An Automated Online Business Model

Hi there

I was really interested in watching the video but had huge problems even with my fast Internet access.
The video kept stopping every 5 to 7 seconds making it impossible to watch

Great info John.
I got a lot out of this video and you are so right about the distractions causing people to fall short of their business goals.

Take care,

Larry

Well, three words – one vowel – for this video..

A – real – game – changer.

I am still on a dial-up so it was worth the wait..

Especially the part about Amazon.com.

I developed the Ultimate Guide on my own.

It is 230 pages. I have been looking to develop more ebooks within my niche a lot faster..

I won’t be joining right now, but what I got out of this video has given me some valuable insight..

Thanks John – Great concept, good video..

Robert C – The Wholesale Products Guy

Great video John!

I have heard about using amazon before to research the market, but never quite like this. It makes such sense and seems almost simple once said…. Wow, I have been in the IM world for awhile, I am used to ‘hype’, but this is really cool. I have been realizing the importance of outsourcing, I simply can’t do as much as I want to. But this video takes it to another level….

Kudos!

Jeromy

John,

What do you think about using precreated PLR ebooks for this method and just changing the cover?

Secondly what does Adam sell as a backend to his products after the initial sale of the $27 ebook. For instance, what would be the backend for bettafish ebook? It is hard to think of a good back end for most niches in my opinion.

Your input would be helpful.

Wow ! I love these ideas – so cool. Thanks John – As you say, super simple and all those great research resources at your finger tips!

Very interesting video! Though like others I had some major problems viewing the video. To be honest it drove me crazy but I stuck it out and was worth it as there’s some great info. Well it looks like I have a whole bunch more work for my guys in the Philippines to do (-;

John & Adam

Thanks so much for that – genius in it’s simplicity!

Gotta go – I’m off to do some research!

Cheers – Andy

I’m in complete agreement with Adam that http://www.dummies.com/ is the place to get juicy niche secrets.

Writers in the Philipines are better than American writers?

I believe Adam’s stuff is top shelf when it comes to intelligent niche marketing. I joined NPC yesterday (before seeing this video) and I have been impressed with both the quality and quantity of the material provided.

I’ve gone through some of the lessons and I must say that Adam’s a great teacher, too. The content is easy to digest and very easy to implement. This is perhaps the most complete training I’ve come across to date. Plus, the price is within the average person’s reach.

I’ve decided to turn a deaf ear to the IM world for a while a focus solely on learning and implementing what’s taught in NPC. I’m not letting any “bright shiny objects” get me off course.

I haven’t been paid or asked to say any of this, but I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. NPC is pure gold.

Great stuff guys. I’m so tired of the high end IM stuff and all the other “bright shiny objects” … simplicity is key. Thanks for breaking it down in such a basic way.

Anyone can profit with that system

Great information. I use Amazon for research on selling physical products.

Here is another site for getting ideas for e-books
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/gateway/bestsellers.asp?z=y

You can cross check Amazons best sellers with Barnes and Nobles best sellers.

Hi John and the team,

Can someone let me know about the website that was talked about… So I can have a look…

Bata Fish Centre , com or similar that will be great thanks…. I can’t locate the website

The amazon research tips were brilliant : )

Cheers

Clayton J

@clayton

The website referenced is:

Betta Fish Center

I suppose that my honest comment has to be:
“I’ve heard all this before in various parts and pieces – but I’ve never seen it so simply explained and in such an encouraging and condensed fashion”!!!
This time I have actually been able to visualise the whole process (including Amazon Research) and can see myself succeeding at it – previous information led me to conclude that I’d never get all the pieces to tie together!
I’ve always found John to be a straight talking, sensible teacher – but here he has been matched by Adam and I’m totally won over.
Thank you so much for removing the veil and providing me with blinkers instead to remove future distraction! If I don’t use this to succeed then it’s my own fault and I might as well call it a day!!
Yours
John O’York

Thanks John for the Video with Adam.

For me it is timely information, beautifully and simply told!

It is a refreshing change from all the complex and discouraging stuff I have been told I need to know to succeed online. Best of all it has the potential to last the test of time.

Well done Adam. NPC here I come!

Hi John and Adam,
Thank you for the great interview. It truly was a “KISS” mind-blower! I love the simplicity of the concept. Finding the right product has been a major hurdle for me so I immediately went to Amazon to check out Adam’s product research suggestion. I wonder if you could answer a question for me? How do I sort the Amazon data by best sellers? If I can just come up with a good product, I think the rest will fall in place. I’m so stoked on the whole idea of building a business that leverages systems and outsourcing to the Philippines. I lived in the P.I. two years and would also love to re-establish that connection again. Filipinos are great people. Thanks again!

Jim Vickers

How do you outsource writers? I’m having an extremely difficult finding them in the phillipines. Like I use John’s suggestion of bestjobs.ph but I still can’t find any good writers.

The url doesn’t work? It seems the website has been suspended??? Any help would be appreciated.

