Facebook Advertising Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity
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Do you advertise on Google Adwords? If so, have you tried advertising on Facebook, yet? If not, you’re missing out on a legitimate business opportunity! Facebook is HUGE! Since its creation from a Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook has grown to over 500 MILLION USERS and that number is SKYROCKETING. More than 50% of those users use it on a daily basis. |
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In January 2010, Facebook set a record by displacing Google as the top site where the most web pages are viewed.
So, if you advertise on Adwords, don’t pass up advertising on Facebook. You can do it for far less money and you can target your customers so much better. You can target buyers who have already qualified themselves in a particular target market.
Here, let me show you how to do it:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/advertising and you’ll get a page similar to the one below:
Once on that page, click the “Create an Ad” button located in the upper, right hand side of that page.
Now, you’ll get a page similar to the one above. Fill in your ads destination URL, give your ad a title, and provide some text for the body of the ad. And, do you see what’s next?
Yes, your ad can have an image with it! That’s one neat thing about Facbook advertising.
When finished, click the “Continue” button and you’ll get a page similar to the one below:
On these pages is where your legitimate business opportunity really begins to take shape. These pages allow you to target your market very specifically – in ways that you can’t do on Google Adwords.
You can target buyers by age, sex, relationships, and even birthdays! But, it’s the box that appears just below the box above that I like best. See the image below:
Likes and Interests! This box is MOST IMPORTANT!
In this box you can get very focused on particular types of buyers. For example, if you were promoting one of Clickbank’s products called World of Warcraft, you could put that into the “Likes and Interests” box. Then, only those people that have used those terms in their own profiles would view your ad. This insures that your ads are highly targeted!
Now, one thing that I need to mention is that as you are checking boxes or adding phrases to target your potential buyers, Facbook is keeping track of it. Facebook provides you an estimate of the number of potential viewers that will see your ad. That estimate appears to the right of the images above. It looks like the image below:
The reason I didn’t show it in the images up above is that the image would’ve been so big that when I downsized it to fit on this page, you wouldn’t have been able to read what is written on those pages. I apologize for that.
Moving on.
The last bit of information that you have to complete before placing your ad order is the Campaigns, Pricing and Scheduling box.
Here, you select a campaign name and can enter a daily budget. If you haven’t advertised on Facebook before, I would encourage you to keep your daily budget low. Facebook advertising takes some practice.
Schedule your ad for the days that you want your ad to show. Maybe you want your ads only to show on weekends. If so, make that selection.
Last, choose how you want to pay for your ads. Do you want to pay on a Pay for Click(CPC) or Pay for Impressions(CPM) basis? Facebook will provide you an estimate of what it thinks you should pay for both of these. But, it’s your decision. You decide and enter that into the box.
I’ve found on a CPC basis that I pay about one-third of what I have to pay on Google Adwords.
After filling out these forms, your ad can start running. You’re done. Your legitimate business opportunity has been created. Keep track of it and watch the profits roll in.
An Internet Income Opportunity Matrix For Finding The Best Keywords
If you’re trying to take advantage of an internet income opportunity by building small websites that attracts lots of free traffic from the search engines, than I’ve found a new tool that I want to share with you. It’s called the Money Word Matrix.
As you know, choosing the right keywords for your websites is vitally important. You want words that you can easily get ranked high on Google for. The words need to receive a significant amount of traffic, yet, not be too competitive. That’s what the Money Word Matrix will help you do. Take a look at it:
As you can see, on the left hand side you look for the number that Google’s Keyword Tool displays for the total number of global searches for a keyword on a monthly basis. Across the top, you look for the number of competitors that Google’s Search Tool displays tor that keyword. Using those numbers, the matrix will tell you if that keyword is a good one to use.
If you don’t use the super tool called Market Samurai, you could use the Money Word Matrix along with Bing’s Detecting Online Commercial Intention Tool to find super keywords to use for your websites. Let me show you an example.
