Category: Affiliate marketing training

Many of you will have heard of ClickBank as it’s the first place many of us go to when we are trying to earn money as an affiliate marketer, and the ClickBank MarketPlace is the place to go when you need a product to promote, but can you still make money with this affiliate network?For those who don’t know what ClickBank is.

It’s what’s called an affiliate network…

…where Vendors; that’s product creators can go and upload their own product details, in this case to the ClickBank MarketPlace, which is just like a database and made available to everyone.

…and…

…where ordinary customers and affiliate marketers can go and search out these products to either purchase for themselves or promote to other people.

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ClickBank.com was the first affiliate network to come on stream over 20 years ago now and was the place to go to when you were looking for great products to promote as an affiliate marketer, and why not as you can find many products in the MarketPlace with commissions as high as 75%.

Over the last decade or so many other affiliate networks have got in on the act which is great for the affiliate marketer, but for ClickBank not so great as this means less business through competition.

ClickBank is still (or so they say) one of the top affiliate networks that both vendor and affiliate marketer still use and whilst you can still find some OK products to promote it just takes a little longer, which we will go into a little later.

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• Owners: Kinetics Inc
• Product: ClickBank
• Website: www.ClickBank.com
• Founders: Eileen Langan Barber, Dr. Tomothy Barber, Geoff Hoyl
• Founded: 1998 (in a Garage)
• Based in: US
• Price: Free
• Recommended: NO
• Description: A place where many vendors still go to market their products, but for the affiliate marketer looking just to promote products can be a struggle.

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Internal Summary and Links

1. What is the ClickBank MarketPlace?
2. Can you still Make Money with the ClickBank MarketPlace as an Affiliate?
3. The 4 Basic Steps to Becoming a Success Online
4. ClickBank MarketPlace Pros and Cons
5. ClickBank MarketPlace Review – Final thoughts!
6. Comments

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What is the ClickBank MarketPlace?

ClickBank MarketPlace is the main central database of ClickBank where all the vendor products and associated information that relate to the products are stored, and available for the affiliate marketer or customer to purchase from.

This all started way back in 1998 in the early days of the internet boom, in the garage of Eileen and Dr Timothy Barbers in San Diego, California.

With over $3 billion in sales and currently over 6 million clients worldwide, operating in 190 countries, then it would appear that they are still doing something right.

How Does ClickBank Work?

Clickbank is simplified by these 3 straightforward steps!

ClickBank provides a software platform for vendors to showcase their products usually in a digital information format, although they now include some physical products.

The affiliate marketers can sign up for a free account very easily and search through their extensive catalogue of digital and more recently physical products and promote those products by creating a ClickBank HopLink.

This basically links the Vendor-Affiliate-Customer throughout the whole purchasing process, which also allows the customers to get any refund back without any hassle provided they apply within the given time period.

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Can You Still Make Money with the ClickBank MarketPlace as an Affiliate?

This is a question that is asked all the time and such a difficult one with no definitive answer, but in my opinion,  nowadays you can still make money with ClickBank but you need to know what you are doing, and all is not as it used to be.

A number of years ago the ClickBank MarketPlace was the place to go if you were starting out as an affiliate marketer, where you could find some very good products across many niches to promote.

Nowadays, whilst there are still thousands of products that ClickBank markets for vendors

Most of them are only accessible through joining the many various membership sites that you can find all over the internet, and it would seem that the ClickBank MarketPlace for the customer and sole affiliate marketer is somewhat limited with products that are worthy of promoting.

I’m not sure just where the 54,000 vendors come from in the above snippet, but must be an accumulating number from when ClickBank MarketPlace first started…

If you want to take a look at the current number of products that is available on the ClickBank MarketPlace for the customer and affiliate, which is in the region of 4,000 products…Don’t get too excited though!

Of which there are only around 160 products available to promote that have a gravity of over 19, which is a good indication and guide for selecting decent quality (or so it would seem) products that have a reasonable amount of competition. Also a good way of excluding all the crappy products too!

Gravity is a figure that represents the number of affiliates that have made a sale with that particular product but the real maths behind it are a little unclear, and not all of those products will be worthy of promoting and therefore you will need to narrow it down further, along with checking out the sales pages, sales videos, upsells, down sells and a host of other things too, before you are satisfied that this is the product to promote.

Are Affiliates still plugging the same story that may well have worked a few years back?

In fact, you will find all over social media especially YouTube where affiliate marketers declaring coming from very humble beginnings, and now declaring their millionaire status (to be taken lightly of course, and don’t forget to check the date also) and all in the name of ClickBank, and that may well be true in some cases, but I think you can see that you are going to struggle to get the same results today.

Even today the same story can be heard, where instead of choosing your Niche FIRST, they use the ClickBank MarketPlace to decide that for them based on “quality” products. The product dictates the niche!

1. Find several related great products that you want to promote
2. Which will identify your Niche
3. Then create your website based around your chosen Niche
4. Create content “blog posts” 9-12 posts!
5. Promote to social media, such as Facebook, Instagram etc
6. Join a few discussion groups, like Warrior Forum.
7. Hey, presto the money comes rolling in.

OK, there is a little more to it than how I have just described it, but that’s the gist of it! Sounds simple, yes? Well take it from me it really isn’t, and there are many courses out there pushing this very same method!

Well, that might well have worked a number of years back but unless you can find several great products belonging to the same Niche market that is going to be profitable, then this method will not work and besides small niche websites like this tend to not work anymore.

The reason for this is…

Google is constantly changing its “Algorithm” and making it more and more difficult for small sites like these to rank and get a piece of the action.

More on this a little later on!

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The 4 Basic Steps to Becoming a Success Online

OK, so we have seen how some affiliates capitalized on ClickBank, but now we are going to discuss how things have moved on somewhat and how Google favours sites with authority and plenty of great content!

Which is broken down it 3 steps and the 4th step comes naturally if all the other steps have been successfully mastered.

1. What is your passion – Choose an Interest 

First off… we all have a passion for things, whether it’s hobbies like “Dogs” maybe “Cake Making” or “Playing Golf” or maybe “Cross Stitch“.

It can be many things and a passion helps so much when developing your business.

This is normally called a Niche, which is a subset of a wider audience,

such as…

• “Dogs” belongs to the broader term – Animals
• “Playing Golf” would belong to – Sports
• “Cross Stitch” would then belong to – Sewing

The further you go down the pecking order, in other words, find another sub-section like…

Animals – Dogs – “Dog Training” – Puppy Training – Puppy Toilet Training

…the less competition you will find which will help when promoting your business but also enough competition to make it worthwhile.

If you look deep enough you might even get lucky and find an area where you could create a sub-niche which you could exploit and over time this will become profitable.

A good place to look would be Amazon because their search engine allows you to drill down into Niches, not only that but Amazon will highlight the price so you can be better prepared. Just a thought!

OK, so you don’t have a passion, then that can come at a later date or if you need some guidance on finding a Niche.

To give you some idea of what a niche could be!

Where do people tend to go when they want answers to questions?

Yes, you guessed it Google, which covers around 87% of the search engine market share.

You probably didn’t know this but every single second of the day there are around 68,000 keyword phrases typed into the Google Search Bar alone, and there are 86,400 seconds in a single day.

That’s nearly 6 billion (6,000,000,000) keyword phrases in one single day and they all have the potential to be a niche. That’s some crowd, yes?

This is your potential audience, who are looking for answers and all you need to do is get your website in front of that crowd of people looking for advice that you are going to give them.

For our example, we will be using “Dog Training” as our Niche!!

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2. Creating your piece of the Internet – Your Website 

Now you have decided what your Niche will be, its now time to create your website.

I know what you’re thinking, that’s well beyond my capabilities and I wouldn’t have a clue!

Well, exactly the same response I made, but we all put up the shutters when we don’t know how to do something; right?

Instead of chilling out and saying, “well, how hard can it be?”

5-10 years ago you would have had to know a whole host of various skills, such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS etc. What might have taken you several weeks to accomplish will take you a fraction of the time now, seriously!

Just check out a dear friend of mine showing you how he creates a Niche Website in I do believe under 1 minute.

3.  Time to get visitors to your site – Traffic  

OK, now our website has been created we now have to start building out our business with writing content that relates to our Niche, which we decided upon earlier.

