Saturday, April 9, 2011

A Marketing Strategy For All Niches

Many niche strategies depend on a single search engine, can only make money in one way, and are very inflexible. Find out a strategy that can work in practically any niche, with any traffic source, and make you money in a variety of ways.

There are many ways to build and monetize niche sites, however some work better than most.


Regardless of what you’re selling and who you are selling it to, there are a set of rules that all sites must adhere to if they are to work, and by “work” I mean create a win/win for you and your customer, and of course make you money.


There are 5 rules in total, and they are:

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Smartly Use PPC For Validation

Use PPC and you get soaked - your budget can get eaten up in less than a day. Do it right, and you can spend much less time and money validating a niche you've found.

When I tell people I use paid strategies to drive traffic to my niche sites, they are a bit surprised. Thankfully when I show certain members of my most inner circle the click through rates and conversion numbers for my ads, they are quite surprised, in a positive way.


Many people getting into niche marketing look to free traffic methods to increase their search engine rankings. The idea is that once the site is sitting on the front page of Google people will come to the site, see the products, and make a purchase. Once you have the people on your site it should then be a “simple” matter of converting them with awesome copy right?


Uh, not so much.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Lessons From A Recovered Alcoholic

I've been sober for 12 years this month, and since recovering from alcoholism, I've learned a lot about business, marketing, and people. In this post you'll see 6 of the biggest lessons I've learned so far.

Hello, my name is Robert Dempsey, and I’m a recovered alcoholic.


No this is not an April fools joke, that would make this a very different blog post.


I’ve had this post in draft for sometime, thinking about how to approach this, and it’s odd that on April fools I was inspired to write what I hope you will take a few minutes of your Friday to read.

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

How To Make More Sales Guaranteed

You have a greater chance of creating a win/win when you know more about your customer.

The better you understand the people in your market, the deeper the connection you can make with them, and the more likely they are to become your fans and customers.


This isn’t a discussion of demographics – that’s easy to get. And while age, race, gender, and income level can tell you a few things about a person, it isn’t nearly enough to make the kind of connection you need to build a tribe of raving fans and customers for life.


For that, you need to go to a whole new level.

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