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Top Affiliate has been a member since August 1st 2006, and has created 109 posts from scratch.

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How to Become a Successful Niche Marketer

Becoming a Successful Niche Marketer

Online niche marketing is more than just an online fad. People have been earning amazing incomes from it for several years; every day, more and more people get on board and start living the dream, too. If you think that becoming a successful niche marketer is out of your reach, think again. With the right guidance, it’s truly possible for anyone to become a success in the niche marketing game. These days, the crème de la crème of the niche marketing how-to world has to be Micro Niche Finder. Get on board with that program and read the following info to get the ball rolling on your niche marketing adventure!

Step One: Researching Popular Niches

There’s a delicate balance to finding the right niche market. On the one hand, you want something that’s specific enough to keep the playing field as sparse as possible; on the other, you need a niche market that will earn you steady, reliable income. The first step to becoming a successful niche marketer is zeroing in on the right niche. There are literally thousands of them available; getting started can be quite overwhelming. Micro Niche Finder simplifies this daunting step, allowing you to pinpoint the niche that is right for you.

Key things to keep in mind when researching niches include:

Find Out what People are Looking For – To find the right niche, you need to keep your finger on the pulse of what people are searching for online. Any niche marketer will tell you that staying abreast of what’s popular in online searches is the backbone of making this venture work for you. The main ingredient to being a successful niche marketer is drawing in targeted traffic; once you have an audience, the battle is all downhill. Selecting a niche that people are seeking information about is a great first step.

Choose an Untapped Niche Market – Here’s where the balancing act comes into play: You need to select a niche that’s being searched for but that isn’t oversaturated. If there are hundreds of other niche marketers trying to get in on the action, your profits will be extremely diluted. This is why it pays to sign up for an automated system like Micro Niche Finder, which helps you zero in on emerging niches with ease. By getting in on the ground floor of a niche market, you will increase your odds of experiencing amazing success as a niche marketer.

Analyze Niches at a Glance – A big stumbling block for any niche marketing is analyzing the potential of any given niche market. Usually, doing this is extremely difficult. With MicroNicheFinder, you can size up a niche market at a glance.

Step Two: Finding the Right Product

The next step in becoming a successful niche marketer is finding the right product within the niche of your choice. In this case, it pays to get as specific as possible with your keyword research. Overly broad keywords and key phrases are going to leave you spinning your tires. You need to zero in on a product that can be found through more in-depth keywords and key phrases. Micro Niche Finder makes it a snap to analyze the usefulness and effectiveness of various keywords and key phrases, allowing you to pinpoint the products that will generate the most business for you.

Another thing to keep in mind when selecting a product as a niche marketer is gauging its potential in terms of affiliate marketing. For many niche marketers, affiliate marketing is one of their most lucrative sources of income. Some products do better than others in the affiliate marketing game. MicroNicheFinder makes it possible to get a feel for how well a product will perform for you in this regard.

Step Three: Setting Up Your Venture as a Niche Marketer

Once all of the analyzing has been done, it’s time to get the ball rolling in earnest. Yet again, Micro Niche Finder simplifies the process of getting your business off the ground. There are many ways to get going as a niche marketer. Setting up a series of small sales websites is a great first step. These sites can include forms that people can use to sign up for e-newsletters; you can then use those newsletters to expand your reach and make sales. As emphasized in the MicroNicheFinder program, diverting and converting are exceptionally important things that any niche marketer should know.

Basically:

Diverting – As a niche marketer, you need to divert as much traffic to your own sites as possible. This can be done in various ways, including press releases, pay-per-click programs, article marketing, email campaigns and backlinks.

Converting – Once the traffic’s been diverted to your site, you need to convert it into sales. You can do this by selling your products or through affiliate marketing. Another prime option you can use as a niche marketer is AdSense revenue; convert the traffic into email lists that can be used to generate income, too.

As you can see, there’s more than one way to go about becoming a wildly successful niche marketer. In fact, it pays to put as many different things to work for you as possible. If you’re really serious about becoming a niche marketer, though, you need to sign up with MicroNicheFinder. Between its indispensable assistance and the points made above, you’ll be able to skyrocket to the top in no time.

