Action Plan Day 3-Setting Up a blog

Now that you have a niche and a product to target that niche, it is time to set up your mini-site or blog to promote your product. Do the following :

• Open an account at http://www.blogger.com/ and follow the instructions
• Give your blog a name -the name must be related to the niche you have chosen
• Place keywords on the blog title
• Write an article of about 400-600 words and post it to your blog.

(Do not worry much about aticle writing at these stage, I will discuss the the proper ways to do article marketing or bum marketing, the strategies later on) Now that you have a functioning blog, you need to place affiliate links to your blog, to earn money.
How To Insert an Affiliate Marketing banner into a blogger blog

The best place to put your affiliate banner is on the header of your blog.
Do the following :

• Login to blogger.com and Navigate to Layout > Edit HTML page of your blog.
• On the Edit HTML page you will see the option to back up your template by downloading it to your system. I strongly advise that you take this opportunity to backup as you are about to make a change to your template where if something goes wrong you may not be able to restore it.
• Once you have backed up your template place a check in the Expand Widget Templates box Search your template and locate the following lines of code within the header section of the template:        (note you can search by using CTRL + F and entering into the search box <b:includable id='main'>

• Now insert the following 2 lines of code directly below id="main">and before

 <b:includable id='main'> and before <b:if cond='data:useImage'>






<div class='ads'>

</div>

•  Place your merchant affiliate code between the lines of code you just inserted. You will need to copy the code from the affiliate program provider to your template.
  
   <div class='ads'>PLACE YOUR BANNER CODE HERE
  
  
  </div>
  
  
  
• 
  
  Review the code you have entered.
  
  
  
• When you are sure you have correctly inserted the code into the template scroll up until you find this line in your template ]]&gt;
• Immediately before this line add the following lines: /* Header Banner ----------------------------------------------- */ #header .ads{width:480px; height:80px; float:right; padding:20px 0px 0px 0px}
• Click on Save Template.
• Click on View Blog to view your new banner.

On the upcoming tutorials ,I will be teaching you how to set up Wordpress blog, how to look for a domain name, which hosting companies to use,how to design a simple one page website, how to design a squeeze page,e.t.c- This are all advance strategies . In the mean time , let us stick to the simple free methods to generate income. That is enough for today, this is what to expect in the next tutorial :

1. How to drive targeted traffic to your blog
2. How to write articles-step by step methods, where to post your articles
3. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategies
4. Best place to advertise your blog (classified sites, forums, ezines, e.t.c)
5. How to use WEB 2:0 properties to generate massive traffic to your blog-I am talking about using the following sites to driver traffic to your blog : squidoo, wetpaint, hubpages, wordpress blogs, facebook, twitter, myspace
6. The importance of social bookmarking
7. How to ping your posts
8. Google Adwords
9. Advance secret strategies

Take action, and make success of your life. Visit the following blog for everything yo need to know about the blogger blog :http://blogknowhow.blogspot.com/

How To Start an Online business -31 Days Challenge to make your first $1000 online

Within couple of weeks you could have your own money-making online business !
It does not matter how many times you failed trying to start your own online business, I am revielling the secrets and strategies to help you succeed online.

But before you start, it is important to have a proper mindset. You are about to start your own business, treat it like you'd normally treat an offline business. Success is finally within your reach.

THE ACTION PLAN-DAY 1
Finding a Niche

What is a niche-It is a smaller more targeted group of a certain market-Example : dog-training
Sub Niche-smaller group of the larger niche that has specific need, Example : "dog barking " training

• First find a market that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.
• There should be demand for a product
• You want to offer something that people actually needs, something that will make their lives better and help them solve a problem.

WHERE DO WE FIND BUYERS

Before we get into details , note that there are generally two kinds of buyers :

1 .Desparate buyers-they have a problem and they need solution for it,
example :people who are in pain, it can be due to a certain desease,
or people facing financial crisis (impending foreclosure)
2 .Passionate (or rabid buyers)-they are people who buy everything on a
    particular topic,example:home and garden, food and cooking, golf.

This is what you must do to find those buyers

• Read several newspapers everyday, watch the news, listen to radio
• Check out the hottest trends at  :Google hot trends
• The Lycos Top 50 is another site, like google's hot trends where you will review the latest trends and lok for hot topics to explore further.
• Look at Yahoo Buzz for ideas as well
• Visit :different kind of magazines on your chosen niche
• The eBay Pulses site is a great place to start looking for subniches-What you must do is to select the category first (using the topics you've gathered from the previous sites) then look for profitable niches byselecting a sub-category.

NOTE :E bay puts a PDF Report of their hottest categories each month
available at :E bay hot categories

• Amazon is a great place to see what currently exists for any given sub -niche. Chances are the more books there are written on that subjects, the more that market spends on those topics. Look for a book that is ranked 20,000 or higher.

By now you should have an idea of which niche you want to target, It is now time to determine its profitability-KEYWORD RESEARCH-You cannot proceed without executing the following step, It is the most important step in building your business.

TOOLS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE PROFITABILITY OF A GIVEN NICHE

1. Wordtracker
2. Digital Point Tool
3. Market Samurai
I highly recommend this tools, You get a free 12 days Trial with step-by step videos demonstrating how to use it. You also have access to a forum where you can get help.
Take Note Of the foolowing while using Market Samurai :

1. Find all keywords that would receive at least 2000+ visitors/day for the No 1. Google position.
2. Find broad-terms that may reveal profitable long-tail keywords
    Filter keywords to show all keywords with SEOT of 2000+
3. Find specific keywords with good traffic and low competition.

• Select all low competion keywords-(SEOT 500/SEOC 150000)for SEO analysis in Market Samurai.
• Choose all low competion keywords that have-No more than one competitor with all five SEO "yeses"
• Two or more pages with PR3 or low
• One page with less than 50 Backlinks

4. Avoid seasonality

That is enough for today, The next step will be to locate products we want to sell based on our chosen keywords, signing up as an affiliate, designing a simple website or blog.(Very easy).Everyting laid out step by step.
Just to prepare for the following step check out the following blog, this Guy show you everything you need to know about a blogger blog, I mean everything, for free of course.You will never again search google for anything regarding your Blogger Blog

Thought for the Day :A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything-Donald Kircher