His name is Courtney Tuttle, he is exceptional at making money online and a SEO whiz, And the techniques he shows in this article may seem simple yet they are deadly effective at allowing small time internet marketers to compete for big time traffic terms.

I have learned more practical tactics to apply from this little article than I have from a lot of expensive E-books I’ve purchased.

Seriously good stuff, check it out, or forever hold your peace when you find out the site outranking you for your keyphrase is actually owned by some 10 year old kid, who actually bothered to…

Click this link to read “The Introduction to Keyword Sniping”.

More Awesome Free Stuff Inside… But First I Have Some VERY Bad News…

The bad news is everyone keeps sending me E-mails with that damn title because of Frank Kern’s new videos, his videos however are far from bad news, check them out here, highly recommended. Don’t mistake Frank for the dope smoking hippie surfer he pretends to be. He’s actually an absolute internet marketing shark in disguise.

His first free video is about a ridiculously simple 3 step formula for selling that he applied to launch Stomper Net, the biggest internet marketing launch ever. If you don’t want to find out how to make 23 Million of sales in 24 hours, than don’t click this link.

Actual Bad News… Im Serious This Time

It’s all ready day 12 of the thirty day challenge, and it’s been absolutely amazing. And the bad news is theres a chance you’re not all ready part of this years thirty day challenge. If you are disregard the rest of this post.

Ok… so you’re still reading? I’ll assume that means you’re not all ready part of the thirty day challenge… I’d like to start of by saying you’re nuts, now let me explain why…

Firstly… It’s absolutely insane that an internet marketing education of this calibre can be had for free. The only one flaw I could pick is that Ed Dale in the process of over delivering massively sometimes talks a bit too much. But my god, talk about value. I think theres going to be alot of people who this thirty day challenge makes VERY rich. Unfortunately, you won’t be one of them unless I talk some sense into you to join.

More Reasons To Join:

I’ve all ready met a great mastermind group through participating in the challenge, other people who live right next to me who are passionate about internet marketing.

I’ve started using Market Samurai, an absolutely amazing Internet marketing tool which makes finding profitable niche keywords an absolute breeze, and makes all other competitive analysis and keyword research programs look like a joke.

you get a free 40 day trial of Market Samurai as a thirty day challenge member. To be honest the programs so good I might actually buy it. And it takes a lot for me to shell out my money on an internet marketing product these days.

So basically, if you haven’t yet joined the thirty day challenge and you haven’t yet had a chance to play with market samurai redeem yourself NOW. I pity the fool who doesn’t! So join the thirty day challenge now.

I wouldn’t be plugging it so damn hard if it wasn’t that good…

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” - Anatole France

1 - Make a Decision

Every positive change in you’re life begins with making a decision that you are either going to do something, or stop doing something. Change begins the moment you make that decision whatever it may be. Make the decision today that no matter what it takes you are going to become an expert at managing you’re time. Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur, a professional or a house wife, this one decision will have tremendous positive consequences on your future.

2 - Have Clear Goals

Most unsuccessful people became unsuccessful because they were fuzzy about what they wanted. You must know clearly and precisely exactly what it is you want otherwise you will never get there. Suppose you were setting out on a holiday somewhere and you didn’t have a clear idea of where you wanted to go and just decided to go anyway. What are the chances you end up in a desirable destination? Not too likely… Life is the same. Your subconscious mind is always working towards noticing elements in you’re environment that are conducive to creating the results you want in life, if you don’t have a clear destination, you’re subconscious will never be able to provide the map for how to get there.

Decide today what it is you want, write out you’re goals in the present tense and with the word “I” to begin with and make them as compelling and specific as possible: e.g I am making $10,000 per month by December 2009 and enjoying the freedom that comes with it.

• What kind of family, lifestyle, relationships do you want to enjoy?
• What sort of income do you want to benefit from?
• What would sort of physical condition would you like to be in?

