Google’s Product Search Tool Helps You Build An Internet Income Opportunity
| A few weeks ago, I wrote a posting about some major changes that I was making on my marketing emphasis. I now try to create an internet income opportunity by selling more physical products rather than just informational products. There is less competition selling physical products and a whole lot more |
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that you can sell (if you haven’t read my previous posting, read Build Your Network Marketing Internet Business By Selling Physical Products).
I’ve seen a significant increase in my commissions that I earn from the tiny websites that I build to promote these physical products. And, I think one of the reasons for that is that I’m choosing to promote “HOT” products that Google says are hot. Let me share this little marketing secret with you.
Google has it’s own Product Search Tool. Go to Google.com and click on “Shopping” on the upper-left side of the screen.
Or, go to http://www.google.com/products – it will take you to the same page which is shown below:
Scroll down a bit and you’ll see more…
See all those products listed below the search input box? Do you think that Google would just list any prducts here?
Absolutely NOT!!
Google tracks everything. Google is showing you in “live time” what is HOT on the market right now.
Now, let me show you how I use this tool to find the best products to promote, get affiliate links, and use the info to help me build my webites.
Click on th Advanced Product Search tab.
You’ll get a screen that looks similar to the one below:
I entered TV and specified a price range between $300-$400 (remember, Google’s tool said TVs Under $350 were “HOT”) and I clicked Search.
I got the page shown below:
This page provides a list of TVs that are selling between $300 and $400. It provides a price and a link to their product reviews.
Looking the page over, I chose the product at the top of the page – a LG – 32LD350 – 32″ LCD TV – 720p.
This product had 79 reviews (second highest) and was closest to $350.
I read the reviews and they spoke highly of this product. If I choose to promote this product to build another internet income opportunity, I can use those reviews to provide me information that I don’t have concerning this product. That’s valuable information to have.
When I clicked on this product’s link, I got the page shown below:
This page provides 22 sellers of this LG TV, the price that they sell it for, taxes, shipping cost, and overall Total Cost.
Some of these sellers have affiliate programs and some do not. I needed to find a seller that had the lowest Total Cost possible that was also running an affiliate program.
So, I started out with the seller that had the lowest cost – Abt Electronics.
So, I clicked on their link given on that page and it took me to their website that is shown below:
I didn’t find anything about an affiliate program when I looked at the top of their website and the left sidebar, but when I went to the bottom of the website, I found it. I got lucky!
To find out what kind of affiliate program they had, I clicked on that affiliate link and it took me to a review of their affiliate program.
They pay a 7% commission on the overall Total Cost! So, for each TV that I could sell, I would receive a $26.18 commission. That’s not bad for the simple, tiny websites I build to promote these products.
I now have almost everything I need to build another website. I have an affiliate link to a “HOT” product, in a “HOT” market, and all the info to make that site with. All I need now is to find the right keywords (if you need help with that, read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity).
There you have it. If you choose to promote physical products to build your internet income opportunity, try using Google’s Product Search Tool – you’ll find all the “HOT” products on the market.
One More Internet Income Opportunity – Offer Vault
Most affiliates are familiar with Clickbank and Commission Junction. These are well established marketplaces for affiliates to find products to promote. But, affiliates could save a lot of time taking advantage of an internet income opportunity if there were one site where products from both of these marketplaces could be reviewed from the same web page.
Imagine not having to click back-and-forth between Clickbank and Commission Junction to compare products and potential commissions. Now, add several other marketplaces into this scheme of things and imagine if you could do your comparisons from one web page.
Well, now you can! Yes, now you can compare product offers for the same niche from over 90 different marketplaces from one website. And, that websites name is Offer Vault. What’s even better is that the website is FREE to join in and use.
==> OFFERVAULT.COM <==
Check it out:
Just enter your name and email address and you’ll be given instant access. Once inside, you’ll be asked to select a keyword and once you’ve done that, your account will be created.
Once inside, take a look around. You’ll find that this site provides an abundance of information on over 20,000+ offers and promotions from Top Affiliate and CPA Networks.