Let’s say that I wanted to create a website and promote a product that helps to stop dogs from barking.
If I go to Google’s Keyword Tool and I enter phrase “stop dog barking”, I get the following results:
“Stop dog barking” receives about 90,500 searches on a monthly basis – nearly 3,000 per day. Next, I want to find out if “stop dog barking” has any commercial value.
Why? Because if the keywords that I want to use for my website are not likely to be used by “buyers”, than it would be pointless to use those words to promote my product. I want traffic that’s willing to buy, and not just visitors.
So, I take my potential keyword to Bing’s Detecting Online Commercial Intention Tool and I enter it in there. I got the following results:
Pow!! Not very good – not at all. The phrase “stop dog barking” shows a 54% probability that it would be used by “lookers”, and not buyers. So, I better look for another keyword phrase.
Going back to Google’s Keyword Tool, I found another phrase further down the list – “dog bark control”. Here, take a look at it:
That phrase receives about 18,100 searches per month. That’s less than the first one, but it’s still about 600 searches per day. Let’s see what kind of commercial value Bing’s tool will give this potential keyword.
That’s GOOD! Bing estimates that there is a 99% chance the phrase “dog bark control” would be used by potential buyers. That’s the type of words that I want to use for my website!
Now, the last test. Let’s see how well this term fits into the Money Word Matrix.
First, I go to Google’s Search Tool and I enter the keyword into it using phrase match (be sure to use “phrase” match – much more accurate results). Here’s what I got:
Google is telling me that the term “dog bark control” has 18,400 competing pages. That’s a lot, but not terribly bad.
I take this information along with the number of Google searches done for this potential keyword and I fit them into the Money Word Matrix. I got the following results:
As you can see, the Matrix identifies this potential keyword as a Good choice. Now, this term has passed my commercial value test and the Money Matrix test. It’s a good keyword to use for creating my internet income opportunity website – I just need to find three or four more.
Use this method to help you identify better key words for your websites. You want to find keywords that will give you plenty of traffic, have commercial value, and not too much competition.
Or, take a look at Market Samurai. Yes, I’m an affiliate and would make a commission, but I’m not sure why everybody doesn’t use it. It automates this entire process and does much, much more. Keyword research is only a small part. Read my article Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity to learn more about it.
Another Internet Income Opportunity Trick
| One of the most common questions that I get asked is, “Where can I find an affiliate program that I can make money on?” That’s a question that I get asked a lot! There are a number of answers to that question, but let me show you a trick on finding an internet income opportunity. |  |
If you’ve done any article marketing, then you are familiar with Ezinearticles, Squidoo, Hubpages and a host of other article marketing sites. What’s great about these sites is that Google’s search engine loves them. You don’t even need a website to get your articles ranked high on Google. Just post your well-written articles to these sites (and include your affiliate links) and you’re likely to get a lot of visitors because Google will likely give your article a high ranking.
Use this to take advantage of an internet income opportunity!
Here’s the trick. Go to these article marketing sites and search for “HOT” articles that are promoting affiliate products. These “HOT” articles will not only show you what affiliate products they are promoting, but these articles will also show you the keywords that are “HOT”.
| For example (and this example took me only 5 minutes to do), I went to Hubpages and I clicked on TOPICS towards the top of the page. Then, I clicked on |  |
GAMING, TOYS, and HOBBIES, then COMPUTERS and VIDEO GAMES, and finally on VIDEO WARGAMING.
One of the “HOT” articles displayed there was an article titled Play War Of Titans Online Game. Reading this article, I could tell that the keywords for this article were “War of Titans Online Game”. These words appeared in the first and last paragraphs of the article and a number of other times throughout the article.
Next, I clicked on the links to see what was being sold. They were all war games and they were all being sold through Amazon. It’s easy to become an affiliate for Amazon!
Now, I wanted to find out how many times the keywords “War of Titans Online Game” are searched for on Google, so I went to Google’s keyword tool and I got the following results:
Those words are searched on Google about 880 times per month – not enormous, but that’s still 25-30 times per day.
