As you may know I’m taking part in Aaron abbers fulltilt blogging mentoring program, maybe some of have decided to do the same? Be nice to know if any of you are following along with Aaron and his mentoring program.

So I figured I give an update of what has been covered so far.

As a recap for those of you who have missed it, when go to his home page you’ll see a subscription box that offers you an e-book how to retire on two hundred visitors a day I’m not sure if you are aware of this but this is what is known as the magic number in the make money blogging world there’s been alot of talk about the 200 hundered visitors a day idea but I havent seen it really laid out in detail about how to do it until I grabbed this e-book. It’s free and all you have to do is subscribe to his mailing list to recieve it.

Don’t worry Aaron is’nt one of those idiots that entices you to sign up then bombards you with crap offers.

Once you sign up for his mentoring program he’ll send you a link to a webinar every monday evening, the usual time is 7 pm and there he reveals some very good blogging techniques to help you make money. Again I’ve paid for other mentoring programs and despite the fact that this is free it is definately one of the Best mentoring programs ive been part of.

Week ones content went like this:

How to Set Up, Start and Run an Online Business Capable of Earning You $100,000.00 per year or
more.
• Experience in Each Facet of the Business
• Limited but Necessary Technical Information
• Over $1,000.00 in Resources

My Commitment to You:
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something Illegal or Immoral
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something You Have Not Been Trained to Do

You’re given very easy to do and easy to follow instructions so it is perfect for those of you just getting started in your blogging business

An overview of Online Business
• How to Generate Subscribers
• Understand Comment Marketing
• How to Create an eBook

An Overview of Online Business
How an online business makes money , Basic Parts of an Online Business
1. Traffic Generation
2. Lead Capture
3. Sales Message
4. Customer Follow-Up.

Then you’re shown how to get you’re own affiliate id for his affiliate program.

“I Do Things Differently When an affiliate sends me a visitor, I do my best to capture that visitor as a lead
and…I add your affiliate ID to the subscription.”

In other words what he is going to show how to do is what is known as lead blogging and I know for a fact that no other blogger is actually doing this or showing you how to do this with make money with blogs this way.

A big problem you will have with Getting RSS and newsletter subscribers is that many of your newsletter subscribers don’t confirm their subscription which leads to problems.

Aaron gives away an excellent script that you can put to use immediately to ensure that your subscribers are confirming their subscription so you can make sure you message is reaching everyone on your list.

Put this strategy to work and you’ll increase not only the number of subscribers but the number of confirmed subscribers as well!

As part of the blog mentoring program you’re given RSS tip and tricks an e-book thay shows you how to use a plug-in to: use your RSS feed to to make money blogging it allows you to promote your own product or an affilite product and all of things mentioned below.

Because I am part of the mentoring program I am allowed to give this RSS tips and tricks e-book away to you.

Some Ways to Use Your Improved RSS Feed
In addition to using Better Feed to offer your subscribers a free download, here are some other ways you can use it:
• Provide a password for a protected post on your blog
• Provide access to a free seminar only for subscribers
• Ask subscribers to participate in a survey
• Ask for help for a particular promotion without making your
request public on your blog
• Create an “affiliates only” feed so non-affiliates can’t “listen in.”
• Offer a daily download with a different link each day to increase
daily readership
• Offer a daily tip only to your RSS readers
• Create a cartoon or video that can only be viewed by subscribers
• Allow premium content for paying subscribers
• Offer ads in the RSS feed that don’t appear on your site
• Create a list of affiliate links at the base of your feed (or, if you’re
slick, in the midst of your articles)
• Add Google Adsense ads to your feed

Week 3 of the mentoring program also covered The infrastructure of your blogging business.

The infrastructure segment shows you:

That you You need:
• Products to sell
• A Way to Take Money
• A Working Sales Process
• Ways to Collect Leads
• Sources of Traffic

as well as the right way to choose a niche market which covers

• how to find JV partners in your blog niche market.
• Doing keyword research to find these partners and what problems those in your niche are trying to solves.

Both of these are very key and important factors that will determine your success or failure as a blogger. All of the webinars also come with MP3 files and PDF’s for you to refer to later.

