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Learning More About The Spyware Niche
By Franck | January 15, 2009
I just bought a brand new laptop (Dell Inspiron), and I’m busy organizing my files, folders, and getting softwares up and running, plus many offline activities…
What is really funny is that my FIRST concern with my new laptop was to protect it against Internet threats! I mean virus, spywares and other problems. I downloaded Avast antivirus software right away. It already have a spyware protection integrated. I don’t know if it’s enough though.
Ok, let’s start now …
Niche Marketing Case Study (15 Jan 2009)
MODULE 1. Finding a money making niche. —-> We Completed this Step!
Here are all the previous lessons (make sure that you read these before you continue):
1. Introduction the the niche marketing case study
2. How To Find A Profitable Niche
3. Checking The Niche Popularity
4. Choosing my Profitable Niche
Now we are in …
MODULE 2. Preparation
Step 1: Learning More About the Spyware Niche
A. Browsing various spyware websites, blogs and forums
I spent about 3 hours researching about my competition and reading a couple of spyware related forums and other sites to understand this niche a little bit more.
I wanted to know what are the problems that people are facing in this niche.
I found that there are many spyware removal softwares that can damage people’s computer, and I need to make sure that the product I will promote is legitimate… I don’t want to be the cause of people’s problem… I want to help them, and I need to find a good product for them, and earn money as well.
Happily, I found some good products. Some of them are not in clickbank, but it doesn’t matter.
How to find other affiliate websites?
- Go to Google.com
- Type: YourKeyword Comparison, or YourKeyword Reviews
- Visit the sites in the sponsored search (Google Adwords) Ads section. (you also need to visit the sites in the free results, but you will spend more time analysing the sites in the paid advertising ads because they work like mad to improve their ROI, and you will learn a lot from those.)
I found that these affiliate marketers use 4 types of websites:
- Review type
- Scam type
- Bypass type (they don’t send visitors to the merchant site, but they allow them to download DIRECTLY from their OWN site)
- “Regular” content affiliate site
I also found that there are not that many spyware software for mac users.
I also found that many people are like me (anti-viruses,spywares and trojans dummies), and don’t have a clue.
That’s all for today.
Make sure you read this before you start your homeworks:
Read: A blog reader asked me the following question. Since I know that it’s something that many people ask, I thought I would add it here:
Question from Gavin: What a great idea and I will be following through your steps to see how you go – can’t wait.
I see you have picked some pretty competitive niches which have loads of products offering the same thing on clickbank, why those and why not a niche somewhat less comeptitive?
My Answer: Hi Gavin,
From my experience, it always pay MORE to go after competitive niche. I made my first affiliate commission ($250) in the forex market… I was a complete newbie!
And the Forex market IS pretty competitive.
The good thing about these niches is that buyers will buy MANY products… I do not say that non competitive niches are not worth going after, it’s just how I do it. Take an example at the Internet marketing niche (I see that like me, you are in this niche). You can earn thousands of dollars in ONE day… and it’s competitive.
All you need is the RIGHT plan, the REAL information.
Without a plan, people fail even if the niche isn’t competitive.
Fact: Anyone, I say ANYONE can come today and earn thousands of dollars in ANY competitive niche.
But …
You need either one of these two:
1. Be an expert (People will find you one day, but it may take a while, and you need to learn a little bit of marketing or partner with someone)
2. Be a GOOD marketer (even if you don’t have a clue about the niche, you know what you need to do)
Without one of these two qualities it will be difficult in any niche, whether it’s competitive or not.
In this case, number three:
Get a coach to jumpstart the process. It’s how I started.
Fact: If a niche don’t have competition, it’s often for a common reason.
Franck
PS. Your homeworks.
- Catch up on the previous lessons.
- Find what are the problems that people have in your niche, and think about the solution (the product). For this, you will need to use the search engines to find: blogs, forums and websites (affiliates and normal sites)
Stay tuned, I will show you how to register a domain name in my next post
Update: I’ve added all the links to the case study below (links open in a new window):
1. Introduction the the niche marketing case study
2. How To Find A Profitable Niche
3. Checking The Niche Popularity
4. Ckecking Niche Profitablity
5. Choosing My Money Making Niche
6. Learning More About The Spyware Niche
8. Getting Website Content And Backlink Strategy Starts
Topics: clickbank case study | 4 Comments »
January 18th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Hi Franck
Very good answer about competitive niches. You want to fish where the fish are.
Are you going to cover traffic generation shortly ?
Looking Forward
Sandeep
January 18th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Hi Sandeep,
Yes, I am going to show you how to get 100 to 200 visitors per day (that’s minimum 3000 per month) to your site.
Franck
January 19th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Thanks Franck.
Other than PPC, I look forward to see which other ways are possible.
BTW, your info is great !
Sandeep
March 12th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I usually don?t post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful ?