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Income Report for August 2010, Niche Profit Course and ReviewAzon

Larry C. — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:39 +0000

I’ve been rather busy lately, putting out some niche sites, because it’s the Holiday Season and people are Buying like crazy! Great time to have an amazon powered Niche Site, pulling in sale after sale. I also recently listened to a great podcast over at Smart Passive Income with Chris Guthrie, Author of Niche Profit Course.

You can read how Chris got his start at making money online at his site www.makemoneyontheinternet.com. He posted one little video he made about the game called HALO, and having it go viral. Pretty cool story.

I downloaded his Free Guide, and then ended up getting his complete course which is basically his free guide and then a bunch of videos going over each step, but then some secrets to making large sales and continued sales. This is a great product which to me is worth the money I spent on it.

He also recommends using the plugin-in called ReviewAzon, which I also bought and have been using ever since. I can’t tell you how much time the plug-in has saved me when doing my niche sites. What used to take meat least an hour to post 2-3 posts about products for the Amazon Affiliate program, now takes me minutes to post twice as many. What a time saver, AND it posts a nice looking post with images and user reviews that are pulled directly from Amazon and shown in the Amazon fashion. If you’re going to be doing Amazon Associate review sites, you need ReviewAzon.

This plug-in saves me time, money and enables me to put up several sites a day if I needed too, which I have last week, in a record time. It posts great professional looking posts which give people a nice feeling when they see the posts. Amazon has brand recognition and people trust Amazon, so when you start posting professional looking posts associated with Amazon.com, the sales come in even faster.

The links above for the products are affiliate links which, when you use them to buy, help to support this blog, and my family, as I get a commission. Thanks for your continued support!

Now on to the income report for August. I know it’s a bit behind, but I’ve been very busy with my newborn girl, and making affiliate sites, as well as blogging on here more often and now doing a podcast. This report shows -72.04, less than July’s Income Report, but still 2168.72, for the month of August. Still not totally the amount I need to be fully self sustaining, but getting there. The next few months you’re going to see a big jump in Amazon sales and Google Adsense income.

Finally, here’s August’s income report:

Amazon – 139.74

Dating Sites – 504.09

eBook Sales(Mine) – 47.82

Affiliate Sales – 223.22

Clickbank Sales – 53.20

Text Link Ads – 47.15

Google – 363.50

Side Jobs (Hosting, WordPress Installs) – 790.00

Total August – $2168.72

Last month (July) – $2240.76

Difference of $-72.04

August 2010 Income report

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Micro Niche Site Challenge – Part 3

Larry C. — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:30:56 +0000

Ranking the Niche Site Website in Google

I was pleasantly surprised to find today, that my site is on page 2 of Google SERPs, at #16, after starting out as not ranking at all, then on page 28 at #286 last friday. This is how I do my indexing strategy for this site.

Step 1

I installed WordPress and all of the plug ins that I was going to use for the site. I also started to modify the site to make it look a little different and to what I wanted. I make a custom header image, which I may still change once I can get my busy Graphic Artist Wife on board(Unless someone want’s to get pimped out with a design and a mention).

Step 2

I wrote 3 posts optimized for the key words I was going for, primary Russian Kettlebell Training. I added the header tags for the 3 main search engine sites and authenticated it with them, and added sitemaps.

Step 3

Bookmarking with Facebook, and Twitter to get some initial traffic, and some people even retweeted and passed the link on. I also did some social bookmarking with Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. Having done that I was confidant that the site would be indexed pretty fast with Google.

Step 4

Added more content including a cool video of a Russian Girl juggling the kettlebells, which got a lot of traffic for the content itself. It was also getting traffic through YouTube for the video. All total was added were 7 articles, and that’s where it stands today so far.

step 5

I received my content from the article writers I use, and I’ve added a couple articles to Ezine Articles, and 1 to GoArticles.com. So far no traffic from them as they were added yesterday. I expect a couple days to be added and indexed. I also was granted Expert Author Status with EzineArticles.com finally, for all the articles I’ve written and published with them. I’m adding a couple articles a day for the next week, to let the articles be approved and added over teh course of a couple weeks. I don’t want to blast the internet with links all of a sudden, I want to do link generation slowly and naturally.

Searching for Validation

So Friday when I was looking for my site in Google SERPs, I noticed a post about Kettlebells on worldsstrongestlibrarian.com, a blog I recognized from a podcast interview by Yaro Starak. The Blog belongs to Josh Hanagarne, or The Worlds Strongest Librarian. I thought I would drop by and read some and decided to post a comment and talk about the site I was building, and just make myself known.

