I have $1000 to invest. Build An Email List?

It's "what niche is a surefire one for you to make money in", I think?

I appreciate you want one in which there's a real market of real people buying real products, but that applies to hundreds of niches, because more and more people are buying online, these days. It has to be something that interests you, though.

These things are all subjective ... and for good and valid reasons.

Personally, I'd stay away from "relationships" as well as MMO etc. But my reasons may not apply to you.

Food for thought: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8367277

My friend once told me

"It's not what you're good at.. It's what you want to be good at".

I like that quote, and there's a lot of truth to it.

The question is, what do you want to do?

I suggest planning that out BEFORE you buy any traffic at all.

Before you spend a dime, I would recommend for you to have a funnel in place so that you can get the best return on investment.

And yes, I would absolutely suggest that you have an email funnel in place.

This is just my two cents and what I would personally recommend.

PS: For some niche brainstorming you can check out existing marketplaces like jvzoo and clickbank.

It's a good starting point if you're running dry on inspirational ideas.

Hope this helps or otherwise gives you something to base your next actions off of.

Good luck

PPS: You realize there's a difference between the "MMO" and "IM" niches right?

Food for thought.

Later

Corey, honestly... the best niches to make money in... are the niches that other people are making money in.

In all honesty, when I'm coaching clients... I can shortcut their research by showing them how to piggy back off the current sellers.

In other words, why reinvent the wheel when trying to find niches... just check out clickbank and see what the top selling products are in the marketplace... and then try to find sub-niches for that.

In other words, health, wealth, relationships, career, finance, jobs, money... those will always be top selling niches.

Why?

Because any quality of life issue you can solve for someone, they will usually pay you money for.

That's how I target niches to sell to... I find where the biggest problems are.

That's why health, career and money, and dating will always be top niches.

People want to be healthy and thin, they want money and a good job, and they want a partner... they don't want to be lonely.

so, what I teach clients to do is... go after sub-niches of those using keyword research tools.

in other words, you know that dating is a hugely profitable niche... but can also be quite cut-throat, so do some digging and find some highly searched for terms with less competition.

You can do this with any of the top categories... just go for the big and popular niches... and then sub-niche it down so you're finding highly searched upon terms in that niche, but without the competition.

So, instead of fat loss... maybe the six pack abs niche.

instead of dating... maybe dating for over 40?

instead of stocks... maybe stock trading for retirees?

instead of jobs... maybe part time home based jobs for stay at home moms.

in other words.. go after sub niches of the most popular ones and you'll get further.

NO NEED to spend $1000. I have built up my highly responsive list with close to ZERO cash. You only need a SOLID niche, REAL content (not fluff or high falutin garbage), a TARGETED strategy, and the WILLINGNESS to keep tweaking your recruitment pages as well as the emails you send out.

For example, I started with a very WEAK recruitment page. I read lots of tips at WF from people who KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, and I made a new list page and EXPLODED my recruitment rate by 1000% See below:



You can do the SAME THING and you DON'T NEED $1000. You just need FOCUS, passion, and PERSISTENCE. Read this, it might save your internet marketing life: http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...t-because.html

Go IM for the long term learning. It's the best training ground. If you can do it in this niche, you can then venture off and dominate another.

May be you need a advertising campaign, free or paid. Build email list is also good way to increase relationships and potential customers.

There's a lot of great suggestions on niches, next step
is getting an optin page to convert so you can get those
subscribers on your list to build that relationship :-)

The better you get it converting, the more subs you'll
get. I hate to say it but you might want to look at that
1k as an investment to learn, expecially if you are asking
the type of question you are asking. It just worries me
when people set expectations to high starting from scratch.

Not saying you are, but just want to frame you right
so you can cheer on the right victories and really set
yourself up for the most success.

Corey, seems as you're starting at the wrong end. You shouldn't think about spending $1K buying traffic if you haven't even decided on a niche yet And if you're going to buy traffic you should have your AR sequence already set up, at least the first emails to start building relationship and making profits right away. I understand you're looking to make money with affiliate marketing, right?

/Dan

When I have money, I spend it too fast.
Having $1000 ready to spend doesn't mean that you have to spend them all.
Always look for both cheapest and best way to use it.
One thousand dollars is actually a good money to invest, really.

If I were you, I would make a research about upcoming tech devices and if you feel that this device will make money, then invest that device's producers.
Stock market is a good way to earn fast & good amount of money.

internet marketing blogs are huge!!! go for it!

good luck with whatever you choose

They are also some of the easiest niches to blow $1,000 in without blinking.

I would save your money as others have suggested, and work on getting free traffic. Blog post, articles, social networks, etc... Of course there are many more methods, but just saying...

