Most importantly, have a web form on your "Thank You" page that has 2 fields; 1 for person's name, and 1 for person's email. On your "Thank You" page, put "Enter Information Here to Complete Sale" referring to web form with 2 fields in it. This way you get person's name and email so you can follow up later with marketing messages or feedback questions.

After person enters their name and email into that web form on "Thank You" page and clicks "Submit" button, their name will be stored in your auto responder's database. In code of that web form, there is what Get Response calls a "confirmation URL"...this "confirmation URL" is URL where user will be taken to after "Submit" button is clicked from your"Thank You" page...this "confirmation URL" will actually be your download page.

On your download page, you'll have step by step instructions to download your product. Believe me, having step by step instructions on how to download your product on your download page will save you lots of time in answering emails from people asking you how to download your product. On your download page, you'll have a link that user will click to download your product.

If you setup your payment option via Clickbank in this fashion you will:

Save yourself time by not having to answer emails about how to download Keep a consistent message throughout sales process, professionalism Gather name and email of person who bought so you can follow up for feedback or send other marketing messages to... If you sign up for an auto responder, setting this up is a breeze...most give you code you need to put inside your web page to make web form...its very simple. Of course, you'll have to build your order page, "Thank You" and "confirmation URL/Download Page" yourself in your HTML Editor."

Karl Augustine

Author, "9 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Starting An Online Business" Publisher, "Starting Smart!" e-zine

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Niche Marketing Strategy #3, "Choosing keywords and domain names" Research and choose your keywords carefully so you can acquire best domain name for your site. Niche marketing most often includes maximizing way search engines work to make sure that your web site gets listed on first page of SERP's from your chosen keywords. Your domain name contributes to getting those first page results.

Go to Digitalpoint's keyword suggestion tool and type in keywords that you feel people would use to find product or service that you offer within your niche. Look at number of searches performed per day for those keywords and review other keywords listed.

Type keyword phrase that you think best suits your USP's target customer into Google and assess whether or not you can reasonably compete with sites that are listed on page 1 of SERPs. Can you get a page 1 ranking knowing that you'll have to compete with sites already listed?

Repeat process until you have decided what your main keywords will be for your product or service within your niche.

Those keywords should be in your domain name and preferably, they should be your entire domain name.

Example: if you've concluded that 'blue widgets' best suits your USP and you feel that you can compete for page 1 listings on SERPs with sites that come up on page 1 for keyword 'blue widgets', then a good domain name for your niche marketing site would be 'bluewidgets.com'.

Niche Marketing Tactic #4, "Posting keyword rich articles or reports throughout web" Niche marketing doesn't differ from any other online search engine marketing, posting relevant content is best way (bar none) to get right type of traffic to your niche site.

Writing keyword rich articles or reports and posting them to high traffic web sites is a great way to make sure that you get maximum exposure within your niche market. People will use your keywords to search for information about topic that they have interest in, and they will come across your web site on search engines results.

To learn how to write articles that are optimized for search engines for better rankings, go to Article Optimization.

Niche marketing caters to a distinct and select group of people who need what you have to offer. If you define your niche properly and make sure that your ability to solve their problem is something that they will pay for, you will have established a "money maker".

Utilize search engines to make it easy for your niche market to find your service or product. Niche marketing is easiest way to be successful on Internet if you do proper research.

Be humble, work hard, work smart.

Karl Augustine

Author, "9 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Starting An Online Business" Publisher, "Starting Smart!" e-zine

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