Congrats to our newest Affiliate Spotlight winner, Lane Wright from Southern California!!!

Lane has been an Ultimate PLR Article Software affiliate since the beginning of this year. He knew that Micro Niche Finder is vital to successful internet marketing, so when Ultimate PLR Article Collection Software was released Lane became an affiliate right away.

Lane knows very well what it’s like to be a newbie in the internet marketing world – he advises that although newbies will be bombarded with different methods by different people, it’s best to find a few trusted sources and follow their lead.

To learn more about Lane and to read about his perspectives on internet marketing, visit our Facebook Fan Page and look under the “Affiliate Spotlight” box (left hand side of the page, underneath our ‘People Who Like This’ box). Furthermore, you can visit Lane’s Ultimate PLR Article Collection Software website to learn more about Ultimate PLR and how works (and how it may be right for your own endeavors). In addition Lane also suggests checking out WordPress Goldmine as it was instrumental in helping him make money. For a limited time, Lane says you can try out WPG  for only $1.00!!!

Congratulations once again, Lane!

Our mascot, Molly the Magnifying Glass, is taking trips around the world. If you order a Micro Niche Finder USB, you may be lucky and receive one of these in the mail.

 Email jjones2024@gmail.com with a picture of Molly to win a FREE and AWESOME gift (we can’t give it away, but we’ve worked on this for a long time).

No picture = no prize.

A picture = a prize!

There are instructions included in the package, but ultimately any picture that has Molly the Magnifying Glass in it will qualify and win the prize! Thanks

Great news! Tomorrow (August 11^th) we are hosting a FREE webinar to demo the next release of Micro Niche Finder! This new version is created not only from our desire to constantly improve the software, but also from your invaluable feedback. We think you will really enjoy the new release

Among other things, here are a few of the new features that will be covered in this release…

*Sort search results on the “checked” column… It sorts by either checked results at bottom or checked results to top, whichever you prefer.

*Column “headers” on the search results page remain onscreen when you scroll down the page.

*Added a “What is This” feature to help you identify niche keyword phrases that are unknown to you.

* There is now a “Buying Keyword” feature to find keywords that a person looking to buy a particular niche product would use. 

*Selected domains on View Available Domains are also copied to the Windows clipboard when you click the Add Selected to My Domain List button…which makes it easy to retrieve should something go amiss.

*The results grid now remembers the last column and sort order between sessions.

And more… 

The essential details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday August 11th 2010
Time: 7:00 PM EDT
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/mfbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista. For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

Naturally, this webinar is FREE!

If you own or are thinking about purchasing Micro Niche Finder, you will definitely want to be sitting in live on this webinar. It’s the perfect opportunity to learn and get your answers directly from the creators.

Space is limited, so register and reserve your spot right now: http://www.snip2.com/re/mfbl

P.S – If you need a time converter to determine what time this webinar starts in your local time, use http://www.snip2.com/re/timezone

Congratulations to our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner, Joe Wilson from Dunedin, Florida! After using Micro Niche Finder for a long time, Joe became an affiliate a year and a half ago.

Joe has been involved with internet marketing for many years and has run the gamut of projects, from helping Match.com grow into the mega-site it is today to helping small startups flourish. Joe’s personal internet marketing journey began in the mid-90s when he built websites to promote his rock band. During this first foray, Joe “tried everything from selling t-shirts online to building up my own web based email system similar to Hotmail or Yahoo.” A very impressive start, indeed! Over the years, and through each experience, Joe has continued to grow and become more and more successful in business and Micro Niche Finder has proven to be an integral part of his marketing strategy.

Fortunately, Joe has given a very detailed account of what he looks for when he uses Micro Niche Finder to detect hot potential niches. To read Joe’s advice and learn more about his strategy, visit our Facebook Fan Page and looking under the “Affiliate Spotlight” box (left hand side of the page, underneath our ‘People Who Like This’ box). In addition, you can visit Joe’s Internet Marketing website to read his opinions and exchange ideas about internet marketing.

Congratulations once again, Joe!

