Pick A Problem You Can Solve?

One of the keys to successful digital product creation is picking a problem you can solve. Too often, many new Internet marketers will choose to create a product they like, but that usually doesn't solve a problem that is currently in the marketplace. As a result, there is no real demand for that product.

The common result in this case is that the person will go to a great deal of time and effort to create his/her product, but when no or few sales comes through, the person becomes disillusioned by the prospect of making a profitable living online, calls it "a scam," and often returns to their dreary job, figuring it's the only way to "make it in the world."

To have an in-demand product, you need to create a product that solves a problem. If this problem is widespread throughout the industry, and you develop an effective solution for it, people from all across the industry will want to get their hands on your item, setting you up for some nice profits. Thus, it is critical that you find a problem you can solve, then develop a solution for it, whether it's an e-book with information of an effective solution for the problem, a software program that can alleviate the problem, a membership site with information and resources that can solve the problem, etc.

You may be wondering, "how do I identify a problem I can solve?" Here, you will need to do some observation and some research. Some of the best ways is to go to your favorite search engine, type in the industry or topic you are interested in along with "+ forums." This should bring up a list of online forums that serve the people in that industry or who deal with that topic. You can go to these forums and read about the current topics and issues being dealt with in that industry. You may have to register at these forums first in order to access some sections of them, but this is not the case at all forums.

If an issue or problem continues to be brought up by several members of a forum, chances are that this is a problem you can build a product around in an effort to solve or alleviate it. This is a problem that is demanding a solution, and you have the opportunity to provide that solution and make good profits by doing it, plus build your reputation as a problem solver and solution creator.

You can also read about various topics and information in online newsletters, magazines, and ezines related to your industry to find potential problems that you can build a product around. Oftentimes, there are statistics in publications regarding common problems people in an industry are facing; if the statistics indicate a great deal of people are struggling with that same problem or issue, you have a potential product idea to build around.

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Setting Goals For Your Online Business

The need for goals

Reaching our goals helps us to believe in ourselves and setting goals is a great way to fuel our ambitions. It isn't just about creating a plan for our success in life, it's also to give us the inspiration we need to reach out and reap more than we ever thought possible. Goals focus our acquiring of knowledge and help us to set our time and resources in an order to get the very best for our situations.

In this article we'll discuss:

• Guidance in your niche selection
• What are niche goal projections and outcomes?
• Are you busy or productive
• Ninja productivity hack revealed
• Video - Goal projections and outcomes

Guidance in your niche selection

What do you like to do? What are your habits, hobbies, or passions? There are a number of niche choices within any main topic when you break it down.

An example could be Baseball which is a very broad term with lots of competition. If we break that down there are many niche selections to choose from within that keyword: baseball teams, major or minor league, kids, uniforms, statistics, jerseys, caps, equipment, collectables, magazines, etc.

All of these baseball niche can be fine selections to build a website around and can be quite profitable. I have an entrepreneur friend that has a number of sites, one of which is a website about football snack helmets, which has been doing well for a few years now.

What are niche goal projections and outcomes?

A projected outcome of your goals within your chosen niche.

Niche - The topic or category that you've chosen for your site.

Goal - The end result that you are seeking.

Projection - An estimation of when the end result will occur,

for example:

• First commission sale within 30 days.

>>>>By writing an article per day for 30 days.

• First page ranking with my targeted keyword within 30 days.

>>>>By writing posts three times a week for four weeks, with each having an internal link to my targeted keyword page.

What exactly are you going to do to reach your goal? Or what are you willing to give up in exchange for the desired goal? Maybe turn off the TV for a few hours each day, or trade in some wasted time for, that same time being spent to reach your goals.

The law of sowing and reaping

There is a time for sowing and a time for reaping. The time spent sowing, or creating the business can be for years depending on the project and the desired result. Once the sowing time is up, the reaping time can start and be indefinite.

There are many tasks that need to be done with any set goal and each one takes time and effort to complete. I've heard that "excellence is a commitment to completion", so we need to be good finishers of each task and reach our goals.

The time spent sowing can be less depending on the effort given to it. If we sow little we will reap little also. If we are building a website and posting to it once a week it will take quite a while longer to reach our goals of filling it up with quality content, as opposed to posting 3-4 times per week.

