Posted by Kaz on October 24th, 2008
Christmas is coming, and many marketers are gearing up campaigns and niche websites catering towards eager shoppers. While online information products have their place, this is a critical time of year NOT to forget about physical products. Here are some great niche hunting sites for physical product ideas – feel free to share suggestions!
ProductWiki: They claim to be the resource for free and unbiased product reviews. Information is written and maintained by the user community. Plenty of product ideas here.
3LUXE: Several categories of products reviewed. 3LUXE performs research on the cream of the crop of physical products. If you’re looking to target an expensive niche, this might just be the place to gleam some ideas.
ILikeTotallyLoveIt: An interesting social community featuring sometimes bizarre products. If you’re looking for strange and uncommon ideas, it’s worth a review.
Posted by Kaz on October 16th, 2008
Why should you be pinging your blogs and websites? To let others know that you’ve updated your content of course! Pinging isn’t talked about much these days, because most blogs automatically handle pinging.
So who are we pinging anyways?
Well there are sites that offer pinging services through technology known as “XML-RPC”. When you ping one of these sites, you are sending a signal to their server, notifying them that your site content has updated. Now these sites offering pinging services often allow other sites to “poll” their results, so one can easily identify blogs that are updated through the server.
Pinging is simply another method to get your site indexed quickly and generate more traffic. It’s fast and simple as well. There are hundreds of ping services you could hunt down and send pings to, but that’s not fun nor simple. Which is why I really love this site: Pingler.com
Takes about 30 seconds to fill out the form. Just used it earlier today on a new Blogger blog, which previously had zero promoting done and is not yet indexed in Google. Will update accordingly when it gets updated by Google – from using pinging alone.
Posted by Kaz on August 22nd, 2008
Up next in the Facing Your Fears series is the topic of choosing a path and sticking to it. Many newcomers get overwhelmed at the sea of possibilities online, and end up not doing anything simply because they can’t decide.
Isn’t it SO easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of information at our fingertips? We surround ourselves with people telling us left and right how to make money online.
Here, follow this plan! While you’re at it, check out this guide! Oh don’t do that, that won’t make you any money. This is the BEST way to make money online. And so on and so on.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed. And when people get overwhelmed, they naturally shut down in a sense. It’s tough to take action when you feel like there are a million decisions to make. How are you supposed to know where to start?
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Posted by Kaz on August 19th, 2008
The fourth post in the Facing Your Fears series discusses an overwhelming feeling that many newcomers experience. So many people struggling to create an online business never seem to get anything off the ground. Many people simply feel like they must learn more before they can start applying what they already know.
I still have a lot to learn before I can begin making money online.
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Posted by Kaz on August 15th, 2008
Third entry in the “Facing Your Fears” series, dealing with the commonly held fear of failure. We’ve all been there! Some of us learn how to overcome it, while unfortunately others let it bog them down.
I’m too scared to invest the time or money into a project, only to end up failing.
Fear of failure stops many people in their tracks. You‘ve likely either experienced or seen this happen in the offline world just as much as the online world. I‘ll go back to what I stressed earlier in the series.
Until you‘re able and willing to take risks, you won‘t get very far.
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Posted by Kaz on August 12th, 2008
This is the second post in a series of posts about facing your fears in the world of Internet Marketing. A common fear that a lot of new people cling to is that they fear their project, site, product etc. won’t be different enough to stand out.
Everyone and their dog puts up blogs and content sites, why would mine be successful and how can I compete?
I get stuck in this frame of mind sometimes. For example, I‘ll get this great idea to put up a content site on a certain niche. I‘ll do some brainstorming and initial analysis, only to find out that I‘ve easily discovered 10 sites doing the exact same thing.
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Posted by Kaz on July 23rd, 2008
I’ll share my experience when I first offered ghostwriting services. I’ll even show you the specific sales pitch I used. What I did was launch a Warrior Special Offer (WSO) over at the Warrior forum. If you’re not a member at this community yet, you can join for free. To post a special offer, you pay $20 through an automated system, and your offer shows in the market place for approximately 3-4 weeks.
Another site, WarriorPlus, archives past Warrior Special Offers. This is great, because I can show you exactly what my offer looked like, plus you can read any replies etc.
My Past Warrior Special Offer (opens in new window)
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