First, we need to find out what people are typing into Google that relates to our Niche, and we do this through what we call…

1. Keyword research – Search Engine Optimization

For this, we would use a keyword tool, that basically grabs all the data that Google stores on a database of the millions of search terms that people are keying into Google, and displays it in various formats for us to make our life easier when selecting popular keywords which people are keying into the Google search bar. Keywords that we can use for our blog posts!

Let’s take a look at Jaaxy which we will be using for this demonstration. A great tool that can be mastered in a couple of hours that gives you all the bells and whistles without overcomplicating things.

Just to give you an idea of how many people are searching on average in a month for the keyword phrase “dog training”

That’s 25542 with the potential for  4343 if your “post” get’s to Page 1 of Google. Don’t worry that’s not as difficult as you may think!

I have added this snippet only to identify a level down, in other words, a sub-niche of the “Dog Training” Niche.

Can you see the difference from 25542 down to 5086? This is where the level of competition drops but doesn’t necessarily mean that this sub-niche is no good. On the contrary, it just means that it will be easier to compete in.

Just to give you an example. “Animals” is a broad term that covers “Dog Training” and “Puppy Training”. All the large businesses will be targeting the term “Animals” as they have all the money for marketing etc. We don’t!

2. Writing great content

What can I write about? Where can I get the information from?

Questions I used to ask myself, and pretty straightforward really!

Once we have decided on which keywords we are going to target, in other words, the keywords that people are typing into the search engine, then we would use those keywords as the title of our blog post.

We would research the subject in this case “Dog Training” on the internet like we do every day when we are looking for answers to questions or our next big purchase, something like a 54inch Samsung TV.

We could check out our competition and see how they are doing things, such as seeking out several websites in the same or similar Niche that are on pages 1-3 of the Google search results. There are 1000s of ways to exploit!

Just use your imagination!

How do we make any Money?

A good question and a very important one too.

We have created our content and its ready to be published, but one thing is missing. We need to find a product or products to recommend as part of the solution.

We look for an affiliate program that we can use.

There are 1000’s of affiliate programs online which we can use and are free to join, like ClickBank although that may not be a great example. What about Amazon or just type “Dog Training” affiliate programs into Google, like so! Can you see how many the search query highlights in the results?

Check out their products, like what you see, just join their affiliate program and use the product affiliate links within your “blog posts”

Remember to check out the commission rates!

How long will this take?

Just keep writing content relating to your Niche and Targeting Keywords that people are typing into the search engines and each post you publish will attract a certain amount of traffic.

The more you write the more traffic you will attract the more sales you will make!

So in answer to your question “How long will it take?”

The harder you work the quicker you will get there and remember when the traffic starts to come, it just keeps coming and coming, and the beauty about this business is that it won’t cost you a penny for traffic because this way it is all for FREE. It just takes a little time!

…and your business is running 24/7/365 and can be managed from anywhere in the world. All you need is an Internet Connection and a Laptop.

Just think of all the quality time you can get back with your family and the icing on the cake is you won’t have to answer to your BOSS! 

4.  Earn Revenue 

This step comes naturally when all the above steps have been successfully implemented. This is when all your hard work has paid off!

If you are Interested and would like to know more!

OK, so now you have it all exposed from start to finish, granted there is a lot more to the actual process but this is the shortened version with leaving out all the intricacies.

If you are at all interested, then I belong to a community which teaches everything you would need to know if you were serious about an online presence. The training is first class and you will be hard pushed to find a better training platform online.

What makes this business stand out above all the rest is that you can become a member for free and check it out and see if it’s for you, and you will not be asked for your credit card details either. There are no UPSELLS either! You can join here for FREE. Don’t worry because I will be there on the inside to guide you through the whole process!

See what you think and get back to me with any questions!

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ClickBank MarketPlace Pros and Cons

I wasn’t going to include this section but as ClickBank is a place that is recognized as still one of the best affiliate networks, I have highlighted what I think are the important factors that you need to know.

Pros

• Free to join

It’s easy to join with no interrogating questions asked, not like some similar sites, and once you have signed up and created a PayPal account you are pretty much ready to roll.

• Available in Many Countries throughout the World

ClickBank is available in a number of different languages and across many countries.

• High Commission

What attracts many to the ClickBank MarketPlace is the high commissions that you can find for many products, even some as high as 75%.

• Recurring Offers

Many products come with recurring offers such as memberships where you are guaranteed passive regular income.

Order Management

ClickBank handles everything regarding the order processing and the links between vendor, affiliate marketer and the customer.

Cons

• Too many bad products

The back catalogue of ClickBanks MarketPlace is full of crappy products that just will not make you any money, and it will take you a lot of research to determine which ones will and which ones won’t.

It just means that you have to be more thorough in your selection process.

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ClickBank MarketPlace Review – Final Thoughts!

I remember a few years back when I first checked out the ClickBank MarketPlace there was an abundance of great products to choose from, but don’t get me wrong there still are some good products, it just means you have to be a little more thorough in how you choose the product, that’s all.

Times move on and things have to change to accommodate the likes of Google and the way it now indexes and ranks your work through the constant changes to their algorithm, and now more emphasis is on quality content, so what you’ll find is, what did work then doesn’t work now.

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Comments

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If you have any questions at all please drop me a line in the comments sections below and I will get back to you at my earliest convenience.

I read all comments and reply back to all my readers.

Thank you for your time and patience

See ya around!

Mick

So you have a Hobby or an Interest that you want to get out there in front of the millions of people searching on Google, and want to know how to build your own website free?

Every business no matter what it is should have a website to promote its brand, otherwise, you could be missing out on so many potential customers.

With so many people searching on Google which according to the website Internet Live Stats is well over 64,000 a second.

This potential traffic is just screaming out for you to take advantage of!

But before we get down to actually creating your website, you need to have something to base your website around.

Maybe a hobby of yours or some kind of interest that you have a passion for that we call a Niche.

My interests are fishing, golf, running, travelling, technology, DIY, eating out just to name a few and I could extend this list very easily, but pretty much anything you could think of could be a niche.

Having a passion only makes it so much more interesting and fun when doing research and building your website. It means that it wouldn’t become so much of a chore.

Choosing a Niche usually gets people in a bit of a dilemma, because whilst pretty much anything that anybody is searching for could potentially be a niche, it seems to be a stumbling block for many.

It was for me until I learned just how easy it was!

With the thousands of keyword searches per second which I mentioned above, they could all potentially be a niche, but there is a way of searching out a niche and one that could make you some money.

I wrote an article that describes just what a niche is and how to select a profitable one if you would like to read it here.

You could also check out what Kyle, my mentor has to say about Niches in the below training. A taster of the type of training available.

Now we have that out of the way and you have chosen a profitable niche then we can think about building your website.

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How to Build Your Own Website Free

Everybody likes free right, but people tend to be wary of anything associated with a freebie.

I know I do, what’s the catch?

Well, in this instance there isn’t one!

You might be thinking that because it is free that you will only have a limited amount of tools to accomplish the task, and that once this website is up and running that it won’t be a professional looking website and you won’t be able to generate traffic to it?

How wrong could you be!

What if I told you that this training platform teaches you everything you would ever need to know about affiliate marketing and building a website with all the tools you would need to get the job done?

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The 4 steps to becoming a success with an online business within Wealthy Affiliate

1. What a niche is and choosing a profitable one.
2. Create your own free WordPress website.
3. Learn how to drive traffic to your website organically.
4. Getting paid by way of commissions.

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Building a Website is Easy, Straightforward and Fun

Within this article, I will lay out what is required to build Your Own Website Free in Wealthy Affiliate and show you the 4 simple steps you need to know to accomplish this task.

Apart from choosing a profitable niche, to have a successful online business you need to know the steps required to build a great looking professional website.

Once you have the foundation built and it is rock solid then you can work on what it takes to get traffic to your website.

But first, we are going to start building your website.

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Time to Build Your Own Website

Many people freeze when they talk about building a website.

• Surely this must be difficult?
• I don’t come from a technical background and wouldn’t have a clue?
• This is going to take me an age to get to grips with?
• What do I do once the website is created?
• How do I get my website to make me money?

These are just a few questions that come to mind, which can put a negative spin on things, and before we know it we have decided to call it a day and move onto something else.

Around 10 years ago the task of building your very own website was a task, to say the least.

