Oct
26
2008
Looking for a niche website that will generate holiday income? Here is a way to market a niche oriented site offline. Gift certificates are a huge item during the holiday season. Sometimes finding the right gift can be more of a challenge than we can handle. Enter the “Gift Certificate” website. There are several great affiliate programs out there that you can use to make money with gift certificate purchase. I use the following two step process to market this site offline for great online results.
Step 1: I build a nice looking website that is pleasing to the eye complete with different gift certificate purchase options and information. This site is constructed in such a way that as each holiday throughout the year rolls around, I can quickly change the look to reflect that holiday. In the case of the one I am working on now, it is Christmas oriented.
Step 2: I go to my local Staples or Kinko’s and I get 1000 business cards made that say “Looking for a gift certificate for a holiday gift?” or something to that effect. I put the website addess on it along with some names of various types of certificates (monetary, dinner, actual gift, discount, etc…) and I start passing them out. I always keep at least 100 cards with me at all times and my goal is to hand out 100 cards a day. If I run out I simply go and order another 1000.
When crunch time comes for gift purchases hopefully those people you have handed them out to will pull them out and go to your website. Don’t hesitate to email your friends and family with the website address and ask them nicely to pass it on to thier friends and family as well.
There you go. Two simple steps to market your holiday gift certificate website offline and generate online affiliate sales. Simple but effective (especially if you live in a smaller town like I do.)
Oct
23
2008
A lot of people say they will teach you how to make money online. Very very few give that information away for free. If you are like me you are probably tired of all the banners about sitting on the beach and making thousands of dollars, or learn to be a internet millionaire in ten easy steps, etc… Everyone has a secret forumula for sale.
Garry Conn is definitely not like that. In my opinion he has emerged as the only real “make money online” guru around. Why do I say that? Garry gives detailed, step by step instructions on how to set up money making niche websites. For instance, take yesterdays posting titled “Make Money Online Building A Blog About Gardening“. Garry explains the process from keyword research all the way through domain name selection and everything in between to set up a blog that will make money using adsense. He even provides a list of available domain names that he has researched. Garry also gives his thought process to each step so the reader can fully understand why he is doing what he is doing in selecting and building a niche site.
This blog posting isn’t the first time he has provided step by step instructions of this nature. He has done it several times and each time he lays it all out there for anyone to follow.
Of course he has developed some tools for the serious web entrepreneur but for the most part Garry gives away what he has learned. I am a firm believer in “what goes around comes around” and they way Garry gives away and shares his knowledge can only mean that he will be successful in all he does beyond his wildest dreams. I for one want to thank Garry for what he has shared.
If you are serious about learning how to make money online, then visite GarryConn.com and subscribe to his RSS feed and keep up with what he has to share.
Oct
20
2008
BBQ-Festivals.com, BBQHub.com, BBQ-Festivals.blogspot.com - 3 associated barbecue community websites for sale. 62,000+ unique visitors to date. Great monitization potential.
BBQ-Festivals.com ranks on front page of google for searches such as “bbq festivals”, “bbq restaurants”, “bbq competitions” and is well known in the barbecue community. BBQ-Festivals.com is an online directory of all things bbq related. Originally the site started out as a listing of bbq festivals, but since has grown into a resource for everything from bbq restaurant listings, to sauces, rubs, smokers, grills, competitions and teams. This site has received 53,541 unique visitors year to date with a total of 615,822 hits. There is a lot of repeat traffic and visitors.
BBQHub.com is the news and update side of BBQ-Festivals.com Any new additions to the main site or news and information about anything bbq related is posted at BBQHub.com. The two sites are linked together and BBQHub.com ranks on front page of google.com for searches such as “bbq news” and “bbq information”. This site has received 8,364 unique visitors year to date with a total of 125,207 hits and also has a lot of repeat visitors.
BBQ-Festivals.blogspot.com is a blog that was started before BBQHub.com to also report news and information from the bbq community. This blog also ranks on the front page of google.com for searches “bbq news” and “bbq information”
This trio of websites has grown beyond a hobby and as such I do not have the time to devote to it as I would like. There is a huge potential to take these websites to the next level and have them dominate the bbq community. Monitization potental is very good as well.
Serious inquiries only please. All the hard work has been done………now it is ready for some one to take over and move on with them.
Email me at info@bbq-festivals.com for more information…………