Next, I wanted to know how much competition those keywords would have on Google. I got the following results:
Only 7 competing pages – that’ it! There was virtually no competition for those keywords on Google. Furthermore, because Google loves Hubpages so much, our Hubpage article was ranked #1!
What’s great about this is that most article submitters to these article marketing sites don’t build any links to the articles that they submit – they rely upon the strength their articles get in the search engines because they’re posted on Hubpages, Squidoo, or Ezinearticles.
To check this out, I used my Cherry Picker tool (if you’re not sure what this FREE tool is, read my article Cherry Picking An Internet Income Opportunity). Following are the results that I got:
Exactly what I expected – our Hubpages article has “0″ incoming links. In fact, 9 out of the top 10 sites that are ranking on the first page in Google has “0″ incoming links. Now, how easy would that be to beat?!
All you would have to do to beat any of these sites on page 1 of Google for those keywords is to do a little better SEO. Write and submit an article using those same keywords and build a few incoming links. Or, build a website using those same keywords and build a few links.
So, use this sneaky little trick to build your internet income opportunity!
Network Marketing Internet Business Newbie Mistakes
| There are some very common mistakes made by Newbies in the network marketing internet business. I’m not surprised that some of these mistakes are made because I made some of these same mistakes when I first started out. That’s why I’m writing this posting so that I can help others who are first starting out to avoid these mistakes. | 
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Avoid These Common Mistakes:
1. Failure To Capture Email Addresses
If you’re trying to drive organic(free) traffic to your website, why shouldn’t you take the time to capture their email addresses? Yes, they have to give it to you, but why not take the time and ask them for it? It never hurts to ask!
If a visitor to your site likes what they see and read, they’ll probably be pleased to give you their email address. After all, that means that they can get some more of that good information in the future and they don’t have to take the time to remember your website’s address.
Getting your visitor’s email address allows you to build a relationship with them. You’ll get more visitors to your site who are just looking and not buying, but if you’ll buid a confident relationship with them, they’ll be more likely to buy in the future. And, they’re likely to become repeat customers!
The best way to ask a visitor to your site to give their email address to you is to offer them something free in return. Offer them a free report, advice, or a free tool. Let them know that their email address is safe with you and that they can always opt-out if they no longer want to receive any more emails from you.
It’s easy to create a free report that you can give your visitors in your particular niche. But, if you don’t want to create your own, you can also get them for free. Read my posting Rebranding an Internet Income Opportunity to find out how.
2. Failure To Try To Sell More
If you’ve got a visitor to your site and they’ve decided to make a purchase, don’t be afraid to ask them to make an additional purchase.
It’s always easier to sell someone who has already made a purchase and still has their credit card in-hand.
Do this within seconds after they’ve made their first purchase.
Make sure that the second product that you’re going to try to sell them is somehow related to the first product that they’ve already bought. For example, if you’ve just sold a customer the plans to build solar panels for their home, why not make them an second offer for the plans to build a solar heating unit for their swimming pool? You may increase your profits in your network marketing internet business!
3. Reducing The Cost Of Google Adwords
Remember that I said that it’s important to capture a visitor’s email address? Well, that’s especially important if you’re advertising on Google Adwords!
How many times have you advertised on Google Adwords and your cost to do it was $500 and the sales you made only netted you $450? That’s a net loss of $50.
Well, if you’re capturing email addresses, you’ll have the opportunity to make up that $50 loss with potential sales in the future.
4. Using The Wrong Keywords
All too often and the biggest mistake made by Newbies is that they use the wrong keywords for their websites, articles, and videos. As a result, they get very little traffic and they find it almost impossible to get ranked.
Newbies are anxious to get started – I know, I was there and made the same mistakes. Choosing keywords that are too general and too competitive is a waste of time and energy.
Before you get started, sloooow down, choose the right niche, and the right keywords. Keywords that have enough traffic, but not too much competition.