This site will provide you with not only the offer name, but also demographic information, keyword tips, potential commissions, and who the hosting network is. Everything you need to know to take advantage of an internet income opportunity.
Also, take note that this site has their own affiliate marketing blog and forum. These are helpful on sites like these.
Go ahead and enter a Search Term for a niche that you’re interested in and click SEARCH. I entered the term “dating” and I got:
Over 1274 product offers were returned to me. Commissions ranged from $120/lead to $.12/lead. Now, this is an internet income opportunity!
Once you’ve found a product that you would like to promote, take a look at the Network that is making that offer. If you don’t belong to that network, go to the top of that page and click on “JOIN NETWORKS”.
There are 90+ networks listed here that you can join. Find the Network that you’re looking for, click on it and sign up.
After signing up at that Network, find the product offer that you were looking for and secure your affiliate link.
One last thing that I wanted to point out is that Offer Vault also provides free weekly training webinars. These are excellent and if you’re unable to attend at the exact time and date, the webinars are recorded and kept in their library.
These webinars will teach you a lot. So, Offer Vault not only makes it easier to find and select affiliate products to offer, but it will also increase your internet income opportunity with more information and education. And, this is all FREE!
FREE Internet Income Opportunity Gifts
Yes, here are two FREE internet income opportunity gifts for you! Grab them, learn from them, and take them and your commissions to the bank.
Gift #1
Most of you have probably heard of Travis Sago. Travis is founder of the Bum Marketing Method, creator of the Magic of Making Up, and helps the Wealthy Affiliate with its marketing. I’ve been following Travis for almost two years now. He’s a down-to-earth country boy from Arkansas. I enjoy being on his email list because he often gives some helpful marketing tips. I’ve never met him, but I hope to one day!
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The first gift that I’m going to give you is actually being provided by Travis. Well, Travis and his wife Jeannie. That’s right, that’s a picture of them over to the left.
You see, Mother’s Day is coming up and Travis wants to do something special for his mom. |
Without her knowing it, he’s opened a Clickbank account in her name and now he’s going to start some online campaigns and make her some money without her knowing it. Boy, will she be surprised when she gets her first Clickbank check!
What’s exciting about this is that Travis is going to teach his wife how to do this. Jeannie’s been married to Travis for some time, but she has never tried affiliate marketing. So, Travis is going show her how to make her own 3-Hour Money Machines while he makes a couple in his mother’s name. And, they’re going to videotape all of this and share it with all of us! They’re calling this Project Mom.
For this project, Travis is going to use a lot of new information that’s in a new internet marketing training program called Bring The Fresh. Bring The Fresh is intended to bring a breath of fresh air to the internet marketing community. Now, Bring The Fresh does cost money, but the videos that Travis and Jeannie are making are absolutely free.
Go ahead and sign up. These videos are FREE and since they’re coming from Travis and Jeannie, I know they’ll be a big help in developing your internet income opportunity.
Gift #2
| The second FREE gift I want to give you is a special FireFox plugin called CB Notify. What’s neat about this is that |  |
once you have it installed on your computer, it’ll display your Clickbank earnings right at the bottom of your browser window. Imagine that! Now, you don’t have to go wondering off to your Clickbank account to find out how much money you’ve made.
You can track up to 10 Clickbank accounts.
Once you’ve got it installed on your computer, go to “Tools” at the top of your screen, click on “Add-ons”, and then click “options”. Enter your Clickbank ID and Password for any of the Clickbank accounts that you want to track.
That’s it! You can now easily track your earnings for all of your internet income opportunity work.
Unleash Floods Of Traffic To Your Internet Income Opportunity
Traffic is the biggest problem for anyone trying to take advantage of an internet income opportunity. Making a website is easy. Obtaining an affiliate product to sell is easy. But, neither one of these will make you a dime unless you can get traffic to them. And, that’s where most people fail.