Again as I mentioned it’s all free and as you follow along you’ll be gaining subscribers and given the opportunity to make money blogging with Aarons mentoring program

Week 4 begins tomorrow and I’ll be back with a recap of that for you.

Want to see two blogging heavy weight bloggers battle it out with real money on the line? Garryconn.com and johncow.com are going to do battle. Its called the cowpetition. Watch as they make money blogging

How this benefits you is that you get a front row seat and get to watch as these two A-list bloggers go about competing against each other all in a classroom sort of format. Go to http://www.garryconn.com/cowpetition The cowpetition will run for thirty days.

• If you have ever wanted to get an inside look over the shoulder of a successful blogger as he goes about
• choosing his blog niche,
• setting up his blog,
• getting it monetized
• driving traffic to it
• and then making money blogging then this is going to be something you’re going to want to participate in.
• Best of all it wont cost you and single penny.

The classroom will be delivered in email format to you once you sign the cowpetition on Garryconn’s cowpetition page.

“When the competition begins, I will be sending you detailed documentation on how I am progressing in the competition. I am going to reveal to you every chess move I make in this game. You are going to know everything I do, all my tactics and all my strategies. When it’s all said and done, you will have gained the knowledge to duplicate my successful method and use it for yourself towards your own MMO dot Com ventures.”

SO how did this come about. Yesterday over on Garryconn.com there was a pretty interesting thread that got hot and heavy and ended amicably between johncow and garryconn in a competition. Garryconn basically spilled the beans on this shady blogger trying to scam his way to fame and fortune.

Heres the post : johncow’s life long dream of scamming the blogosphere

If you havent been keeping up with what is happening in MMO blog arena. Basically what happened was that some time ago, johncow tried to fleece an un-suspecting buyer by trying to sell his blog for 50,000.

the ultimate scam is that John Cow dot Com was being offered for sale to any ignorant individual who had $50,000 USD to shell out on their next biggest error in judgment. It’s one thing to trick people into buying a bullshit eBook for $19.95, but I tend to get pissed off when I witness higher grade behaviors that involve serious money that could seriously impact the financial well being of an individual who could potentially be tricked into buying a web site at such a high expense.

owner of John Cow dot Com openly admit that he is honest about screwing people over leads me to believe that he too would be honest (after the fact) about screwing over the person who made the idiotic decision to invest $50,000 USD into the site.

Whether or not the actual sale was made is still unsure but it shook up the MMO and IM blogging circles. As just another blog that tried to fleece someone by selling a scammy blog. There have been quite a few of these happening lately and well garry has had it with this and called johncow out.

It now appears as though there are multiple writers for johncow and theyre stirring or trying to stir up some controversy. This post thread is actually a lesson in itself.

You can the whole thread and the call to action between these two bloggers over at garryconn’s blog.

Johncow basically challenged garryconn to a friendly competiotn as to who can get a blog set up in an non make money online niche get it making money and then try to sell it. The loser forfeits his bid price at blog auction.

So there is real money being put on the line here.

There have been other competitions in the past between some other bloggers, you know the usual, who can get more RSS subscribers in the shortest amount of time but nothing like this has been done before.

The Advantage to you is that you get to see first hand how the guys who are making money online set up their blogs and get them profitable in very short periods of time.

Again like I said this cowpetion is going to run for 30 days, so for theirty days you’ll get a classroom format from garryconn in your inbox and if you were smart you’d doing as he is sending you the lessons. I dont knwo about you but this is just priceless information.

I don’t mean to sound like a blind follower here but I do respect garryconn, he has a family (large family) and earns his money honestly with out having to scam people with BS products and out dated run of the mill blog posting all  trying to get you to buy something.

Wish the same could be said for many other bloggers but it just isn’t so.

I’ve e-mailed Garry many times and every time he has written me back same day with an answer to my question and given me more than what I asked.

So if you’re looking for real help and not hype garbage BS, then I hgighly recommend you get in the class and start that blog you’ve been wanting to get going as the classroom go along.

I’ll be posting regular updates about the make money blogging class, hope to see you there.

Niche Marketing? Whats that?

Holy crap think I can use niche marketing a few more times in one sentence.

The last series of posts your read were about how to find niche markets. I thought I might add a few posts about some basics about Niche marketing.

