How to Market Profitable Mini Sites
If you want to make money online, creating and marketing with mini sites is perhaps the fastest and cheapest way to achieve your goals.
Firstly, a “mini site” serves a very tight niche market, and delivers very specific content, usually in the form of a members area. Mini-sites are not like blogs or other type of content sites; they sell access to the information instead of giving it out for free. A mini-site can have at bare minimum two pages; the sales page and the download page. Larger minisites may have more pages but generally its not above 10 pages.
SEO and search traffic is not as important for minisites as it is for content sites. Since all the really good content is behind closed doors, Google will never be able to index it and gve it proper ranking. Therefore if you want to profit from mini sites, you need affiliates – and LOTS of them. When your site is new and you need to make sales fast, a little bit of PPC knowledge comes in handy.
The most important part of any minisites, besides the content, is the sales page. You need to understand how to write basic sales copy that sells, and also arm yourself with a lot of sales page graphics and other images you can use to make your copy look appealing. Creating a pure-text sales copy is a big mistake, but most people still do it.
The overall design and appearance of your mini sites also matters. You can either hire someone to create your design or you can buy web 2.0 mini site templates and easily put together a stunning site yourself.
In the long run, you need to pick up some image editing skills. GIMP is another option to consider instead of PhotoShop.
With basic GIMP video tutorials you can get all the skills you need as far as marketing minisites is concerned, but you probably can’t make use of cool stuff like Photoshop e-cover scripts and templates.
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