A few days later I was looking for my site again and saw Josh’s site on page two with the link to my site in the description, which means Google indexed that new comment with my link in it, and while it is a no follow link, it may still have some credence. I continued to look for my site and found it on page #28, at #286 position in Google’s SERPs.

Moving up in Google’s SERPs

Yesterday I looked an was happy to see I’ve moved up in position to page #2, at the 16th position. Today I checked again and sure enough I was still there ranking for Russian Kettlebell Training, I also have a counter on the site and saw that I ranked for kettlebell pelvic alignment. For that phrase I was on page 2 of Google, and at position #14. So that’s 2 phrases so far I am ranking for, and will most likely be ranking for more phrases shortly.

Adding more content and Backlinks

I’ve been using Market Samurai to find articles that I can re-write for content on the niche site, and that’s been working quite well. I also use Micro Niche Finder for my keywords, as I am not totally versed yet in the ways of Market Samurai. So I will add more content in the way of posts and videos at a rate of about 1-2 posts every other day. I’ll be building more backlinks with article directory submissions, and I’ll go spy on Pat Flynn’s Micro Niche Site on Security Guard Training, and find out where and how he’s getting backlinks.

I am confident that I will be doing quite well as my site is already on page two of Google, I just need to widen the number of keywords it is ranked for, preferably keywords like Kettlebell Exercises, Kettlebell Routines, Kettlebell Workouts, etc.

Adding Adsense

I’ve already got affiliate links and banners on the site, but I think I will be putting Google AdSense on there as well, but I am going to wait. I am doing a heatmap on one of my other sites to see where people are clicking. I am going to use this data to decide how and where to put AdSense or other affiliate banners.

All in All, I am happy with where things are going with this site so far. I haven’t really done much at all, but I think the way to making a great niche site is to first research your market, and the niche being looked at. While there is a flood of Kettlebell sites out there, I am positive I will still rank well for several keywords and make a decent amount of cash, as well as getting healthy from the workouts I am doing with the kettlebells.

Added Keywords Since the Writing of this:

russian kettlebell exercises

Micor Niche Website Ranking in Google

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Micro Niche Site Challenge – Part 1

Larry C. — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:55:53 +0000

I was on facebook a while back and saw Tyrone Shum Challenge Pat Flynn to a niche site duel and I had to get a piece of that action. I’ve been doing micro niche marketing sites for almost a year now and think I have a little bit of a head start on it than those two guys. So we shall see.

The only rule is you can’t use any sort of paid traffic techniques.

So I went over to the Niche Duel Hub to see what’s up and saw that a few more people have join the challenge as well and will be good to see how each of them do with their way of doing things. One guy is using one of my favorite WordPress themes for niche sites, for his niche site: StudioPress.com. Another person is doing a Niche Profit Press site, which personally I had no luck with but best of luck to him, maybe I just wasn’t doing it right? Another guy is doing a Google Sniper type site, whatever that is, I’ll have to look it up.

Style of Site

Me, I’m going to use a news type WordPress theme I think, and I’m going to be using youtube videos I find on YouTube. I’m also going to be writing much of the content, and maybe even doing the program too as I NEED to lose about 40lbs.

The Topic and The Domain

My topic will be in the Health and fitness, and on the edge of the weight loss niche.

Russian Kettlebells

I’ve already bought a domain months ago, as I am always looking for micro niche site ideas, and saw something that I think is somewhat hot in many areas of the country, Kettlebell Training. I was at the gym one day and noticed these odd looking things that looked like cannonballs with handles, and was curious, so I asked one of the trainers what that thing was he was throwing around. He said it was a Russian Kettlebell(see video at end of post). He said it’s the latest, hottest exercise thing, so I wrote the name down in my pad I carry with me day to day. I did some research and decided on the domain and bought: www.russiankettlebelltraining.com. It’s not up yet but it will be in a day or so. Remember, we’ve just had another baby so we are a little swamped around here.

Traffic Strategy

I will probably outsource some of the article writing I am going to use for article directory back linking, but for most of the on-site articles I will spin those myself somehow. I might give the spinners Pat Flynn Suggested, as I hate writing content sometimes. To be honest with you, I hate doing niche site that I have no real interest in the topic. Therefore, I try to have some interest int he niche sites I build otherwise I will just find ways to NOT work on the site.

