Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

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Just finished reading this thread, definitely some great points made here. I'm actually quite surprised and impressed that so many people are willing to share their ideas.

I too have thought about a similar idea, targeting small businesses who don't yet have a presence on the internet. The thread title really does make sense as there are so many businesses who realise that going online is essential, but just don't have the means/knowledge on how to do it. But you don't need me telling you that.

I see that most of you guys are choosing niche's in rather large cities (well they're pretty damn large to me, I'm in New Zealand where the entire population is 4.1m). About how large would your target market be?
e.g. Your niche is dentists. Are you going for the whole city (500,000+ people) or just suburbs?

Competing with the yellow pages looks awesome to me, their advertising prices are insane. One idea I had was perhaps not concentrating too much on being another Yellow Pages, but being something more? Hard to explain and you guys are probably already thinking that in the 200k thread anyway but I'm going to try create a different spin on it (no spinning as such has been done yet, I'll definitely post up what I come up with however).

Sorry if I haven't really given much back to the thread but I'm just starting out so can't really give any informed information as of yet!

Cheers, hope I don't get axed from this forum as you all seem like a sweet bunch of people.
 
Sorry to double post but this quite explains what I was getting at:

vladi said:
But the best selling tool of all is the scarcity tactic. "If you don't pick it up, one of your competitors will, and they'll get all this traffic. Everybody is switching over from the phone book to Google. Blah Blah Blah"
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Marketing it like that could definitely have an impact.
 
Barbarian said:
So how is this working out for people?
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Stop creating doubt, and start applying the knowledge you have gained from this thread and the 200k, and see what happens.

If you don't try, you'll never know. There's more than enough information in this thread and the 200k to get you going. If it fails, then fuck it. Learn from your mistakes
 
Thanks to Jon for this site/forum (wickedfire) and thanks to the brotherhood of internet marketers for such valuable posts. I joined a couple of months back. But had only been downloading books from the free ebook download section. After sifting through a lot of junk and not being able to complete any, I decided to go through the threads here and start following from the basics. You guys ROCK!!!

Cheers,
Avis.
 
WTF does this have to do with this thread???
go back and re-read all those ebooks you wisely invested your time downloading.

ssiva_sai said:
Thanks to Jon for this site/forum (wickedfire) and thanks to the brotherhood of internet marketers for such valuable posts. I joined a couple of months back. But had only been downloading books from the free ebook download section. After sifting through a lot of junk and not being able to complete any, I decided to go through the threads here and start following from the basics. You guys ROCK!!!

Cheers,
Avis.
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Good Idea i was just thing of creating a few directory's for high paying keywords.
you make it look to easy you need to list for your niche!

I go to add how to's to my directory to help create content to help with get it listed
 
I have a question

Couldn't you just use PHPLink Directory for the directory software? And then Set up categories / descriptions for each business type for that particular city like say Local{City name}.com or something then you just have a category for say Food then all the business in the city that deal with food make their listing. Repeat that for others like sports ware hardware ect..

Charge like $99 per featured listing $50 per regular listing (per month)

Then actually goto the city / town whatever Find business cards with their adress' , Buy a bunch of crap traffic like 500-1000 uniques per day for a few weeks. Then Send a mailing letter saying Hi I am the owner of CitynameLocal.com We are excited to contact you about a new, and wonderful advertising oppurtunity for local business is CityName then go and and describe the site ect.. Also fill it up with some 'Fake listings that you can delet later' (Not necesarily fake, but real business' that don't know about your site) So it seems as if the competition is doing it.

So the local business owner buys a link. You then Buy REAL traffic through PPC adwords YPN whatever. Then once you start getting some nice targettted traffic dump the fake crap. Send out more letters Maybe make some flyers on Advertising your local business online or something. Get more business to buy spots, then if you can afford get a billboard or local commercial. And boom repeat for other cities


I may have misinterpreted information but is that basically the same thing? (Atleast what I understand from it)

Also what directory software is best? And what exactly is 'scraping'
 
AT&T owns the yellowpages.com data. Scraping it is stealing the data. Scrape it at your peril. Here's a quote from their site:

Accordingly, You may view, use, copy, and distribute the Materials found on YELLOWPAGES.COM Web sites for internal, noncommercial, informational purposes only. You are prohibited from data mining, scraping, crawling, or using any process or processes that send automated queries to the YELLOWPAGES.COM Web site. You may not use the YELLOWPAGES.COM Web sites to compile a collection of listings, including a competing listing product or service. You may not use the Site or any Materials for any unsolicited commercial e-mail. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the Materials or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by YELLOWPAGES.COM, its subsidiaries, parent companies, and/or any third party owner of such rights

Here's the link: Terms & Conditions - YELLOWPAGES.COM
 
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