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eNicholas

Internet marketing, facebook advertising and search engine strategies without all the hype!

  • How to Find a Niche Workshop

    Well it’s been about 8 months in the making and I’m really happy to report that this week I kicked off my first workshop in April! There are 12 delegates attending, I had twice as many register but I kept the numbers low so that I could focus on each person and not spread myself [...]

  • How to find a niche with Google Trends

    You’ve gotta love Google Trends! This website is basically a snapshot of the hot categories and search terms on Google today.
    This particular method of how to find a niche is pretty much the best way I know of to find hot current niches that are experiencing a large spike in interest. If you want instant traffic, then targetting [...]

  • How to find a niche with eBay Pulse

    Using eBay Pulse to find a niche has very specific benefits as it’s aligned closely with consumable products. This can greatly help you with choosing a niche for an information product, with just a little bit of lateral thinking you can take an item that is in demand and think of ideas on which to create information products on.
    To give you an example, today on [...]

  • How to find a niche with ASK IQ

    Using ASK IQ as a method of how to find a niche has both pros and cons, as it’s a lagging indicator that is about 2 months behind the current date. The best way I can see of making these stats work for you is when you use them in conjuction with Google Trends to [...]

  • How to find a niche with Amazon sales stats

    Using sales and search statistics from Amazon is basically a fool-proof and guaranteed method for finding a niche that is popular and selling well! Let’s think about that for a minute…
    Amazon is the largest book store in the world, so they have a large marketplace with large numbers of users. Those users leave traces of [...]

  • How to find a niche with Clickbank Marketplace

    When you want to know how to find a niche that is in demand and selling, the sales stats in Clickbank are just as valuable as Amazon. CB stats are probably one of the best places to find a niche when you’re researching ideas for an ebook, as they are focused just on information products [...]

TIP #1 : Use a storyboard approach
Nobody enjoys listening to someone rabbit on while jumping from one topic to another. If you can begin your video with a problem the user can relate to then lead them through the process of solving it, the only thing left is to provide them a link to purchase…
TIP [...]

I’m speaking tonight at a local networking group that I belong to, which is basically a meetup.com club for people in Brisbane that are interested in online business.
My presentation is on ‘Effective Google Advertising’ and I will be giving the audience a general introduction to AdWords before moving onto some inside techniques of succeeding with [...]

I signed up for Mike Roberts’ software (traffic bug) about a month ago and have been testing the trial account since. Gotta say, I’m pretty impressed with the results I’ve obtained from just a few hours using traffic bug.
I simply input a URL and some descriptive text for 7 websites I had just built, then walk [...]

Okay lets take stock of where things are at so far after my previous posts on list building (part 1 & part 2):
1. Setup an account with a list management / email marketing provider
2. Create a list and signup box
3. Insert your signup box on your website
4. Have a juicy headline and something valuable as a [...]

So now for some fundamentals to help you with list building…
List building isnt just the process of putting a signup box on your website and collecting email addresses. If you previously viewed things that way, then I can understand why you wouldnt focus on LB but there are a few more tricks to the process. [...]

I haven’t had a huge amount of time over the past week to devote to video marketing, client projects are starting to ramp up again for the new year so time is precious right now.
I do want to report the latest results from my video marketing test campaign from a few weeks back though…
So for [...]

Firstly, I’m no expert on list building. I’ve researched how a lot of the successful guys approach the subject and integrated their best methods with my own knowledge of the web demographic.
So before we get into any tips and techniques, I’d like to impress something upon you to switch the way you think… repeat this [...]

The video I distributed a few days ago has made it to the #1 and #2 spot in the google video search results and youtube. It started at #9 within the first day, then dropped down a page or two, then made it back up to the top 2 spots. I achieved 2 spots because [...]

It’s time to grab tickets to the Underground 6 Seminar, organised and presented by Yanik Silver. I just read an email from Yanik and he’s announced that there are only a few days until registrations close for early bird tickets. If you missed out on these, you wouldn’t be at the special VIP dinner with everyone [...]

The results are already in after distributing 2 videos yesterday.
The first video has already made it to #1 position for google video and youtube for the 3 term search phrase I was targetting, all within 24 hours. 
The second video made it to #9 position (still on the front page, just) for a 2 term keyword that is [...]