Month End Recap- Just My Thoughts and Progress!

As you can see, last month was pretty slow on the POSTING end of things. Becoming a new Internet Marketer, Affiliate Marketer, Blogger, Website Builder, is not an easy thing. Even though I would love to see this blog flourish and grow into a PR7 Blog site one day, I would be happy with a PR 2 level rating right now. At least it would be a step in the right direction. So much of my day is spent just trying to educate myself with all the keys to Internet Marketing, and then trying to implement what I am learning. After a while you start feeling like I your spinning around in circles making no progress because of the inability to execute all of tasks that need to be completed as quickly as you would like. It dawned on me today that the end of May came and I only contributed two posts during the month. So I said to myself I need to be more consistent with my writing. While trying to decide on a topic is not easy at times, I found myself surfing some of the major on-line money blogs (e.g www.JohnCow.com) to see if I could get any ideas for this fetus of a blog that really has not even been born yet. It is my intent to continue on this quest of education and task completion until I have achieved satisfactory results. So that being said; I decided to just share last months progress. Going forward I will dedicate the first post of the month to recap my progress or any milestones obtained. At least I will not have to search for a worthy topic to write about once out of the month.

Most of May 2008 has been spent learning to use Squidoo as a marketing tool. As you can see I dedicated a post this month, solely on optimizing a Squidoo lens, and I am glad to say that I accomplished what I set out to do. Squidoo lenses are is going to play a major role with my marketing efforts. They are fairly easy to put together and they are FREE. I don’t need to purchase any domain names nor hosting accounts, and I can take advantage of the SEO favor granted to Squidoo from the search engines to generate high ranking pages. So far this month I generated two lenses that got indexed on the first page of Googles organic listings.

The key going into the month of June, is going to be based on searching for Niches. To become successful at this game we all need Niches to promote, and lots of them. Find out what people want, and find out where they are looking for those products. In layman terms what keyword tags are being used. If you can achieve a certain degree of success at finding HOT Niches and then create a powerful platform to offer the product in demand to your Niche, then we have done the hardest work.

Remember we have a choice of various arena’s that we can set up our promotion platforms. Your own website or blog is nice to have but you can definitely exploit other powerful platforms such as Squidoo, Ebay and PayPerClick advertising. I tend to prefer the FREE methods available to me especially if I am experimenting with something new. Paid advertising can get pretty expensive especially if you do not now if your sales are going to convert. Therefore, you can use article marketing to help promote your Niche and take full advantage of highly targeted FREE traffic that would be generated from your platform. Now we can just gauge and measure how to close the deal. So I’m going to be hitting the trenches, and I will be sure to share what I find with you. Until my next writing! Happy Marketing .

Oscar Graham