Every good online marketer knows the value of a hot “niche”. These super-specific sites have been known to be absolute goldmines in terms of driving quality, targeted traffic to your site and increasing your sales. And, finding a solid niche to start in doesn’t take long (just poke around on ClickBank.com and see what others are promoting!), so it’s an excellent way for beginners to start making money online.

Often when you’re just starting, you’ll buy up resale rights to a product that’s in line with your chosen niche and promote the heck out of it on a site where you’ve got three or four other affiliate products that you’re doing the same thing with. The problem is that your visitor is faced with choices, choices, choices. And rather than read through your carefully-crafted sales letter, they’ll just go elsewhere. One surefire way to keep them on your site longer and help boost your profits as a result is through the use of “Mini Sites“.

For the uninitiated, mini sites are small (usually 1-5 page) websites that are specifically written to target a SINGLE product or service. You can often start these kinds of sites within an hour or less, and once you have several up and going, you can see how these precise, laser-targeted little sites can really pull in the commissions.

Now, doing a quick search on “mini sites” in Google will quickly reveal that there are already software programs and little “mini site generators” out there that will build these sites for you. But before you rush out and spend $197 or more on one (and end up back where you started, trust me), let me let you in on a little secret…

You can get a mini site professionally created for you - for under $100. Forget those amateur one-page sales letters that look like they were created in the early 90’s. People can spot a hyped up sales letter a mile away and they’ll head for the hills when they see your affiliate product presented that way.

Look. You spent enough time finding a good niche and a quality affiliate program to promote, right? Why not give your site visitors a great first impression of your site by making it look the best it can? And save yourself the hassle of poring over how-to videos and e-books and start concentrating on marketing!

If you’re like me, you really don’t want to spend time learning all about web design. And you don’t want a cheap program to try and spit something out either. You want someone who knows what they’re doing and is still affordable enough to help you launch all the mini sites you want. And that someone is Sherice at eCoverArtist.com

Check out the portfolio at eCoverArtist.com and you’ll see what I mean. Realistic looking e-books, headers and mini sites that look like you spent $500 or more on them! Each site is designed to fit perfectly with your chosen “niche” - so you’re never stuck with a bland design that looks just like every other sales page out there. And the work is done quickly — often within 48 hours, so you can start promoting immediately. Plus, along with your mini site template you’ll get a custom cover design so you can showcase your affiliate product in a way that makes it look just like it came off the store shelves! And it costs just $97! The minimum bid for a job like this on one of those freelance sites is $150 or more!

Save yourself money and frustration - go check it out - then share your mini site success stories again and again!

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Many of you would have read Dave Bromley’s last email in that myself, Derek Chambers and a good friend of mine Neil Ogden have taken over the website and publication of Money Master Online

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Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

1.Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging. No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise.

2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.

3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.

4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.

5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is. But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:

-By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.

-By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.

-By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.

-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.

-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.

Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.