Another option could be joint venture with experts, as I spend some money on advertising and another person online helps with strategizing, development app.

Basically money making online niche still strong, however the concept around it has been changed.

If I was you I would put my money into
bitcoins (bitcoin.org)
buy.x (fai-enterprise.com/x.html)
litecoins (litecoin.org
virtu gold (virtugold.com)
and the stock market.

That or I would rather put my money into twitter / facebook and build on those leads.

I would build a Facebook fanpage on whatever niche you choose,
and then use Facebook ads to get in front of the percentage of
the more than 1 billion FB users who are you target audience.

I'd drive traffic to the Fanpage since you pay less per click when
you drive FB traffic to pages on FB. On the Fanpage, I'd either
have an opt-in form, or a VERY prominent Custom Tab that pointed
to my external opt-in page.

Facebook ads allow you to target by keyword, country, age, and
a lot of other demographics. I'd use the FB search capability
to locate other pages/groups on FB in your chosen niche, and set
my ads up so that they also displayed to members of those groups
or pages.

I understand many advising putting your money away and working
on free traffic. However, working on that free traffic still has a
cost... usually your time. So, paid traffic is often the cheapest
traffic, when you consider "the opportunity cost" of your time.

You do want to test and track, and I'd probably initially set a
daily spend limit of $25 - $50 until your tweaked landing pages
are converting well.

Willie

In all our testing, we go with paid ads, and facebook and test small like willie C said above, when you get something high converting then you go all out!

We have many ads, and after testing you find that ads per landing page 1 out of ten really kill it. So you keep using that one. Its a lot of testing to really turn that $1000 into $3000 its a bit of works, but I am sure you will get there.

Go for leads generation. I can recommend you the insurance niche in the UK. I am doing couple of insurance products with paid traffic, only and profits can be huge.
Any questions, let me know.

This conversation is also over here: (just asked differently)

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8424286

You can build a system first, give real good content that's for PEOPLE. Then test and test and test to make your system better.

Go for where your passion is, are you really interested in relationship? Or is there other niche that you might have more interest in it.

Regarding to paid traffic you can try PPC or Facebook ads, they'd give you immediate results and you can make changes according to those results.

I recommend you do more research once you decide on what paid traffic you want to go for, because it will saves you a lot of money.

Even you have 1K to spend, if you don't do it right, you will loose money FAST.

You need to think more about ROI. What do you really think the potential ROI on $1000 is?

$100? $1000? More?

ROI isn't that great in most cases.

Be careful in your thinking... Invest wisely.

$1000 will probably return less than you think possible.

Good luck though.

A list means nothing if it doesnt convert. You need traffic and a method to track it. You do have to choose a direction and stick with it. You may even consider how much money you will allocate to building your list monthly at at least quarterly.

Whatever you do, test it with a very small amount of money ($25) before expending anything more.

Remember internet marketing is NOT gambling.

Hi Corey,

Your best bet would be to go to a place like offervault.com

Look in the category section and you'll see some of the best niches/verticals to go after.

You can also go to a site like dummies.com and check out all the categories/topics on the left side. If they have taken the time to write an entire book about a particular topic, you can bet that there is a big demand for it. You can't really go wrong.

Once you've created your offer, you can test it out by buying some solo ads, and once you have built a decent sized list, you can also start doing some ad swaps which doesn't cost you anything.

In fact this is the fastest and smartest way to build a big list.

You're just leveraging other people's traffic/lists.

That way instead of trying to rank on the first page of Google or paying to be there, you're simply approaching list owners who are ALREADY in possession of all the potential clients that you need.

If you have 1000 Dollars invest in content. It is the best investment, Not an expense because you'll get something in Return - what you don't necessarily get when spending on paid advertising. The more content the more visitors the more Sales - Easy formular, just Hard to Stick to alone

I would stick to something related to internet marketing. For years I stayed away from it focusing on other niches like guitar but found it much harder to find JV's, products to promote, solo ads etc.

If you have a product that helps marketers make money or save time then it will be much easier for you to find potential customers. You also won't be able to find a better niche to attract well known affiliates with large targeted lists.

Hi,
Building an email list is of the utmost importance. You can help build it with some solo ads sprinkled in.
Blog commenting and this forum and twitter is where you are going to get some reliable traffic.

Good luck, hang onto your money and spend it wisely.

Geri Richmond

Keep your money in the bank and study internet marketing until you will be able to create a smart business plan. Otherwise, you will simply burn your money without any positive result.

Just to throw it out there... I make money in ecommerce, gaming, general entertainment niches currently. Never did MMO or MLM or anything like that and I don't plan to.

Save that money and build that list slowly with free traffic such as seo, link building, social media, forum marketing and more..