A Harvard study on goal setting took place in the 1950s with a follow-up study in the 1980’s. The study in the 50s showed that only 3% of respondents had set goals at the time of their graduation. This 3% 30 years later when a follow up study was done in the 1980’s was financially worth more than the remaining 97% combined. Remember: goals give you direction and FOCUS + DIRECTION = you’re results and you’re reality.

3 - Make a Plan

Brian Tracy refers to the 6P’s of productivity, “Prior Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance”. Un-ambitious goals lead to un-ambitious results, however once you have made goals that truly motivate you and which represent the kind of results you really want… you must break them down into a plan. Pick the most important goal first, the one which will have the most positive impact on you’re life and make a decision today to do everything you have to do and learn everything you have to learn to achieve it NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. Once you have made this decision start breaking this down into a list of everything you have to do.

4 Step Success Formula:

1. Know exactly what you want
2. Know HOW you will get what you want and break it down into a list of everything you have to do to achieve it.
3. Take decisive action every day towards achieving this goal.
4. Vary you’re approach until you reach you’re desired outcome

4 - Straight Line Principle

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Many people creatively procrastinate and tell themselves they are being productive when really they are doing an optional or relatively unimportant task, and fooling themselves into thinking that they are working. Break your goals down into monthly, weekly and most importantly daily tasks and to-do lists and ensure you are taking a straight line and not meandering or wasting time. Just about every extremely successful person works from a to do list. Doing this gives you an ongoing sense of accomplishment as you tick of tasks and works as a scorecard. It also keeps you’re mind uncluttered because you no longer have to remember you’re whole to-do list which improves you’re focus and reduces stress.

5 - Set Deadlines

Make sure you set a deadline for all your goals. This ensures you do not waste time and hold your self accountable. It also gives you perspective if you do not meet you’re goals so you can sit down the day you did not meet you’re deadline and ask yourself what went wrong. Put reminders in prominent areas which will remind you of you’re imminent deadlines, if you work from you’re computer I recommend using Hottnotes which is a neat little piece of software which works like a desktop post it note, Fancy stuff!

6 - Prioritize

No one has time to do everything they want to do, But we all have time to do what we have to do. The problem is most people confuse what is urgent for what is important, here is a system for organizing you’re day to day tasks.

• Urgent and Important - These are the things which have either major positive or negative impacts if you do not complete them quickly.
• Urgent and not Important - These tasks have smaller consequences but appear urgent however have no lasting impact.
• Important and not Urgent - These are usually the tasks which have the greatest long term benefit on you’re life. Learning, developing you’re skills and working on you’re fitness are great examples.
• Not Important and not Urgent - These tasks are a waste of time, for example watching most television. Discipline yourself to procrastinate on these tasks, most people procrastinate on important tasks, be different. be better

Strive to make time for Important and Urgent tasks and don’t get caught up with the urgent and non important tasks, upon closer inspection many of the tasks you thought were urgent and important really were not and can wait, be delegated or even eliminated.

7 - Posteriorities

Just as important as it is to know what you want, make sure you are also aware of what you do not want, many people fall victim to the same circumstance repeatedly, not only does this waste valuable time it also decreases you’re energy and motivation. Ask yourself “What situation have I been in that I would rather never again experience?”, than figure out how you can never be in that situation again. If you are currently in that situation figure out how you can get out of it as quickly as possible.

Make a list of all the people, situations and outcomes you will not accept in you’re life and than figure out exactly HOW you will make sure they do not occur.

8 - Leverage Yourself

The Pareto principle states that 80% of your results comes from 20% of you’re efforts. This is true in business as well as all other aspects of life. You’re ability to determine which few tasks give you the majority of you’re results will determine your level of personal and business success. Before you start a new task always ask yourself “Is this the most useful task I could be doing to achieve the results I want?” if the answer is no, time to procrastinate. This skill alone can double you’re productivity

9 - Do The Hardest Task First

So now you have you’re to do list, you know what to avoid and hopefully you know which tasks produce the greatest results for you and which one you have prioritized for today. Usually the most important tasks are the biggest, hardest and most complicated. Commit to doing this task first thing in the morning. Whenever you start you’re day, by doing the hardest thing first, and don’t stop until it is 100% complete, you set yourself up for an extremely productive day! It energizes you and motivates you forward for the rest of the day knowing that the difficult part is done.

