I have been using Micro Niche Finder for over a year and have been impressed at how useful this niche and keyword finding software is at finding profitable niches and keywords.

This software does all that it is advertised to do and more. Here are a few ways to benefit from using this software.

1.) Find affiliate product niche keywords to build one to five page websites and articles around and promote affiliate products. Regular commissions can be earned on a recurring basis for doing this.

2.) Create keyword rich Adsense content pages that pay you residual ad revenue. Be sure to use the free Google Adwords keyword tool to check out the estimated cost to the advertiser for each keyword. There is no point in targeting low paying keywords if you want decent Adsense income. A high paying niche using high paying keywords will low to medium competition should do the trick.

3.) Create Niche Market Private Label Rights Packages and sell these for a quick profit.

4.) Create Squidoo Lenses and claim your share of the profits generated by the traffic.

5. Create eBay feeder pages and make money when new users register for eBay.

6. Promote affiliate products using keywords that are not often used. These will probably be long tail keywords. These golden keywords will be suitable for effective PPC advertising as well as to bring organic traffic to your website.

7. Find high value keywords to use in article marketing campaigns.

Check out the product at Micro Niche Finder

I quickly found some new keywords that more than justified the modest purchase price. The videos explaining how things work and what must be done are well done and easy to follow.

One thing that I believe will be extremely helpful moving forward is not mentioned in the promotional material. This would be to use the software to find niches and key word phrases that you can blog about with little competition.

This is what I am working with now. Once the software finds a low competition keyword that fits into theme and content of one of my blogs I simply do as I always do to write and publish the article.

Since the article is written around key words that people are actually searching for in good numbers and there is not much competition on Google for that key word I have a good chance to get a high ranking on Google. Google then will do a good job of serving ads that are closely related to those keywords. Of course, that will increase the CTR.

You should use the free Google Adwords tool to see how much advertisers are paying for keywords before deciding upon your blog topic. You might as well write about subjects whose keywords pay well rather than those that pay only pennies. Check out the product at Micro Niche Finder and the free Google Adwords tool can help you to sort all of that out and keep you working in profitable niches.

Check out the product at Micro Niche Finder. It’s a fantastic tool for keyword research and is easy to use and to understand.

My online adventure began with freelance writing. Although that was more than 3 years ago, my freelance writing gigs helped me quit my full time job and launch my Internet marketing business as well. You should try freelance writing as a way to get cash flow.

Although there a really good freelance writing tips available, in this article let me give you and idea of what you can do:

1. Ghost write for other people’s books and ebooks
2. Write articles for website / blog owners
3. Become a regular columnist for offline / online media in various topics
4. Become a paid blogger using sponsored blogging like PayPerPost
5. Become an editor / proofreader and help improve someone else’s work
6. Become a web copywriter and charge for every web copy written

Being an editor requires more of a critical eye and amazing grasp of grammar and writing styles. Not everyone has this specific set of skills. Copywriting is another highly paid skill that requires creative thinking and therefore it not really in the reach of most people. If you can write a proper sentence in English, most other types of writing is good for you.

Ghost writing, paid blogging and content writing are what any ordinary joe should focus on.

Ghost writing can potentially add between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars into your bank account every month, but the flip side to this is that no one will ever know who you are or appreciate the work you’ve done. A big market of ebook publishers are looking for ghost writing services.

Writing for blogs or other online media is a good idea since you usually get credit for your work. If you write for blogs, chances are you get a link back to your own site. This gets you more exposure than you can dream of, especially if the blog gets a lot of traffic. For the sake of your freelance writing career, writing on blogs is actually much better than ghostwriting.

Another way of making money from freelance writing is paid to blog. The basic idea is you set-up your own blogs and start accepting writing offers in networks like Pay Per Post, Review Me or Sponsored Reviews. A lot of advertisers want to generate buzz about their products, and they have money to spend too. How much you can demand per article written depends a lot on the popularity and traffic of your blogs.

The great part of this is that technically you own the content you have written, which means you can always make money using your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.

Every entrepreneur would love the day to arrive when they don’t have to market their services any more because buyers come to them through their referral system. The main reason that most people do not have referral networks working for them, or develop referral systems is that they haven't yet learned how. People cannot read your mind, unless you specifically ask them to refer other people to what you offer; then you might not get a referral.

