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Non-English Markets Are Ripe With Opportunity


I was listening to an interview with Mike Geary, conducted by Mike Filsaime and Anik Silver, from inside the Launch Tree members area. The topic of the interview focused on Mike G’s efforts to market his ebook on getting six-pack abs in different languages, which he has successfully done to the tune of several millions of dollars of additional revenue thanks to entering markets in German, French and Spanish.

Over the years I’ve been asked many times by new bloggers who are coming from non-English speaking backgrounds whether they should attempt to start a blog in English, even though English is not their first language, or focus their blog on their native tongue.

Although the answer to this question varies depending on the market and languages involved, in general I tell people to go with the language they are strongest in, especially if they are going to write their blog themselves. In fact, I believe many non-English markets represent a huge untapped opportunity, and listening to this interview cemented my assumption further.

Pay Per Click In Japanese

I remember thinking years ago as I began to study some of Perry Marshall’s work on Pay Per Click marketing, that there is no way this kind of information is available to study in other languages to the depth that Perry had taken it. This to me represented an opportunity to become “the Perry” of Japan, or another country and potentially make a lot of money (unfortunately I only speak Canadian, so I wasn’t in a position to go for it).

Taking the other side of the coin to teaching PPC in other countries, a big opportunity exists if you can implement PPC in other languages to sell anything from affiliate products to your own goods or services.

People in other countries use Google to search too, thus there is a huge untapped market potential to buy traffic through paid search in other languages, where your competition will either be non-existent or very weak. This will likely be a much more affordable source of traffic compared to the English equivalent, since PPC like AdWords is driven on a supply/demand model for pricing. The less competition for keywords, the less you pay.

In the case of bloggers, establishing an authority blog that dominates a niche, or even better – defines a niche – can be done in other languages as well and usually means you face far fewer bloggers writing about the same thing.

Imagine if I was the only blogger writing about Internet marketing in say Japanese? That means I could launch products and have a captive audience. Provided I did a good job, which means I provide relevant, valuable information for that target market, I could become the go-to guy for that subject in that language and have a lot of customers as a result.

Of course it’s not likely you will have absolutely no competition in non-English markets, but it is very likely you won’t have many quality competitors. Let’s state something that might be obvious – Americans are fantastic marketers. That’s not saying there aren’t good marketers in other countries, but generally speaking at least, there won’t be as many, it’s simply a numbers game.

Go Foreign

You can take this idea to virtually any marketplace in another language, as long as one condition is satisfied – there has to be enough people who speak that language to support your idea.

As Mike pointed out in the interview, the languages he went after like German, French and Spanish have tens or even hundreds of millions of people who speak that language, in tech savvy countries who use the Internet, including Google search, on a regular basis.

Assuming your language has enough people to support it, then it’s simply a matter of picking a market you have expertise in and get out there and dominate.

If there’s a market in English that is profitable and massive, for example – dating, weight loss, health or make money – there’s a very good chance you will have a hungry market in other languages, and they won’t be serviced by nearly as many quality products and services since very few companies bother to tap into other languages beyond English.

You could start a blog in another language, or like Mike, convert your ebook to another language and use your same marketing techniques (e.g. PPC) in other languages, or any product or service you currently sell to English markets.

What If You Don’t Have A Product?

One of the ideas I really liked that came out of the interview, if you are fluent in another language and have some marketing savvy, is to head to a site like Clickbank, find the best sellers, and then offer to partner with the product producer to create a version in another language that you market together in a partnership.

Although I didn’t quite catch the exact numbers in the interview, I got the impression that for example Mike’s foray into the German language resulted in a couple of million dollars in extra revenue. Although 75% of that went to affiliates in this case (that’s what Mike pays out in Clickbank), even if that leaves only around half a million left over in profit, if you’re splitting that with the creator of the book, you’re walking away pretty happy.

The great thing about this strategy is you don’t have to worry about finding profitable markets or creating a product or perhaps even figuring out how to market it. You’re job as the “translator” is to take the product and the system used to sell it and then make it work in your language and get a nice cut of the profits in exchange. The creator of the product wins too as he or she gets access to an entire new marketplace without needing to do much work beyond helping to ensure everything is implemented as it should be.

There are layers to an arrangement like this that you would have to nut out carefully. Success depends on the relationship you establish and a clear communication over who is responsible for what, but this is nothing different from any business partnership.

