Why Use Niche Landing Pages

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 2:44 pm

Niche landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad. For niche affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate’s website.

Niche landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site. Some online businessmen would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads.

Are these businessmen making a big mistake? Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads?

Well, you can always follow what most online retailers do, directing their potential customers to the homepages of their niche websites. But if you want to achieve something more from your online business, and if you want to earn a lot of profits, you better create a special landing page for your web ads.

Why? Here are a few reasons why you need to use landing pages for your web ads. And take note, it would do you a lot better if you create a great landing page than a so-so one.

Reason no. 1: It is the only way you earn conversions in a niche affiliate marketing program.

There are a variety of niche affiliate marketing programs today, but most of these programs let the merchant pay the affiliate in a pay per click basis. Basically, all you have to do is sign up with the program and submit your ad.

The program owner would then distribute your ad to various affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites. Whenever your ad is clicked, a visitor would be directed to your landing page and you would have to pay the affiliate for his service.

As a merchant, you earn in a niche affiliate program through conversions—that is whenever a visitor that is directed to your site actually buys a product on your site. Without these conversions, you actually earn nothing from the program.

Also, the more visitors that your affiliates have directed to your site, the larger would your expense be. And the only way that you can recover from these expenses is through conversions.

Now, you sure won’t get any conversion if you have posted an ad on your niche affiliate’s site without an actual landing page for the potential customer to be redirected into. It’s just like advertising a product without actually having a store to sell your product.

Your advertisement may be enticing enough to encourage people to purchase a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product

It is therefore important to have landing pages for your ads because it is the only way for you to earn something in an affiliate program. Without landing pages, all you do is spend money paying your affiliates without actually getting anything in return.

Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough.

Many people make the mistake of making their website’s homepage as the niche landing page for their ads. The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a “contact us” page or a product page. Homepages are often designed to serve multiple users and contains a lot of links to other pages or to other websites.

The same is with the other two pages mentioned. If you want to be successful in an niche affiliate program, we’re sure that you don’t want your landing page to cater to the needs of various people, most of which may not be really interested with your product.

When choosing a niche landing page, you must always have the customer directed into that page in mind. Therefore, your landing page must be relevant to the keywords and the contents you placed on your ad.

It is also important that the landing page can induce your visitor to take action—that is to purchase your product or at least provide leads for potential customers.

You probably entered into a niche affiliate marketing program with these things in mind: to save on advertising expenses and to gain more profit. But if you get into a niche affiliate marketing program without actually having a landing page, you’ll end up paying too much without getting anything in return.

So if you still don’t have a landing page for your ads, you better start creating one now. And don’t get us wrong; it isn’t enough for you to have just a landing page—it should be a great landing page.

Niche Marketing VS Internet Marketing

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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Niche marketing means buying or selling a product or service in a special area of demand. All that really means is that a product or service is being sold to the people who are most interested in that particular product or service and not to the world in general.

Oftentimes big businesses use niche marketing. For example, a company that makes computers and computer accessories might advertise all-in-one copy/printer/scanners to the home computer user while at the same time advertising single function machines to large businesses.

One of the things that make niche marketing so attractive to sellers is that their advertising budgets go further. It costs less to advertise to a specialized market than it does to advertise to a broader market.

Niche marketing must be designed to meet the unique needs of the targeted audience. Niche marketers must tailor their product to meet those unique needs.

If, for example, you have designed a product to make poodle grooming easy enough for the untrained professional to do it, those who own poodles will be most interested in your product. Those who own Blood Hounds or cats couldn’t care less.

If you have written an e-book that will explain how to start and succeed at an online business, those who are looking for that information are your niche market. Those who are happy doing what they are doing are not interested at all.

Niche marketing and an Internet Marketing niche are both forms of Internet marketing.

The term ‘niche marketing’ means selling a specific product to a specific type of buyer. There are far less competitive niches than an Internet marketing niche. Most niche markets are more open to the latest marketing strategies, as well.

Small niche markets are not over stocked with gurus and wise men and are much easier for the beginning marketer to break into. A niche market allows you to promote your own niche product or that of a niche affiliate product.

There is a niche market for anything and everything you can imagine. All it takes to break into a niche market is a good idea, a good product created by you or someone else that will appeal to certain people, some advertising and the desire to succeed.

The Internet marketing niche, on the other hand, means that you will be promoting your own Internet marketing product. This is a very crowded field of endeavor and really difficult to break into.

It’s a world filled with gurus and wise men who have been playing and winning the game for a long time. This doesn’t mean that it is impossible to cash in on the Internet marketing niche because, of course, you can.