You did need a technical background with programming skills in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Graphics etc or you could hire a professional website developer to do the job, which I can tell you then, was expensive.

Technology has moved on somewhat and those days are a thing of the past and there is nothing for you to worry about.

Anybody at all no matter what background you come from can build a professional looking website that looks a million dollars and the best platform to do this, in my opinion, is with Wealthy Affiliate.

Check out the training video link below and see for yourself how easy it is to build your very own website here at Wealthy Affiliate.

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It is very Important where you Build your Website?

Developing a successful online business is no easy task when you are building it from scratch with no help or support, but when you have the correct tools at your disposal it makes life so much easier.

There is so much more to just building a website here at Wealthy Affiliate with all the training and help there is within the community.

There are 2 memberships, the free and the premium membership and everyone usually joins as a free member.

This way you can take your time and get used to what the training platform has to offer, and see if it really is for you.

I can talk about Wealthy Affiliate until I go blue in the face but the best way for you or anyone to get know what is on offer is to signup for a free membership.

Once you have signed up and decided that this is just what you have been looking for, then and only if you are sure, then you can upgrade to a Premium membership, but we are jumping the gun a little here.

Site Rubix is the Management System where all this happens

Site Manager – Allows you to access your website along with many other functionalities relating to your site

Site builder – This is where you would go to create your website,

Whether on a new domain, use an existing domain or use a Free domain which in your case would be the place to go. Remember you can create 2 websites on a Free domain, 50 if you upgraded to premium.

Site Domains – Where you would go to maintain your domains.

Either add a sub-domain or transfer your own domain to WA.

You could also point domains that were external to Wealthy Affiliate to WA servers and host your websites there, once again allowing for WA to handle all the backups and security.

Site Content – This is where all your articles or blogs that you create would be managed.

You can set yourself goals with your content writing which is extremely good for personal improvement.

Here at WA they are always adding new things to enhance the way you build and maintain your website, and recently new functions have been implemented as part of site content and one very important one is access to over 1,000,000 images, free to use for your content and free from any copyright infringements.

This alone could cost you $20+ a month depending on where you look.

Site Comments and Site Feedback – Is a facility amongst the Wealthy Affiliate community to engage and get feedback and comments. It’s great to get other people, real people to respond to your articles which can only help to improve your writing ability over time.

A very important aspect of Google uses comments and feedback as part of their algorithm to index and rank your posts.

Site Support – Last but not least support and here at you will find no better.

No need to be waiting 24-48+ hours to get a reply, this is pretty much instant and the results I have always been satisfied with.

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Now it’s time to Build your Website in 4 Simple Steps

At this stage of the process, you have learned what a niche is and found one that can be profitable so I guess all there is to do now is take these 4 steps and start building your website.

At Wealthy Affiliate, it couldn’t be made any easier.

Step 1 – What kind of Website do you Want to Create?

As a free member then you would create a free website as part of the .siterubix.com domain. You are entitled to 2 free websites.

Enough for you to get a feel for whether Wealthy Affiliate would be a right fit for you or not!

If at a later date you decided to upgrade to premium then this figure jumps up to 25 free websites on a .siterubix.com domain with a further 25 on domains that you could own for a total of 50, which to be honest is more than enough for anybody.

Step 2 – Choose a Name for your Website

As your free website would become part of the .siterubix.com domain, this is what we call a sub-domain.

The name of your website is going to be your brand and will be with you for a very long time and should relate to your chosen niche.

There is no rule that states your website name should relate to your niche but just think about it for a second. There is no point calling your website  “how to make money online” when your niche is about “Drones”?

My niche is in the “how to make money online” and I eventually came up with the name www.AchieveSuccessFromHome.com It took me a while because the ones that I wanted were taken, but I eventually had it down to several.

Some good advice would be to write down a dozen or so off the top of your head and see what happens.

As you probably would be joining as a free member then deciding on a name wouldn’t be so important for your free sites, it is only when/if you decided to upgrade as a premium member that more care has to be taken because you will be creating your own domain.

That’s what I did when I joined. I used the free membership to get a feel for what this training platform had to offer, and I didn’t take advantage of the 2 free websites. I decided within 2 hours that this platform was right for me and therefore went the other route. The premium route and created my own domain.

Step 3 – Give your Website a Title.

This will be what your visitors see when they click on your site.

This should relate to your website name and preferably the same if your website name is meaningful.

You could change this at a later date but not advised because visitors over time will know your site through the actual name.

Step 4 – Choose a WordPress Theme for your chosen niche.

Choose a WordPress theme from thousands

Currently, at Wealthy Affiliate, you have over 2800 different themes available, so try and choose a popular one and one that has quite a number of reviews, remember you can change your theme anytime you want.

WordPress is the most widely used open source content management system (CMS) there is, with around 50,000 plugins at your disposal. Want to modify something on your website, then be rest assured there will be a plugin to do the job.

And that’s it all done.

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Your Website is now Built and What Happens Next?

Wealthy Affiliate has been active for the last 12+ years seeing through around 1.2 million members, with helping over 217,000 start their first business online in 2017.

As a member of Wealthy Affiliate, you feel part of something special and a training platform that you can really trust 100%. I know this is some claim but it took me quite some time researching the Internet before I stumbled across this company.

As you can see from the video, just how professional the training is, and whilst we are talking about the training, the platform is literally full of training and takes any newbie from knowing absolutely nothing about Affiliate Marketing to learning everything that you would ever need to know in order to be a success online.

All the training courses are set out in a way that makes learning enjoyable, with each course laid out in text format, along with video, and tasks to take on and complete.

Get stuck on anything and you have an enormous community with all levels of knowledge ready and willing to help you in any way they can.

Not happy with your answers then get in touch with either Kyle or Carson, the 2 co-founders who are at your disposal, and that alone for me was a decision maker when I decided to go with Wealthy Affiliate amongst many other things too.

The 2 major steps to becoming a success online you have just accomplished.

1. Finding a profitable niche
2. Creating your niche website

Time to Start Building your Website with Great Content

Now all there is to do is create great content for your website and to do that you need to research just what people are searching for in Google, Bing, and Yahoo which is related to your niche.

With over 65,000 keyword searches in Google alone every single second, which is around 234,000,000 every hour, I’m sure you can find keywords that are related to your Niche that you can use for your articles.

Great keywords with little competition and for this, you need a great keyword research tool and guess what, Wealthy Affiliate has one which is now integrated and part of the training platform.

Before you start writing content for your articles you need to find low competition keywords and Jaaxy allows you to do this. I wrote a review about Jaaxy and you can read about it here.

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Final thoughts

It goes without saying that finding the right training platform with all the training and tools you would ever require is paramount to your success, and every business should have a website otherwise you are missing out on so many potential customers.

What I have given you here is just a little taste of what is on offer, so don’t take my word for it give it a try and create your free membership today and see for yourself, that’s exactly what I did and now I am doing this fulltime from home.

Remember, when I say free I really mean free and no credit card will be asked for either.

If you are really serious about learning affiliate marketing from the grassroots up and building a successful online business that will be around for years to come, which will give you a passive income 24/7/365 then this could be just what you are looking for.

If you want to know more about Wealthy Affiliate then you can read about it in a review I created, which goes into a lot more detail here.

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Comments

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Why not just drop by and tell me how your research has been coming along and what you are currently up to.

No matter what, I am here to help.

Mick

 

Something that many people would like to know and that’s how to start an online business on a budget, which is what we are going to cover in this article, and break it down into individual steps that should make the process a lot clearer, and to get rid of any misconceptions that you may have.

Starting any business is not something to be taken lightly, and it won’t happen overnight as there is a lot of work involved.

One of the most searched for terms in Google would be money related, and with around half the world population, which is around 3.75 billion who have access to the Internet then why not take advantage and make the Internet work for you.

Just think about all the people who are searching in Google, Bing, and Yahoo for anything you could ever imagine, and why not take a piece of the action?

If you take a quick look at Google search statistics, it states that Google processes well over 60,000 search queries every second, which amounts to well over 3.5 billion searches every single day. Check it out!

This is also known as “Traffic” and as you can see there is more than enough traffic to go around.

Having your own online business is a great way to eventually escape the 5-day working week, and give you back your precious time to do whatever you desire.

Just think about how your life would change and it wouldn’t be a small change either.