There is a Google tool that can help you find the right keywords to choose. That tool is at http://www.google.com/sktool/.
This tool will help you find keyword phrases that are relevant to your niche and gives you an estimated level of traffic. Choose keywords that are long-tail(multiple words), have a sufficient amount of daily traffic, and are not too competitive.
For more information on how to identify what the competition is for a keyword, read my article Cherry Picking An Internet Income Opportunity. In that article, you’ll find a FREE tool for identifying what the competition is for a keyword phrase.
5. Using Keywords That Won’t Sell
A BIG MISTAKE!
Some keywords just won’t bring you visitors who are willing to buy. They will only bring you visitors who are looking for information and doing research.
Ask any expert on Google Adwords – there are certain keywords that will bring buyers and other keywords will attract only lookers.
When you choose keywords for your website, articles, and videos, be sure that you use keywords that hungry buyers would use.
So, after you do your keyword research on google.com/sktool, take your chosen keywords to Bing’s Online Commercial Intention Tool and find out what the probability is that those keywords will be words that buyers would use. This tool is FREE to use.
If you’ve found 3-4 keywords that have sufficient amounts of traffic,are not too competitive, and are likely to be used by buyers, you’ve likely found a gold mine!
Now, let me tell you about a tool that can do all of these things for you, and it does it automatically. Yes, it does cost some money, but not that much. I think that at some point, it’ll be used by everyone in the internet marketing or affiliate marketing business.
The tool is called Market Samurai. Read my article Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity to learn more about it.
The tool is so easy to use and it’s so clever! I can’t imagine trying to make money online without having this tool in my tool box.
Every business has a tool box. Don’t let your network marketing internet business suffer without it!
Cherry Picking An Internet Income Opportunity
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Who in their right mind would give away this free software? It’s called the Cherry Picker and it’s the perfect tool to help you find an internet income opportunity. And, I can’t believe it’s FREE, but it is!! Well, actually I can understand why it’s being given away for free. You see, the tool was designed by the internet guru Ryan Deiss and he’s hiving it away for free to promote his new training course called the Perpetual Traffic Formula. |
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But, when I saw this tool and realized what it could do, I knew I had to grab that link and share it with the reader’s on my blog, even if they weren’t interested in the Perpetual Traffic Formula.
So, go ahead and GRAB THIS FREE SOFTWARE and I’ll show you what it will do for you. Click on the link below:
=>FREE CHERRY PICKER SOFTWARE<=
This software is similar to one of the tools that can be found in Market Samurai software that I’ve purchased. Now, it’s similar, but not quite as sophisticated (read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity), but the Cherry Picker software is FREE.
Now, let me show you what this free software will do for you. Take a look at the image below:
This image shows the results that I got from the Cherry Picker software when I entered the words “STOP DOG BARKING” into its Search Box.
Cherry Picker returns to you the top 10 sites that are ranked on Google for the term “STOP DOG BARKING”. More importantly, it also returns to you the URL, the Title Tag, the # of links to the URL, the # of links to the Domain, the # of Pages Indexed by Google for that domain, and Google’s Page Rank for that domain.
Now, isn’t that cool?! It provides you all of this valuable information so that you can determine how easy it will be to get ranked for any keywords that you choose. It makes finding an internet income opportunity so much easier.
That’s cool! And, in this particular example it provided all of that information in 48 seconds. It would have taken hours to do it by hand.
So, if you haven’t done it yet, grab it now:
=>FREE CHERRY PICKER SOFTWARE<=
Yes, you do have to submit your name and email address, but after you get the software, if you don’t want to receive any future emails from them, just opt-out. The software is still yours to keep.
I want to say “Thanks” to Ryan for allowing me to share this software with my readers. And, you may want to look at his Perpetual Traffic Formula. It’s an 8-week coaching class where he teaches his students how to get loads of unpaid traffic. Also, he has a couple of other freebies at this site. All of it will help you find an internet income opportunity.
