Blog9 - Wealthy Associates Blog, Etc.

In the 8th blog I mentioned that I came across a forum where they are starting a new campaign from scratch. I joined the forum and today they are voting on what product(s) they want build a campaign around. They were 29 suggestions with suggestions mostly for home owner products. One of the stand outs was "Pets - pet health, pet tips, pet care, etc". This is the one I voted for and I believe is leading in the count. We are to know the outcome on Monday.

I am now on week 2 of my training with WealthyAffiliates. Here is the list of what you are to learn during this period:

Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing
What are Affiliate Networks, and how can you leverage them?
The different "types" of Internet marketing
Choosing your direction
How to become an expert, not a generalist
Choosing an industry and product to sell online
Begin understanding consumers
Setting up a Pay-Per-Click advertising account
Squidoo.com

It says in the intro to week 2, that this is the week where some of the big decisions will have to be made. I expect that is why "Choosing your direction" is highlighted.

I was reviewing Ivana's document http://affiliate-niche-stores.com and she commented about a video site on wordpress blogs http://www.internetmarketingcourse.com . I discovered that this site also had a lot of how to videos where Tim Gross leads you step by step through what process you are attempting to do. Optaining a new domain for instance. You might want to take a peak at it.

8th Blog - ChuckyTrader.com and Wealthy Affiliates

I have not been comfortable with my landing page (1st page) on ChuckyTrader.com for some time so today I decided to do something about it. The content has been changed to include more pictures and each picture now contains a link to its referenced page. I use Thrive Learning as the web site host and they have been creating a new builder. (Must say that it is much better than the old one.) Of course of with anything new you have to learn how to use it, and, they still have some glitches that you have to work around but I am getting there. They do have a nice feature for lining items up however and that is a table where you can add pictures and the text below it with all of the general formatting tools. I also added supplies for contractors and magazines.

Today while reviewing my homework in Wealthy Affiliates, in the General Marketing forum, I came across a group of users that are starting a campaign from scratch so I joined them. (A campaign is where you are selling a product on the internet.) They are at the stage of trying to select their niche and what product to sell. One of the users is leading out in this endeavor and its appears to me to be a good way to learn. After reading some of the posts, I really feel like a novice. Half the time I don't know what they are talking about. Oh well, that is why I am doing this... To learn. More on this later.

Yesterday I mentioned about the Stock & Online Trading niche. I am still thinking about that one. To persue it will probably required a new website dedictated to that. May put this idea on hold for a bit.

One of my associates (Pat) has been using Craiglists to drive users to his website by offering give-a-ways. He has been getting a lot of hits in doing this and may have come something that could be profitable. He has included a link back to chucky.com for the Free Web Site but at this time the reponse has been low.

7th Blog - Stock & Online Trading

In my last post I mentioned that Wealthy Affiliates likes you to post on their forum. This morning when I signed in they reminded me that I needed to select a niche that I would concentrate my sales around. I discovered that one of the niches was "Stock & Online Trading" so I thought why not, this is what I have been doing for last 5 years.

Here is a little background. In 2004 I spent almost a year taking classes from Invest Tools, and became a Master Options traders. In 2005 I switched over to products from Global Tec Solutions just because I liked their charts better. (Invest Tools uses technical charts and Global Tec uses pressure charts.) I had done OK as a trader until this last year where I couldn't accept the fact that we were in a bear market (I am a positive person by nature) and got burned along with a lot of other investors. I have traded most aspects of the market; stocks, options, option spreads, commodities, and forex at one time or another. I am currently actively trading forex on paper and plan to go back live in the new future. As for the other markets, I am not currently trading them. I noticed in reading some of their forum posts there were numerous comments on how to produce income from the links back to trading houses. I plan to peruse this.

If it seems that I am jumping around a little in my endeavors to make money, you would be correct. I have discovered in my readings that this is very common but you will eventually settle on your niche. That is one of the aspects that Wealthy Affiliates helps you with.

Don't forget to visit http://chuckytrade.com. We have the best sellers and new releases from Amazon.com. If you know of contractors needing supplies, have them visit my site under Contractors.