Here is a brainlessly simple, but highly effective strategy for AdSense publishers who specialize in travel and tourism. It’s all about LOCATION. Here are just two examples of profitable locations – Lake Tahoe (most ads are for Lake Tahoe rentals and Lake Tahoe cabins) and Aspen (Aspen, Colorado, is famous for its ski resorts). There are tons more, of course.

Travel sites can generate a lot of money … if you do it right. If you have a site about travel in Colorado or California, you’ll do OK, but not nearly as much, if you target specific niches where the money is.

And the money is in expensive resort and popular destinations. Take Colorado. Boulder is a beautiful town, but the real money is in Aspen. Aspen is expensive, it draws tons of skiers and is fairly crowded in the off season, but more importantly there are hundreds Aspen rentals, Aspen lodges, Aspen cabins and Aspen hotels (these are the keywords to go after).

If you go after Aspen, rather than Colorado, and I don’t mean your site can’t mention any other city in the state, you’ll make much more money. But if you don’t know that the Colorado travel money is in “Aspen rentals” and “Aspen lodging”, you’ll be lucky to make one fourth of what you should.

Nobody, including Google, won’t tell you which geographical niches are profitable and which aren’t, but just use your common sense. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Lake Tahoe and Aspen are popular destinations. And you probably know that tourists look for Lake Tahoe rentals or Aspen cabins online, when they plan for their trip. Put two and two together, create content that targets relevant keywords and watch your AdSense profits skyrocket.

Oh, and a word of caution – these niches may be seasonal. Don’t be a fool to expect your Aspen Colorado Ski Resort site to make you much money in May.

Have a great day and make sure to spread the word about NicheGeek.Com

In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** – $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** – $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** – $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** – $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.

Source: NicheGeek.com

Before picking a place you want to write about do some research and see what kind of ads are out there for the location you are picking.  Also make sure that location doesn’t have too much competition.  If there is a ton of competition for that location you are unlikely to make a huge profit because you won’t be getting the traffic you need from search engines.  Traffic from search engines is the best way to go when creating a niche website because its free and you don’t have to constantly work to get it.  Once you have it you will usually keep on getting it unless for some reason more relevant content becomes available on the subject and your rank goes down.  So try and pick a topic that is not seasonal if possible and it something that doesn’t have a ton of competition.  If you pick the right topic you will see some great success!

P.S. – if you don’t succeed with your first niche website don’t give up.  If you do you will never be successful.  Keep at it until you find something that works.  I myself have went through a couple niche websites and am now starting to see some success.  So keep at it everyone and eventually you’ll see the level of success you only dreamed about before!

Here is a brainlessly simple, but highly effective strategy for AdSense publishers who specialize in travel and tourism. It’s all about LOCATION. Here are just two examples of profitable locations – Lake Tahoe (most ads are for Lake Tahoe rentals and Lake Tahoe cabins) and Aspen (Aspen, Colorado, is famous for its ski resorts). There are tons more, of course.

Travel sites can generate a lot of money … if you do it right. If you have a site about travel in Colorado or California, you’ll do OK, but not nearly as much, if you target specific niches where the money is.

And the money is in expensive resort and popular destinations. Take Colorado. Boulder is a beautiful town, but the real money is in Aspen. Aspen is expensive, it draws tons of skiers and is fairly crowded in the off season, but more importantly there are hundreds Aspen rentals, Aspen lodges, Aspen cabins and Aspen hotels (these are the keywords to go after).

If you go after Aspen, rather than Colorado, and I don’t mean your site can’t mention any other city in the state, you’ll make much more money. But if you don’t know that the Colorado travel money is in “Aspen rentals” and “Aspen lodging”, you’ll be lucky to make one fourth of what you should.

Nobody, including Google, won’t tell you which geographical niches are profitable and which aren’t, but just use your common sense. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Lake Tahoe and Aspen are popular destinations. And you probably know that tourists look for Lake Tahoe rentals or Aspen cabins online, when they plan for their trip. Put two and two together, create content that targets relevant keywords and watch your AdSense profits skyrocket.

Oh, and a word of caution – these niches may be seasonal. Don’t be a fool to expect your Aspen Colorado Ski Resort site to make you much money in May.

Have a great day and make sure to spread the word about NicheGeek.Com

In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** – $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** – $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** – $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** – $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.

Source: NicheGeek.com

I’m amazed at how profitable the psychic readings niche is. I’ve got a spammer to thanks for that one, too. One of my site got spammed with online psychic readings offers and it started to display ads that said “Psychic Advice” Or “$10 Psychic Phone Readings” “Tarot Readings” even“ True God Gifted Psychic”. I just love that one, don’t you?

Anyhow, psychic readings are nothing new. You probably seen ads for phone psychic readings on cable stations for years. These psychics (if they are psychics indeed), charge your credit card at a rate of 3 bucks a minute of psychic babble, and it’s a great business indeed, since many women consult psychics regularly or every time they encounter a problem.

Live psychic readings (whether online or by phone) seems to me the best niche to go after. You may even create a free psychic readings site, supported by ads. Another rout to take is to create a site about famous psychics like Sylvia Browne (or Sylvia Brown) and Miss Cleo.

Whatever you chose, may the force be with you. Whatever. Don’t forget to vote for this article in RedDit, Del.Icio.Us and Digg, and make sure you e-mail your fellow AdSenser about this site right now.

Peace.

One last thing – don’t let your wife waste money on psychic readings.

In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** – $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** – $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** – $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** – $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.

Source: NicheGeek.com

For several months now I’ve been mentioning the fact that the main directory of this site has been sitting on the front page of Google for “make money online” (without quotes.) I realize it’s getting a bit repetitive and possibly annoying that I keep throwing that out there…bragging.

To be honest with you I am somewhat proud of that ranking, so obviously I want people to know I hold it. However, that’s not the only reason I keep mentioning it.

If you read my latest report “The Easy SEO Report,” you know that achieving that position was the product of using simple, well-known SEO strategies and not using any kind of top-secret formula.

However, that niche is terribly misunderstood and very few people know that. There are loads of newbies and guru’s alike who constantly compete for that keyword phrase. Guess what, 90% of them are targeting the wrong niche!!

Here’s the Truth

According to Aaron’s SEO Book Keyword Tool, “make money online” (without quotes) gets an estimated 1,275 daily searches.

- Out of 1,275, I’d imagine that at least 400 or so are done by you and I. Yep, those of us who are competing for that phrase. I know I check it quite often and I’d imagine there are many other marketers who do the same!

- Most people are trying to conquer this keyword with the wrong content! This niche is targeted to people who have no idea what Internet marketing is all about. These people want to quite literally “make money online.” If they were looking for info on Internet marketing they would type that instead. So, if your site is targeted to those people it will convert. If your site is about affiliate marketing, blogging, SEO etc. it’s not going to convert because these people don’t know what the hell you’re talking about!

It’s crazy how many sites and blogs I see who are targeting that niche, but offering SEO advice, or PLR content etc. etc. If your site is about SEO, why don’t you target an SEO search phrase? If your site is about PLR why don’t you target a PLR search phrase? I just don’t get it? I guess people are blinded by the hype that everyone creates about this keyword phrase.

The thing is, we (Internet Marketers) for some reason, relate the Internet Marketing niche with the Make Money Online niche. The thousands of people who are doing this are wasting their time. If their site/blog ever gets to the top it will not convert, at all!

It’s Still Worth It

It is worth it, but only if your content is targeted to that niche. Although the main directory of this site does need updated (badly,) and I do need to change the focus a bit, it does convert pretty decent. It’s been bouncing around from the #4 spot to the #9 spot with approximately $30/day in Adsense earnings and a CB sale or two each week.

However, I’ve built a list of a couple thousand from those visitors and NOTHING internet marketing related converts! When I promote a product that shows how to make money doing something I make several sales. If a product requires even a basic knowledge of Internet marketing it doesn’t convert.

So here is a recap and a few points to ponder:

- If you target this niche your site needs to provide BASIC information on how to make money! Very basic!
- The search volume is unnaturally inflated due to marketers competing for the phrase.
- It’s profitable and worth going for if your content is targeted, but it’s not the glorified gold-mine it’s perceived to be!

Source: Ez-OnlineMoney.com/blog

Travelling by air is fraught with uncertainties, from delays to cancellations to lost bags. Savvy travellers can already use Delaycast to assess their chances of having to wait longer than they’d planned, and now another brand-new service helps them notify the people who matter to them once they finally land safely on the ground.

ArrivedOK, a new service from Texas-based Eyeline Communications, lets air travellers automatically alert others that they’ve arrived at their destination. Users of the service, which just entered public beta, begin by scheduling their flight with the destination airport and expected arrival time, along with the phone numbers or emails of the contacts they’d like to be notified once they arrive. They can also compose personalized messages to be sent to different groups of recipients. They turn off their mobile phone during the trip, as generally required; then, when their plane lands and they turn it back on, ArrivedOK tracks their cell phone in the mobile network and instantly sends those tailored ‘Arrived OK’ messages to the designated recipients via SMS, email, Twitter or the user’s blog. (Recipients must subscribe to a GSM/UMTS network for phone notification.) ArriveOK’s technology is even smart enough to discern when a user turns on their phone much earlier than expected—indicating a problem—or when they turn it on in a country other than the one that was planned; in both cases, recipients are not notified, and the user receives an error message instead. The overall result? Not just a simpler and easier process on the traveller’s part, but also a much less expensive one, since ArrivedOK alerts are three to eight times cheaper than calling or texting from abroad, Eyeline says.

