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Niche Marketing: 6 Steps To Make Money Online

Making Money OnlineThere are many ways to make money online. I do use several strategies to generate income for myself; however, my single biggest profit center is selling my own products. Selling your own products is where the money is waiting for you.

The best way to do this is to find a niche market and sell an information product.

Here are 6 simple steps to niche marketing:

Step # 1:  Product Creation

Researching and creating multiple products in multiple niche markets and offering those products for sale on unique websites.

There are many ways to make money online. I do use several strategies to generate income for myself; however, my single biggest profit center is selling my own products. Selling your own products is where the money is waiting for you.

When it comes to selling your own product, you can sell a digital product which is downloaded from your website after the customer pays you for it or you can sell a physical product that needs to be shipped to them. I sell both and you should start with what you are comfortable selling. I started with digital products because it is simple to do.

Some of the benefits of selling a digital product are that you have no shipping because it’s immediately delivered to the customer via download; you have no inventory, and you have no product cost after the product has been developed.

Step # 2:  Copywriting

Writing a KILLER sales letter that becomes your 24/7 salesman on your website (money site).

Your product is sold by the words that prospects read on the screen when they arrive at your site. So after developing a product, the second step is to put a sales letter on your website that becomes your 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year salesperson.

The sales letter has only one job. Sell your product! I have found that many people shy away from writing sales letters or they do it completely wrong.

The truth is that it’s really not that hard once you understand the psychology behind it and learn a few proven formulas. Yes it will take some practice, but once you get more comfortable and get your style polished, then you’ll be able to whip them off over and over again.

Step # 3:  Generating Traffic

Once you have a sales letter on your website, then you need to send traffic it.

There are many ways to get traffic, but I think the easiest and quickest way is to pay for it. For example you can buy pay per click, banners ads, or ads in online newsletters. These are only a few of the many ways that you can buy traffic.

I’ve found that the next quickest and easiest way to get traffic is to start an affiliate program. An affiliate program is similar to having a sales force working for you without the headaches of hiring or managing people. As individuals (or businesses) sign up as an affiliate with your program, then they get special links that they use to send prospects to your website.

Step # 4:  Capturing Sales

The fourth step involves the proper tools that allow you to accept credit cards and process a sale. You’ll need a merchant account or an account with PayPal or Clickbank (Clickbank is only for digital products).

1Shoppingcart is also a very powerful tool that allows you to automate your sales process and your customer follow up.

Step # 5:  Increasing Visitor Value

Increase the value of the customer by up-selling, cross-selling, and offering backend products and revenue generating sources.

There are ONLY three ways to increase revenue in any business. The three ways to increase your revenues are:

1. Increase your number of customers

2. Increase the average transaction size

3. Increase the frequency your customers buy from you

The easiest of these three strategies is increasing the transaction size (number two above) and the second easiest strategy is increasing the number of times a customer buys from you (number three above).

Step # 6:  Duplicating Your Efforts

Once you have your first product selling from a website, then duplicate your efforts and begin your next project. One site is good, but two is better.

As you make profits from one website, then you can direct your efforts to your next project and start over following steps one through six again.

Go Wide Into Niche Markets For Multiple Streams Of Income

I have many websites that make $200 to $600 per month. I have less websites that make thousands of dollars per month or even tens of thousands per month. The secret, however, is to go wide into many niche markets.

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Niche Marketing: 6 Steps To Make Money Online

3 Responses to “Niche Marketing: 6 Steps To Make Money Online”

  1. Ryan,
    That’s very insightful article. Especially your sage advice about “going wide” into a variety of niches in order to maximize income streams.

    I found myself poking around your site and discvovering more and more great content as I went. For example, Jeff Johnson is a true find and i loved your Starting a Home Business Category.

    I recommend both to all of your readers and anyone who is looking to generate multiple income streams today.

    All the best,
    Will

  2. Brian says:

    A really important point to add to your great article is list building keeping in contact with potential and future customers. The money is in the list. Opt in emails really do work and drive in traffic and drive up sales.

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