We have just added two brand spanking new articles to our website. What’s so exciting about that? They are ONLY in audio format!
If you are tired of reading and want to listen instead, turn up your speakers and get some great advice in the process.
Point your mouse to http://www.be-a-wahm.com/index.php and click on the “Audio Only Articles” link under “New!!”.
Until next time,
Kristine
A Proud WAHM
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One of my favorite guys on the Interent is Jim Edwards and his Niche Advertising Secrets. He knows his stuff and gets his message across in such a unique way that it’s no wonder he has tons of followers!
In one of his most recent posts, he talks about some rather unscrupulous characters that are going to ClickBank, finding good selling books, rewriting them for themselves (often times without changing much) and the reselling them on the market as their own.
A side note: ClickBank is one of the best ways to sell your e-book if you have (or plan to) write one.
This makes me nearly ill and is close to my heart because I have been working on an e-book especially for new WAHMs and Dads that explains clearly how to start an online business.
I will be giving this away to my newsletter subscribers for free but plan on selling it for a decent amount of money on ClickBank – it contains over 10 years of Internet experience so you can probably see why I don’t want to give it away to everyone.
But I digress…
I’m concerned as well and rightly so as you can imagine.
The Friday Night Smackdown has some “adult” language in the video so I don’t suggest you watch it with your kids but it is very enlightening and entertaining as well as only Jim can do it and he brings to light a very powerful message.
Click here to view the latest “Friday Night Smackdown”.
The United States is a huge market. You could probably solely sell your goods or services or even center your website’s topic strictly around something in the US.
Most of us though know, that there is an entire market of people out there that we are not even touching and thus could be losing some very viable search traffic from, in non-English speaking markets.
This is great you say because you have been wanting to put your product in France or Mexico or wherever but simply don’t know how to go about researching the market to do so.
Yahoo’s Overture search tool is now in French, Spanish, German and Japanese.
You now have the ability to market in any of these languages. But what if you don’t know the language?
The very first thing I would do is head on over to Elance or Rent-a-Coder and find someone who speaks the language you are wanting to target natively.
Let them know the keywords you are looking to target for your particular market and let them do the research. Not only can they help you research your keywords, but being as they are from the country you are marketing to, they will have a better command of the language and which words to use effectively.
All the best,
Kristine
I’m only going to touch on this briefly here. There will be a much larger article about LSI on our website at http://www.be-a-wahm.com.
LSI is really beginning to come to the forefront of website optimization. It’s not an unknown term but it is not widely known. Without causing your eyes to glaze over, it’s simply a way the search engines read your page and understand what your webpage is about.
A good example is “bark” Is your site about the “bark” of a dog or the “bark” of a tree?
Search engines have their own ways of discerning this and we’ll get into it further on our website but suffice it to say that there are certain ways you can write your webpage so as not to confuse the search engines as to what your website is about.
All right, if you’re interested in learning more, check out our web page about it.
An by the way, just in case you are interested, these words are also called homographs.
While there is a lot to do when you are first beginning your on-line career, it is not at all insurmountable.
It takes some time to get your head around everything you need to do to get started but by far the most important thing is to know what it is you want to promote, sell, or teach.
As basic as this sounds, most people follow the current trends which is not the best route to take. If creating a scrapbook is the popular “thing” right now, they want to jump on the bandwagon and create a web site about making scrapbooks. Their only goal is to make money off of the current trend, not what they absolutely love.
Step back for a moment and really think. Remember when those Beanie Babies where the “in” thing. It was a fantastic fad that made a lot of people a lot of money. But it didn’t last and it fell in popularity only a few years after it began.
Now, for those of you who are yelling at your computer right now telling me that Beanie Babies are not at all out of favor but just aren’t as popular anymore, congratulations!
You have found your passion and this is exactly what you should create your web site about.
Just be sure you know what it is you really care about and it’s something that you’ll wake up every morning wanting to do.
