One thing that I love doing is finding specific programs or products to promote directly, by targeting search engine results for related search terms, such as the name of the product, keywords people would search for to find the product, and anything else that you feel people would find relevant. I had another topic in mind for a blog post and then just before I was about to write it I did a Google search to find a glaring gap in competition for marketing a product that I use myself and many of you do as well.
Unfortunately I am not nice enough to tell you which product I am talking about, but this got me thinking and I looked up related products and all of the products for which I did searches seemed to have a similar lack of competition. This is why Google can be your friend, if you are always on the lookout for an opportunity, you can find a great cash source. A similar thing happened to me last February when I had purchased a product then realized how horribly it was marketed and how the name of the product itself had 0 competition. So, using this knowledge I spent 5 minutes to sign up for their affiliate program, 7-8 minutes to create a Squidoo lens, and then 30 minutes building backlinks for it. That same Squidoo lens now makes me $275 monthly on average.
Finding things to promote shouldn’t be that hard, simply look for things that you would find useful yourself. The yardstick is “Would I buy this product myself?”, and if the answer is yes and they have an affiliate product, you have nothing to lose by promoting it. If in doubt, start small and create a quick Squidoo lens and see how much traffic you get out of it.
I’m pretty excited now, because I see a very large market which has yet to be exploited considering the amount of money that marketers spend on these 3 products, I can say I personally spend about $300 a year for it myself, and no, it is not web hosting. I’ll probably create a website for it later on this month, and once I do I’ll be sure to post my progress with it. As an internet marketer that resides mostly within the internet marketing niche, there is always a bigger and better thing to promote, and the same applies to any other niche.
Always think of ways to expand your business and take opportunities when they present themselves, and when you are working on your websites, simply think “If I was hiring somebody, what would I have them do for my websites at this time?” and go by that decision.
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