Whilst competing I will keep a journey of my progress which I will be updating several times a week. I will be 100% clear cut with everyone about everything and I will even reveal the niche which I am competing in and the keywords I am trying to rank for. You can follow and track my progress throughout the Niche Site duel and you can read and see how I will compete effectively and profitably.

The Strategy I intend to use:

Research, with the clear-cut honesty that is requested from every contestant I can analyse and interpret my competitors success and their overall drive and goal. This is an important point for every marketer, you must always keep an eye on your competitors no matter how small or big they maybe.

The research I do will enable me to foresee the exact type of niche I would need to choose, the type of competition I would need to target, the ways of monetizing I could use and the type of strategy I could implement.

I will then start with my keyword research, being the most important part of choosing a niche I would never suggest anyone to cut this process short. I will then progress to slicing the keyword research data down to a smaller size and to analyse the rest. I will eventually have 5 to 10 keywords left to analyse in depth from the amount of competition, the amount of daily traffic predicted as top search engine result and the predicted monthly income through Google Adsense.

I will proceed with this competition using the following tools to help me along the way:

1. Market Samurai

2. The Best Spinner

3. WordPress

4. Aweber

These tools & software will come in handy doing most of my jobs and will make the challenge much easier.

I will be choosing my niche over the next couple of days using Market Samurai as my main tool for keyword research and niche hunting! After I have found my niche, registered my domain name and set the website up I will write part 2 of the Niche Site Duel.

Please wish me luck and if anyone else wants to know how to participate or needs any help at all please send me a message.

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Niche Site Duel #1: I am in…

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I have been using Market Samurai for about 4 months now and in this time I have set up and developed 11 new sites in 11 new niches, all of which I have found with Market Samurai. Now, I do have to admit some of these are still in development but the ones which have been developed and are established, are bringing in a nice steady and growing income each and every month. Mainly through Google adsense but I plan on extending this with my own products in the future and perhaps Amazon associates as well.

At this point I do want to admit Market Samurai has ONE HUGE NEGATIVE - it is addictive. I mean seriously addictive, I spend hours and hours just trifling through new sub-niches knowing that if I developed sites in these niches they would be profitable and this is all thanks to Market Samurai and it’s powerful tools. One thing I wish Market Samurai came with is your own stop watch so you can stop time and spend as long as you want using Market Samurai without worrying about the girlfriend getting angry, because your spending too much time with your samurai!

Now before we get in to the specifics of Market Samurai and the tools it provides, I do want to mention that you can get a totally FREE trial of Market Samurai right here…yes it’s free, no there isn’t any hidden charges or automatic payment…just type your name & email and get a download link to the real thing!

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Hopefully you have take advantage of the free trial link above, otherwise let’s move on and really show you why Market Samurai is the Michael Jackson of the online marketing world!

Above are the 8 modules which are currently available when you first log in to Market Samurai, however since it is continuously being updated it is safe to say that many other modules will be appearing throughout 2011 including an Adwords module which will aid you in maximising your income stream through pay-per-click advertising. All the above modules are incredibly useful however I find that I use three main modules on a daily basis, these are rank tracker, keyword research and SEO competition. I also find that the find content module is extremely useful for finding relevant articles to help source your own article writing.

Rank Tracker

The first of my top three Market Samurai tools allows you to track unlimited domains rankings & keywords in Google, Bing & Yahoo! This tracks the SERP position for both broad match and phrase match, pageranks and the number of back-links. I really cannot boast how powerful, effectiv

e and useful this piece of software really is! Market Samurai creates a very easy to follow table of data so you can easily track every single one of your website projects on a daily basis.

Now I have been using the Rank Tracker since I first purchased Market Samurai and it really is great, however one little nit-pick I have with the Rank Tracker tool is it does gradually get slower as you add more and more projects/domains to track. I think I am tracking about 50 different projects now and well it is a little slow but I can assure you it’s not a big deal, just the only issue I can raise with it.

I do recommend you try Market Samurai for yourself right now! You can grab the 7 day free trial today, right this minute, right here!

Keyword Research

I’ve always stood by and said that keyword research is the most important part of any online project and this is where the Keyword Research module comes in to play, as my favourite tool from Market Samurai, it makes keyword research easy, fun and addictive! Using the Keyword Research module is really simple, to most it will just be basic instincts but to others it may take 2 or 3 minutes to understand. Yes, that’s all! All you have to do is enter a seed keyword for the overall project, click in to the Keyword Research module then click generate keywords, enter the captcha and once that is done all the relevant, juicy, golden keywords will appear. At this point you have hundreds of keywords and now you can start filtering down your keywords by removing certain keywords or phrases automatically or manually. I admit the Rank Tracker is worth the money all on it’s own!

