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Making the Squidoo lens was part of an experiment in affiliate marketing.  I started reading some post by Jennifer Ledbetter, AKA the “Pot Pie Girl” and really got interested in making Squidoo lenses just for fun.    The Pot Pie Girl markets a lot of information products which are really great.  They are highly profitable and people want them.

I made a lens about coffee tumblers and immediately received traffic.  I wrote a few Ezine articles to link to my Squidoo lens giving it further credibility with Google.

I get about 7 visitors a day.  I have not done a whole lot with the statistics because in the begining, I was splitting my sales profits with Squidoo.  Recently, I switched over to a widget by Squid Utilities and keep about 6% of the sale.  No profit splitting!

In 2 1/2 months, I have sold 6 coffee tumblers.  It’s not a big deal.  However, since learning about marketing a coffee cup, I have sold $2484.60 of merchandise on Amazon with not much effort.  I made a few WordPress sites and that’s about it.  A good friend told me that setting up affiliate sites is like setting up a vending route.  The nice thing about affiliate marketing is that the vending machines get filled automatically!

My total gross profits are $102.  I spent approximately $2.00 in Google PPC campaigns.  I was already paying for web hosting, so I cannot count that as an expense.  I spent another $60 in blog domain names.  This means that I am still ahead of the game.

You may say “All you made is $102!  That is not much!”  This is true.  But for the sake of a good argument, let’s say that I build 200 more niche websites.  That may bring me in another $2000 a month.  It’s all about revenue streams.  Every little bit is going to add up to a whole lot.  I have not even mentioned that my wife and I are both making a little money in Adsense.

Do you think I am a little bit excited about a stainless coffee tumbler?  You bet I am!  I never have to touch my coffee tumbler Squidoo site again.  It will keep selling a coffee tumbler here and there.

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I really love Squidoo.  If you want to know all about Squidoo, here is a great FREE SQUIDOO  GUIDE! It is written by the famous Pot Pie Girl, Jennifer Ledbetter.  You cannot go wrong with this guide about Squidoo lense making.

I made 7 seperate lenses in the course of a week on Squidoo.  My 2 boys are crazy about building Legos, so we made a lense for each of them.   Josiah wrote his own article and created the artwork for his for Legos Building.  Zachary followed suit and made all of his own artwork and wrote an essay to build his lense on Legos.

How Do I Decide What Topic To Market On My Niche Web Site?  Google is the most likely place to do your research for topics to create a niche web site.  Do a Google search for hot topics.  Search for what’s hot in marketing.  What are your hobbies?  Do a key word search on Google’s keyword tool and find out if there is enough traffic to merit creating a niche web site.

Here is how I start my keyword search for building a niche web site:

1. I do Google search and look at the organic search results as well as sponsored links.
2. I look at Google and take the long tailed key words and place them in Google’s free keyword search tool.
3. I look at the estimate CPC (cost per click) and choose something that pays over $5.00 and has over 10,000 searches per month.

This gives me a rough starting point for building my niche website.  I will be writing more articles on niche website building in real time and display actual results of money that is being paid out to me.   My blog is a work in progress and is geared to give people information on making money building niche web sites.

NicheWatch.com is an excellent site for spying on your competition for key words.  Use the free version for help in building your niche web site.

My strategy is to set up “vending machines” on every street corner and inside every office building.  My street corners and office buildings are the Internet.  My vending machines are tiny websites with great content. I will add my affiliate partnerships on these sites and use search engine optimization (SEO) and the power of WordPress to maximize internet traffic.

I built my first niche blog this week, makemoneyonlinetrading.net.  I built this site because I really enjoy day trading the emini S&P 500 futures market and the financial freedom that it can bring a person.