I also think that my domain will receive a lot of traffic due to the keywords in the domain name. For my keyword research I use Micro Niche Finder to look up my keyword phrases and amount of competition, and number of exact match phrases out in the “wild”. It says that the term KettleBell Training would not be a good choice for a domain, because of the overwhelming numbers in exact match phrases and Strength of Competition. Micro Niche Finder will literally give a green light or a red light if the numbers are or aren’t right.

See here:

Kettlebell Training

For KettleBell Training, the numbers are way wrong to try to rank for this set of words. However I really like a challenge and when there’s a domain name for sale that is close to the keywords I grab it anyway, sometimes you can rank a domain for a set of keywords even if there’s a lot of competition. So I also bought kettlebelltrainingHQ.com.

As you can see in the image above kettlebell training has a huge red light. Sure there’s 22,200 monthly searches but there’s also 188,000 exact phrase matches, that you would be competing with for ranking. Then there’s also the SOC(strength of competition) of 4,620, which are keyword anchors in articles, URLs and titles. So yeah, NO. But like I said the domain name of kettlebelltrainingHQ.com was available so I took it anyway. I’ll let you know how I do with that huge competition.

In this following image you’ll see the numbers are super low, including for the monthly searches:

Russian Kettlebell Training

There’s only 590 monthly searches, but the exact phrase count is 7,950 with an SOC of only 22, a big green light for go. I think that I will be able to get more traffic with this one as there will be plenty of long tail keywords, not to mention just the fact that Kettlebell training is in the URL, and the exercise is of Russian Origin.

Monetization Strategy

I plan on doing a mix of monetization strategies, from affiliate sales of equipment, to Amazon sales, to Google AdSense. I have an affiliate account with the largest distributor of Kettlebell equipment, books and DVDs, in the US so I should have no problem making some sales for the top rated Kettlebell DVDs, Books and Kettlebells themselves.

Content

Like i said previously, I’m going to use the free youtube videos I find on YouTube.Com along with articles I write from stuff I read and learn about. I will also have my article writer writing some articles for me as I have so much on my plate I need to outsource some of this. hose articles will go to the article directories on the net, to help build backlinks as well.

Backlinks

To get backlinks I’ll be comment marketing, article marketing and forums. I hate going into forums and just posting crap and adding links or signatures, so instead of spamming the forums I will honestly be trying to learn some about this whole Kettlebell Training, so I can use what I learn to make money AND Lose Weight. I might even post a before and then an after shot. (yikes!) This whole pregnancy and sympathy weight phenomenon has afforded me a nice belly that I need to lose.

Flipping the finished site

After I have built the site and have gotten the traffic going fairly well, I might hold onto it and let it continue to generate passive income, or I might flip the website on Flippa, and make some fast extra cash. Not sure yet but that was a thought I had for a large chuck all at once.

I think this is a great idea, Pat and Tyrone, as there’s a lot of people watching and we will all be winners when we reap the benefits of the shared experience and knowledge we will all gain from learning from each other.We will also walk away with some new networking friends.

Kudos to you guys for this cool idea.

The others in the challenge are:

Mark from Masonworld.com

Mike from MikeZiarko.com

Patrick from MakeMoneyBuzz.com

Katie from AwesomebyNature

Spencer from NicheAdsenseChallenge.com

Shane from DropShippingPlanet.com

Mark from WealthyAffiliateRevoluation.com

Beth from BethStowers.com

KettleBell Video:

Death Valley Dunes, July 2001, 115 degrees in the shade

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The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz – Book Review

Larry C. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:20:17 +0000

After reading the 4 Hour Work Week I decided to check into the other books he put in the “Restricted Reading” section. The restricted reading is going on a low information diet to help quiet the head and make life a little more sane. I have indulged in some of his advices such as limiting checking my email to 2 times a day and have found that it gives me more time, less stress and I am more relaxed throughout the day now too. Not constantly thinking about email and hitting the pelletized cocaine retrieval button 80 times a day, I have more time to do more important things with my time. Like spending more time with my daughter walking around the neighborhood, or working on other Niche Sites I am developing like RockabillyLifestyle.Com, which I probably have to much crap on right now, which is in itself another story.

The Magic of thinking big by David Schwartz, is the book I decided to start reading, and goes into some theory that I have always thought to be true before I read the book, and that is you can change a persons day, attitude or demeanor, with an expression of kindness, or treating them as “Important”, and not just another person to step on.

It’s not just about someone else though, it’s all about You. Your actions, the way you think, the way you treat other people and how you react to others and certain situations. It’s geared to help you become bigger than what you are now, a better person, and help you to succeed in what you do in all aspects of your life not just your jobs or financial goals. True it is about learning to be successful and succeeding, but it’s got a bigger broader picture. It goes through a whole range of thinking practices and misinformation’s.

