Bum Marketing -- Article Marketing Tutorial

I wanted to share this tutorial by Travis Sago with you.
I really do enjoy his videos.

One Week Marketing Review

I first 'mentioned' One Week Marketing back in December. Basically, this program is a 'how-to' on bum marketing. This means writing articles, blogs, Squidoo lenses, and promoting other people's products for little or no money out of pocket.

The 'One Week Marketing' program was written by PotPieGirl, also known as Jennifer Ledbetter. Not your typical guru in that, once you buy One Week Marketing (for what I consider a very low cost of $47), she doesn't 'hit' you up to buy anything extra.

I can't tell you how many programs, including the 'freebies', hook you up with their 'opt-ins' and literally FLOOD your email inbox with new offers, joint ventures and pushing the products of all of their 'guru' friends. Most of these programs charge you 'such and such' for their program and then, low and behold, you find out you need additional products that cost even more money, or you have to sign up for a program in which you will incur a monthly fee. Often you don't even find this out until after you've parted with your hard earned money.

What I like most about One Week Marketing ... once you own the course, you have all you need to know to begin making money online immediately. You have no additional products to buy. But wait! There are a few costs that you will want to consider. Web hosting and buying is a domain name…it isn't required, and I've run across a number of free sites that have hit page 1 of Google in their niche, so it really is up to you which way you want to go.

One Week Marketing takes your work week and breaks it down into days. Each day has an action plan with a given task for each day.

Once you've completed day 7, you will have created a targeted campaign that will be up on the internet and generate money for you 24/7.

After the first week, you move on to the second week and start the process over again. PotPieGirl's techniques are straight-forward, easy to understand, and easily duplicated from one niche to the next.

I think this is one of the easiest to learn and most honest programs currently available and I am confident that once you see this program you will will not only love it but, see the potential for making money straight away. If you are looking for something simple, free website traffic, a step-by-step and day-by-day plan, you have found it. If you want to pay one time only and not incur monthly fees, this is the best program I have found.

I really like PotPieGirl's concept behind One Week Marketing, the one time only cost of the program. It is perfect for the beginner just starting out because of the low cost and the easy to follow step by step plan.

If you still aren't 'sold' that One Week Marketing is for you, go ahead and get the first 18 pages free to see if it’s something you want to know more about.
The course contains 5 PDF’s and one notepad file.

* One Week Marketing Guide Book #1 - Days 1 - 7 explanation
* A Conversation With Nick - Nick was her guinea pig. He made 3 sales in his first week.
* One Week Action Plan
* One Week Marketing Mind Maps
* One Week Marketing Checklists

For a sampling of her work, go and check out Pot Pie Girl's Squidoo Lensmaster Page
and you'll learn a bit more about her. If you are looking for a way to make money online, it really is hard to go wrong with this course.

Step 5 -- Rinse and repeat

Step 5...Repeat steps 1 through 4! --- With a brand new Niche!

Go back to Step 1....do all of the 'searches' again...find a niche that appeals to you and has high interest/ low competition and repeat steps 1 through 4 all OVER again.

Keep doing this and you'll find....some are winners...some not so much..........but, overall..the odds are in your favor that you will begin to earn an income...online.

Step 1- Find A Hungry Market - Part 2

So...let's suppose that by now, you've got your (1) niche. (Mine is 'waterwheel play table')
You've done all of your searches.

You've got, at least, 10 good keywords...at least half of them, long tailed keywords (three or four words in length.)
I'm using: waterwheel play table, 2 waterwheel play table, step 2 waterwheel play table, sand and water table, naturally playful clubhouse climber, step 2 playhouses, step 2 sandbox, step 2 naturally playful climber, step 2 playhouse, home playhouse step 2, step 2 naturally playful playhouse, step 2 naturally playful sandbox, step 2 welcome home playhouse (Each different play item will have an affiliate link, a separate short article and blog post...for highest optimization.)

