Niche Marketing – Biggest Internet Marketing myth.
How many times you’ve read in articles, ebooks or listened to some video and some marketer is saying “All you need is to find a niche and that’s all it takes to get rich on internet”.
All you need is a niche.
This has been one of my pet peeves about internet marketers approach. Especially after frank kern/ed dale’s underachiever method, everyone was trying to make their dogs and parrots sings.
The problem with this advice is that Internet does give you with an ability to target thousands of niches. But to try and find out if they are profitable will take consume lots of your time and money. And the worse part is, you don’t know how niche, your niche should be to be profitable?.
I know the idea of having 15 websites making $300–$500 per month sounds lucrative and effortless (sheesh how much marketing it needs to do to get that much money, I bet not much). It’s not.
And trust me, if you think handling 15–20 niche markets is easy? You have no idea.
Gary Halbert told me a better approach.
As you know Late gary halbert has way with words (Read his newsletter archive, it’s goldmine better than few of those $997 products put together). He talked about “Hungry market”. He said, “If I have a burger store, I am not going to try for the biggest, baddest, tastiest burger. No sir, I am going to want a bunch of hungry people who just wants a burger RIGHT NOW”.
In fact this approach is one that’ll make you most money. Find a herd of people who are hungry and put your burger mobile in front of them and charge money. There’s never been a better money making forumla told.
Find something that people want and charge for it.
Competition worry – Now in this situation, quite a few smart marketer will be using same approach (same ones who told you to find obscure niche for yourself). There’ll be competition. And I say “YAY” to that… With competition, you’ll learn faster. Either you’ll shape up or ship out. Simple.
I used to be worry myself sick with the competition. It never helped me. I could never market myself with more gusto. Worrying about it made me more worried. When I said, hell to all competitors and challenged them head on… I started making money… and fast too.
I always believed in “Push people in the water, they learn to swim faster” approach.
So What to do now?
Make a list of things you know and talk about to people. Includes your habits and other stuff. Chose 2–3 different topics and see how people are making money in those markets. (Check monthly magazines, websites with products etc). Jump into the water and learn to swim.
Oh… Don’t give up. Trust me, each failure will bring you so closer to your goal.
Do you really need mass article submitters?
One of the quite common question that my subscribers ask me is “Which article submitter you use?”
Often my response is “Do you really need mass article submitters?”
With so many article submitters out there and promises of tons of free traffic, people do get lured in and wonder about this.
Personally I don’t use any of the paid softwares to do article submitting.
Here’s why –
1. Every article directory needs to be signed up and logged in to submit articles.
2. Almost all the good submitters are what you call semi-automatic. You have to sit through the process of submission.
If I am going to do it manually then what’s the reason of using submitters?
Oh… I remember…
it’s those 457 article directories plus 576 ezine directories that those submitters got access to …. Right?
Frankly speaking you are better off using few of the top directories like www.goarticles.com, www.ezinearticles.com etc.
BUT I still want to mass spam article directories. Can you please tell me which is the best?
Like I said, I don’t use any of the article submitters but I use Firefox to submit my articles.
No, I am not kidding at all… Here’s how you can use it.
Create a new bookmark section in firefox bookmarks with all the logins. and Use “Open All in Tabs”.
See? If you have a list of 100 directories… all you need to do is create 10 “Article submit” bookmark folders to easily handle the list.
Sorry for not updating for last few days…
I have been trying to update this blog as frequently as possible in 2008. But for last week or so I couldn’t. My father got into small accident and had to undergo a simple surgery. Though surgery was minor but I just couldn’t get myself to write. Well now everything is the way it should be so I am here updating my blog again.
Well, To start off this blog again, I am starting “Traffic Tactics 7″ where I’ll share tactics/ strategies to build traffic for next 7 days. That means one tactic per day. I’ll be post today’s tactic later in the evening (I am working on it). If you want to build traffic to your website. You better keep your eyes on next 7 days on this blog.
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