Are you busy or productive?

The definition for:

Busy - actively involved in doing something, or having a lot of things to do.

Productive - achieving or producing a significant amount or result.

Are we busy doing many things without a proper order or timely, continuous task completion?

Example: spending hours on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and also additional hours on other things without making posting quality content for our viewers our #1 priority.

It's easy at times to get involved or over-involved in a project that ends up taking a lot more time than we thought but aside from that we'll be more productive and reach our goals quicker if we properly structure our time and always make posting fresh quality content a priority.

Create clear niche images

We need to do some internal and external research and visually see some other website businesses within our niche. This will give a look at how the other niche sites are presenting themselves and their products. The internal research is making a list, over a couple or few days, of things that we love to do, or what are we passionate about. It's best to select a niche that you would like to spend a lot of time and energy on, not one that you'll get bored with or become disinterested with. We can also choose to create a nice affiliate website setup to inform about and promote products, or have a non-profit or personal site (.org). Many website owners have multiple sites.

Create a vision board

Do you have any wall space at home to devote to a vision board? They're great to increase motivation and energize your efforts as you pursue goals.

Take a nice area of wall space and fill it up with goal related images and headlines and pictures that inspire every time you look at it. See, visualize, and feel the goal being reached as you look at the board and are inspired to move forward and achieve. Keep on adding and replacing inspiring images and text to keep it fresh, in sight and also in your mind.

Websites like Pinterest are great for creating vision boards and one can create as many boards as they want for fun, or to keep private.

Ninja Productivity Tip

I guess it doesn't matter what type of business that you are promoting but all have dozens of tasks that need to be done continually and properly. Many have multiple internet businesses and always have a list of things that need to be done asap. Well here's a great tip I've used and recommend to you.

Plan ahead and:

1. Remove all distractions or find a place where you can be uninterrupted.
2. Choose only one thing to focus on completely for an hour and set a timer.
3. Stop when the timer goes off and leave it for the next time. Don't think about it anymore.
4. Take a short walk or take a non-sitting break, unless you've been using a standing desk. Lying flat on your back might feel good too.
5. Start the next task and repeat the process.

If a little more than 60 minutes is needed go ahead and finish the task before taking a break. If it needs much more time to complete put it away until next time. After you've powered through a focused hour and taken a break to refresh, you can set the timer for another 60 minutes and continue where you left off or move to another task.

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12 Great Reasons To Have A Niche Website

A Niche Website

I've heard that there are well over 3 billion and closer to 4b internet surfers as of 2017. That's such a huge number of potential viewers to your website with the sales revenue to go along with the visitors. This can proceed from day to day, 24/7 month after month, indefinitely. Listed in this article are 12 Great Reasons To Have A Niche Website.

There is the potential to draw or attract 100,000's of visitors to your site via various methods like article writing for sites and online publications, social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, etc., email marketing and many other methods including paid traffic.

All of these individuals from all over the world are looking for information of some sort, answers to their questions or solutions to problems and also they are looking to purchase something at the end of their search.

When your website is up and running a percentage of that internet traffic will be drawn to your site via Google search engines as well as Bing, Yahoo and the rest. Your site will show up in the search engine results pages or serp's, and searchers will click on your listing and be directed to your piece of the online real estate. They will read the site content and see what it is that you are offering that answers their search query. So you'll be helping these people and earning revenue in the process.

When you build up a niche site that will attract daily visitors your internet space becomes your point of contact with your chosen and targeted audience. Your website becomes the online platform and market where you share and care for your audience and all of those browsing the internet.

Why have a niche site

Is the whole point of having your website to simply sell a product(s) to a faceless crowd of individuals that come to our marketplace and buy with as little interacting as possible? Or is the purpose of your internet business to serve and help others in some way, to solve their problems, help them acquire information and/or purchase a product or two sold from your site?

I hope that you choose the latter of the two for a mindset because the first method will not reap the rewards as well as the latter and the visitors will possibly not be comfortable enough to make a purchase but jump to another site with more personality and service in mind.

You should choose a niche that excites you, one that you want to be active within as you build up your website and create a special place, on your internet real estate property, that will continue to grow in value as time goes by.

