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Micronichefinder VS Elite Niche Research Course

    Comparing the Micronichefinder to the

    Elite Niche Research Course.

Recently I received a review copy of the Elite Research Niche Finder Course by Andrew Hansen and since I already had the Micronichefinder decided to compare them in this review.elite niche research

While the Micronichefinder has an abundance of very helpful and useful tools and information in finding profitable keywords and is a product I highly recommend, I find that the Elite Niche Research Course has taken several steps further in being able to uncover highly targeted low competition high end niche products not easily found using the more conventional research methods outlined in other niche research help tools such as uncovered in the MicroNicheFinder Package.

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View a Quick Introduction Video to The Elite Niche Research Course here

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Find the MicroNichefinder Package here.

Foundation Vids not found in Micronichefinder.

Foundation Theory Videos:

Foundational Theory Video 1: The Guiding Light

In this video we examine the single defining principal of the Elite Niche Research Course. It’s a diamond studded rule which contains everything the course is based on and if you follow this rule as an affiliate or Adsense marketer, you are well on the way to setting yourself up as a successful online marketer.

Foundational Theory Video 2: Conversion Is King

This video outlines the primary factor of conversions  in which we show you the way in  to think about conversions as you approach Affiliate marketing. This provides some explanations into why some marketers find success in as little as a couple of weeks while others either take years to grasp it and some fail completely.

Foundational Theory Video 3: The Myth Of Competition

In this video Andrew Hansen discusses the competition factor and the reasons why, if you are in this for the long haul, all you’ve been led to believe about competition analysis could well be completely misleading and downright wrong including many principles laid down in the micronichfinder package.

Foundational Theory Video 4: The 2 Pillars

This video examines the two primary keys to niche research carried out by the so called Gurus. It’s these 2 aspects you’ll be analyzing time and time again during the course and in the time you’ll spend as an affiliate marketer. Grasping the meaning of the inter-relationship behind these 2 factors is the vital key to becoming a successful and high level affiliate marketer.

Find the  Elite Niche Research Course here

View A quick Utube Video Below


Other videos not included with micronichefinder include the following topics:

Keyword research:

Vid 1: How we search and analyze.

This video lays out how we lay out the main goal of your keyword search, what your looking for and how to find it. It’s the raw core of the keyword research fundamentals and is a must to understand before you ever be a successful affiliate marketer.

Vid 2: Live example: Looking at search Volume.

When you’re looking at keywords, whether it’s in the Adwords Keyword Tool, Word Tracker, Market Samurai, Micronichfinder or something else, just what are you looking FOR? There’s so much data but what of it is actually of any use  to you  as  affiliate marketers? This video will show you all the figures; what to look for when  doing  keyword research (all with free methods and tools)

Vid 3: Examining  competition -Live example.

In this video Andrew Hansen  provides  you with two separate techniques for how you can analyze your competition if you REALLY need to (remember “The Myth Of Competition”). He also tells you how he analyzes competition, and how you can if you wish.

33 Videos not contained within Micronichefinder.

All in all there are 33 Tutorial Videos in the course which are all backed up with PDF files of the verbal transcripts also not available with the micronichfinder package and cover

  • Foundation Theory: 4 videos.
  • Keyword Research: 3 Videos
  • Affiliate Research : 3 Videos
  • Offer Finding Techniques: 21 Videos.

Summary:

This course is primarily designed to help the affiliate marketer to find profitable high search volume, low competition products to promote as quickly and easily as possible. Hence the main objective is covered in 21 comprehensive video tutorials on how to go about doing that and only lightly touches on keyword research although literally thousands are uncovered during the course of the 21 offer finding techniques.

Each of the 21 videos in the offer finding section covers a completely different method in uncovering highly searched for products with the lowest competition and in many cases highest commission rate available online.

Go Here for the Elite Niche Research Course

While the micronichfinder does offer more on keyword research etc, if your looking to find simply the best offers and products to promote in the fastest and easiest way, then I highly recommend the Elite Niche Research Course over the micronichfinder package.

