We know they are out there but it’s all a matter of finding them.

We know they can make us money if only we get them right.

What am I referring to? Profitable niches of course -

The Holy Grail of the Internet Marketer

It’s little wonder that newbies and old hands alike struggle over which niches to focus on.

After all we want to make sure that they are profitable and that we can make money from them.

Internet marketing is just too time consuming to waste all your efforts in a sector where people are just not going to buy.

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I have written blog posts and articles before along the lines of Planning and Organizational Skills but thought I would share some thoughts today as it is a very important consideration and possibly one of the most overlooked.

This is also something that should apply to your whole life, cos’ if you have no structure, plan or organization how are you ever going to be productive in your whole life let alone online.

This is not something that comes naturally to me so this post is as much about myself as it may to whoever chooses to read this.

Getting into online mode, I think its fair to say that we all know that anyone trying to run an online business especially in the early days can get the life sucked out of them with the sheer amount of learning, tasks and information thrown at them.

I remember how overwhelmed I felt in the early days when I first started out. My hard drive was usually cluttered up with the latest eBook or download that I bought and my desk was a mess with stuff I had printed out all over the place.

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Up until now I have been active only in the Internet Marketing Niche which has revolved around talking about and promoting products that tell you how to do something related to marketing.

One thing I haven’t done too much of is driving organic traffic to my offers or blog.

This is largely due to the connections I have built with other marketers (although I find that submitting regular Blog posts does in itself generate a fair amount of traffic).

I am now about to embark on marketing in some small niches which do not have the marketing activity that we see in the IM and other popular Niches so I am guessing that I will have to put in a lot more effort in generating organic traffic to attract people who are interested in what I am doing…

…After all we all know that a website is no use to anyone unless it has a purpose and a following,

Its also a commonly known fact that there are thousands of ways to generate traffic, but in order to be able to put together an effective and coherent strategy which isn’t going to send me down too many rabbit holes, I am going to stick to a small number.

So how am I going to do this?

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The Internet Marketing Niche in particular nowadays is crowded with Marketers creating new products and affiliates promoting offers on their behalf to their own subscriber lists or Social Media Networks that they are part of.

I have lost count the amount of times I have read ‘The Money Is In The List’ – implying your main income from your List is being able to promote affiliate products though the medium of email marketing.

So what does Affiliate Marketing mean?

Here is the definition of Affiliate Marketing taken from Wikipedia

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“Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more Affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the Affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site.

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I just thought I would share some opinions on something I have noticed recently when it comes to Internet Marketing, particularly in respect of people who are on email lists looking for opportunities.

Day after day our Inboxes are filled with product after product from all the Gurus out there, all promising that they have the answer to your dream of making it online.

These emails, products and sales pages are designed to catch your attention and draw you into the sales story. Before you know it you have opted in to another list and perhaps purchased another One Time Offer.

It’s easy to see how we can become stuck in information overload and in a constant cycle of learning, ultimately leading to confusion and overwhelm.

The fact is though; that if you want to be successful online there is one very important lesson that you will have to learn and that is to make the transition from constantly learning new things to actually applying what you have learned out there is the market.

It’s just so easy to get caught up in the constant cycle of learning everyday and forget to actually apply the knowledge so you can start to actually build your business. Indeed I have found the best way of learning is actually DOING, making a few mistakes along the way then rectifying.

Using a non Internet off-line example there is a member of my family who shall remain nameless and is now nearing 40 who seems to have been in college all her life.

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Before we even get started, let’s make a distinction here. Email advertising is not  spam, spam is unsolicited email sent to random recipients everywhere.

The topic of discussion today is true targeted email advertising.  While some people make no distinction whatsoever, there is a difference – one is effective, the other is not.

Print advertising is shrinking. Some say it is almost dead – though there are times when it is effective – like restaurants, for example. For most of us, however, it simply uses up natural resources, costs a lot of money, and provides little in the way of return.

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I thought I would create this Blog post to give some thoughts on the GURUs NIGHTMARE report I read last night.

I have been learning and applying Internet Marketing for over a year now.  I have this Blog which I post to occasionally, I have a Subscriber List which is growing at a steady rate and I now know a lot of very good marketers which I can learn from and which we can leverage from each other.

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