• No more Boss to answer to, and no more “BS”.
• Start your working day when you want.
• No more traveling those long distances to work and back.
• Work anywhere you want. All you need is a laptop and an Internet connection.
• Spend that precious time with your family and friends.
• Holidays when you want.

All this is within everybody’s reach, it really is.

Anyway back to the main topic in question, how to start an online business

There are plenty of ways to make money on the Internet but one I researched a few years ago and decided to learn was Affiliate Marketing.

You don’t have to own a product or have to buy any stock, not like the normal type of business where products of some description will either be purchased or manufactured by you to sell.

You wouldn’t need to have premises because everything can be done from home.

That means you don’t need to spend money on purchasing or manufacturing.

All you are is the middleman or woman, who executes certain marketing techniques to get visitors to your site. Give them a lot of great content regarding the product(s) and once they purchase from you, that’s when you make a commission.

It’s as simple as that, but how do we get to that position?

If you were knowledgeable and knew what you were doing then you could create your website and a bunch of other stuff and be on your way to making a lucrative income.

Or

You could find a Mentor and a Training Platform with a great community and learn the whole process step by step, which is what I did.

You don’t require any prerequisite skills to succeed and build your online business.

This will all be taught, and all you have to bring to the table is the right mindset, motivation and the will to succeed, and of course “Hard Work”.

Any business, no matter what, takes time to build, and it needs to be done in the correct manner.

It is not going to happen overnight that is for sure but given the time and a lot of effort you will get there because you want this business around for years to come, and something that you could pass down to the kids and be proud of.

I eventually found a Mentor and Training Platform, and after thorough research, I decided to join Wealthy Affiliate.

OK, let’s get right to the step by step guide, what you need to know to create your online business.

Step 1 – Choose Your Niche

A Niche can be many things.

Just take a look at all the people who are searching for things like

Products –

“Smart TV under $1000”

“Best drones with a fitted camera”

Training programs –

“The best training for affiliate marketing”

“How to play better golf”

Debt management –

“How can I get out of debt”

“What happens if I declare bankruptcy”

Make money –

“how to make money on the Internet”

“How you can win the lottery”

The list is endless and remember, I mentioned earlier that Google processes over 60,000 search queries every second.

Each one of those above search queries is a potential Niche.

If you need to look more into what a niche is and how to find a profitable one, then take a look at an article I wrote explaining what a Niche is and how to seek out a profitable one.

Or you could take a look at this topic explained by Kyle who is one of my mentors at Wealthy Affiliate.

What people tend to do is choose something that interests them, maybe a hobby, a problem that needs addressing, etc

It also helps if you are passionate about your Niche, that way developing your website won’t become so much of a chore when you are doing your research.

It could be that at the moment you don’t feel a passion, but that could come at a later date especially when you see a return on your investment.

When choosing your niche there are few parameters that you need to take into consideration which I explain in my review on what a niche is and how to find a profitable one.

If you think about it, it wouldn’t make sense to spend all your precious time developing your website where there were no visitors searching for things relating to your Niche, would they?

That’s where it all gets interesting in Step 3, Keyword Research.

It’s imperative that you choose a Niche where you know there will be plenty of visitors (traffic) coming to your website.

Once you have decided on a Niche, then you need to focus on building your website.

Step 2 – Build Your Website

You have your Niche and now you are ready to go.

First off you need to decide who is going to host your website. There are many and I have listed the top 5 in my opinion.

1. Hosting
2. Bluehost
3. iPage
4. Godaddy
5. HostGator

But before you decide and dive into one of the above, Wealthy Affiliate has their own hosting and therefore why not take advantage, that’s if you become a member that is.

The overall “Yearly” cost, by far outweighs all the top hosting sites.

Not only that but take a look at what you get.

• Full support and management
• Daily backups
• Mirroring – If your site goes down no problem
• Website monitoring
• Faster site speed
• The most secure, cost-effective affordable hosting there is on the Internet
• WordPress optimized
• 24/7/365
• 25 Your own domains as a paid member
• 25 Free site Rubix domains as a paid member

That’s 50 domains in total. Do you think that would be enough?

I’m sure you’ll agree that nobody comes near when it comes to hosting at Wealthy Affiliate.

Now you have decided on who’s going to do your hosting, now it’s time to think about your domain.

This is going to be the name of your Website, which can also be registered through Wealthy Affiliate.

This is where it can be a little tricky because you are now going to sit down with a pen and paper and write down a bunch of names for your Niche, and what you will find is once you have decided on a name that somebody else is using that name.

Try to think of a good name for your website and one that relates to your Niche.

Remember this is going to be your brand, and I think people don’t spend enough time on this decision and just jump in and select the first one they can think off.

This name is going to be with you for years to come, so a little time and patience.

If you are serious about building an online business then you really need your own domain (Website) name!

If you just wanted to give the Training Platform a trial run then there are 2 Free Domains that you can use to get a feel for whether this is really for you or not.

That is exactly what I did but decided within 2 hours that this training platform was for me!

Everything you would ever need is there for you at Wealthy Affiliate and makes everything so straightforward.

Are you thinking?

“This isn’t for me, I don’t have any technical skills and just wouldn’t have a clue about how to create a website”. Right?

Wrong!

The guys at Wealthy Affiliate make developing a website so very straightforward, and no techie stuff at all is required. Anybody can do this.

Take a look at one of the co-owners, Kyle creates a website in less than 1 minute.

Your website is ready to go, now all you have to do is write Niche related content, but before you get to that, you need to research just what people are searching for regarding your Niche in Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Step 3 – Keyword Research

This is where you would use a Keyword Tool and there are many out there.

Some good and some bad along with cost issues.

Just recently at Wealthy Affiliate major changes have been made to integrate the Jaaxy Keyword Tool and make it all part of the training platform.

What they have done is replace the FREE cutdown version of Jaaxy with the new Jaaxy membership, which has many more features you can take advantage of. The FREE membership still as restrictions though!

The 4 memberships are

• Jaaxy Starter – Part of the free membership with restrictions
• Jaaxy Lite – Now part of the Premium Membership
• Jaaxy Pro – As before
• Jaaxy Enterprise – As before

What this means for anybody who is serious about building a successful online business is, that if you decide to upgrade to Premium then the Jaaxy Keyword Tool comes as part of that membership.

A big saving and how cool is that?

This is very easy to learn and extremely accurate and gives you just what you need in order to accelerate your research. No complexity at all and designed I would say for the newbie.

I use the Jaaxy Pro version and I would say one if not the best Keyword Research Tool on the Internet today.

You may say I am biased and maybe I am but I have tried a number of Keyword Tools in the past and Jaaxy leaves them standing.

If you want to know more about Jaaxy along with Keyword research that is covered then you can read my review of Jaaxy here.

In essence what you are trying to do when researching keywords is to look for what we call “Long Tail Keywords”

These are keywords that fewer marketers will be using. The longer the keyword the less competition you will find, or that is the theory behind it.

There are 2 types of keywords

• Broad Keyword
• Long Tail Keyword

Broad keyword would be – “Make Money”

Another but not so broad would be – “Make Money Online”

A long tail keyword would be – “Make Money Online as an Affiliate Marketer”

You need to stay away from Broad Keywords

Although the traffic for a broad keyword will be high these are the keywords that “The Big Companies” will be ranking in Google for.

They have an unlimited supply of money and we just can’t compete at that level, but expanding the keyword can still reap rewards for you.

It just means that the traffic will not be so great.

As a guide, you need to be looking for a keyword that as…

• Average monthly search of 100+
• QSR less than 50 ( this is the number of websites using that same keyword)

The idea is to find those Long Tail Keywords and use them as the “Title” of your “Post” and build your content around.

Remember you can change the keyword to suit your requirements.

Add words to the beginning and the end to give it a more meaningful name.

Over time, you will write many posts relating to your Niche and each post will attract a certain amount of traffic to your website, and if you get all this right, then Google will rank your posts high, and we are aiming for pages 1 or 2.

The more posts with those great keywords the more traffic that will come to your website and the more sales you will make.

A piece of cake, right?

Step 4 – Writing Content

Great readable content unless you are already an established writer comes with time and the more you write the better you will get.

Something we do all the time on the Internet and that is some form of research?

Looking for a new TV, a new wireless audio player, a new car, and we are always reading reviews to find out what other people say about the product, right?

All you are doing as an affiliate marketer is what you would do on a daily basis, the difference is that you will be writing posts and reviews relating to your Niche.