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WordPress Classroom Exposed

A WordPress Classroom Review

 

I first started using the wordpress classroom back in early 2009 when it was first conceived and when I needed to know how to learn wordpress and  I can honestly say that without the knowledge it provided, this and my other wordpress blogs would not exist.

Matt Wolfe, the creator of the WordPress Classroom is one of the nice guys and his expertise in using and teaching wordpress is next to none.
While many say that wordpress is a cinch to use, for novice users it can become extremely frustrating in just not knowing what to do.

You have to know how to learn wordpress!

The WordPress Classroom takeswordpress classroom away all that frustration by delivering easy to understand precise walk through FREE wordpress training videos which provide step by step instructions on exactly how and where to start, right through to getting your wordpress blog online and indexed by the major search engines such as Google.

Click here to visit the WordPress Classroom

Advanced users of wordpress can also glean a lot of information from the WordPress Classroom particularly if HTML is not their strong point. Although  it was not completely necessary for me to learn HTML, I found that a basic understanding of some html is necessary in creating some links and particularly when creating widgets.

See more about  using widgets in the WordPress Classroom here.

Below is a list of the Free Videos found in the WordPress Classroom.

For the Novice

    • How and where to buy a Domain.
    • How and where to buy a hosting account.
    • How to link your domain to your Host.
    • How to install WordPress using fantastico from your Hosting Control Panel
    • How to install wordpress manually
    • How to Install a Free Theme
    • How to add email to your Blog
    • How to install plugins such as Google Analytics automatically and manually.
    • How to manage threaded comments
    • How to learn wordpress

Intermediate Level.

      • How to install a Twitter Widget.
      • How to hide Affilaite Links.
      • How to install an opt-in box in the side bar.
      • How to add an Avatar beside your comments.
      • How to add a contact me form to your blog.
      • How to make money using the WordPress Classroom

See an Example Free Video Below

While the wordpress training  videos above are free,  the WordPress Classroom also offers a paid version which includes all of the above plus over seventy additional videos with  new monthly instructional videos for advanced users.

It also provides a great  members forum where members help each other  with all sorts of issues and offer tips on Marketing, html, themes, Traffic exchange, plus several fantastic bonuses many of which are not found anywhere else.

Just a Few Of the Additional WordPress Classroom Pro Videos.

    • How to edit Permalinks For SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
    • How to install The “All In One” Seo Plugin.
    • How to guard your blog against content theft.
    • How to create a static home page
    • How to back up your blog
    • How to remove pages from the menu.
    • How to add images to your blog and how to add an affiliate link to them.
    • 3 In-depth videos on How to Create a Membership Site for your blog
    • How to add a forum to your membership site
    • How to create a full width page eliminating the side bar from your blog.
    • How to install a multi-site using WordPress 3.0 and above.

The site you are looking at now was created using the WordPress Classroom and I can’t recommend it highly enough.


Go here to visit the Free WordPress Classroom Videos and learn more about using WordPress.

Can A Listbuilding System Be TOTALLY Automated?

Can A Listbuilding System Be TOTALLY

Automated?

I know we’re all a bit sick and tired of promises of “automated software” that will make us rich before dinner.

And I’m always the first to be skeptical of these kinds of outrageous claims.

But today I may have to actually eat my words.

Because I just picked up a listbuildilng system that really is incredibly fast…,

And the traffic actually does keeps flow in on auto-pilot.

It’s a pretty new tactic on the scene that I’ve heard of.

But I never really knew how to implement it.

Then I found this:

Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System

At that link 7 figure marketer Bill McRea is GIVING AWAY this listbuilding system totally free…

It’s his way of getting some buzz going for his upcoming product launch (apparently he’s go another system up his sleeve that’s even better than this)

In any case..

I went and got this myself and it’s totally legit.

There’s nothing scammy about it all.
It’s just a way to instantly create a win-win offer that potential JV partners can’t refuse.

Bill hand you EVERYTHING you need to make it work. And I mean EVERYTHING.

So if you know the power of having a mailing list..

