Can I get some advice on niche marketing?

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I've been in internet marketing for a while now, never made it work well enough to make me enough money to live on, but I'm determined to make this work because I've made about $7000 in total from affiliate marketing, and I have the feeling that If I do this on a larger scale it will result in a lot more.


I want to get involved in all the evergreen niches, or maybe all niches I can think of that aren't a waste of time, as I said I want to do this on a large scale. So, my plan is to create a long term blog for each, and use the Social Network Auto Poster Pro plugin which posts to all social network profiles plus much more.

I also have the Followliker softwares for Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram, but I don't know whether this is allowed to be discussed as this is not a black hat forum.


I'm still a little bit confused about how I'm going to make this work, I mean to keep the traffic rolling in (I am not concerning myself with SEO at this point) I'd need to keep posting fresh articles to my blog wouldn't I? And fresh articles need fresh featured images to go with them, right?

And also, what is the right way to monetize a niche blog? Would it be by putting banners in the side bar? Or would it be like a softsell in the articles?
#advice #marketing #niche
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    karmadog,

    A taste of success is generally all you need to end up owning the restaurant. The subject is a big one, so are your questions, but let me at least see if I can give you some constructive pointers, since you're talking about some of my main areas in IM, and help you on your way to that restaurant. In the spirit of socials, I may as well use a top 10 list. These won't be in order; they won't be all you need to know. Think of them as a few tools to plop into your IM toolbox. And everything that follows is geared to you pushing social business models.
    1. Forget about making money. Instead, concentrate on giving valuable, sharable information. You'll make money if you do that, anyway.
    2. Knowledge plus passion. Never make the newbie mistake of entering a niche just because it does well for others. You need to know and love the market.
    3. Infuse media with viral potential. Every single piece of media you create, on your website, on your social, must have viral potential.
    4. Keyword Platforms. About 90% of modern social search algos look at your page name, description, and tags and, based on the keywords present in them, will add weight to your media updates. This is relatively new and it shouldn't be ignored.
    5. Piggyback trends for curation. When starting out, curate trending media. When you get good, curate media that you know will end up trending. We call it viral piggybacking.
    6. Avoid blackhat. You won't know enough to survive with BH tactics (no offense) and you'll lose your accounts.
    7. Asset Building. Use socials to build assets that YOU own, not Mark Zuck: lists, forums, WP, groups, you name it.
    8. Passive Traffic. Most social traffic is not passive, unless you employ a decent SM team pumping out VM (viral media). Advice: Videos CAN be passive. Rank them in YT and in Google.
    9. Monetization. Never ever sell, unless your core audience expects it (like on an eCommerce platform). Instead, GIVE sharable information and, as an aside if you like, provide ways of action-taking that can lead to you earning income. Hard to explain in short. Example: You might provide an article with no monetization but have relevant ads running close by that don't hard sell but give your audience a means of enhancing their utility in some way. (You can get WP plugins for ad management). I might have an article about how to catch sea bass and my ad software will display bass fishing video courses, for instance. They can enjoy my article and they don't need the monetization to get everthing out of it. The video course simply ADDS to their utility. Hard subject to explain in brief, sorry.
    10. Growth, Diversification. Decide on one niche, setup multiple social platforms (FB page, FB group, Twitter, etc) and concentrate on growing an empire on socials FOR that one niche. For most of us, 500K followers (across all platforms in sum) is the magic figure before rinsing and repeating for another niche. When you do that, though, you obviously need to keep on managing and growing your original empire.
    I did my best, lol. Big subject! I hope some of it helps.


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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    So, my plan is to create a long term blog for each, and use the Social Network Auto Poster Pro plugin which posts to all social network profiles plus much more.

    I also have the Followliker softwares for Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram, but I don't know whether this is allowed to be discussed as this is not a black hat forum.
    So basically you want robots to do all the work.

    Here's a tip: Advertise!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Originally Posted by karmadog View Post

    I want to get involved in all the evergreen niches, or maybe all niches I can think of that aren't a waste of time, as I said I want to do this on a large scale.

    Personally, I think you're plan has two major flaws:

    1- The way you do something on a larger scale is not to attack as many additional niches as you can find. That is an inefficient and costly way to expand because you're basically starting from scratch over and over again in every new niche you enter. It would be much better to increase your marketing and reach within the niche where you're already established and have some experience and hopefully subscribers. You are building a list of subscribers aren't you? Marketing to your list is preferable to marketing to people that haven't qualified themselves.

    2- Auto posting and auto liking software is not the answer to all your marketing needs. In fact, they are a very poor substitute for human interaction and exchange. Some web sites don't allow them as they defeat the whole purpose of "honest" and human response. They are not going to save otherwise poor marketing campaigns.

    Good luck in your affiliate marketing.

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  • Profile picture of the author Gallag97
    well like you said, you don't make enough money on marketing to live off of. I assume you Lack in advertising because you aren't generating enough leads. Banners in the side bar will only work well if you page gets a lot of visits. SEO takes along time and can be costly so leave that out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Burritt
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    Sidebar ads and soft sell in the articles both work if you have the targeted traffic.
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