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MLK, Obama and Black History Month Opportunities Are Endless

Before you jump the gun and say I’m taking advantage of something think about it thats what we do. Try and drop any preconceptions of ways we market. If you don’t promote and take advantage of this time in history someone else will.

The MLK holiday is here, Obama will be the USA’s first black president the day after the holiday and black history month is February. If you don’t see opportunity then your blind. SEM has nothing to do with personal feelings. It’s about making money online.

We are so lucky to be alive during these times. Sure some bad things like 911 have happened, but where here to see one of the most important times in history since the Berlin Wall fell. Why not use it to our advantage.

Document Obama now and Internet Users will be reading your pages for more than your life time. People will be researching these days as long as the world exists.

Obama is becoming the most searched word on Twitter, EBay, Stumbleupon, Google, Yahoo, everywhere and everyone is fascinated with this guy and his family.

Think about it their is so much content on Obama it would be so easy to set up a Wordpress Blog and use something like Caffeinated Content to pull from Yahoo Answers, YouTube and article’s for Obama. Set up month’s of content in a couple hours and forget about it for a couple weeks then spend another hour or two and do it again. Click here to visit kansieo website! and get automated content for Obama.

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Reaching Goals and Mile Stones With Niches Sites & Twitter

Seams like it was only yesterday when I started The Twitter Experiment. I now have 153 followers for Niche Marketer on Twitter. May not seam like many compared to others on twitter, but it just shows with a few tools and some decent writing anyone can create a presence online.

Setting and reaching some goals during marketing campaigns is very important. Doesn’t matter how small they are, goals are important. When I set out using Twitter my goal was to get any followers I could. I was thinking 25 or 50.

Same thing go’s for Websites you want to get visitors to. Start small build content and the visitors will come. If you write good, authoritative, original content the search engines will find you through the twits sent through the Twitter Tools Plugin.

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Using Google Friends Connect To Add Socializing To Your Website

Our friends at Google have made a widget called Google Friends Connect. The widget works like Face Book kind of. Friends Connect is very easy to put on your website. Simply download 2 files to you server and then add a snipet of code to a page and you have Friends Connect.

I have started to set up a page as a beta test to see how this widget works. The page is called Friends Of Niche Store Marketer. I would love it if you would join so I can see just what I can accomplish with the tool.

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Using Twitter Tools Plugin For Wordpress Blogs

I love this plug in. That is Twitter Tools. Ive been using it on some other sites for a while, but suddenly realized I wasn’t using it here for my The Twitter Experiment category. Twitter tools is very easy to set up and you can configure it lots of ways. I like to send a twit when I post and have the updates in the sidebar of the blog. Some will say hey what about duplicate content. Well Twitter Tools has that covered by using tinyurl.com.

Twitter Tools is like a auto alert for your followers to get a update when you post on your blog. I use to make a post and then run over to tinyurl and post the link in my twits. Done with that. Saves lots of time and is still personable. The plug in allows your blog readers to post a twit from your site as well.

Download Twitter Tools Here. Simply download the plugin, activate it and configure it. On some blogs I don’t configure it to show in the sidebar, I only send out twits when I post. Seems to help gather followers. I like followers! NicheMarketer has 99 as of today. Not bad

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ePN Promotes Using Squidoo on The ePN Blog

ePN is flexing the muscle of its blog promoting the use of Squidoo. As Internet Marketers most all of us have know the power of Squidoo for years. Creating lens on the site is a primary form of marketing for 1000’s of marketers, Sellers on not only eBay, but Amazon and other affiliate programs.

When I first heard of Squidoo the rumor was it wasn’t being crawled by Google and then it was. Some Marketers swear by the site and promote everything from pimple medication to cars.

The best thing in my mind about Squidoo is that everything on the site is unique content. Each lens needs to be built with authority and have valuable content for the users of the site looking for information. Information is what Internet Users want. If a conversion of a sale happens then you’ve done your job of writing Unique, Relevant Useful Content For Users. The very same criteria Google uses to rank your sites. So having links to your site from Squidoo will help your sites rank better in the index.

