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So … I mentioned in an earlier post that my 13 year old son, Austin, and I came up with the idea to have a friendly competition … to test our abilities to build and promote a niche store of our choice.
Shortly after we came up with the idea of having a contest I happened onto a badass site (Niche Profit Classroom) that specializes in building and promoting niche sites … but not the eBay or Amazon type sites we initially had in mind … sites where we sell our own information products.
This is perfect! It levels the playing field a bit (for those of you who said it wouldn’t be fair to Austin LOL) and we’ll both learn a great deal from the exercise.
I’ve signed up for the monthly membership at Niche Profit Classroom and the video lessons are awesome! Adam is a great teacher – he’s very detailed and that works well with my personality.
What Austin and I have decided to do for this “contest” is to choose the two July niche stores that are provided through the membership site and we’ll:
- Choose and purchase our domain names
- Put up the ready-made sites
- Edit the site and content to make it unique
- Get the eBooks ready to sell
- Start promoting the sites
- Hope to sell something! LOL
We will be documenting most everything we do (probably via email back and forth) and we will both be sharing this on our blogs (go check out http://www.austinfranco.com and subscribe while you’re there). We will challenge each other as we go for certain things like … pages indexed, backlinks to the site, PR, etc. … and of course SALES!
If you’re interested in niche stores, internet marking, blogging, or any type of online marketing … you will want to follow along as we go through this process … I promise you’ll learn something along the way (guaranteed or your money back ha ha ha)! *SmiLes* Suzanne
P.S. What do you think of this friendly “competition”? Do you have any words of encouragement for me? Do you want to follow along and see what you can learn from us? Let us hear from you below …
P.S.S. Now … for those of you who think this is unfair to Austin … I will ask, “Do you have any idea how much my son is ‘gunning’ for me?”
Remember … I have businesses to run and a house full of kids (and a husband) to take care of … so for those who think this isn’t fair to Austin … THINK AGAIN! Austin has been following along with everything I’ve learned online and he’ll do just fine. Besides the idea isn’t for me to “beat” him … or him to beat me … but for us to challenge and motivate each other … with a dash of fun thrown in there – and it’s really important to both of us that we teach others as we go.
If you want to see what the Niche Profit Classroom is all about they’ve done a great job explaining it here …
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Hi … My name is Suzanne Franco (Land) and I’m a wife (newlywed actually) and mother to 5 amazing kids (my 3 and his 2 – ages 9 to 16) and we live in the Texas Hill Country where we try to spend a lot of time in the water (river, boating, wakeboarding, the beach, etc.) and running from one kid’s sporting event to the other (mainly football, cheerleading, and soccer).
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That’s a great idea Suzanne. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of fun pushing each other and motivating each other to get ahead. Of course, the documentation of this competition will make for some great product in the future. BTW…can I get a copy when you turn this into an ebook? Good Luck Austin!
hey freddy … how are you? this is going to be fun! tonight i purchased our domain names and we will both get busy this weekend re-writing our content … as for an ebook … it’s a thought … but if we do that we’d like to use it as an opt-in giveaway for our mailing lists LOL … we are considering posting all of the detailed lessons on password protected posts … so that the info is only available to those who are willing to subscribe and follow on a regular basis … what do you think? *SmiLes*
I think that’s a great idea. I like your style. Keep up the excellent work.
Wow! That’s pretty amazing, I can’t wait to see which one of you wins. Maybe you’ll found a unique strategy to market and end up selling a lot of products!
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hey jason … it should be fun to watch! we’re both pretty competitive LOL … I want to “win” as in have a successful site … but also as a mom … you always want “better” then you have for your child … but I won’t go soft on him … just encourage and help him when he needs it. Thanks for the encouragement! *SmiLes*
I’m eager to see how you guys do and what you learn. Make sure and keep us posted.
tony
hey my friend … thanks for the comments … we are both really excited to see how this goes … and I know we will both learn a lot from the experience so it will be worth it for sure. we need to get together … come down and go on the boat with us … and let’s discuss some of our business ideas over an adult beverage LOL … *huGs*
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August 1, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I think it will be a great competition. How fun and lucky Austin is to have a mom as cool as you. I look forward to keeping up with both of you. Appreciate that you are willing to share so we can all learn from both of you.
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hey angie … you’re so sweet! I’m sure my days are numbered where Austin still thinks I’m a “cool” mom … at some point here soon he won’t want to be seen with me LOL … *ouCh* LOL … but for now we have this great connection and we plan on having some real fun with this … and we hope to learn a lot and teach other too. *huGs*
Great idea to level the competition by choosing something that is new to you both. I’m looking forward to following your progress.
Mikael
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I’ll get some new info out for you today or tomorrow … that little fart is kicking my butt so far! He’s already got traffic (I believe he got 35 visits yesterday! LOL) and my site is barely up!
Oooh, I`m looking forward to be spectating this)
I love it. A healthy promotion of family interaction and fun using the interent and family knowledge. You guys look like your having fun.
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