10 - Take Action

This is perhaps the most important key to personal productivity - Relentless action. Remember, your’ e thoughts control your emotions, you’re thoughts and emotions control you’re actions, and you’re actions generate you’re results. Thought and emotion are internal, whilst action and results are external. So action is the gateway to manifesting the results and the reality you want.

Summing It All Up

Decisive, clear and coherently planned action will get you the results you want in life. The foundation for greatness however isn’t getting caught up with the end result, it is honoring the present moment and treating every task no matter how insignificant it may seem with the utmost attention and care. The end result would be meaningless without the journey…

“Time is the scarcest resource available, if it is not managed nothing else can be managed” - Peter Drucker

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Mmmm, Hot Cakes…

So anyway, Ed Dale is promising a tool on Day 2 of the fantastic 30 day challenge, which is going to make qualifying your niche market ridiculously simple..

I’m excited to see what it is, but to be honest I never thought it was too difficult anyway, however, you definitely need to have the right criteria in mind.

There are two main criteria to when searching for a hot niche market for your next affiliate marketing venture or Internet business.

2 Key Criteria For Choosing A Hot Niche Market

• Can I get Traffic?
• Can I get Conversions?

That’s it! nothing else matters.. let’s take a closer look at how we determine the answer to these two all important questions…

What we are really looking for is a crowd of passionate buyers who are spending money. So let’s test a random market.. how about the “Chihuahua training” niche… Don’t laugh now… people love their dogs. And others, just use them as fashion accessories… damn Paris Hilton…

Can I Get Traffic?

Once you’ve found you’re niche, you need to see if anyone actually cares about this niche other than yourself… Do you guess? hell no.. do you survey a few people? I hope not.

Data driven decisions! Google has the answers…

Tool One.. The Free Google Keyword Tool

I bring up Google’s clever keyword tool and pop in “Chihuahua training” and it gives me these results:

What do we have here? Well, At a glance there’s quite a lot of advertising competition, which is actually a good thing, if people can afford to pay money for advertising, that means they’re making some money as well. Competition is a GOOD thing! If you find a niche with 0 competition you either have an untapped goldmine, or in 99.7% of cases you have a market of cheapskates.

Also there seems to be quite a few searches, around ~15,000 per month, positive signs of life here.

Can I Get Conversions?

Now what I’ll do is this, I want to see how much people who are bidding on the term “Chihuahua training” think the term is worth..

Tool Two.. SpyFu Competitive Pay Per Click

I type in “Chihuahua training”

Mysteriously no results are found… We should have something here given there are 15k searches a month.

But, I’ll keep going, bit of bad luck, these things happen sometimes, besides it’s not the biggest niche exactly…

If I really cared I’d use Hexatrack, Hexatrack is similar to Spyfu but far more comprehensive, and will allow you to track the keywords you want to see data for over a period of days or weeks, and will mine the data for you. So you could actually get comprehensive data for “Chihuahua training”, “Chihuahua puppy training” and all those other popular searches. But that would take at least 24 hours, and I want to do this quickly so…

What we’re trying to find here is approximately how much people are paying per click for “Chihuahua training”…

I try “dog training” instead, as the next best thing.

People seem to be paying great money for this term… $0.77-$2.96! per click.

More so “dog training books” is $1.06-$6.26!… There IS money in this niche.

How do I know know that these people are getting conversions? Because there’s 19 advertisers in “dog training” and if they’re paying that much they have to be selling SOMETHING. Otherwise, they’d be losing money… not likely.

