Local online marketing seems to be the next biggest thing. I’ve heard Frank Kern talk about it. I’ve heard Jeff Walker talk about it. Now I’ve heard The Challenge Guys talk about it.

So what about it I hear you ask .

There is a massive opportunity right now that you could make tap into as an Online Business Consultant for small businesses. I know it first hand. I work for one and am currently building a website and doing some web development for one. Small Business does not mean low profit earning or a lower income ; it just means less than 100 employees. Don’t be fooled by the definition. It is not a measure of their income.

It seems Google is very interested in the local small to medium businesses.

Quoting Ed Dale

With 29.6 million small businesses in the US alone, providing over half
of the non farm private GDP, they are importantto the search engines.
The search engines want them online!Just as much as users are looking
for more local search results.

Get this! Currently (again using US figures) 46% of them don'thave a
website, that's 13.6 million small businesses needing your help!

<strong>On Wednesday December 1st, at 8pm EDST</strong>, Caro McCourtie will be doing a

<strong>Webinar</strong> where she will be:

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a) Updating you on the <strong>recent Google Places</strong> changes &amp; whatthat means for
you - think <strong>OPPORTUNITY!
</strong>b) Taking you through <strong>a strategy</strong>, that is the <strong>cornerstone</strong>strategy to <strong>
offer local small business clients</strong>.
c) Shows you how <strong>easy it is to get your first client</strong> &amp;the <strong>many ways to
do this</strong> (forget cold calling!).
d) Demonstrates how to <strong>create a Value Package</strong> for a client, and <strong>get your
first $1,500 paycheck - recurring</strong>!
d) Highlights additional strategies to <strong>identify &amp; obtainLocal Business
Clients</strong>. So you find a way that bestsuits you.
e) Show's you how you can make this happen for yourself!

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lynda.com could possibly be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Rarely does anything get me this excited. No hype people.

For one there are courses similar to the ones on this site I’ve bought for $197 . The $197 courses were rubbish compared to this. This site is a treasure chest of information. In fact its so good you’d probably increase your income by thousands should you apply it. Make no mistake . This is not a sales pitch.

Before you start thinking this as one of those sleazy internet marketing websites (okay okay sheesh lol ) , I would like to assure you it isn’t. The best part is that you could gain access to this treasure chest for $25.

A few of the Courses that you will be getting –

Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter

Google Analytics Essential Training

SEO: Search Engine Optimization Getting Started

Search Engine Optimization (2006)

Flash CS4 Professional: Building Search Engine Friendly Sites

Blogging  : Self-Hosting a WordPress Site

Ecommerce : Product Photography for E-Commerce

and much much more

Imagine every popular web technology explained and you get an idea of what’s available on lynda.com

Click on the Image Below to go there.

<strong>Few others who use lynda.com</strong>

Now I do mean you can end up making a minimum of $100 a day. But it isn’t going to

happen in 5 seconds. You’re going to like this method if you didn’t know about it already.

Have fun Guys !

Bum marketing or article marketing allows you to earn money online from the commissions of affiliate products, sales of your own products , adsense ads, ebay , amazon links and so on.

Here’s the big picture.
-You write keyword optimized articles in under-exposed niches.
-Submit them to popular article websites
-let the search engines pick them up
-earn affiliate commissions
-get opt in signups or make money from selling your own products.

This is one of those rare occasions where you have a method you can use without putting in any money . It doesn’t take money to make money. Without over complicating this process or wasting time, lets dive in.

1). Finding an untapped , low competition niche .
Before you start putting in all that effort , you need to find a relatively untapped market. It is really quite simple.

What are you passionate about ?
What do you know a lot about ?

It is better to write about something you know something about. Atleast vaguely. Find a niche where people have a problem or a need. If its something you’re involved with like a hobby. What bothers you ? . If you have a problem related to your hobby, others could have that same problem.

See if there is a product to solve the problem. Another good way to find such pains people have is to use yahoo answers, ebay pulse, google and yahoo groups.

2).Find an affiliate program with a complimentary product that pays out a decent commission
The product you choose to promote should have atleast a $50 commission to make it worth your time. The sales page conversion rate should be atleast 2% which is realistic to expect. Avoid anything lower.
You need to find something decent. If the product you’re promoting is complete rubbish , it probably won’t work. 

Some places to find good products to promote -

-Clickbank
-Commision junction
-Linkshare
-PayDotCom
-LifeTimeCommissions

Try focusing on wants not on needs too much. I’ve pretty much come across marketers suggesting both, but people are more likely to be more excited about buying that xbox game than microsoft windows.

Don’t worry too much about the price. Something priced $997 will be perceived as much superior than a $47 product based on price alone. Of course the $ 47 product will get more views. But in the end you’re putting in the same amount of effort. So don’t let price stop you from promoting a higher priced product.

3).You then research and find low competition keywords that you can write articles about.

Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2

Type in your problem or keyword.

The keywords that turn up , choose only those that have a minimum of 500 to 10,000 results. If there are about a million results, theres probably too much competition for you to get on google’s page one. The article directories you will be submitting to usually rank high in the searches, so this shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

so how do you check how many results they get in google ?

Its easy just select your preferred words and type them in google in ” ” .

for example. – i looked up article marketing and liked a keyword  = interesting marketing articles

I go to google.com and type “interesting marketing articles”. It shows me about 22,900 results . Now that is something I can compete in.

4).Next write a series of articles based on the low competition keywords or keyword phrase(s).
From the previous process you would want to choose 10 – 20 keywords. Each keyword in google should have 500 – 10,000 results when put in quotes in google . This should give you a good idea what to write about.

You can either write the articles yourself from scratch completely. Or you could google or ebay the topic you’ve chosen and buy a cheap book or any book. Or maybe even free information. I suggest buying something of decent quality. Once you have done that break them into 10 or more articles. Plagiarism is not advised. You should atleast rearrange the content. Its worth the effort.

I mean read them and rewrite them in your own words.

If You can afford it , you can also outsource your article writing. On sites like www.elance.com , www.rentacoder.com you can find people who are willing to do this for you for a few dollars.5).Then you submit your article to popular article directories so they get picked up by Google and the other major search engines.

Your articles need to achieve a minimum of 250 views per article. If you submit your article to a minimum of 10 sites, and expect about 25 article views per site , we should be good. This is an extremely realistic number.

You’ll want to submit each article to a minimum of 10 article sites. The more popular the site, the more likely they are going to be picked up .
So for that reason here are some of the most used article directories.

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.buzzle.com
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articlesfactory.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.promotiondata.com
http://www.businessknowhow.com

6). And finally, earn affiliate commissions, get opt-in signups and make money from selling your own products or from ad clicks.
There isn’t anything to explain in this. It just means reap the benefits.
If you follow the simple steps you are practically guaranteed to make money online. All it takes is a little time.

I know you can do it.

Surfing the web has been classified as unproductive for a long time inspite of the fact that it speeds up things a lot. That classification has annoyed the living daylights out of me. I refuse to call reading Entrepreneur.com or googling for Information a waste of time. That being said the link that follows is a great way to surf more efficiently.

http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-achieve-your-goals/

Enjoy !

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