Dominate Local Markets

If you’re reading this, you understand some basics of online marketing and you have a strong understanding of a language other than English, you should consider what could be done in your local market.

Most people don’t, so that’s why this is such a great opportunity – and it won’t be like this forever.

As online marketers become more savvy you will see companies expanding into other markets and it will become competitive in other languages too. Right now you still have plenty of opportunity even in the most popular industries, so don’t let this pass if you’re in a position to go for it.

Yaro Starak
Typing English


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Non-English Markets Are Ripe With Opportunity


I was listening to an interview with Mike Geary, conducted by Mike Filsaime and Anik Silver, from inside the Launch Tree members area. The topic of the interview focused on Mike G’s efforts to market his ebook on getting six-pack abs in different languages, which he has successfully done to the tune of several millions of dollars of additional revenue thanks to entering markets in German, French and Spanish.

Over the years I’ve been asked many times by new bloggers who are coming from non-English speaking backgrounds whether they should attempt to start a blog in English, even though English is not their first language, or focus their blog on their native tongue.

Although the answer to this question varies depending on the market and languages involved, in general I tell people to go with the language they are strongest in, especially if they are going to write their blog themselves. In fact, I believe many non-English markets represent a huge untapped opportunity, and listening to this interview cemented my assumption further.

Pay Per Click In Japanese

I remember thinking years ago as I began to study some of Perry Marshall’s work on Pay Per Click marketing, that there is no way this kind of information is available to study in other languages to the depth that Perry had taken it. This to me represented an opportunity to become “the Perry” of Japan, or another country and potentially make a lot of money (unfortunately I only speak Canadian, so I wasn’t in a position to go for it).

Taking the other side of the coin to teaching PPC in other countries, a big opportunity exists if you can implement PPC in other languages to sell anything from affiliate products to your own goods or services.

People in other countries use Google to search too, thus there is a huge untapped market potential to buy traffic through paid search in other languages, where your competition will either be non-existent or very weak. This will likely be a much more affordable source of traffic compared to the English equivalent, since PPC like AdWords is driven on a supply/demand model for pricing. The less competition for keywords, the less you pay.

In the case of bloggers, establishing an authority blog that dominates a niche, or even better – defines a niche – can be done in other languages as well and usually means you face far fewer bloggers writing about the same thing.

Imagine if I was the only blogger writing about Internet marketing in say Japanese? That means I could launch products and have a captive audience. Provided I did a good job, which means I provide relevant, valuable information for that target market, I could become the go-to guy for that subject in that language and have a lot of customers as a result.

Of course it’s not likely you will have absolutely no competition in non-English markets, but it is very likely you won’t have many quality competitors. Let’s state something that might be obvious – Americans are fantastic marketers. That’s not saying there aren’t good marketers in other countries, but generally speaking at least, there won’t be as many, it’s simply a numbers game.

Go Foreign

You can take this idea to virtually any marketplace in another language, as long as one condition is satisfied – there has to be enough people who speak that language to support your idea.

As Mike pointed out in the interview, the languages he went after like German, French and Spanish have tens or even hundreds of millions of people who speak that language, in tech savvy countries who use the Internet, including Google search, on a regular basis.

Assuming your language has enough people to support it, then it’s simply a matter of picking a market you have expertise in and get out there and dominate.

If there’s a market in English that is profitable and massive, for example – dating, weight loss, health or make money – there’s a very good chance you will have a hungry market in other languages, and they won’t be serviced by nearly as many quality products and services since very few companies bother to tap into other languages beyond English.

You could start a blog in another language, or like Mike, convert your ebook to another language and use your same marketing techniques (e.g. PPC) in other languages, or any product or service you currently sell to English markets.

What If You Don’t Have A Product?

One of the ideas I really liked that came out of the interview, if you are fluent in another language and have some marketing savvy, is to head to a site like Clickbank, find the best sellers, and then offer to partner with the product producer to create a version in another language that you market together in a partnership.

Although I didn’t quite catch the exact numbers in the interview, I got the impression that for example Mike’s foray into the German language resulted in a couple of million dollars in extra revenue. Although 75% of that went to affiliates in this case (that’s what Mike pays out in Clickbank), even if that leaves only around half a million left over in profit, if you’re splitting that with the creator of the book, you’re walking away pretty happy.