It’s about time ePN caught up with the rest of us! ePN doesn’t seem to understand what we go through to rank our sites and drive traffic to eBay. At least in there responses on there forum. Its almost like they want instant result from it’s affiliates. It shows when the start with quality scores and tell affiliate to archive non performing sites. How can you build a site naturally and have instant results. You can’t. Sites may have a honeymoon period, but after 30 days most site drop in the search engines and slowly climb back up. Those of us who use ePN should be happy that the ePN Blog has began to get on the same track as us. Hopefully they will learn more about how the cycle of site building works and loosen up on the quality issue and the user engagement they mentioned during the recent expiration’s of users.

Sept 11 2008 eBay block servers that 1000’s of ebay Partner sites where hosted on. At first eBay said nothing was wrong, but quickly learned of the major outage. The ePN community came together to fix this problem. EBay even asked a fellow BANS member for help. If it wasn’t for the affiliate marketers that ePN has been alienating for months the problem might have never been fixed. I sure hope Sept 11, 08 show eBay that where not all bad people like they have been treating some and come to realize if people work together much more good can be done. eBay needs to learn you get more with sugar than vinegar. IMO

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Twitter Experiment Continues

So I have 33 followers now on Twitter. I try to get to Twitter a couple times a week but the marketing value of it has eluded me. I’m more or less posting nonsense and some marketing content. But who know if the 33 people following me see any of this.

Twitter should be part of Niche Marketing. If you can get lots of users to follow you over time the value of what you post should become authoritative. User will grow to trust you, but getting those users to follow you is another story.

Since I’m in this marketing thing for the long haul the Twitter Experiment will continue. Please sign up and follow Niche Store Marketer. I promise over time we will see how relevant twitter realy is to our marketing goals.

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Latest BANS Updates Include A Big Hammer

For anyone who already uses Build A Niche Store full time you have probably already read the Email the Bans Developer sent today. And if you are researching BANS thinking of getting it this is good news. The Bans forum is the backbone of the Build A Niche Store Concept. Over time the community of BANS users  has grown from about 4000 when I started to around 10′000 members registered on the forum now. The growth is directly related to success stories like mine and some very smart Web Masters that volunteer there time on the forum.

But over the last several month’s with the growth the forum has lost authority. Why do I say this ? because the forum has gone from 99% usful information to advertisements cloaked as discussions and some really rude responses like RTFM directed at newer novice users. What some users don’t seem to understand is thats what the forum is for. Novice Web Masters. Read the rest of this entry »

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Best Affiliate Merchant I Have Found

Over the years I have tried everything you can think of to promote and make money through Affiliate programs. So many programs when I first find them seem at first like they will produce only to find out after a couple weeks that users just won’t click on them. No conversions after two weeks is my limit. The trick is to give users of your site what they want. After all that’s what Niche Marketing is all about. Find something Internet Users are searching for and build a site for them. Very targeted marketing. Read the rest of this entry »

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EBay’s Is Making Category Changes In August 08,

Be prepared for listings to disappear from your Niche Store if you use EPN and fall into the new and changing EBay categories. If you have been promoting EBay through ePN or PepperJam you already know how much of a hassle these changes can be. If you use main categories and not sub categories these hassles can be avoided in most instances. Ebay generally only consolidates and adds new categories, but never under estimate EBay though. EBay is changing every day so you need to stay on top of all the changes by checking the Ebay Category Changes Page at least once a month.

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EBay Partner Network ePN Changes To Value Based Payout Tiers

So it looks like ePN Ebays Affiliate Partner Network is changing again.  In a Email from ePN August 1, 2008 ePN announced that payouts for ARCU’s will be $50.00 for new users and that the new payouts will only be for users that signed up on or after 8/1/08. They went on to say that existing users will be brought into the higher payout tier in a couple months.

eBay / ePN is trying to bring high quality traffic to eBay. If you read the ePN message board you will find many threads from users who have been banned for low quality traffic. Most of these affiliates even broke terms of service contract or had links coming from low quality sites such as porn sites. Since nor the banned users or eBay tell us exactly what the issue’s where with the site some ePN message board users claimed to have found the sites and researched them. There findings according to them is the sites had inbound links coming from porn sites or very low quality web sites.

Here’s the highlights of the ePN Email. Read the rest of this entry »

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