You've found two or three affiliates so that you can make some money. (I had to stick with Amazon for now...which is fine...as I can use all of the 'sub-niches' to monetize each of those, this will make up for only having one affiliate program linked to the niche.)

So...now it's time to write a few articles.
Here's a fairly easy way to write your own articles...

Type your niche (mine-'waterwheel play table') + articles into Google. (niche+articles).
Copy and paste the article(s) you find into your wordpad.

Rewrite every sentence of the article into your own words. -- Remember that if you copy content word for word, your articles will not get to the front pages of Google as they will be seen as 'duplicate content'.
As you rewrite each sentence, be sure to delete the original sentence, so that all you'll need to do when you're finished is to copy and paste.

Do NOT put any affiliate links into your articles, then you won't have to worry about which directories accept them and which ones do not. Instead, include a link to your blog in the author's resource/ bio box.
For Go Articles and Associated Content you can put text link, to your blog, within the article if you can work it in.
Best to leave them out of Ezine Article submissions.

GoArticles will publish your article immediately, Associated Content and Ezine Articles must approve them first.

If you really do not like to write articles, you can either Use the articles in GoArticles, Ezine, etc...which you must include the author's name and bio box...including links to their sites.
(Since I don't want to re-direct any traffic....I don't use this method.)

You can outsource your articles, which will cost you a small fee...but you will have all rights to these articles, as well as the author title.

I'll cover article writing and marketing more in Step 2.

Step 1 - Find a 'Hungry' Market

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post..."5 Step Bum Marketing"...and I decided to expand on each of those steps..in 5 separate posts..hoping it might be a little more helpful to you.

Step 1 ....Find your 'hungry' market and then...write lots and lots of articles for that 'hungry' market.
---So..where do you find that 'hungry' market???
*Find out what people are looking for. Search eBay pulse, Top searches for day, week, month and year, Amazon hot picks, etc.
---Then, find product. You can check clickbank, affiliate sites (like Pepperjam) and Amazon associates. (You need to be able to monetize your efforts.)
(NEW)---use Adsense!

Here are the top five 'hungry' markets in each of my searches.

I. Ebay Pulse

1.	cursor
2.	ipod touch
3.	ipod
4.	iphone
5.	xbox 360

II. Yahoo Top Search

1		-	Scarlett Johansson (1)	+597	614	1	Missing Plane	Breakout!
2		2	New Moon (11)	+105	431	2	10 Worst Hurricanes In History	Breakout!
3		6	MTV Awards (2)	+104	287	3	2010 Ford Taurus	10261%
4		35	Eminem (23)	+149	224	4	Lance Stephenson	8403%
5		-	Air France (1)	+181	188	5	Toy Story 3 Trailer	6122%

III. Amazon Bestsellers
1. Bailout Riches
2. Kindle
3. Waterwheel Play Table
4. Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred
5. The Sims 3


IV. Google Trends

1. candace cameron bure

2. pseudocyesis

3. cake farts

4. whitehouse.msnbc.com

5. selachophobia

V. Niche A Day - Subscribe to Niche A Day. It's FREE and they will send you (1) niche everyday, via email. Check it out!

Okay....now here we have -- 25 DIFFERENT possibilities....just doing a couple of quick searches. (Time spent....10 minutes.) These are the 'hungry' markets....the TOP searches.

NOW....time to see which (1) possibility would work best for a specific niche ... for our bum marketing.

First....do a couple of searches. (For examples' sake, we will go with....the 'Waterwheel Play Table'..)
The first place I search is the Google Keyword Tool ... I find that it has an average monthly search volume of 12,100 for the keywords...'waterwheel play table' and 1600 monthly searches for 'Step 2 waterwheel play table' and 1600 searches for '2 waterwheel play table'. (You'll want to use all of those 'long tailed keywords' in your blog and your articles.)

