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5 Amazing Niche Markets

Posted by casper021 on 6th August 2010

Finding a niche market is one of the key ingredients to really making it in online selling. Did you know that beginner sellers are much more successful when they appeal to a very small market, rather than trying to appeal to everyone?

Finding a niche isn’t always easy – it takes time and persistence to find the right product to sell. To get you thinking, and to give you a few inspiring ideas, we have researched 5 product niche ideas to share with you. While some niche ideas might seem abstract to newbie sellers, that is exactly what a great niche is – very precise and seemingly difficult to source.

Niche Item #1: Heart Rate Monitors

These are used by athletes and gym bunnies or by people who need to keep an eye on their heart rate.

Why they are an exciting niche item:

  • They have a 75% success rate on eBay (75% of all monitors listed on eBay in the last three months sold!)
  • They are lightweight and easy to ship and store
  • One size fits all

Niche Item #2: Plus Size Shoes

Many big-foot’s out there find it very difficult to find shoes that will fit them comfortably from regular retail stores.

Why they are a super niche item:

  • While these are commonly made by popular shoe makers, stores often order only a handful of pairs in larger sizes, which means that more and more, our big-footed friends must turn to buying online to get what they need.
  • They have a high success rate on eBay (women’s size 11 sell at 61.9% and men’s size 14 at 75%
  • Both men and women alike can require plus size shoes (Hot tip: women’s size 11+ high heels could make a great little niche)

Niche Item #3: Plus Size Maternity Wear

Another plus-size item with huge success on eBay

It’s a profitable niche because:

  • Maternity and baby gear always works because people are always going to have babies, so you’ll never run out of customers!
  • Clothing items are easy to ship as they light and not fragile.

Niche Item #4: Military Insignia

Collectibles always make great niches and you can dig really deep to find the best ones. They are also perfect for people who are interested in them – you’ll find it much easier and much more rewarding when you sell something you enjoy. To really niche it up, go for US military insignia from the Vietnam War which is big on eBay.

Why military insignia makes an excellent niche:

  • It rarely dates or goes out of fashion
  • There are so many sub-niches to discover like Russian war medals and World War 2 helmets.

Niche Item #5: Antique Clocks

Another great collectible item

They are a first-rate niche because:

  • You’ll appeal to both collectors and home decorators
  • They have an eBay success rate of over 67%
  • You can often pick these up very cheaply from flea markets and yard sales, then sell them on to make a profit

Niche items really are the way to go for newbie sellers and there are so many out there to keep you interested and best of all, make you money!

Looking to resell some of those products but don’t know where to start? Well here is the answer wholesale database is the largest database of wholesalers worldwide get all those products at wholesale price and start making money by reselling them on trademe, ebay or other auction sites.

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Why Buy from Online Wholesalers

Posted by casper021 on 27th January 2010

In recent years with evolution of the internet online shopping has become more and more popular. Just doing a quick search on the internet we can see many major retailers offering facilities for purchasing goods online. Shopping online makes our lives easier and saves us a bit of money as usually online prices are slightly cheaper than the ones in the retail stores. But the main questions we need to look at are: are we buying from correct places and are there any way we can save more money without compromising on quality of the product.

Most of us who frequently shop online buy goods from large retailers like major department stores from their online stores or from auctions websites like eBay etc. Well let’s look at the department stores first they generally keep their margins at a certain level as they need to make profit to cover their expenses. If you compare prices in department stores to prices on the same items on eBay or some small websites you will notice that prices for the same items are generally much cheaper on eBay and from smaller online retailers. But in saying that people who selling online still making good margins on products and quite often they make better margins then larger outlets as their overheads are much smaller and they source product for the same price.