After you have got rid of the keywords you don’t want, now it’s time to analyse the remaining keywords for the array of options which Market Samurai provides including SEO competiton, Daily Searches, PPC costs, SEOV (a calculation of the average amount of money you would make through Google adsense if you was in first position for the keyword) very clever, adwords traffic and so much more!

Seriously, the Keyword Research tool is brilliant -- you can take a look for your self:

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Market Samurai is truly spectacular, with the Keyword Research tool alone it is worth the one-off fee. But stop reading this review and try it for yourself with the Free 7 day trial! Get Your 7 Day free Market Samurai Trial Today!

SEO Competition

This tool is by far my favourite tool in Market Samurai and the second most addictive tool that Market Samurai offers. The depth of analysis that Market Samurai provides in the SEO competition tool is phenomenal especially at the speed in which it processes the query. I have found this tool to be highly accurate and it has really helped in providing me the data I needed in seeing whether I could gain a top ten ranking for certain keywords. With the SEO competition tool you get a break down of the top ten search results for the keyword you are analysing this includes domain age, pagerank, indexed pages, inbound links to the individual page, back-links to the overall site, keyword metrics & cache information. The different colours you can see in the image to my right indicate the ease of ranking, green being the easiest and red being the hardest.

The analysis doesn’t stop here though, the SEO competition tool can delve even deeper in to the individual competitors by analysing the actual back-links the website has collected by looking at the anchor texts and where the back-links are coming from. You can also see the distribution of anchor texts here too. Overall you achieve an exact blueprint of each individual competitor so you can replicate each action and strategy they have taken and do more.

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Still not convinced, check out this video to see how to use SEO Competition properly for spying on your competitors and getting the data to dominate them!

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Domains

Found that niche you were looking for? Found that golden keyword? Realise, with little to no effort you could rank on the first page? Need a domain? Then use Market Samurai’s own Domain tool to search for unregistered keyword related domain names in any extension you want. A very clever added on tool and beneficial and time-efficient.

Monetization

This handy little tool allows you to find ways of monetizing that new golden niche you have just found. You can search through Amazon associates program, Clickbank, PayDotcom and Commission Junction. A very hand tool that allows you to filter your searches by network, keyword, commission & categories.

Find Content

This allows you to find relevant content in some of the biggest directories on the Internet including Wikipedia, Ezine Articles, Google blog search, Go Articles & many, many more. I find this really useful for finding relevant articles to source you’re newly created article, a golden tool!

Publish Content

An excellent feature which allows you to publish and manage your WordPress blogs straight through Market Samurai, publish that content you have just found or the unique article you have just written with the publish content tool inside Market Samurai.

Promotion

This is another really useful tool from Market Samurai, another one of my favourites, and another addictive tool gives you the ability to find relevant backlinks for the niche you have selected. It highlights the keywords, pagerank and whether they are do follow or no follow back link sources. An excellent time-saver and a really effective tool when put to optimum use.

Market Samurai: Final Thoughts

Overall I admit that this is the best software I have ever purchased and used. I have tried many keyword research tools, social bookmarking tools, niche marketing tools and so on but none have never been as complete, as affordable and as effective as Market Samurai. Not only this but as they continue to improve Market Samurai by actually listening to their customers it can only get better and better. One last thing I want to highlight is, I use an iMac and well since Market Samurai runs through Adobe Air it works seamlessly on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux…perfect! If you want to find profitable niches, highly searched, low competition keywords, if you want to do SEO analysis on you’re competitors and find what they are doing to get to the top ten and if you want a whole lot more then Market samurai is definitely, guaranteed to be the best online marketing software you ever purchase.

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Market Samurai Review -- Official Guide & Review of the No.1 Online Marketing Software

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Typically, concerning search engines, if you site isn’t showing up at all, the problem is most likely one of search engine optimization or SEO for short.

What is this search engine stuff you’re talking about you ask? Keep reading and I’ll explain.

Search engine optimization is the art of making your site search engine friendly. What this means is that you make your site easy to access by the search engines by taking the guesswork out of what your site is about.

