If you’re new to making money online, you’ve heard the term “niche marketing”, and were told to “find a niche.” Six months later, you’re more confused than ever. You don’t know where to start. Here’s how.

1. What Magazines Do You Read?

Niches are basically topics. To find a profitable niche, check which magazines you read regularly. Do you read gossip magazines? Do you read fashion magazines? As well as checking out your own reading habits, look at what your spouse and children are reading.

Magazines are always created around topics which are profitable, because magazines depend on advertisers to survive. Once you know that there are advertisers in an area, you know that money is being spent.

Next go to your favorite search engine, and type in the topics you found. Find websites and blogs on these particular topics, and read them. Do these sites carry advertising? If they do, the sites are making money.

2. Choose a Topic

Your next step is to choose a topic which you like. The more interest you have in a topic and the more knowledgeable you are about it, the easier it will be for you to make money in this area.

3. Write Down Your Opinions

Everyone has opinions. Your opinions matter, because the more passion you have for an area, and the more honest you are, the easier you’ll find it to make sales, because you’ll be real and credible to your audience.

Write down your opinions about the topic you’ve chosen. Be honest.

(If you go back to the sites which you found, you’ll see that each site has its own point of view.)

4. Find Products to Promote

Now you’ve found a topic, and you’ve decided on your own particular point of view, it’s time to find some products to promote. Go back to your search engine, and type “topic + affiliates” in the search query field.

Sign up for several affiliate programs. Now start promoting those programs.

5. Create a Niche Website

You may be tempted to spend a lot of money and time setting up a website — don’t do that. Create a site as quickly as you can by using any of the free site-creation tools which are available online

Follow this simple process and you’ll become a proficient niche marketer without tears.

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Social bookmarking for online marketing has a several benefits:

* It can get your site indexed quickly;

* It’s free;

* It can help you to build your network.

Unfortunately, there are cons to using social bookmarking too:

* It can become a time sink;

* The traffic you receive is low-quality, because it’s “social”. Your traffic just isn’t in a buying mood.

My advice?

If you enjoy browsing the web, and bookmarking content which is useful to your audience (as well as your own content), by all means do it. It couldn’t hurt.

However, social bookmarking should never form more than a small part of your marketing strategy, as stated, the quality of the traffic you’ll get is low.

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Are you using Twitter for marketing? Many people are using this site and are getting great results. But how much time do you need to spend? That will depend on what you want to achieve.

1. Create Plan(s) for What You Want to Achieve

Your first step is to create a plan.

Let’s say you want to use Twitter to make your affiliate marketing more effective. Write down a brief plan, with no more than four items.

For example, you could write;

* promote affiliate product X;

* write a review of product X;

* write 10 tweets promoting product X;

* Post 10 tweets throughout the day.

This plan is very simple, and easy to put into practice. (Check your sales once the plan’s completed.)

2. Decide on a Timeframe

Now that you’ve created one Twitter plan, decide on a time frame for putting that plan into action. In our simple plan above, the time frame is a single day. However often you’ll create more complex plans which will take longer to complete.

Remember that Twitter should be an adjunct to the other forms of marketing you do. It can make all your other marketing much more effective.

Want to rely just on Twitter? Unfortunately, unless you have hundreds of thousands of followers, it’s unlikely that you could make a great living using the site on its own.

Therefore incorporate tweeting into all your marketing activities, rather than thinking of it as something apart.

For example, perhaps you’re setting up a new Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign. You’ll run the campaign for the next three months. Work out how you can incorporate Twitter into that campaign, and then create a plan for doing so.

3. Use Tools Which Will Help You to Spread Your Tweets Throughout the Day

There are various Twitter automation tools, and while most of them are quite useless, there are several tools which will allow you to write your Twitter posts, and then have them automatically posted at times you choose.

These tools are great, because you can maintain a presence on Twitter even while you’re occupied with other things or are fast asleep.

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