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Back issues here Issue 228 | July 14th 2002

Letter from Phil

a blissful week in rural France, but now it's a hot summer Sunday
afternoon in London...walking by The Thames at Putney Bridge where we used to live years ago...icecreams in St James Park...art
exhibitions...lunch in Covent Garden...a beer in the seedy pub in
East London where Jack The Ripper stalked his prey...the whole
tourist thing.

Tomorrow we're off to Paris on the Eurostar through the Channel
Tunnel, where I'll be shooting photos for a new travel site I'm putting together. Travel is one of the big online success stories, so it's about time I attacked that niche through travel affiliate programs.

Attacking a niche is perhaps a good way of explaining the best way to profit on the net. You target a niche market that you're interested in, and you give it everything you've got. Blast it with all your talents...set up a string of 5-8 page mini affiliate sites on - for instance - travel, add similar but different content to them and link them all together. Experiment until you find an affiliate program that does well on the sites. Keep tweaking the sites until they're showing a healthy profit and leave them running on something close to autopilot then move on to the next niche market that captures your interest.

Of course, all this takes work, and plenty of it. But nothing ever really comes easy.

What you need to do is put the work in now to reap the mid and long term benefits.

Michael Campbell, who wrote Nothing But Net, and more recently, Clickin' it Rich, works this way. He pulls in over $200,000 a year from affiliate programs and explains how he does it in Clickin' it Rich. If you haven't read it you need to. If you want to increase your affiliate earnings it should be on your must read list.

Well worth the small cost.

Of course, I also go into even more detail about building an empire of mini sites in my book Mini Site Profits.

I'm keeping this issue short because we're staying with relatives
and I don't want to appear rude by sitting at my computer for half a day (plus I'm using their phone and in the UK you pay for local calls by the minute)....but before I finish I just want to touch on something that concerns me.The long term future of email marketing.

The new spam filters installed by ISP's, which are blocking more and more commercial emails, are only the beginning of a downward slope. In five years time you might not be able to read ezines like this one because they just won't reach you.

So don't put all your eggs in one basket by only concentrating on building email lists. You should also work on doing well in the search engines and directories.

Long term success - much of it on autopilot which leaves you free to enjoy the "internet lifestyle" is one reason why it's important to build content rich web sites. They needn't be big sites - as you know I favor mini sites of around 5-8 pages that stay tightly focused on one segment of a subject - but I really do believe that email marketing will become less important as time goes by.

Start building an empire of sites now to protect yourself long term.

If you don't know how to build sites, and don't want to learn, you can use the brilliant mini site builder in Desk Top Money Machine
or, for more automation - especially when it comes to helping you rank high in the search engines, invest in a Site Build It! site. I've bought two and I'm very happy with them.

I use both DTMM and SBI, and I'm going to keep building sites and increasing my web presence. The costs these days are so low that one affiliate sale often pays for your site for the whole year. In fact in Mini Site Profits I show you how to get a domain name and have it hosted for under $10 a year. Can't beat that can you?

Thinking long term you will also need to develop skills in developing audio and video sites/products.

Start learning about this now to invest in your long term web success.

Sorry, got to go. Have a great week.

phil

PS. Here's an audio site well worth checking out. It's a guided
audio tour of some of the brightest minds in the online marketing world. Very good indeed. Do yourself a big favor and listen carefully to everything.

 

 

 


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