What Is Niche Marketing?

Niche Marketing is the way to go to make money online today. As opposed to affiliate marketing in general niche marketing allows you to zero in on a more targeted market which lessens the number of competitors you would have.

This also gives you a chance to develop an Internet business around a theme that you have an interest in, a passion for, or are an expert at. You not only get to make money online, but you will also have fun doing it.

What Is The Niche Power Group?

The Niche Power Group membership program is for people who need more help than they might normally receive in an affiliate marketing program. It contains a staff of five coaches who are available in a private online forum to answer questions and help you become successful with your own Internet business.

The Niche Power Group, or (NPG) for short, was started by a group of successful Internet marketers with the sole purpose of passing on their knowledge to others who are having problems becoming successful themselves.

Let’s face it, in spite of discussion forums, social networking, video training, weekly webinars, and so on, some people struggle to figure out how to make money online. The NPG understands this and has developed their program specifically for this target market.

The whole idea is you can receive coaching beyond what you might normally receive in other Internet marketing circles. You receive more hands-on attention because in a private membership the number of participants is smaller than in large discussion forums such as the Warrior Forum or others.

How Does It Benefit You?

The NPG forum is where you can go and ask questions. The difference from other forums is the staff mentors participate on a regular basis in answering your questions.

This is something you do not find even in forums started by other successful Internet marketers. Most of the owners are absent or participate on a very low level.

The benefit of having an experienced person answer your questions is you get quality answers. These are provided to you from a position of expertise as opposed to theory. This certainly is one problem that comes up in discussion forums where people who do not have actual experience attempt to be helpful in answering questions for other members.

One other thing you will like about the Niche Power Group is you receive honest advice. If you are doing things wrong those are pointed out directly to you.

When you are doing things right you receive positive input as well. The NPG staff understands your success is the only thing that will keep you as a member in the future and they hold nothing back in helping you achieve that.

As a member you will get your own WordPress blog set up for free. If you prefer they have pre-built niche blogs you can purchase at a reasonable fee to get off the ground even faster.

By using the WordPress blogging platform you will not need to learn HTML code to build web pages. All you do is type and the pages are built for you.

The Cost!

So how much will this cost you? You can take a trial membership for one week for $4.95. This lets you check out the program before deciding to become a member. After that there are various payment programs including the popular monthly membership of $29.95 a month.

The Negative

Mentoring on the Internet is not going to be the answer for everyone. You still must be responsible for your own success and put in the effort to achieve that.

The Niche Power Group can help aid you in your success, but will not do all the work for you. That is something you must consider before you decide to become a member of this exciting group.

Summary:

The features of the Niche Power Group, and the benefits you will receive, far out weigh the cost of this program. Mentoring on a personal level may be just what you need to really make money online.

By choosing a niche you have an interest in you get to have fun and make money at the same time. The Niche Power Group will be right there with you every step of the way.

Sign up for a Trial of the Niche Power Group for just $4.95.

The final step in the process of setting up a successful and profitable niche blog is the management of your site.

I’m talking about management in terms of keeping your site running, monitoring what’s working and what’s not, and monitoring the success of your site so you know how much effort to commit to it on a continual basis.

Here are some of the elements involved in the management area of a successful blog.

1. You need to manage and track your search engine statistics. Here I mean two things. 1. is the doings of your search competition and 2 is the rankings and traffic from various pages of your site.

In 1. You need to be always checking up on your search competition. Just by knowing what sites link to your competitor site can allow you a way to gain new backlinks. You contact the same people and get the same links PLUS keep doing all the good SEO you’re already doing, you can steal their spot.

In 2. You need to monitor your own search rankings to see what search terms are bringing you traffic. At this point you can either choose to focus more of your content on those terms, giving readers coming from those terms more to look at and more opportunities to get pushed to your affiliate link OR you can look harder at the monetization of those pages. This might include testing different affiliate link positionings, changing the text, and more.