Now I go back to Google and type in "waterwheel play table"...in quotes...there's 79,700 sites covering 'waterwheel play table'...not optimal, but there's a chance to get an article or two on the first page with the right keywords.


There's a new FEATURE now in Google to help you find 'just the right keywords'...it's called...'wonder wheel'.

To get to the wonder wheel click on the 'show options' .... I have it circled in this screen shot example...it will bring you to a second page...on the left side...about midway down the second page you will find 'wonder wheel' in the STANDARD VIEW section. Click on the 'wonder wheel'.

In this example there are several keywords that might work as 'sub-niches' for your 'waterwheel play table' niche such as,
"little tikes"...within this 'sub-niche' there are...'little tikes log cabin'..'little tikes playground'....'little tikes jungle climber'.
"naturally playful sandbox"... for which there are ... 'naturally playful playhouse'...'naturally playful lookout treehouse'...'naturally playful sand and water'.

See how this one 'top five search' produces at least a dozen different ways to 'monetize' on this specific niche!

Now...it's time to find some affiliate programs that carry the 'waterwheel'...'little tikes'...and 'naturally playful'....








CLICKBANK

AMAZON


I'll let you work these first steps....and I'll continue with the rest of Step 1 in the next post.

5 Step Bum Marketing

5 step Bum Marketing....

Step 1 ....Find your 'hungry' market and then...write lots and lots of articles for that 'hungry' market.
---So..where do you find that 'hungry' market???
*Find out what people are looking for. Search eBay pulse, Top searches for day, week, month and year, Amazon hot picks, etc.
---Then, find product. You can check clickbank, affiliate sites (like Pepperjam) and Amazon associates. (You need to be able to monetize your efforts.)

Step 2....Write some more articles in niches you are already having some success in. (Okay...unless you have lots and lots of FREE time, you may need to consider finding someone else to write these (and the other) articles for you.

Step 3...Put up a little website or blogsite. (You want to be able to link your articles to one of your own sites.)

Step 4...Start building a list. (See this for more information.)

Step 5...Repeat steps 1 through 4!


I subscribe to Travis Sagos' Bum Marketing emails, have downloaded much of his material and watched all of his videos...and these steps are not mine...they are his. I follow these steps...now I share them with you.

Niche Hunting

Here is a video I found on 'Niche Hunting'. (The video volume was a little low on my laptop...just an F.Y.I., so you can adjust your volume accordingly.)
This is part of the Thirty Day Challenge program, of which I am not yet familiar with, but have provided a link for anyone who wants further investigation.

A Niche Experiment

I want to let you in on a niche experiment

I have going.

It's actually one of several, following the bum (affiliate) marketing

method.

To begin with...I set up a Squidoo Lens

that is about the advantages of becoming Energy Independent.

From the Squidoo Lens I have a link

to my

Earth 4 Energy Review blog

and my

Home and Garden Blog

which have my affiliate links to the

Earth 4 Energy product.

I also have a couple of other affiliate links

to Amazon based products...that might produce a sale or two

for me.

After building the Squidoo Lens

and writing the couple of blogs...

I wrote a couple of articles for Ezine Articles

linking those

back to my Squidoo lens

and my Home and Garden blog.

Finally,

I put up a small website

that I need to finish...but once finished

will link all of the other

sites together.

Now..I haven't had a whole lot

of traffic yet...though I haven't visited any forums...

etc.

I am going to take this experiment one step

further and see if

I can get some traffic moving.

If I succeed...I'll let you in on that secret.

Bum Marketing Method

I have a lot of respect for Travis Sago...the 'author' of the Bum Marketing Method and I've given him a couple of 'plugs' here on my blog.
My main reason for starting this blog...was to do an experiment on whether or not it was possible to make consistent money, on the internet, for little or no investment.

I've run across several programs that 'fit my guidelines' and I keep coming back to 'Bum Marketing'

He'll give you step by step instructions and 7 videos....all for FREE.

