Thursday, November 5, 2009

5 Tips for Niche Marketing Success

5 Tips for Niche Marketing Success


Niche marketing is a key part of any Niche marketing. It is your potential growth and can lead you to more traffic and more sales. This is why it is important to take a lot of different aspects into consideration.

Make sure you are doing your own research. The need to understand your niche is one of the most important parts of niche marketing. Concentrate your efforts on something that is in demand. Try to find a niche that has a real need for the addition of some products and services. Your product doesn't have to be a new one of course, but there does need to be a demand for it. Without that you won't be able to sale anything for a profit.

Only focus on one specific niche at a time. A lot of internet marketers don't find success because they refuse to stay focused on one single idea. You can go into more than that at a time and end up ruining your business all together. Only venture into other niches after you have established yourself in the first one.

Make sure you are giving your target audience a very good reason as to why they should be making purchases from you and not someone else. If you want good traffic you must give those that come to your site a good reason to come to you and not find what they are looking for at someone else's site.

Show your visitors you have that you have a real understanding of what they need, then provide them proof that you are the one to serve them with the best information and high quality products and services. If they don't think you are the best one to meet their demands they are going to take their business somewhere else.

Understand the language. This doesn't mean you need to speak like your audience only, but you also need to layout your site so it reflects that as well. If you are targeting a social networking niche, you need to design your site so that it obviously reflects that to your audience. Having a site about cats that has a design layout focused on dogs is just not going to work.

Always take the time to create quality information, products and services. Pretty much all niches have a demand so they also need a lot of different products, services and even information to fill customer needs. For instance, a dog owner niche should provide information about different shelters, pet sitters and possibly even vets. Food, toys, collars and flea sprays are good ideas for products. Services might include things like dog walking and dog sitting as well. Try to find the things that aren't as obvious as most, look deep for the things that are niche related but aren't being offered a lot.

The combined information above are all things you will need to consider if you want to be able to generate the most quality traffic, while also bringing in potential customers that will increase your sales conversions.

When you're trying to build up your niche marketing efforts, try article marketing! You will attract customers with these 5 easy steps!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Texas Hold'em - Winning with Position

One of the least utilized (for beginning players) and yet most important factors to think about when playing Texas Hold'em is table position. Your table position in hold'em is your location at the table in relation to the button. Your position rotates every hand with the button, so it's important to know how to play them all. Your table position will be a huge factor on how you play your hands, and whether or not to play a hand at all.

In Texas Hold'em, there are essentially four positions. They are the blinds (BB and SB), early position (EP), middle position (MP), and late position (LP). I gave the blinds their own category because the strategy for playing them is a little different. Understand that the tips below are general, in that they do not account for other game play circumstances. In general, though, following them will help your Hold'em game quite a bit. Let's look at how your table position affect you game:

In Hold'em, early position describes the two seats just left of the big blind.Do not play garbage hands here. If you have a premium hand, you can play it, but no junk. Nobody else at the table has to do anything until they see you act, and that puts you at a huge disadvantage. Also, the fact that there are so many players after you makes it fairly likely that someone else has a big hand that you do not want to be playing against. If you have a big, made hand, like AA, KK, or QQ, go ahead and raise the action. With premium drawing hand, like AK or AQ, it may be a better idea to limp in, see if someone else raises, and then re-raise them and try to take the pot down there. When you see a flop from EP, you should bet the flop about 75% of the time, whether you hit or not.

Next is middle position. These are the two positions just to the left of the two early position seats. You have a little more room to play here, but not much. Play it pretty much like early position, with the exception of maybe adding JJ or suited AJ to your starting hand arsenal. Be wary of early position limpers (unless you have already seen them limp in EP with junk) and you should fold to just about any raises from EP.

Late position in Hold'em is the button and player to his immediate right. Being in late position has a huge advantage over everyone else, in that they are allowed to see what everyone else does before they have to do anything. This basically gives them a license to steal. The button and the cut-off get to see the action and decide whether or not they want any part of it. They have the freedom to raise the blinds at will and see flops with all kinds of speculative hands, because they have the advantage of great position. Go ahead and raise the blinds with 88 or suited 89. Then just outplay any callers after the flop. Yes, you will be up against winning hands sometimes that people won't want to lay down, but you position gives you a better chance of spotting when that is and getting out of the hand before it gets ugly.

The blinds can be really really tough to play correctly, and a lot of novice players don't. As a rule of thumb, I would say to take down the pot pre-flop or drop your hand like a rock. It's true that you have odds to call many raises from the big blind, but the disadvantage of your position post flop is not usually worth the effort (or the chips). Unless you have a monster, I say let it go.

There are some very basic strategies for playing Texas Hold'em according to your position. Hold'em is a game of patience and discipline. Be patient, pay attention to your table position and it will definitely help you to become a winning Hold'em player.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Welcome to the SJSchafer Niche Site

Welcome! My Name is Steve Schafer, and I set up this blog as an easy way for people to connect with me and my sites, as well as to share their own interests and content. I am open for link trades with sites relative to my pages. I also invite people to submit quality articles relating to their niches with back-links to their niche sites. Please feel free to comment on any posts, and contact me at any time for article inclusion.

I am currently covering the following topics:

Solar Lights
Easy Solar Lighting
Advantages of Solar Energy
Sales Tips for Service Professionals
Winning Texas Hold'em Tips
Easy Home Accessories
Niche Marketing

Please feel free to contact me for relevant back-link requests.