Archive for September, 2009

With the availability of cheap useable Dotcom names becoming more and more scarce. Plus my recent move into site flipping I now have to learn the market for top level domains. Which domain ranks the fastest and easiest. And more importantly which domains are buyers willing to invest there money in.

Dotnet, Dotinfo and Dotus. I began to lean toward Dotinfo but may see some advantages in Dotus. Here is a link to a post I made at a forum and the responses I received back. HomeBusiness Websites . I was lucky and received several really great answers.

I have gotten .info and .us listed just as fast as Top Level Domains.

Today, as I was sorting through my email, I read an interesting advertisement from one of the marketing lists I am on. In it they quote Gary Halbert. In case you have never heard of Gary Halbert let me take a few minutes to detail a little. Gary Halbert was a copywriter. In fact, Gary Halbert was arguably THE copywriter. And when he spoke marketers listened. I think the quote below speaks volumes. Remember, when you research a niche market, make sure you are looking for a starving crowd.


Scott Sheen

Onward. No more messing around. Let’s dive right in. Listen: As you may or may not know, every once in a while I give a class on copy writing and/or selling by mail. During these classes, one of the questions I like to ask my students is: “If you and I both owned a hamburger stand and we were in a contest to see who could sell the most hamburgers, what advantages would you most like to have on your side to help you win?”

The answers vary. Some of the students say they would like to have the advantage of having superior meat from which to make their burgers. Others say they want sesame seed buns. Others mention location. Someone usually wants to be able to offer the lowest prices.

And so on.

Whatever. In any case, after my students are finished telling me what advantages they would most like to have, I usually say to them something like this: “O.K., I’ll give you every single advantage you have asked for. I, myself, only want one advantage and, if you will give it to me, I will (when it comes to selling burgers) whip the pants off all of you!”

“What advantage do you want?” they ask.

“The only advantage I want,” I reply…

“Is…
A Starving Crowd!”

Think about it. When it comes to direct marketing, the most profitable habit you can cultivate is the habit of constantly being on the lookout for groups of people (markets) who have demonstrated that they are starving (or, at least hungry) for some particular product or service.

Copywriting is a skill that must be learned.

This is a 10 minute video that shows how to start making money with Clickbank in just 20 minutes a day. It was posted to YouTube by Stephen Pierce. Stephen has a great blog called DT Alpha TalkBack.

I really think that there is more useful information in this short video on how to profit from clickbank than a lot of the information products I have purchased on the same subject. Stephen makes it look so simple that it’s almost scary.

I love selling clickbank products. Maybe the profit margin isn’t as high selling an afilitate product but the amout of time it takes to get to market is just a matter of days. One day really. And now thanks to Stephen’s great video that one day can be even more productive. I really think that I can incorporate this information into my site flipping and profit much more on the sites I auction. Thanks Stephen for sharing so much.

Money can be made with Clickbank.