You probably already know what YouTube is (if not, welcome to the internet!) but you may not know the benefits YouTube videos provide for your internet marketing endeavors. There are plenty of other video services but YouTube is free, intuitive to use, immensely popular, and ranks highly on Google search results.

You don’t need to be a professional to make a quality YouTube video. A short and witty video describing your product or website can go a long way; a video that is highly engaging (even if it’s unrelated to your product per se) can also attract traffic to your website if you include your website’s url in the video or in the meta data and tags.

YouTube indexes its videos much like Google, so the concepts of SEO for Google apply to YouTube as well. In short, this means your video should have: a good title (with great keywords), a thorough description that utilizes relevant keywords, and fill in all of the meta data and tags accurately. Filling in all of these fields are very important: when the Google bots are crawling all over your website, they will not see the video but they will see the text you use to describe your video. Use this to your advantage by using highly searched keywords that will increase your page rank!

Once you make a video and post it onto YouTube, let the world know about it! For example, write about the video on your blog – either by writing a blog post about how you made the video or by merely including the link to the video. You can also include the video’s link in your emails, make a posting on Facebook and twitter about it, and submit it to social bookmarking sites. Another great way to increase your video’s popularity is to make even more videos and linking newer videos to older videos and your website!

There is, of course, the chance that your video becomes wildly popular on YouTube (David After Dentist, anyone? Surely you know Keyboard Cat? Or how about the recently spotted Double Rainbow?) This scenario also presents a unique opportunity to make money. Not only will your video drive traffic to your website or product, but YouTube may invite you into its exclusive partner program, which synchs massively popular videos with related ads and gives a portion of the revenue to the owner of the video. No one is exactly sure what the formula is to get invited into YouTube’s partner program, but the amount page views and the “virality” of the video are certainly factors.

Having said all of this, we now have a YouTube channel with a couple videos (more coming soon). We have noticed that some people who use Micro Niche Finder and/or The Ultimate PLR Article Software have been putting up their own user-created content on YouTube, which we think is great! Many of them even have links to their other videos, their affiliate pages, or their own websites, which are great examples of using YouTube videos to increase sales, traffic, and improve SEO. If you make a YouTube video, feel free to let us know about it! Who knows – it may even get featured on our Facebook fan page or in an email!

This Wednesday night (June 23^rd) we are hosting a FREE webinar with Brian Johnson that will be positively spook-tacular (*cymbal crash* – I’m here all week folks) . The topic of this webinar is about how to make money on the internet during the Halloween season.

Yes, you read that right, how to make money during Halloween. Yes, we know it’s June. And yes, we know Halloween is still four months away…but if you want to make some money during the Halloween rush, you need to start preparing now.

Of all holidays, you might be thinking, why Halloween? To which we answer: why not Halloween? Did you know that every year over 4 billion dollars are spent on Halloween costumes alone? And that’s just costumes! Some people buy Halloween decorations for their house, car, and parties. From a purely pragmatic business standpoint, the target audience already has committed to the idea of buying something for Halloween (so it’s not hard to persuade people to buy) and there is a set date (October 31^st) so people already feel the pressure to purchase before the “deadline”. Second only to the Holidays in December, Halloween is a veritable goldmine and this year you will be ready.

During this webinar, Brian Johnson will give you expert advice on picking Halloween keywords based on his seven years of experience profiting from this incredibly overlooked niche. Among other things, he’ll reveal how he got over 100,000 unique visitors to his sites for FREE.  What major traffic source did he use?  You’ll have to be on the webinar…

The best part: although Brian’s no-holds-barred blueprints to absolutely “lay down the law” in the Halloween niches work excellently, you can apply the exact same method to any seasonal trend.   
Brian is also going to tell you how he leverages the incredible power of mini-sites to dominate niche markets – and how you can too. Brian even shows you how to have your mini-site up in a matter of minutes.