Home Work Business Opportunities Using Facebook
| Increase your home work business opportunities by advertising on Facebook. Forget Google Adwords! Facebook Advertising is so easy and you can target your market so much better. And, you can do it for pennies instead of the dollars that you’ve spent on Google. |  |
Sure, Google still has more traffic than Facebook, by about 10%. I checked traffic estimates this morning and Google is getting 159.4 million visitors per month, but Facebook came in a close second at 145.4 million.
But, when you consider how much better you can target your customers with Facebook advertising, you’re much better off with Facebook.
In Facebook Advertising, you can target your audience by city, state, nation, or to the whole world. You can target your audience by language, age, sex, race, education, marriage, likes, dislikes, interests, and keywords. You can even target your audience by places where they work or even their date of birth.
The best way to figure out how to target your audience is to choose a website in your niche that ranks high on Google’s search page and submit that site to Quantcast. Quantcast will return to you a host of information that will help you target the best market for that product.
For example, let’s say you’re trying to sell an ebook on learning how to play bass guitar. If you go to Google.com and enter “learn how to play bass guitar”, the #1 site returned to you is “studybass.com”. If you enter “studybass.com” into Quantcast, you get the following information returned to you:
Now, with this information you can go to Facebook Advertising and target your audience to males, 13 years old or older, Caucasian, and with an income of $30,000 or more per year. That’s a highly targeted market.
If you haven’t advertised on Facebook before, following is a short video that shows you how to set up and get started with it:
I have three more tips for you on Facebook Advertising and home work business opportunities:
1. Include UGLY or UNUSUAL ad pictures – You want your ad to jump out at people. I see so many ads that use the standard beautiful picture. These don’t jump out at you – you expect it! Use a picture that nobody would expect to see so that have to do a double-take. Or, turn the picture sideways or upside down.
2. Avoid BANNER BLINDNESS – Change the appearance of your ad at least every other day. People get use to seeing ads and after a while their mind won’t even think about looking at the ad. Every other day either change the picture, or add a border, or change print colors, or add arrows. Change something!
3. Advertise for PENNIES – You have two choices for paying for your ads – either on a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) or on a Cost-Per-Thousand (CPM) basis. Don’t be afraid to examine both rates and choose the best one.
I was recently setting up an add and for CPC advertising, Facebook had a suggested CPC rate of $.99. That means that for every time my ad was clicked, I was going to almost have to pay almost one dollar.
But, Facebook’s suggested CPM rate was only $.43. That means that for 43 cents my ad was going be shown 1000 times. Which one do you think I chose?
Even if my ad got clicked only 1% of the time, I would get 10 clicks in those 1000 impressions – that’s $.43 for those 10 clicks using the CPM basis or $9.90 using th CPC basis.
That’s right, I chose the CPM basis for my advertising!
There are many more tips and tricks that you can learn in Facebook Advertising. And, if you would like to learn more, I would suggest taking a look at the Facebook Ads Guide. It’s full of helpful information!
And, if you do get into Facebook Advertising, the Facebook Ads Manager will save you a lot of time and increase your ROI. Remember, home work business opportunities are out there and Facebook Advertising is one of them. Give it a try!
GO Organic With Your Internet Income Opportunity
If you’re trying to make money or trying to get a message that you really believe in across the internet, then I urge you to do it organically. An internet income opportunity promoted organically costs so much less and is usually so much more successful.
Just in case you don’t know what I mean by “organically”, it means that you are not paying for it. It means that you are getting visitors to your website naturally.
There are two ways to get traffic to your site. One, is to pay for the traffic, such as through Google Adwords.
Secondly, is through normal search engine traffic, most importantly is Google, which accounts for 70% of the traffic.
Paid search on the internet is so expensive. I know, I’ve done it. Take out your wallet and never close it.
To be successful on the internet, you have to learn to do it organically. Don’t let anybody else tell you differently!
What this means is that if you want a lot of visitors to your website “naturally”, you have to be ranked on page 1 of Google – one of the top ten sites for your keyword.