That’s it!

Step 5 – Promoting Your Website and getting traffic to it

We have mentioned about great long tail keywords that you will use for your posts and what you are trying to achieve is to get traffic to your website without paying for it.

This is also called organic traffic and a term that you may have heard of as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

This is where we target long tail keywords that people are using in Google to get our Free Traffic.

Free Organic Traffic takes time but eventually, when done in the right manner will save you a lot of money.

Paid traffic is quick, but you have to know what you are doing because there are a lot of traffic sites promoting that their site is the best, but beware ‘cause there are some unscrupulous people out there.

This is where you can lose a lot of money if you don’t know what you are doing.

If you need to pay for traffic use Bing Ads (which is reasonably priced) or Google Adwords (Not so reasonably priced) but trustworthy sites all the same.

You can promote on a site called Buffer. Here they allow you to schedule your posts on the social media networks.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google +
• Instagram
• Linkedin

Step 6 – Monetizing

There are many ways to monetize your website through the many Affiliate Programs out there and these are where you will get your products from for your marketing campaigns.

You have affiliate networks like Clickbank for promoting digital products and some come with commissions as high as 75% and some much higher.

What about Amazon Associates, the biggest retail outlet on the Internet that sells pretty much anything, with commissions ranging from 0%-10%.

The beauty about Amazon is that once a visitor goes to Amazon through your website link, any purchases they make without exiting your link means you will be paid commissions on everything the visitor buys.

Google Adsense is another way but I have reservations about using it as advertisements keep popping up on your posts that don’t relate to your topic, and I find it annoying and spoils the customer experience.

Let’s face it who likes popups because I certainly don’t?

One thing to take on board is that pretty much all the Affiliate Programs are Free to join.

There are many, many more, you’ll just have to do your research.

Step 7 – Reaping the rewards after all your hard work

This Step you don’t have to do anything because if you have followed the above steps 1-6 to the letter then this step comes naturally.

This is where we see that all our hard work has paid off.

You have been building your website by adding Niche related content, and over time each post you create will attract a certain amount of traffic, in other words, visitors, and provided you have given your visitors the right information then they will purchase from your website.

That is when you receive commissions from the likes of Amazon, Clickbank etc

Final Analysis

I’m sure you will agree that we have covered quite a lot here with regards to building an online business, and broken it down into clear concise steps that hopefully you have been able to understand.

I sincerely hope I have achieved what I set out to do and given you a clear path to becoming a success online.

Learning to build an online business in the affiliate marketing world is by far the best path to take in my opinion, and I hope this step by step approach as answered many questions and given you a clear understanding of just what is required.

To learn all this and more, much, much more, then I would highly recommend joining as a Free Member and seeing what is all about.

Try Wealthy Affiliate and see what you think, because there is nothing, in my opinion, that comes close, but that is a decision only you can make.

All I am here to do is relay the information and it is you that has to take that initial step.

Remember one thing if you join you will have me on your side to give guidance whenever you need it.

If you haven’t already, please check out my review of Wealthy Affiliate.

Feedback and comments

I would like to thank you for stopping by and reading this article and I welcome all comments and will surely get back to you at my earliest convenience and will be more than happy to answer all questions.

Any ideas feel free to share

All the best on your journey and hopefully I will see you on the inside

Your friend

Mick

Owner – AchieveSuccessFromHome.com

 

 

Is Site Rubix the best website builder for a small business and can it compete with the other popular like-minded applications currently out there on the Internet Market today?

Well, let’s take a look, shall we?

First and foremost Site Rubix was developed as a front-end application as part of the Wealthy Affiliate training platform for building and hosting websites. The back-end application is, of course, WordPress, the largest self-hosting blogging tool used on millions of sites and the number one choice for many.

There are 2 membership versions, free and paid, I would always advise that you try the FREE membership first but we will get to that later on.

There are many website builders currently out there on the market today, which I have tried such as Wix, SiteBuilder, and 1&1 and there are many more, and they are all good in their own right with what they give you, but what they don’t give you is an Independent Training Platform where you wouldn’t need to go anywhere external for any of your affiliate marketing requirements, except for your research.

In this review I am going to go into details about what Site Rubix is, explain what all the features are and give you an open-minded insight as to whether this could be right for you.

What Exactly Is Site Rubix?

SiteRubix was launched in 2007 and was originally a drag and drop editor, but is continuously being developed, and today is a world forerunner in website builders.

As I am writing this review a new development has just been added to Site Rubix, which gives you access to over 1,000,000 FREE images to add to your content and website.

Just think about it, you don’t have to worry about copywriting infringements anymore, but not only that, there are no additional fees, not like many of the sites out there charging x amount on a monthly basis.

Some are quite expensive too!

Every little saving helps don’t you think?

Site Rubix was designed with the newbie in mind which allows you to get your business up and running quicker and more efficiently, and allows you to focus on the business end of building your website(s).

Creating a website with Site Rubix is easy and takes only a couple of minutes. In fact, I have seen this done within the training literally in less than 1 minute.

What sets Site Rubix apart from the rest of the website builders is that it comes with a dedicated training platform with support and all the tools you would ever need in order to become successful online.

It will take your website development completely to a new level, and once you have mastered the 4 essential steps there will be no stopping you.

1. Choose an Interest (A Niche)

It can be anything you want. A hobby, a passion, an interest. This would all be explained in a very simplistic way, and it may be that all you want to do is create a website as a hobby, whilst most would use this step to find a Profitable Niche where they could make a substantial income from.

If you would like to know more about what a Niche is and how it fits into an online business, then you could read an article I wrote below.

What is a Niche Market in Online Business?

This should clear up a few things with your perception of what a Niche actually is.

2. Build a Website

This is the next step, to build your website and this is where it all happens. The foundation of your business and where everything happens and of course the fun stuff, because nowadays that is exactly what it is.

Don’t let this intimidate you. Building a website isn’t scary, it’s fun. You can literally build a professional looking website in minutes with the tools available.

In fact, you can watch Kyle, who is one of the co-founders create a website in less than 1 minute here.

3. Get Ranking and Visitors.

How to get traffic to your website.

You will be taught how to get your website in front of thousands of people searching for things relating to your niche.

Keyword research and how to find that great keyword to build your content around.

Learn how to master SEO (search engine optimization) and save literally thousands on PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising.

4. Earn Revenue

When you have mastered the 3 subjects above then its time to reap the rewards and earn commissions, from the products that you sell.

How a few years has made such a difference!

A few years ago now between 5-10 years, it was a nightmare when it came to creating a website.  You either needed to have some sort of skill as a web developer or web designer, along with programming skills in languages such as HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript etc.

I’m happy to say that those days are well and truly a thing of the past!

All the technical aspects that you needed have been completely removed and Site Rubix provides you with an experience that allows you to be up and running within minutes, which means that all the technical stuff you had to spend hours on tweaking here and there can now be spent in other areas, maximizing your time in building your business.

Site Rubix is powered by Wealthy Affiliate which provides you with all the training, support and tools to turn your idea into something that you can be proud of.

If you are serious about creating an online presence it is essential to have a website to promote your business and to get your brand out there to the billions who are searching for anything and everything.

If you think about it, as of 2017 there is literally around 3.8 billion that has access to the Internet, which roughly speaking equates to around half the world population.

Just think if you could get access to a fraction of that figure, the possibilities are endless don’t you think?

With the combination of Site Rubix and Wealthy Affiliate and of course Word Press and the dedication to succeed you are in a unique position.

Everything in one central location.

Something you don’t get with other Website Builders.

The thought process in the development of Site Rubix makes it simple for anyone to succeed no matter how much experience you have online.

A User-Friendly experience?

When I was researching online for ways to earn an income, I tried several programs but couldn’t resonate with any of them for all sorts of reasons, but mainly I couldn’t see how I was ever going to be successful doing what others were teaching.

It just didn’t make any sense to me and all I would have ended up doing was spending more and more money.

I suppose we all have some sort of additional sense, pretty much like when you are purchasing your next home. You get a feeling and it’s sometimes a gut feeling that you go with.

When I joined through Site Rubix it was painless and very straightforward.

There were no up sells whatsoever, not like many products out there and I wasn’t asked for my CARD details either.

Upsells?

Card details?