Following on from that, something else that needs to be tracked on your blog, is how successful your content is at converting visitors to sales.

This has traditionally been tough on a blogs because the way they are set doesn’t generally allow for any form of split testing. However, a new blogging software called Firepow has made this possible. What you can do is test which content your audience responds best to. You can use variations of two different posts, have them alternate for each new user to the blog, and see which version of the post generated the most affiliate link clicks.

Optimizing your content like this may be the easiest way to increase your bottom line. After all think about this: If you want to double your profits from a site, you can either double your site traffic, or you can double your conversion rate… what’s easier? In a lot of cases, it’s doubling your conversion rate.

Finally, something that needs to be managed on your blog is the updating of your content. The most successful blogs and mini sites always have something new for their readers all the time, and when you’re running more than one blog, this can be an ongoing challenge. The best thing you can do here is get yourself the help of some software like the above mentioned Firepow, which can help you manage a number of blog’s content from one control panel. Something like this will give you the ability to post content on schedules, get notified of when a blog needs updating, and offer you options of how to get relevant content on to your site without your effort.

Combined with all the elements we’ve talked about in previous articles, managing your blog will put the profit icing on your blogging/mini site cake. I trust that you’ve found this series informative and helpful.

Traffic generation

Here we’ll look at some primary ways of driving quality traffic to your niche site. Keep in mind the phrase QUALITY traffic is important – we only want the visitors who might buy our products and make us money – we don’t want freebie seekers in this business model.

The first and best way to generate traffic is to do as I’ve described in the previous article, which is to produce content based on long tail keywords from your niche. After optimizing your page well for this term, and using the built in pinging function to notify other websites of your new content – you can be ranking and getting traffic for uncompetitive terms within the first few days of your site’s existence.

After this, there are many ways to approach your traffic generation.

1. Article Marketing: This is essentially (though often misunderstood) the process of having articles you’ve written, published on websites other than your own, for the purpose of including a link back to your site and funneling traffic from their site to yours. You can do this with article directories or with other blogs and websites by contacting the site author. Either way, the extra exposure from these sites can drive through important relevant visitors to your pages.

2. Ongoing Keyword research and SEO: The reason I believe in having a big focus on SEO is that the people who have a specific problem and are looking for a solution, tend to gravitate toward a search engine. Yes there are millions of web viewers who don’t go near a search engine but they can be harder to target and can represent not as high a quality traffic. In other words they don’t tend to make you as much money.

Continually finding new keywords that represent relevant traffic for your products, and continually creating content to target those visitors is about as smart as you can be with ongoing traffic generation.

3. Link Building: This is both for the purpose of boosting your search engine rankings and increasing exposure to your website. You have probably heard that links back to your site from relevant websites indicate your site is more trust worthy and worthy of better SEO rankings. At the same time, a link on a relevant website, whether in a piece of content on a sidebar, can increase visitors to your website. You should make it a point to continually do activities that motivate similar sites in your niche to link to you – or even if not in your niche, sites that could send you relevant visitors.

4. Using Social Networks: Using the myriad social networks like Digg, Mysapce, Facebook, Stumbleupon, etc. can be another great way to increase traffic to your website.  Just by submitting all the posts you make to your blog to site’s like Digg and Stumbleupon, you can earn yourself extra backlinks, and the potential to have your content seen and then shared by new members of your target audience.  As is becoming clear, almost EVERYONE online hangs out at some social network for some reason, and if you can find where your target market is hanging out and leverage that, your traffic can increase exponentially.

Finally, remember when trying to generate traffic to your blog, you should consider your niche before deciding which methods to utilize. As I’ve said before, using a social network might be great, but certain niches might be too technically unadvanced to know about social networks, and they only use Google. Some niches might be more easily approached by use of visual media like video rather than article content. The bottom line of traffic generation is where are my target market hanging out, and how can I get my site in front of them in a way that contributes value to their lives.

