I got this from Andrew Hansen, thanks Andrew

This is a tool that allows you to uncover popular niches by…

Searching the internet for popular discussion boards and forums related to a keyword you enter.

It’s called twing.com

Here’s why I think this site has crazy potential for use by us marketers:

1. There’s a difference between knowing that a term has 10 000 searches per month and knowing that a term has 10 000 active forum threads related to it. The difference is that those 10 000 searchers in Google could be anybody - but the 10 000 forum threads are filled with people who are ACTIVE on the internet - they are accustomed to seeking information - they are more web savvy (generally) - they are more likely to know how to buy stuff (generally) - they are the kind of people you want in your niche!

This tool lets you find niches with those kinds of people.

2. It lets you gauge the popularity of the forums over time. Just because 10 forums exist on a topic doesn’t mean it is a popular niche. But 10 POPULAR forums who’s members and thread/post count is increasing over the course of the year - that’s a good sign. Twing gives you all that data and more.

3. It actually provides suggestions of popular areas of forums. It’s like nicheorama before your eyes. You can hit the community buzz section and see random chunks of popular forum topics before your eyes. THEN you can analyze those and find out more about the forums in those niches. It’s like this tool has been made with niche research in mind.

What can you do with this tool?

1. Obviously - find a new niche market to get started in.

2. Find forums relevant to a site you already have where you can become a member, make posts and leave links.

3. Niche research and free links? What more do you want! (though in fact there’s even more you could use this tool for if you’re creative )

So hit it up, see what you find and enjoy!

For many years, affiliate marketers have been slogging their guts out creating content, building huge authority sites, portals and virtual communities in order to attract enough traffic to make affiliate commissions.

Also, until recently, anyone new to the world of affiliate marketing has been led to believe that this laborious path to making a few sales as an affiliate is the same one they must tread in order to break free from the day job and become a super affiliate for themselves.

But thankfully, that’s all changing as we speak.

No longer do we have to slave away at creating large amounts of content or persuade other webmasters to link to our newbie sites.

Due to the widening nature of the internet, plus the simplicity of affiliate marketing, there are ample ways to rake in a ton of cash purely in affiliate sales without half the work of years gone by.

How is this done you might ask? Well, here are 4 ways you can get started within the next 5 minutes…

1. Forum posting

Forums are as old as the internet itself, yet placing your affiliate links in forums is still as effective as it always was. Providing you add some sort of genuine help or advice to others and appear authoritative on the same subject that your affiliate offer is related to, you’ll soon be able to drive traffic straight to your affiliate links without the need for a website.

2. Blog/Video Posting

The principle of blog and video posting is the same as forum posting. Leave a useful comment on someone’s blog or Youtube video, with your affiliate link and expect to see some traffic flowing. The more traffic already flowing to that particular video or blog, the more chances of a sale.

3. PPC Direct Linking

Sure, it costs a little money to use PPC, but you can effectively write an ad, send the visitor directly to your affiliate link and never need to create masses of content or buy your own domain name. If someone else beat you to it on Google’s Adwords PPC engine, then don’t forget that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of other smaller PPC engines from competing search engine companies.

4. Group posting

This may require a little content, but still doesnít need to be your own. If you decide to write some useful content (such as a brief 2 paragraphs about how to do something) then you can post to popular online groups such as Google Groups, with your affiliate link included, and expect to see a steady flow of traffic directly to your affiliate link. If you don’t want to write a word, there are plenty of article directories where you can republish other people’s articles legally…just remember to include your affiliate link somewhere on the post you make in the group.

These are just a handful of proven ways to start getting paid passively every month as an affiliate, for no more than 30 minutes “work” in most cases.

However, the problem with promoting affiliate products is that it will always take a lot longer and a lot more people sent through to the offer before you make a sale.

This is because the price is always something people cannot always justify or even afford at the time.

There is a sneaky way around this, which very few people in the online marketing world ever talk about. It’s about promoting different types of affiliate offers that convert at a much higher rate, because they do not require you, as the affiliate, to actually sell anything at all!

What makes this new system even better is the facts that just like the methods above, you don’t need a website or existing traffic.

If you’d like to know what the 1% of lazy affiliate marketers know, then check out this review where this new type of affiliate marketing is exposed from the inside.

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for most online marketers, but as more people try their hand at marketing products and services online, so the competition rises.

We’re reaching a point where website visitors are more precious than ever, and subsequently harder to obtain.

Therefore, it is paramount that we, as affiliate marketers are able to convert as many of these visitors into buyers.

After all, by converting more people we don’t have to spend so much time on hunting down more traffic to our sites and can increase our affiliate checks without overloading our bandwidth.