Now people love specificity in marketing, from a marketing perspective a person looking for a dog training book who owns a Chihuahua would much rather buy a hypothetical book called “Chihuahua training secrets” than “how to train a dog”. So we can safely assume that we have found a likely candidate in the Chihuahua training niche. I would probably run a hexatrack campaign at this stage to confirm my findings.

The next step, is to find out what kind of products you’re niche is into, so hop onto Google and start browsing through those paid advertisements to see what’s selling… Now what I love about this market qualification method is that it’s a data driven decision. Emotional estimation or assumptions can be kept to a bare minimum.

I wont be making a Chihuahua training product or web site btw because I’m about as passionate about Chihuahuas as I am about watching grass grow so feel free to steal this idea guys!

Now I think my market research methods are pretty awesome, but like I mentioned before Ed Dale is promising that Day 2 of the thirty day challenge is going to include the most awesome market research tool ever, and Ed is an absolute master of Internet marketing so I expect him to deliver…

So I highly recommend that if you aren’t all ready a member you’re missing out, It’s great for beginner’s and I’ve all ready learned a thing or two as well and I’m pretty experienced… you don’t want to miss out on this fantastic free tools and training, so…

Join the Thirty Day Challenge today

I hope you found this content valuable, if you did make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed or e-mail newsletter, or else puppies will die.

To your Internet success…

Dima

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Now than, Ed Dale is hosting the 30 day challenge once more…

www.30DayChallenge.com

If you are looking to make your first 10 dollars online than go ahead and join, if you’ve all ready had some success and just want to get some awesome content as Ed always delivers than join anyway!

Now in case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in ages, I’ve been a busy little beaver, I worked for a property investment company writing sales copy for a time and right now I am starting up a niche internet business… I’m not going to say what it is for now, because you will see soon enough…

Now many of you are blogger’s and I imagine, many of you are also participating in the 30 day challenge so you will soon be blogger’s because blogging is just plain awesome for traffic…

Click Here For 20 Essential Blog Directories To Supercharge Your Traffic And Search Engine Exposure…

Even if you don’t have a blog yet I recommend you bookmark it.

That’s it from me ladies and gents,

Here’s to me being able to keep this blogging thing up for more than 2 weeks this time around

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Finding a Niche

Finding a good niche is sometimes a lot like sifting through dirt to find gold. However If you arm yourself with the right tools you can find ideas at a lightning pace, Test them quickly and take a lot of the guess work out of niche marketing. And Don’t worry If you’re not an affiliate marketer, There’s something for everyone here.

1) Seomoz Popular Searches

Seomoz hit a home run with this Mash up. It compiles data from over 10 different sources to give you a great Idea at a glance of what people have been buying and searching for as of late. And of course all of the individual sources are obviously great places as well to look for your next niche marketing idea. An almost endless source of ideas can stem from this one page.

2) Top20Hotness

Yes, When I first saw this page I to almost hit the back button and vomited all over my keyboard in disgust at the amount of advertising present on this page…

However, As I continued to explore the site it won me over with it’s functionality. See what’s selling and what’s being searched In numerous categories, And become a member so you can keep a scrap book of ideas. Who knows, Maybe even throw the creator a bone and click on one of the thirty seven million advertisements.

Quick Tip: Browse the top menu bar, Upon clicking a category such as books, The whole side bar will fill up with best selling books at the time. Pretty cool huh?

3) MSN Ad Labs Commercial Intention Tool

Today I got an email from a friend titled “I want your tool”. The tool he was referring to was this one, Because frankly I had told him about it in the past and, Maybe told isn’t the right word, And raving is more accurate…

Ever since I began to trust this tool, And learned to read between the lines through a bit of trial and error, This has become one of my favorite marketing and niche research tools. Find out if your PPC or SEO terms are targeting people with open wallets or not.

Quick Tip: Take a few of the most glaringly obvious keywords to search for your niche and see how they fare in the Commercial Intention Tool. Saves lots and lots of test campaigns.

