Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Anger Squid Lens


I started this day with a plan of attack. It would be to gain some ground on my competitors in the IM Remarkarble Challenge. The niche that I chose from the list that was provided to us by Howie Schwartz was "anger management."
I pulled out my old files and went to work. The first thing I did was find an affiliate product to promote within this market. There are over 5,190,000 competiing pages for the attention of the internet searcher looking for help in this market. So I went to amazon.com/gp.bestsellers.

I chose a couple of books that are in the top 5 on that page. I came to this conclusion based upon price, customer satisfaction and time on market.

I next checked keyword viability by checking for paid advertisement or ppc ads and found that there is a demand and growing need for information in this niche. I then created a squidoo lens with my keywords strategically placed within the text and published a lens. Here is the link to that page http://www.squidoo.com/angermanagementresources




For this Challenge we each have to use at least one of the niches Howie set us in his “36 Money Pulling Niches Report”. What I will do is use the "Anger Management" niche and exploit, expose and experiment with various methods that I have learned and tweaked. I have a clue about what I am doing here, but I would enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to win this challenge.

My first plan of action is to do keyword research to find out what people are buying and what are the keywords they are using to search for the many topics that are within anger management. I will drill that down into a sub-niche that is profitable and do some web 2.0 methodical marketing and monetize it.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Who Is Jimmy Williams

I’m a husband, father and successful online entrepreneur all rolled into one. I’m also one of the most down to earth pastors you will ever meet.

I grew up in a city that had border problems so I had to ride the cheese for 15 miles to get to a school surrounded by nothing instead of going to the school that I could stand on my front porch and hit with an egg. So I am used to going through mess to get the reward.

My wife and I met and married within 5 months and have been happily married for 9 years.

My wife, Melodie, is a absolute genius in the kitchen and can throw down. She won me over rather quickly after being single for a while I was losing weight and she fattened me up a bit.

We have 5 children together , I have a son from a previous marriage and we united and 2 beautiful girls were born. The two boys are 15 and 14 and the girls are 10,7 and 5. What laughter we have in this house daily.

In 1992 I joined my first network marketing company that sold little electronic gadgets. I had no idea how I was supposed to sell those things and compete with the retail stores that sold similar products. So I did the next logical thing, I quit.

I continued to be pursued by the work for your self bug and it was really playing on my conscious because that is all I wanted to do. This had become like a habit that was eating at me instead of me be able to feed it.

In 1998 after hearing of the prognosticators scaring everyone with the Y2K crap that the whole world was going to shut down, I got my first taste of internet marketing combined with network marketing and I just knew that I would make a million dollars before the end of the world came. Ha ha ha Mr. Nostradamus and them.

After the Y2K became Y2k01 and Y2k02 I felt that we were pretty much not going to have to worry about that and began to get back in the swing of things. I met this guy online that was claiming to have made tons of money and was showing others how to do the same thing. He was a great guy that took me under his wings via email, I had no idea how those things worked back then, his name was Cory. He passed in an accident and my marketing world was shook up.

Cory shared with me some strategies and information that would set me up to earn what ever I wanted to earn because I had knowledge. I purchased the info package and could not wait to open the it when it came. It was a binder with about 1000 pages and tapes and CD's. I knew that I was on my way to setting the world on fire.

I began to apply the info and place things in motion and things were starting to look pretty good for me and my little internet empire. I began to find little niches that were just out there and make a few sales here and there in several niches. Not being one to brag about what I was doing I did not let a lot of people know that I was an "internet marketer".

You see, my family was taught that if a man does not "work" he should not eat. Therefore if I did not have a J-O-B I was not doing anything. Many of my relatives do not understand the fact that it is better to work with your mind than to work with your hands. From a mentality of not being paid for what you know, but to how much can you do it is a hard concept to grasp that it is possible to make money from a screen that looks like a t.v and people play games on it.

But, I continued learning and applying - determined to be successful at Internet Marketing.
You see it’s VITALLY important that, no matter WHAT your product is… YOUR GOAL must be to become a master marketer.

I have personally spent thousands of dollars on marketing training, and am now considered a Small business marketing consultant. But I STILL continually take training… because the internet is constantly changing. So, if you stop learning, you will get left behind, period.