If someone is happy with your product or service and tells you so, then is the time to say thanks, if you happen to hear of anyone else who might benefit from what I have to offer, then please give them my contact details. A variation of this is I'm glad you are excited, you may know someone who would like to pay off their mortgage.

The above is idealistic, people are usually pleased with what they have received, but because we don’t act right away and make a point of asking them, or the opportunity will come and go.  Another way of developing a referral system is with the thank you letter where you thank a person for their business and then end saying that you enclose one or two of your business cards for them to pass on to people you think might need your services.

There are occasions however, when the above methods of developing a referral system do not work, especially in the financial sector. The fact of the matter is that people vary rarely discuss their finances with others, and so wouldn't be sure who might be interested in the services that you have to offer. There are a couple of approaches to creating a referral system that will work more effectively than those already mentioned.

Many successful business people have found that it helps to stay in touch with your clients by asking them if they would like to sign up for your monthly news letter. This should give them helpful financial tips and at the end you could ask if they know anyone else who might appreciate receiving your news letter.

You should network with other businesses and try and get people together referring business to each other. When people are introduced in this way, they are far more likely to make referrals to a client of theirs that needs the services that you have to offer. These things are proven methods of building a referral system, but it won’t happen overnight.

If you are going to build a successful referral system that stands the test of time, then you need to have patience.

I find it so annoying to get emails addressed to ‘Dear Domain Name’ asking me to partner with them.

Like I am going to take the time to read let alone respond to someone who couldn’t take the time to look up my username or real name while they were on my site.

How I Would Approach Someone Through Email

1. The first thing I do when I want to approach someone with, well just about anything, I would first find out their name. Their real name if it’s available.
2. Then I would be sure to say a few things while introducing myself that would show them I have been to their site and actually read something.
3. Next I would ask them for permission to send what I want to send to them. I would not send it with an apology if they didn’t like it.

Short Example of an Email I would send:

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Dear Robert Smith

Good day Robert. First I would like you to know I am most impressed with the work you have done on you “name of site” in the last month.

I was on your site again today reading about “specific topic here”, and thought you might be interested in offering an ecourse I created on “same topic here” to your readers.

I know you must be a busy guy so I will keep this short.

I would love to send you a copy of my ecourese to evaluate, no cost to you of course other than the time it takes to evaluate it.

Here is my domain so that you can take a peek at who I am. It should give you a better idea of who you may be working with in the future.

http://www.mydomain.com/

Let me know if you are interested at this time and I will get right back to you.

BTW: Keep the great content coming.

Sincerly James Mann
Owner: ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com

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The example email above has a few things that make it real and worth reading.

• The site owner’s real name.
• I mention something about his site. He has made changes over the last month. Proof that I have at the least visited his site previously.
• I specify what we have in common that made me email them.
• It’s short and to the point.
• I didn’t go into detail about what I was offering.
• I made it quick and to the point so as not to take up too much of their time, just enough to peek their interest.
• I left them with my domain so they could check up on me if they wish. Hiding nothing.

I don’t know about you but I would have read this email without considering it spam at all.

By putting a little more into my blogs I am referring to putting in a little personality, my personality into my blogging. I get a little shy about that in most of my blogs other than the blogs where I share my hobbies. I get ME right into them without hesitation.

So from this point on, when I blog or create a blog I will focus more on just being myself.

I have thought about being a little more personal in my business blogs but every time I go and put some personality into it I just don’t think it fits and delete it. Must be low self-esteem. I must work on that one.

I guess what convinced me was the hundreds of posts about putting your personality into blogging. Some times it takes a lot to get through my preceptions of online business.

The thing is I just read them and thought I should but ended up ignoring the great advice, until this morning.

What’s funny is I wasn’t even suppose to be home to day. I wanted to go fishing but my fishing buddies were all busy today and I worked in the garden all week so I don’t feel like gardening plus it’s already too hot and muggy for that.

So, instead of just sitting around watching the TV I thought I would check out bloglines and see what my blogging friends are talking about today.

Glad I didn’t go out today, other than for breakfast with my wife. That’s a nice way to start a Saturday if I am not off fishing at 5am.

One blogger, new to my list is Deneil Merritt. Check out his post on putting some of my personality into blogging.

Does MySpace ring a bell? Just think about Facebook now?

