Maybe I’m the one on crack, but I bought Niche Marketing on Crack off the Warrior forum for $12. You can get it today for the princely sum of…wait for it…$47. The report is worth $12. I can’t say I’d be too thrilled to pay $47 for it.
If you are scattered in your approach for finding a niche, writing about it, finding affiliate products to pimp and getting traffic to your site, then I’d say this might be a worthwhile guide to buy. It can help you step-by-step build your website to possibly make money.
But if you are making money Bum Marketing or if you are re-writing PLR and making money with your site, then there really isn’t anything in here that is going to take you to “The Next Level” (hate that phrase). Heck, the first 11 pages of the 45 report is really just an introduction.
I’d love to sit here and tell you that you should buy this report. I could get a a nice little commish and you could discover a valuable way to make money. But honestly, and certainly if you are a member of PLRPro or Affilorama for instance, there is no reason to spend $47 on this report in my opinion. Maybe just go back and re-read the free Bum Marketing report. Go to ProBlogger.net and start reading. I will say that if you are a new person to internet marketing and need a place to start then this report is not a bad place to begin.
This report is like so many others in internet marketing. You won’t find anything new or that which you couldn’t have figured out yourself from other websites in the report. It just takes tried and true methods and packages them in an expensive PDF. Maybe it’s worth $47 for someone to collect all the data into one read for you. For me, it was for $12. It wouldn’t have been for $47.
So as critical as I have been of the report then why the hell did I join the Niche Marketing on Crack private forum. I dunno. I had $15 to blow for the month. Hoping maybe the hype of the forum lives up to its promise. They have some good guys supposedly contributing monthly. $15, eh, so I’ll have to bring a lunch in one day instead of eating out. If it was any more than that I would have passed.
I probably stand alone with my assessment of this report. I don’t smoke crack but it may seem like I did to those pimping this ebook.
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Hi Splork as ever great post and ruthless honesty
keep them coming,
Salathe
Splork, I bought this on the Warrior forum after you. I noticed your name there.
After reading the report, all I could think to myself was. WHY? WHY? WHY? did I fall for it again?!
In the forum the author admits he is doing nothing new here but combining tried and and true methods in a unique way. That’s stretching it but now on his promo page it’s “High Profit Niche Marketing Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”
I suppose it was worth $12 for recompiled info on forums and sites and put into one document.
But now it’s $47 for a 44 page report, last 2 are links.
I didn’t even know about the private forum for $15 a month. Glad I used a disposable email for purchase.
Here’s a short synopsis for anyone curious.
pages 3 to 6 is mainly intro and why his method is so great
Step 1, pages 12 to 16, go to CJ, Linkshare and other broker sites and find some affiliate programs
Make sure they are highly searched products by using free keyword tools. Make sure the program pays a good commission, has a good landing page and site and pays you on time. Wow!
Step 2, pages 18 to 28 is building a site
Buy a domain, grab Wordpress and a theme, some plug ins, turn on mod rewrite in your .htaccess file. (Johnchow.com has a more extensive list and goes into better detail for free). Set up a huge ping list. Add adsense. Awesome!
Step 3, pages 29 to 35, articles and submissions
Write some articles with affiliate links. Rewrite some of those articles and post them to ezinearticles.com and other article sites.
Go to elance.com type sites and bid really low for articles if you want. Submit more articles when you drop in the serps.
Step 4, pages 37 to 42
Social network promotion. Post links on popular social networks or Blogger to your site. Use keyword variations in your links, submit to directories, submit more articles, use link exchanges. Keep doing all of the above. Build another site using same steps.
pages 43 to 44
conclusion and a bunch of links to sites mentioned above.
Sure, he goes into more detail and specifics but that’s pretty much niche on crack in a nutshell. Anything like “You’ve Never Seen It Before”?
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http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/8990-download-day-job-killer-free-google-indexed-their-download-page.html
The direct pdf link is still up.