ArrivedOK is being beta-tested in 10 countries—Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, South Africa and Spain—through the end of May, and is free during that time. One to try out, partner with, or otherwise get involved in?

Source: CNNMoney.Com
Website: http://www.arrivedok.mobi/

The Internet has become the podium for rants. But Andrew Mason hopes his Web site will spur actions, not just more hot air. ThePoint.com invites people to create or join a campaign on anything, from winter-proofing Chicago with a dome to pressuring Pfizer to cut drug prices in developing countries.

Signing up is free, and site users are not required to follow through on promises to act or contribute money until the campaign has reached what its creator has deemed the “tipping point”—the minimum number of members or funds needed to make a change. In the case of the Chicago Winter Dome, the tipping point is $10 billion. (So far, $233,085 has been pledged.) Mason, 27, dropped out of the master’s program in public policy at the University of Chicago to start the site last October.

He raised $1 million from angel investors and $4.8 million from New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm in Chevy Chase, Md. The site may soon reach a tipping point of its own: Mason plans to start posting ads. “If the campaign is trying to stop late fees at Hollywood Video,” he notes, “it makes a great advertising venue for Blockbuster or Netflix.”

Source: BusinessWeek.Com
Website: http://www.thepoint.com/

Rachel Sterne, 25
New York, N.Y.

An internship at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 2005 convinced Sterne that there was a huge gap in the West’s international news coverage and awareness in the West of what was actually happening on the ground. “I thought there must be a better way for people to share stories, create emotional engagements about the world, as well as break the barriers of censorship and media bias,” she says. Her answer: democratize news publishing.

In 2007, with seed money pulled from savings and family, Sterne launched Ground Report, a Web site that enables anyone to publish news and opinion stories, as well as streaming video reports. Ad revenue and partnership fees cover operations costs and pay its 4,000 global contributors (their fees are based on story traffic; they can earn anywhere from a few cents to $250 per story). A group of 30 volunteer editors help shape about 75 to 100 stories a day, including stories on Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic and exclusive live video of Tibetan protests in Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympics. “We are not trying to replace the mainstream media,” she says, “but complement it with a slightly different perspective.” The company earned $75,000 in revenue last year and Sterne estimates it will bring in $225,000 in 2009.

Source: BusinessWeek.Com
Website: http://www.groundreport.com/

Business opportunity and homebusiness is a niche that I know very well and have had quite a success with. In fact, my most profitable website is exactly on the subject. I love to read about business opportunities and successful homebusinesses.

Here are some homebusiness and business opportunities ideas that I totally love (they are all real).

1. http://www.hungrypod.com Catherine Kean makes $100000 a year uploading CDs to other people’s iPods. She charges $1.75 per CD for the first 50 CDs, and $1.50 for each additional CD. Keane will pick up both the CDs and iPods at her clients’ homes or offices in Manhattan for an extra $15–unless they have more than 100 discs, in which case pickup is free.
2. http://www.procharms.com Here is a lady by the name of Jennifer Gonzales, who stared making Italian charms for basketball and baseball teams from home. It’s was a total success and she now employs half a dozen employees and makes very good living.
3. http://www.mannequinmadness.com This is another interesting business opp story. A woman in San Francisco makes $130000 a year reselling old mannequins. Great idea, isn’t it?

There are plenty of profitable and unusual ones. And this is where the money is.

In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** – $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** – $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** – $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** – $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.

Source: NicheGeek.com

MLM opportunities can be a GREAT source of income.  All you need to do is find the right one.  If you find the right system and you work the business properly you can make millions a year.  It is definately has a lot of hardwork involved but that is part of the fun of running your own business.  You aren’t ever going to get paid to sit at home watching TV so you got to work at it.  So try it out and you will be surprised how successful you can be with MLM opportunities.

Ringtones is the niche I got interested in about two months ago after listening to Shoemoney. I can’t say that ringtones are easy to make money with. I’ve tried a few angles like free ringtones or free ringtones downloads.

I’ve played with ringtones+artist name (like Madona ringtones). But all I got was penny clicks. I finally figured out that the best way to pay with ring tones is either by mobile phone operator + ringtones (ie Cingular Ringtones) or cellphone model + ringtone (like Nokia Ringtones or Samsung Ringtones).

PLUS, this is the only niche I had to do some heavy duty ad filtering, because most ringtone ads that were displayed on my sites were ads for ringtone affiliates and they paid next to nothing.

In short, if you are a newbie, just play with something else. If you are a seasoned AdSense veteran that has a poorly performing music site, you may want to put a ringtone spin on your site.

Cheers.

