Archive for April 2008
Tip! Some affiliate marketing programs will pay you for sending them quality ‘leads’. A lead is usually considered a visitor that will either sign up for a service or purchase a product.
With minimal start up costs, affiliate marketing is fast becoming one of the easiest and most popular ways to begin making an income from home.Rather than incurring expenses for products to sell or build up an inventory, you only have a few start up costs including purchasing a domain name, building a web site, web site hosting and a good autoresponder. Expenses you will be able to keep to a minimum. Before you jump straight into building a web site there are some things to consider first.
niche marketing Explained niche marketing Tutorial plus Software.
A recent newspaper review of a new book, Selling Sickness, got me thinking about niche marketing (The Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 6, 2005, D8-D9). The book in question considers case studies that purport to show how “Big Pharma” (the entire pharmaceutical industry, from manufacturers to drug salespeople) manipulates data to “create” a disease that they have the “cure” for.
Regardless of how one feels about the pharmaceutical industry, the book does demonstrate one thing?the ability of this industry to correctly identify small-but-profitable niches and exploit them for huge profits. The book, as indicated by the reviewer, identified a “familiar pattern” for the “selling of sickness”:
