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So one of the big problems that people have when they first get started in Internet Marketing…and sometimes prevents them from ever starting at all… is knowing what to market.
Some people know all of the ins and outs of internet marketing because they’ve studied every method on the planet (of course that’s forbidden in the IM Tiki Bar, you can find out why here)… but they don’t ever start using those skills because they can’t find a market.
Others go into a market that’s too small to see any results from their efforts, while others will go into way too broad of a market, and get swallowed by the competition.
So what the heck do you do?
Well, let’s just say first of all that I would much rather see you go into a market and get swallowed by the competition, or go into a market that is too small, rather than see you do nothing.
You have to jump in with both feet, and start doing, if you’re ever going to truly learn. There’s no other way.
I think that if you’re just beginning, and if you’ve never been through the process of picking niche, building a site or blog, and marketing it one way or another that it’s more important that you just go for it, than spend a ton of time researching niches. That knowledge will come in time.
My first market I went into was the “lose cellulite/get rid of cellulite” market. Why did I go into that market? Only because I happened to have some PLR (Private Label Rights) content in that niche! I suppose if I would have had PLR in the dog training, or carpet cleaning niche I would have gone that route.
Let me tell ya though… I learned a ton from that experience that serves me well everyday since. I learned to:
- Buy a domain name,
- Set up my hosting,
- Build a website including html, adding images, etc.
- Create Squeeze pages
- Build a list
- Market to that list
- SEO (search engine optimization)
- Write better sales copy
- Use Pay per click
- Use Adsense
- And even eventually flip the site for a tidy profit that allowed my family to take a nice vacation
For a long time that same site just sat and earned income without me doing anything, so it worked out well. And I’ve built a ton of other sites ever since.
Plus those skills helped me be able to provide a lot of those same services to freelance clients.
So you see, it’s not as important if you’re new whether or not you pick the perfect niche right out of the gate. Chances are you won’t anyways. It’s important that you just get started. I learned all those skills from one crappy little niche that I didn’t even care about, plus I made some dough…
So here’s what to do in a nutshell for now, and I’ll expand on it in the next post…
- Go to http://www.Clickbank.com
- Go into the “Marketplace”
- Find a product that interests you and has a commission rate over $20 bucks and a Gravity (more thorough explanation on that later) of over 100
- Study the sales page
- Think of the person that would be looking for this product
- Think of some words or phrases that YOU would type in if you were looking for this product.
- Ask someone what they would type in.
- Write some (let’s say 3) articles around those key phrases (you can use this post to help you with your article writing.
- Come back and continue…
See ya soon back in the IM Tiki Bar.