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Understanding Your Niche Market For Increased Profits

One of my passions, as an Internet marketer, is to help other Internet marketers find the success that they are looking for. You can only imagine how much it “pains” me to see people marketing out of desperation trying to make a dollar online. There are times when I just have to shake my head. I see people wasting countless hours doing the wrong thing when they could be doing the right thing, saving a ton of time and making great money.

Right now I’m working diligently to get my message out to people because there are changes coming to the way that searches are conducted online and there’s an open window for people to take advantage of positions that haven’t been attainable, in the search listings, by most since the appearance of Google online.

I’m going to be brutally honest with you here about many things in this blog post. The way I see it, you are going to respect my honesty or you’re going to hate me for waking you up to truth about this industry. People need to understand what this really takes. I’m tired of seeing good people get hurt because they take short cuts. The quickest short cut to making great money online is to do things right.

1.) If you are not utilizing and e-mail marketing resource/marketing system to build your business, you will fail. Those of you who are just blasting away at the safe lists and traffic exchanges, hoping for a sale or two are doing things completely wrong. You are not going to become a successful Internet marketer without a marketing system in place. You need quality incentives to attract traffic and you need an auto responder, set up correctly, to build trust with your list, provide value and drive sales.

If you don’t have this, you need to get it. If you don’t have the money for it, borrow it, host a car wash, have a garage sale, do whatever you need to do to GET THE MONEY you need to build and operate a proper marketing system. It takes money to be in business online and if you don’t have money to invest in your business, you don’t have a business, you have an idea.

2.) You need a basic, working understanding and knowledge of both business and marketing. Joining a business opportunity and blasting an ad to safe lists is not good business and it’s certainly not good marketing. Spamming message boards on social networks is not marketing, it’s just rude. Good marketing leads with an incentive, a sample, a quality freebie that people are going to get their hands on, learn something, apply what they’ve learned, see it work and be so stinkin’ impressed that they come RUNNING back to you for more. That’s marketing!

Marketing requires an understanding of your target market. Your niche is a combination of your target market and your passion to embark on a journey to be successful in business by supplying your target market with the elements they need to accomplish something in life. If you are not targeting your niche then you are losing money. Blasting ads at other Internet marketers isn’t marketing, it’s ridiculous and it’s imposing your will upon the mind and heart of another without ANY consideration for their well being. “Marketing is the art and science of empowering and communicating with another human being based on their wants and needs, not mine or yours.”

3.) You need traffic and lots of it. That traffic, however, needs to be niche specific traffic. If you are not driving niche specific traffic then you are only hurting your business. There’s no sense in building a mailing list full of hockey players when you’re niche is Tennis. I can have 50,000 hockey players on my list, and I might even find a few that play tennis too, but business is going to BOOM when my list is full of tennis players!

4.) You MUST understand the Law of Attraction if you are going to attract wealth and abundance. I see hundreds of marketers out there talking about “attraction marketing” but most of them don’t have the first clue as to the spiritual side of the phenomena. Waving money at people and sitting in fancy cars is not what the Law of Attraction is about. Yes, that might attract some people, but even the gurus will tell you that no matter how many people that attracts, only about 3 in every 100 will ever reach that level, so you better learn the right way to do things if you want to achieve those levels of success.

When I first started this blog, I wrapped it up four days later. After 35 pages worth of, what I believe, is some of the best, straight forward “how to” information concerning niche marketing online, I decided to put it into .pdf format and just distribute the rest of it as an e-book. It’s free, it’s already getting HUGE reviews and it’s brand spanking new.

You can get your copy here…

http://www.tweetmyniche.com

Cheers!

Rex

GREED is a killer, will people ever learn?

I woke up today to find an article, and a Twitter feed, loaded with outrage against the company known as AIG, and with good reason. Seems the insurance giants thought it’s best use of the bailout money was to pay executives $450 million of it.

The economy is in the toilet right now because of GREED. Decades of one group “trying to keep up with the Jones’s” is costing others their jobs, their homes, their cars, their security… everything that makes up their LIFE!

There is a simple solution to all of this, and when people decide to wake up and utilize the laws of the Universe the way they were intended to be used, they will see a change for the better in their lives. If people want change, they want prosperity and they want freedom, then they must first GIVE! The Bible teaches it, The Master Key System teaches it, Napolean Hill taught it in “Think and Grow Rich.” You must first give if you ever plan to receive anything that isn’t going to whither away with the dust of time.

Two references from the Bible that come to mind… “Give and it shall be given unto you” and from both the Bible and The Master Key System “See first the kingdom.”

While I realize that this seems “over-simplistic”, for those who chose to embrace the law of reciprocity… it works! One of the fastest ways to overcome financial whoa is to give. I deal with upstart Internet marketers and home business owners who turn to the Internet to supplement income. The number of people doing this now, are especially high, because of the economic melt down so many are experiencing.