The great thing about this strategy is you don’t have to worry about finding profitable markets or creating a product or perhaps even figuring out how to market it. You’re job as the “translator” is to take the product and the system used to sell it and then make it work in your language and get a nice cut of the profits in exchange. The creator of the product wins too as he or she gets access to an entire new marketplace without needing to do much work beyond helping to ensure everything is implemented as it should be.

There are layers to an arrangement like this that you would have to nut out carefully. Success depends on the relationship you establish and a clear communication over who is responsible for what, but this is nothing different from any business partnership.

Dominate Local Markets

If you’re reading this, you understand some basics of online marketing and you have a strong understanding of a language other than English, you should consider what could be done in your local market.

Most people don’t, so that’s why this is such a great opportunity – and it won’t be like this forever.

As online marketers become more savvy you will see companies expanding into other markets and it will become competitive in other languages too. Right now you still have plenty of opportunity even in the most popular industries, so don’t let this pass if you’re in a position to go for it.

Yaro Starak
Typing English


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Non-English Markets Are Ripe With Opportunity


I was listening to an interview with Mike Geary, conducted by Mike Filsaime and Anik Silver, from inside the Launch Tree members area. The topic of the interview focused on Mike G’s efforts to market his ebook on getting six-pack abs in different languages, which he has successfully done to the tune of several millions of dollars of additional revenue thanks to entering markets in German, French and Spanish.

Over the years I’ve been asked many times by new bloggers who are coming from non-English speaking backgrounds whether they should attempt to start a blog in English, even though English is not their first language, or focus their blog on their native tongue.

Although the answer to this question varies depending on the market and languages involved, in general I tell people to go with the language they are strongest in, especially if they are going to write their blog themselves. In fact, I believe many non-English markets represent a huge untapped opportunity, and listening to this interview cemented my assumption further.

Pay Per Click In Japanese

I remember thinking years ago as I began to study some of Perry Marshall’s work on Pay Per Click marketing, that there is no way this kind of information is available to study in other languages to the depth that Perry had taken it. This to me represented an opportunity to become “the Perry” of Japan, or another country and potentially make a lot of money (unfortunately I only speak Canadian, so I wasn’t in a position to go for it).

Taking the other side of the coin to teaching PPC in other countries, a big opportunity exists if you can implement PPC in other languages to sell anything from affiliate products to your own goods or services.

People in other countries use Google to search too, thus there is a huge untapped market potential to buy traffic through paid search in other languages, where your competition will either be non-existent or very weak. This will likely be a much more affordable source of traffic compared to the English equivalent, since PPC like AdWords is driven on a supply/demand model for pricing. The less competition for keywords, the less you pay.

In the case of bloggers, establishing an authority blog that dominates a niche, or even better – defines a niche – can be done in other languages as well and usually means you face far fewer bloggers writing about the same thing.

Imagine if I was the only blogger writing about Internet marketing in say Japanese? That means I could launch products and have a captive audience. Provided I did a good job, which means I provide relevant, valuable information for that target market, I could become the go-to guy for that subject in that language and have a lot of customers as a result.

Of course it’s not likely you will have absolutely no competition in non-English markets, but it is very likely you won’t have many quality competitors. Let’s state something that might be obvious – Americans are fantastic marketers. That’s not saying there aren’t good marketers in other countries, but generally speaking at least, there won’t be as many, it’s simply a numbers game.

Go Foreign

You can take this idea to virtually any marketplace in another language, as long as one condition is satisfied – there has to be enough people who speak that language to support your idea.

As Mike pointed out in the interview, the languages he went after like German, French and Spanish have tens or even hundreds of millions of people who speak that language, in tech savvy countries who use the Internet, including Google search, on a regular basis.

Assuming your language has enough people to support it, then it’s simply a matter of picking a market you have expertise in and get out there and dominate.

If there’s a market in English that is profitable and massive, for example – dating, weight loss, health or make money – there’s a very good chance you will have a hungry market in other languages, and they won’t be serviced by nearly as many quality products and services since very few companies bother to tap into other languages beyond English.

You could start a blog in another language, or like Mike, convert your ebook to another language and use your same marketing techniques (e.g. PPC) in other languages, or any product or service you currently sell to English markets.

What If You Don’t Have A Product?

