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First Post (Hello!) and questions about the golf niche

by Snowmen88
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Hello everybody!

I've been readin from this forum for quite some time now... i'm sure i'm not the only one that's done plenty of "site:warriorforum.com "phrase" searches on google haha. I finally decided to sign up as I've made a bit of progress on starting up and working on ideas I've had for a long time now. I'm writing this on my surface pro, honestly which is the most kick ass tablet/laptop ever. That has nothing to do with anything, I just love the thing haha

First a little about myself. I went to a tech college and got my digital media diploma, which is a two year course for web/graphic design. It was a breeze as I've been doing this since I was 14 anyways. After school I found a job with a company doing exactly what I went to school for. Good times.

That same company eventually moved into affiliate and niche marketing. We sold plenty of different products as merchants, never really got into the affiliate game though. 5 years later, we are still in the same space and we have a product that is doing 5k leads a day with around 1mil in revenue a month. I'm head of email marketing and analytics. (as well as a ton of other things.)

So I would like to say i'm extremely well versed in the following:

- Email Marketing
- Google Analytics / Analysis
- Front end development
- Graphic Design
- Outsourced project management

Here's what I want to do. I've been doing quite a bit of research on the golf niche lately. I like what I see, theres quite a few of lost cost keywords with a small amount of competition. My plan is to get some PLR ebooks, videos, etc and promote free lessons and tips and what not.

Since I'm working full time, I don't really want to get into the merchant space and sell something to customers, I want to promote other peoples offers.

I'm kinda confused on my direction though I keep swinging between a few things. I could focus on a deep niche like how to get better at chipping, or putting. Keywords are cheaper, but the problem is theres SO many free resources out there on the internet. Should I be concerned by this?

I'm thinking what would work best is create a site with tons of resources and a lead capture, let users run through intricate autoresponders and promote offers through that sequence. Or I could create a squeeze page and promote a single affiliate offer directly, bypassing their sales copy, using my own and going straight to their order form. I don't want to deal with the headache of selling my own product and doing customer service.

Does anyone have any good suggestions? Or just want to say hello? I'm on here for all the same reasons you all are so i'm happy to meet everyone!

To your success
#golf #niche #post #questions
  • Profile picture of the author Woodward82
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  • Profile picture of the author KevL
    Originally Posted by Snowmen88 View Post

    Hello everybody!

    I've been readin from this forum for quite some time now... i'm sure i'm not the only one that's done plenty of "site:warriorforum.com "phrase" searches on google haha. I finally decided to sign up as I've made a bit of progress on starting up and working on ideas I've had for a long time now. I'm writing this on my surface pro, honestly which is the most kick ass tablet/laptop ever. That has nothing to do with anything, I just love the thing haha

    First a little about myself. I went to a tech college and got my digital media diploma, which is a two year course for web/graphic design. It was a breeze as I've been doing this since I was 14 anyways. After school I found a job with a company doing exactly what I went to school for. Good times.

    That same company eventually moved into affiliate and niche marketing. We sold plenty of different products as merchants, never really got into the affiliate game though. 5 years later, we are still in the same space and we have a product that is doing 5k leads a day with around 1mil in revenue a month. I'm head of email marketing and analytics. (as well as a ton of other things.)

    So I would like to say i'm extremely well versed in the following:

    - Email Marketing
    - Google Analytics / Analysis
    - Front end development
    - Graphic Design
    - Outsourced project management

    Here's what I want to do. I've been doing quite a bit of research on the golf niche lately. I like what I see, theres quite a few of lost cost keywords with a small amount of competition. My plan is to get some PLR ebooks, videos, etc and promote free lessons and tips and what not.

    Since I'm working full time, I don't really want to get into the merchant space and sell something to customers, I want to promote other peoples offers.

    I'm kinda confused on my direction though I keep swinging between a few things. I could focus on a deep niche like how to get better at chipping, or putting. Keywords are cheaper, but the problem is theres SO many free resources out there on the internet. Should I be concerned by this?

