Today the concept of the Idaho Internet Marketing Meet-up was “Just Do IT!” A great topic of discussion, especially because I have kinda been wondering just how to dip my toes into the waters of experimenting, and it was more or less motivational so it was a nice little boost. As an entrepreneur my sole duty is to come up with new lucrative business ideas. That has got to be, by far, the best part about my job & yet a part that I am not all to familiar with as of yet.

The example that was used was venturing into penny stocks. Now as the instructor suggested, it is probably not a wise idea to pursue this niche for various reasons. One of the biggest being that they are absolutely hit and miss. You can be a “BIG STAR” one minute and in the slums naked the next.

We were shown various websites that carry a ton of pre-designed templates that were targeted for affiliates. The advice was to go this route because its quick and easy. The next step (following researching a good niche of coarse) is to start an add campaign. When it comes to affiliates, AdSense if a great way to go because it is instant and you will quickly know if your niche is cut out or not. If you are not quite into affiliates (like me then I would suggest SEO as your marketing strategy, especially for eCommerce. If you choose less competitive niches in your research process, then it is cheap to rank with SEO. Plus people trust the “natural” links more than the “sponsored” links anyways. If yu set yourself a financial goal of maybe $50 to $100 to spend on marketing, then you wont break the bank when you fail. Notice I said WHEN not IF because it is bound to happen eventually and theres really no way around it, so don’t get discouraged.

There are a lot of tools out there that will assist us in starting these experimental sites that you may not know about, I know I found multiple sites/tools today at the meet-up. The conclusion I came to this week is, All it takes is a little determination and a lot of JUST DO IT!

Just a small turn out, but still a great meeting!

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