Smart Passive Income Podcast #3: Niche Marketing Tips From ViperChill.com

Pat's guest, Glen Allsop from ViperChill.com, offers a very thorough niche marketing guide for people new to affiliate marketing.  Check it out in full here at Smart Passive Income Podcast #3.

I will be doing a 5-step process to start my own niche blog.

Here's what Glen recommends and how I'm doing it:

1. List 10-15 fears/passions/problems.

Fears: 

Heart disease/health
Poor investing ability
Public/otherwise speaking
Hearing loss
Inability to follow through

Passions: 

Video gaming esp. PS4
Game design
Music
Reading & Writing
Marketing

Problems:

Lack of knowledge about car repair/maintenance
Lack of knowledge about home repair/maintenance
Post-hernia life
Lyme disease
Some college and other debt


2. Assess the shared market.

Using a keyword research account, paid AdWords account, search.twitter.com, and/or Google Trends, I'll assess which of these ideas is on the up and up so I won't waste my time building an affiliate site for anything  PS4 gaming looks good for now and debt is a perennial issue with debt relief applicants aplenty.

3. Find suitable products.

For now it's easy to mention two excellent games I've bought, Watch_Dogs and The Evil Within (which is a lot bolder and graphically creative than Watch_Dogs, so much so that I don't recommend Watch_Dogs until I can review both on my up-and-coming Off Topic page).  The rest will require a little more research, so maybe I can just go with what I know and get a review site going to get some more immediate money in.

4. Set up shop.

I'll be looking for a good review domain with PS4 in it, resorting to i+, my+, or ...hq, with 100k or so searches.  It will be a brandable, relevant name with 5-10 pages max and a focus of bringing people right to Amazon.com, where I am an affiliate, and the above link will help me earn a small but decent percentage of any sale.  My workload for this site will be 1-2 hours daily.

I plan to obtain:

1. Quality links to my site.
2. Articles linking back to my site, primarily InfoBarrel, where I already have an account.
3. 500 directory submissions for $10, assuming low competition for this new project, via Digital Point forums.
4. Blog and forum networking
5. Research pertaining to where top sites get their links: search for the term in Google, find top sites, then go to Yahoo and type "link:" plus a URL, with no spaces between "link:" and the URL, like "link:mysite.com".
6. My own products for sale.

My To-Do Checklist:

• Obtain quality backlinks: No
• Articles linking back: No
• Directory submissions: No
• Blog & Forum Networking: No - but if you have a related blog or forum please let me know at lionelabby@yahoo.com I'll be glad to network with you.
•  Research top links: No
• Create own products: No

It looks like I have some catching up to do since writing my tasks in my podcast 2 summary, so I'm going to take a day to update my completed tasks before posting a podcast 4 wrap-up, and provide a progress report.