February, 2007

February 07 1st Week

February 9, 2007 11:58 pm

This issue includes…

° How to Use Forums to Create Profitable Niche Products

° Weekly Marketing Freebie

° Internet Marketing Special Offer

° Where to Find Fresh Content for Your Blog

° 5 Ways That Articles Can Grow Your Business

° Tell Me What You Think!

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The 60 Second Weekly Tip
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How to Use Forums to Create Profitable Niche Products

Niche marketing at its best helps to solve real problems
that real people face and live with everyday. If you can
come up with a product or service in a niche market that
will help people solve their problems - and they are
willing to pay for it - then you that basis for a very
profitable online niche business.

The things that people view as ‘problems’ can encompass
everything from interior decorating to chronic insomnia,
and more often than not, people are searching for solutions
to their problems.

All you need to do is to identify these problems and
provide a solution. But how can you do this?

A good way to find out what people consider a problem is
to visit online forums relating to your chosen niche.
People talk about anything and everything online as it
gives them anonymity, so forums give them the avenue to
express their concerns.

By visiting forums and taking note of what people are most
concerned about you can search the Internet for information
that will help them solve these problems.

Once you have gather information, write articles about
your topic - or have written for you. In this way you can
build a content-rich website for niche marketing that helps
to provide solutions to this problem.

Naturally you would monetize the pages on your site, as
well as include an optin box to build your list so that you
can sell them on the backend to multiply your profits.

An additional way to use forums to help you build a niche
market website is to join a forum, and post a question
about a popular topic that is being discussed. This way you
may receive many more responses regarding your topic and
you could use these to create an ebook or report on this
subject.

The fact is that many people will buy an ebook that is
filled with information they find useful, even if they
could actually gather for themselves as it saves them time -
and to most people their time is very valuable.

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Weekly Marketing Freebie
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Get a free trial of the acclaimed SEO Elite. I personnally own
-and use- SEO Elite and highly recommend this easy to use
Search Engine Optimization software.

Try it today risk free by following this link:

SEO Elite Free trial

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1. A new version of Affiliate PDF Brander was released on
January 28th to fix a problem with some of the links in the
PDF files.

If you downloaded your copy of the software before this
date, please download it again. If you don’t know this
software yet, you can try it for free here:

Affiliate PDF Brander

2. There is a brand new video for Affiliate PDF Brander.

I’ll be honest and say that it’s not the greatest video ever
created, but it does give useful guidance.

You can view this video here…

Affiliate PDF Brander Video

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Internet Marketing Special Offer
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This week I’d like to make you an offer you can refuse. ;o)

Do you know the Turbo Membership? I’m a Turbo member
since september 2005 and I must say, it’s one of the best
membership site available today, for professional
webmasters and “newbies” alike.

Check it out now, and if you decide to join today, I’ll
give you 1200 Vault Points*
, allowing you to get a free
copy of the renowed JV Manager (a hosted JV Manager
remote account is included in the membership, if you want
to install JV Manager on your own server you’ll need
these points, or to purchase it).

Turbo Membership click here

This is a limited time offer (I don’t have unlimited
Vault Points).

*See Module 13 on the site. The 1200 points will be
transferred to your Turbo account after 45 days. You can
use them for any other software/scripts/memberships/
ebooks/packages you want.

Email your receipt at support[at]mysoftwaregoldmine.com
and I’ll send you a 1200 points code after 45 days.

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Featured Article
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Where to Find Fresh Content for Your Blog

It’s a basic law of online marketing - if you have a blog
it needs to be regularly updated to maintain a high level
of readership. If you don’t provide informative content on
a regular basis, you simply won’t get any return visitors -
and no visitors equals no profits!

So it’s no secret that you need to continually find fresh
topics to write about, and in this article we’re going to
discuss how to do just that.

The very first option that you should write about is a
topic that you feel passionate and interested in. Remember,
you’ve chosen to create a blog or website so that you can
earn an online income so you have an opportunity to escape
your mundane job…

…so forcing yourself to write about something that you
have little or no interest in could be as torturous as your
mundane job. So the key is to create a blog about a niche
topic you either have some experience with or have some
level of interest.

The other reason you need to write about something you’re
passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows
through your writings. If you feel indifferent to a certain
subject but still write about it just for the sake of it,
your readers will notice…

… and forcing yourself to write about a subject will not
establish a welcoming style to your readers!

Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to
your blog and make it a habit to post at least once every
day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article
you read today.

Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of
effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an
inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach
your full speed. Then, once you get going, it’s almost
impossible to stop.

However, no matter how well you know your topic, your
brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are
some proven methods to help you brainstorm content for your
blog:

1. The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other
bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your niche -
and the best way to find related blogs is to search
http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com.

When you research other blogs you can gather more
knowledge and information on your subject. You can then
make reference and comment on what others have to say on
your own blog!

2. Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in
your field, you’ll have quite a continuous “conversation”
happening on your blog, so you’ll not need to actively
search for more content to write about.

A great place to find additional information is to search
for news articles related to your niche in the local
newspaper or via any of the many online article directories.

3. You can also have contact with people with the same
interest as you in your particular niche you choose, so you
will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers
and interesting discussions to write about in your blog.

To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t
join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two
of the most focused and most popular in your niche. This
will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and
generating profits.

4. Get automation tools do all the work. Today it is possible
to automate and optimize your blog… practically hands free!

Above all, you must keep up your momentum of posting at
least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to
write about) to entice your readers to keep coming back
each day to see what is new.

Doing this will also attract the attention of the search
engines as they will recognize that you are updating your
blog with fresh content everyday - and they just LOVE this.

So the added bonus is that your blog will get spidered on
a more frequent basis and when this happens you have a
higher chance of getting extra traffic from the search
engine listings.

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Effective Marketing Strategies
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5 Ways That Articles Can Grow Your Business

In today’s highly competitive online community, the
importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your
website cannot be overemphasized. Driving visitors to your
site
can be your only means of survival, especially in the
cutthroat world of online marketing.

However, getting a high search engine ranking can be very
difficult. Fortunately there is an almost unlimited number
of strategies you can use to drive traffic to your site.

These strategies include anything from ezine advertising
to affiliate marketing, however the downside is that most
of these techniques come at a cost. Nevertheless, there are
ways to promote your website and increase your traffic
without spending anything.

Writing articles is without question one of the most
effective web site promotion strategies you can use and I
strongly suggest you seriously consider using article as
part of your overall marketing plan.

Here are the top seven ways in which writing articles can
help improve your web traffic and grow your profits:

1. More Reach

You can post your articles on your website or you can
submit them to other sites such as ezines directories to
leverage your reach. Submitting your articles to these
sites gives exposure not only to your ideas but also to
your website.

You can also submit your articles to popular ezines and
take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find
your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus you
increase your link popularity, which is one of the most
important strategies in the Internet world.

Remember that most people are looking for information
online and by filling this need with your article you may
reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.

2. Effective No-Cost Advertising

Submitting your articles and allow other site owners to
publish your work presents an opportunity to advertise your
website without paying exorbitant fees.

Although you should avoid marketing language in your
articles and make it informative and useful to your
readers, you can always include your site’s link in the
resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant
and helpful to your readers, you are branding yourself as
an expert in your niche, which could ultimately lead to a
visit and hopefully a purchase.

Good quality content in an article is far better and more
effective than a few lines of ad space as you have a very
special opportunity to pre-sell your product or service to
your prospective customer.

3. Higher Search Engine Rankings

It’s no secret that search engines love fresh unique
content. If this content is on your site and it’s highly
relevant to the topic of your niche, then the search
engines will reward you with a higher ranking.

So while your main aim is to make your article as
informative as you can for your readers, you should also
optimize it so that it acts as spider food for the search
engines.

You can do this by including long-tailed keywords in your
article and by fully utilizing all your on-page techniques
to attract the search engine spiders.

Making your article keyword rich you can greatly improve
the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that
keyword density is one of the most important factors that
search engines use when determining the search engine
ranking of site.

However, you should always provide relevant, useful and
pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing
keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off
most web surfers. A good keyword density is 5%-7%.

Relevance and quality is still the most important things
to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly
useful to your site if you make your articles attractive
for the spiders.

Never forget that content that is optimized for the search
engines is a very effective strategy to gaining higher
rankings - so use it to your greatest benefit whenever you
can!

4. Increases Your Link Popularity

Link popularity is one of the factors used by search
engines in determining search engine rankings. In simple
terms, link popularity is measured by the number of pages
linking back to your site and articles are a key method of
getting one-way links to your site.

