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September 12, 2003 
(c)Copyright Jeff Smith 2003
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Update From Jeff Welcome to all our new subscribers this week, we've had our most active 2-weeks of signups EVER in the 1.5 year history of this newsletter. Thanks to everyone for reading each week and sending me feedback - that's what keeps this little rag interesting and fresh. Can you create profitable infoproducts in niche markets OUTSIDE of internet marketing? You bet ya!! The Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package gives you many examples of eBooks on topics as different as Golfing, Horse Training, Health and Wellness, and Small Business. In fact, you could argue that your chances of succeeding are as good - sometimes better - outside of the internet marketing niche. Today's feature article walks you through 10 examples of finding profitable niche topics for your infoproducts and getting them done fast! You'll also find a review of the Sprinks Pay-Per-Click Advertising service - it's cool - find out about "Content- Based" advertising and why it may pull in some serious returns for you! I really like to hear from my subscribers so contact me at the address listed below... Jeff jeff@infoproductcreator.com
Simple Simon Creates Profitable Infoproducts!by Jeff Smith Put your hand up if you think infoproducts take months, even years to develop? Hold that thought! Remember your parents or teachers telling you to "try harder", "spend more time at it", "work harder", "be dedicated". You rarely heard them say "work smarter, not harder" or " focus on the low lying fruit first" Fact is, there are many people working their butts off, but rarely does that impressive effort lead to success, achievement or happiness. I'm not advocating taking short-cuts - that doesn't work either - just ask the bank robber who hasn't seen his kids for over a year. Rather - use your noggin for what it was designed for - understanding the world around us, where we fit into it and what people need and want to live in society. By choosing infoproduct topics that make use of your knowledge AND that appeal to high demand, you can quickly turn your dreams into solid financial returns. Here are 10 rapidfire infoproducts you could create within weeks - some within hours. How many do you think you could write? 1. 10 Ways to House Train Your Dog 2. Surefire Methods of Potty Training 3. 5 Off the Beaten Path Travel Destinations in X (Fill In the destination of your choice) 4. How to build your own online photo album 5. Everything you need to know to clean your computer from adware 6. What you need to know to protect your children online 7. How to overcome (enter any hardship you've had here) 8. Discover magical techniques for getting job promotions 9. 100 "comfort" recipes that "warm" up your family's kitchen 10. Caring for your fish SIMPLE TOPICS WITH HIGH DEMAND Have you noticed the demand for information on pets? It's incredible. The term "fish" had over 170,000 hits last month, has numerous Pay-Per-Click campaigns and has a very good supply/demand ratio. Same goes for "fish video" and "care of fish" keywords. Travel books is another area where demand is very high. Even more interesting is the increasing demand for travel information from first-hand experience rather than canned travel propaganda. Computer security and care of your computer are also very strong demand topics with strong emotional desire built in. A terrific way to discover niche markets, immediately know the supply/demand ratio online and even understand where to best market those products is Adword Analyzer - I use it every week - http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/adwanalyze A CHALLENGE! While you may be hard pressed to write a 200-page eBook on any one of these topics, how about a 20-page Special Report, a monthly $10 newsletter, or a giveaway eBook that contains links to products that already exist - where you earn referral income from anyone who purchases from your report? Do you know, or could you easily find someone who's hobby is cooking, raising pets, security, computers, or any number of high demand fields who you could spend 1-hour interviewing? To find out how easy developing profitable 20-page special Reports really can be, here's the bible... http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/damon.html MAKING A LIVING SELLING INFOPRODUCTS What do you think is easier, creating a $47 eBook that sells 2130 copies OR... Creating 6 $27 Special Reports that sell 350 copies each and one newsletter at $97/yr ($8/month) that sells 500 subscriptions? Accomplishing either option will earn you approximately $100,000/yr - though in reality having you own product allows you to earn income in many other ways including: consulting, interviews, affiliate referrals, newsletter, back-end sales, etc... So next time you get overwhelmed, become frustrated with your lack of progress, then find a small niche and develop a quick infoproduct that you can start marketing within days!
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: Sprinks PPC - Getting Your Site Listed Alongside the BIG Guys!Pay-per-click services offer a new option - placing your ads alongside MAJOR content-based websites such as About.com and iVillage.com and Forbes.com. In the past, pay-per-click services such as Overture, Findwhat, Kanoodle and even Google Adwords allowed you to bid on placement within search engines. So - when someone searches for a keyword on Google, your ad comes up in the top few pages, depending on your bid amount and a few other factors. "CONTENT-BASED" ADVERTISING Placing your site in front of searches for specific keywords can be very effective. Another way to "be found" on the internet is to place your ad on highly relevant, high-traffic, content- oriented sites. Thinking is, as people surf Forbes.com for information on business - for example, they could be exposed to your highly relevant site and be a perfect target for your products or services. Typically such advertising space has been limited to large companies with big advertising budgets. Not so any longer. Content-based ads are coming on strong. Sprinks was one of the first to offer such a service. Here's how it works... You setup an account and pre-pay an amount you intend to use for marketing - I started with $100, but you can enter any amount you want. Setting up your keywords that will identify the content pages where your ad will appear is the most challenging part. the categories are not bad, but you will need to keep a close eye on your campaigns as you will find listsings are more than smaller PPC engines. Next - you enter your headline and ad(s) that will appear on the content pages associated with your chosen keywords. So far, I've found Sprinks to be less restrictive with their criteria for ads than Google or Overture have been, that may change as their service expands. Finally - you submit your campaign for approval, which seems to take between 1-4 hours with my experience. WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU EXPECT! Of course, every campaign will be different, but here is what I have experienced so far. 1. Lots of traffic fast! I had several hundred hits in less than 24-hours. The number of hits were significantly higher than I received for similar keyword campaigns in Google or Overture. 2. My $100 was gone within 7-days - partly due to some fairly pricey bids and mostly due to fast clickthru activity. 3. After 7 days I had 8 sales for my $47 Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package on less than 350 hits. Conversion was a little lower than my average but ROI was good - $100 cost generated $370 in sales. 4. Sprinks support and sales group are very helpful and offer at many points to assist you with your campaign. Nice to see compared to the big guys - hope it stays that way. 5. Sprinks also offers keyword PPC (like Overture, Google) My experience with that was not good - very little traffic generated and no sales. Stick to Content Sprinks. 6. Finally, make sure you use tracking codes with your campaign so that you can tell how many hits you are getting AND more important - how many sales are generated from traffic coming from your Sprinks campaign. Overall, Sprinks gets a "two-thumbs-up". ** Mystery To Be Unveiled On Monday September 15th at Midnight! Something exciting will happen this coming Monday night. While many of you may be crawling into bed - at least on the East Coast of the US, I will send out a TOP SECRET interview I've conducted with a master online marketer introducing a brand new service that will revolutionize online marketing! I can't tell you more than that now, but stay tuned for a fascinating interview! ** Marlon's BRIBING His Customers!! You'll never get a better deal than this on Marlon Sander's Powerful "Amazing Formula that Sells Products Like Crazy!" He's throwing in 17 Super Sized Bonuses with this package, for a few days longer - you can get hold of this "17 Bribes Promotion", but he's due to cut it off any day. Here's what you need to know about Marlon:
http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/amazingformula Have a wonderful weekend! Watch for our SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT at Midnight on Monday Septembber 15th! As always - if you have any questions, let me know. 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 |