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Liz Says…

Father Dave's $30,000 Christmas give-away

'Marketing with Integrity'. Is it a contradiction in terms?

Father Dave thinks not, and to launch his new Marketing with Integrity eCourse, he's holding a Christmas give-away competition with a prize value totaling over $30,000.
http://www.marketingwithintegrity.org

There is no fee, and you're guar-an-teed to win something! :-) The competition though is only open to the 1st 5,555 entrants!

http://www.marketingwithintegrity.org

I LOVE Father Dave you guys. I have developed a personal relationship with him over the last year. Although we don’t get to interact much because of our schedules, I truly believe in everything he is about.

I encourage you to support Father Dave! He’s no some whacko who claims to be a man of God just to get your dollar. Read Father Dave’s Top Ten Reasons why we need to teach boxing to our young people in order to make them less violent by going to http://www.fatherdave.org/top-ten.htm

Breathing Profits Back Into Ebay Webinar

The “Breath Profits Back Into Ebay” webinar is now just around the corner. I plan on rolling this free webinar out in the beginning of January. Many people complain about not being able to make money on Ebay, and I’m going to show you a secret tactic that I use as an affiliate marketer to bring in a nice income using Ebay.

This webinar isn’t going to cost you a dime! Cool, huh?

For those of you that attend, you’ll also be getting a kick butt bonus, but you HAVE to attend to get it.

To get the scoop on this exclusive bonus just go to http://www.tomeymarketing.com/ebaysignup.htm

Keyword Research Secrets Revealed (For FREE) Again

Finding keywords seems to be hard for a lot of people. Hopefully in this article I can make it easy on you with two free tools.

The first tool is DigitalPoints.com suggestion tool at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion

Once you get there you can enter in the keyword you would like to research. In this example, let’s use the keyword phrase weight loss. This is a very competitive niche, but I like to start out big and find the good little niches to focus on.

Wow! The keyword phrase weight loss is a competitive niche.

Wordtracker states that there are 5,980 searches a day done on the keyword phrase weight loss.

Overture states that there are 26,861 searches a day done on the keyword phrase weight loss.

There’s a bit of a difference there, huh? Well a lot of people state that Overtures searches aren’t accurate because so many people use it as a search tool. Wordtracker is not totally accurate because it only uses search results from certain search engines. So where do you get an accurate reading?

In my experience if you multiply the number of searches by 8 using Wordtracker’s results, and then find a number between that total and Overture’s total, you will get a fairly accurate number of daily searches. You’re not going to get an exact amount from either of them. I don’t know of any tool that gives you an exact up to the minute number.

So, 8 x 5,980 = 47,840 ( 8 x Wordtrackers daily search number.)

Now take Overture’s search results, which is 26,861 + Wordtrackers 47,840 and you get 74701 Divide this number by 2 and you get 37,350 daily searches on the keyword phrase weight loss.

See why so many people get confused doing this?

Well we know for sure that the keyword phrase weight loss is going to be way too competitive. What are some of the other search results that are coming up?

The next keyword that I see that might be profitable is weight loss surgery, but it’s getting about 2800 searches a day. I figured it out by using the above math example. So let’s drill down a bit further in this niche. When I do, I find the keyword phrase lap band weight loss surgery. Again using the math example above I see it gets a little over 200 searches a day. For me that is perfect. Others will argue that’s not enough searches, but my rule of thumb is nothing under 100 searches a day or over 500 searches a day as my niche.

Now that I have found my niche, and since I am going to be using Google Adsense to make money with my niche, I need to make sure that ads will actually show up on my site.

Again, the DigitalPoint.com website has something for you here also. http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox

This tool will show you what ads could show up on your site if you built a site around that key phrase.

My niche is now lap band weight loss surgery, so I would enter that into the search box. A ton of ads just showed up, so it looks like I may have a profitable niche on my hands.

The last step is finding out how much competition you will be competing against and if you can even compete. This time I’m going to use a tool from NicheBot.com you can find it at http://www.nichebot.com/kd/

I type in lap band weight loss surgery. The results for this keyword phrase are great. I basically have zero competition, and if I create a tightly niched sites with great content I should have no problem ranking in the top 10 at googel.