But instead of looking for other sites who would want to
establish reciprocal links with you, simply submit your
article to other sites. When websites pick up and publish
your article, you automatically get a link partner.

The key is to make your article especially useful and
appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to
publish it.

5. Build Your Reputation and Credibility

By writing excellent, original and relevant articles you
not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a
good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to
visit your site and do business with you by establishing an
impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an
expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more
customers eager to do business with you.

In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility
and trust may be the only things you need to attract new
customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing
customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent
articles are important tools you should utilize to improve
and grow your business.

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Tell Me What You Think
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This is your chance to speak out.

Comment on articles I’ve run in the newsletter, give me
your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or
questions relating to your business, etc.

In other words, just talk to me about what you think I
need to do to improve the newsletter.

Be sure to include your website address too, because if
I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter,
I’ll thank you by posting your address so that you can get
additional free traffic to your site.

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That’s a Wrap for this Week
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That wraps up another week’s newsletter and I hope you
enjoyed this issue.

Don’t forget to send me any comments or questions you
may have to the Feedback Loop. I would be only too happy to
help you in any way that I can.

From time to time I’ll send you important updates
that will provide information that has the potential to
greatly improve your online business… and of course
your profits!

However, you can rest assured that I will only ever
recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value
and will provide indisputably benefits to help you grow
your business… that’s my guarantee!

Your friend,

Gilles Rais

New & Creative Ways To Profit From Niches

February 3, 2007 6:29 pm

Everyone has been rushing to the niche marketing strategy just to stake their claim to the gold mine. But no matter how one uses the strategy, he/she seems to miss the most important part and even the simplest ways to rake in the cash.

If you were offered a 57-minute investment in order to discover the secrets for giving yourself a raise in your pay anytime you want, would you take it?

Niche Pay Raise might be the answer to your problem. This is a presentation that shows you a lot of opportunities that are available.

You will know why you should remove all of your order links from all the sales pages that you have and know how this will definitely help you make more income than you ever have before.

This is the ultimate chance that you have and will be having. You might not notice some of your order links are getting stuck and stranded.

No matter how you keep them up, but if they still don’t work, then you will have all the reasons to take away those order links.

You need to discover the basic step you need in order to make your niche marketing profits double, triple, and even more. Imagine your profit boosting with that one right step you need.

Not only will you increase your income, but increase it by larger than you’d expect.

In this Niche Pay Raise, you will learn that one easy step and find out that it works.

The easiest way would be to use the style that niche businesses and offline marketers have been using for years. You can also use the book publishers as the reference.

Choose the ones who have been successful in order to keep your niche business successful too. This is the best way to look at it.

Find out the surest way to increase profits by using any niche product. You can go and get over that thing that the gurus have been staying up late for.

They have gone crazy to do this to their own products to be able to apply this idea.

Folks are moving quickly to bet their claims and beat it rich. Only this time, it isn’t California that summons them to the gold rush.

Instead, it’s what they call “niche marketing” that they are talking about.

Seems like nearly every marketer is grabbing all of their cyber-shovels to start out and make a prospect for that extraordinary niche gold mine with their name on it, hoping that they will hit the mother stratum.

Everyone is wishing for this. They would do anything for that one thing to create creative ways to profit from niches.

You have made the right choice definitely. But there is a certain problem that you will be facing if you want to use niche marketing.

The sole problem is that you are going to compete with a lot of marketing and business companies who are using the same technique too.

Competition in niche marketing is very high that it’s hard to stay on top of them.

Once you put your mind into niches, keep in mind that it’s not only you who is looking and wishing for that one step to success.

If you find it, you must learn how to distinctively use it.

Understand that you are not the only one who is bidding on pay-per-click campaign listings for the nicest and best keywords to hit the targeted traffic that you desire.

Almost all people have run into creative measures and strategies to hit the spot they have been aiming for.

Remember that you are not the only person who is setting up mini-sites to offer freebies that is creating an autoresponder sequence and some of the other things that most smart marketers have done.

You have big competition ahead of you that is growing every single day, but it will be worth the hard work.

Try to apply the Niche Pay Raise and soar through the seven secrets that you need to mine a niche to the degree of profit that you can have.

Gilles Rais


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