Niche Marketer

Medical or Health Affiliate Site Disclaimer

Do you operate an affiliate site related to the medical or health industries?  If you do it may prove beneficial to add a medical disclaimer to your affiliate site in order to save yourself from unnecessary headaches.  In addition, although it’s never been publicly stated (to the best of my knowledge), Google may look more favorably on an affiliate site with a medical disclaimer.

Furthermore, I feel adding a medical disclaimer to your medical or health related affiliate site also gives you more credibility and legitimacy with your potential customers in a very skeptical market sector.  And hey, at the very least you can add a little more unique content to your affiliate site.  Here’s an example medical disclaimer I use on my affiliate sites.

Example Medical or Health Related Affiliate Site Disclaimer

“AFFILIATE SITE Medical Disclaimer

The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this web site is for general information purposes only.  AFFILIATE SITE makes no representation and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained on or available through this web site, and such information is subject to change without notice. You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through this web site with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician.

NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.

AFFILIATE SITE does not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this web site.

AFFILIATE SITE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.”

So there you go people.  Copy, modify and paste to your affiliate site at your leisure!

Top Affiliate Domain Auctions Is Live

Like many web publishers and online marketers I have literally hundreds of domain names in development.  To be perfectly honest I have far too many just lying dormant on my registrar or collecting small profits from domain parking services.  As such a little early spring cleaning of my domain portfolio is in order!

Growing tiresome of domain auction websites I decided to launch Top Affiliate Domain Auctions.  Lets keep it in-house and keep the prices down!

Over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be auctioning off my portfolio of domains.  Some of these will be sold in groups (i.e. same name .com, .net, .org, .info) while others are solo top level domains.  Prices will vary on each domain name or domain package sold and bid increases are as low as $.01.

Official PayPal SealDomain Auction Procedures:

  • Domain auction durations may vary but will last for approximately 30 days
  • All domain auction transactions will be conducted through Top Affiliates verified PayPal account: sales[at]top-affiliate.com
  • All domains or domain auction packages will have ‘Buy it Now’ pricing
    • If ‘Buy it Now’ pricing is not met upon auction expiration, I reserve the option to cancel the auction
  • All domains are registered with www.GoDaddy.com
    • Upon purchase the buyer must sign up for a GoDaddy.com account in order to transfer the domain.  Once the domain has been transferred to the buyer on Godaddy the buyer can transfer the domain to their registrar of choice.

Please coordinate all questions regarding Top Affiliate Domain Auctions sales to: sales[at]top-affiliate.com.  Please check Top Affiliate Domain Auctions often for new domains listed.

Thank you!

Social Network Marketing by OnlyWire on Top Affiliate

Always on the lookout for new marketing tools and services I found a pretty slick tool that allows me to publish my blog posts and static web pages to all the major social networking sites.  It’s called OnlyWire (maybe you’ve heard of it) and I’ve been successfully using it for about a month now.

OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click.  OnlyWire makes it EXTREMELY easy to get your message out to the broadest possible audience in the shortest amount of time while improving readership, backlinks, search engine index speed and web-traffic.

Currently, the OnlyWire API is compatible with the following social networking sites:

  • ask
  • bebo
  • bibsonomy
  • blinklist
  • bookmarksync
  • connotea
  • delicious
  • digg
  • diigo
  • facebook
  • bluedot
  • googlebookmarks
  • jumptags
  • linkatopia
  • misterwong
  • mixx
  • multiply
  • myspace
  • newsvine
  • plaxo
  • propeller
  • reddit
  • simpy
  • slashdot
  • spurl
  • stumbleupon
  • technorati
  • tumblr
  • twitter
  • yahoobookmarks

OnlyWire Social Network Marketing Example

Here's an example of the one click publishing provided by OnlyWire. Please click on the image for better resolution.

So how does this benefit you?

Obviously you’ll want to use this on your own websites but it also helps your listings on Top Affiliate.  When OnlyWire users visit your affiliate program page on the directory they’ll have the option to instantly publish your page across their selected social networking sites.  More exposure always means more traffic.

Social Network Marketing on Top Affiliate

Click on image for better resolution.