The 4th and final article in this series of setting up a profitable blog or mini site we’ll look at the management of a successful blog.

Joyce Jacobsen

In the first article of this series we looked at Step one – creating a successful blog or mini site namely, the selection of a truly profitable niche.  Now, once your niche is selected, you obviously need to create a website to capitalize on it.

Blogs in particular have become such a popular choice for niche marketers because of their extreme ease of use, ease in maintaining, and ease in updating. Not to mention the structure of a blog is generally by nature, search engine friendly. AND furthermore, where it isn’t, there is always a third party plugin to make it so.

There are many ways to create a successful blog, and the one you choose should reflect on understanding your target market. What we’ll look at here is an example of one such method, that focuses on the generation of free traffic, and the promotion of an affiliate program for monetization.

The first thing you need to do is create a blog that’s visually or aesthetically sound. A visually sound blog, other than just looking pretty, is arranged in a way that maximizes all the content you create, by maintaining your readers attention, and drawing the most attention to your affiliate program.

There are a few ways you want to do this:

1. Choose a blog theme with a predominantly white background and with black text. Simple advice, but often ignored. Black on white is the easiest for the eyes to read. Other colour schemes can quickly tire the eyes and make it hard to maintain concentration.

2.  Choose a clean and neat theme. You don’t want too much going on. It should be very clear where your content is located, very clear where your sidebar and navigation is located, where your other categories can be viewed and so forth. If a reader comes from a search engine, they should know exactly where they have to click to get the information they want.Generally I say the less options the better in terms of other features on your blog.

3.  There are certain pages you absolutely want to have on your site. These are a Privacy Policy page, an About Us page,and a Contact Us page. Google in particular looks at these things as indicators of a serious, quality, non spammy site. Furthermore, you want to have an archives page (easily achieved by the SRG CleanArchives plugin if you use WordPress), so as not to have your archives taking up valuable room in your blog sidebar.

Once you have an aesthetically pleasing blog, you need some reader pleasing content.

I am going to assume here you have a product selected. Of course the next step after picking your niche (sometimes these tasks are one and the same) is to select a product you’ll promote to the niche. This is where you’ll earn your cash.

So once you’ve got a product selected, and the base of a good blog created as above, your job is to create some content the people in your niche will find valuable and use that content to drive your website’s visitors to the merchant’s page and earn an affiliate commission.

By this point, you should have your niche’s keywords researched – by that I mean you should have some idea of what might be a good place to attack the niche from.  Ideally you’d have some keyphrase related to your niche that are uncompetitive in terms of the number of pages optimized for them in the search engines.

Where you’d ideally start your content creation is by writing an article on this uncompetitive term, posting it on your site and getting it ranked in the search engines. From here, you can develop as much content on search phrases from your niche, as you desire (remember you got those phrases from a tool like the Wordtracker keyword tool) in order to increase traffic to your site.

Some factors we didn’t get to mention in this article are things like:  page optimization, making your pages of content rank well in the search engines – and monetization – the art of getting the highest percentage of visitors to your site actually making you money. But for a basic overview, I think we’ve done alright.

Here is the link to several profitable mini sites I have created if you would like to see my end results:  ImprovingYourGolfSwing, ReverseEmailFinder and one on WeightLoss.

In the next article we’ll look at driving traffic to your website.

Selecting your niche. The first key to the success of a blog or mini site is it should target a group of people (a niche) who are hungry for information of a specific nature.

The group of people your blog or mini site targets should be a group of people who have problems or needs information. Problems in the sense they are looking for a solution to something, looking to improve something.  Furthermore, in a great niche, that SOMETHING, is something that causes pain. Financial pain, physical pain, emotional pain, some sort of pain, for the simple reason people who have pain will want to buy solutions to that pain, and hopefully from your website.