These are the 2 major things I look for when I am thinking of purchasing a product, and if there is so much a sniff then I leave well alone.

Within maybe a minute I had the training application at my disposal, with direct messages from the co-owners Kyle and Carson which is certainly a plus in my mind!

Not that it matters but I come from a software development background and therefore have seen many software systems throughout my career.

Some good, some bad, and I can honestly say that within 1-2 hours I had decided that I had stumbled onto something that I felt comfortable with and had been developed with the newbie in mind.

At a glance, you have everything at your finger-tips and is so easy to navigate around, and to be quite honest a long time since I have seen such a professionally designed product.

Be the judge yourself and take it for a trial spin

What about the Community and Support?

The community is made up of many individuals from all walks of life with all levels of knowledge and experience who are there to support you on your journey in this incredible business along with coaching, training, and help in all matters relating to your business development.

If you have ever tried building a website in the past, you will know how you are always going to run into problems across a multitude of areas no matter how much experience you have, and to achieve your goals you will need constant support and coaching and there are buckets of it here.

You will find like I did that the support is second to none and no matter what question needs answers to, be rest assured that you will get that answer along with many other different ones too.

Giving you alternative answers which gives you additional ideas going forward.

I have never seen such a turn around when it comes to answering questions and the beauty of asking your questions is that it gets a discussion going amongst the more experienced entrepreneurs.

Take for instance…I might already have the answers to what I am trying to achieve, but sometimes I create and submit a question to the community only to find out how others are doing things.

There is always more than one way to achieve your goal and someone else may well be doing it better.

Use your network of members and make them work for you.

If you need clarification on anything then the co-founders Kyle and Carson are more than happy to help.

Starting an online business can be very overwhelming for many, especially individuals who have never been involved with anything like affiliate marketing before, and it helps to have people who are friendly and who are prepared to help you every step of the way.

Let’s take a look at the Site Rubix features

As you can see in the image below there are 7 tools which are part of the Site Rubix application.

Let’s take a look at them further shall we?

1: Site Manager

Shows at a glance all the main functionality of your websites(s). Pretty much self-explanatory, but we shall take a look at a few that are worth looking at, for more details.

• Website creation date
• Premium or Free
• Site health – View details below

• Last backup date
• Last update date
• Monitoring
• WordPress version
• Number of website pages published
• Number of website posts published
• Approved comments
• Pending comments
• Google indexed yes/no
• SitePlus+

The bar along the bottom of the Site Manager allows you access to some other activities.

• Login to your WordPress dashboard or change the password
• Simply refreshes and included any changes
• View your website as it would be on the Internet
• Earn comments by helping others
• Request, or offer feedback
• Move your website to another domain
• Website details
  • Admin details
  • Domain Details
  • SitePlus+
  • Page Speed Insights

Another great feature just added for October 2017. You can see at a glance whether your posts require optimizing for speed to ensure your reader has a pleasant experience. There is nothing worse than doing research and coming across a site that takes ages to load.

• Features included
  • Site health
  • Site comments
  • Site feedback
  • Site support
  • Site security
• Installed plugins
• What is included with your Free or premium membership

 2: Site Builder

Gives you control of whether you want to create a website

• On a free domain
  • 2 x for free members, 25 x for premium members
• On a domain that you own
• Or whether you wish to create and register a new domain.

3: Site Domains

A facility which allows you to search for domains, transfer domains from other hosting platforms to Site Domains at Wealthy Affiliate. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it allows you to use all of the domain features offered at Wealthy Affiliate.

You can also point domains that are registered outside of Wealthy Affiliate to WA Servers and host your websites.

Add sub-domains and transfer domains that are external to Wealthy Affiliate.

Manage all your domains in one central location.

Wealthy Affiliate allows you to have everything in one location and you’ll find it hard to beat on price too.

4: Site Content

This is the ultimate writing platform for content marketers, authors, and webmasters.

Full of features that will help to simplify your writing experience, with available stats that will improve accuracy and increase efficiency.

A place to store your templates

Why not set yourself some goals such as

• Publishing goal
• Word count goal

A writing experience all in one central location.

A great feature just added for October 2017 is access to over 1 million free images.

Just think about it, no copywriter infringements and no monthly fees.

If you are like me then you will know just how costly it can be on a monthly basis for using what we are told are Royalty Free Images, and in many cases, this just isn’t true at all.

Every little saving helps, but in this case quite a considerable saving.

5: Site Comments

Is a powerful platform that allows engagement in the form of comments on your website which is a key component to ranking in Google as well as other search engines.

This is the only platform available where you can get real comments, from real people who are interested in your type of website.

6: Site Feedback

Is a way which you can forward constructive criticism and also allow other authors to return the favor. A great way to improve your business.

7: Site Support

A facility which enables you to create support tickets for technical issues relating to your business amongst other things.

Whilst there are many other ways to get your answers within the Wealthy Affiliate community, such as,

• Live Chat
• Direct Messaging
• Submit a blog post
• Submit a question
• Take part in one of the dedicated classrooms
  • Getting started
  • WA affiliate program
  • Keyword, niche and market research
  • Everything WordPress
  • Authoring and writing content
  • SEO (search engine optimization)
  • Social engagement and marketing
  • Website development and programming
  • Local marketing
  • Video marketing
  • Email marketing
  • The wealthy affiliate platform
  • Pay per click marketing

It is always nice to have dedicated support which covers the technical aspects and the turn around is very good.

No waiting 24 or 48 hours.

Support is about as good as it gets.

Require more time to make a decision?

When preparing a review it is often difficult to cover all the areas involved in the product, but I do try to include what I think are the main areas and benefits that you need to know, and hopefully, that is what I have done and given you just enough information to try it out for yourself.

I would like to point out that it took me several years of wasting my time listening to people and their products and getting absolutely nowhere until I came across Site Rubix and Wealthy Affiliate. I only wish I had found this platform much, much sooner.

It could also be that you are at the very start of your research in finding ways to make money online, and if it is then all I can do is wish you the best of luck in your journey, but if it is then you could save yourself a lot of wasted time and money by just taking this for a FREE trial run.

What’s the worst thing that can happen?

Well, a few days of assessing just what the product offers and nothing else, because as I said you can join as a FREE member and there will be NO UPSELLS and you will not be asked for your CARD details.

My guarantee to you is that I will have your back on the inside, and will help you as much as I can.

If you are serious about learning how to build a successful online business there is no better place and this will be the best decision that you make and one you will not regret.

Try it for yourself, and see what you think

My Final Thoughts

I don’t know whether I have convinced you that Site Rubix is the real deal or not, but I can only give you my own true honest opinion and the rest I have to leave up to you to decide.

What I will tell you though is that I haven’t looked back since becoming a member and see myself here for the foreseeable future.

I truly believe there isn’t a product on the market that comes close!

If you would like to read an in-depth review of Wealthy Affiliate then you can check it out by clicking the link below.

My Wealthy Affiliate Review

Hopefully, I have answered many of the questions that you were asking yourself about the product, but if there are some questions that still need answering then please feel free to leave a comment below, both negative and positive as I would love to read them both.

I will get back to you at my earliest convenience and answer them to the best of my knowledge.

I would like to thank you for taking your time out and reading my review and hopefully, you have found it of interest, and I would like to wish you all the best in your research and moving forward with whatever you do in life.

Your friend

Mick

Owner – AchievesuccessfromHome.com

What is a Niche Market in Online Business, and how to go about finding your niche, developing it and to eventually make money from it?

Just a few very important things that you should be asking yourself before you even start contemplating making a living online, because if you get this wrong then it doesn’t matter how good your website and content is, it will all be in vain, so it is extremely important to choose the right niche.

Descriptive Misconceptions of Niche Marketing

You hear it all the time “Follow your passion” your “Interest” your “Hobby” and the money will come.

Too many people start off building their business with this firmly fixed in their minds, and if you just think about it, there is a fundamental flaw in this concept.

In the Online Marketing World, this is up there with probably the worst advice that you can be given if you want to be successful online.

The amount of time and effort required is vast when building your business where it is so easy to spend a considerable amount of money during the process.

You need more than just a passion!

Just having a passion or an interest, with bags of enthusiasm is not enough to build a profitable online business.

You must ensure that the market your niche belongs to has enough potential pulling power to become profitable, especially as you are going to be investing money to get the business started in the first place.