Search engines look for the following (non exhaustive list) things when it spiders or crawls (looks at) a website:

1.) Title of the page

A search engine looks into the code of you web page to read what the subject of you page is. What it reads is called the title tag and this is what shows up at the top of your browsers window when you visit a site.

2.) Description of the page

Search engines also read the description you give for your page in the description Meta tag of your site. This is what you read as a description when you do a search engine search and view the results pages. If you don’t supply a description Meta tag, a search engine will usually use the first paragraph of your page to describe it. This is something you don’t want since you want to provide a succinct but curiosity building description of your page that also shows relevance for the searcher to get them to visit your site.

3.) Keywords of the page

Lastly, as far as the code of your page goes, search engines pay particular attention to the keywords Meta tag of your web page. Similar to the description tag in format, the keywords Meta tag tells the search engine what search terms your page is about such as pets, dogs, Irish setters, this way the search engine can rank your page in terms of importance or relevance when someone does a search for “Irish Setter Dogs As Pets”. When defining the keywords for your page, try to only target a maximum of 3 per page and make sure that the keywords you are using actually exist in your web page at the beginning paragraph, middle of the body and ending paragraph of the page.

4) Emphasis on the page

One of the major on page factors (not code) that search engines use to also rank your page is anchor text (links) and text descriptors like bolding and paragraph headers. Recently, the names you give your page’s images have become important as well as any alt and title tags you use to describe them, and links on the page.

An example of both are:

<img src=”image.jpg” alt=”Irish Setters” title=”Irish Setters”>

<a href=”index.html” title=”Irish Setters”>Irish Setters</a>

Paragraph

5.) Relevance of the page

Search engines are designed to rank a web page by the factors above but they also rank your page according to off page factors, one of the most important being back links. Search engines consider your web pages to be more relevant if other related sites point to your site and especially so if the anchor text used happens to be one of the keywords defined in your page’s keyword meta tag.

Many marketers attempt to build off page relevance by using methods such as article marketing or parasite hosting marketing. Article marketing is by far the most proven and used method and parasite hosting, such as on sites like blogger, squidoo and hub pages is a close runner up in proven effectiveness.

Even though these methods work, your site will get more “link” juice from high page ranking sites that are in the same niche as yours and that also use the appropriate anchor text to point to your site. Other websites will typically only point a link at your site or pages if the content you are offering is useful, unique and solves a problem or educates the web site owner’s readers.

So, now that you know how to begin optimizing your site for the search engines to make it more popular, your next step is to make sure that your web pages have the right “in page” text, such as the title, keyword and description as well as “on page” text like bolded keywords and link anchor text.

After this, you should begin creating links to your pages using article marketing and the other methods discussed in this article.

Finally, try to build relationships with other webmasters to make them aware of your site so they will possibly link to it. You can also begin this process your self by using methods such as blog commenting and forum posting.

In closing, I have two quotes for you that I keep right above my workspace at home. Take heed to them because they are full of truth.

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ”
Booker T. Washington

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ”
Calvin Coolidge

If you’ve picked any pointers from this article that you can put into action, then by all means, do so. You won’t really be able to gain any benefits from your new knowledge if you don’t use it.

Now, I’ll leave you with a saying of my own.

Being the best means being the best that YOU can be. Always strive to be a better you and you will always be the best.

Andrew Witherspoon has been marketing online since 2007 using affiliate marketing and other means of income generation to grow his business. To read more articles by him, visit his blog.

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Seo Tools To Increase Your Websites Popularity

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Last year, there were a number of people who wanted to start their own online business and this year the number continues to grow. With the newest advents of digital technology growing and changing at a quickening pace, many more people, today than yesterday, have the freedom of being able to start a small online home based business that can grow into whatever they can imagine. The fantastic tools that are available are within their reach, all they have to do is make a fist.

Think about it for a minute, or two. Is there anything in the world like the idea of being your own boss, and steering your own future. Knowing that whether you succeed or fail, your did it your way? Thoughts like this is what gives a person a feeling of power, making them feel confident that they can achieve the sky and the limit. But is being your own boss all that it’s cracked up to be?

For some, the experience of being their own boss can be a lonely and isolating adventure as well as a physically and mentally taxing ordeal. Being self employed not only requires that you have certain skills but that you also keep adding to those skills, nonstop. Now, if you think this is a hoot, think about what you will have to learn to start your business online.

Still interested? Good! Keep reading because there is more to come, and remember,the more skills you develop, the more successful you will be.

