Why You Should Become a Bum Marketer
By Justin Michie | May 5, 2007
The Bum Marketing Method is quickly becoming a popular internet marketing method and is hotter that ever before. The reason why it’s such a sensation is that it’s not only profitable, but it’s also dead simple. In fact, it’s one of the easiest and cheapest ways for anyone to earn a decent income online.
In general, Bum Marketing involves:
• Identifying a highly profitable market niche;
• Finding an affiliate program or a product to promote;
• Discovering low-competition keywords and key phrases to be included in the articles;
• Writing articles promoting the selected product;
• Submitting the articles to popular websites and/or posting them to a blog;
• And earning income.
The benefits that Bum Marketing offers and the ease with which they can be gained are enough to make anybody want to hop on the bandwagon. Here are five great reasons why you should join the roster of the ever-increasing number of successful Bum Marketers.
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What the Heck is Bum Marketing?
By Justin Michie | April 25, 2007
One of the most often posed questions on the internet, is whether or not you can make a decent income from internet marketing. With Bum Marketing many people have already proved the answer is yes! And a great thing is that is happens to be one of the rare occasions where you can earn a decent income without having a website, or even en email list.
How is it possible to actually be making money online without a website to advertise products or services? It is actually very simple – become affiliated with other marketer’s websites.
It works like this: you write articles on a certain untargeted niche topic that has a good marketing potential and submit them to popular article directories.
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How to Find a Niche
By Justin Michie | April 21, 2007
Bum Marketing is a step by step process and one of the key components is keyword research and niche selection. If you want to become a successful Bum Marketer, you absolutely NEED to know how to find low competition niches. However, simply identifying a relatively low competition niche which actually has a biting market, is not always easy.
If you’re just starting out, one of the easiest ways to start is to begin by brainstorming. What things are you most interested in, and/or have some knowledge of (your hobbies, etc). Write down everything you can think of that you have some knowledge or interest in. Focus on quantity rather than quality when brainstorming. You can edit your list later.
There’s no point trying to break into a topic you know nothing about, as you’ll end up spending too much time on research which is why you should start with something you know. Besides, when your niche is something you know about, it becomes much easier to find the perfect product to promote, and your passion will show through in your writing.
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Why You Should Outsource Your Articles
By Justin Michie | April 17, 2007
Building a business online requires a lot of hard work. Sometimes, in order to get everything done that you’ll need to do to get ahead, you will need to outsource certain tasks. This becomes critical to being able to turn a profit in a reasonable time frame (i.e., before you run out of seed money). Article writing, in particular Bum Marketing is one of those things where it winds up being more profitable to pay someone else to do them then to spend the time and effort on it yourself. This allows more time for meaningful work such as keyword research, product generation and marketing.
So, if you can afford to do it, outsourcing can save you a lot of hassle and time. This way you can spend your valuable time on keyword research and finding products to promote and are not spending your days writing dozens of articles. Using freelance sites like http://www.Elance.com, http://www.RentACoder.com, http://www.Guru.com or visiting http://forums.digitalpoint.com (no login required) can give you access to plenty of great writers for anywhere from $5-$15 per articles. Usually if you order in bulk, you can get 10-15 good articles for about $100.
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Make Your Bum Marketing Product Selection a Success
By Justin Michie | April 14, 2007
Before you can start writing articles or researching keywords, the second step of Bum Marketing is ensuring that there is a good product to promote which accurately fits your chosen niche. If you have a great niche, find awesome keyword and write compelling articles, that’s all fine and dandy, but you aren’t going to make money if there’s not a great product to promote.
Therefore, if you neglect to take the time necessary to accurately research and choose the right product, all your other Bum Marketing efforts may go to waste. You could send hundreds of people to the sales page of an affiliate’s product, but if it doesn’t convert visitors into buyers, or is priced too expensively, or doesn’t jive with your niche, then you won’t be making much in the way of commission.