Facebook has over 150,000,000 members. That’s not a typo. We’re talking about a membership that’s half the size of the United States population. And it’s happening on a global scale.

To Internet marketers, that means one VERY big thing… a market so huge it’s almost laughable. In fact, this is the biggest marketing opportunity to come along since the web began. But you can’t take Facebook on alone. It took them months to get their first site up, and years to get it to where it is today. You don’t have that kind of time. This all feels so far away..why is this? Because social networking is a trend.

The ones leading the trend get to surf it all the way into the beach of major profits. The laggards just get to watch the fun (and money) everybody else is having (and getting). The question is: can YOU hop on board the trend? You could try to get on board the system and make your own money through them by marketing to people, but the likelihood of failure is high. Others are ahead of you, and the rules can change in a flash.

The smarter thing to do is to build your own community site… but can you do it? Most people can’t. The reasons are simple: Most people don’t have the technical know-how and savvy foresight to do it themselves. The ones who recognize the potential and ‘get it’ often don’t have the money to pay somebody else to create what they want. Up until now that is…as both of those problems have now been solved!

You see, Andrew X and Steven Lee Jones faced the same challenges once. They were stuck. These guys saw the massive opportunity that social marketing brings, but couldn’t see a clear way to constructing their own social networking cash machines. So they forged their own trail.

They spent months and a ton of money to create their own community site platform. It lets them build phenomenal community sites that attract members like crazy. Best of all, their software is extremely easy to use, and lets them build sites fast. They call it Niche Socializer, and the reviews it is getting are amazing. One tester said: “I’m so impressed I can barely describe it.

Niche Socializer makes this so easy I was shocked. I’m no dummy, but I’m not some kind of technical genius either. Your software had me up and running within (I’m not kidding) three hours. And that’s because I took my time!” But what really counts is the money you can make with Niche Socializer.

The creators of the highly successful Niche Blueprint have developed a number of simple ways to monetize your site. For example: You can charge your members to post their own classified ads (that module’s built-in) You can sell your own products using the eCommerce module. You can use the built-in ad module to rotate ads on your pages without alienating your members. And it doesn’t end there.

You’ll own each site you create with Niche Socializer, so you can do anything you want with each site, including selling them! Dave Anson who tested the Niche Socializer system built a site which grew to $500 each month within only 45 days, that’s $500 on autopilot every month. What happened next was nothing short of amazing, he flipped the site for $6,000 after 54 days.

Andrew and Steven will even show you how to flip sites like that yourself. The software is easy for anyone to use, but it’s also powerful enough to create profit-pulling sites with just a few mouse clicks. And they’ll let you try it for a month to prove that YOU can make it work for you. That’s what you call a no-lose proposition. Here are all the details: Niche Socializer

To achieve our results, I like to think that SEO engineers need to be quite creative to achieve the results needed. We really need to start being more creative with the tools at our disposal, such as linkbait, AMA and blog commenting to start generating some more traffic.

To do linkbait successfully you really need to grab peoples attention -it can be with a joke, or a game -something with some good sticky content your going to want to pass along to your friends. Linkbait’s problem is the oversaturation of tactics. The more people see it, the less of an impact it has, so constantly keeping it fresh it a must.

AMA articles have to be eye catching if we want them to be read. An intruiging title can be the thing that makes people want to look at the article and catches their attention. An blog comment on a post thats insightful or offensive can often get people to reply, and can generate you some traffic.

We’ll need to start getting out of our box if we’re to get our sites that page one spot, as only recently companies have started realising the benefits of SEO, and with morme and more businesses calling for its gonna make things interesting to say the least. This means were seeing alot of sites going for the same slots, SEO companies pitied against one another -and the group that comes up with the unique ideas for that extra traffic will be the one thats going to get the top spot. New and ‘unusual’ ideas will gain some attention, it doesnt matter whether those ideas are good or bad.

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If you have thought it would be too complicated to install a WordPress blog, think again.  With the recent upgrades to WordPress, it has never been easier to install a nice looking blog and tweak it to your heart’s desire.

How To Install Your Blog

If you do not have a blog yet, simply go to the control panel at your site – generally www.YourSite.com/cpanel – click the Fantastico icon, and then click the option to install WordPress in a directory of your choice.  Once the blog has been installed, you will want to go into your administrative panel, which is called a dashboard.  The dashboard allows you to update the blog software, add plugins, change the look of your blog and, of course, add content.

