I saw a suggestion that ecommerce is one of the "hottest" areas for internet marketers.

That may be so, but I think it's also one of the most crowded and competitive.

Every online marketer I know, myself included, have seen a bazillion promotions show up in email and on Facebook for the past 24 months.

Everything from a hundred different 'sure-thing' Amazon FBA courses, apps, tools, and coaching, to a few hundred Shopify courses, apps, tools,...

I'm in the process of building out Wedding Shower Favors, a simple one-page site.

The purpose is to create a simple, basic site, generate traffic, and monetize via drop-shipped ecommerce.

The niche is the 'wedding' industry; specifically wedding & shower gifts and favors.

I'l be doing a basic but comprehensive effort at optimizing, including content, layout, speed, and links.

I've purposely chosen a relatively easy keyword phrase to...

If you have a teen, they've probably asked you for a Phunkee Duck or IO Hawk electric scooter. These are turning out to be some of the hottest trending 'toys' for Christmas this year.

Somewhat like a skateboard with a motor, or maybe more accurately, a Segway with no handlebars, they have sprung up like weeds all over the place.

I mention this because I'm interested in targeting this 'active teen' market via ecommerce.

Of course, many IM'ers go by that...

Testing new local listing strategies in the cosmetic dentistry niche, specifically dental implants. Local listings represent tremendous opportunities, and in this case I'll be testing the health care / dentist niche.

Unfortunately, it's increasingly difficult to measure local rankings due to Google's personalization which not only takes into account your browsing history, but your geo location. This leads to very inaccurate SERPS ranking determination.

All that said,...

After nearly 6 month contemplating, putting together material, starting & re-starting, I've finally launched my IM blog: Tested Money-Makers.

I've only posted a few things since I'm still putting together and formatting material, as well as doing some further setup / mods to the blog, but it IS live - and I hope you'll visit!

The basis of the blog is, as the name says, tried & tested money-making info.

Everything on the blog is from my own personal...