Do yourself a favor and go get this.

Do it now: Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System

I mean…you can’t beat the price, right?

P.S. There is one catch to this…you’ll have to help spread the word. But that’s easy for me because I’ve seen this strategy in action and know that it works.
You should get Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System now!

Are you the Sore Thumb In Interent Marketing?

Idiom Definitions for ‘Stick out like a sore thumb’


If something sticks or stands out like a sore thumb, it is clearly and obviously different from the things that are around it.

Have you ever felt like you are the proverbial sore thumb or the dog’s danglers?

I have and do….everyday.

Computers and the Internet weren’t part of my upbringing or education because being born within the baby boomer era, they simply didn’t exist!

As a result probably 90% of the people testing the waters and trying their hand in internet marketing, are below the age of 40 and have egos to go with it.

Hence sticking out like a sore thumb is part of being a baby boomer internet marketer. “It just aint’ natural” and many younger internet marketers don’t take us seriously or see us as real competition.

How wrong they are!

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Do you know why the phrase “sticks out like a sore thumb” came into being?

The obvious answer would be that if you have a sore thumb it’s probably because you’ve hurt it accidentally and because its red and swollen its far more likely to be noticed by anyone who glances at your hand.

Well. If you said that, you’re only partly correcct.

When we’re hurt physically we tend to favor the damaged area in several ways. The obvious one would be to protect it with a surgical dressing, bandage, sling etc; but what do you do with a sore thumb which has been hit by a hammer causing painful bruising but not breaking the skin?

You stick it out to the side out of the way to ensure it doesn’t get bumped or knocked again because if it does cop another bump regardless of how lightly….it *&%$# hurts!

Q) What makes a good boss?


A)

A good boss will send a Sore Thumb victim  home.

If you’re in a physical job which requires you to use your hands and hand tools constantly and you wind up with a sore thumb or finger through a minor accident, a good boss will send you home or depending on the severity, to a doctor or hospital for attention. But that’s not what makes him/her a good boss in such a case.

What makes a good boss is that he/she knows that because you will be favoring the sore thumb or finger by sticking it out, it’s then in a place where it normally wouldn’t be and is even more likely to be damaged more severely because your brain is telling it that it’s where it belongs, when in fact it isn’t and as a result is more likely to be struck again by something which IS where it’s normally supposed to be and your sore thumb or finger isn’t..

Baby boomer internet marketers are a bit like that sore thumb because we’re within a niche we wouldn’t normally be in and as such are more likely to be damaged because we don’t have the basic education that so many of our colleagues and opposition learned as a normal part of their school curriculum as children.

As a result we need to be sent home or we need to learn to keep that sore thumb where the younger ones learned to keep theirs when they were young…….or do we?

As baby boomers what we need…. is to set a course which has all the basics already in place so that we don’t have to learn them or implement them.

My introduction to affiliate marketing was through a course created by Affiliate Marketing Millionaire Mark Ling and was called  AffiloBlueprint. I can honestly say that I learned 80% of what I now know about affiliate marketing through that course and still highly recommend it and promote it but Mark and his team have  just spent nearly the past year setting another such course which alleviates the necessity for all that learning and the sore thumb.

It’s called “AffiloJetpack” and is easily the best such course available anywhere and I highly recommend it.

While Affilojetpack is not specifically targeted at Baby Boomers, I see it as the ideal method for baby boomers to get into Affiliate Marketing while avoiding the sore thumb syndrome so many of us have had to go through.

Find all the information on this Affilojetpack revolutionary course here.

The very Least You’ll get by visiting the site:

IS a FREE Report which is A Step By Step Formula That That Has Literally Made Mark Ling MILLIONS Of Dollars Online.
Now It’s Yours… For FREE!”…..

without the sore thumb!

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One of the many things which both confused and annoyed me when I first became interested in Internet marketing, was the “Don’t do what I do, do what I say” scenario used by so many affiliate marketers and guru’s alike.

Lambs to the Slaughter

I think it’s fairly safe to say that all who become interested in making money online, do so because they’d either read or been told that there’s easy money to made on the net. So, the next move is to go looking for a means by which they can become another rich internet millionaire.

