by Mark E. Mason on December 1, 2008
I have written several times in the past about how Micro Niche Finder was the first keyword tool that I ever purchased, and how I still use it today because of the great user interface. I have also talked about how you can build cool eBay niche stores using WordPress and the phpBay plugin.
In November, James Jones from Micro Niche Finder had a contest and asked people to send in videos about how people were using his software. I completed an entry as a way to say thanks to James for all the great support that he provides, including free lifetime upgrades for his customers. As I wrote recently, James is right in the middle of a serious of major upgrades to his keyword tool.
I thought you might be interested to see my entry. My idea was simple -- think up a niche store idea and build a quick and dirty site. In the video below, I show where I got the idea for a BMW autoparts store, how I did quick and dirty keyword research using Micro Niche Finder, how I bought the domain name and set up the store in about an hour using WordPress and phpBay. It's all there.
Enjoy.
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by Mark E. Mason on November 5, 2008
On a whim I bought Matt Callen's SimplyPLR product tonight to see what it was all about. Basically, the product is a membership site that delivers 225 limited distribution Private Label Rights articles each month. The articles are delivered in two formats -- normal text files and "spin ready". The membership site is hooked up to the free spinner at ArticleApps.com -- which gets you 12 versions of the spun articles at a time.
There is also a cool automatic blog posting feature that will allow you to post to your blogs automatically using the XLMRPC feature present in WordPress and other popular blogging platforms.
I am pretty impressed by the slick nature of the user interface inside the membership site. Also, I am totally impressed with the quality of the articles that I reviewed (just a few at random so far). Pretty quality stuff. The spun articles are high quality as well (mostly spinning complete sentences).
Here is an example of a couple of paragraphs out of a spun article titled "Enterprise Rental Cars: Read the Full Article →
