Jim Cockrum (whom I greatly respect in the world of online business) teamed up with the Selling Queen to add value to this product. I won’t give anymore of the details that I heard about it away – but I see several problems with this product and would recommend only buying it if you have the $100+ it costs to spare.
]]>Even if you have a handle on everything yourself, you could probably expand faster if you had someone to handle your mundane tasks. Here is where outsourcing your work could be a huge advantage for you. Unlike with employees, you can just outsource what you need done – when you need it done.
How do you start outsourcing? The first step is to decide what you want to outsource first. You probably want to start with remedial and time-consuming tasks such as:
Once you get your remedial/mundane tasks covered, it’s time to kick it up a notch. Outsource some of your talent intensive activities you need done such as:
Even if you can handle tasks such as web design – why waste hours and hours when you could be expanding your business with that time? So now that you’ve decided what tasks you want to outsource – how do you find talent? You probably don’t want to run a local ad.. instead you need to find people in other countries who are willing to do your work for a lower hourly or per job rate. Two popular places to find talent are elance.com and odesk.com. You can post jobs to this site and get bids.. also read reviews of the people/companies on there who will be doing your work.
I just took the plunge recently into the outsourcing world – I hired a company to build an affiliate marketing site I’ve been planning on doing for a long time but never had the time to do it… so far so good!
If your interested in learning more about outsourcing check out the ebook Sourcecontrol for more in-depth info about outsourcing, including how to avoid hiring the wrong people and wasting valuable time and money!
]]>One Twitter app that you may or may not know about called SocialOomph.com. It is a pay site for most features but is free for a few cool features also. Free things that you can do with Social Oomph include:
I use Social Oomph to schedule Tweets…. if you are using the Free account you have to schedule each one by hand which can take a while depending on how many you want to do. It still beats logging into Twitter every few hours to tweet though. Keep in mind if you are scheduling Tweets to not simply copy and paste the same thing.. Twitter usually doesn’t allow duplicate tweets but you can get around this by copying and then putting in an extra space or changing a word here or there.
Check out SocialOomph.com for some cool FREE Twitter features!
]]>These are used by athletes and gym bunnies or by people who need to keep an eye on their heart rate.
Why they are an exciting niche item:
Many big-foot’s out there find it very difficult to find shoes that will fit them comfortably from regular retail stores.
Why they are a super niche item:
Another plus-size item with huge success on eBay
It’s a profitable niche because:
Collectibles always make great niches and you can dig really deep to find the best ones. They are also perfect for people who are interested in them – you’ll find it much easier and much more rewarding when you sell something you enjoy. To really niche it up, go for US military insignia from the Vietnam War which is big on eBay.
Why military insignia makes an excellent niche:
Another great collectible item
They are a first-rate niche because:
Niche items really are the way to go for newbie sellers and there are so many out there to keep you interested and best of all, make you money!
]]>I thought this was happening because I have a few thousand Twitter followers and assumed it was my followers checking out my items. However, my wife has only a handful of followers and posts links to her products on Etsy. She is experiencing high hit counts as well with basically no followers. Obviously Google or another search engine is picking up these Tweets (and quickly to!). My advice: start a Twitter account to post your products… don’t even worry about accumulating followers quickly.
]]>Just open and account and start writing about any topic you know about or have an interest in. Pick good keywords and tags and over a couple of months you will begin to accumulate some revenue. The nice thing about eHow is that once you write an article – it can make money for you for several months afterward – a pretty easy way to start developing some passive income! To really make some serious money, you need to write ALOT of articles… people who make good money on eHow typically write at least 1 article a day.
There are various forums and articles on eHow on how to best monetize your articles. I’m still learning but I did realize that it takes about 2 months for your articles to start to produce income. There are a couple of other things you can do in addition to writing articles to increase your exposure.
While you don’t have to be a professional writer to make money on eHow – you do want to write your articles to the best of your ability. If you just write and article as fast as you can to build your volume, you won’t do very well. In fact, your eHow friends will probably dump you if they suspect you are just writing articles for speed instead of content.
I hope this gives you some help with getting started with eHow and I will keep you updated on my progress!