    I'm thinking what would work best is create a site with tons of resources and a lead capture, let users run through intricate autoresponders and promote offers through that sequence. Or I could create a squeeze page and promote a single affiliate offer directly, bypassing their sales copy, using my own and going straight to their order form. I don't want to deal with the headache of selling my own product and doing customer service.

    Does anyone have any good suggestions? Or just want to say hello? I'm on here for all the same reasons you all are so i'm happy to meet everyone!

    To your success
    Talking of golf, yesterday I got a hole in one......of my socks

    If golf is an area of interest to you, and you can easily write about it - then I would personally say that you don't need to worry too much at this stage about how you will profit from it, as you'll find there are plenty of opportunities to profit once you have decent traffic. If you start to build an authority site around the golfing niche, I honestly don't think you'll be short on opportunities to monetize it.

    Cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author Snowmen88
      Originally Posted by KevL View Post

      Talking of golf, yesterday I got a hole in one......of my socks

      If golf is an area of interest to you, and you can easily write about it - then I would personally say that you don't need to worry too much at this stage about how you will profit from it, as you'll find there are plenty of opportunities to profit once you have decent traffic. If you start to build an authority site around the golfing niche, I honestly don't think you'll be short on opportunities to monetize it.

      Cheers
      I have plenty of golf articles already written. I've read that starting a blog is a good source as well and buying low CPC keywords... I wouldn't say an authority site. Mostly it would be lead cap site offering free video tutorials on sign up and then promoting through an AR.
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  • Profile picture of the author korwil
    I didn't see anything about it so I would recommend some type of store with products. If you are getting visitors to your website there is a good chance they would want to browse through a store. If you have a store and an email list then you can definitely send people directly to new products and deals. And I'm talking about an affiliate type store here with no customer service.

    As a golfer, I think some of the things I look for on the internet are short game tips (putting, chipping, sand) and tips for my mental game. If you could offer a product on the mental game then I would see myself buying that because it would seem unique to me.

    However, focusing on content and selling some type of golf swing related product would also be a good idea, because I could see myself buying something like that if I wanted to improve my game. Videos would work better than text in making sales in my opinion.
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    • Profile picture of the author Snowmen88
      Originally Posted by korwil View Post

      I didn't see anything about it so I would recommend some type of store with products. If you are getting visitors to your website there is a good chance they would want to browse through a store. If you have a store and an email list then you can definitely send people directly to new products and deals. And I'm talking about an affiliate type store here with no customer service.

      As a golfer, I think some of the things I look for on the internet are short game tips (putting, chipping, sand) and tips for my mental game. If you could offer a product on the mental game then I would see myself buying that because it would seem unique to me.

      However, focusing on content and selling some type of golf swing related product would also be a good idea, because I could see myself buying something like that if I wanted to improve my game. Videos would work better than text in making sales in my opinion.
      Lots of good stuff in this reply, thanks for that! What did you mean by an affiliate store with no customer service? Like an ecommerce site? And I like your idea about improving your mental game, though I think that would be a hard one to sell in a good quantity, but i'll definitely look into it!
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      • Profile picture of the author successproducts
        Like I posted in another thread -- If I am you I would spend every waking hours to build a very good list. I would sign up at this website (Fiverr Best Performers - Instant Fiverr All Stars) to get my hands on a list of top performers who can create squeeze page for me, write up autoresponder for me, make videos for me, create ebook, report to upsell for me and also write up articles for me to use. I am plugging my own membership site here because it works. Every single categories in this website comes with a list of top performers that I feel very safe to choose from. Although you know how to do it but these things are tedious to do and they take time.

        The only thing I would do myself is to build my first tier for the search engines. I will not trust any Fiverr to touch my money site. However for the second tier or the third tier you may want to hire them -- as they are really cheap and they are great (provide you get them from the site I listed above).
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  • Profile picture of the author PaymentMaven
    Snowmen88 -
    Interested to hear about your golf niche.
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