If that sounds a bit sick, trying to exploit people with pain, it’s not. It’s called marketing.   And what’s more, you’re actually going to provide these people with a real solution, so you’re being helpful!  So you’re looking for a group of people with a problem, but that’s not all.

Your next concern has to be whether there are enough of these people searching for solutions to their problems on the internet. How many is enough you ask? It’s a good question. With certain kinds of sites, all you need is 10 visitors to your site a day and you can turn a nice monthly profit. Other niches and products you promote you might need thousands per day. It all depends on what you sell, and who to, AND how much commission you make when you sell to them.

The things you should do are look at the search volume, as indicated by a tool like Wordtracker. Here you’re simply looking at how many searches per day a particular keyphrase gets in the search engines. Then after that, you want to look at whether there are other sites or blogs competing in the same niche.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, NO competition isn’t necessarily a good thing. NO competition could and often does mean it’s not a profitable niche. So we want competition in our niche we choose.

The final piece of the puzzle of finding a good niche, is whether the niche has a quality product for you to promote. You need something to sell to these people, that is high quality, has great marketing material (sales letter etc, so it will convert your traffic well) and pays a decent commission.

This is of course assuming you’re looking at the affiliate marketing model of making money with your blog – which I suggest if you’re looking to retire from your job and earn a full time passive income, you SHOULD be. There are other ways to make money where you might think about some different factors in your niche selection.

So if you can combine all of the above factors when selecting your niche, you’ll be giving yourself and your new blog the best possible chance of success.  Stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow on setting up a profitable blog or mini site.

If you’ve ever started a blog, or any form of website trying to earn some cash, you’ll know it’s not exactly a case of “if you build it they will come”. Even a great blog doesn’t guarantee traffic and a major part of a bloggers focus has to be spreading the word about their blog in a variety of ways in order to continually increase traffic and profits.

Sure, I could have talked about the blog creation and management aspects of Firepow, which I know so many new online marketers and bloggers will find so valuable. But for me, I’m more concerned about how the program can help a user increase traffic and make more money.

Anyway, that said – I thought I’d make a brief mention of some such features of the program in order to open your eyes to the ways this program might be as much a benefit to you as I predict it will be for me.

The first thing I like, or perhaps category of thing I like, is the ability the user has to easily generate backlinks to their blog once it’s up and running.

When you start a new blog, you want enough search engine spider juice to your site  to have it able to rank well for long tail uncompetitive keywords, purely by on page optimization, within a few days of being created.

In addition to giving you powerful on page optimization capabilities (like allowing you to set the meta data AND h1h2 tag data for every post or page), Firepow lets you quickly generate the spider juice you need to get indexed and potentially ranking for an uncompetitive term.

For example, as soon as your site is created, you can click a button to have your RSS feed submitted to a bunch of RSS directories. You’ll get some valuable link backs, plus some great spider activity right off the bat. Not to mention the ping from your post.

Furthermore, if you choose to, you could use a tool called BlogLove Builder, to quickly and easily implement a trackback to a popular blog post within your own blogs first post – and instantly generate more link juice, and even a few visitors right from the get go too!

Furthermore, if you focus on search engine traffic you’ll know about the importance of link building in locking in long term rankings. Initial spider juice can get you a quick ranking, but for a LASTING ranking, you need an assortment of relevant quality backlinks establishing your page as an authority on that keyword.

Firepow has that more than covered, giving you the ability to obtain links from social networks, blog comments, and in content links from Firepow’s own network of high PageRank blog sites as well.

What I’ve mentioned here isn’t close to all of the tools Firepow gives you to drive traffic to your site. Once again, it’s for that reason among many – I am recommending all my blog readers to check it out for themselves.

Here’s the link:  FIREPOW

For more information please read the post below….

In this post I’m going to talk about one such tool, Firepow Blogging Software,because I believe it might just be a cut above the rest in terms of it’s flexibility of use, and overall effectiveness in accomplishing the three primary aims of blogging – creating a blog, managing it or maintaining it, and getting traffic to it.