The consistency I find in those (turning to the Internet, network marketing, etc) I talk to is desperation. Those operating in desperation are not going to be prone to give. Most think “I can’t give unless I first receive,” which is not the truth. Even those with little money or material possession have something to give. Time, knowledge, love… all commodities that can be given to start the chain of events that bring about reciprocity.

Now I’m not just jumping on an unpopular podium here to stir the pot of confusion already boiling throughout the world today, I’m speaking from experience. I’m speaking as a person who has been down the road of greed and self indulgence. I’ve done the things that ruin credit, I’ve bought the things I couldn’t afford, I’ve tried to live a life I couldn’t sustain, and I failed. The ONLY thing that I ever found that would take me from the bottom to the top again was to put self last and GIVE.

Even when it has worked, in times past, I’ve started to rely on self again and found myself in the same boat. That’s the amazing thing about God and the laws of the Universe, as long as you can still draw breath, you can turn away from the wrong ways of living to turn toward what’s right. Fortunately, through grace and the gift of wisdom, the more I learn, the more I realize that GIVING and THINKING are the keys that unlock the KINGDOM and open the doors of understanding the THE SECRET.

Those who apply this WILL see change. The only way this will fail is if you quit.

For those interested in taking steps to make the changes necessary to bring FREEDOM, here is a list to online resources that will help you learn how.

1.) Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill

2.) The Master Key System by Charles Haanel

Also recommended are “You” and “Mental Chemistry” by Charles Haanel which are available through the same site as above. Click here for main index.

Video and Information, a lethal combination by Rex Harris

I’m rarely surprised by the “information” I find online these days. Thank God my ISP doesn’t force me to use their spam filter. I would’ve missed an awesome email today had I not taken the time to scan my inbox. Much of the information I have used to do what I do online hasn’t cost me a dime.

I was talking with one of my marketing pals yesterday and he was saying the same thing. The times we have made the most money online came when we worked together and sold something that WE had created; something that “SHOWED” the reader “HOW TO” do something that would allow them to achieve something that they were unable to do before.

I love it when I hear internet marketers proclaiming that e-books are dead. Anyone who believes that (and I say this in as kind a manner as I can) needs to have their head examined.

I feel for the thousands and thousands of Internet marketers who actually believe that they are going to make it in MLM or affiliate marketing. It’s really unfortunate that so many people get sucked into that vortex of lies every year. Now before you flame my comment board, I’m not calling MLM a scam or affiliate marketing a waste of time. We all know that making big money in MLM doesn’t happen for many people.

It’s not the legitimacy of the companies that I question, it’s the marketers who don’t understand the damage they are doing when they promote something to someone who isn’t suited for their opportunity. Marketing online has become so desperate that people don’t care who they sign up into what. There is no thought going into what they are doing. They think that the key is to sign up anyone, anytime, keep them on autoship and life is good. That is a myth… MLM doesn’t work like that.

What people don’t realize is that making money online, and in large volume, is considerably more simple than stressing yourself out over an business opportunity. If you think about that term by itself (business opportunity), it’s indefinitive… a maybe. It’s an”opportunity” to be successful in business selling the products of someone else. It’s a term that even creates “doubt” in the mind of most people.

That being said, there is a huge demand for information in this world and most Internet marketers and upstart home business prospects overlook this. If you know how to do something that will be the benefit of others, you have something people will buy!

It is much easier to be passionate about a product that you have created to sell versus selling something someone else has created. The exception exists for those using products that have had a profound impact on their lives, but even then, the numbers don’t lend themselves to wealth because most people are targeting their prospective market correctly. Most people don’t understand how to use keyword selection and blogs to create information concerning the BENEFITS of their product to reach a specific audience. Thus, they waste countless hours advertising a business opportunity to people who already have one.

During the great gold rushes of the past there were two groups of people that made a ton of money and found their fortune. The one group consisted of the miners and prospectors who pursued the gold. Yes, there are some that found their fortune, but most didn’t find much, if anything at all. Many even died trying. But those who were selling the tools to the miners… they found their fortune. Didn’t matter whether the people who bought their tools found gold or not… everyone bought them, because the NEEDED them… think about that.

Now, combine the information above with the ability to reach people through video online and you have the formula for a business that will put you into profit when it’s advertised correctly. Video is a powerful medium and, if it’s use the right way, it will generate traffic and sales like crazy. It’s only a matter of time now before people will be accessing YouTube right through their TV sets. Imagine the impact of that upon your business when you have an information product that carries a high demand.

If you have been struggling with MLM, affiliate marketing or programs that haven’t delivered, then maybe it’s time to consider what I’m saying here and start earning what you’re worth.

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