So the question is, what can you do today to increase affiliate commissions from the same amount of website visitors? Luckily, there are quite a few things you can do to increase the chances of a sale and improve your conversions, so let’s take a look…

1. Place your main offer in the top fold of the page

According to numerous tests, having the offer jammed right in the visitor’s face, such as in the header of the page, will increase the chances of a click, and a subsequent sale. Don’t worry about being obnoxious, people should still be able to easily access your content, but will repeatedly see the main offer first on every relevant page (preferably all pages of the same site).

2. Add more affiliate links with persuasive anchor text

It makes sense that the more times you ask for the sale (or just the click) then the more chances it will actually happen. The old adage of “If you don’t ask then you don’t get” always springs to mind here. Again, don’t flood a page with links but add links inside the content and not just at the bottom of your pages or on the navigation bars. Furthermore, refrain from using links that just describe the product name or show the domain of the affiliated site. It’s far better to use anchor text such as “Get relief from your back pain today” than a simple link such as www.amazingwebsiteaboutbackpainrelief.us.uk

3. Create painful, focused content

It is far better to use content that ties in directly with the visitor’s pain and predominant problems. Therefore, the reader will feel more inclined to take action after being presold with your content. For example, you could write an article about the different types of back pain and a few ways to temporarily relieve it, but then provide plenty of affiliate links to the only real solution.

These are just some of the ways you can increase website conversions for affiliate offers, but I admit that they take time and effort to craft and test.

Creating content that presellís people is a great affiliate marketing model, but by no means the easiest way to make large commissions from affiliate marketing.

Did you know that some of the biggest affiliate marketers online today don’t even need to create content to make affiliate sales? Furthermore, these same marketers are getting several thousand hits to their websites each week purely off the back of other people’s hard work…and most of these marketers don’t even own a domain name!

If you’d like to see what they are doing to get such lazy results, then check out what Alex Goad has brought out of the shadows recently. But be warned, it might make you sick with envy and seriously bruised from kicking yourself repeatedly…

William
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I just finished reading a new report by Walter M. Prorok Jr. and Chris Vendilli.  Inside this report Walt & Chris talk about the in’s & out’s of configuring your Twitter account along with some free third party services to maximize your traffic & exposure.

I was skeptical at first, but after reading through the whole report and watching a couple of the videos available at their website I must say, I’m beyond impressed.

These two guys have been silently attracting visitor after visitor to their sites using Twitter, and they’ve created a step by step guide so that anyone can replicate their ideas & systems.

Yes, that’s right, it’s another “system.”  Most of us, as marketers, have pretty much come to recognize the word “system” as overused and often incorrectly placed.  But, with “The Twitter Report” and the videos that follow, this stuff really is formatted into what you could correctly label a “system” at it’s finest.

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Most of the stuff they cover includes many things you could likely figure out on your own, however, this report can save you the time & aggravation of having to go through trial and error while you make the same mistakes they’ve already made for you, & neatly documented along the way.

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I’m sure you’ll enjoy “The Twitter Report” as much as I did and you can go check it out here:

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As blogging and in particular blogging for profit becomes ever more popular amongst online entrepreneurs, we’re seeing new tools developed to assist in this process being released, what seems like every week.

In this post I’m going to talk about one such tool, Firepow Blogging Software,because I believe it might just be a cut above the rest in terms of it’s flexibility of use, and overall effectiveness in accomplishing the three primary aims of blogging - creating a blog, managing it or maintaining it, and getting traffic to it.

It was hard to know where to start with this post because there are so many individual features of this software that could be mentioned.

To give you a brief overview of how it works…

Firepow is based on the Wordpress platform, and allows a user to install a fully customized and functioning Wordpress blog with a few clicks of the mouse.

If you’ve used Wordpress before, you’ll know that one of the best things about it is it’s ability to be enhanced by third party plugins. You’ll also know that it’s not hard to get LOST in all the plugins and potential feature additions that CAN be made.

The first thing great about Firepow from my point of view is that they have done the plugin work for you. The best 50 or so plugins from around the web have been programmed into the software so as to be automatically installed when your blog is.

That’s a good feature, but it’s even better when you consider that while these plugins normally require manual fiddling to get installed, tweaks made to your theme CSS code and more - the software actually does that part for you too - so you click the button, and you have the function of that plugin added - VERY time saving!

The “Create” part of the process is also helped by the ability to create your own custom wordpress theme completely from scratch, with more functionality than we’ve seen from free theme generators EVER before - not to mention the ability to create your own categories from scratch, automatically create the perfect permalink structure for SEO, and more.