Let me show you a way to unleash a flood of traffic to your internet income opportunity. This is a simple, but basically unknown technique. It involves four steps:
- Find the video (NO! Not make, FIND)
- Contact
- Negotiate
- Link
That’s it! Four easy steps to a flood of traffic. Now let me explain these four steps in a little more detail.
Step1
Find the video – Yes, find a video on YouTube that’s related to your website or product and one that gets lots of traffic.
Why YouTube? Because on some days, YouTube gets as many visitors as Google.
Why not make a video? Well, you can. But, who wants to do all that work? You would have to do good keyword/market research. You would have to make the video. You would have to promote the video and drive traffic to it…and that’s our problem to begin with.
So, go to YouTube and type in a keyword for your website/product in the search box and look for a video that has these three elements:
1. A minimum of 50,000 views to date.
2. Check the “Statistics & Data” info to insure that the video is still getting sufficient traffic. If you have not done this before, the picture below shows where to click to find this information.
Once clicked, you will get the statistical data delivered to you. It should appear similar to the picture below.
This particular example was a video about an owner playing with her dog. It might be useful to someone that had a website or product related to dogs or dog training. This video has been viewed 209,106 times since it was first viewed on March 29, 20010 and the bulk of those views have been made since April 5th. Traffic is still climbing.
3. Check to see if there is any affiliate link attached to the video. If an affiliate link is attached, pass on the video because the affiliate using it would know that he has a winner. The Affiliate would not likely sell it and if he would the price would be too high. If there’s not an affiliate link already attached, such as in the video above, you have found a video that holds potential for you.
Step 2
Contact the video’s owner – Send a private message on YouTube to the owner of the video and tell them that you enjoyed the video and would like to buy it. Don’t throw out a price, yet.
They will normally get back with you and ask, “How much?”
Step 3
Negotiate the price – Prices vary for these videos, but if there is less than a 1,000,000 views, I normally offer them $100-$300. If the videos are over 1,000,000 views, I will normally go up to $500-$800.
When you do this, you need to realize that you are not just buying the video – that’s not really what you are interested in. You are buying the traffic to that video – that’s where the potential for your internet income opportunity is at. And, to buy that traffic, you have to buy the seller’s entire YouTube account.
That’s usually not a big deal to the seller. The seller can always open another YouTube account and they can transfer any other videos they might have into that new account. But, you need the original account with this highly viewed video because that’s where all of the traffic is flowing to.
You’ll be surprised at how little you can buy these for. Most the time, these videos are just made for fun and they are flattered that someone would want to buy it. Nearly 80% of these viral videos are not related to affiliate marketers and they’re not aware of how much power their video could mean to an affiliate marketer.
After they ask, how much, negotiate with them until you can achieve a purchase price that both you and the seller are satisfied with.
When you make the transaction, use PayPal for the transfer of funds. If you send them the money and they don’t send you their YouTube user name and password, PayPal will usually reimburse you. PayPal usually protects the interests of the purchaser.
Step 4
Add your links – Once you’ve purchased the seller’s YouTube account, you can now go to that video and add your affiliate links – links to either your website or direct links to your product. You can also go in and add on-screen prompts into the video so that your website’s URL or product links pop up once or twice while the movie is playing. Now, you are in business with loads of free traffic!
Take a look at the profit potential. In this particular example, the video has been viewed 209,106 times during the last 12 days. That’s an average of 17,425 times per day. Google’s records indicate that visitors will click on links attached to these videos at a rate of 7.5%. If you take 7.5% of 17,425, that would mean that your link would be visited 1,306 times per day. This is highly targeted free traffic. If you had a 2% conversion rate, you would make 26 sales per day. If your commission (for example, on a dog training product) was $35/sale, your total commission would be $910/day!
That’s a nice commission – more than enough to pay for your original investment with only one day of sales. Viewers will be watching this video for years to come and that’s only one video – think about how many more of these you could get! That’s how to get a flood of traffic to your internet income opportunity and turn a nice profit.
