Of recent, I’ve developed more of a “just do it” attitude. I day dream and usually succumb to short-term, quick fix sort of pleasures, but for the greatest rewards in life, I’m going to have to hold off for a bit and exhibit some self-control and discipline.

I’ve appreciated the time off I’ve had from affiliate marketing. Oh and another thing, one of the blogs that I’d set up earlier last year officially hit one year old! I checked my bank account and lo and behold, no cash increase… though I was short about $115 from the automatic GoDaddy hosting renewal.

I considered maybe stopping the hosting or even trying to sell it at SitePoint.com, but then I realise how valuable it actually is… I wrote a hell of a lot of articles and put them onto EzineArticles.com, pointing towards that blog and, like half a year later, it’s still getting a decent 250 hits a month. I mean, nothing special by anyone’s standards, but that’s free traffic that I paid for simply by putting in effort to writing article after article (I was trying to promote Vince DelMonte’s No-Nonsense Muscle Building. Look it up on Clickbank).

I’ve got to think of an extremely hands off way to monetize this traffic, since I’m a busy full-time university student. I can’t help but feel it’s all going to waste as I leave it there.

Anyway, just some more random thoughts about desperate niches.

The problem with most forms of Internet Marketing is that they lack the Marketing. Gurus and whatnot use flashy graphics and stuff to promise them the world to leave them nothing but a lighter wallet. The reason why it’s so hard for noobs to start making real money is because they don’t know enough about the market or marketing in general to start with an easier market that will give them a consistent but perhaps smaller income flow.

The first step is finding the desperate niche. You’ve got to understand why that niche is considered desperate.

The second step is identifying keywords that that desperate niche might type in with the intention of purchasing something. Besides the obvious words like “review” and so forth, most people, including myself, can’t tell a profitable keyword from one that may only be used for informational purposes.

The third step and last step is monetising that keyword by writing an article or advertisement that utilises the keyword so that it shows up in search engines. Of course, if the keyword is geared towards an extremely desperate and starving niche that is not being served, how well the article/ad sounds is negigable, supposedly. I’ve yet to prove this myself though I remain hopeful. =]

If you haven’t checked it out already, check out Travis Sago’s InstaCashKeywords.com. Corny name, but something worth checking out if you’re a fan of his Bum Marketing Method. Basically, what he does is send you a list of pre-researched profitable keywords that desperate consumers will type into search engines with an intention to spend money.

$4.95 for a one-week trial and $97 recurring per month. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve been meaning to. It’s just with uni and stuff I haven’t been able to. There’s not much to lose and you can do a lot in 1 week with material from Travis Sago. Perhaps someone can try it and report back to this blog to tell me how it is?

Well, that’s my ramble for the evening. It’s currently 8:42 pm, the eve of September 11 down under.