Updating The Blog Software

Recent versions of the blogging software have allowed you to update the software with just one click within your dashboard, and to search, review and install plugins that will enhance the power of your WordPress blog.

How To Adjust The Appearance Of Your Blog

In its June 2009 update, WordPress took the plugin capability a step farther by expanding it to include easy theme installation.  The new WordPress Version 2.8 offers an outstanding and super easy to use theme feature that is similar to the plugin feature.  You specify what you want by searching for and viewing themes directly from the dashboard – for instance, a 3 column, blue and white layout.  Select the theme that appeals to you and WordPress will install it from the dashboard.  The days of unzipping and then FTP’ing your theme to your site are over and you’ll save a heck of a lot of time.

When you have installed a theme, you can change it around to how you want it to appear by editing the php pages.  The page editing process is a lot easier with WordPress’ new color-coded theme editor.  When you review PHP and stylesheet pages in the theme editor, the code is now numbered and colored, making the job thousands of times easier.

There are some awesome free themes available, including the magazine style themes that look like a professional publication. If you use these types of themes, you will be working with a plugin called Timthumb that will display your images as thumbnails on the front page and display larger versions within the blog post.  Timthumb and magazine style WordPress themes are pretty easy to work with, but sometimes the help file is not entirely clear because it assumes that you know things that you do not know.  At Not Guru, you can find a step-by-step tutorial, replete with screen shots, which show you how to work with magazine style WordPress themes.

Recent tweaks boost your blog’s speed and that’s always nice. I have been on too many blogs that cause me to think they aren’t going to load, but they are just slow.

Not only does the new WordPress software make your life easier in adjusting the appearance of your blog, but it runs a lot faster.

More Than One Reason To Blog

Installing a WordPress blog to your site is a great idea because if it is regularly updated, it will turn into a fantastic search engine traffic magnet.  The key is that the blog should be updated consistently.

I like to update most of my blogs about 3 times a week, while other blogs I have I may do as many as 5 a week.

When it is, new posts generally show up in the search engines on the same day and often within hours.  There is a way to make your indexing process even faster, and it will not cost you one single penny.  What you do is install what is called the SEO blog plugin.

WordPress’ plugin installation feature makes installing the blog traffic plugin a snap. In just a few minutes and a couple of mouse clicks, the zip file will be uploaded from your computer hard drive, unpacked, and fully installed.  Once installed, the plugin will tweak your blog, have you install other traffic-pulling plugins, and optimize the search engine capabilities of your blog.  It then gives you an SEO grade (like 77% or 80%).  You will see a positive change in your blog’s performance once the SEO plugin is installed.

Because you will keep your web visitors happy with up-to-date content and the search engines constantly visiting your site, adding a blog is a powerful tool to add to your website.  Installing and maintaining a blog has never been easier, thanks to the new WordPress release.  Blog installation tips, computer help and other practical guides are provided daily at the Not Guru blog.

Starting your own home-based business to make money online can be a daunting task.  Watch out for these common mistakes and save yourself a lot of stress and worry.

1. Trying To Make Everything Work From A Single Website

If you’re just starting out with your home-based business, don’t try to take on the bigwigs and try to be all things to all people.  Find your niche and stick with it; once you’ve made a success out of it, you can start to expand your repertoire.

2.  You’re Spamming

While it may be a no-brainer to not send spam email, keep in mind that some types of forum posting can also be considered spam.  Most forums have pretty clear rules about what is acceptable; some are stricter than others, but no reputable forum will accept out and out advertisements.  Forum posting and email campaigns can be a great way to reach you audience; just make sure that your sending quality information to a targeted audience. The short-term benefits of spamming aren’t worth the long-term effect of losing your credibility, not to mention the possibility of fines or being shut down.

3.  Ignoring The Effect Of Credibility

When starting your home-based business, you don’t have a large corporation or name behind you.  You have to build your credibility from the ground up, and it’s a lot easier to lose than to gain. Stand behind your product or service, treat your customers with respect and be completely transparent in all your business dealings and you’ll be fine.