By answering questions, offering them quality content, on relevant topics and being there to help them in any way, the chances of them coming back and maybe even making a purchase increase. You become their authority on the subject and they become a long time customer or client of yours if all goes well. You can also recommend or promote your own or someone else's eBooks, motivational books, videos and other things related to the website niche that your visitors would like and find useful.

The important thing to remember is that real people are reading, searching and need help. They should be kept in mind before each article is written and their comments answered within a day or two.

Here are 12 great reasons to have a niche website:

1. Low Start-Up Cost: The financial investment for creating your own website and getting started in an online business pales in comparison to starting a brick and mortar business. For example: To start a small house painting business one would need a dependable truck, van, storage, spray machines, pressure washer, cash on hand for any number of unexpected costs that might arise, including the repair of the vehicles and machines. All of this totals thousands just to get started. Need I go on... An online business can be started and built up to a thriving revenue earning site for a few hundred dollars per year.
2. Having your own product is not required: There are millions of products, items, and services that you can become an affiliate to and sell online, ex. Amazon, eBay, Home Depot, CJ Affiliates, Bass Pro and hundreds of others. There are so many products that someone can promote and make a sales commission that the hardest part is to choose just what it is that you want to promote first.
3. No Overhead Cost: There are no offices to rent and electricity bills to pay each month or employees to hire with the taxes and workman's compensation insurance and more, all needing to be prepaid and regularly paid. In the case of an online business, all that you really need is a laptop computer, an outlet to plug into and an internet connection.
4. No Storage Space Required: Most offline service businesses need to have or rent a storage space for their machines, office equipment and materials. With an online business, everything is stored on the computer, backed up and easy to access.
5. Focus on drawing targeted customers: With a good keyword tool you can get in-depth statistics on exactly what "keywords" are used to search for an item, how many times per month and how much competition there is within that keyword. Much more information can be gained from a good keyword tool (Jaaxy Enterprise Keyword Tool) so that you can target a specific like-minded group for your outreach efforts.
6. No handling customer refunds or complaints: This is a good one as the affiliate just promotes the product and leaves the customer refunding and complaints to that merchant's department. The affiliate doesn't want to promote a product with a high return rate or one with a lot of complaints as there are millions of other products to promote.
7. Write about topics that interest you: By choosing your website niche you're also choosing the subject that you will be writing a lot of quality usable content on. Information that internet surfers can find and use to find answers, solve their problems, show them how to do something, or purchase a product.
8. You can earn passive income: Revenue that you earn even though you aren't actively working. Another name for passive income is residual income. With such a huge online audience there are many affiliates earning six and seven figure incomes. Most affiliates also have more than one website and some have many.
9. Even while you're sleeping your site is always open: This is awesome as your site is open for business in every zip code or region, 24/7, whether you're sleeping or on vacation. No need to hire someone to watch the store and take care of customer issues.
10. Work from home or anywhere: Another great reason for an online business is that you can be anywhere that there's an internet connection and with your laptop, you can completely run your business. It doesn't matter if you are in China or the US, with an internet connection you can run your business 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
11. Will generate sales income for years to come: Once the niche website is built up and starts earning revenue each month you'll keep on building and growing the business and it will bear fruit for you indefinitely and the sky's the limit as to your options and potentials.
12. One site is all you need to earn a full-time monthly income: This is so true, however, when you start making money online you will see other ways to earn and naturally branch out from there. Enjoy the journey but one site properly built up and optimized can pay all of your bills and much more.

Bonus:

13. You can have multiple websites: How many websites can you handle, some affiliates have ten or more. You can have a cool Amazon site, one for eBay, ClickBank, etc, all earning a very nice monthly income. That's how many affiliates get into the six and seven figure earnings.

Make sure that you only recommend things that are of quality and items that you would purchase for yourself. Only sell quality products because your reputation will grow continuously as time goes by, and that reputation should be for promoting quality products. Your role as an affiliate is to give an honest opinion and advice based on up to date information. You should feel like you are helping them make a wise choice or decision. I've listed only a few but there are more than 12 great reasons to have a niche website.

