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The Dirtiest Word – Does This Apply To You
Posted by: | CommentsOf all the words that can be applied to one’s self during training, learning, growth or really just about anything is one word that should be loathed by everyone.
That word is, discouraged (discouragement).
Discouragement can derail even the smallest dreams, let alone larger ones. Once you become discouraged it’s hard to feel good about anything you’re doing and a feeling of simply giving up can overwhelm you.
Throughout history attempts to discourage have existed. Examples of this can be found in sports, warfare, politics, movements and more. In sports often teams will try to run up the score quickly as to discourage the other team from trying. Once the score gets high enough the other team can get a “why even try” feeling. In politics and political movements opponents can make the other side look as if they don’t have enough followers to even gain ground, causing a feeling of pure “impossibility”.
You see these people understand discouraging the other side so they can close a victory. So how does this apply to you? Obviously, we’re in a totally different field. We’re in the field of making money online. But, discouragement can still dismantle any chance that you have of making anything and in the rest of this article I’m going to explain why.
When you’re learning how to make money online you’re obviously doing something you haven’t tried to do before. With anything that we must learn there is always going to be growth and we shouldn’t expect to be amazing at anything right after we get started. The problem is that when a new person comes into a “make money online” system and they don’t start earning money right away they can become discouraged. Once the person is discouraged they start feeling frustrated. Frustration leads to lack of focus. Lack of focus leads to not learning correctly and growing. These feelings ultimately lead to simply giving up. Once you’ve given up there is absolutely no chance to make money, you’ve lost.
So what do you do if you start feeling discouraged. I’ll tell you what I do; take a break. I’m not talking about taking a year off or anything crazy like that. What I am referring to is to walk away for a day or at least a few hours and come back. During this time go and do something fun or something to ease your mind. Come back once you’ve settled down and pace yourself.
I still remember when I was building my very first website. I was so excited to get started and make money. However, not long into the process I got completely stuck on something and I began to get frustrated. I literally worked on this for hours and I couldn’t make the stupid thing work. Does that sound familiar? I have a hot temper and over the years I’ve learned something because of this. I’ve learned that when I am starting to become discouraged or frustrated that I have to get up and unwind for a moment. So when I hit this snag and I couldn’t make it work I simply got up from my computer chair and went for a long run. I came back a few hours later and easily found the cure to the problem that I had just spent hours fuming over. This worked because once I came back I was calm and could then think rationally again. During times of stress, anxiety, fear, displacement, anger, or discouragement our emotions cause us to overlook things and miss steps because we are not 100% focused anymore.
During this learning process you must not let yourself get discouraged. Once you become discouraged you’ll begin to miss instructions, over look details and ultimately become deeply confused. These emotions can cause you to miss out on a wonderful opportunity to make money from your home.
Anyone can make money online with the proper training, proper focus and proper mindset. But, if you let that dirty little word into your mind it can derail even the best teaching and even the strongest people. My best advice is stay positive and if you get frustrated walk away for awhile. But, no matter what you do keep the word discouragement out of your mind.
Go Evergreen In Your Market and Profit
Posted by: | CommentsLast week I discussed using Click Bank to find a niche even if you’re not a Click Bank affiliate. I also discussed 2 myths about Niche Research. You can check that Niche Research Post here. I also talked about how the free version of Market Samurai could help you discover profitable markets.
This week I want to discuss ever green niches. Evergreen niche markets are basically markets that will never go away and most people need them. Finance and health are 2 such markets and there is big money in them.
In fact, in those 2 markets alone there are billions of dollars just sitting there ready for the taking. In fact, each and every day affiliates are making millions of dollars in these markets. However, there is a slight problem. The overall market itself is way to competitive to just plunge in and hope you make money in it.
That’s where the Niche Blitzkrieg method comes in. We want to select smaller markets (niches) within the larger market and get involved in that. Remember even a small slice a multi-billion dollar pie can bring you a really nice paycheck. You basically, want to do your research inside these markets and uncover some profitable niches with lower competition.
Some notable niches inside these evergreen markets are as follows:
Finance:
Making Money Online
Refi and Loan Mod
Mortgage
Stock Market
Day Trading
Home Buying Guides
Saving Money
Betting and Gambling
Money Problems (spending issues)
There are of course hundreds more to consider. This is just a small list of what type of Niches exist in this market.
Health:
Healthy Eating
Weight Loss
Dieting
How to make your (problem area of the body) look better – can be any area
Getting better abs
Living Longer
How to exercise
Avoiding Weight Gain
Fast Weight Loss
Weight Loss For New Mothers
Healthy Heart
Preventing Disease
Again, just a few but you get the idea.
Now what is important to keep in mind is that you can even break it down from there. Often, getting into the smaller niches can pay off for a couple of reasons.
#1. Highly Targeted Market. Imagine promoting a “Get Better Abs” product to someone who is looking for better abs. A mistake many people make is trying to promote the right product to the wrong person.
If someone came to your website looking for exercise tips they might not be in the market for the Better Abs Guide. Although you’d likely make sales it won’t be as many as you could.
#2. Easier to build the site. It’s always easier to build a good site when you keep your spectrum down. Creating a site about weight loss can be a painful process that would need hundreds of pages. Building a site about how to get rock hard biceps wouldn’t take nearly as much work and could be more profitable in the short term. Again, it would even be much more targeted and therefore more likely to convert a visit into a sale.
Now, I’m not saying that you can’t make money in non-evergreen markets. In fact, I make great money in markets that are outside that realm. There are still long lasting profits in sites based on toys, luxuries, pop culture, current events, entertainment and similar. I am merely suggesting for you to consider an evergreen niche, especially if you’re new to the business.