Flipping Can Be An Income Opportunity Home Based Business
Flipping is a term used in the internet marketing world. It is the act of buying and selling websites for a profit. Flipping can be an income opportunity home based business that requires only 1-2 hours of work per day. It has huge profit potential. Let me explain.
One new website or blog is created every 1/2 second. Nearly 99% of these websites will never get much traffic, usually because they have chosen the wrong keywords (read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity). But, with over 170,000 new websites and blogs created every day, if only 1% of these do have the ability get much traffic that means 1,700 new, valuable websites are on the internet each and every day.
Now, many of these good websites will never deliver a cent of profit to their owners. Why? Well, many of them were created for reasons other than profit and many of them will never be monetized properly. Learning to monetize a website is a skill that many web owners just don’t have. Owners of many of these potentially good websites, will eventually get tired of working on their “gold mines” and either give up on them or sell them. Those up for sale are what you need to be looking for.
You are probably asking two questions right now:
- Where do I look for these potentially, good websites that are for sale?
- How do I recognize a potentially, good website from a poor one?
I believe Flippa is the best place to look for websites for sale. Go there and check it out. You can join for free (I don’t receive any commissions from Flippa). Flippa provides an abundant amount of information on websites that are up for sale. Another marketplace to look at is the Sitepoint Marketplace.
To recognize potentially, good websites for my income opportunity home based business I look at several things:
1. Profit – Does the website make a profit? If so, how much and for how long? Do they have written records of this sales activity? What niche or market are they in?
I review the monetization methods that they have been using. Can I improve upon it? If the website is already making some money and if I believe I can improve its money making potential, the website has my interest.
2. Traffic – Traffic is the most important things that I look for. Each unique visitor is worth some amount of money. If the site already has a sizable amount of traffic, that’s good! If not, why not? Is it the niche or the website. If it’s the niche, my interest goes way down. If it’s the website, what is wrong with it? How many back links does the site have? What keywords are being used?
This is where I use one of my tools that I have. That tool is called Market Samurai. I can use this tool to determine if the keywords being used are appropriate or if they need changing. I can also use this tool to determine how competitive the internet market is for the keywords being used.
In the end, when I am reviewing a potential website that’s for sale, I either want it to already have a lot of traffic while generating little or no income (not monetized properly). Or, have low levels of traffic, in a good niche, sound keywords, and huge potential.
I decide how much I am willing to pay and I bid on the website. Up front, I decide what is the maximum amount I am willing to pay and I don’t go over that amount.
After I have purchased the website, I lay out plans for improving the website’s performance. Sometimes, I only have to monetize the website. Sometimes, I only have to increase traffic. But, I usually work on both monetization and traffic.
After I have my plans developed, I outsource the labor at oDesk (read Outsourcing Help For Your Network Marketing Internet Business).This is really the simple way to do it and it’s inexpensive to do. I get an email every day from my outsourced laborers on what progress they’ve made. I stay focused on developing other ways to make more money.
At some point in the future, usually 3-9 months, the performance on the websites that I have purchased has increased so much that I can sell them for huge profits. I use those profits to buy more websites. So, you see, flipping websites can be an income opportunity home based business.
Another Marketplace To Take Advantage Of An Internet Income Opportunity
To take advantage of an internet income opportunity, most affiliates selling products and most vendors that are using affiliates to sell products that they have created, use Clickbank. Clickbank is a huge marketplace with over 12,000 informational products. It’s the largest marketplace of its’ kind. Clickbank is easy to use and it’s reliable. But, did you know that there are other marketplaces that might not be as big as Clickbank, but they are still large and just as reliable? One such marketplace is called PayDotCom.
PayDotCom also has thousands of products on its’ marketplace. But, unlike Clickbank, many of the products for sale at PayDotCom are physical in nature. And, yes, many of them are informational products as well.
For affiliates, PayDotCom is free to join. You can earn commissions from 5% to 80%. When you are ready to promote a product, you join the vendor’s affiliate program. The vendor will pay your commissions monthly either by PayPal or check. The vendor makes the decision on how he is going to pay these commissions. So, when you get ready to promote a product, pay special attention to the vendor’s payment method. If it going to be by PayPal, you will have to open a PayPal account.