Keep up the good work Splork. Let us know how that forum goes (or blows).
Thanks for the synopsis feelforit. That about sums it up. I’ll let you know what I think of the forum. I’m not real hopeful that it will amount to much but for $15, I’m not really going to sweat it either.
Day Job Killer. Wow that is about the stupidest thing I’ve seen. To let Google index your download page. And why hasn’t he changed this? To be honest I didn’t know if I should remove the link from your post or not. But it is public knowledge so I left it. I still think if you download it you’re stealing, but I’ll let the readers conscience be their guide.
I also bought this a t the cheaper price from the WF. It is a good guide for someone starting out, but someone seasoned in the business, may be disappointed.
It seems that it just boils down to following a simple strategy, whether it’s bum marketing or articles etc and just duplicate the process in order to make more money.
When good income is attained then one can outsource and find another simple strategy and repeat. It’s too time consuming and mostly wasteful chasing the latest hype.
Well, maybe Im a sucker but I spent the $47. I have read about 15 pages so far and the concept seems good… and is new to me since I’m not an experienced “internet marketer”, as I specialize in web design, usability, branding and “traditional marketing” (whatever that is).
Hopefully it doesn’t end up being a huge waste… but I plan to really use these techniques, work hard and see what happens.
Maybe I’ll email him and complain to him about being able to get it for $12.
Thanks for htis great inforamtion. But I thought Allen Says of the Warrior Forum promoted this product. Maybe I am wrong…
You know what– I was planning to buy this Ebook when just 2 days ago I read Phil Wiley’s newsletter promoting this book as something great.
Then, a while ago I decided to check some rating on Google. I saw some and they all praised it to high heaven. I searched more and now I came across yours.
Thanks for this – now I know I do not need this book. I can use my $47 for better things.
Thanks for saving me some cash. I was just about to purchase this ebook to see if I could discover some new marketing tips to give customers who purchase my turnkey niche websites. Since you provided such an honest synopsis of the report, I can use the money on something more productive.
interesting read- i’ve never really been tempted by any of these multitudes of hyped pages promising you fastball rags to riches stories… good marketing though
thanks Splork
Splork,
Job well done. Whoever wrote the sales copy for Niche Marketing on Crack did a good job. I wanted to buy it until I saw the price. Give me a break!
Wow, thank you so much for your honesty. I was reading reviews for this and they were all glowing, but they were all pitching the product. I have the free Bum Marketing report and it’s starting to work just fine for me. Thank you for saving me some cash!
I’m kind of in the minority here, I guess, but I really like Niche Marketing on Crack. I keep a bunch of these sites (created using his techniques) in my portfolio and they’re bringing me about $2500 per month, not bad. I could do better with them if I gave these sites more love – I’m really lazy about building back links on these and stuff. But they do fine for me anyway. Some of them don’t even have page rank and probably never will! That’s how lazy I get sometimes. I’m too busy managing the other sites in my portfolio which are larger and more ambitious and provide the bulk of my income.
I think the one thing I wish Andrew Hansen had included in this report is the concept of the portfolio – just like if you have a bunch of stocks you’re investing in, some won’t make you much money, some will be losers, but if you can get a few of them to bring in hundreds to thousands a month, you’re going to be pretty happy about having set them up.
As with anything, you’re going to have some losers, but the problem for a lot of newbies is that they worry that EVERYTHING is going to be a loser so they give up on the idea too soon. I have a bunch of students I taught to use NMOC and tweak it slightly (using regular html sites with a feed and pinging and bookmarking the site instead of doing the NMOC site as a WordPress blog) and they’ve been reporting good earnings, too.
So anyway, while I guess in some ways NMOC isn’t revolutionary for some folks, it was pretty powerful for me and I recommend that people check it out more for the strategic aspects (learning how to find, choose products, target buyer keywords, etc.) than anything technically complicated.
Is that report really worth $12? I find that most of such papers are worthless – a lot of words, but no any value.