Other than having and gaining whatever skills you may need to run your online business, which means a lifetime of learning, there are emotional traits and personality traits that go along with starting a business that you should be aware of, don’t worry, if you don’t seem to have what it takes, you can get it. Entrepreneurs are made, not born, believe that because without such a belief success will be fleeting at best, if your lucky.

To be an entrepreneur, all you have to do is want to be one but…
To be honest, it will take courage, determination, and expertise (that you will gain). You will have to be committed to working very long hours, mostly alone unless you hit it big time and hire a team or are lucky enough to have a partner. This is the life of a budding entrepreneur and even some not so budding ones but the rewards of owning your own online business can be more than worth the effort that you will have to put forth.

Oh, yeah, that’s right, if you haven’t gotten it by now then listen up. A BUSINESS IS WORK!

There is no such thing as FREE or overnight riches so don’t believe the hype. You get what your hand calls for and only you can deal that hand. In the process of ‘puttin in work’ you will gain knowledge as well as build much needed confidence as you develop and learn how to harness your newfound expertise.

Warning!!

The linings of your pockets won’t swell overnight with cash and neither will your bank account, but they will grow. At first slowly and then if you have a plan and stick to it, change it, and learn from it, the pace will speed up a bit.

I know what you’re thinking. Wow! There is so much to learn, so much to do, so little money to do it with and an abundance of unanswered questions. Join the club, we all started out this way. No one who is successful started out having it all, they earned it and so will you. You will earn learn, earn, and get answers, sooner than you might think.

Now with all of that out of the way, here are the answers to the other questions you must be asking yourself.

What is the first step you should take? Which business idea is the right one for you? What will it cost to get started? Where will you get the money to do what you have to do? Does you idea make sense and if so, how should you present it to your target client? How much competition are you facing?

If you are anything like I was when I first decided to start my own online business (and I know you are) the questions are teeming and rolling through your brain cells knocking each other around. Also if you are like I was (again, I know you are) you do nothing but eat, sleep, and drink the idea of starting a business online. Basically, you don’t know where to start but I can tell you in a simple sentence where you should think of starting.

Start with doing something that you love to do!

Even though you can learn to be an entrepreneur, you can not ‘learn’ to love what you do, it has to already be in you. Take my word for it. Don’t start a business solely because it seems to be lucrative. You may end up with money but more than likely you will fail at doing what you don’t love so start by choosing a business that you love.

If you don’t start a business based on something you love you will eventually hate it and this will show in how you operate your business and treat your clients. Pretty soon, guess what?…No more business!

Even when you do find something you love, or maybe you already know what it is, you will still have to cultivate in yourself certain entrepreneurial skills such as being a hard worker and having organizational skills. You will need to do tedious chores that deal with finance, administration and a whole list of other…Un-love like activities. Who do you think is going to do the selling for your new business? YOU! and don’t forget it, so start developing that people personality (for handling client and networking) and some light hearted humor (for those days when things just don’t go right), you’re gonna need it, I guarantee:)

I trust that what you’ve read so far has been informative. The following section should go a long way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may remain.

Wrong! But it should help.

As you plan for your new online business venture by doing research and creating a solid business plan, don’t forget to do the following before you take the first real step into the business arena.

Find A Mentor

Learn from the mistakes of others, specifically your mentor. Find a person in your field or even a related field who is successful and ask them to give you some guidance. If they say no, ask someone else. Keep asking until you get a yes.

Prepare for success

Plan your business as much as possible. Don’t just let it happen because the only thing that will happen is nothing, at least nothing you would like. Make goals and break them down into doable steps. A simple exercise to help you do this is to build you business from the top down, on paper.

All this means is to start with the end in mind and then backtrack by finding out what the previous the must be. Here is a brief example: I want to make 100 dollars.

First of all that is not specific enough, try this instead:
I want to make 100 dollars in ten months. Now you can automatically figure that you need to make 10 dollars a month to achieve this goal. You can further break this down into weeks and days and then figure out what you need to do each day to achieve your daily goal towards your major goal.

In closing, I have two quotes for you that I keep right above my workspace at home.
Take heed to them because they are full of truth.

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ”
Booker T. Washington

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ”
Calvin Coolidge

If you’ve picked some pointers about being an entrepreneur that you can put into action, then by all means, do so. You won’t really be able to gain any benefits from your new knowledge if you don’t use it.

Now, I’ll leave you with a saying of my own.