Now you still don’t know how high the bids are on your keyword phrase. There are tools out there that will tell you the bids on your keywords, but that would take a whole other article to talk about. Hopefully this has put an end to some keyword confusion out there!

Surviving Online -- What's YOUR Motivation?

I usually don’t put articles in my newsletter that other people write, but Becky Hagel sent me an email the other day and I asked her to turn it into an article for you guys. Here’s your wake up call…

Surviving Online -- What's YOUR Motivation?

Imagine for a moment: your dear editor (that's me) is sick. She loses her job. Her car breaks down. In general, things start going to hell in a hand basket.

Scary thought, eh? But true. It's all true, as frightening as it is.

Then the worst started happening. I was running out of food. Rent was coming due. The electric company left a notice on my door. Bill collectors were calling my house. Some days I would run around and look for enough change just so I could buy some milk. It's embarrassing to go into the store with $3 in pennies.

I sucked up my pride and held my head high, because I was still self-sufficient.

At that moment, when my situation was most dire, I knew it was time for me to be a survivor. I was dealt a bad hand--it can happen to anyone! But I wasn't going to just lay down and take it. I was still in control, no matter what was happening in my life.

Suddenly, I became VERY serious. I realized my Fairy Godmother wasn't going to appear, wave a magic wand, and make this all go away. I needed to make a plan and start taking action.

With poor health, no money, and no car, I had very limited options. But I did still have my internet connection. And I did have a Paypal account with a debit card. That meant if I could get money fast, I would have immediate access to it.

Think. Where's the quickest money? Will I be able to buy food in a few days when my cupboards go completely bare?

Yes...if I take advantage of eBay.

I dived into my work. I researched closed auctions to see what was hot. And then my eyes opened wide: websites. People were buying websites.

The gears started turning. I can build websites! That's one of my skills! Not only that, I could build them in a very short time, for very little investment (less than $20 for a domain name and one month of hosting).

Rent was due in a week. Yikes. Could I really pull this off? I had no choice but to try. I didn't know what I was going to do if I failed. So failure WASN'T an option. If I didn't succeed in seven short days, I wouldn't get another shot. I'd probably be evicted. I'd starve before that.

Off to work I went, researching the closed website auctions, carefully examining why some were "homeruns" and some were"duds." I didn't have time to build a site and drive traffic and make sales to show it was a good investment. I only had enough time to build a site that had a good "potential" for a buyer. I needed to build and sell a turnkey business.

One thing I learned quickly: you can't sell a site based on your own research of what sort of website will be profitable. You have to sell sites that BUYERS think will be profitable. In other words, follow the trends.

There were several eBay buyer trends going on: classified sites, auctions sites, PPC search engine sites, financial sites, Viagra sites, adult sites, gambling sites, discount cigarette sites, etc.

I needed to build one fast, so lots of scripting was out of the question for me. I chose an adult personals type site, but with a twist: I added classified ads and a forum.

I built this site in one day and put it up on eBay. Due to time constraints, it was a three day auction. When it ended, I convinced the buyer to pay me, and FAST, via my Paypal account.

It worked. My whole plan worked. In one week I made enough money to pay my rent and buy groceries. I had survived...for the time being. I took a day off and just enjoyed my small victory. But then I knew it was back to work and time to focus again. Sure, I had made enough to cover my a$$ that week, but what about the next? And the next?

Up until that point, I'd never done so well on the internet as I did during that unfortunate summer. But I was so focused, because failure meant losing my apartment or worse.

Now here's a warning...Like me, you can read a gazillion marketing books and join all the membership sites you want, but those books and sites won't give you the final ingredients: determination, focus, and the motivation to take action.

A critical situation pushed me into action, and took my internet business from a hobby to a serious full-time income.

What's YOUR motivation?

Think it over. What is going to push you to the edge? What will make you go out of your comfort zone and take a risk?

Rebecca Hagel is a biopsychologist turned Internet marketer. You can find
her online at http://tomeymarketing.com/find-hidden-niches.htm

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