It is a world still built on demand and that means that if you have a product that can compete and if you have the willingness to play hard ball with the big boys then you can succeed at the Internet marketing niche game. Just be aware that there are easier niche market nuts to crack.

Business niches – niche marketing vs. internet marketing niche. Niche marketing is a very effective and cost efficient way to advertise and sell specific products or services to a specific audience or, hopefully, buyers of that product or service.

4 Effective Ways To Build A Large List Of Hungry Prospects

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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List building is probably the most crucial thing you could do to consistently build your business and maintain a steadily rising income.

How would you feel if you could rake in thousands of dollars for just sending out one email?
Pretty good I’d bet. Well that’s exactly what targeted list building can do for you.

Once you have your list, you can almost make cash at will with just one click of a mouse, as long as you promote a good product and you have a close bond with your subscribers.

Think of it this way: let’s say you have a list of even just 5000 people and you send out an email with a product that you get $20 for. Even if just 1% purchased that product, you just pocketed a cool thousand dollars!

So without further adieu, here are some proven techniques to build your list fast:

List Building Strategy # 1: Make a compelling offer, but don’t offer too much.

I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of opt in pages, but what you may not have noticed is the incentive. Sometimes people don’t offer much; and yet sometimes they may also offer too much, which makes for a difficult thing to keep up with.

You want to find a good balance. You, of course, must offer something or the public will simply overlook your opt in; but then if you offer everything in one go, they won’t have a reason to stay on your list. So what can we do in this situation?

You can offer something like a 7-day course in which the subscriber will get a new email everyday for 7 days on “how to do something.” After those 7 days are up, you could simply market them a much larger, more in-depth course that will bring them to the next level. If the 7-day course has helped them, people would be more than willing to grab something that would help them even more.

But what about making them stay after they finished the free course (and hopefully ordered the paid one)? You could tell them that you will give them more useful gifts from time to time; but make sure you keep your promise. You could join some PLR or resale right site and find quality stuffs that you can give away to your list every now and then. That would be a major factor for them to stay.

List Building Strategy # 2: Build more than a list; build relationships.

Building just a list of subscribers isn’t enough to keep your clients happy. If you treat them like numbers on a list, you will not get a good response and most likely you won’t keep them on your list very long.

When your list has questions, answer them fully and wholeheartedly with compassion for the subscriber’s problem. This will instill confidence that you are the authority on the subject matter.

Once you have established great relationships with your list and have gained their trust, these people will also be more likely to tell their friends about you, and buy any product you promote (if they need or want it).

After you have gained their trust, you don’t want to break it by offering them bogus products or ignoring their problems. Put your list as one of your top priorities to ensure your success.

List Building Strategy # 3: Make it easy to sign up and have an opt-in section everywhere.

You have a network of sites and web 2.0 properties. You are going to have visitors coming to you from all different pages, not necessarily just one. Knowing this, you should have an opt in section – or at least an attractive link to your squeeze page – on as many of these pages as possible.

On top of having as many opt in sections as you can, you should also make it real easy to sign up. If your potential subscriber is staring at an opt-in section that is asking them for 20 different pieces of information, they will be very reluctant to sign up.

Keep it short, simple and to the point. Getting their name and e-mail address is enough in most cases.

List Building Strategy # 4: Buy the ad, not the list.

It can take some time to build a good extensive list, and people are always looking for shortcuts. Well buying lists is not the way to go.

Yes you may be able to buy a large list and feel confident that you can market to it, but there’s a couple problems with doing this.

The first being that nine times out of ten when you are buying a list, you are buying from a spammer, and they did not get their list ethically and most likely used spamming tactics to gather the info.

The other problem, and probably most important one, is that you have no idea if these are targeted prospects – even if the list was built ethically. This list you bought could have been built with tons of different methods and you have no way of knowing if the audience is targeted to your niche.

You must have a targeted audience if you’re going to market anything. If you are in the golf niche and you buy a list, there’s a very good chance there are from all different niches – maybe dog training or pet supplies, maybe they were looking for movie info or PC games.

Now none of those people would be interested in being on your golf list, because it has nothing to do with what they originally gave their info away for.

What you could do is pay for a solo ad in a newsletter that caters to your niche. If you’re in the natural health niche for example, you could pay to advertise your squeeze page in a natural health newsletter. That way, all the people who subscribed to your list are interested in the information you’re providing.

Implement these list building strategies to grow your list fast so you can have more targeted prospects to market to.

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