I got wordpress working again, and now I officially have a NMOC style site. I am in the process of submitting articles, which is the next step in the system.

I do want to clarify that although I have been breaking this project up over several days, I can honestly say that following the Niche Marketing On Crack system to build your niche site would really only take a few hours, depending on how much niche research you had to do.

I am breaking it up intentionally, and the first time can take a bit longer. But as long as the results are there, this is a fairly simple system for niche marketing.

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Thanks,

Kevin

I’m a day or so behind on my NMOC project, and for some reason WP doesn’t want to cooperate with me. I changed the template to a simpler one that fits better with Andrew’s criteria, but for some reason I am having trouble posting. I can’t add in hyperlinks, and I can’t delete a duplicate post that I made by mistkake.

I’m not having any trouble with my other blogs, so I’m wondering if it is the new version of WP (I haven’t upgraded my old blogs)

At any rate, I’ll try again later…..but not much to report for now.

I picked up this software the other day. Basically it (semi)automates social bookmarking, saving you a ton of time. It has some cool features, and I thought it was pretty easy to use.

As long as social bookmarking in general works for me, this should be a big help. I’ll keep you posted. If I decide it’s worth it, I’ll even add a link to this post

 So my goal for todays portion of the case study was to get my niche site built and online according to the specs laid out by Andrew Hansen in Niche Marketing On Crack.

I started around two and a half hours ago, and as of right now I have the site done, but without any content. His system involves a WP blog and a series of plugins. So in two and a half hours I downloaded WP, uploaded it to my server, found and downloaded the plugins, searched for themes, uploaded the themes and plugins, and added adsense code and an affiliate link.

The longest portion of this was looking for themes that fit his system, and that I liked. I had to make some allowances….I have a right sidebar, and Andrew prefers left. Also,  editing the template to add the adsense code and link was a pain. I suspect that the Wordpress code has changed in the year or so since Andrew wrote the book, which made it a little tougher.

Still, I think I could do it faster, and two and a half  hours isn’t bad considering I had to go back and refer to the ebook constanly.

Between today and tomorow I will be moving onto the next step, adding content and starting to promote.

So a few days ago, I decided I wanted to do a niche marketing case study, and that instead of my usual niche routine I would follow Andrew Hansen’s Niche Marketing On Crack. Read more »

There are some products and services that the beginning internet marketer is going to want to have. There’s no way around it……Luke wouldn’t have taken on Vader without his lightsaber, ya know what I mean? Read more »

The niche site I am currently working on has gotten to a point where I have to let it go a little and see what happens. I still need to do some promotion, but my infrastructure is all in place. To keep me from checking my stats every 5 minutes, I figured I’d start an affiliate marketing case study. Read more »

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

So, this is my new blog.  It’s gonna be about making money online.

It’s gonna be cool.

Offline, I’m a chef. I like my job, a lot, but it doesn’t always pay very well for the hours I have to put in. So I started researching internet marketing, and to date I’ve made a little bit of money from some niche sites I’ve built.

See, I said it would be cool.

So this blog is going to be a record and roadmap of me getting serious about online marketing. I’m gonna cover all sorts of cool stuff like affiliate marketing, list building, website building, and product creation. Maybe even some case studies.

What this blog WON’T be is a pitchfest. I will be talking about stuff that I use that works, and stuff that I tried but didn’t work. All of it will be from my personal experience.

I can’t promise that I have anything to teach, but you are sure to learn from watching me learn.

Hope you enjoy the ride. I will.