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  • Niche Marketing

    What It's All About

    Selling your own product. It's not as hard as you think. Today, you can easily create information products in printed, video or audio format. There are so many free software programs out there to get this done so the startup cost is minimal.

    How to Start

    I've compiled a great list of websites to start with niche marketing here.

  • Affiliate Marketing

    What It's All About

    Selling other people's products. If someone makes a purchase via your link, you get a commission from the publisher. Many people prefer this kind of job because it doesn't require a big investment and you don't need to worry about shipment costs, taxes or anything similar to that.

    How to Start

    Some of the best internet marketing affiliate programs are Clickbank and Commission Junction. Beware: There are lots of scams out there. Clickbank is the best one to begin in my opinion because of its simplicity. Then you can go with Commission Junction, that's where the “big boys” advertise.

  • Copywriting

    What It's All About

    Writing copy that sells. If you're a person who loves to write and is interested in human psychology this is the job for you. If you get in the top ranks, you can get paid even 10.000$ for a single piece of copy.

    How to Start

    Learn from the big names in the industry. Some of the world's best copywriters are Gary Halbert, Dan Kennedy, Jay Abraham and John Carlton. You can find out more about them simply by typing their names in one of the search engines.

  • Site Flipping

    What It's All About

    This is for all of you who want to move from one project to the next in fastest time possible. Site flipping is about buying a website, making it more profitable and selling it at higher price. Then you go to the next one, and the next one.

    How to Start

    There are many elements involved here. You must know several things in order to start flipping sites. To get a better idea, just Google about site flipping and you'll grasp the idea. I think there are many high-quality articles about this area on the internet and they can be found very easily too.

    • If you have any questions or think I missed some method here, please leave a comment.

    ]]>     Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:15:08 PST     Social Marketing is Marketing Without Seeming To Be http://www.bizcovering.com/Marketing-and-Advertising/Social-Marketing-is-Marketing-Without-Seeming-To-Be.148135 This is a concept that I have struggled with.

    Take my last blog post for example. The product this post was about is definitely something that my readers will profit from knowing about, but even I found it a bit too "salesy" if you get my drift. Lately my Google Reader has been getting a lot more filled up as I find increasing numbers of blogs and sites that have great content as well as make reference to products and services that solve problems that I have been struggling with.

    And that's the point...

    In the course of conversations about relevant issues, to insert text (and therefore links) referencing those solutions that you have found useful will result in your readers finding solutions, you getting sales, and steadily increasing readership.

    Win, win, win!

    Maybe you have seen the posts with titles like:

    "Content Is Dead: Resource is King!" While we are all seeing, and finding useful, blog posts that are basically lists of Social Media services, or other "Resources" becoming more popular, don't be misled. Resource lists are useful as one type of content, but should not be used to totally replace all other types. With the proliferation of these posts, do readers just osmotically know how to utilize these services to their maximum potential?

    Of course not!

    I know that I have gotten more useful information out of a post giving a few choice nuggets about how to get the most out of Digg, than I did out of the last ten posts giving me lists of "Hundreds of Digg-like Sites".

    The traffic that was directed to my sites from a technique learned in an email that Willie Crawford sent me has far surpassed anything that I could have gotten from the product being offered there. Why? Because Willie understands that for a product, service or tool to be relevant to a discussion:

    First there has to be a discussion!

    And it has to be able to stand alone with or without the offer of sale being made. That is the question that I will be putting to myself going forward: Does this post stand on it's own without any saleslink?

    If it doesn't, then there really isn't any point is there? No my friends, content isn't dead but it sure is rapidly changing. The 2008 Authority Blackbook points out the various types of posts that are vital to your blogs traffic, and I've learned a lot there that is making my traffic grow steadily even though this is not a WP blog. Resource list posts are definitely great linkbait posts, and when you find a good one elsewhere they can definitely be good fodder for Trackback links. Just be sure that you are adding something to the dialog other than just: "Here's a great list for ya!"

    Lord knows I've been guilty of that a time or two, but it really doesn't add anything to the flow. Plus, it will ultimately slow the flow of Web 2.0 traffic to your posts.

    Is content dead? I don't think so.

    Keep on posting it, and you'll reap it's rewards.

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