The OnlyWire button is found at the bottom right of all Top Affiliate directory pages.  One click publishing!

Is OnlyWire just another social bookmarking application?

Well….yes but the problem with many conventional social bookmarking applications is the time it takes to manually publish web pages to each social network.  They can only do one at a time.  Who wants to sit there and manually bookmark web content across 20 different social networks?  Not me! This means a good portion of web pages out there are never bookmarked, it’s just too much trouble.

So how much of a hassle is it to set up?

Registering for OnlyWire and setting up an account takes a little over an hour if you’re not a member of all the social networking sites.  Registering can be a hassle with some social networking sites but it’s worth your time.

So how much does it cost?

OnlyWire offers FREE and paid services.  If you select the free service you’ll have to:

“agree to add the OnlyWire “Bookmark & Share Button” on your website or blog within 24 hours or your bookmarking ability will be temporarily disabled.  The Button will immediately drive traffic to your website by providing your users the ability to simultaneously bookmark your content across multiple bookmarking sites. The Button also allows your users to share your pages via email with their friends and collegues.” – Onlywire

I purchased a year up front to use their automated content distribution for $24.99 but you can also pay a monthly fee of $2.99.  My time is worth a little more than $24.99 or $0.07/day if you want to do the math!

Top Affiliate Recommended Tax Affiliate Programs

Tax season is here, are you ready?  I hope so because there is a hungry market out there searching for e-File authorized online tax preparation services.  Just how many?  Well here’s some interesting facts and figures the IRS released on November 2, 2009 in regards to e-filing in the 2009 tax season.  (See IR-2009-99 (Nov. 2, 2009) for the entire release.

1) in 2000, 27.57% or 35,412,000 returns were e-Filed, whereas in 2009, more than two-thirds–67.18% or 94,980,000 our of 141,376,000, were e-Filed;

2) The total number of returns shrank, however, from 153,650,000 in 2008 (a drop of 8%);

3) More taxpayers were doing their own e-Filing–almost 20% more prepared and e-Filed their own returns rather than using tax preparers to do so;

4) The government gave $303.069 billion back to taxpayers in refunds this year, an increase of more than 20% over last year’s refunds; and

5) The 73 million taxpayers who got electronically deposited refunds got them at least a week sooner than those waiting for a paper check, and cost the government less at the same time..

Since the IRS e-File system meets the needs of nearly all taxpayers, no matter how complicated or simple their returns are, more and more people will turn to online tax preparation services.  Using e-File helps taxpayers take advantage of the tax credits available to them to maximize their refunds during these tough economic times and provides key benefits such as:

* Faster Refunds
* Greater Accuracy
* Secure and confidential submission
* No paper return to mail
* File now, pay later
* Quick confirmation

This is great news for affiliate marketers because there is a a variety of tax software products available commercially that offer e-File.  Here’s a selection of the top e-File authorized tax affiliate programs across some of the major networks:

buyat Affiliate Network e-File authorized tax preparation services on the buyat Affiliate Network.
Express Tax Refund Commission Value: $25 per completed filing
Cookie: 30 days
TaxACT Commission Value: $3.30 per registration
Cookie: Same Session Only

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Commission Junction e-File authorized tax preparation services on the Commission Junction Affiliate Network.
Complete Tax Commission Value: 20% per completed filing
Cookie: 120 days
H&R Block Commission Value: 20% per completed filing
Cookie: 45 days
Quicken Commission Value: 15% per completed filing
Cookie: 30 days
Turbo Tax Commission Value: 15% per completed filing
Cookie: 45 days

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Linkshare Affiliate Ntwork e-File authorized tax preparation services on the LinkShare Affiliate Network.
Free Tax USA Commission Value: 50-65% per completed filing
Cookie: ? days

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e-File authorized tax preparation services on the ShareASale Affiliate Network.
OnepriceTaxes Commission Value: 30% per completed filing
Cookie: 120 days
TaxBrain Commission Value: 60% per completed filing
Cookie: 30 days
TaxExact Commission Value: 20% per completed filing
Cookie: 120 days
Tax Head Commission Value: $2.00 per completed filing
Cookie: 30 days