We hear the term thrown around a lot, but unless you really understand what niche marketing is you will have a very
hard time being successful at it!

So first off lets get a definition of Niche Marketing.

The word ‘niche‘ is defined as: “A special area of demand for a product or service”.

‘Marketing‘ is defined as: “The opportunity to buy or sell”. So put together, niche marketing means buying or selling a product or service in a special area of demand. All that really means is that a product or service is being sold to the people who are most interested in that particular product or service and not to the world in general.

Many businesses use niche marketing. For example, a company that makes Telescopes and Telescope accessories
might advertise all-in-one Telescope/tripod solution to the astronomy enthusiast while at the same time advertising
single function Telescopes to a more specific User.

Deep linking within a merchants affiliate program.

Tips: Cool Telescope affiliate program.It is absolutely essential to be able to deep link with any merchant’s affiliate program. If you are going to blog or write a page on your web site about a certain class of telescopes or even a specific telescope, you need to be able to link directly to that item. Sending visitors to a merchants home page drastically cuts down on conversion rates so much that I normally don’t join any affiliate program I can’t deep link with.

One of the things that make niche marketing so attractive to sellers is that their advertising budgets go further. It
costs less to advertise to a specialized market than it does to advertise to a broader market.

Niche marketing must be designed to meet the unique needs of the targeted audience. Niche marketers must tailor their
product to meet those unique needs. If, for example, you have designed a product to make gourmet cooking easy enough
for the untrained professional to do it, those who want to be gourmet cooks will be most interested in your product.
Those who like to eat out would not.

In essence, niche marketing is selling a product or service to those who want or need the product the most.

Finding the right niche for what you have to sell isn’t really all that difficult. Just think about who the people
are who would be most interested in what you have to sell.

Use paypal shops to find hot selling products

“The idea here is that you can browse categories and find the stores that make a lot of sales. This is free live information about what is selling well online. If you don’t understand how powerful that is, then you haven’t been reading my blog enough”

Before you decide which niche market to dive into you will need to do a little research. And doing the proper keyword research is powerful You will want to make sure that the market is easily defined and reachable.

type in “allinurl: the keyword” (without the quotes), now write down how many search results is returned, if it returns under 2 thousand results then your in awesome shape to score a top 10 position but don’t give up if it returns more. Now type in “allintitle: the keyword”

Keyword research, “at its essence, is market research. It tells you what people are interested in, and in what relative numbers. Better yet, it reveals the actual language people are using when they think about those topics, which provides you with insight on how to converse with them via your blog”

You will also want to find out what your potential customer likes to do and read.

• What kind of trade articles or books do they read?
• Do they have clubs or are members of particular organizations?
• Does the group have an insane passion for their hobby or topic of interest?
• Do they eat, sleep, and breathe their hobby?
• Do they actively seek more information related to their subject?

Ask yourself, is the market small enough that you won’t have to many competitors, but still large enough for you to
make a good profit?

“Under-served vs. Not wanted

That there are few blogs on a particular topic doesn’t necessarily mean that there is some kind of seething, unmet demand, bubbling away in the nether regions of the web. Some shopping strips are empty and delapadated because nobody wants to shop there, and some niches are empty or lackluster because very few people are interested in reading blogs on the topic.

Notice the difference: very few people are interested in the topic, vs. very few people are interested in reading blogs on the topic.

Just because hundreds of people are searching for ‘wheelbarrows’ each day doesn’t that people want to read a blog about wheelbarrows. Sure, people might want to buy them — and a blog on such a topic might well make a handsome profit from AdSense — but how many people honestly want to read about wheelbarrows every day?

If you’ve ever done research on niches with the AdWords keyword tool, next time, compare the search volume between your niche idea with the search volume for your niche idea + blog. The difference can be quite remarkable.”

Most of all does the market have the money to spend?

Doing research related to these questions will help you pick the perfect niche to market to. In future issues we
will go more into how you can research and pick profitable niches. In the mean time keep the questions above in mind
when your are trying to choose a new niche market.

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• 10 great niche marketing resources and tools
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• How to use googles keyword tool to find a seasonal blog niche
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But if you’ve followed the steps here, I’m pretty sure you will find your own niche market very soon. I hope you enjoyed this how to find a niche market for your blog series