Now, the one thing we are all invariably guilty of in our searches, is to sign up to what seems to be promising free news letters or actually subscribe to paid ones?

While there is nothing wrong with that “initially”, in that there is so much great free and paid information available online, one of the first pieces of advice every internet marketing course, affiliate newsletter or subscription regardless of cost will provide you with ….. Is to “unsubscribe from all the other subscriptions you have signed up for”.

The “Delete Your Cookies” suggestion

Many marketers will also tell you to delete your cookies and temporary internet files as well to ensure the security of your computer. But this ploy is really only to ensure that there is less likelihood of you buying the same product they are promoting from another affiliate who’s URL you may have saved or will be in the history of your browser. (This is a sneaky little trick which became popular a couple of years ago but fortunately seems to have lost flavor somewhat in that it lacks ethics, integrity and credibility.)

So once having done what is suggested, the next thing which will happen is that you start to receive the affiliate newsletter you subscribed to, which will usually contain several product links.

Circles within Circles

That’s fine as well because that’s how many affiliates sell the products they are promoting…..but, the links provided when clicked on will almost invariably take you to an auto responder opt in, sign up page. Now since you’ve already signed up to the page your now on, the new sign up will more often than not, subscribe you to one of the subscriptions you were advised to sign out of in the first place??????

The Gullible Newbie

Like so many newbies, I couldn’t understand the logic of this until I realized that by re-subscribing, I was actually doing so under the affiliate link of the person’s newsletter I had recently subscribed to and if I actually purchased anything from my new sign up, the affiliate I had just signed up under would receive commissions for that sale.

The problem is however, for newbies, they find ourselves in the exactly the same sinking boat they started in, with the same  confusing glut of information overload they were advised to avoid in the first place.

The Catch 22

It’s all a bit like the dog chasing his tail in one direction and then turning around and doing it in the other. Poor old Fido doesn’t realize that the solution to his problem is to simply sit on the damn thing to keep it still  and he can bite it and it’s fleas all he likes.

Internet marketing has it’s similarities in that if you find a method that you can sit on which will help you achieve success, don’t go spinning off in another direction.


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Fishing for Guest Blog Posts

A few days ago I received an offer from a list owner to write a guest blog post on my blog.

While guest blog posts are hardly a new idea for getting traffic to your site, it was the first time someone had actually suggested it to me so it sparked my interest.

Granted that the invitation came from a list I’d previously signed up to, I did have some faith in the sender because he had shown remarkable results from his twitter account and was also a member of a private forum of which I’m also a member.

In the guest blog post invitation, he’s taken steps to make it easy for anyone to contact him if they indeed wanted him to submit a guest post so I did!

He’s made a point of explaining the benefits of guest blog  posts to both the blog owner and himself and also requested an outline of which topic the blog owner would like him to write a guest post on. He also mentioned that the email was being sent to 10,000 subscribers so I’d need to be fast!

Seeing this as a good opportunity to have a well known “twitterer” guest post on my blog, I wrote a detailed email back to him providing all the information he said he required to write the guest blog post and the following is some of what I wrote:

“I’ve been on your list for only a couple of months and joined because I was impressed with some of your posts in the marketing with Alex forum of which I’m also a member.
If you look at my blog you’ll see that I’m a baby boomer hopefully targeting other boomers with the intention of inspiring them to jump on the internet marketing wagon to ensure a regular income for their retirement.
I think the vast majority of people in their 60’s don’t have the skills to operate a computer to the degree where they can set up an internet business, and it’s those skills or the lack of them, I would like your guest blog post to target, in creating an interest in learning them.
The other thing which comes to mind is Australia’s notorious reputation for slow internet connections and how to develop an internet marketing business with that restriction”.

The following day I received the following email from him and my reply:
Hi Sean,

Thanks for the email, but… can you tell me what you want a guest blog post on?

David
“Hi David.