It was hard to know where to start with this post because there are so many individual features of this software that could be mentioned.  To give you a brief overview of how it works…

Firepow is based on the WordPress platform, and allows a user to install a fully customized and functioning wordpress blog with a few clicks of the mouse.

If you’ve used WordPress before, you’ll know one of the best things about it is it’s ability to be enhanced by third party plugins. You’ll also know it’s not hard to get LOST in all the plugins and potential feature additions that CAN be made.

The first thing great about Firepow from my point of view is they have done the plugin work for you. The best 50 or so plugins from around the web have been programmed into the software so as to be automatically installed when your blog is.

That’s a good feature, but it’s even better when you consider while these plugins normally require manual fiddling to get installed, tweaks made to your theme CSS code and more – the software actually does that part for you too – so you click the button, and you have the function of that plugin added – VERY time saving!

The “Create” part of the process is also helped by the ability to create your own custom wordpress theme completely from scratch, with more functionality than we’ve seen from free theme generators EVER before – not to mention the ability to create your own categories from scratch, automatically create the perfect permalink structure for SEO, and more.

Before even getting into the WordPress panel of the site Firepow creates you’ve also got a site management tab where all your blogs can be managed from one place, an SEO tracking tool to monitor the search rankings of all your sites, and a task manager that tells you what needs to be done to maintain your blog/s and when.

I dare say though the best things happen once you’re actually IN the blog.

Here you have crazy abilities to make your post content better, easily being able to add relevant images, videos, or trackbacks (automatically building backlinks to your site) to your posts... and even that’s leaving a lot out.

OR the crazy abilities to monitor your blogs success, like being able to split test the results of different posts, monitor your traffic through in depth reporting (utilizing Google analytics), monitoring your search spider activity, the popularity of your posts, the terms people are searching on your site, and more still.

I feel like I’m getting too salesy in this post to you but I can assure even with everything you’ve read here, I haven’t even really touched the surface of what’s going on inside this thing called Firepow – heck we didn’t even get to the promotional tools.   (Look for another post tomorrow.)

I hope you’ve found the information here valuable, and don’t hesitate to leave your comments on Firepow here to share with others.

I stress – even what I’ve mentioned here isn’t close to all of the tools Firepow gives you to drive traffic to your site. And it’s for that reason among many I’m recommending all my blog readers to check it out for themselves.

Oh and I could also tell you if your into blogging and you don’t, you’ll probably regret it big time.   Hopefully this gave you a general idea how POWERFUL FIREPOW is!

Here’s the link:   FIREPOW!

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Sacrifice</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they sacrificed to get there. They had to decide what was more important. Was it watching TV, playing a game with their friends or was it staying focused on growing their business? Was it taking the summer off to vacation or to work so they would have the edge come “fall rush?”

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Commitment</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they stayed committed to the end goal. They saw the big picture and aimed for it. They were committed to a bigger cause, something far bigger than themselves. Whether it was creating a dynasty for their family or achieving success with <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>network marketing</span> to show their family it was possible.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Work Ethics</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they are willing to do what the unsuccessful are not willing to do. They make one last phone call. They do one last appointment. They are willing to push harder than the average.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Personal Development</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top of in their industry because they always work harder on themselves than someone else. They know the importance of continually improving themselves. Leaders in the industry never stop learning. They go to every training event, conference call, or convention because they may learn something to give them the extra edge.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Never Give Up</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they never gave up. You will find many leaders were simply ordinary people but through time they learned to be extraordinary leaders. They had time on their side. The only way to fail in business is to quit!

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Extreme Discipline</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they were disciplined on the basics. They made more phone calls, set more appointments, had more enrollments and developed more leaders than the average. Those are the successful internet and network marketers.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Failing Your Way to Success</span>
Leaders in all walks of life have made it to the top in their industry because they failed more than anyone else. That’s right! You will hear incredible stories of failure which led to paramount success. Almost every millionaire’s story will talk about the failures they had which led to the crazy success they have today. It’s very rare you find a millionaire who has not had stories of failure. They simply kept failing forward.