Before even getting into the Wordpress panel of the site Firepow creates you’ve also got a site management tab where all your blogs can be managed from one place, an SEO tracking tool to monitor the search rankings of all your sites, and a task manager that tells you what needs to be done to maintain your blog/s and when.

I dare say though that the best things happen once you’re actually IN the blog.

Here you have crazy abilities to make your post content better, easily being able to add relevant images, videos, or trackbacks (automatically building backlinks to your site) to your posts… and even that’s leaving alot out.

OR the crazy abilities to monitor your blogs success, like being able to split test the results of different posts, monitor your traffic through in depth reporting (utilizing Google analytics), monitoring your search spider activity, the popularity of your posts, the terms people are searching on your site, and more still.

I feel like I’m getting too salesy in this post to you but I can assure even with everything you’ve read here, I haven’t even really touched the surface of what’s going on inside this thing called Firepow - heck we didn’t even get to the promotional tools.

The best thing I can probably do is tell you go to look at the darn thing yourself, click link below.

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Oh and I could also tell you that if your into blogging and you don’t, you’ll probably regret it big time.

I hope you’ve found the information here valuable, and don’t hesitate to leave your comments on Firepow here to share with others.

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I think it is alive and well for the savvy marketer and dam hard work for those you are not.
Have you have heard of Word Tracker - do you know you can see visitor trends and research keyword competitiveness with it as well? It’s not at the regular Word Tracker link:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends

It combines keyword results with Google Trends. There’s also the FREE “Wordtracker Academy” that provides tons of resources regarding keywords. You can utilize Google Trends itself to compare two different markets/keywords. I find this to be very useful when I need to see the demand for two different markets at once.

For example, go to Google Trends: http://trends.google.com/ Type in “golf,internet marketing” (without quotes) and see for yourself… http://www.google.com/trends?q=golf%2Cinternet+marketing

Is internet marketing dead, what do you think ?

It may make more sense to go for other niche markets if you’re a beginner…

And if you already have an internet business in the “internet marketing market”, use your skills to create OTHER businesses in different markets.

Focus on creating one new niche business first, you can find lots of hot selling niches on my site, Gold Label Software, sign up page on your right>>>>>>

Once you select a niche try and create a new one every couple of months.

If one site makes you just $500 per month, conservative, and in 3 months you have 3 of these, you make an extra $1,500 per month.

You can go for the content site route, info product route or simply do affiliate marketing…or all three combined into one model .

This is what real internet marketing is all about - using the internet and what you know (from the IM market) to market any business online.

By looking at the niches we offer on our category list you are assured of choosing a product that is a proven seller, you don’t want to waste money marketing a product that does not sell on the net.

First one is the phrase: “.. quick and easy”
Building a business takes time, effort, knowledge, and determination. Some people get lucky in lots of things, but if we could depend on luck, we could just bet on a horse race whenever we need money. Follow a winner and never quit.

Next one: ” .. work for just a few hours a week …”
People who have busted their buts and worked many hours over years can work for just a few hours a week, but often they are not the type of people to do that in the first place or they would have never gotten where they are. So you need to be dedicated and keep going even when you feel like quitting.

What about : “Anyone can do this”.
Truth is most people who try Internet Marketing fail, and many will never try. I will leave the why of all that to another post because there are many reasons for this. Short of being a genius yourself just imitate a successful person, but do it better.

They say: “This is proof of how much I make doing exactly this”
Frankly a lot of people exaggerate income, they refer to the total amount earned when in reality they still have to pay affiliates and other marketing and operating costs. Watch out for these claims. They are going to sell you some crap.

The need to know everything about marketing before you can make any money is a commonly held, but mistaken, belief. If you just have a reasonably good marketing plan, something you know others have done successfully, you can make money - IF you keep working at it, When you see a good opportunity and implement it fast and well, you will be growing your business.

Or, you will be advised: “Avoid popular niches”
Niches that are popular are so rated because there are buyers. If you get your site out there, and work it all as best you can, you can compete. This happens again and again. You just need to provide a better offer or service than the competition.

Another myth: “Never before revealed secrets that will explode your income”
There are no marketing secrets. There is a big discussion these days about the value of giving away good information. Fact is, marketing yesterday is the same as it is today. Find out what a certain market of group of people are looking to buy, then place before them an offer they can’t refuse.

Keep it simple, remember the ‘KISS’ principle (keep it simple stupid) and produce content, make things, build stuff, and staying with it, is what succeeds. This is as true in Internet Marketing as it is in anything else in life. Just because there are new technologies does not mean it isn’t marketing. People have the same human nature now as ever.

To start you on your way, I’ll give you access to lots of popular selling items in over 50 different niches on my Gold Label Software Site. Use the sign up form, on your right, and gain your access to my free download page, and a host of ideas in the various niches.