The biggest mistake made in niche site creation and niche affiliate marketing is going too broad. While learning it can also prolong the process. This is just something to keep in mind while you are planning your sites out.
So in your niche research consider getting into an evergreen niche. You’ll find larger audiences, larger payouts and that the market will not dry out or lose popularity because we all need these things.
Again the recap: Evergreen niche markets can provide lifelong profits and stability.
#1. Get into a niche within an evergreen market.
#2. Make your site targeted for that niche. (The more targeted the better).
#3. Enjoy longer lasting profits.
#4. A small slice of a Giant pie is still a lot of money.
#5. Everyone loves pie 
Thoughts? Are you already in these type of markets?
Google Backgrounds Special Niche Blitzkrieg Freebie
Posted by: | CommentsNot long ago Google started utilizing backgrounds, much like Bing. The good news is people have said they love it. Whether people think Google is just copying what everyone else is now doing or not is besides the point. The fact is, we want personalization and they adapted for us.
So I had one of my graphics artists create some backgrounds for my Niche Blitzkrieg members.
These are uplifting backgrounds and the first style is called "I Will Conquer This Mountain."
Check them out here.
You can download all 3 RIGHT HERE. ((((((=========================
Sometimes all we need is a little bit of uplifting to keep us motivated and going strong.
Now I’m going to show you how to use one of these files.
#1. Unzip the folder that you download.
#2. Make sure you have a google account.
#3. Sign into your Google account.
#4. Click "Change Background Image"
#5. Select "from this computer"
#6. Select browse and upload.
Done.
Enjoy these uplifting screens to help motivate you during the money making process.
How to Destroy Your Business (This is UGLY).
Posted by: | CommentsRecently, I bought a product online from a pretty well respected person in the Internet Marketing niche. I bought the product because it looked like a great tool and I thought I could use it to increase my business.
I installed the product and started using it. It worked GREAT for awhile. After 6 months I began having some issues with it so I contacted the vendor. (This is where the whole experience becomes and utter nightmare and where I think MANY businesses are shooting themselves in the foot.)
First, I couldn’t find a support desk anywhere for the product. I finally found it by watching one of the guys videos where he simply mention the help desk email address. Keep in mind I still have to write it down after watching a 16 minute video just to find that.
So I now send an email to the help desk (on a Monday). A few days go by and I get no answer at all. So I send another email at this point (Hey I fully understand emails can get lost, dropped in a SPAM folder, accidentally deleted or just lost in the shuffle.)
Another 5 days go by and still, nothing.
By this point I’ll admit I’m getting a little bit irritated.
Finally, an email comes in. YAY! Except their solution is I am not using the product right and to re-watch the videos.
So I basically waited 8 days to get a two sentence email back telling me to go re-watch the videos. So I decided, for sake of my own sanity, maybe I missed something and I went back and rewatched all the videos.
Hmmm I’d set everything up right. So now I get to email this person again.
So I fired off another email explaining that I followed the videos again, the product was originally working and now is not working, but upon rewatching the videos I know that everything is setup right.
After only 7 days this time I got a response back. I felt great about not having to wait until the 8th day again….
PAY ATTENTION – if you have a help support desk, support staff, sales team or are just doing things yourself in your own Internet business, this is what not to do……
The email this time simply says…. "The product works but you must have another script interfering with it. If you can’t get the product to work we’ll send you a refund, just send us your receipt and we’ll get that taken care of for you."
Right now you should be cringing if you’re reading this.
So I sent back a message explaining I DON’T want a refund and that it would be nice if they could help trouble shoot the potential problem and help me get it working again…. I mean unless I am wrong that is what a HELP desk is for. (Honestly, the $67 I spent on the product isn’t life changing so I’d rather have some help to get it to work.}
Now, 13 days later – still NOTHING.
So that prompted me to write a post and go over some things that if you’re doing in your business you MUST FIX now.
#1. If you have a help desk train your staff. Do I even need to cover this? Just hiring a person to send emails back and forth isn’t going to help your customers. I mean you do care about your customers, right? Having ignorant people with your company makes you look really ignorant as well.
#2. TIME is an issue. I understand smaller companies might not be able to have phone support. However, if you’re going to have a help desk make sure they respond to YOUR customers in a timely manner. Making someone wait for 7-8 days for an initial response is BAD business. If you’re business is so busy that, that is the fastest time they can get back to you – hire more people.
#3. Make sure people can find your help desk. This should be a no-brainer. If you are selling online products make sure people can find your help desk and support area. If you’re selling digital products this should be included on your download page and inside the product.
Not an extremely hard list to follow is it? You’d be surprised at how poorly managed this is online. It can at times feel like an epidemic of poor customer service.
Keep in mind a couple things. I fully understand that a help desk might not be able to get back with me over a weekend (between Friday night and Monday morning) and I also understand lack of support for holidays. If your company is large enough you should include that, but if not it makes sense not to have it over the weekend. However, all support should be done on the Monday after the weekend.
It’s also possible for emails to not arrive at their destination. It happens. It’s not perfect. However, if it keeps happening to a customer that excuse won’t fly. Treat your customers like gold and they will keep buying. Even if my situation gets resolved I will never buy from this person again. Let’s face it, I’m busy and to waste time isn’t really an option.
Lastly, I’ll stress it one last time, Treat your customers like GOLD. You may not think one person matters but each time it adds up. The last thing you ever want to get labeled as is someone who doesn’t give a crap about their customers or that you’re only doing this for the money and you’re basically ripping people off. They will flee and never come back.