Lastly, the trait which is a part of all the 7 traits of successful internet and network marketing leaders:

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>ACTION!</span>
Nothing happens until you simply just do it! No excuses, no if’s, no but’s. Put aside all the quick fix solutions that distract you from your goals and commit to taking action today.

We said 7 and here are 8. Can you think of any more traits of successful internet and <a href=”http://thatmlmbeat.com/blog/the-secret-of-bob-proctor/”><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>network marketing leaders</span></a>?

Do you belong to too many online social networking sites? Do you put in a lot of time on a few online social networking sites or a little time on a lot of them? Is your network marketing blog cluttered by cramming every possible social widget you can into the side bars?

The rules have changed in 2009. It’s time to chill out with strategic social marketing.

Let’s take a look at the answers…

Why do People use so Many Online Social Networking Sites?

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Quite simply, it’s Simplicity.

Yes, simplicity is the key. But if that’s so obvious and easy, why do we make things so complicated?

Internet and Network Marketing can be a very simple business, but keeping it simple doesn’t mean hard work is not involved. One of the most common mistakes is people make it complicated.

Even if a complex system achieved great results for you, others will find it difficult to duplicate. In Internet and Network Marketing, personal success is not your greatest asset. Your greatest asset is having a <a href=”http://thatmlmbeat.com/blog/is-your-internet-network-marketing-business-systemized-for-success/”><span style=”text-decoration:underline;”>MLM System</span></a> that guarantees the network marketing success of everyone using it.

The success of others, and your success, is dependent upon their ability to do the same thing you do. Keep the least experienced of those in your network in mind when you set up a MLM System of doing things for your organization to follow.

Everything you do must be simple enough so everyone can quickly duplicate your efforts and achieve the same phenomenal results as you.

In Internet and Network Marketing, you should not do things that require special skills, resources which are available only to you or to a limited number of people.

Open up your business to a much larger pool of people who can become successful. You need to build your network as quickly as possible. Since you can only meet with a few people each day and can personally sponsor a few people, you need to use an MLM System where you can quickly help others learn to do the same simple things as you. When they do, they multiply your efforts.

Go for the same phenomenal results. This is quality duplication. Each person in your Internet and Network Marketing business, from top to bottom, must be able to duplicate what you are doing and be able to teach others to do exactly the same thing. How large a sales team you can build depends on how well it is duplicated. To ensure duplication, you need a system or processes anybody and everybody can follow and teach.

You cannot duplicate a person, but you can duplicate a system.

In building a successful and long-term network, the <span style=”text-decoration:underline;”><a href=”http://thatmlmbeat.com/blog/is-your-internet-network-marketing-business-systemized-for-success/”><span style=”text-decoration:underline;”>MLM System</span></a></span> must rule. Remember a system is only as good as it is duplicated. The more complex a system, the less likely quality duplication will be achieved. To make sure you duplicate well, follow the network marketing system you are provided with religiously.

There is no perfect MLM system and your time is better spent perfecting your ability to duplicate it rather than perfecting a system.

Take this example: Ray Krocs,the founder of McDonald’s cannot be duplicated but the McDonald’s franchise system can be and is, to almost 100% perfection in 18,000 outlets worldwide.

Keeping it simple.

To ensure you do things your distributor can learn from and duplicate.

With everything that you do, always ask yourself the following 2 questions:

- Is what I am doing easy to duplicate?

- Is it simple enough to be duplicated?

If you answer “yes” at least 75 % of the time, you are on the right track.

The most successful people in Internet and Network Marketing Business understands everything must be kept simple in order to grow your business.

Show others how simple it is to do what you do. They need to see you do it, and then believe it is simple enough for them to quickly duplicate to achieve the same good results in your MLM Business.

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