Niland’s Blog

Well I had to shut down my pay/click on the tree search engines I was using, Yahoo, Google, and Live. I was not getting the return on investment I had hoped for . Maybe I just didn’t have enough budget to get the clicks and customers I was hoping for. It seems to get the good clicks you had better be willing to start at $3 per click. Maybe I could have done better with keywords? Maybe if you could go to a company have them set up your campaign maybe you could do better, but could I pay for this on a small budget? The only hope I have is with 40on1, I believe they are the reason my page rank has gone from 8 million from number 1 to 474,516 Page rank according to Alexa. Alexa has a neat plug in for Firefox. Maybe if I get to be on the fist page maybe I would make enough money to keep  me there.

James Niland

http://shop.nilandsplace.com

When I originally set up Nilands Place Shopping Mall I knew I needed to take credit cards. In my dealings with PayPal I learned I could set up a merchant account were they would take a percentage of the sale (1.9% to 2.9%). later I was told that was too much and I needed to go with someone like authorize.net to do credit cards. I didn’t end up with them as we kept going back and forth about what I could and could not have at http://shop.nilandsplace.com. I ended going with a company that cost a little less than authorize.net. Anyway being a beginner and not knowing how to market my site I got less than a few customers. In the mean while it kept getting billed by SecurePay.com, and getting no income. Months later PayPal’s percentage didn’t sound so bad as I did not pay any monthly fees with them. So I call to see if I could cancel my account with SecurePay.com, only to learn I was under a three year contract with them and would have to pay $300 to get out of it. I don’t remember when I signed on with them this ever being mentioned. They did cut my fee back a little so thanks for that. The morel to the story is: I was being greedy about not wanting to give PayPal their cut, but in retrospect I would have spent allot less money.

here is the link for PayPal https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside

Sincerely James

I just listen to an interview with Jeff Johnson the I think everyone should listen to. It mostly has to do with social networking marketing. I have to say I was impressed, most free things I get off the internet are junk trying to sell me something, but not this interview. I downloaded it from the Underground Training Lab

I am going to put it on my website http://nilandsplace.com for free as I got it. or you can just go to there site. It has a lot to offer http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/index.php

Please do yourself a favor and give it a listen

I got a very distressing email from one of my drop shippers today!
“Your application may have been denied for a number of reasons, including
but not limited to:

- Missing information from signup form
- Your website, address or traffic source is outside of the US or Canada
- Web site under construction, or no website available
- Incentive or freebie website
- Adult or confrontational content on your website
- Your site is irrelevant to Doba’s products & services
- The quality of your site doesn’t lend to supporting the Doba brand.

Thank you for your application.

Doba Affiliate Manager”

Not only is it none specific, I wonder how it is I am good enough to sell their product but can’t suggest then as a source. They are not the only drop shipper out there, so maybe when it come time (soon) to renew with them I will have second thoughts

1. Sell an inexpensive product to sell an expensive
product. If people like your inexpensive product,
they’ll be persuaded to buy your expensive one.

2. Allow your visitors to decided how much they
want to pay for your product. I only recommend it
for products that don’t sell or ones that hardly sell.

3. Create an extra revenue stream with your web
site’s articles or content. Publish the first paragraph
of each article and charge people to read the rest.

4. E-mail targeted e-zines and ask them to do a
joint venture with you. Ask them to run your ad and
in exchange they get a percentage of the profits.

5. Find a tiny niche for your new free e-zine. There
are thousands of free e-zines; your e-zine needs to
be extra specialized to attract new subscribers.

6. Test your ads by using autoresponders. You can
have people e-mail your autoresponders to get more
information and you just check your traffic reports.

7. Create credibility and trust with your visitors by
telling them something they already know. They’ll
know for sure you’re not lying to them.

8. Make residual income from your customers by
selling back end products. If you don’t have any,
you could sign up to related affiliate programs.

9. Use a redirect page to boost your sales. People
think the long affiliate URLs look unprofessional in
e-mail so you could redirect them to a web link.

10. Create an extra income from your web site by
charging for consulting. The consulting should be
related to your web site’s theme.

I have been trying to set up some trading partners from Hong Kong China so that I can get the same great prices Wal-Mart or Traget get. Have you heard of Tradekey? I had lost their link when windows went belly-up (Imagine that). They can set you up with many eager trading partners. I really have to give a thumbs up to Tradekey as they have found me suppliers for international trade. Much of what you buy at Wal-Mart of Target comes overseas. So why should a fledgling entrepreneur not have the same great prices. You can find them at this link http://www.tradekey.com/

Sincerely James

Niland Enterprise

I am scavenging for affiliates. I got GoDaddy and SFI and am trying for webposition4. All are within the new or original scope of http://nilandsplace .com I get allot of email with squeeze page links trying to sell me a sure fire way to make money. If I had the money they want for these packages I would have no worries. None of them promise an email list, that I really need. If any one has a good email list that I can afford please contact me at phone # (910) 277-1439. This means something I can buy a little at a time, I don’t have $600 laying around to by a whole list. In the mean time I am still looking for affiliate programs the encompass internet marketing. I don pay to become an affiliate period.

I has been a year now and I have been down the free advertising, Blog and banner exchange road. It got me one customer. So I started with the P.P.C. two months ago with a very small budget (the minimum) and it has netted me 6 more customers, two of which I would have had sales for, if my suppliers hadn’t run out of inventory. so It looks like to me is P.P.C. is the best way to go. When I make some sales it looks like I am going to spend it on more pay per click.

I am about half way through redoing my website. I am eliminating hard products for sale and turning the site into information only. I still will keep a link to my other website now that I have two, but for the most part I want them to be independent of each other. I would like some feed back about what topics my website http://nilandsplace.com should be about. I have a good start on the internet marketing e-book collection, more than 200 titles.

To start with niland’s place shopping mall was a sub directory of http://nilandsplace.com/Shop but now it is http://shop.nilandsplace.com and has its own IP number. The IP number was set up so I could has SSL encryption, to protect peoples information. As for http://nilandsplace.com I am revamping it as a resource for beginner website entrepreneurs. I now have a page devoted to nothing but internet marketing e-books.