Let’s take a look at the costs involved in establishing a professional business website. One that has a strong brand and optimized throughout in-order to show up in search engines, like Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and to capture leads to increase your following.

Your time obviously; research, content creation, design, web development, web hosting, keyword research tools, software tools, auto-responders etc and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Is it possible to turn your hobby into a business?

It could be quite possible that building a business online is just a hobby of yours, and that you aren’t really interested or too bothered whether it makes a ton of money for you.

If that is the case then that’s fine, but if you stopped and thought about the whole process in more detail and by following certain guidelines then why not make this a proper business, where, who know’s you could make a living from.

Need to tell your boss where to go?

This should be about you making money and hopefully enough for you to say “Thank you very much, but I have had enough of this 9-5  and to tell your boss that you no longer wish to work for him or her.

Niche Marketing is a very concentrated form of marketing. Unlike some other forms of marketing that target a broad range or large group of consumers and a more competitive market.

Niche marketing involves targeting a very specific, well-defined portion of a broader more competitive market area.

Some Niches are discovered or created, right?

Some niches do not ‘exist’, they are ‘created’ by identifying people’s needs, their wants, and requirements that are being addressed poorly or not at all by other companies, and therefore it’s the job of the affiliate marketer to either develop or deliver goods or services to satisfy those requirements.

As a strategy, niche marketing is aimed at being a big fish in a small pond instead of being a small fish in a big pond.

This is also called micro-marketing.

So if your goal is to make money online with a business, rather than spend money on a hobby or a passion, then choosing a profitable niche market is absolutely crucial, and there is an art form to choosing a profitable niche market and one that you can become passionate about.

It’s all down to whether there is a Hungry Crowd in the niche you are choosing or creating!

What do we mean by a Hungry Crowd?

This is where there is a lot of people who are looking for something.

People who are searching on Google for things like, information, services, products, training, and it is our job, our end-goal as an affiliate marketer to put this sort of information in front of this hungry crowd!

Surely all the best Niches are taken?

I guess you thought that finding a profitable niche is going to be hard, right?

All the great ones are already taken and have far too much competition to even contemplate researching further, so there’s no way you could possibly compete, right?

Well sorry, I’m here to tell you that you are wrong!

It’s true that most of the profitable niches already have a lot of affiliate marketers working them, which is not a bad thing really, as it shows that it’s a healthy market, with plenty of products and customers (a hungry crowd), and that means there is plenty of money to be made.

All this means is that to compete in this market or niche you simply have to find your own smaller sub-niche, where there is still a lot of demand but a lot less competition, because even smaller sub-niches with larger markets have a lot of demand too.

Lets clear up just what a Sub-Niche is?

A sub-niche is basically a smaller segment or portion of a Marketplace.

For example, Weight Loss the top-level is a large broad, general market rather than a niche.

Weight Loss for Men is more of a niche market although still quite broad.

Weight Loss for Men in their 50’s is a sub-niche or a micro-niche.

It is very specific, focused and caters to a very precise sub-section of the Weight Loss market.

More examples:

• Dating > Dating For Men > Dating for men over 40 > Dating For Men Over 40 Who Want To Date Younger Women

• Pet Care > Dog Care > Shetland Sheepdog Care > Breeding Shetland Sheepdog

• Making Money > Making Money Online > Make money Online on a Tight Budget

The idea is to find or create a sub-niche which is part of a popular wider marketplace which gives you a better chance of success.

If you try to appeal to everyone and anyone in the wider market area, where there’s already a lot of competition, usually from well-established larger companies who have all the money for marketing, then you will struggle to become successful.

1. How to find the Best Niche for your Online Business

Write down a list of things that you are passionate about and put them in an order of precedence. These can be anything at all, hobbies, socializing, reading certain things, cooking, fitness etc

If you aren’t passionate about something, or you need a helping hand to find your perfect niche, then why not take a trip through some or all of my suggestions listed below and see where you end up.

You’re thinking, well he’s mentioned that passionate thing again?

Yes, I have and didn’t I mention earlier, you need more than just passion?

If you can find a niche and it has a hungry crowd and you are passionate about it then bingo because having a passion makes your life so much easier when building your business and it doesn’t become so much a chore.

But hey, we can always create or find our passion for a niche, so don’t worry about it!

What about Google Search? My first place of call!

Let’s continue using the “weight loss for men” example.

Go to Google

Enter your “weight loss for men” into the search bar and Google instant suggests some sub-niches for you.

Out of the initial keyword “weight loss for men,” you have a further number of sub-niches that are highlighted.

• weight loss for men
• men’s weight loss diet plan
• men’s weight loss workouts
• men’s weight loss tips
• men’s weight loss supplements

From here if you go to the bottom of the page, Google gives you some more suggestions of sub-niches that you could research.

What about using a Keyword Research Tool like Jaaxy?

Just key in the same keyword phrase into Jaaxy and see what appears.

That’s a potential further 6 sub-niches not to mention more on the proceeding pages.

Jaaxy is just one of many keyword research tools available to you and one of the best products currently on the market and can be mastered in just a few hours.

Wikipedia is another great resource for finding that Great Niche.

Go to Wikipedia

Enter your niche idea into the search bar and hit enter.

Wikipedia will return what it thinks are relevant to your search query.

 

Amazon is a great resource for researching your niche.

Amazon is not just an online retail outlet, it’s much more and if researched carefully could give you all sorts of ideas.

Enter your niche idea or product of choice into the Amazon search bar, much like Google instant does in suggesting and giving you products and ideas.

Look at the results in the drop down bar that Amazon suggests

Another load of ideas that you could research further.

What about the books section on Amazon?

This is widely used when searching for new ideas.

Why not enter your niche idea into the books section of Amazon and take a look at the list of books displayed.

Sort the books with the most reviews.

Click on the book cover to look inside and go to the contents page.

Just look at the different chapters, these can all be sub-niches.

I searched for “internet marketing” and I found a book called “SEO 2017”

The contents chapter revealed the following…

• Introduction to how Google works
• Keyword research
• On page SEO
• Link building
• Social media and SEO
• Web analytics in a nutshell
• The new meta
• Powerful SEO tools
• PPC

All great topics to be explored further.

What about checking

• The Bestsellers on Amazon
• Today’s deals
• At your Browsing history
• Deal of the day
• Lightning deal
• Savings and Sales
• Coupons
• Prime early access Deals

Why not select the department’s tab where you will find the top-level, broad term marketplace, and all you have to do from here is drill down and open up sub-sections. The further down you go into the sub-sections the less competition you will find.

There is so much you can do with Amazon in your research for that great Niche!

The end goal in your research finding that profitable niche is to research this further after you have decided that you have found a hungry crowd through Keyword Research.

Below I have listed what I think are the 10 top Marketplaces!

2. Does your Niche fit into one of the Top 10 Marketplaces?

Check to see if your chosen niche falls into one of the 10 categories below.

These are my top 10 and should only be used as a guideline.

Remember there are many, many more top categories.

If it does then straight away we have found a hungry crowd!

But don’t worry if the niche doesn’t fit into one of the 10 marketplaces because we might still be able to find a hungry crowd!

• Fitness and Weight Loss
• Health
• Romance, Dating, and Relationships
• Pets
• Self-improvement or Self Help
• Wealth through Investing
• Make Money Online
• Beauty Treatments
• Technology and Gadgetry
• Personal Finance

3. Keyword Research – looking for Competition

Remember when researching your niche you can look at it as a keyword because, in essence, that is what it is.

I always go through the three steps even if the niche I would like to get involved with doesn’t fit into one of the top marketplaces. You see further research using a Keyword Research Tool in a lot of cases may highlight your niche as a great niche or a new niche.

The top 10 are only to be used as a guide and if they fit into one of those categories then we know straight away that we have a crowd and that we can make our niche profitable.

Keyword research will eventually tell us how competitive our niche is going to be.

We are going to take a look at the screenshot of our last keyword search through the Jaaxy Keyword Research Tool and break it down a little further.

As you can see our search was for “weight loss for men” which is part of the “weight loss” marketplace.

Take a look at the top entry and let’s break down the statistics!

“weight loss for men”

Avg:  (Average) 

Average number of searches in Google per month for that exact keyword phrase “weight loss for men”                           = 3767

Traffic: (Traffic)                                                                                                                 

The number of visitors that could come to your website if you manage to get to the 1st page of Google                                      = 641

QSR:  (Quoted String Results)                                                                               

This is the number of web pages that refer to the exact keyword phrase  “weight loss for men”)                                        = 274

• Avg=3767
• Traffic=641  
• QSR=274

We need to look at Avg and QSR.