A few examples are:

* Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
* Cure Yourself of the Fear of Failure
* Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
* Think and Dream Creatively
* You Are What You Think You Are
* Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
* Learn How to Think Positively
* Turn Defeat into Victory
* Use Goals to Help You Grow
* Think Like a Leader

Whenever I am about to talk to someone I now pause and mentally think about what I am going to say to them. I try to stay on the positive side of things and this is one huge thing I was happy he covered. When you have to approach someone about the job they are doing, and it may not be so good, it gives examples how to approach it and keep it positive while also addressing the situation at hand.

Success is not so much about how big you are or how big your company is, it’s about how big your thinking is, and how it makes others feel. It focuses on and retrains your mind to get out of the mind trappings of daily life and think big, bigger than you used to.

The book, first published in 1965, is still a classic and currently read by many people and has practical advice and guides for today’s world. Those reading this currently are big time CEO’s, life coaches, and many other successful professionals. If you get the audio book, just be prepared as the author is part of the narrative and sounds a little dated, but it’s still an excellent listen. I highly recommend The Magic of thinking big by David Schwartz.

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Killing me with Kindness – For a Better World

Larry C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:20:37 +0000

Killing me with Kindness – For a Better World

One of the blogs I follow is http://www.thrillingheroics.com, because I like what this guy is doing. Sure he’s traveling the world and living the good life of an entrepreneur, but he’s also stopping at orphanages around Bangkok and Thailand and helping them. There’s one post I was just reading and watched the video here, “My Secret Recipe for 100% Guaranteed Happiness”. I couldn’t stop balling my eyes out and wanting to hold my daughter and never let her go. The feelings that well up inside me make me want to get this whole thing right, that much more. This whole Entrepreneur thing and living a better life to help others live a better life too. Damn this tears my heart out.

I know I can still help others live a better life now, but I want to make more of a difference than I can at the moment. I would love to be able to donate lot’s of money to specific organizations and charities to help little children like those. The smiles on faces and lights in the eyes are what make me live. My life changed when my daughter was born, for the better, no, for the best, it’s ever been. I see things in a whole different light, both scary and happy. Scary because I never want her to go through the shit I went through, and happy because I know she will have the best I can give her. Always.

I’ve lived in the streets, turned my life around and recovered from drug addiction, and when I was unemployable I put myself through tech school to make a better life for myself. I am not proud of where I have come from but it has made me what I am today. That is a matter of controversy to some but I say I am on the road to being the best person I can be. I am an up standing father to the most precious little girl and boy friend to a beautiful woman who stands by my side. What more could I ask for?

A better earth.

I’m for a better earth.

A place where people don’t kill themselves over religion, where people don’t have children needlessly and then abuse or abandon them, where things are better than they are now.

It all starts with one person, it starts with me, now.

What are YOU going to do for this world? ANSWER ME THAT!

I fear for my daughters world. Monsanto, the huge GMO conglomerate of a cluster fuck company. Makers of Agent Orange, Roundup Weedkiller and other deadly chemicals. The people who fund mass corruption. The patent holders of a life organism, as well as other corrupt people, places and ideals. If we don’t change things NOW, we’re going to be up shit’s creek without a paddle. I’m serious, why do you think people are speaking out about global warming and other changes in climate? It’s not just their imagination. It’s real. I can tell you my parents who live in D.C. where is used to snow more have not experienced snow fall like they used to 25 years ago, it’s much less due to global warming.

Have you noticed there’s not many protests except those protesting abortion and such? The passionately angry? The people who are not going to stand for any more of whatever they believe in? It sickens me when people complain about where the world is heading and then tell me they didn’t vote, or didn’t do something that could have changed the outcome results of a poll or decision. Go fuck Yourself, if you bitch and complain about something but didn’t do something that could have changed things, IT’S YOUR FAULT ALONE. Fucking Tard.

Passionately Angry, yeah that’s me. It bothers me to see protests for things that people don’t really understand. It bothers me to see no one protesting things they do understand and do nothing about. If you are sick and tired of the way things are, then do something about it. Stand for something or fall for anything. Go to Jail for it. Be a hero. Do something for the good of humanity.