Sorry you didn’t get the gist of what I wanted. I thought I’d mapped it out within the  2 sentences below this message. (now above) If you could write a post on baby boomers entering the Internet marketing field………..with the usual complications and restrictions of not having previously had any formal computer training at school etc.

I realise it’s a broad field to write about but if you can write anything at all which is relevant to the topics it will have the effect you want in providing exposure to yourself and also provide me with a guest blog post etc.”

His reply indicated to me that the whole exercise was a waste of time in that it seemed that he wasn’t interested in carrying out any research on any other topic other than the ones he was familiar with in order to write a guest blog post for anyone.
What he wrote back to me was the following:
Hi Sean,

Seeing as I am not a baby boomer myself, you would be far more qualified to write a post on that topic than me……

Do you have another suggestion for me?

David
I did have another suggestion for him but I think would be inappropriate to include it here.
Now I may be wrong but I think I made the topic of the guest blog post I wanted fairly clear in my first email to him and that realistically, even if only 10% of the people he sent the original email out to wanted him to write a guest post he would be writing 1000 guest blog posts which would keep him busy for quite a long time.
So….I guess it just reinforces what I’ve come to firmly believe and advise. Pay particular attention to whose lists you sign up to and restrict them to only those you completely trust.

I’m now off his list!

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A Guru’s ATM!

Are you a Guru’s ATM?

Some time ago when I first became interested in internet marketing, I recall doing what most of us do when getting started in that I watched countless videos and signed up to numerous free and paid courses and news letters which had my inbox groaning under the weight.

I remember when online videos first took off as a marketing tool and I still recall my feelings of exuberance when I watched my first one, fully believing at the time that I’d found my future in the product it was promoting.

It was a new system unlike anything ever done before. It thoroughly trashed every other single method of making money online such as affiliate marketing, list building, email marketing, blogging, forum marketing, article marketing and every other system previously developed. It even went so far as to give eBay a blasting when at the time eBay was probably the most successful form of making money online there was!

It went on to show proof of how “Their System” had made this person 20K in as many days and yadda yadda yadda……

All you needed to do was to go to a certain web page where you submitted all your details including your phone number and they would be in touch within a few days to tell you how you would become rich almost overnight.

Sure enough a few days later when answering the phone in my home on the North East Coast of Northern Australia, I was greeted by a very friendly and heavily accented American voice that proceed to tell me how, by investing around 15K I could easily make around 5K in no time at all.

Now I’m no mathematical whiz kid but that idea didn’t seem to be what I had in mind when laboring through the initial video and filling in the form with all the little boxes which simply had to be filled in so precisely.

When at the end he finally asked me to sign up and I declined, he abused me for wasting his time at which time I simply hung up. I couldn’t believe it when the phone rang a couple of minutes later to have him call me back to berate me a little more, not once but 3 times after I kept hanging up. Obviously after the third time I just unplugged the phone.

I later found out that the person who called me was actually representing one of the biggest and most well known internet marketing gurus there is.

Another one was the guy who was making 250K per year with Adsense. He only wanted $297 to reveal his brand new never seen before cutting edge system.

Adsense????? Who was he kidding?

The above are just a couple of examples of how these so called gurus want you to be their own personal ATM’s  and over the next few posts I’m going to attempt to outline how to avoid becoming a slave to these sharks even though you may only be a tadpole in their midst.

A clue: How to Stay focused!


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About the Nostalgia Page.

This really isn’t the nostalgia page at all. The nostalgia page is in the above margin above the header but I just thought I’d introduce it here.

As a result of the feedback and comments I received about the “Older than dirt” post I thought I’d reserve a special page just for nostalgia.

Since this blog is really from a baby boomer for the benefit of other baby boomers, we should see some amusing and maybe “lump in throat” memories emerge.

The whole idea is to just go to the nostalgia page above and write about a nostalgic memory. Preferably your post should be about things that no longer exist such as the way things were done “back in the olden days when WE were kids”

However you don’t have to be a baby boomer to post on the nostalgia page.

Any interesting stories you might have about the past are welcome. Maybe you heard something from your parents or grandparents which will be fine.

