Posts Tagged ‘Niche’

You’ve labored over your opt-in form, you created an offer that has value, and now you need to drive traffic there to see it. I know this sounds obvious, but the best offer means nothing if no one is stopping by to see it.

Using only one method to drive traffic to your opt-in page probably won’t get the job done. There are many different ways to bring people to your site that you should utilize as many as you possibly can. Using a variety of them will help you achieve the best results. Here are some of the most popular ones to help get you get started.

• Link to Related Posts – Travel the internet and collect links to post related to yours. Gather them all in one post and submit it to article directories. Don’t forget to link to the articles on your site and add commentary. It is always more valuable for your readers when you share comments. Share the link to your post with the people you’ve linked to as a courtesy.

• Guest Posts – Writing a guest post on a complementary blog is a good way to get your name out there. Everyone is always looking for fresh content. Especially, if it’s good quality and they don’t have to write it. These sites are easy to locate by doing a search or you can simply email your competing site owners and make the offer to write a post. The resource box with a link back to your site at the end is your reward for your hard work. Build those backlinks baby!

• Guru Interviews – Guru Interviews are a good way to expose your site to a lot of people who haven’t been there yet. New venues to share your information such as teleseminars, podcasts or email interviews can drive good targeted traffic from many people at one time.

• Contributors – Rather than having someone just write an occasional guest post, have them listed as a contributor. People love fresh content and a new person can give a new perspective on your niche and add substantial value for your readers. Again, the payoff for them is a link to their site in their resource box.

• Brandable Reports – A secret technique used by top internet marketers is to giveaway top quality information with links to their products. Once you develop products (or find affiliate products you can recommend) that have brandable reports as a marketing tool just give them away. Make sure they include your affiliate link (if it is an affiliate product) making the benefits two-fold. You have content for your readers and the possibility of making money through affiliate sales.

Your Goal – Discover what you market is looking for when they type in a word into Google and give it to them for free! This will drive a massive amount of traffic to your website and you will be well on your way to success.

Are you looking for a new domain name? Domain names are an important part of your websites success but it has always been very difficult to find a good name once you find a good niche.

I found a tool that solves that issue (or at the very least makes the searching a lot easier). It is the domain search feature at Domain Tools. At Domain Tools you can enter a keyword you are trying to find a name for and it will give you a list of site names that are available for .coms, .nets, .infos,.bizs, and more.

I use this to filter out everything but the .coms then focus my energy around finding an easy to remember name with a good keyword. I always use GoDaddy.com to register the names with the coupon code “diggnation”. this will give you a nice discount.

After you have done all you can to drive traffic to your site, the next step is offering a product that converts. It can be very disappointing to know that you’ve completed all your research and followed each and every step only to find that the hungry niche that your research has led you to aren’t buying as much as you expected. It may be time to reevaluate the vendor you’re promoting.

There could be several reasons why the product isn’t converting. The vendor may just not appeal to your audience. This happens, and it could be their voice or marketing strategy that just isn’t hitting the mark. Or sometimes the sales letter is bad, product feedback and reviews are bad, or the reputation is bad, etc.

Don’t take any of these reasons personally, just be wise enough to know if a certain product is not converting then change it out for something new. There are plenty of products out there so don’t fall in love with one product, it is all about the conversions and the money.

Searching out a competing vendor that offers a similar product with a better sales page is simple. There are plenty of products out there to choose from but several things you should review first to ensure you are making a good choice.

Before signing up for the affiliate program, review the sales copy to make sure you’re comfortable with their marketing tactics. Even though you are not writing the copy take the time to review it carefully. By making a small change, you can greatly increase your affiliate checks. It’s all about the details to convert your visitors into buyers. If a certain vendor can’t do it, then it’s time to look elsewhere.

You’ll notice that two of these tips have to do with testing and tweaking. It can be tricky turning browsers into buyers, and it’s a two part job between you and the vendor. Keep testing to figure out the right combination that works best. You will improve your commissions and your customer’s happiness. Be sure to also continue to improve your web traffic. Marketing your website and boosting your rankings by gaining backlinks is definitely the way to go.

With some effort and patience you’re sure to find a winning combination that will help you get the bigger affiliate checks you deserve. The money is out there, your job is to figure out how to get it on a consistent basis.

If you haven’t seen this duo yet, you must check them out! They bring fun back to work. As a matter of fact, besides their enormous success, their humor is one of the things that make them so appealing. They are just down right funny!

Enough of that, now to the update on their membership site Info Marketing Monthly. Anthony DeLoach is a partner in crime and submits a considerable amount of the content on Info Marketing Monthly. According to Anthony, he has made quite the sum of money through the use of email marketing and this is the latest topic for this membership site.

For email marketing to be successful you must track open rate and click through rate to make the most of your marketing efforts. Segmenting your list and sending the right message to the right audience could substantially raise the amount of people who open your emails and the amount who click on your links inside them.

There are three effective ways to segment your list:

1) Best subscribers – frequent purchasers. Make them feel special, special content, deals, etc

2) Click Happy List – consistently open your emails and click on your links.

3) The Covert survey List – find out more about them by giving them a choice of two links to click on. Example, if you are in the dog training niche, on email could reference potty training and the other could reference dog tricks. both refer to training but now you will have better info on what to send them to buy.

Guru tactics to get your emails opened: Use parenthesis (they work), Use the words “video” , “picture” or “pic”, Personalize the email with location specific mentions when appropriate, make a crazy statement with a ? is your dog crazy?, Use Buzz words (see Google), Use curiosity statements (do you know this girl?), Use choice in the title (spanking or no spanking (what works for me)…lol that should get your attention! resend the same unopened email with a different title.

So you got them to open the email, now how to make them click on the link: include a pic or video (make it click-able) with a link just below it. Be cool and be yourself, no corporate speak. Be short and to the point, the idea is to get them to click the link, not read a novel. Set expectations (look for my special email tomorrow as it contains a special ninja tactic.)

And…..the four magic words to increase your open rate……”sent from my iPhone”

How to Pick a Niche

It is important to pick a niche before you pick a product to promote as an affiliate or before you decide to create your own product. In this video we will show you how to research different niches and decide which are potentially profitable and which are not.

The four main resource we use to narrow down our product selections our ClickBank, Amazon, Ebay, and Google.

Recommended Resources: ClickBank, Amazon, eBay, Google