Let me show you something. See the image below:
If you’re paying for visitors to your website, and if you are paying enough to get your ad listed at the top of Google’s search page, on average you’ll get 2-3% of the visitors to the page to click on your ad (these numbers are furnished by Google).
And, what about the ads on the right side of the page:
On average, they’ll get 1-2% of the clicks to the page. See below:
So, what does this mean?
It means that you’re so much better off to get your internet income opportunity’s website or squeeze page ranked on page 1 than you are to pay for traffic to it.
Take a look at the picture below:
According to Google, on average the #1 organic listing on their search page will receive 40-45% of all of the available clicks to that page.
The #2 listing will receive somewhere between 11-18% of the clicks; the #3 listing will receive 7-15%; the 4th through #9 listings will average about 2% each of the clicks and, surprisingly, the #10 listing will get slightly more at about 3% of all of the available clicks.
So, even if you’re on the bottom of page 1, you’ll get more clicks than if you were paying for the clicks.
Now, the key is to get your website highly ranked in the search engines. To do that, you need to thoroughly understand search engine optimization. You can get a FREE REPORT that clearly teaches you everything you need to know about this by reading my posting called Internet Income Opportunity SEO Training.
Go ahead and grab that report and download it for free. Search engine optimization are three big words, but this report will downsize them for you.
Learn to master SEO and your internet income opportunity will explode!
A Legitimate Business Opportunity Selling Websites Offline
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Did you know that selling your website offline is a legitimate business opportunity and can make you a lot of extra cash? I know this is mostly unheard of, but why do what most web owners do and sell the websites that they’re tired of online at one of the auction houses? If your website is making you money, then it’s a legitimate business |
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that should be sold offline if you no longer want it or if you are in a desperate need for a pile of cash.
If you sell your website online at one of the auction houses, say Flippa, you are likely to sell it for 5-10 times what the average monthly income is for your site. That’s an industry standard. So, if you normally make about $200 per month from your website, you’ll probably be able to sell it for $1,000-$2,000 from these auction sites.
And, that’s not bad for websites that aren’t making a lot of money. You can sell your website quickly with almost no work and no hassles.
But, what if your website is making you $1,500 per month? Would you want to sell this legitimate business opportunity for $7,500-$15,000? Well, if you sold it from these auction houses, that’s probably all you would get.
Now, think outside of the box. Take that same website that’s making you $1,500 per month and sell it offline and now you can get between $36,000-$54,000. That’s an industry standard in the offline world.
That website that you own is your business. It’s a real business. Anything with an income is a business! So, sell it just like any other business such as a hardware store would sell their business – offline.
Businesses in the offline world normally sell for 2-3 times what their yearly income is. That’s 24-36 times their average monthly income!
Yes, it will be more work to sell it offline than online, but what would you rather have – $54,000 or $15,000? You may have to fly somewhere and have a face-to-face meeting with a prospective buyer. You may have to advertise in several newspapers or even a magazine. But, for a potential sales increase of $39,000, isn’t it worth it?
Certainly it is! It’s just that most website owners don’t think outside of the box.
Now, let’s go a bit further with this legitimate business opportunity.
What if you could buy a site online and sell it offline? BINGO!! A lot of potential money can be made (if you haven’t done so already, read my article An Income Opportunity Home Based Business Based On Flipping Websites for more details on this).
Some people will never think outside of the box or they need to sell quickly or they don’t want to do the extra work. For whatever reason, there will always be profitable websites on the internet auction blocks.
Keep your eye on these auction sites. Buy profitable websites online at the right price and sell them offline for big profits! This is a legitimate business opportunity made by thinking outside of the box.
Seasonal Internet Income Opportunity Websites
Until recently, selling informational products have been the “meat and potatoes” of what I’ve been trying to sell online. But, as I’ve said in one of my recent postings, I’m now focusing my internet income opportunity efforts on physical products. It’s a much bigger market with a lot less competition.