John

I just wanted to say thank you.I have been searching for the right vehicle to start my internet business with luckily I found two – you and Adam – the rest are now history here I go

Thanks

George

@George

- You’re welcome.

Yeah, it’s amazing what happens when you put these elements together:

-Adams business model
-Adams training
-My outsourcing model
-My outsourcing training

It really is a business that’s hard to fail at, combined with execution that is really hard to screw up (because you’re not the one doing the execution).

John

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Hi John,

May I know how you do an interview like this? I would like to do one myself?

Hope to hear from you soon!

John Tan

@John Tan – I did this interview with oovoo. It’s really good.

I too heard all of this before, but it is indeed put together in a simple, seemingly effective way.

My own reason, and probably for many others as well, as to why I’ve been driven off course in the IM world so frequently is I’ve been looking for some quick money makers as I don’t have – or want – a job, so I need a quick source of income.

Well now, I won’t mind working for others for a little time while I’m building long term assets.

Nice!

BTW I too would like to know where to get those great writers at $100 per ebook

I have contacted some people in the phillipines, not sure about the quality of there as of yet, but heck,$100 for a ebook, tell me where I can find these workers, maybe a hint? thanks.

DON’T subscribe to the membership site. They have the worst customer support ever and they don’t live up to their guarantee!

They state
“Your Niche Profit Classroom Membership Comes
With A No-Risk, No Questions Asked 30-Day
100% Money Back Guarantee”

THAT IS NOT TRUE!!!
I decided that the NPC was not for me after about 3 weeks and I have tried contacting them over 10 times getting my money back and they never get back to me. Their email address
contact@nicheprofitsupport.com
generates this error msg (and I have read online that lots pf ppl have the same problem)

“This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, due to being unable to connect successfully to the destination mail server.
contact@nicheprofitsupport.com”

Adam is good at talking and everything sounds good and I thought so too, until I wanted my money back, THEN it was total silence!

Believe me, it is not worth it!

John, it would be well worth you looking into Madelaine’s problem – it tarnishes your rep too if Adam’s not honouring his money-back guarantee.

WOW!!!

I have joined so many memberships in the last two years, I am fascinated with Internet Marketing but the information you have given me over the last week is amazing!!!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…

Good job well done I might say to you both! Very understanding and complete. Keep up the good work and I will be one of the many followers of yours. Thanks again!

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I tried to buy the NPC program yesterday… but it appears like Adam has shut it down at the payment screen???

The problem with niche marketing as it is today

This is in no way meant to say that niche marketing is rubbish. It is propably one of the most lucrative Internet marketing technique out there. I’m not saying either that the Niche Profit Classroom is a bad product. Actually, I think what the guys tell you there is golden. But what I have an issue with, is the way people have started to utilise those teachings. Let me explain.

When niche marketing first came to my attension and I started to study it, people who were already doing it told me this:

- Think about what you’re good at and list those things
- Pick one of those things and study if it’s a good niche subject to start with
- Think about WHO you’re serving and how you want to help them. Then build everything around that. (This one actually came from Cath Duncan, when I asked her for some pointers about starting a niche site).

Now I think that somewhere along the line, many of us got lost. Don’t know if it’s the greed, laziness or just pure unprofessionalism, but it’s something that needs to be adressed right now. What I’m talking about here is the way niche sites are now just popping up like mushrooms in a rain. And with the same exact formula. See for your self and google the following: “Privacy Assured: Your email address” (That’s one of many lines almost every single one of those niche sites use, because of the same exact site template). Then, compare the following:

http://www.bettafishcenter.com/
http://www.bestparrotguide.com/

It’s seems to me that all the owners of betta fish also seems to own a parrot..ummm..right?

Is this already a common habit to just use the same (who knows if even imaginary) referee on every niche site you create? I sure hope not. Another thing is the quality of the niche products. People are now just seeking for a lucrative niches they know exactly nothing about and make a E-book around it. One “rule” about niche marketing once was to “find a niche market you KNOW something about and then build everything around that”. If someone would ask me to write an E-book about “How to raise a donkey” (a subject I know absolutely nothing about), could I do it? Sure. But would the product be good, I seriously doubt it.

I’m sure these “silent money making machines” work, but with what cost? People will eventually notice, how they’re been ripped off by unprofessionals who just want to make big bucks fast. I’m not saying that everyone doing business with this formula is doing it for the wrong reasons, but I’m sure quite many are. What I hope, is that people would use the teachings of the niche profit classroom to find their own niche (they or the outsourced writer know something about), and then build a quality product around that. And for heaven’s sake, NOT FAKE any referees! In long term I think it’s bad business and will surely ruin the reputation of the niche marketer him-/herself.

Just my two cents.

nice video! – jen from manila, Philippines

Great video John and Adam… thanks.

I love the simplicity of the business plan and using Amazon and Dummies for research ~ priceless!

