I'm going to make this brief 'cause it's 4:53am or so and I have some work to do. I found WF back in 2007 when I just started online.
Yesterday, we had the worst employment numbers in 25 years.....
Coincidentally, yesterday, I had one of my MOST PROFITABLE days of that 2 years.
The moral of the story: TURN THE NEWS OFF!!!!!
Don't listen to how broke people are, how people are losing their jobs, how all the opportunities are gone and "if you just found out about this stuff 4 or 5 years ago you'd be blah blah blah".
The next 2-5 years are going to present the greatest business opportunities of our lifetimes. There are people "right beside you" who read this board and ACT on it everyday who will be worth 7, 8 or 9 figures (or more) - OF THAT YOU CAN BE SURE.
The only difference between anybody is the attitude they decide to take. You can look around and say "like sucks, this is Depression II" or you can say "wow all those people are hitting up google, yahoo, etc for answers" let me provide solutions to people's pressing problems and get paid!
You can get rich AND employ people looking for work. I'm not trying to be self-righteous or preachy just trying to demonstrate that there are people doing well and you can be one of them (and to give back a little cause I feel really happy I found this resourceful place and really grateful to fellow colleagues the big/guy upstairs, Harry Potter, lady luck or whomever...)
A note on how to use WF a little better, some of my best personal practices:
1) Learn how to use the advance search functionality VERY WELL. For instance if you have a question about Traffic, search the traffic threads using broad and exact match keyword phrases.
2) learn how to use site search. Example, sometimes I go to google and type in "keyword" site:wickedfire.com to find info
3) Learn whom to listen to. Rather than swimming through thousands of posts (some useless some useful....), identify who knows their shit on what area and search through their posts. For instance, if you want to find some useful info on building ads for ppc, try imageandwords' posts, if you want some info on good linkbuilding services you migh search through RedVirus' posts, etc., etc
by the way, numbers 1)-3) are good "best practices" for using forums in general....
4) When it comes to finding profitable niches, learn how to think of not just "what" people are using to find stuff online i.e. "what keywords" but "why" and "how"
Want an example? There are some 12,100 people each month searching for info on how to "make life easier" and a subset - 3,600 hundred are searching for info on "products" that make life easier!
Now does this sound like a group of "motivated" buyers or what? Not only that, but there is VERY little competition for this phrase.
Now you might be saying to yourself "how in the world did she find that niche". The answer is I sat back and spent some time thinking about the "why" and "how" of how people are using keywords and thinking out the box (some info here http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/52527-how-find-niche.html ). Especially given the times we are in...
Jump up and down if you have to, get that right brain/creative side working. You might be saying if it's so hot,why is she giving it up and the answer is there are thousands of niches like that. Somebody right now can own that niche and if they are having difficulty paying their mortgage can help themselves out right there - so go get it.
Once more, I bet there's money in the niche of buyers in google.co.uk, .de, .ca and a dozen other localized markets...
I hope this is info somebody finds useful. Enjoy your weekend.....
Yesterday, we had the worst employment numbers in 25 years.....
Coincidentally, yesterday, I had one of my MOST PROFITABLE days of that 2 years.
The moral of the story: TURN THE NEWS OFF!!!!!
Don't listen to how broke people are, how people are losing their jobs, how all the opportunities are gone and "if you just found out about this stuff 4 or 5 years ago you'd be blah blah blah".
The next 2-5 years are going to present the greatest business opportunities of our lifetimes. There are people "right beside you" who read this board and ACT on it everyday who will be worth 7, 8 or 9 figures (or more) - OF THAT YOU CAN BE SURE.
The only difference between anybody is the attitude they decide to take. You can look around and say "like sucks, this is Depression II" or you can say "wow all those people are hitting up google, yahoo, etc for answers" let me provide solutions to people's pressing problems and get paid!
You can get rich AND employ people looking for work. I'm not trying to be self-righteous or preachy just trying to demonstrate that there are people doing well and you can be one of them (and to give back a little cause I feel really happy I found this resourceful place and really grateful to fellow colleagues the big/guy upstairs, Harry Potter, lady luck or whomever...)
A note on how to use WF a little better, some of my best personal practices:
1) Learn how to use the advance search functionality VERY WELL. For instance if you have a question about Traffic, search the traffic threads using broad and exact match keyword phrases.
2) learn how to use site search. Example, sometimes I go to google and type in "keyword" site:wickedfire.com to find info
3) Learn whom to listen to. Rather than swimming through thousands of posts (some useless some useful....), identify who knows their shit on what area and search through their posts. For instance, if you want to find some useful info on building ads for ppc, try imageandwords' posts, if you want some info on good linkbuilding services you migh search through RedVirus' posts, etc., etc
by the way, numbers 1)-3) are good "best practices" for using forums in general....
4) When it comes to finding profitable niches, learn how to think of not just "what" people are using to find stuff online i.e. "what keywords" but "why" and "how"
Want an example? There are some 12,100 people each month searching for info on how to "make life easier" and a subset - 3,600 hundred are searching for info on "products" that make life easier!
Now does this sound like a group of "motivated" buyers or what? Not only that, but there is VERY little competition for this phrase.
Now you might be saying to yourself "how in the world did she find that niche". The answer is I sat back and spent some time thinking about the "why" and "how" of how people are using keywords and thinking out the box (some info here http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/52527-how-find-niche.html ). Especially given the times we are in...
Jump up and down if you have to, get that right brain/creative side working. You might be saying if it's so hot,why is she giving it up and the answer is there are thousands of niches like that. Somebody right now can own that niche and if they are having difficulty paying their mortgage can help themselves out right there - so go get it.
Once more, I bet there's money in the niche of buyers in google.co.uk, .de, .ca and a dozen other localized markets...
I hope this is info somebody finds useful. Enjoy your weekend.....