There's nothing in it for me...just trying to keep to my 'quest' of providing the best programs for little or no investment...and what's better than...FREE??

Bum Marketing -- Free and Easy -- Video

Make Money At Home! Bum Marketing!

Bum marketing in a nutshell!

Write an article, publish it through Ezine Articles, GoArticles, Associated Content or one of a number of other article publishers.
Provide a link to your blog or website, within the article or the author's resource box and do it all over again!

Sounds easy enough, but there really is more to it than that. For one thing...you need to be sure the article, blog/website is something that you can monetize.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I 'broke down' and joined Wealthy Affiliates. I wasn't 'figuring it out' on my own. Now that it has become 'clearer'...I'm having to go back and rework a lot of my Squidoo Lenses, in order to maximize those.

But, until I've figured it all out...I'm going to be concentrating on my Associated Content Articles
because that is the one site that actually pays for some of the articles upfront, and the rest of the articles for the visits they receive.
They give you 'Calls for Content'...in case you're stuck about what to write about. You can include links to money sites (like Etsy and others) within the articles, provided it is pertinent to the article itself.

My 'plan of action' is to:
1. Select my niche
2. Write an article for Associated Content (embedding the money site link into the article)
3. Write a separate article for Ezine Articles, with a link to either a blog, website or Squidoo Lens.
4. Build a lens, blog, or site around this niche...occasionally a combination of all of these.
5. Link the articles to the site.
6. Go out and 'promote' the heck out of the site in forums, social networks, etc.
7. Write some new and different articles, for Associated Content, Ezine Articles, and Go Articles..on the same niche.
8. Include the links.
9. Do some more promoting.

I may do this four or five times, per niche. The key being...to get myself out there...as somewhat of an 'expert' or 'authority' on this niche.

By this time, I should be seeing income from the niche itself, rather than just from the visits I receive through Associated Content.

Article Writing and Rewriting

By the same 'author' as the last video I posted, this video goes further in depth at the fine points of article writing. She does a good job showing what you need to do with your article writing..I do recommend viewing this video if you are interested in doing some 'bum marketing'.

Who Is Travis Sago?

So..who is Travis Sago? He's the man behind 'The Bum Marketing Method' and here is a little video by him on, 'How To Choose A Profitable Niche.'

Have you ever heard of 'Bum Blogging'?

Have you ever heard of 'bum blogging'? Well, I hadn't, so I did a little research into it and, here's what I found.

In a nutshell, from my understanding...(to date, I haven't really found the information I was hoping to find on it)..'bum blogging' is blogging as an affiliate marketing site, more or less.

First, you find a product that you want to promote...via Clickbank , LinkShare or from one of a number of Affliliate programs that you might be interested in.

Second, you research the product and write a good article about it.

Third, you set up a blog, about that product.

Fourth, you publish the well written article in one of the article submission sites, with a link back to the blog you've just set up.

Fifth, you hop back over to your blog and lay it out so that it is, well written, with good content, personality and a 'call to action'. In short, you tell people

1. what your product is...

2. how it can "improve your life" (lose weight, improve health of pet, make money...whatever this 'improvement' is)..

3. give a 'testimonial' or product review...

4. issue a 'call to action'...tell them to 'get it now'....(you want them to order this product, so the call to action needs to have a little 'urgency' to it.)

5. Make sure you have inserted your affiliate link for this product in your wording at the beginning, somewhere within the product description, and in the closing of your blog post.

6. Insert an image, if possible, of a screenshot of the product you are promoting.

The 'bum blogging' part comes in when you begin to repeat these actions for various products you are promoting. Your odds are greatly improved when you have 10-50-100 of these little 'mini-sites' than to put all of your hope on just 1 'bum blog'.

I'm in the process of setting up several of these...and I'll write more about how this is going..with links...in the near future!

Bum Marketing

Part 2 of my Experiment is

"Bum Marketing"

Here is a brief overview via

You Tube.