I do have to agree with Juha above though. I was shocked to see the testimonials the same on different niche sites. This unethical behavior is part of the reason the FTC and many states are cracking down on Internet Marketing and the need to have disclaimers.
http://www.websitelegalforms.com

I agree with Juha about the degradation of niche marketing and the flooding of the internet with these me-too cloned products.

I too was shocked to see the same testimonials on these two sites. This technique is definitely a consumer deception.

http://www.bettafishcenter.com/
http://www.bestparrotguide.com/

Juha,
If you think as if you are a publisher, not an author, then your point is moot. Take a look at a magazine publisher. Is the president of that company passionate about every last niche the company publishes in? I mean personally passionate and expert?

No.

Problem is, you are thinking like a solo freelancer. The advise you mentioned is tailored for a personal blog site developer.
The question you should have asked was, and I think John will agree, “What process would best help me get up and running a profitable business publishing on the web.

Then the answer would be something like: go to here for outsourcers, go to there for content research, go to the other place for market research to see if it is viable, go to this other place for codeing. etc.

What is wrong with pursuing topics others are experts in, and finding a way to make it all work with your publishing empire. Even if you don’t know jack about beta fish and parrots. Even if you use the same template. Even if you crank this out at top speed. Even with all that, you can still sleep at night knowing your business is in publishing, not authorship. You’ll kill yourself trying to make your own precious little passions so you-nique that it won’t end up making you any money to compensate for your time and effort.
Take John’s advise and think like a CEO, not a front line art director or copy writer.

Hey John,

Did you use Oovoo’s free version for this interview, or their pay-per-call, or pay-per-month version?

Great information in that video too – thanks!

Thanks
Steve

@JJ:

You are right. It is true that if you think yourself as a “publisher of a e-book empire”, you really don’t need to know anything about those niche subjects your e-books are about. But there’s a catch.

You say: “What is wrong with pursuing topics others are experts in, and finding a way to make it all work with your publishing empire.”

Nothing. If that is the case. But can you really find an author (outsourced guy/girl who does the content for your product), who really knows what he’s talking about in your e-book? Sometimes you will, sometimes you won’t. So ok, they do the subject research and then write about it. It’s all fine and and dandy if the subject is very easy (let’s say the betta fish for e.g.), but what if the subject would be about “guide to deep sea diving”? Or “Fixing your Harley Davidson motorcycle”?

If the outsourced guy is a diving pro, then sure – he could write about deep sea diving and the information would be probably good and accurate. But what if he has never dived himself, just researched the subject for a few days and then wrote about it? How credible would the content be?

Now you probably say, “but the those guys are very good at researching”. “I can just write in my sales letter that I’ve been personally diving for 20 years (even if I haven’t even snorkeled once in my lifetime) and I’m a diving pro”. If that’s the way you really want to go and put your name on it, then please do.

Personally, I would not trust an author if he doesn’t have ANY first hand experience on the subject he’s /she’s writing about. Take a look at the for dummies books: http://www.dummies.com/ They have a business which could be described as a “niche book empire”. But do they create the contents of their books just by assigning some random guy to do the research and then just publish it?

NO. They always hire some author who really knows about the subject he’s writing about. The “expert” author writes about the subject and then they publish the book.

I guess at the end of the day, it all comes down to a personal preference. Do you want your e-book to be a class A product, with content you can trust to be from a knowledgeable source? Or do you just trust the content is “good enough” so you can sell it and then just give refunds if someone is not happy with it?

What is really bothering me personally, is the fact that people outsource their product content creation, put their name on the cover, and then just write a sales letter where they claim to be an expert author of the subject. Ghostwriting or not, it’s just unethical. But sure..it’s business. Deal with it.

JJ,

You make a good point at looking at this from a publisher’s perspective. However, you are listing yourself as the author on the sales page, plus creating a persona as an expert. Unless you actually are the expert, then you must “create” your persona, i.e. “Jim Johnson has been raising donkeys for over 20 years…” That’s my problem with this model, it really gets in the grey area regarding ethic business practice.

Dee

I used the free version.

@ JJ and Juha

@JJ – totally agree about the mindset and WHO CARES IF YOU SPECIFICALLY ARE THE EXPERT WITH THE PASSION.

@JJ and juha

However, I do think that is bull that all three factors of the testamonials are identical.

the text is identical, except “parrot” in place of “beta”
the pictures of the women are identical
and thier names are identical

I DONT CARE IF THE SALES COPY IS IDENTICAL, BUT THE TESTAMONIALS BEING IDENTICAL DOES BOTHER ME

Good video guys. The concept is a good one, but people need to take out of it the message that this can be a) Easily done and b) Easily outsourced.

Any issues you have with the method, such as the testimonial thing then just do that differently i.e. give away some free copies on a related forum and get genuine testimonials to use.

Don’t dwell on the little snags, just think about the concept and get it done!

Roy

@JJ and juha

Both of you get a life and stop arguing on the Internet. Either use the information or don't.

Just download it and watch it on your computer from your hard drive.

Just download it and watch it on your computer from your hard drive.