Well now why can we an average person buy something at a wholesale price and save ourselves somewhere between 10% and 200% of the retail price. Yes 200% is correct some items especially things like accessories, clothing, cables, etc get margined up by 200% or in some cases even more. I will give one example cat6 network cable I used to pay $17 dollars for a 2 meter cable then I opened up a corporate account with that store and suddenly they were offering me the same cable for $6 and then I found a cable distributer online and now I am paying $2 for cable and the thing is the price was not in any way affected by the quantity as I usually buy 1 or 2 cables.

You probably thinking right now that it would be really nice to get hold of the products at this prices but how do i find this wholesalers and how do I know which once are real and which are scam. Well there are two ways you can go about it.

First you can spend countless hours searching the internet and researching each wholesaler separately to make sure they are the real deal or you can just sign up to the largest wholesale directory and get instant access to over 7000 wholesalers in every imaginable category. I have been a member of that directory for many years now and for the small one time joining fee I have a lifetime access to the biggest wholesale database which saves me tens of thousands of dollars every year just buy buying everyday items like socks t-shirts etc directly from wholesalers.

Bellow I made a few screenshots on products and prices you can get from wholesalers just so you can see and compare the prices for yourself and realise how much money you can save just buy buying directly from wholesalers online.

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So if you what to get this great prices on all your everyday shopping and start saving without compromising on quality join wholesale directory today and start enjoying these great prices. Click here to get discounted membership price.

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How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It

Posted by casper021 on 25th January 2010

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.

We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

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New Year Competition – Start Your Online Business in 2010

Posted by casper021 on 22nd December 2009

We all know that there people online who make quite allot of money. Also many of us have tried to make some extra cash and fail. Well I am not going to go into the reasons why people fail online and why other succeed. I will also not go into how to make money online. What I am going to do is run a competition and the person who will win it WILL MAKE MONEY online in 2010. What I am going to do for the winner is I will set up a money making website and pay all the expenses associated with website set up I will also give some money towards advertising. I personally will help the winner to promote his/her new website and make money out of it.  Competition details bellow.

Here what you will get
1 money making website ( website example here)
1 year of webhosting paid by me
1 domain name for a year (you chose the name you like)
$100 dollars for advertising on yahoo and google
1 Article pack which you can use in any way you want
I will also help you promote and earn money from your new website

Here are requirements for the competition
You have to be over 18 years old
You have to have a paypal account

How to enter
To enter the competition is free
All you have to do is post “Show me the money” in this forum thread http://www.wizit.co.nz/cms/Forum/tabid/58/forumid/2/postid/19/scope/posts/Default.aspx#19
The winner will be selected at random on first of February 2010
One entry per person.
Good luck to everyone
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Simple money making guide

Posted by casper021 on 17th November 2009

People often ask is it possible to make money online for free. And the answer is YES it is. Here I will describe a simple method anyone can use to make some extra cash online using without your own product by using ebooks with master resell rights. But before I start I have to say your income will depend on how much work you will put in and even thou the free methods do work they are not as effective as some paid methods but again the more hard work you put into it the better result you will get out. So I will describe two methods here first one will be totally free and the second one will require some investment but if use the first method and make some money out of it they you can reinvest them into the second one and make even more. Well here are the methods.

First
Complexity: easy
Time to implement: low (around 2-3 hours)
Income possibility: low – medium

This is a very simple method which does not require much time to set up but if done right it will be paying you for many years to come. First of you need to download some ebooks with master resell rights you can find a good collection of ebooks here http://www.wizit.co.nz/cms/FreeStuff.aspx most of them come with master resell rights and most of them also have a pre-build website for you but we will use the website in the next section. Once you downloaded ebooks now you ready to sell them and make some money. There are few places which I would recommend for selling ebooks first one is eBay and the second one is PayLoadz in both cases it is free to sell. With ebay you would have to renew your listing every week or so with PayLoadz you just list you product and it will be there for years. Well that’s about as simple as that. Few other pointers most ebooks will have cover graphics and sales pages included so use them or you can write your own also ebay and PayLoadz are not the only places to sell ebooks you can do a google search and find few others.