For providing the marketplace, PayDotCom receives $.50 to $1.50 of the affiliates commission for each transaction that was made. This amount is determined by the selling price of the product or service. The vendor will withdraw this amount from the affiliate’s total commission and make the payment to PayDotCom so that the affiliate doesn’t have to.
Affiliates that normally promote products on Clickbank, should check the PayDotCom’s marketplace to see if the same product is being offered in both marketplaces. In the past, when I have found the same product in both marketplaces, I have found the commissions to be higher in the PayDotCom marketplace.
For vendor’s that want to sell products using PayDotCom affiliates, it’s free to sign up at PayDotCom. Now, that’s unusual! Clickbank charges vendors $30 for every product line that they list at Clickbank. At PayDotCom it’s free for the first one and after that it’s a one-time flat fee of less than $30 for an UNLIMITED number of product lines. That’s ridiculously low and if a business doesn’t want to invest $30 to take advantage of this internet income opportunity, they need to be doing something else.
Vendor’s get immediate payment with PayDotCom. At Clickbank, vendors have to wait until the affiliate has made at least 5 credit card sales. That sometimes takes a long time.
At PayDotCom, the vendor decides what kind of return policy they are going to give, if any. Clickbank requires a guaranteed 60 day money back guarantee.
Physical products can be sold on PayDotCom, not just informational. That’s right! You can sell books, tools, clothes, or informational manuals. Vendor’s are not limited to what they can sell.
If you haven’t done so, check out PayDotCom. Affiliates can find additional products to sell, sometimes with higher commissions. For vendor’s, it’s another reliable marketplace to find affiliates to sell your products without all the restrictions that Clickbank has. Affiliates and vendors both should both take advantage of this internet income opportunity.
Use Wealthy Affiliate to Build an Internet Income Opportunity
The Wealthy Affiliate will guide you to an internet income opportunity. Rather you are a novice beginner or an advanced professional that needs to make more money, the Wealthy Affiliate will take you by the hand and walk you through the steps to be successful online. Over 35,000 people have used the Wealthy Affiliate to start their own online business and you can too!
The Wealthy Affiliate is not a get rich, quick scheme. Building an online business is a true internet income opportunity, but if you could do it that quickly, everybody would be doing it. It takes some time, patience, and work to build any legitimate business opportunity. So, if you are looking to get rich quick, look elsewhere. But, if you are willing to put 100% of your effort into building an income opportunity home based business, read on!
Thousands of internet marketers are making tens of billions of dollars on online marketing. It may sound complicated to do, but making money online is really simple to do. Basically there are three steps:
- The online marketer sends internet traffic to websites that are selling products online. The techniques and strategies used to send this traffic is taught in the Wealthy Affiliate.
- Once the traffic arrives at these website, if they buy a product the internet marketer earns a commission. Sometimes this commission can be as high as 90% of the purchase price. There are hundreds of thousands of companies that are offering these commissions.
- Every pay period, these companies will pay the online marketer the commission that they have earned. They will send it either by check, by PayPal, or by direct deposit – whatever has been agreed upon.
And, that’s it! Now, there are many aspects of online marketing that you have to learn in order to send targeted traffic that is willing to purchase from these websites, and that is what the Wealthy Affiliate will teach you. The Wealthy Affiliate will teach you these steps to take advantage of this internet income opportunity.
The Wealthy Affiliate takes the “Guess Work” out of learning how to do this. It will take you by the hand and walk you through the steps. You just have to supply the effort to learn these steps.
Regardless of the experience level that you are at, the Wealthy Affiliate will help you earn the income that you are looking for. Rather it just be an additional $500 per month to add to your income from your other job, or $10,000 per month as a full-time online business, the Wealthy Affiliate has helped thousands and it can help you, too. Join, and find your internet income opportunity.