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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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