I’ve been reading and listening to Timothy Ferris’ The 4-Hour Workweek book and audio, and am impressed beyond belief at how simple he makes it sound. I really like the audio book best and the book as a reference companion. I usually take the audio with me to the gym and on the road when I am driving. It’s funny when I’m at the gym, and I start busting out laughing and all heads turn and I remember where I am. Oh yeah, I’m at the gym. It’s that funny.

I’m implementing a lot of what Ferris talks about in his book. From getting a VA(Virtual Assistant) to answering calls only at 2 time periods per day, to responding to emails only at 2 time periods per day too. I’m doing this to free up needed time to enjoy whats really important to me. My Daughter.

I don’t have a steady 9-5 job, I don’t want one and nor have I had one in over 5 years of being laid of from my last employer. I will never go back and work for “The Man” ever again. If I can help it, and I’ve done pretty good so far. I prefer to get up at 8am or earlier and have my tea, stretch and get a cheese danish from the local coffee shop. THEN come home, check email and start my days proceedings.

Which brings to mind another thought I had yesterday while standing on the corner trying not to get hit by all the mad people rushing to work, while putting mascara on in the mirror and trying to drive to make the almighty buck. Yeah that life just isn’t for me anymore. The mascara part I mean, no really the driving to work for a 9-5′er and being tied to someone else’ money making venture. I stood there and realized just how lucky, maybe not lucky but how good I have it.

I’m standing there, cheese danish in hand for my 8 weeks pregnant(Again ) girlfriend, who is having the weird cravings thing, watching the line of frantic people driving off to work. Standing there wondering if I’m going to be able to cross the street, because no one is stopping to let me cross even though pedestrians have the right of way.

Yeah, I’ll continue to read the current book I’m reading, which I suggest you do as well, “The 4-Hour Workweek“, and think about what YOU are going to do to better this world, when you have the money to quit your job.

I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to stop in on Cody McKibben on my way to Angkor Wat someday if he’s still there when I get there. I’ll spend some time changing diapers at the orphanages and being grateful for what I have, help out where ever I can, then head off to see the jungle temples in Cambodia.

I give myself two years to make it.

Larry

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One of my Niche Sites – Disclosure.

Larry C. — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:18:40 +0000

I run a few niche sites that I sell eBooks on, and I thought I would disclose on of my sites for people to see and understand how I make money from them. These sites that I run are called Niche Sites, and How I make money from them is simple.

I produce an eBook for the site
I write articles about the specific niche I am targeting
I people to sign up for a mini tutorial sent through email to help bring people back to my site
I choose keywords that are high traffic, low competition and low search results
I built a website and place the eBook on it for sale
I include some articles on the site for people to read and to get their interest growing so they want to buy the eBook
I use article marketing with article directories to drive traffic to my site
Once it’s set up and running, it’s low maintenance, I just let it generate money for me and I do very little once it’s running.

This is a nice little way of having passive residual income coming in.

In the short future I intend on starting a membersite where I give out 2 premade sites a month, which includes articles, eBook, and an eCourse for email. Relatively low priced membership that will have all you need to make your own Niche Site. You can see one of my sites here.

Download the articles, mini tutorial and eBook for one of my sites Here.

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How to build a Niche Website

Larry C. — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:31:33 +0000

I stumbled upon this article tonight that just about puts it all out there for everyone to use. The articles goes from start to finish the steps to building a niche site and marketing it and page ranking it. This is a really good article and I highly recommend anyone who is into Niche to read it. It’s a 2 part article and part two is already there as well.

Building a Niche Minisite (Part 1)

On another note, my wife and I were able to get a baby sitter tonight and go out on a date. We went to Sushi, for the first time in 11 months. The last time was when my parents were in town visiting us and the new addition to the family, our daughter Sarah. So tonight was really nice to just get out, away from teh house, and have a little quiet time together eating raw fish. Yum!

We then went down by the bay and drove the harbor front, and stopped in Little Italy for a coffee. There was an art walk going on and interestingly enough there were a few older folks out speaking Italian. Imagine that, in Little Italy.

Well I am off to bed, I will be back at it tomorrow as I start work on the new niche sites I have planned for the Case Study #1. I am also going to get started the 3 new dating sites I am bringing up for 3 other different niche sites. Yeah I have a lot on my plate right now, but hey, that’s how I roll.

Ciao…

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10 Steps to Start and Run a Successful Dating Site

Larry C. — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:10:08 +0000

The ten steps to start and run a successful dating site.