Probably the best types of physical products to sell are those that stay “evergreen” – products that sell all year long. For example, cosmetics. I’ve found cosmetics to be a good market and the products sell all year long. So, much of my work lately has been focused on building mini-websites in these types of markets.
But, there is also a huge market in seasonal products that I don’t want to ignore. Take for example, Christmas lights. Let me show you what that market looks like.
I went to Google Trends (this is one of my favorite tools!) and I typed in “buy Christmas lights”. Below are the results that were returned to me:
Note that there is almost no activity in this market until the last 2-1/2 months of the year – and then, the market explodes! And, what’s even better, the long-term trim shows an increasing market. This is certainly a market that I want to be in by October.
Google Trends also provides much more data that will help me set up my mini-website when I get to it. See below for a full page view of what Google Trends sent back to me:
Surprisingly, the largest region for buying Xmas lights online is Australia, and Ireland is second. The United States comes in third. I certainly want to take this into consideration when I set up my mini-websites to take advantage of this internet income opportunity.
Christmas lights are only one seasonal product – there are many others. For example, enter “buy Halloween costumes” into Google Trends and you get:
Once again, Halloween costumes are a huge seasonal product with a market that lasts only 2-3 months.
Let’s try “buy Valentines flowers” in Google Trends:
Valentines flowers are another good seasonal product that I will need to be in.
You could go on-and-on and find many seasonal products – and I’ve only looked at American holidays as a source for these products. There are hundreds of others in different countries and religions. There is the Chinese New Year and the Islamic Muharram – like I said, many others.
And, what’s ideal about these types of seasonal products is that they are perfect for building mini-websites around – the type that I recently discussed in a posting (if you haven’t read it, read Network Marketing Internet Business). Small websites that are tightly focused and should only take 1-2 days to build and promote.
Build enough of these mini-websites for these types of seasonal products and you’ll have an internet income opportunity that lasts all year long.
An Income Opportunity Home Based Business Based On Flipping Websites
| Making a consistent income on the internet can be a tough business. If you’ve been trying to create an internet income opportunity home based business and you’re just not getting anywhere with it, then try the strategy outlined in this article. |
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First thing, take a look at this website: Gable Attic Fan
Pretty simple website, right? It promotes one product (Gable attic fans), and has Google Adsense on it.
Well, this website was created less than 12 weeks ago, receives only 234 unique visitors per month, and has no backlinks pointing to it. No social bookmarking has been done with it. No directory submissions. Nothing! What’s amazing about this is this – This Website Sold At Auction Almost 4 Weeks Ago For $620 In Less Than 2 Days!!
Take a look here: http://flippa.com/auctions/97619
Now, take a look at this website. It has almost no traffic or income, but it sold for $2200 – WebHostingReview.org
And, now this one. No sales, but it does have some traffic – Belly Fat Site Sold for $1500
What I’m trying to point out is that you can beat your head against the wall and keep trying to sell products through affiliate marketing or you can start making sizable chunks of money by making, selling, and reselling of websites.
This is called “flipping websites”. These examples that I’ve shown you shows that there is a huge market for existing websites – even websites that are new, have little traffic, and almost no income.
So, you don’t have to build a website that will make you $10,000 per day. All you have to do is get a website rolling and then cash it in for some big money.
There are two avenues you can take down this road. One is to research and buy an existing website and resell it, or, two is to start a mini-niche site, promote it, and sell it to the highest bidder. Let’s look at the first avenue to begin with – buying an existing website and reselling it.
The best auction house that I’ve found for websites is Flippa. Go there and take a look around. It costs nothing to join.
Watch these auctions on a regular basis and after 1-2 weeks, you’ll have a pretty good feel for what a website should sell for.
What I like to look for are websites that have been in existence for 2 or more years and either, 1) Have traffic, but are poorly monetized, or 2) Sales, but little traffic. When I can buy these type of websites at auction for a low price, I know I’ll have money in my bank in the near future.
