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College Friend Generates $3,000/Mo With Oddball Niche Site

July 17th, 2008

sukiyoma

Last week I ran into an old friend from college via Facebook. He and I chatted for a while and I found out that he was also involved in internet marketing.

I was intrigued so I asked him how he was doing with it. He said that a few months ago he set up a website selling an ebook and now he’s making close to $3,000/k on autopilot.

Now I’m not going to tell you his niche of course, but it’s a niche that my friend is very familiar with. He created the product and webpage himself.

It’s a rather obscure niche also. My friend is generating traffic via free search engines (mostly Yahoo and MSN). All he did was create videos and posted them on YouTube.

His sales page is not your typical direct response salesletter with bullet points and such. His site does however have a video above the fold which does very well at converting visitors into buyers.

I’m telling you this story because I thought it was interesting how someone turned their hobby into a profitable business without really much thinking about it.

There are probably tons of people out there who create websites just for fun and are making nice sums of money. I think the key factor to their success is that they provide really good content. Everything else works itself out.

You probably have a passion but your passion may not be in a niche where people are buyers. If that’s your case, the best route is to find a hot niche, hire someone who is passionate in that niche to work for you. You pay them to do something that they already enjoy doing.

You can find these passionate people in forums. Did you know there’s a forum for just about everything online? My brother is a member of a fashion forum, a shoe forum, a photography forum and a computer overclocking forum. There’s even a forum for flashlight lovers, lol.

Go find these people in the forums, strike up conversation with them and then hire them to create content for you.

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Tags: generate profits, niche forums, niche marketing, niche research, oddball niches

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Podcasting – You Should Seriously Consider It

April 24th, 2008

Gary Huynh

To listen to more podcasts visit: www.six figure marketer dot com/affiliate blog.

I’ve been getting into podcasting recently not only because it’s fun but also because it’s a great way to promote your sites and businesses.

With the popularity of the Ipod personal music player, you’ve probably heard the term Podcasting thrown around. This term means either an audio or video broadcast that anybody can create with a little knowledge.

When people listen to podcasts, they can click a button to listen to your audio, download the audio file to their computer or Ipod.

All you need to do is record audio using a microphone or digital recorder and then upload the file either to your own webhost or to a hosting server.

The podcast is not an audio file but rather an xml file. If you know html then xml is very similar with beginning and ending brackets to enclose certain information such as the name and description of your podcast, the location and file size of the audio file, and the date of the podcast.

Here is an example xml podcast file:

<?xml version=“1.0”?>
<rss version=”2.0”>
<channel>
<title>Choose Your Own Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3</link>
<description>Make a description of your podcast</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>2006</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Date Today</lastBuildDate>
<webMaster>webmastersemail@domain.com</webMaster>
<ttl>1</ttl>
<item>
<title>Today’s Headline</title>
<description>How to make money online</description>
<pubDate>Date Today</pubDate>
<enclosure url=”http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3” length=”1426573” type=”audio/mpeg” />
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Once the file is created and uploaded to your server, you can then submit the url of the file to podcasting directories to promote your podcast.

There’s a lot more I want to cover on this topic after I get more experience. I will report back with my successes or failures so you can give it a try yourself.

To listen to more podcasts visit: www.six figure marketer dot com/affiliate blog.

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5 Quick Ways to Get a Brand New Site Indexed

April 15th, 2008

Gary Huynh

It’s general knowledge in SEO circles that in order to get your website indexed, you need a backlink from a site that is crawled frequently by the search engine spiders.

Here are 5 sites which I have used to get indexed quickly.

1.) Craislist.org

Post an ad in one of the major cities such as San Francisco and Chicago. To get a link in your even if your ad doesn’t call for a link, you have to get creative. Use an image link and link to a 1×1 pixel image on your site. Make sure to set the image border to ‘0′ so that it doesn’t create a blue border around your image link.

Here’s a sample code for you to use:

2.) Technorati.com

If you have a blog you can create an account here and submit your blog.

3.) Ezinearticles.com

Write an article and submit it here.

4.) Socal Bookmarking

Sign up for various social bookmarking sites and go to onlywire.com to submit your site in one swoop.

5.) Submit a press release to Webwire.com

It costs $20 but it’s worth it for creating additional buzz for your site.

You only need to use one of the above methods so take your pick.

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