Being the best means being the best that YOU can be. Always strive to be a better you and you will always be the best.

Andrew Witherspoon has been marketing online since 2007 using affiliate marketing and other means of income generation to grow his business. To read more articles by him, visit his blog.

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Being An Entrepreneur

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1.) Affiliate: Plainly speaking an affiliate is just a term used to describe a particular type of marketer. If you thought that an affiliate was some type of sales person then please, think again. The job of an affiliate is not to make a sale but instead his or her job is to market to a demographic who may be interested in purchasing what he or she is marketing and refer that person to a vendors (product/service owner) storefront.

Definition of Demographic: A demographic is just a fancy term for a slice of a population who share similar interest such as the demographic who would most likely purchase a video game belongs to the age group of roughly 13 to 18 years of age.

2.) Marketing: Marketing is not advertising, it is much more complicated than just advertising. Marketing is the science of research, development and yes, advertising to a target demographic based on many factors that are also included in the marketing definition (just not here).

What Type of Marketer Is An Affiliate Marketer?

Now that we have the basic idea of what affiliate marketing is let me explain the type of marketer that an affiliate is. Affiliates market products and or services that they do not own or control. They market these products and services to demographics that the product or service is meant to cater to in a calculated attempt to convince that market to purchase the product or service from the vendor or owner of the product/service. Typically, an affiliate is used to describe marketers of this type who work mainly on the internet.

What Demographics Do Affiliate Marketers Choose To Market To?

Affiliate marketers usually either market to demographics to which they belong or maintain relationships in as well as to markets in which there is a high level of financial activity happening. Beginners in this field usually try to market products that they are interested in and then slowly gravitate to other niches in which the rate of return may be higher or the demographic may be easier to persuade to take “The Most Wanted Response” (a purchase).

Definition of Niches: Niches are markets that have been broken down into increasingly smaller demographic sections interested in similar but more specific items. Shoes are a market but sneakers are a niche market and Nike sneakers are even more specific.

What Types of Marketing Strategies Do Affiliate Marketers Use?

The most basic of strategies that affiliate marketers use are content (words) and referral links (affiliate links such as http://affiliatesite.com/?affiliate=123) to deliver their messages to as many people in their targeted demographic as they can. It’s all a numbers game and the more traffic that an affiliate can direct to their messages and links, the higher the probability that they will eventually make a sale. How their message is presented is extremely important just as important as how their referral link is used to refer the person who is consuming their message. This strategy is typically done by creating a website for the product or service the marketer is promoting (marketing).

Other types of strategies include, email marketing (not spam), social marketing (think facebook and twitter), article marketing, ezine marketing (online newspaper), video marketing (youtube) and many others including desktop software.

The ways and means by which an affiliate can market a product or service is strictly limited by his or her imagination, skills and resources.

So, does affiliate marketing sound like something you would like to learn more about? Here are some questions you may want to ask yourself as a starting point before making a decision.

1.) Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit?
2.) Can you market to people you know?
3.) Do you have imagination or can you cultivate some?
4.) Are you willing to invest money to make money?

If you can honestly answer yes to these questions then possibly this could be the field for you. Don’t worry if you don’t possess all of the quality listed, you can work on that because even stronger than all of these qualities is one that I didn’t mention. That is the desire to succeed. Persistence can make or break any budding entrepreneur so just remember:

“Success Is Measured By the Obstacles You Overcome”

Money and other material objects are not a factor in success; the only true factor is how you feel about the goals you set for yourself and what you’ve overcome to reach them. In the end, success is whatever you define so define your own success now and then get to marketing.

Andrew Witherspoon has been marketing online since 2007 using affiliate marketing and other means of income generation to grow his business. To read more articles by him, visit his blog.

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Affiliate marketing – How to Learn Affiliate Marketing in Less Than 30 Minutes

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If you’ve been following my articles here for some time, you will notice that I just completed a series titled “Top 25 Success Secrets.” If you do the math, that comes out to 25 articles in less than two months. A lot of thought went into them and, quite honestly, took a lot out of my sales.

So here I am now, finished with a major article writing project and trying to figure out where to go from here. If you think it’s easy recharging your batteries after a long project, think again. Sometimes your head is so foggy, you don’t know which end is up. So what do you do?

Well, here is what I did. I sat back, took a breath, and realized that what I just went through is something that a lot of people are going to experience at one time or another. So I came up with the idea to write this article. But that’s only going to buy me a day of time. Where do I go from here?