Find a Niche that may not be met or fulfilled – Possibly a medical need, or a handicap type need, or cultural need. Think Jewish dating, or dating for amputees or Gay Midget Dating, the software I suggest for finding niches for dating sites is Micro Niche Finder. This software will make your life so much easier, it is a must have.
Research the searches per month and search result with Google, Google Keyword Tool or Micro Niche Finder, to determine need and effective placement in search engine ranking. Decide if the niche you picked is going to work, if not start over.
Review and choose the dating site software to run the site. One software I recommend and use is Webscribble’s Webdate. This is a very robust software and is easy to use and configure and customize. I can also talk to you about it myself if you want my opinion and how I use it and it’s only $199.
Hire a programmer to customize the site, if you aren’t code savvy.
Make the site a totally free dating site, to help populate it.
Do SEO work for search engine placement and build back links for traffic.
Article submissions for attention and SEO Ranking.
Start charging for premium accounts(more email sending capability, better visibility of profiles, or other perks)
Start charging for advertising(once traffic is high)
Enjoy recurring payments for membership, recurring advertising payments, or flip for profit.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Have a great Friday night folks.

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My office the coffee shop, one of them

Larry C. — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:12:47 +0000

Do you ever go to a coffee shop late at night and just sit there and relax and people watch? or take your laptop and headphones and browse the net, and people watch? I do and I love it. As long as I have my laptop and an internet connection I am good to go. There are several sites I like getting podcasts from and free pdfs reports and blueprints, and I will just sit and read or listen to a podcast and zone out.

These are some of my most favorite ways to come up with ideas for more niches or ways for online marketing. At a coffee shop I can sit and watch people and just totally relax, and when I relax that’s when the creative ideas start to flow. I see things, people, interactions, needs or wants and they give me ideas. Ideas turn into pdf reports or downloads or attachments I send out to my email list. Sometimes they go viral and the next thing I know I am joint venturing with someone doing a new niche site or membership site.

All you need is:

a laptop
headphones
a couple of dollars(for coffee)
nothing else to do
and a cool loungy coffee shop

I go to coffee shops to get away from it all, to get away from the house, the wife, the daughter and just decompress. Unwind from a long day of either coding that new niche site or dating site and not being bothered by anyone. In my own little world.

I can even watch a netflix movie or some TV episode if I want from netflix, with the watch instantly feature. I can also go to Amazon.Com and get some episodes of Battlestar Galactica or some other TV or movie and watch those as well. The list goes on…

I love being wired…

Larry

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3 Places Where I find possible Niches

Larry C. — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:15:20 +0000

I am constantly on the go and since I have been in Internet Marketing and Niche Marketing, my brain thinks a little differently sometimes. When I come across something that is a possible need, my head starts to churn it around up there and think of possible niches or ways of using that as a money maker. Before I do anything else there are a few places I like to go when I have an idea that I want to investigate. A few of these places are:

Google Keyword Search Tool – To see what sort of search numbers come up for that word or word phrase.
Google Trends – I then punch it into Google trends to see what sort of trends are coming up with that word or word phrase
If Google trends doesn’t turn anything up then I go to Google Insight, even if it does turn something up I still go to Google Insight anyway.
Then I end up at just Google and do a search with quotes around the phrase to see how many results come up for that specific phrase. If the results are 10,000 or less, and the search results from the Keyword Tool are over 1,000 then I feel like IO may have a Possible Profitable Niche to exploit.

Amazon.com – I Might go there with my possible niche to see if anyone is searching for that topic in the form of a book, if so I take note of that book.
If I am not going to Amazon.com with a phrase or topic I will just go with the intention of looking at whats in the Best Selling Categories. This is another place to find hot new niches to possibly profit from.
Most Gifted – a category on Amazon.com that is a good place to look as well as Most Wished
I also like to search specific topics and look at the customer reviews, sometimes looking at the number of reviews will give me a heads up as to that being a hot topic for a niche market.

Ebay – Whats selling and whats being looked for? Look at Ebay Pulse for possible niche ideas. Especially if you are a review writer or an eBook/eReport writer, this is the place to see whats hot and get topics for reviews and reports to sell.
Ebays “Want It Now” – this is a place to go to find what people want RIGHT NOW. Another place to see and get ideas.

There’s plenty of places to go search right now with those three places. Anyone can take an idea or keyword, phrase adn search and find a niche that might be profitable. Beware though, don’t get caught up in the shiny things aisle. I am always bad with that, getting caught up reading and not doing my writing. “Oohhh, shiny, pretty…..oh look at the time slip by….”

I hope this helps some of the newer readers of my Blog, and in case you want this list I have created a PDF version for download here

Enjoy.

Larry C.

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