How you chose to apply these things to your business is entirely up to you.

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One thing that has happened is that I have a tremendous amount of content on the web.  Most of it highly niche targeted and the rewards are awesome.  Sometimes though I just do not have the energy to keep delivering new pieces of content on a daily basis and it carries over for weeks and month on end!!

One thing that happens though when you get to the level of traffic I am getting in my “niches” is the income still comes in regularly like clock work so the need to provide more content becomes secondary to other activities online, like networking.

Both activities provide for an opportunities to generate income and to expand your portfolio.  However it is the content that has been published that opens up these networking opportunities or even shuts doors at times.

So if you ever feel like giving up remember this.  Provide value added content on a regular basis without the money being the primary objective and it will flow.  Just be open to networking opportunities and become a giver too!!

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Affiliate Marketing, Selling Cars, Branding - Personal and Business and Reaching out to families of children with a cleft lip and palate.

I do have one page that has caused me some mild amusement today. I have a Squidoo lens that I list used Nissan Inventory on and it ranks well for a competitive car dealers name. Some unintentional optimization. Search for Golden Isles Nissan in the G and you will know what I mean.

The General Manager for Golden Isles Nissan did take the time to complain about it to my current employer but it fell on deft ears. 

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I am very good at what I do SEO wise. I really do not have the patience for teaching other people how to do things unless they have some basic aptitude that is why I like doing my own thing so well. This coupled with the fact that I am working as an Internet Sales Manager now it does not give me time to help a hapless newbie.  Nor does it give me the patience to try to explain things to people who are so convinced they are right that no amount of explanation will help.  I just wont let them get the last word in though which seems to be a character flaw of mine.

Oh well just don’t tell me how proud of your keywords you are and be a jack ass about it you are subject to lose them!!

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The money that drives the automotive industry is from consumer who purchase cars from dealers.  Bottom line all other aspects of the automotive niche rely on this transaction to drive all other aspects of the industry.  If it were not for the main distribution channel of automobiles no other aspect of the auto industry could survive, however there are many sub niches inside of this large niche.  From parts and service to transportation and fuel.

There are so many different sub niches that can be targeted inside of the auto industry it is unfathomable to attempt to cover them all.  One thing I have noticed is that many of the online niche marketers in this segment are trying to cover every aspect of it and at the same time not doing really one segment of it well.  That is taking advantage of the long tail but at what expense to the driving force of the industry?

Most of the automotive niche marketing is done at the expense of the dealers who fuel that economy.  Amazing and profitable, but really why try to take away from your bread and butter?

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Having reentered the “workforce” as an Internet Sales Manger for Carl Gregory in Brunswick I have started creating multiple levels of content geared to generate leads to sell cars using  “bum marketing” techniques.  The nice thing about using this method it allows me to not only build a search engine presense for the products we sell at the dealership it also allows me to have a personal branding message to the prospects that find this content.  Selling high ticket items such as cars does require a level of personal interaction that is not experienced in a true online marketing environment.

Each piece of content generated has a call to action for people to contact me directly to purchase their next vehicle.   While some of the content generated may directly attempt to brand the store it always contains a way for people to get in contact with me while at the same time building search engine reputation management for myself and the dealership in the process.  Also this content is transportable if I find myself in another situation or wish to turn some of the content into affiliate marketing pieces at a later time or use strictly for SEO purposes.

Some of the tools I am using to build my brand also have a level of monetization tied into them that add to the many streams of online income that I dearly love.   This is taking online marketing to a level that many ignore and others do not want you to know about.  The process is easy for me and in the near future I will be releasing a subscriber based manual on how to use these techniques to build your brand.

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I have been empowered to make all decisions in relationship to the the dealerships online marketing efforts and discovered some amazing things. Large niches such as the car business really do not get online marketing at all. From the manufactures to the dealers to the vendors that service them it is comical.

I started looking at some Automotive Microsite Vendors to fill the void in lead volume and came to the conclusion that the automobile industry is about 10 years behind the times as far as acceptable standards and am now looking at developing a niche inside of the niche. Teaching car dealers to take responsibility for their own, online destiny. This one will be fun to watch and may let me afford $3000 a month health premiums.