Where I go from here is simple. I’ll take a look at all the articles that I’ve written for this blog so far. I’ll see which ones promised a next part and start working on the next part. Those are the easy articles to fill as the foundation has already been laid out. But what happens when I’m done with all the multi part articles?

That’s when I go into what I call “think mode.” I’ll brainstorm some ideas for new articles and article series. For example, I came up with the idea for “Top 25 Success Secrets” from a Warrior Forum post and a free report that I put together. So I figured why not turn that info into a series of articles?

What I’ll probably do is look at other free reports that I’ve done and see which one of those I can turn into articles as well. The great thing about this business is that the longer you’ve been doing it, the more info you have to fall back on to write about.

And it’s the same way with product creation. If you really know your niche well, you can come up with a variety of products and never run out of ideas. I can’t even count all the products that I’ve created over the years and still manage to crank out at least two new ones every month.

The key to the whole process is to sit back, relax, take stock of what you’ve already done and see where you can grab new ideas from…even if they’re just offshoots of things you’ve done before.

Sometimes what’s old is new again.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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What To Do After A Big Project Is Completed

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Okay, so why do I have customer service as the number one most important part of running your business?

Because all the knowledge in the world, all the planning, all the advertising, all the honesty, all the skills that have made you a top copywriter, all of that CAN’T make up for NOT taking care of your customers after the sale is made.

For example. You sell some great ebook on how to make money online. The ebook is fantastic. It has everything that a person could want in it. But not everybody is going to understand everything that’s in it as everybody will be at a different skill level. So some people are going to write to you with questions.

See what happens when you either don’t respond to them or give them some smart ass answer like, “Why don’t you just read the book? The answer is in it.”

How fast before that person not only asks for a refund but starts bad mouthing you all over the Internet as providing terrible customer service?

You have a membership site. The site goes down or there is a technical problem with it. Good customer service will not only get on fixing the problem right away but will send out an email to the members letting them know that there IS a problem and it’s being taken care of.

What do you think is going to happen if you just shrug your shoulders and go out for a weekend on the town saying to yourself, “screw ‘em. I’ll take care of it when I get back” and for 2 or 3 days, your members have no access and no explanation?

Now, having said all that, as your business grows, customer service is going to be more and more difficult to attend to as the number of customer service requests are going to increase. Guess what?

Too bad. Hire more people. Get a help desk. Do whatever you have to do to make sure that your customers are taken care of.

If you think I am making a big deal over this, you’re right…I am. Try running a business without providing good customer service and see how far you get.

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed this series of articles. I can honestly say that these 25 things have greatly contributed to the success that I have had online and I know that they will contribute to YOUR success as well.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Top 25 Success Secrets – Customer Service

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In this installment, we tackle number 2 on the hit parade…one that I am sure is going to be a surprise to a lot of people…honesty.

Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Sure, it’s nice to be honest. But how is that so important when it comes to being successful? After all, aren’t there a lot of people out there who are as crooked as the day is long and yet they’re still successful?

Maybe…but how many of them eventually get caught? And with the Internet, news spreads very fast especially if it’s spread by the right person.

Imagine this scenario. John Doe purchases your latest ebook on how to make money online. Upon reading it, he discovers that you’ve completely lifted his product word for word. What you don’t know is that John Doe is one of the biggest names online.

So what do you think John Doe is going to do, with his band of merry followers, the numbers of which are more than staggering? He’s going to blog about this, send emails out to his list about it, write articles and send then to directories, make videos and upload them to just about every video site in creation, and on and on.

In no time at all, you’re going to become a household name, except not in the way that you would like. Cheat somebody, steak from somebody or just flat out lie to somebody, and you can bet that the bad news is going to spread faster than a forest fire.

Are you going to lose sales by being honest? Yep, you sure will. I can’t tell you how many sales of my coaching program I’ve lost because I didn’t tell people what they wanted to hear…that there was a lot of hard work involved in building a stable and profitable business.

But here’s what’s going to happen if you ARE honest with people. You’re going to build a loyal following who will practically buy just about anything you sell them with nothing more than a short description and a buy now button.

In fact, one of my most successful product lines doesn’t even have a sales page…at least not a traditional one. It’s just some HTML text and a link at the end…not even a button. There are no graphics, headers or anything. And yet, it’s responsible for a good chunk of my monthly income. Why? Because I give it to people straight.

