Effective Niche Marketing for Home Based Business
This Post was written by Monika Mundell
As many of you already know by know, there is a lot of money in niches. But niche sites aren’t straight out niche sites. There is a slight distinction in regards to how a niche can be built and this post will touch on this a little more closely.
But before we go into this I’d like to look at why niche sites hold so much fascination with small home business owners. What gets us excited about building niche sites opposed to building a blog or a website?
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Getting Legitimate RSS Subscribers
It would seem someone is trying to tell me something about RSS of late. It started rather innocently in a discussion with Vic about his RSS count which by the way is at 954 at the moment. We discussed ways to increase it and I kind of left it that. I have never made a big push for RSS subscriptions since I launched this blog. Shortly after that conversation I was exposed to a post by Maki at Dosh Dosh who put his feed count on his site. Maki said “ My feed count was also deactivated until I reached 8000 subscribers, which means no one could discover how many subscribers” That was accomplished in about a year. What’s more impressive is that he didn’t use conventional methods of building his count.
Following the Leaders, Reaping the Rewards
It has been six months, give or take a day, since I started this blog. I have learned plenty.
I have made money. I have lost money, but, oh my I have learned. My goal was to establish an online business. I read compulsively, all the how to articles, e-books, and references I could put my hands and eyes on. I learned there are those to be trusted online and those to avoid. I learned there are those who proclaim to be leaders. I also learned the real leaders don’t have to tell people, they just are. If you are like me, you spend a portion of each day searching and reading other blogs. I have found out in the last six months some very important things about blog reading. It can waste time like nothing else, and is it not amazing how many blogs are out there touting this or that product or service? Perhaps, even more amazing, are the numbers of blogs all promoting the same products! I mean who do you listen to? Better yet, who do you ignore? If I have learned one thing in the last six months, it is that there is as much, if not more, garbage out there as there is quality sites and information. I remember in the early days visiting the so called A-Listers blogs and getting out of my chair to check my wallet as I clicked on to another site. Here are few leaders I follow.
The Times They are a Changin
I am noticing a trend recently that I think is interesting. There seems to be shift in momentum from the make money online niche. There is a reason for it. How many sites do we need to tell us how to make money online, generate traffic or sell us on the latest and greatest affiliate or widget guaranteed to make money . The answer for me is one is too many. Stop the madness , get off the train, jump ship, get the hell out Dodge, use whatever metaphor you like, but make a move, the times they are a changin.
Social Media and the Power of Giving
Did you shy away from the title of this post at first? No worries I am sure most people did. It is born in all of us. We are far better at taking and receiving than giving aren’t we? Now before you hit the back button, because you are thinking you are not that way, give it a few more minutes. It really is related to blogging. How many sites have you visited that busy receiving without regard to giving. Winston Churchill once said , We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Seems there are bunch of them who read the first part of Churchill’s statement and choose to ignore the rest. If you are not willing to give in the social media world, and everyone has that decision to make, don’t plan on receiving much.
So When Do You Make Money
I have had this post in draft form in my blog for several weeks now. When do you make money? When do we make money? I receive e-mails most every day about someone wanting to make money in sales with their blog or website, frankly it’s why I created this site and I love it. As a result the outline of this post has changed somewhat. I want to address something that seems to be a common concern, making money is sales.
Life is a Niche , Pick One !
I suppose today articles will be posted all over the blogosphere about choosing, determining, and researching the proper niche. While the ambitions of those are similar, results, can be dramatically different. I believe in my heart of hearts many will choose about making money online, why, because they do not trust the knowledge they possess themselves. Life is a niche isn’t it? Choose one , commit to one and then begin to cultivate one. The word niche is certainly catchy and is applied to all areas our lives. I love words, so as is my custom ,I dove into defining this word, and came up with these interpretations.
WordPress or Websites
Often times I am asked by someone wanting to set up an online site as their home based business, should I use Word Press or a website? First off know this. You can make money with both. The arguments for both are valid. Start with an evaluation of your own personality. Your answer is in there.
Blogger Unleashed Review
One of my hopes for this site is that it becomes a beacon for the truth and hope. That quote does not come from my site, but mirrors my ambition every time I sit down at my keyboard. It comes from Victor Franqui’s new site Blogger Unleashed. No he is not new; Vic is a self proclaimed former black hatter intent on bringing his readers valued content. My goodness his about page is one of the most entertaining you will ever read, his history, his present, and his plans for the future.
Content + Traffic + Pre-Sell = Monetize
Originally I had planned to make this series a 6 part post. I have decided to combine traffic and monetization into one. Why? Because you won’t have one without the other. Your online business, and niche, simply will not function as a business without them working in tandem.
If you were opening a restaurant or retail store of some sort, your first priority would be location, location, location. When you start your online business, for the first time in your business life you will be at least the start, on equal footing with everyone else. The Internet.
A Guide to Becoming an Infopreneur, Part 3
We have all heard the old adage you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. The look and feel of you site is very comparable. Selecting a theme for you blog with a look and feel your visitors will like is your next challenge. Making a selection that is functional, pleasing to the human eye and makes navigation throughout the site easy cannot be overlooked. Often times we will choose what we like and not what is good for us. Have you ever been faced with that kind of choice?
That First Impression
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