Now onto the second method

Complexity: medium
Time to implement: medium (around 24-48 hours)
Income possibility: medium – high

This method is quite similar to the one above the only difference is that instead of using other services to sell your product you will be using your own website to do it. So first you need to get some hosting I would recommend ixwebhosting as I have been with them for a number of years now and quite happy with their service you can read a review about ixwebhosting which i wrote. Once you have a webhosting account and a domain name (note: when choosing a domain name make sure you pick something easy to remember). Now all you have to do is upload a website which is included with ebooks which you have downloaded and add paypal buttons to the website and start promoting your own website and this method will generate income for as long as website is running.

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How I made $702 in one weekend from nothing.

Posted by casper021 on 31st October 2009

How I made $702 in one weekend from nothing.

Here I will describe a simple method I used to make $702 in one weekend starting from nothing, meaning I have not used any of my existing sources of income nor my existing list to advertize to.

This is a simple method and anyone can do it, it takes about 2 – 3 hours to set up. All payments are paid directly to your PayPal account so the money are available to straight away not like with affiliate programs where you have to wait for commissions to be approved and then you have to wait for the cheque to arrive.

Well no more delay here is my simple method.
Prerequisites. You need to have a PayPal account. If you do not have one you can get it here its free. You also will need a hosting free or paid does not matter. There are plenty of them available so just google free web hosting. Also you will need an email account. I would recommend creating a separate one you can get a free one at gmail.com, yahoo.com or hotmail.com. Ok now you should be ready to start.

Step One
Fist you have to have a product or service to sell and not as an affiliate, you need to have your own product or service. Now you probably thinking how can I create a product or service in such a short time frame well the good news is you do not have to. Go to $6 magic website and get it. Once you downloaded it, it will have all the instructions on how to configure it with you PayPal account and upload to your hosting account.

Step Two
Now that you have configured it with your PayPal pal account and uploaded to your hosting account its time to promote it and make some money. This step should take about an hour. The website comes with highly attractive prewritten ads for you. All you have to do is add the link of your website to those ads. Now go to google and search for the following “free classified ads”. Now start placing the ads I would recommend for better success to place ads on at least first 20 websites which will show up in google results. Placing the ads is easy just copy and paste the prewritten ads and post them on websites. You can post multiple ads in multiple categories for better visibility.

Step Three.
This is the easy and fun step. Just sit down relax have a coffee or something to eat and watch the emails from PayPal coming in with the following subject: Item #XXXXX – Notification of Payment Received.After following the same procedure I have had the first sale in about 15 minutes after placing the first ad and following that I had total of 117 sales in 48 hour period.

Good Luck to anyone who will use this guide and have a great success.

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Some changes and announcement.

Posted by casper021 on 27th September 2009

First I have to apologize to our frequent readers about not posting anything for a while. But as some of you may be aware of is that this blog is provided by http://www.wizit.co.nz and in the last 3 weeks we have been quite busy redesigning and improving our main website http://www.wizit.co.nz. Just to let you know we finally finished most of the work and the new and improved website is now online. We have also added a forum section and a reviews section. Please check them out. Shortly we will be releasing a link exchange section as well. Memberships at http://www.wizit.co.nz  are free as we dedicated to provide as much free information as possible. Also to celebrate our new design we giving away a welcome bonus to all new members the bonus consist of 4 really good eBooks.  And just to say we will continue to update this blog on a regular basis but this blog contains only a small fraction of information and resources which are available at our main website.  We wish you all the best and hoping to see you soon at our forums.

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5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

Posted by casper021 on 9th September 2009

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites.  It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

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3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Posted by casper021 on 8th September 2009

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.
Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…

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Viral Marketing 101 – Not Using It Could Kill Your Business!

Posted by casper021 on 3rd September 2009

Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spywares.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most every site and companies are catching on to the effectivity of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them moiré popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

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