One of the first things to look for when looking for a product is to find something that will satisfy people’s desires or wants rather than their needs. Desire’s appeal to emotions whereas needs don’t. Also, many more people shop for fun rather than necessity (again desires vs. needs). Therefore, it might be a better idea to promote video games rather than office software.
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Other Ways To Make Money With Bum Marketing
By Justin Michie | April 13, 2007
After you’ve found your niches, selected an affiliate program, researched your keywords and written and submitted your articles – don’t stop there. You can still benefit from your writing and earn even more money. Here are some ways to do just that with Bum Marketing:
Start a Blog
A great way to get some extra eyes on your articles is to start a blog for each niche you promote and post them there. Blogs are easy, free and simple to setup when using a template and a free blogging service like http://www.wordpress.com or http://www.blogger.com. Just post your articles with as many affiliate links as you like and start earning.
Ideally you’d like to post an article every 2 or 3 days, and setup it so the blog automatically pings the major blog directories. Also, don’t forget to submit your blog to Google and Yahoo for future inclusion and add it to http://www.technorati.com. You can even add AdSense or sell ad space for additional income potential.
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The Benefits of Bum Marketing
By Justin Michie | April 12, 2007
The simple benefit of the great promise of success that Bum Marketing offers, is perhaps compelling enough for almost anyone with a drive to succeed to get started – however there’s more to it than that.
The basic premise behind the Bum Marketing Method includes pinpointing a potentially hot and unexplored market niche, finding low-competition keywords/phrases to write articles around and looking for an affiliate program with a complimentary product to promote that will earn you a decent commission. Then you simply need to submit your articles on well-known article websites, post them to a blog, classified ad etc. and earn affiliate commissions, AdSense revenue, complete sales of your own products and so on.
As you can see, the process is really quite straightforward, and because of the ease of the application it’s simple to make money with Bum Marketing, which is perhaps the best known and most coveted benefit of the Bum Marketing Method.
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Bum Marketing Resources
By Justin Michie | April 11, 2007
If you don’t have a ton of Bum Marketing experience, it is important that you build a strong base that you can start working from. A strong base includes putting together a good list of Bum Marketing resources that will save you time, money and effort. I’ve outlined here some of the most useful Bum Marketing resources that I’ve come across and use on a daily or weekly basis:
If you’re brand new at this, you can get a general outline of what Bum Marketing is by reading the articles “What is Bum Marketing” and “What is the Bum Marketing Method.”
Once you are up to speed, you’ll need to find a relatively untapped niche to market to.
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How To Create An Author Resource Box That Sells
By Justin Michie | April 10, 2007
However important the content of your article may be, it is never as vital to the success of your marketing method as the title and the resource or author bio box. Whereas you do not have to worry as much about the content of your article as long as it contains decent, error-free information, you certainly need to put some work into your author bio box.
The whole goal of writing articles to get people to click on the link(s) contained in your bio box, then take some kind of action that makes you money. This could be the purchase of a product, an opt-in signup or even the click of an AdSense ad. If the resource box isn’t compelling enough to get them to click, then your articles will earn you didily squat.
In the content of the article you are offering something (information, an opportunity, entertainment); it is in the resource box and the author bio box that give you the opportunity to take something in return.
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Some Tips On How To Make Money With Bum Marketing
By Justin Michie | April 9, 2007
If you are serious about making money from Bum Marketing you’re going to need to batten down the hatched and work hard at it. Aside from becoming proficient in getting your articles on the first page of the major search engines, you need to focus your work on the most lucrative marketing techniques and products.
If you truly want to make money with Bum Marketing, you should first think about what people want instead of what they need. Capitalizing on people’s emotions and passion instead of their every-day needs (a game vs. a software tool), will most often help you make more money with the Bum Marketing in less time.
Another way to make sure that you will actually make money with Bum Marketing is to be sure that you could be convinced to buy the product from the sales page of the product you are marketing in your articles. Otherwise, you may be subjecting yourself to pointless work with little or nothing to show for it.
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