4) MSN Demographic Tool

If you are planning on starting a new business, blog or making an information product. This tool can prove extremely valuable in determining the most basic information about your target audience. How old are they and what gender? Also great for wasting time.

Did you know that 57% of all searches for the term “vodka” is my females? Does that mean they are better drinkers than men? Not sure. All I know is all this thinking is making me thirsty. Time for a beer

Technorati Tags: niche marketing, affiliate marketer, marketing, niche research tools, keywords

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• Free Psychic Sales Letter Software - Dynamically builds sales letter based on reader input, for increased conversion.
• Free Traffic Magnet SEO blogging software - effortlessly brings targeted traffic to your blog.
• Quite possibly the greatest free traffic generation video ever.

So, without further ado..

Eben Pagan’s Psychic Sales Letter

This software help’s up your conversion by allowing you to setup a basic survey for your customer, and than dynamically constructing a sales letter based on the customers response. Frankly, this program would of cost thousands to develop - But Eben Pagan (being the awesome guy that he is) is giving it away for free.

Download it and view the tutorial Here

Traffic Magnet SEO Software

Jeff Johnson, the guy behind this software was voted the Top guest speaker at Yanik Silver’s Underground Internet Marketing Seminar. So as soon as I saw this I expected quality. Basically this is an edited version of the Wordpress blogging platform that automatically helps with generating targeted traffic and relieves you of part of your SEO duties. Totally FREE, he does ask for an opt in aswell, but I unsubscribed immediately after getting the software. Shhhh.. don’t tell anyone.

Download it Here.

Stomper Net Going Natural 3.0

This PPC video is plain awesome, both for beginner and expert levels. The melodramatic beginning is hardly necessary. But they can be forgiven for that, because the actual content could EASILY of been packaged and sold. It really is THAT GOOD. The checklist for writing a succesful ad was particularly brilliant, here’s a preview:

• Does it make a compelling promise?
• Do you demonstrate or idealize the ownership experience?
• Do you help the reader articulate their REAL goal?
• Does it solve the readers most immediate problem?
• Does It help protect the reader (With a warning)?
• Do you ask for action?

Of course, you’re not expected to do all 6 in the one ad. But even doing half of these things will ensure you do much better than average in you’re PPC marketing efforts.
You will also learn many more awesome things in here from campaign setup settings, to which positions attract the most attention, and it may not be the ones you think…

Watch it Here.

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So why have I decided to talk about little children for my first blog?

Simple. You see one of the most amazing things about us as people is that we are constantly learning, and striving and developing our abilities and skills, Essentially that one quality separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

To become unstoppable and flawless at anything wether it’s Business, Internet marketing, Blogging or even the simple act of walking, You essentially must begin by FAILING. Repeatedly…

Are you a Winner or a Loser?

Now as life goes on, People seem to subdivide into two clear groups. You either consider yourself a winner or you consider yourself a loser. Never mind what anyone else considers you to be. What do you think of your self?

The remarkable thing is, We were all born winners. Think about it, A child’s attitude whilst learning to walk can be summed up with..

” I’m going to do this walking thing NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES, I see others doing it and I know it is in my ability to do it because they can. So, I’m going to keep trying because no matter how many times I fall down. The only thing that matters is that I get up and try again. “

The Difference that Makes a Difference

This is a golden attitude and a winners attitude. So essentially, we were all born to be winners - But for many this mind set becomes lost later in life. And often people will allow themselves to fall into the opposite mind state. Typified by statements like..

” I tried it for a bit and it did not work, I guess Its just not for me, I just wasn’t cut out to do this.. “

Now Imagine for a Moment..

How would your life be different now, if at the tender age of 1 month old you adopted this losing attitude? But wait a second.. That’s ridiculous isn’t it? Exactly!
And it should be just as ridiculous to you now as an adult as It would of been back than as a child!

The winner does not give up, The winner perseveres and just sees failure as the learning experience that brings him one step closer to success.

” Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. “ - Confucius

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