The essential details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday June 23rd
Time: 8:30 PM EDT
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/hsabl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista. For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

This webinar, like all of our webinars, is completely free! However, the webinars we do with Brian Johnson are incredibly popular and space is limited.  We highly suggest  that you register sooner rather than later. If you are serious about generating money, you need to register for this webinar NOW before it’s too late! http://www.snip2.com/re/hsabl

P.S – If you need a time converter to determine what time this webinar starts in your local time, use http://www.snip2.com/re/timezone

Our newest Affiliate Spotlight winner is David Castle from New Jersey!

Although David has been using Micro Niche Finder for over three years, he has only been an affiliate for approximately a year. David realized that Micro Niche Finder is just too useful to keep a secret, and has been promoting it to everyone he knows everywhere he goes (including a big internet marketing conference in 2009 where he was a keynote speaker). In fact, Micro Niche Finder has been so important to his own success that Dave is currently developing a product line that includes Micro Niche Finder as one of its cornerstones!

To read about Dave and his advice about internet marketing, check out our Facebook Fan Page and look under the “Affiliate Spotlight” box (left hand side of the page, underneath our ‘People Who Like This’ box). To learn even more about Dave Castle, check out his website:  Brick N Mortar Marketing ; if you sign up, Dave said he will send you one of his videos about Keywords and Micro Niche Finder.

Congratulations once again, Dave!

We’ve been getting tickets about SOC problems recently (both captcha and blocks) BUT FEAR NOT we are on the case.

If our determination, desire, and commitment to correct the new SOC problems were manifested into an animal form, it would undoubtedly look like this unstoppable creature:

We are hard at work to find the solution. You all are the best of the best (SERIOUSLY) and we appreciate your patience. Thanks!

Congratulations to our newest Affiliate Spotlight winner, Fiona Mary Ivancsik from Sydney Australia!!!

Fiona Mary Ivancsik has been an affiliate of Micro Niche Finder for a little over four months now. In this short time, Fiona has developed a very specific method for finding high-quality niches using Micro Niche Finder and gives her advice on what constitutes a good potential niche.

To read about Fiona’s strategy for finding profitable niches, check out our Facebook Fan Page and look under the “Affiliate Spotlight” box (left hand side of the page, underneath our ‘People Who Like This’ box). To learn even more about Fiona, check out her marketing website Fiona Mary Online.

An interesting report recently released explained that everyone on twitter only has 5 degrees of separation from each other. In theory, this means you could trace your connection to anyone on twitter in five followers or less. I decided to test this for myself using Micro Niche Finder’s twitter account.

The results were surprising. Every random celebrity I could think of had some connection to our twitter account within 5 degrees of separation (with the exception of MC Hammer – we have 6 degrees of separation). Sometimes there were even multiple connections to a celebrity, as in this example with Stephen Colbert ( he’s the host of the popular show ‘The Colbert Report’ in the United States):

Interconnectedness of Twitter

The twitterverse is indeed a lot smaller than it may initially seem. Several companies, using complex algorithms, have determined that even though most people are 5 followers away from each other, the second most common degree of separation is a mere 4 followers away from each other. A company called Sysomos created a pie chart that shows the interconnectedness of people on twitter:

Twitter Degrees of Separation Chart

Even more interesting is the fact that about 22% of all twitter relationships are reciprocal (where both people follow each other) – a whopping 88% of all twitter connections are one-way (in real life, this would be considered stalking, but for social media networking, it’s fine!). This has serious implications for retweets – no matter how many followers a person may have, a retweet has the potential to reach thousands (perhaps even millions) more people. To illustrate this point, the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology computed the potential impact of retweets and came up with this spiffy little graph:

Retweet Graph

The importance of these studies for internet marketing is that it proves that one well written tweet can travel quickly throughout the twitterverse and reach an audience of gigantic proportions. If there happens to be a link in that tweet (to your blog, your affiliate website, your website, etc.) the potential for a higher number of page visits, rankings, and sales increases.

If you want to see your connection to other twitter users, two good websites to try include http://whofollowswhom.com/ (this is in depth but takes a while to compute though) and http://twtrfrnd.com/ (this may also take a while too, and may not be as in depth). The results may even surprise you!