For the poorly monetized sites that have traffic, I’ll add new affiliate products, Google Adsense, and Text Link Ads. As soon as the website starts to make more money, I resale it at auction and put chunks of cash back into my bank.
For the sites that have sales, but little traffic, I go on a linking campaign. I write articles and submit them to Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo and Ezinearticles, linking them back to the main website. I do press releases, directory submissions, social profile links, forum submissions, and leave remarks on dofollow blogs.
Links are the key to Google rankings and as the ranking to my website increases, the traffic to the website increases and so does the income. Ka-Ching! I sell the website at auction for big profits! (One thing that I do want to point out is that I don’t do all this work myself. I outsource a lot of this work to some very professional people at a very low cost. If you want to learn more about this, read my article Outsourcing Help For Your Network Marketing Internet Business.)
Now, let’s talk about the second avenue you can take – making your own mini-niche websites, promoting them, and selling them at auction.
Here’s how to do that:
1. Build your mini-niche site using highly focused keywords. For example, in the example of the website that sold above, Gable Attic Fan, the words “Gable Attic Fan” are one of the few keywords. This keyword is used in the domain name and URL. Google will give this website extra credits for doing that. Keep the website small – not over 5-8 pages.
IMPORTANT – Keyword research is the most important step to building an income opportunity home based business. You’ve found the “Goose that laid the Golden Egg” when you find a hungry, starving crowd that wants to buy and you find the keywords to dominate that market. I use the best tool on the market to do this with – it’s called Market Samurai. I build my sites similar to what is taught in the Google Sniper method, only I sell them shortly after I build them.
2. Write articles and submit them to Squidoo, EzineArticles, and Hubpages with links back to your mini-niche website. Google loves these three sites and not only will it help your rankings, but it’ll also drive extra traffic.
Also, submit ads to USFreeAds and link them back to your mini-niche website. For more information on this, read my article Is Bum Marketing A Legitimate Business Opportunity?
3. Create links back to your mini-niche website. Social bookmark the articles you submitted above to places like Digg.com and Reddit.com. I use an automatic service to do this with and it’s called Traffic Bug. This tool will also do directory and RSS submissions for you.
Ping the search engines with the RSS of each of your social bookmarks at Pingomatic.com.
Other great ways to make links to your mini-niche site is to visit other blogs and leave comments with a link back to your site. Do press releases, social profile links, and visit related forums – leave links to your site at all of these.
IMPORTANT – Be sure that you use your keywords in the actual link that you leave at each of these sites so that the search engines will give your keyword the credit for that link!
4. Monetize, monetize, monetize – and here are some ways to do that:
=> Clickbank, PayDotCom, Commission Junction – These are the three best known affiliate marketplaces. Commissions on many products are as high as 75% and that’s good extra income.
=> Google Adsense – Google’s own advertising network. Get paid to run ads on your website. Easy to install and visitors expect to see these ads.
=> 7Search and Adbrite – Alternatives for Google Adsense. These are reputable companies.
=>TextLinkAds – In addition to Google Adsense, 7Search, and Adbrite, you can place additional text link ads on your website. TextLinkAds is the best known, but they are sometimes picky. TextLinkBrokers is an alternative.
=> CPA Networks – There are a lot of these. CPA stands for “cost per action”. That means that your website will earn a commission when the visitor performs a certain action. It may be that they have to supply their email address, a zip code, or a number of other things.
To find one of these related to your website, go to Google search and type in “YourNiche +cpa network”. You’ll find several to choose from.
Use one or all of monetization methods. If one doesn’t work, swap it out for another.
Remember, on these mini-niche websites, your website only needs to start generating only a few dollars per month before you can sell it. You want to turn these over as quickly as possible and put big bucks in the bank.
Then, start another one and keep flipping. Within a short period of time, you’ll learn that you can make and flip websites very quickly. You’ll be working on several of them all at the same time. It’ll become routine. Flipping websites will become your income opportunity home based business.