Here is how you do it -

1.  Go to Wordtracker Free Tool and enter some words and phrases that you want to write about - better to choose phrases of 4 words and more that will have less competition. If there is a search volume for phrases of 40 and more - you want to move to the next step.

2. Go to Google and check how much competition ther is for the phrase, if its less than 40,000 results then you should try and go for it.

3. Go to Squidoo and start a lens on the phrase you researched.

Check out this clip if you dont know how to start a lens:

4. Join as many Squidoo groups that are relevant to your lens.

5. Go to Digg.com, Propeller and more social bookmarking sites and submit your lens.

6. If you start getting traffic - dont just count on Squidoo to give you profit from their ads - start affiliate marketing.  If you want to learn more on affiliate marketing read this post.

• Yahoo!
• AltaVista
• CNN
• InfoSpace

If you are not using Yahoo pay per click you are missing out on a great audience of costumers, on some niches the costumers that you can get on Yahoo will buy much better than those on Google.

All the top marketers are using Yahoo pay per click together with Google Adwords. If you are looking to expand your advertising campaigns and reach a larger audience, Yahoo pay per click is your best choice as the quality of traffic is very good.

Yahoo pay per click has built a new interface which is very similar to the Google Adwords one. You also allowed to use more characters within your ad title and description than Google.

Another great services that Yahoo has for you are: Yahoo domains, great web hosting and eCommerce solutions but of course that you can only use the Yahoo per pay click (Yahoo search marketing).

So what are you waiting for? Join Yahoo pay per click now

If you always wanted to know what is affiliate marketing? Here is a short explanation about affiliate marketing:

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

The good news are that you can also become an affiliate marketer - and believe me, it pays much better than pay per click or any other form of making money online.

Most affiliates are using either Clickbank or CJ but there are many great networks out there with much less competition that can bring you some nice income like:
Performics.com

Copeac.com

clixGalore.com

You can also learn more about other ways to make money and becoming a better affiliate marketer for free by subscribing to this great Make money online list.

A nice example for affiliate marketing which really helps you understand what is it all about is this traveling company that offers people money for marketing the company - just watch the video clip.

So now that you know what is affiliate marketing - go and make some real money by putting it to work.

So here are tips to pay attention to:

1. Give great content on your topic. People come to your lens for content and not in order to buy, but if you’ll have great content they are more likely to listen to your recommendations.
2. Choose the leading phrase of your lens – one of the main factors that will determine if your lens will be on of those articles that sell on Squidoo is the amount of traffic your lens gets from search engines – so you want your lens to appear high in the search results pages.
3. Check your key phrase on Overture to see if people are searching for it – if they don’t then look for a key phrase that has a lot of searches.
4. Check the key phrase in Google.com – enter “key phrase” to Google and check how many search results there are. If its less than 5,000 that’s good.
5. Make sure that in the first page of the search results there isn’t a Squidoo lens already.
6. Make your key phrase your lens title.
7. Make your key phrase your introduction module title.
8. Enter your key phrase to the first paragraph of your lens and to the last paragraph of your lens.

These are truly the basics of article marketing on Squidoo, if you want to learn how to make more out of Squidoo – check out John Reese’s favourite Squidoo guide.

Get it here.

Location: Canada

Years in the internet marketing business: Since 2001
Internet marketing Specialty: Wealthy affiliate community manager

Kyle studied computer science in school and pretty fast found himself marketing rather than programming. Kyle began marketing on the internet in college. In September, 2005 he and Carson opened the Wealthy Affiliate community where people learn how to become successful affiliates online.

During the last years Kyle & Carson developed 3 top products to help their affiliate community members to succeed online.

Kyle’s leading product:

Who Loves Money?
Beating Adwords
Inside The List

Location: Canada

Years in the internet marketing business: Since 2001

Internet marketing Specialty: Wealthy affiliate community manager

Carson studied computer science in school and pretty fast found himself marketing rather than programming. Carson began marketing on the internet in college. In September, 2005 he and Kyle opened the Wealthy Affiliate community where people learn how to become successful affiliates online.

During the last years Kyle & Carson developed 3 top products to help their affiliate community members to succeed online.

Carson’s leading product:
Who Loves Money?
Beating Adwords
Inside The List

Top 3 Reasons Why Direct marketing Works

1. You Save on Media                                            
In direct marketing you are directing your messages straight to your consumers with no media intervention

2. You can messaure success
In direct marketing you can mesaure your success very accurately

3. You can track your consumers actions
In direct marketing you can track your consumers actions and improve yourself gradually

To conclude - if you are not using direct marketing as one of your marketing channels then you should start learning how to use it today. Especially when it is so easy to create your marketing direct internet campaign. So I hope now you know what is direct marketing and how you can use it right.

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Hope it gives you some ideas

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Many people make the mistake of choosing a highly competitive niche and developing a business idea around it, only to find that the market segment is so inundated and crowded with competitors that it’s virtually impossible for a new comer to make any money at all. Many new comers start off by choosing a niche that is far too broad and as a result far too crowded. If you’re thinking of building a niche marketing website, a quick check using any online keyword research tool will tell you if this is the case.

Even if you get there first and discover a unique tight niche and create products and services to offer your customers, the existing internet marketers will notice you have discovered a profitable market segment, and you will soon find yourself having to compete with them. In no time at all when someone searches for a keyword similar to yours, they’ll be amazed to find that there are so many other websites serving the same customers.

Before you start building a niche website, doing a little keyword research using an online keyword utility will return the number of web pages with a similar theme and which contain roughly the same content, this number being an indication of the competition you are facing. Bear in mind that even if the niche is narrow and tightly focused, it will start to become crowded even if only two or three new businesses start working on the same niche.

Unfortunately the plain truth is if you dominate a profitable niche market you will not be able to keep it a secret for long. No niche can be kept in absolute secrecy forever: there are too many smart people out there on the internet who all want to get their hands on a slice of the pie.

To keep your niche market profitable you need a constant stream of ready to buy customers, and one way to do this is to capitalize on search engine traffic. Use a good quality keyword research utility to uncover all the different words and phrases people use when searching for information on the internet. Next you create web pages which are optimized for these terms (known as keywords).

A point to bear in mind is some keyword research tools use the data from pay per click search engines to calculate the number of searches conducted for a given keyword, and this figure is not that realistic. Keyword research utilities such as WordTracker use data from the major metacrawlers like Dogpile to calculate very realistic keyword search statistics, and will give you the number of times any given keyword or phrase was searched for during the previous three months and a predicted count for the next 24 hours.

Each of these keyword research utilities maintains a very powerful database of raw data for your subsequent research. If the niche is starting to get too big, then the number of searches on your keywords will be in the thousands. Careful analysis will also reveal the number of websites in the niche, which will be a large number if your niche is crowded.

You can also use pay per click search engines to drive traffic to your website, but it’s worth remembering that popular keywords are expensive. If the niche is profitable, your competitors will be prepared to pay hefty sums to buy those keywords. The only way you are going to get cheap pay per click traffic is by finding keywords which your competitors aren’t using. Unfortunately these little known keywords won’t be popular so you’ll need to find a lot of them to get a reasonable amount of traffic to your niche site.

As your niche gets more and more crowded with new competitors these pay per click keywords will become progressively more expensive. There will be those new competitors who understand the value of keyword research and will discover the same keywords you are using. This will reduce the traffic to your website and so reduce the amount of money you can make.

A point will be reached when the niche becomes so competitive it is no longer profitable, and you will either have to abandon the niche or discover new methods of getting customers to your website.