Before the campaign – brainstorming niche selection

July 31, 2010 · Posted in Anatomy of a Campaign, SEO

It’s time to pull the curtains back as far as I know how. This is the start of a new affiliate campaign, showing you all the tools and resources I use from the absolute beginning to the end. Blow by blow, from niche selection, building the site, writing articles, tracking and SEO.

This is the first video showing you how I initially go about picking the niche and what I look for.

I hope you enjoy and let me know if you have any questions…

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4 Responses to “Before the campaign – brainstorming niche selection”

Eric on August 2nd, 2010 1:03 am

Great job Matt. Thanks for the Niche exercise checklist too. I looked at this awhile ago from Eben but I forgot to save it.

Thanks
-Eric

By the way, what software/player makes your videos? I have been getting into video lately and I placed a video on my site but it always has problems. Could this be due to the cheap hosting that I have? I use BlueHost and sometimes the player goes straight to the end in the middle of it.
Mat on August 2nd, 2010 3:15 am

Thanks Eric. I actually use Camtasia and then I have the videos at http://www.ezs3.com. My hosting is at bluehost, which is probably the best one I have found. I have used hostgator and they are not bad, but bluehost I think has been the best.

ezs3.com is where the videos are hosted, then I just create a player for my videos and paste the code into my post. It’s pretty easy.

I have had issues in the past when I have uploaded audio or video directly to my site to the hosting company – usually bandwith issues. But you don’t have that with ezs3 since the video resides somewhere else.

Hope this helps.
ted on August 2nd, 2010 7:27 am

Hi Mat

Very engaging content.
How do i determine the number of people out of a 1000 looking for a solution for a problem (the niche test)?
mjhult on August 2nd, 2010 12:33 pm

Thanks Ted. The wording is a bit confusing as it says at least 1 in 1,000 are looking for a solution. How in the world do you figure that out? I take it as to make sure enough people are searching for a solution to make it worthwhile, which to me is at least 1,000 or so searches per month.