So the next time you’re thinking of maybe bending the truth or telling an outright lie to your prospects, remember, it only takes ONE person to totally blow it all to hell for you. And when THAT happens, your reputation never really recovers.

And that you can take to the bank.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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In this installment, we hit number 3 in our hit parade…planning. There is an old saying that goes like this.

“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” It’s an old cliche but it’s quite true. Without proper planning, you might as well take your whole business and flush it down the toilet.

But why is planning so important? Can’t you just head on over to Clickbank, pick a product to promote, write a few articles, submit them to some directories and make a few bucks? Sure you can, and in fact, as crappy a plan as that is, it’s still a plan.

The key is, the MORE you plan, the better your results are going to be.

Now, a plan in itself doesn’t have to be overly complicated. Some of the simplest plans are the most successful provided that you put the necessary work into them to make them successful.

For example, let’s take our crappy plan of just heading on over to Clickbank, picking a product and writing some articles that send people to the sales page to HOPEFULLY make some sales. Ironically, this is a plan that many people use and do quite well with. However, the ones who do very well are the ones who expand on this plan a bit.

For example, instead of just sending prospects directly to a sales page, the article marketer uses an intermediate step of sending the prospect to a review page of the product. This presells the prospect and makes them more likely to purchase the product.

Others will take that plan one step further. They’ll send the prospect to an opt in page where they’ll offer information related to the niche itself. From there, after collecting their email and building a list from it, they’ll send them to the review page as a the next step in the process.

And there are many things you can do to expand on this plan even more. You can add backlinking duties to the mix in order to get your opt in page or review page higher up the search engines.

Point is, you can’t just wake up one day and say, “I want to make some money”, go to some random site, sign up for their “miracle in a box” program and expect to just wing it and make money. You need to have some kind of a plan…no matter how simple it might be. Again, it doesn’t have to be complex to be effective.

That’s the reason why I have planning so high up on my list. Every single little thing I do with my business is completely planned out from the start to the finish. I have a checklist for each task that has to be completed in order to implement that plan. I also have an overall plan for my business in general with goals that I want to reach each week, month, quarter and year. That way I know if I’m on target or not.

Some say I’m obsessed with my business. I say I’m simply a planner, which has been a huge contributor to my success.

It can be to YOUR success too.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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In this installment, we tackle number 4 on our hit parade…advertising. Some people think that this is the number 1 most important part of success. Well, I admit, it’s up there. But when you see what 1 through 3 are and read my reasons behind their choices, you’ll understand why advertising is only number 4.

Okay, so why is advertising so important? Well, the answer to that should be blatantly obvious. If you don’t promote your site, nobody, or at least very few people, will see it. With the number of web sites out there today, you can’t just put one online and expect to get traffic. So we need to advertise.

Ah, but what kind of advertising? Therein lies the rub. See, there are many ways to advertise online and they are not all the same and not all effective for every niche.

For example, let’s take article marketing. It’s a very effective form of advertising. I’ve been using it for years. But it doesn’t work well for every niche. In fact, I’m going to give you a perfect niche that article marketing is downright horrible for…golf tips.

Think about it. Somebody is looking to improve their game. They want to learn how drive farther and more accurately, chip better, putt with better precision and so on. Do you think they want to or even CAN get this info out of an article? Of course not. They’re going to want to watch videos actually showing them the golf swing. This is one example where article marketing is virtually worthless and video marketing is a gold mine.

Let’s take the “make money online” niche. A lot of people seem to think that using safelists and traffic exchanges is a waste of time as far as marketing goes. And yes, if you’re selling an acne cure, they are. But if you’re showing people HOW to make money online, those methods can be VERY effective IF used correctly. Problem is, most people DON’T know how to use them. Point is, for this niche, safelists and traffic exchanges are quite viable.

And then, you have to consider the cost of your advertising and the return that you get from it. For example, let’s say that you’ve decided to use Adwords to promote your product. But you find out that the average CPC is about $1 a click and at 2% conversion, that’s $100 for two $47 sales. Unless you’ve got a strong backend, you’re not even breaking even using this method. Yes, it’s fine for a loss leader, but you better have something to follow it up with like a home study course or seminar.

Point is, advertising is VERY important. And yes, even if it’s just word of mouth through something like Twitter or Facebook, that’s still advertising. Getting the word out about your product is almost the most important thing when it comes to your business.

Why almost? You’ll see in the next three articles.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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