Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson - Latest Comments in Steal This Niche - Intro

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Mark Mason — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:17:32 -0000

@The Dude -- Agree that book is not converting very well at the moment.

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David Newlin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:19:16 -0000

Hi Michelle,

I was watching your 'Steal this Niche' series and you actually inspired me to purchase Market Samurai.
You got me all revved up with your blog.
I visit back here every day & am missing you....haven't seen a post for a while. Maybe you're on Twitter....that's new to me at the moment (unchartered territotory) but i'm going to dare it & see what the Twitter phenomena is all about.
Hope everything's okay, David (U.K.)

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The Dude — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:44 -0000

Grrreeeaaattt!

I'm already in this niche. I wondered where all the Hubpages etc. suddenly came from, thanks Michelle! ;)

Should say though, the ebook isn't the best converting product in the world.

Michelle, I'll let you off because you're good looking.

The Dude out.

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Michelle MacPhearson — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:56:11 -0000

@Aaron - ROFL, hysterical - but probably great for that CB merchant!

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Aaron Dwyer — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:57:42 -0000

Thank you Michelle, fantastic video.

Classic to see the Market Samurai results now only 11 days after you posted this video. The chicken coop niche will never be the same again. :)

Aaron

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stephen jamieson — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:03:03 -0000

thanks Michelle, superb easy to follow vids, keep up the good work

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Alex Newell — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:43:45 -0000

Great video for product selection, niche research and seo. And the best "how to" on market samurai I've seen.

Well worth watching a few more times

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Michael Belba — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:20:20 -0000

Gee, thanks Michelle, now my girlfriend who is 5' 2" seems to think she wants to be 5' 5".... great video, but grow 3 inches, c'mon - I told my girlfriend I would be happy to hang her from a tree with cement blocks on her feet but she didn't want to be 5' 5" that badly...:) Nonetheless - great video as always, I love The Noble Samurai - next time, since my girlfriend likes to watch you stuff - do me a favor, pick a hot steamy book...lol

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Groobers — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:53:59 -0000

Great video I will be watching this over and over when I am using Market Samuari thanks for sharing it. I may just have to Steal That Niche as I was only talking with my sister-in-law the other day about her wanting to keep chickens and she was telling me about the Eglu for keeping them in :)

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Designer Glasses — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:04:32 -0000

Hi Michelle

I loved this video. You've persuaded me to join Crowd Mountain. See you on the other side!

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David Quimby — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:26:37 -0000

Very educational. Learned more in your short videos than I have from most of my other mentors.
Thank you!

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Nile Cruises — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:09:36 -0000

Thanks for the great video Michelle. I've looked at Market Samurai before but I'm going to look at using it again after watching your video.

Thanks

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Tunes For Kids — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:03:23 -0000

I wouldn't have thought I'd find chicken coops so interesting, but boy do I have egg on my face. It was a cool way to see how you find a niche for niche marketing.

I'm not going to poach this niche, but I love the techniques and tools.

Thanks Michelle,
Tony

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Dean Power — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:45:40 -0000

Don't tell @Ed_Dale but I think this is the best explanation of Market Samurai I've seen. Thanks Michelle, great video.

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Matthew Hunt — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:31:51 -0000

Market Samurai is the best! Michelle great how to vid for finding niches - these same principals apply to regular SEO too!

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Mark Mason — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:01:28 -0000

@turnkey --

I don't want to speak for Michelle -- but look at it this way. The product pays $20 per sale and has a decent gravity, so it is not a total dud. Let's use some very conservative numbers and check it out...

Say the sales page converts at 2% and you have a CTR on your affiliate site of 10%. That means that you will make 2 sales for every thousand visitors get.

Now lets say you target 3 or 4 keywords for your site with a total search volume combined of 10,000/month. If you get to #1 for each KW, maybe you can get 30% CRT (research says 40%). Michelle already showed this was possible.

That's 3000 visitors per/month converting for 6 sales per month. Not bad, but just a start.

Once you have that going, you are way past break-even if you paid $10 for a domain and $100 for some content.

Then you can offer some free chicken coup ecourse and add a opt-in to get conversions up because you will mention the eBook in every mailer.

And, if you add analytics, you can see which SERP KWs are converting and start PPC for those.

And, did you know that there are chicken coops for sale on eBay for $800? I personally had no idea -- but it is true. So you can sell those too through EPN against a more keywords getting more traffic.

So, sure. You cannot retire on a 3 page site about chicken coops. But my site is already up and testing in the time that it took us to debate this.

If it fails, I'll sell it on sitepoint and get most (or all) of my money back.

Best of all, it's a hell of a lot of fun, and Michelle is cool.

Just a thought.

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Michelle MacPhearson — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:25:00 -0000

@Mark - Yes, you can configure it for your local #'s.

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Rallie Rallis — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:13:49 -0000

Great video, with helpful information. I've bookmarked you site. Many thanks

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Rochelle — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:55:30 -0000

Excellent video, as usual!

Congrats on the new office. I work from home and JUST (as in not ten minutes ago) finished setting up my office at home with new desk and bookshelf furniture. For now, I'm happy to just park the kids in front of the Wii and let them burn off energy playing Wii Tennis while they stay out of my hair ; )

Completely off topic, but I like the new look to the site. Within the last week I also purchased the 'Thesis' theme. I love the clean look of it. The only thing I wish it did was make it easy to change colors (perhaps that will be coming in an update).

Rochelle

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turnkeywebsite — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:22:07 -0000

I like the software but just simply going into clickbank doesn't seen to be enough research to judge if it will be a profitable niche.

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new free funny song parody son — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:13:51 -0000

I must say after viewing your video things look a lot easier to do then i once thought. I am very excited about continuing my crowd mountain membership. Honestly, I would be happy just discovering 5 or 6 niches like this and setting them up. Luckily I live by myself so I don't have a family to worry about at the moment. So if i could get 4 of these started and earning money every other day. I would be set. Then I could have more free time to go after bigger markets.

This Market Samurai software is great and I look forward to using it at it's full potential!

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Wendy Little-Yohe — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:59:42 -0000

You know what, Michelle - I just answered my own question. You're promoting a CB product, NOT creating an Adsense site! Go it! :)

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Wendy Little-Yohe — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:57:31 -0000

Hi Michelle!

One thing that wasn't mentioned in the video is average CPC for the keywords you chose. Turns out all the keywords in this niche have extremely low CPC -

How to build a chicken coop = 0.25
Chicken house plans = 0.37

...and these keywords are the highest CPC - most are at 0.05.

My question is - would it be profitable to enter this niche given the relatively low search volumes?

Thanks for this video series - very well done!

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Mark Vozzo — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:26:11 -0000

Great Video Michelle. I look forward to see your new office taking shape.

Question regarding Market Samurai, can I configure it for local search results? I'm based in Australia, can I configure it to run the analysis on Google.com.au for things such as "inTitle" queries, and the Search Volume etc....

Thanks,
Mark

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Michelle MacPhearson — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:26:51 -0000

@Wendy - I was talking about on salespages, simply because people can click off the video and end up on the video site rather then proceeding though one's salespage, and because yes, it can look unprofessional. If one were selling a YouTube or even social media product, it might be appropriate.