I’ll start it off with a few and hopefully others will add to it as time goes by.

Just click on the nostalgia page at the top of this page or click here to start.


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Making eBay a Home Based Business.

It almost goes without saying that one of the most popular ways to make money online is with eBay;  However thereFree eBay Video box really aren’t that many people who make a lot of money by selling on eBay. While there are several reasons for that, the one which stands out is that most people just don’t know how to become rich using eBay.

These videos are free. Can’t wait? Just click here to have a look.

In the past I’ve actually made money on eBay but really it was quite by accident that I did! On 2 occasions that I can remember, I bought something on eBay, only to find out when it arrived that it wasn’t what I wanted. The first item was a spray gun because I was painting a car but by the time it arrived I’d finished the job. And the second was a book which upon reading I found I didn’t like.So, I re-submitted the items and put the original starting bid price on them, plus a little bit more to cover the shipping costs I had already paid.

What happened next in both cases was that someone bought the items for more than I had paid for them and so turning me an accidental profit I didn’t expect. Of course that was just a small example of how to use eBay and I probably made about $5 on each of the 2 deals but if I was to repeat that 100 times obviously I would be making some good money.

In my case however, it’s just not practical because I live in a region of Australia where the nearest post office or shipping facility is too far away to warrant the expense of the time and travel. And of course there’s always the risk that the items bought to sell, either don’t sell or sell for less than I paid for them.

However, in having said that there are people who have been able to make a veritable fortune from eBay simply because they DO know what they are doing. My mentor Alex Jeffreys made very good money on eBay by firstly buying Motor bikes from Japan and selling them in England and then by selling CDs.

Another person who springs to mind is Francis Ochoco who was the first ever eBay Entrepreneur of the year. Francis has become instrumental in creating a series of eBay tutorial videos unbridled in detail in how to become rich from eBay. Below is a little of what he says about the Videos. Read the rest of this entry

How to Record Video Tutorials Free.

This is just a quick post to mention a great little piece of free software which is available to those who need an alternative to  downloading  tutorials  etc. and how to record video tutorials  free.

Since the advent of online affiliate marketing and  fast internet connections, particularly those with unlimited data transfer became available a few years ago, places like Utube and social media sites like Twitter etc. have become a haven for those who are either looking for short videos or need somewhere to expose a video to the world.

Internet Marketers have jumped on these sites as a means to expose their product to the world for free and have experienced great success in doing so. However, while these methods are great for both the video maker and the “hungry for knowledge internet marketing newbie”……. they are only great if the user has an unlimited data transfer or a very cheap Internet Service Provider.  Quite often video tutorial don’t allow for downloading or provide a method  to record video tutorials free of charge.

While many tutorial sites do provide such videos free of charge, more often than not, the videos can’t be downloaded to a hard drive meaning that in order to watch them over and over which is often necessary, the need to do so means either leaving the tab open which is also impractical in many cases, or re-loading from the net every time the video is required.

For me and many other folk out there, the above options are not available because I live in a region of Australia where the only 2 forms of internet connections  available are dial up and satellite.

Obviously as an internet marketer, the former would make it impossible to operate and the latter being limited to a pre-determined amount of monthly data transfer, makes it impractical to be streaming or watching tutorial videos as they load because it obviously gobbles up the data transfer limit pretty quickly.

Of course there are many reasons why people would like to copy or record these videos. To be able to watch them offline of course, immediately springs to mind but unless they can be downloaded and saved, that’s impossible….or is it?

Recently I came across a piece of software which allows the user to record a video while watching it and then save it to a place of choice on their hard drive. While it does require the sacrifice of disc space, this is reduced somewhat by the audio within the video being automatically compressed so as to save space.

A hint in using it is to start the video and “pause it” and then let it run for the first few minutes before taking it back to beginning before hitting the record button. In that way if you are on a slow connection or if it’s streaming, you won’t get any breaks or pauses in the video which will use more of your disc space.

If you want to know more or get a Free Download for this great little piece of software  go here


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