One of the ideas I really liked that came out of the interview, if you are fluent in another language and have some marketing savvy, is to head to a site like Clickbank, find the best sellers, and then offer to partner with the product producer to create a version in another language that you market together in a partnership.

Although I didn’t quite catch the exact numbers in the interview, I got the impression that for example Mike’s foray into the German language resulted in a couple of million dollars in extra revenue. Although 75% of that went to affiliates in this case (that’s what Mike pays out in Clickbank), even if that leaves only around half a million left over in profit, if you’re splitting that with the creator of the book, you’re walking away pretty happy.

The great thing about this strategy is you don’t have to worry about finding profitable markets or creating a product or perhaps even figuring out how to market it. You’re job as the “translator” is to take the product and the system used to sell it and then make it work in your language and get a nice cut of the profits in exchange. The creator of the product wins too as he or she gets access to an entire new marketplace without needing to do much work beyond helping to ensure everything is implemented as it should be.

There are layers to an arrangement like this that you would have to nut out carefully. Success depends on the relationship you establish and a clear communication over who is responsible for what, but this is nothing different from any business partnership.

Dominate Local Markets

If you’re reading this, you understand some basics of online marketing and you have a strong understanding of a language other than English, you should consider what could be done in your local market.

Most people don’t, so that’s why this is such a great opportunity – and it won’t be like this forever.

As online marketers become more savvy you will see companies expanding into other markets and it will become competitive in other languages too. Right now you still have plenty of opportunity even in the most popular industries, so don’t let this pass if you’re in a position to go for it.

Yaro Starak
Typing English


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Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 Is Now Open… For 5 Days Only!


I’ll make this short and sweet as I suspect you have made your decision already about whether to join the Become A Blogger Premium 2.0, which starts today and is open until Friday midnight EST US time.

You can read about what is in the program and join at this page. Make sure you watch the welcome video if you want to visually see what is inside the members area -

www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

If you enjoyed the Roadmap report, the 10 videos on how to set up an optimized WordPress blog, my video on how to rapidly grow your blog traffic and Gideon’s presentation of 7 YouTube marketing tips that we released all for free during the last week, then I know you will love the Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 course.

Enrollments start today and our first coaching call is next week. We’re not opening this program again any time soon, so you have just a few days to decide. This happens to be the most affordable blog training program I have on the market, so if you’re ready to commit yourself to following professional online training and you’ve got under $50 a month budget, you’re in!

www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

I’ll see you on the inside.

Yaro (and on behalf of Gideon too!)


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Video: How To Rapidly Grow Your Blog Traffic


(Yaro’s Presentation On Impact Marketing Techniques.)

Press play to begin watching the video (this video is taken from directly inside the Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 course).

I’m giving you access to a special preview of one of the strategy video presentations I did for the Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 course. Note this video I’m sharing with you today is hosted on Viddler, however the premium videos inside the members area are all hosted on our internal servers.

This video is a particularly powerful one as it covers my concept of “Impact Marketing”.

Many bloggers struggle to build significant traffic and that’s usually because they lack any truly effective marketing techniques. There are many simple blog traffic building techniques that work, but they work slowly and don’t have a big impact. Impact Marketing is all about making a splash and attracting greater than average traffic back to your blog.

This video reveals some of the impact techniques I’ve used and seen others use to great effect online. Remember these techniques are more than just linkbait (although they make great linkbait too), this is about building long term traffic attracting assets that keep a stream of people come to your blog over time and a rush of people coming in the short term.

Do You Like To Know Why And Then See How?

This video is an example of the strategy focused videos in the Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 program. About 25% of the videos are like these, with me presenting to you my strategies and techniques from a conceptual point of view.

The rest of the videos show you how to implement the ideas live, by taking you through each step to make the technique a reality. Gideon Shalwick teaches you all the how-to videos and does a darn good job at it too!

If you’re ready to take your blogging seriously, want a clear path to success, have some time over the coming months to focus on your blog and enjoy the teaching style Gideon and I use, then please don’t miss out on this run of our program.

We’re not likely to open it again to the public during 2009, so you have five days to get in, get busy and be part of the class of 09.

From Monday June 29th you will be able to sign-up for the program from here

www.BecomeABlogger.com/SignUp/

In the meantime please enjoy this video and let me know what you think of the presentation.

Yaro Starak
Videoing


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