4.  Expecting To Get Results By Just Sitting Back

While it is possible to run a home-based business that will make money automatically, it doesn’t start out that way.  All businesses require time and effort to establish. Passive income doesn’t magically work.  Once you’ve put in a lot of hard work, you may be able to generate revenue with a minimal amount of work.  You must still maintain the business, however; ignore any venture completely (no matter how successful) and it will fail.

5.  Forgetting To Research Your Niche Market

Does a market exist for your product?  Are there too many products already in the market? Once you’ve identified them, concentrate your efforts. The more specific a target you can identify, the more effective your marketing efforts will be.

6.  Using Ineffective Marketing

Far too many people rely solely on the promoting every single feature of their products or services. Sure it is important to know what the features are, however what really sells the products are the benefits. Buyers make decisions a lot more on emotions rather than logic. You have to address your potential customers in the form they want it; show them what they will get from it and how it will be beneficial to them and to their lives.

7.  Forgetting The Importance Of Building Relationships

Treating customers right can lead to repeat business and referrals. People want to feel important and valued.  In the faceless and sometimes cold world of online business, this is more important than ever.

8.  Forgetting That Your Home-Based Business Is A Business

Far too common a mistake is that people tend to view a home-based business as one where in even if they fail, their costs are minimal compared to brick and mortar business. Don’t forget your time is also an investment and the cost of time has to have a price. What is the price of your time? How much would you charge others for your time? Think about it, unless you are doing this simply as a hobby then working home-based business is much like working at the conventional job; the only difference is you’re the boss.

9.  You Didn’t Build A Plan

Many businesses, home-based or otherwise, fail because they don’t have a plan. In order to succeed, you must have a plan with definable goals for next week, next month, or next year.  Having a list and goals will help you stay focused and not get distracted by the small problems and obstacles that come up on a daily basis.

10.  You never learn

The internet is an ever changing monster, and along with it the way you do business also changes. In order maintain a sustainable online business, you have to keep your sell up to date on these changes, both in the general business world and in your specific market or niche. Utilize the new innovations and technology such as what is provided by Portal Feeder that come up to further improve the efficiency and productivity of your home-based-business.

These are ten mistakes that you can easily avoid. Keep them in mind and learn from them, use the knowledge you have just gathered and ensure that your business does not make any of these, as the success of your home-based-business and the revenue you make depends on you avoiding them.

Want to discover how to make money quick with internet marketing? Sign up for an internet marketing giveaway.

For beginners, a way to make money from giveaways is to join as a free member and download all of the gifts. Just one of these sites will probably hand you virtually all that you need to make money on the web. You can usually download ebooks or software that you can resell, along with the website template to sell them from, and plenty of information on driving traffic to your sales page.

But there is a better way of making money from giveaways. You will do even better if you have something to give away yourself, and use it to build your list.

Rosie Cottis has been contributing to giveaways for several years. Here are her top 8 tips for how to profit from giveaways.

1. Offer a valuable gift – something that people will really be grateful for.

2. Upload your gift and test your own opt in before the launch day. Most contributors will start promoting in the first few hours.

3. Have a paid product that people will see immediately when they have signed up for your gift. You could have this offer on the same page as the download link for the free gift. I find that a relatively low priced upsell works best ($5 to $15).

4. Send them the link to the download/upsell page in an email, even if your autoresponder already sent them there. This means they have another opportunity to buy your paid product.

5. Follow up with further emails in your autoresponder, giving them either useful information or more bonuses.

6. After that, you can start to promote your more expensive products (or affiliate products). Remember that the free gift should attract people who will be interested in your later promotions, so choose your free gift carefully.

7. Keep promoting the internet giveaway. If you don’t have a list, there are plenty of free advertising methods e.g. safelists. Do some promotion every day. This will add to your points so your gift is displayed higher on the list where more people will see it.

8. If you are offered an upgrade for contributors where you can get your gift a higher ranking, I always take it. It pays.

Last but not least, keep watching what is happening. Is your gift getting as many signups as others on the same page? How is your second offer making sales? Are your subscribers unsubscribing right away, and if so, why? There are so many things you can work on to improve your conversion rate.

Click here to see the best internet giveaway that I recommend you join: top internet marketing giveaway

Note: the link will take you to my blog if the giveaway is not live.

So taking all these points into account you will know how to make money fast with internet marketing giveaways.