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The Kindle or products of its nature will eventually replace printed Media a we know it. It looks to be an interesting product. But with anything I do not follow the crowd. I more of the bread and butter market. The type of buyer that waits for things to be established before buying it. I guess I am that way because I bought a Digital Audio Tape device that was introduced about the same times CD’s were. It never gained any traction. Since then I have always waited for products to become established before buying them. Just like the old Beta Max buyers are now.

Next Holiday Season I will have the site infrastructure in place to take advantage of the Christmas Feeding Frenzy on that next hot gotta have it product. Which leads me to Affiliate Programs.

One of the new hot you better get in now affiliate programs appears to be Pay Per Play. Basd on the past that Voice2Page has had in running an affiliate program this one is a big pass in my book. I have been fairly outspoken about this one and have had people resort to all kinds of techniques to try to silence or discredit proven claims. It is laughable but this one will go down in the books like AGLOCO, a program that may never pay off. Many already know that Voice2Page never paid their affiliates in their original program.

The sad thing is they are claiming that this is an Adsense replacement and having people buy into this. The real problem is this type of advertising platform has already been tried and failed and NetAudioAds seems to think they can make it viable. Being a natural skeptic and very analytical, I have asked for documentation of their claims and met with strong resistance. That alone should make it a pass for anyone doing due diligence. Ask them to document their claims and do not settle for smoke and mirror answers of Non Disclosure Agreements.

Ok enough ranting for now. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and is looking forwards to a prosperous New Year.

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Relying solely on user generated content platforms as your primary marketing vehicle is akin to remodeling a kitchen in a rented home. If you do not have a place to carry your primary message and using these platforms to drive traffic to your properties you are making a critical error in your content driven marketing efforts.

Blogging in it’s self is not the end all either. Blogging should be used to brand yourself or to deliver your product message as a CMS. I happen to use blogs for niche sites ranging from Identity Theft to Automotive affiliate marketing but they are not my primary message. My first effort in personal branding as resource in internet marketing has met a resounding response because of that blogs I have been picked up by a major affiliate marketing media outlet to publish a story in hard print and online. I have also been recently interviewed by Nancy Dunham for an article on Web 2.0 for auto dealers to be published by AutoExec by NADA based on Social Networking.

I am now completely rethinking my efforts for the next phase of my internet marketing career. I am fortunate that my sites that I have on web today do provide a very nice income for my family and require little maintenance. A post here a post there, but they do not have a personal branding message nor do they help my visitors identify with me. Building niche sites is fun and profitable but those efforts will never provide the stability or income that can be built through branding and selling content.

I see so many errors in the Make Money Niche in their blogging efforts it is laudable. With every post being a presell for the next greatest product or must do program and those akin to search engine spam, not providing the reader with any valuable information. While those types of blogs can and do make people money, or they would not do them, they still should not the “home base blog” for those individuals to attract a following of readers or a sphere of influence.

Because of my current paradigm shift I will be reworking this blog in the near future to be a more valuable resource to Internet Marketers in and out of the Make Money Niche. Even though SEO is my strongest asset it is now time to teach others in the techniques I use and not be so tight lipped about niches I am prospering in.

My new mantra is provide value first and let the money flow as a resource.

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I have personally lost thousands in the autosurf debacle because I just followed the heard like a sheeple. Now with the new launch of the Pay Per Play affiliate program it reinforces the fact that people need to perform due diligence. There are almost two hundred people who have lost money and time with voice2page in their prior affiliate debacle and it looks like the companies intention is to continue to deceive people by trying to finally launch NetAudioAds.

Through the process of the last few days watching all of the activity with this new launch and due to the fact that I have lost money with voice2page and am owed substantial commissions from them I have decided to start a new site to help others in their due diligence in all areas of Internet Marketing.

The new site is Internet Marketing Scam Alert and I will be featuring new products and affiliate programs that hit the IM world as they become available. I will also seek out other to help with this undertaking. If you wish to contribute to the project please contact me by leaving a comment here or through www.imscamalert.com

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