About The Book

How to Grow Your Small Business Rapidly Online
Jim Green

This book provides in-depth advice on how to take your small business online, including internet marketing strategies and conducting market research online.

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Book Contents »

 

1. Preface

2. Using The Internet For The Purpose For Which It Was Devised

3. Why Even The Most Unlikely Small Enterprises Can Prosper Online

4. Why The Internet Is Tailor-Made For Small Business

5. How To Convert Your Local Business Into A Global Concern

6. The Power Of Recognition As An Expert In Your Niche

7. How To Become Famous Online As A Small Business Owner

8. Creating Your Plan Of Action For The Internet

9. Why Marketing Online Is Fast, Easy And Stress-Free

10. Why Niche Marketing Works Best For Small Business

11. Why Your Domain Name Must Reflect Your Enterprise

12. Building A Website Tailored To Your Precise Needs

13. Creating Content-Rich Pages To Lure The ‘spiders’

14. How To Write Sales Copy That Sizzles

15. Why Power Keywords Are Central To Successful Promotion

16. How To Avoid Search Engine Positioning Mistakes

17. Snaring The Spiders To Generate Top Ten Rankings On Demand

18. Creating Site Maps To Feed The Spiders

19. Flooding Your Site With Low And No-Cost Traffic

20. Converting Your Expertise Into Digital Produce

21. Using The Amazing Authority Of Zero Cost Articles To Lure Visitors

22. The Power Of Linking To Other Websites

23. The Changing Face Of Email Marketing

24. Why You Must Create Your Own Newsletter

25. The Influence Of List Building In Attracting Prospects

26. Create Your Own Blog And Send Business Messages To The World

27. What Rss Is And What It Can Do For You

28. Let Google Adsense Add To Your Online Income

29. Converting Prospects Into Customers

30. How To Set Up An Online Payment System

31. Giving Stuff Away For Free To Attract Visitors

32. Test Marketing Your Online Activities

33. How To Analyse Virtual Footfall To Improve Your Website

34. Servicing Your Customers Online

35. What Online Marketing Cannot Do For You

36. Channeling Your Online Fame Into Offline Activity

37. Getting It All Together To Grow Your Small Business Rapidly

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Why Niche Marketing Works Best For Small Business

 



Testing The Potential For Your Niche Market

You will begin by using the search engines to gauge the popularity of keywords and key phrases related to your particular niche. The number of sites displayed for, say, the keyword ‘swimwear’ will provide a notional indication of the overall niche market size. But that is not enough. Now you need to establish how many times per month ‘swimwear’ is being searched for by users. When you’ve found that out, you can also determine the keyword’s popularity – i.e. the number of times the term is searched for as opposed to sites available for scrutiny.

  • Are there more sites than users searching for the keyword?
  • If there are, you’ve just found an oversaturated niche, so drop it.
  • Are there more users than sites available for searching?
  • Then you’ve located an under-worked niche, so go for it.

Free Software That Supplies The Answers

Here is an exceptional tool that will provide the answers in relation to every niche keyword you can come up with. You may use it free of charge.

Good Keywords- Measures everything from keyword popularity to a website’s popularity and beyond. Download the software at this site: www.goodkeywords.com .

You’ve located the perfect keyword(s) for your perfect niche, but now you want to find out more about your market.

Here’s what to do. Go to www.google.com and undertake a search for ‘niche articles’ (replacing the word ‘niche’ with the root word relating to your niche). You will be presented with hundreds (if not thousands) of highly informative free articles.

How You Can Tell If You’ve Struck It Niche

Developing The Sales Process For Your Niche Marketing

The next step in the formula is arguably the most challenging. The difficulty lies not in the principle, but in its application; knowing what works in online promotion and what does not. So vital is this challenge that the remainder of the book is devoted to its exposition:

  • Finding a great website name;
  • Registering your website address as your trading name;
  • Developing a compelling sales message;
  • Obtaining the required e-commerce services;
  • Developing systems for the fulfilment of your orders;
  • Developing sound customer service strategies;
  • Capturing visitor names and email addresses;
  • Remaining in contact with both customers and website visitors;
  • Designing, optimising, uploading your website;
  • Developing strategies to attract online buyers ... search enginesnewslettersclassified adsbanner adsaffiliate resellingarticle submissionslinking strategiesweb page contentonline publicityoffline publicity.

Secrets To Unlocking Core Niche Factors

You will find them all in Niche Factors: a special report that will cost me $27 (approx. £15) but you can have it for free by sending a blank email to jimgreen@writing-for-profit.com with ‘NICHE FACTORS’ in the subject box.

Now let’s move on to the vital matter of publicising your produce, because if you are not prepared to learn how to promote effectively, you might as well stop reading right now ...