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Today's Feature Article

5 Characteristics of a Good Make Money Online Niche
John Tan

This is the first post for the Question Wednesday Theme Post and the question that I want to answer today is: What make a good make money niche?

Here is my answer: I still remember when I just got started online, the main problem that I faced that cause me to stuck in my online business is Choosing A Niche. I am sure many of you face this problem till this day.

So what is the solution or answer on how to choose a good niche that can make you money? I am going to help you by sharing with you 5 characterics of a good niche that makes you money.

5 Characteristics Of A Good Make Money Online Niche

1. Availability Of Products To Promote - You want to find a niche that already have a wide range of products for you to promote as an affiliate as you do not want to enter a niche and find out that you can make money only on one product.

For example of a good niche is dog training niche. There is a wide range of products like ebook, dog clothing, video training, dog cares and so on. With these wide range of products, you can make money from your list time and time again.

2. Benefits For Buying Online - Many physical products that is being sold online can be bought offline and as people are more used to buying things offline, you need to give them benefits/reasons to buy it online.

Benefits like discount or an additional bonus or conveniences will be a good benefits. Therefore you want to choose a niche that has benefits for buying online.

3. Immediate Gratification - People want things fast and immediate so if the niche can provide immediate gratification will be an advantage. Example will be an ebook that can be download immediately after payment.

4. Competition - Many beginners are afraid this word competition. If you enter a niche that had no competition, you want to be careful because most probably this niche is not profitable. If it is, then mostly likely there will be people selling products to that niche.

Another thing about competition is that these competitors can be your future potential Joint Venture partners that can help you in your business.

5. Custom To Spending Money Online - This is one of the most important characteristic you want to consider. You do not want to enter a niche where they are no buyers. No matter how good your product is, nobody will buy because they are not use to spending money online.

Above are the 5 characteristic of a good make money online niche. You may want to take some note and the next time you are choosing a niche, you might want to reference to it.

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Today's Motivational Reading

13 Rules To Success!
Joe Girard

HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE; hang around with positive people, stay away from cry babies and complainers, because they will pull you down to their level. If something isn't going right in your life, keep it to yourself, no one wants to hear your problems, make people believe you are having a wonderful time.

ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE; keep an appointment book so that you don't have to use the words that sicken me: "I FORGOT." At the end of each day, meditate upon what you did or did not do, so you can become stronger for tomorrow. Plan your work for the next day. If you know where you are going you will get there. If you don't, you are LOST!

WORK WHEN YOU WORK; don't take long lunch hours, and only eat with people who can help your cause, not with other salespeople. Do not sneak out of work early, if you do you are a LOSER.

OBSERVE GIRARD'S NO-NOs; No smoking or chewing tobacco, no gum, no colognes, no profanity, no dirty jokes, no alcohol breath, and men do not wear earrings when you are working. Turn off cell phones - they're irritating. The biggest killer of them all is NOT BEING ON TIME.

DRESS THE PART; what kind of people are you dealing with. If you are selling to blue collar workers, don't wear $500 suits and expensive shoes, jewelry or watches (it's a big distraction). Wear it on your own time, not when you're working - clothes can turn people off.

LISTEN! People can tell if you're not listening. The longer you listen, the more obligated people will feel towards you. The more you listen, the more likely a customer is going to do business with you. Listening shows that you care. "The mouth should only be used for eating - keep your mouth shut!" Silence is Golden.

SMILE! A smile increases your face value. If people would smile more, your customers would feel better and want to do business with you, plus it's great for your health!

RETURN ALL PHONE CALLS & EMAILS; not returning calls or emails are a way to lose customers and friends. Return your calls and emails as soon as possible. If you don't, that's a good way to burn a bridge!

TELL THE TRUTH; if you get caught in a lie even once, you will always be a liar. Even if you tell the truth for the rest of your life, you won't be trusted or believed, consider yourself DEAD.

DON'T OVERCHARGE; if you do, and the customer compares your deal with somebody else, you have lost him. Take a little and leave a little; Joe only worked on a small profit, but he was heavy on volume, averaging six retail automobile sales a day. Word of mouth got around that YOU CAN'T BEAT JOE GIRARD'S PRICE.

STAND IN FRONT OF YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICES; not behind. The most important thing to do for your customer is SERVICE them, and they will do business with you over and over again. This is what made JOE #1 IN THE WORLD.

LOCK UP EVERY SALE; after you have closed the sale, ask your customers why they bought from you - if they tell you why, they are reinforcing their trust in you. Therefore no more buyers' remorse, MEANING NO MORE CANCELLATIONS.

REWARD YOURSELF; treat yourself well for all the smart work you have done; YOU DESERVE IT!

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Joe Girard's track record speaks for itself, as an international lecturer, author of best selling self-improvement books, and The World's Greatest Salesperson, Joe Girard is the speaker you want to give your people what they need!
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Today's Subscriber Article

Question to Answer:
The Many Facets of Viral Marketing
Irena Whitfield

In the beginning, email was the one way that viral marketing was started. Since that long ago day, viral marketing has gone from a marketing strategy to an art form and there are many ways to accomplish the objective of creating a successful viral marketing campaign. Seven of those ways are:

1. Email: It was the first but it is still around and used. It is, however, getting a little harder to use as more and more government restrictions are placed on it. Still, it does work.

2. Newsletters: This is an extension of email but it a very effective tool. If you include enough timely and valuable information, a good newsletter can drive up the number of visits to your website.

3. Blogging: Providing the tools on your website to enable bloggers to interact with one another is a terrific way to get the message about your product of service out there and being talked about. Bloggers have their ears to the ground for new products and services.

4. Chat Rooms: A chat room on your website can and does encourage interaction among your customers and that can’t be a bad thing. Also, you can use the chat room to schedule special events like having an expert available to answer questions on a given day at a given time.

5. Tell-a-friend Script: If you add this with a statement saying that email addresses supplied will never be shared with third parties, you can increase your potential customer list greatly.

6. Video Clips: Including cool video clips on your website will keep the interest up and increase traffic.

7. Flash Games: Although they are a little costly to start, they are an extremely effective tool to get your viral marketing campaign going. Once they are launched, they require nothing more from you.

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