In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** – $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** – $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** – $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** – $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.

Source: NicheGeek.com

Proposals are becoming increasingly elaborate and expensive, with proposal planners, proposal photographers and others getting into the act of helping men — and it is still overwhelmingly men who do the asking — create an over-the-top presentation.

This goes along with the growing tendency to turn every experience surrounding the marriage ritual into a spectacle, from rehearsal dinners to the ceremony itself.

“Weddings are culturally valorized as incredibly significant events in our lives,” said Cele Otnes, professor of marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-author of “Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding” (University of California Press, 2003). “Upping the ante gives it legitimacy.”

Jenifour Jones, founder of Go Get It Events, said that during her busiest time, she can plan three or four proposals a week.

For one, she staged a fake show, which the bride-to-be assumed was real. The concierge of a hotel was in on it, as was a comedy troupe and 150 actors playing audience members.

When the time came to kiss the frog, the girlfriend was “chosen” to come on stage and, unbeknownst to her, her boyfriend was smuggled backstage. He changed into a frog suit and when she kissed him, he took off the costume and presented the ring, while the audience waved lanterns.

The average cost of her proposals is $5,000 to $15,000, Ms. Jones said, but something like the frog play can run more.

Ms. Jones’s typical client is in his 30s or 40s, and, she said, she has helped same-sex couples, too.

“People are older, they’re waiting longer, they have more disposable income,” Ms. Winikka said.

Richard Heyderman, who hired Ms. Jones to help him, is 41, and getting married for the second time on Valentine’s Day.

He knew that his fiancée, Tara Pokotilow, a teacher, loves the book “Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans. So with Ms. Jones’s help, he rewrote the story as “Tara’s Greatest Adventure.”

“I had someone drop a clue at her door,” said Mr. Heyderman, who is president and chief executive of Multi Dimensional Resources. Then a character dressed as Madeline showed up.

During Ms. Pokotilow’s surprise day out, which included a shopping trip, a spa treatment and serenading with one of her favorite Broadway songs, she was given pages of the book, not knowing exactly what was going on.

The coup de grâce was when she was handed a first edition of “Madeline” with a love note inside “written by me,” Mr. Heyderman said — and taken on a helicopter ride to a sculpture garden in New Jersey, where he proposed.

Mr. Heyderman did not want to reveal how much he paid for the day, though he did confide that some of his friends later told him, “Rich you made our lives impossible, because how do we top that?”

Indeed, Ms. Winikka said one appeal of such proposals is the guy “wants bragging rights with his friends.”

Does the woman like it as much? Elaine Pursey of Berkshire, England, whose husband planned a day that culminated in a private proposal on the Wollman Rink in Central Park in Manhattan, loved it.

“He had been secretly taking skating lessons for months,” she said.

I can’t help being a little cynical about some of this because it seems to be one more effort by the $70 billion dollar wedding industry to get a piece of the pie, or wedding cake, as it were.

But Ms. Otnes said it was not clear which came first — the entrepreneurs or the grooms-to-be — or even if it stems from men or women.

She does see a few factors at play.

“There is an increasing fetishizing of luxury,” she said. In addition, wedding movies like “Runaway Bride,” or the newly released “27 Dresses,” magnify everything.

Proposal photographers are also an option. Terry Gruber, owner of Gruber Photographers in Manhattan, said he has done about 15 such shots and charges $750 for each one. But surreptitiously shooting the moment of asking without the woman knowing is not always the best idea, Mr. Gruber said.

“You don’t want the bride to think its creepy,” he said. It’s better to come up with a pretext, like ‘my mom wants pictures of you and me,’ ” he said. Then, when the photographer is snapping away, the man pops the question.

The marriage proposal is as ritualized as any tribal custom. A paper published last year in the journal Sex Roles found that people — or at least the 2,174 university students in the Midwest whom the researchers surveyed — associated more conventional proposals with stronger relationships.

If the hypothetical proposal adhered to a traditional script — the man asking the woman’s father first; the man asking the woman; the man getting down on one knee and giving a diamond ring — then the students thought that the relationship would be stronger, said Alicia D. Cast, associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University and a co-author of the study.

Nontraditional would be if the woman asked the man, there was no ring, a plain band or an alternative gem like a ruby or sapphire.

There was no statistical difference in answers between men and women.

This research helps demonstrate that participants in a ritual like a proposal want to convey a certain message, creating “in the minds of others that we are a legitimate and serious couple,” Ms. Cast said.

Often those who want elaborate proposals are entering their second marriage, perhaps in the hope that if they start this one right, it will last.

Both Ms. Pursey and her husband had been married before. How did the ice rink proposal compare with her first?

“I can’t remember it,” she said.

Source: Uncommon Business Blog
Website: http://www.gogetit.org/