Finding Stuff to Sell Online: A Final Word
Now that we've looked at the best places to find something to sell - affiliate and network marketing programs - let's talk a little bit about the process.
If you've gone to some of the affiliate networks I've told you about, and looked over a few network marketing programs, one thing should be very clear to you: you have a LOT of choices.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of different products and services available for sale online in just about every category imaginable!
Many newbies immediately go out and join every affiliate program they can find, and sign up for free test drives of dozens of network marketing programs.
This is the WRONG way to go about it, and is going to waste a lot of your valuable time. You'll make a lot more money if you pick one small niche and concentrate on it. Choose an area that not everyone and their grandmother has a website on.
Internet marketing products are just about the WORST product newcomers could choose, simply because it is so overcrowded. Plus, there are lots of gurus with a lot more experience and name recognition selling those types of products.
You'll do a lot better in the smaller, less crowded niches. And you'll do better by choosing products and programs that are all in that niche, or related niches.
I see too many newcomers slapping up websites that are nothing more than a bunch of links to a bunch of affiliate programs that everyone is promoting. You've seen them - a page with the heading: "Here are the 10 best internet marketing products you should buy."
These sites are a total waste of time. You'll never get them indexed in Google, since there are many thousands of much better sites with actual content in the Internet Marketing Category. And much better salesmanship as well.
Don't even think about building a website until you've done some careful research and thinking about a niche that doesn't have a lot of competition.
Fortunately, I can point you to a terrific resource that will help you do just that - and save you a lot of research time. It's called Strike it Niche.
"Strike it Niche" will introduce you to 70+ high-profit, low-competition niche areas that you can consider building a whole business around.
And each of these 70 areas can be further sub-divided just about indefinitely. "Strike it Niche" will give you ALL the details of each one: affiliate programs to join, keywords to use in your advertising, and much more.
These are complete business-building blueprints that will save you hundreds of hours of research and brainstorming.
I have to admit - I often spend time looking for these little niches to build small mini-sites around. These are much easier to get traffic to, and to make money on, then the overcrowded internet marketing area. It's not hard to build a small mini-site around a niche, add a few pages of content, add a few well-placed affiliate links, and then put Google Adsense links on it. These kinds of small sites don't take a lot of time to build, and yet they can make $500+ per month in profits. Just a few of these sites can earn you a full-time income (more about mini-sites in a future lesson).
As I was saying, I'm always looking for undercrowded niche areas online. But I had never stumbled across the areas covered in this terrific book.
So if you are still scratching your head trying to come up with an online niche to build a business around - do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of "Strike it Niche." You'll be glad that you did!
Then get ready to learn the 6 best ways to SELL online, which is coming up next!
If you've gone to some of the affiliate networks I've told you about, and looked over a few network marketing programs, one thing should be very clear to you: you have a LOT of choices.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of different products and services available for sale online in just about every category imaginable!
Many newbies immediately go out and join every affiliate program they can find, and sign up for free test drives of dozens of network marketing programs.
This is the WRONG way to go about it, and is going to waste a lot of your valuable time. You'll make a lot more money if you pick one small niche and concentrate on it. Choose an area that not everyone and their grandmother has a website on.
Internet marketing products are just about the WORST product newcomers could choose, simply because it is so overcrowded. Plus, there are lots of gurus with a lot more experience and name recognition selling those types of products.
You'll do a lot better in the smaller, less crowded niches. And you'll do better by choosing products and programs that are all in that niche, or related niches.
I see too many newcomers slapping up websites that are nothing more than a bunch of links to a bunch of affiliate programs that everyone is promoting. You've seen them - a page with the heading: "Here are the 10 best internet marketing products you should buy."
These sites are a total waste of time. You'll never get them indexed in Google, since there are many thousands of much better sites with actual content in the Internet Marketing Category. And much better salesmanship as well.
Don't even think about building a website until you've done some careful research and thinking about a niche that doesn't have a lot of competition.
Fortunately, I can point you to a terrific resource that will help you do just that - and save you a lot of research time. It's called Strike it Niche.
"Strike it Niche" will introduce you to 70+ high-profit, low-competition niche areas that you can consider building a whole business around.
And each of these 70 areas can be further sub-divided just about indefinitely. "Strike it Niche" will give you ALL the details of each one: affiliate programs to join, keywords to use in your advertising, and much more.
These are complete business-building blueprints that will save you hundreds of hours of research and brainstorming.
I have to admit - I often spend time looking for these little niches to build small mini-sites around. These are much easier to get traffic to, and to make money on, then the overcrowded internet marketing area. It's not hard to build a small mini-site around a niche, add a few pages of content, add a few well-placed affiliate links, and then put Google Adsense links on it. These kinds of small sites don't take a lot of time to build, and yet they can make $500+ per month in profits. Just a few of these sites can earn you a full-time income (more about mini-sites in a future lesson).
As I was saying, I'm always looking for undercrowded niche areas online. But I had never stumbled across the areas covered in this terrific book.
So if you are still scratching your head trying to come up with an online niche to build a business around - do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of "Strike it Niche." You'll be glad that you did!
Then get ready to learn the 6 best ways to SELL online, which is coming up next!
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