Plus Make Money Online - Marketing to a Niche

One good idea can become a business. PLUS was originally the name of my business. I marketed money in the mortgage business, and I thought I had a good thing going. Then along came restrictions, licensing requirements, and online marketing. I knew I had something more to offer, so I kept looking.

When I received an invitation from friend and co-broker Jan Verhoeff to join her online business, I thought she was probably nuts. I even accused her of losing her marbles from drinking too much coffee at the Coffee Clatter! But, a few weeks later, I posted my first item on sale at eBay.com. Id started down a road that would lead quickly to success!

I really hate it when I have to admit shes right!

PLUS could be Make Money Online. I could share the secret of how Jani taught me to make money selling my stuff on eBay.com and I sure had enough stuff to sell. I sold another book the second week, and I was off on a tangent.

Looming near the insanity label myself, I spent a cool thousand with another online marketer and watched my thousand dollars evaporate into the universe without a trace. But I had an idea. I called Jani and told her I was coming to Lamar.

You have to understand, Lamar is a little burg on the south side of the Arkansas River on the Colorado side of the Kansas border. When you mention Kansas to those folks out there, youre liable to lose toes! They dont want to be known as living in Kansas, even if it is prairie.

I went to see Jani. She had a plan and she started giving me orders. Im good at taking orders.

Well, okay I try hard to be good at taking orders!

When she told me to write articles, I nearly wet my pants, Jani, I cant write! You write! I just talk.

Then she told me the real cool deal. I dont have to write. I can just write down what I say when Im talking. Or I can record it all and someone else can write it down.

I had to trust her, I was already making money from her plan at http://alistregistry.com. So, I knew I was gonna be hiring a secretary (Jani even gave me the name of her VA) to write down what I said, almost immediately, if not faster. But I still didnt know what to write about and thats where Janis plan came in handy. She started asking me questions and making me think up my own answers. That woman is conniving and devious, but dang!!! She gets the job done!

Heres a list of the questions she asked me:

What have you done online thats successful?

What do you want to do online to be successful?

What do you want to talk about online?

What do you want to tell people about?

Whats your niche?

Now, when I started this business development thing, I didnt even know what a niche was, much less how to start one. (To be honest, I didnt care, but Jani did, so I listened. And now, Im telling you about it! Why? Well, because the danged thing works!)

Are you ready to start working on a niche?

Im Bill Clarke and Im developing my niche. Im writing articles telling you what I do. What Im doing is working, so just go to my website at http://billclarkedbaplus.com and sign up so youll be able to follow along with my ezine as I create this website and design a business. Split-lickity-darn! This is fun and all I have to do is talk.

2007 Bill Clarke