Avg should be greater than 100 and QSR should be less than 100 preferably 50

The keyword or niche “weight loss for men” would be discarded as its too competitive.

Let’s take a look at the second and the fourth entry in the query. 

“best weight loss for men” Avg=175 QSR=0  – Brilliant

“weight loss for men over 30” Avg=112 QSR=19  – Brilliant

Here we have two great niches that we could use where we know that there is a CROWD and very little COMPETITION 

Fitness and Weight Loss

Weight Watchers, Slimmers World, The Paleo Diet, The Vegan Diet. Low-carb Diets and the list goes on.

People are obsessed with losing weight and getting fit and into shape.

I like to try to eat healthily and exercise and I like to go running and cycling.

There are literally thousands of companies out there promoting training programs, weight loss programs, diet plans, fitness programs, etc

Thousands of health and fitness magazines promoting all sorts

As an affiliate marketer this is one of the top niches to get involved with, but be careful in how you approach and market it.

Health

Closely related to the fitness and weight loss marketplace.

Gone are the days when people listened fully to their doctors, as more and more people are taking their own health into their own hands. With the Internet and the amount of information available for free, people don’t trust their governments or what their doctors are telling them anymore.

There are literally thousands upon thousands of products online such as juicing, herbal remedies, supplements just to name a few.

Alternative medicines and health care are extremely popular here. We’re not talking about mainstream medicine either. These are cures the large pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know about.

Romance, Dating, and Relationships

Whether someone is looking for love, is into experimenting with online dating, or is in a relationship but struggling and looking for a way to revitalize their passion.

There’s a massive range of products in the dating and relationships marketplace, I mean just look at the sex industry, this is absolutely massive and something that is always going to be popular.

This is an area that is probably neglected when it comes to relationship struggles. If only couples sat down and talked and looked into different avenues, then maybe there wouldn’t be so many divorces.

People are always going to need advice in this area with it being so important for couples wanting to start a family. This is in a lot of cases the foundation of your future.

There are literally thousands of avenues you could go down and promote.

Pets

People love their animals with around 160 million dog and cat lovers in the US alone as of 2017, not even touching base on all the other different animals that are out there, from budgies, parrots through to horses, and not to mention all the other exotic animals, such as snakes, cats such as tigers, cheetahs.

What about people who love their tropical fish?

Just look at pet stores that are becoming much bigger trying to cater for all the different animals.

Dog training is a massive market, from getting them house-trained through to obedience training. You only have to look at

You only have to look at the number of TV programs that are out there to tell you that this could be a great niche to get involved in.

Self-improvement or Self-help

Also, known as self-help, this is a huge online marketplace, where there are books, DVD’s’s, courses. Online training courses etc. Whether someone wants to build self-esteem, experience career success, increase their confidence, set and achieve goals, overcome adversity or obstacles, there is sure to be a product out there.

You’ve heard of Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker. It’s a $12 billion a year industry, and forever growing.

People are always wanting to better themselves, with learning new skills to get that better job, which means more money for that bigger, faster car and a bigger house, not to mention bigger and better holidays.

Wealth through Investing

Let’s face it, everybody wants to make money and people are prepared to try anything, and they know that currency trading, stocks, and shares, bonds, options along with many other investments are a way to do this.

It is all over mainstream media where there are billionaire hedge fund owners and successful investors cashing in and they want a piece of the action.

Where do you go, because most people don’t have a clue what they are doing, so they need educating, and they need advice on which investments to get involved in.

That is where a variety of products related to investing come in. Trading services, financial newsletters, trading systems. These are all different ways that show people how to invest successfully.

It doesn’t matter whether the markets are going up, down or round in circles, whether it’s a depression or recession, investment products do well and it doesn’t matter how the economy is doing.

Make Money Online

Part of the Wealth market but such a massive area that we designated its own marketplace

A very popular marketplace here where there is literally thousands, probably millions involved in some way or another.

There are many ways to make money online.

You could create your own information products, such as e-courses, e-books, coaching programs and have a site like JVZOO or Clickbank to promote them for you.

You can also become an affiliate marketer, which is what I do for a living where you promote other peoples products and make a commission from doing so.

If you want to look into this further then feel free to read my review of a training platform that teaches you everything you need to know about Affiliate Marketing. Just click on the link below.

Learn everything you need to know about Affiliate Marketing

There are thousands of affiliate programs out there that cover every niche you could think of and cost nothing to join.

All you have to do is find the affiliate program that relates to the product that you are promoting.

Amazon Associates, Jvzoo, MaxBounty, Wealthy Affiliate, Clickbank, eBay Partner Network…

Beauty Industry

This market just explodes when we are talking about beauty.

Nobody wants to get old, do they?

Still looking for the anti-aging formula, but until someone comes up with that billion dollar miracle cure, then I guess we shall have to put up with all the other treatments.

Creams, formulas, or similar products that promise to eliminate or reduce the signs of aging are very popular.

Cosmetic surgery is massive.

Beauty Spas are popping up all over the place and what about nail bars

Hairdressers – There are always going to be needed

A great marketplace to get involved in!

Technology, Computers, and Gadgetry

This market is massive and expanding at such a rapid rate. Technology is at the forefront of everything moving forward into the future. In 50 years time our cars maybe flying, who knows.

Everything technology is loved by everyone, well almost everyone. Just look at what’s out there and what most people have, like smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, laptops, wireless speakers, iPods, wireless stereo systems, wireless security alarm systems, computer games consoles, and the list just keeps going on.

There are many ways that you could capitalize on products associated with technology.

You could drill down into the technology market and become a little more specialized in a particular sub-section or micro-niche.

Something like Drones!

This niche is just exploding and you can spend anything from $10 up to $1000’s and there are some amazing drones out there.

They were nowhere to be seen around 6-10 years ago.

Become an authority on Drones

Create your website and promote your drones from somewhere like Amazon

Create content relating to drones also known as a “blog posts”

Get visitors to your website also known as traffic

Once someone clicks on your link and purchases a product you get paid a commission.

Don’t know how to do this?

Learn, like I did and from the best in the industry.

Personal Finance

Where would we be without personal finance?

We are forever getting bombarded with ads in the newspapers, on the tv, pretty much wherever we look.

People always wanting mortgages, credit for cars, holidays, university,

Maybe they want to try and save on utility bills, they’re in debt and need advice in ways to solve this. Maybe they need to move their mortgage for a lower interest rate. Perhaps they are in so much debt that they are facing the bankruptcy courts and need help, or maybe the taxman is after them for back taxes and needs to know how this can be avoided.

How to Get Started Making Money Online With Niche Marketing

My advice to anyone who is serious about making money online is to stop following those sales videos that you see all over the Internet where the so-called gurus are promising you wealth, stood next to their mansions and fast cars!

Avoid MLM’s at all cost and stop following groups where all they teach is how to copy and paste!

If you only follow those little bits of advice you can save yourself a ton of time and money!

There are hundreds if not thousands of various programs on the internet that are here today and gone tomorrow, and the only ones who benefit from many of these scams are the owners, who then close up shop with all the money in a lot of cases and disappear into the wilderness, only to spring up from nowhere at some point in the future with a new program and the circle begins all over again.

Don’t get me wrong there are some very good training platforms out there, you just have to do your research and find them.

We all have to start somewhere right?

If you are serious about learning all this stuff…

• Learning and choosing the right niche
• Keyword research
• SEO (Search engine optimization)
• Creating a website, which is a piece of cake nowadays
• Learning how to write content for your website
• and much, much, more
• All on one training platform

Take a look at what I do for a living and see what you think!

Final analysis

If you are serious about making money online then I hope that I have cleared things up a little or at least given you food for thought and that in order to do this properly then you really need a niche and a website.

I would like to thank you for stopping by and I hope what you have read has been of value to you.

Please feel free to add any comments you may have, both Negative as well as Positive as I would love to read them both, and I will try and get back and answer your questions at my earliest convenience and to the best of my ability.

Stay safe and I would like to wish you all the best in your research and choosing the right path to your success.

Mick

Owner – AchieveSuccessFromHome.com