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Reviewing Niche Products And Services

Reviewing Products and services can lead to unlimited opportunity

In this article we'll be discussing the process of researching products and services that can be used as reviews within the posted content on your website. There is an awesome opportunity residing in every niche and product reviews are a critical component to any successful authority website on the internet.

Let's have a look at these topics:

• Introduction to Product Reviews
• Products and Services can lead to great opportunity
• The Top Platforms to use for product research
• Building product keyword lists

Introduction to product reviews

Marketers create several types of product reviews:

• Single product review - ex: Mr Coffee 12 Cup Coffee Maker
• multiple product review - ex: Best 12 Cup Coffee Makers
• Product vs product review- ex: Mr Coffee vs Keurig 12 Cup Coffee Makers

There are other ways to review products, some other product review types are:

• Video - display product and how to use
• Unboxing from delivery
• Negative review warning viewers and offering a better choice
• The 5 Ws - ex. who: Mr. Coffee - when: sold in stores, what: digital coffee pot, why: it's new and improved, where: online and near you.

What can be included in our review:

• Overall rank
• Product descriptions
• Pros and Cons
• Price
• Guarantee - yes/no
• Product specifications

These can be displayed somewhere on the review page.

The reviewing products and services process is all to inform your readers so that they can make an educated purchasing decision, and help them make the best choice for their situation. The viewer has come to your website by choosing our link from the search engine result pages (serp's).

The first thing they see upon entering your site is the link page that they clicked on. We should come across, or appear to them as professional business people who care about them so they can feel comfortable and trust us as niche authorities.

We also need to see the whole process from the right point of view in that we are trying to help the reader make an educated purchasing decision. We are NOT trying to sell them anything. Our service to the reader is to provide them with reliable quality content that answers their search entry, and lead them to the better choice, which could be the product that we are promoting.

How Reviewing Products and Services can lead to great opportunity
Every review represents a burst of traffic to your website and also an evergreen, or continuous, source of traffic. It's a great idea to pay attention to the new releases, or trending products in your niche that you can review. As viewers are looking for the new product they can see your review and end up on your website, possibly leaving their email address or even making a purchase.

The more reviews that you write means more and more traffic to your website, coming from the many social media sites, forums, and various serp's (search engine result pages). So, the more quality product reviews we can write means all the more potential opportunity through the many avenues can come our way.

The Top Platforms to use for product research

• Product source or website - Best for specifications and details
• Manufacturer - Best for specifications and details
• Distributor source - Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot
• Reviews - great for feedback on the product. It's a good habit to always check the product reviews on Amazon, and wherever the product is sold.
• Google alerts - Google.com/alerts/product name - this will get lots of relevant info in your email so that you can stay updated and well-informed concerning the product.
• Highest Competitors - could find some info useful whether a video or previously unknown fact.
• JV sources - joint venture: JVzoo, JVnotifypro, phys example: The Rock and Under Armour teaming up to create a specific line of clothing.

Building a product keyword list
It's really necessary to use a good keyword tool and there are a number of good ones Free online and most at least have free trials.

The FREE Google Keyword Planner has been around for many years now and is a great one to use. This keyword planner is great to use with each and every post, article, or page that you write and can certainly be of great assistance as you fill up your website with fresh, quality, relevant, keyword rich content that attracts viewers and satisfies their search inquiries.

One great thing about using this tool is that you can draw information directly from Google's search engine which is by far the largest and most used search option available.

Find a quiet place and spend some time researching within and making a list of topics and ideas that you can write about. Every title should have one main keyword in it. Within every niche there are many areas or topics that can be written about. Every article, post, or page that you create for your website should have a keyword in the title and that will be the focal point of the article.

The goal for every article or post is to get your article and website ranked well with Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the rest of the search engines. This will attract visitors from the vastness of the internet to visit your site.

It's best to save all of the keywords that we want to use and add them to the list which is saved within the keyword tool that we're using. Some great information is found in the keyword tool, and it's also best to choose a keyword that:

• Is relevant to my niche
• Gets over 30 average searches per month
• Has less than 100 QSR, or quoted search results (competing sites)
• Must be grammatically correct

While you're building up your website with useful quality article content you are also presenting yourself as an expert within your niche.

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