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August 29, 2003 
(c)Copyright Jeff Smith 2003
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Update From Jeff Hi All... Having good fun in the summertime I hope! Watch Out! It's BACK TO SCHOOL time. Good god, if you don't have to DON'T go anywhere near shopping malls at this time of year. You have the back-to-school rush with crazed teenagers, hormones bouncing off the ceiling rolling their eyes and screaming at their parents, cellphones glued to their ears (how do they afford those things anyway) as they trudge into and out of store after store. Suddenly, the impact of an entire year's worth of advertising ends up right in your lap, hitting the wallets of parents who struggle just to get through the last few weeks of summer break. Eyes glazed over, hair standing on end, faces flaming red - yup - it's not so bad being the parent of a 4 year-old entering kindergarten this year. I consider myself lucky. Sure, we'll all have to make adjustments, he'll put us through a few nights of pure hell as he adjusts to life without mommy and daddy around 24X7 - but at least I'm not out thousands buying Calvin Klein this and Tommy that! Well not YET anyway. Many of you likely see the impact of this back to school crunch on your businesses - rest assured, buyers will come back and when they do, hopefully you are ready to give them what they want. What exactly DO they want? That's the topic of today's Feature Article. Just before you leap into this issue, let me tell you about a cool site I came across this week. Check out the business model - kind of like franchising online. Interesting approach - check it out here: http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/afterdark Enjoy and thanks for reading. Jeff jeff@infoproductcreator.com
How To Find Products That Sell Like WILDFIRE!by Jeff Smith There's some great news for those of you who want to make money selling products or services online. A recent report done by the US Dept of Commerce found found retail sales in the US to move past 45 Billion USD growing at a rate of roughly 20% per quarter. European numbers are even more encouraging - where online sales make up an even greater percentage of all retail sales - over 6% and climbing fast. Paid content is also rapidly rising - good news for those looking to create membership sites, paid newsletters or other subscription type services with their knowledge. It's obvious, it's more possible than ever to strike oil by selling online...BUT... How do we find out where the oil is? How do you know what people will buy online. The great news is that there are many tools you can use as your own "crystal ball" into the buying habits of those online. Here are just a few online methods, you will find 40 other techniques over at "The Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package" found at: http://www.infoproductcreator.com Step inside the mind of the online consumer with these tools... AltaVista Real Searches http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/real_searches Track real-time AltaVista search patterns, including images. http://www.askjeeves.com/docs/peek/ Take a PEEK at Ask Jeeves most active searches CNet Trend Buzz Report http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-8-8052256-1.html Find the latest tech trends. Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ One of the leading search engines and the leading Pay-Per-Click search engines out there. Kanoodle Search Spy http://www.kanoodle.com/spy/ Live display of searches on this pay-for-placement search engine. Yahoo Shopping: What's Selling Now http://st8.yahoo.com/OT Find out what people have recently purchased through Yahoo's online shopping site. Wordtracker http://www.wordtracker.com/ Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox Another tool like the Overture - giving an indication of most searched keywords, though it does not give the actual number of times searched as the Overture search tool provides. Lycos 50 http://50.lycos.com/ Leading 50 searches on the popular Lycos search engine for the last week. ZDNet Top Downloads http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/2001-20-0.html Discover what the trends are in software - will often lead to other product ideas. Yahoo Buzz Index http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html While not an exhaustive list - it will give you a very good cross-section of what people want and are actively searching for RIGHT NOW online. Whether you create your own product or sell someone else's - for best results align it with known demand and you'll be successful with your online marketing.
Jeff Smith is an online marketing expert and author of the highly recommended Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package. Discover exactly how to quickly create one hot selling infoproduct after another. Building your own Infoproduct Empire is easy with the Success Package. See it here: ** Paypal Affiliate Program Launch It was only a matter of time. Referral marketing is the most powerful method of selling products and services online - a sort of "word of mouth" marketing in the online world. Most other payment processors have referral marketing programs in place. Paypal's is structured such that you earn $10 after your referral has made their first $1,000 online through Paypal, and then pays out "a percentage" of the new merchant's revenue up to $100 - for the first 6-months that merchant has his Paypal account. Not a huge amount, but not bad nonetheless. If you already have a Paypal account, you will find a new menu option when you login called "Refer Merchants" If you don't have a Paypal account - you can get one right here: https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=FM9LVU5CU7SEJ ** Pay-Per-Click Increasing Profits! I absolutely LOVE to tell you about ways to both save marketing dollars and put more money in your pockets! I'm happy to say I've done both using a new tool - just out. If you are considering or have used Pay-per-click, you'll wish you had this long ago. I've reduced my PPC marketing costs by over 50% and increased my PPC profit by over 100% with this tool. I used the money-saving program called "Ad Word Analyzer" which will tell you exactly how many campaigns - by keyword - is currently running on Google and Overture. I couldn't believe what I found. Many of my keywords had over 80 campaigns running on one or the other of Google and Overture while less than 10 were running on the other. What's that mean? It meant that I was able to cut my competition and price per click WAY down - by over 80% in one case - by switching campaigns. If you use Pay-Per-Click and aren't getting the results you want, you need to check out this tool... http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze ** Brand New Exciting Site Coming Sept 15th! I may have mentioned this to you before, and I STILL cannot give you full details - I've been swore to secrecy by the founders - but it's one of the most amazing projects that has EVER been launched to help you with internet marketing. Here's a tip! Networking with the TOP GUNS will be INSTANTLY available to you with this project. On September 15th, I'll have the shackles removed, and I can tell you about this phenomenal service. Don't say I didn't warn you! Have a wonderful weekend. mailto:jeff@infoproductcreator.com Jeff Smith http://www.infoproductcreator.com ATTENTION: There is only one way that you could be receiving this ezine, that is you, or someone using your email address, subscribed. There is no other way of being added to this list. We do not make this list, or your address, available to ANY other companies or individuals. We value your privacy. Although we work hard to make sure that all of the information in the Profit Secrets newsletter is accurately and genuine as possible, neither the publisher, nor the editor assume any responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of the information presented. By reading this information, the Information Product Profit Secrets reader assumes all responsibility for an inaccuracies or other risks associated with the information within this newsletter. Jeff Smith Editor Online Marketing Secrets Revealed webmaster@inf oproductcreator.com http://www.infoprod uctcreator.com |