How To Create A Niche – And Grow Rich

1. What is a niche? A niche fills an unmet customer need. Niches are at the heart of every successful industry, business, product, or service. Niche marketing is the opposite of mass (general) marketing. It targets specific people with specialized needs. Niches build industries, businesses and jobs. Having a niche is the only way to eliminate direct competition.

Affiliates: HIDE That Link!

If you earn money from affiliate programs, you could be losing up to 30% of your income. That is a commonly quoted statistic for the rate of affiliate link hijacking. Why does this happen? Well, what would you do when faced with a link like this: http://www.leaddogbiz.com/cgi-bin/t.cgi/your-number

Looking for a Happier Work Place This Year?

If you're into professional development, you've probably come across the name of Martin Seligman, Ph.D. He's the Optimism guru, the man who developed the theory of Learned Optimism. Optimism is the facilitator of all the emotional intelligence competencies, which increases our success. Seligman's rigorous research has established that optimists are more productive and accomplish more and this is important knowledge for the workplace.

Restoring Faith in Your Freelance Writing Business

With all of the talk about "consumer confidence" and people around the US returning to "faith" in these troubled times, it's easy to feel, as a writer, insignificant -- and "unneeded." It's even easier easy to feel uninspired on the topics you normally write about. How can a contruction writer write about forklifts in a time like this? How can a content writer continue to…