Now really this sounds a load of old rubbish to most people, and do you know what – most posts with that title would indeed be a load of rubbish – but not this one. So my story – I am making money with Internet marketing and this year I have started doing it full time. However at no point was I many thousands in debt, I wasn’t living in a cheap hotel room, I didn’t have an empty fridge (although my waistline might have appreciated that). In fact I was doing pretty well, I’d been an IT Consultant for about 20 years, made good money but at the price of travelling a lot and being away from home.
So I wanted to change my life because I was bored with computers, bored with being away from home and wanted to do something interesting. Now here I’d like to raise a small red flag to warn you – Internet Marketing definitely has it’s advantages but to be honest it’s not that exciting. All the Gurus you see hyperventilating over their next new product are either brilliant liars or have a different perspective on life than me and probably you. Internet marketing won’t change the world but it can make you a living.
This is what it’s all about, it’s a living and possibly a very good living but it’s certainly not easy. So it does actually take work, although the monetary outlay can be a lot less than perhaps starting a business in the real world – the work involved is probably more. So if you aren’t prepared to invest many hours initially to achieve your goal, I’d save yourself the bother.
I have spent about 30 hours a week for about 2 years to be able to choose to do this full time. There are lots of clever bastards who do it much quicker apparently, and some probably did. But please consider although I had no marketing skills none of the IT stuff involved was very difficult for me – if you haven’t got good computer skills – some little tasks might take some time.
Anyway the point of this post is don’t buy any product or service that promises you untold wealth for little effort – they are all lying. If you are having a bad time and do need to try and make money from your home computer then – yes it is perfectly possible with some initiative and hard work. Don’t spend lots of money though to start out on your journey, if you find a product that you think might be ok, step back and analyse, make sure they’ve got some money back guarantee and do some searches on the internet. Be careful of most review sites online though as they will usually be good because they’re affiliated with the product and get a kickback if you buy. If you want some help before buying – mail me at – info(at)ngbconsult.co.uk and I’ll either buy it before or check it out for you. Before you spend money be very, very sure it’s what you need.


What is SEO Target Marketing?
If you’re reading this page then it’s likely you have an idea about what I mean by SEO target marketing. But this page is directed at those new to this area so let’s just break down the terms, to fully understand what it means. The information might not be exciting but I used this very concept to start my new life in Internet marketing. I was able to give up my well paid consultancy job to work full time from my own home making a very good income. You can do the same, if you learn the basic concepts well and not get sidetracked by get rich schemes.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, the practice of optimizing your web page, blog or whatever to ensure you get more traffic from the search engines. The art (or is it Science) of SEO is fundamental to this marketing technique.

Let me give you a very brief overview of SEO first and then I’ll leave some links to further reading at the end of this post. Unless you’re very lucky and have a worldwide brand under your control you are going to rely heavily on the search engines to bring traffic to your web site. So how do Search engines bring traffic – well simple, they process what you type into the search box and then display a list of web pages in response to that search. If you typed in “Fishing in South Dakota” – you’d expect to see a list of web pages that contained information on “Fishing in South Dakota”, if you didn’t then you’d probably go else where.
Putting SEO Target Marketing into Action
When you perform SEO on a web page, you have to decide which phrase or search words you are targeting, which market you’re targeting if you like. This process is called keyword research. It’s probably best explained by some examples. Let’s pick an example, perhaps you have a small hotel near Yellowstone National Park and you’ve set up a web site to bring in customers. Great, but nobody ever does visit because you’re relying on people just finding your web site. You need to engage with the search engines to try and bring customers to your site.
So lets look at the first stage, keyword research – it simply means finding the best search queries that your web site will appear in. So let’s have a look at some possibilities here -
Search Query Daily Requests
yellowstone hotels 9896
yellowstone park hotels 6608
yellowstone national park hotels 5425
yellowstone lodging 2433
travel yellowstone 2433
west yellowstone hotels 2433
yellowstone hotel 1989
yellowstone map 1627
yellowstone lake 1332
yellowstone lodge 1088
inn yellowstone 1088
yellowstone vacation 891
yellowstone tours 730
yellowstone camping 730
yellowstone park map 730
cabins yellowstone 730
yellowstone park hotel 595
yellowstone wolves 595
fishing yellowstone 595
near yellowstone 595
yellowstone vacations 487
yellowstone national park hotel 398
yellowstone reservations 398
yellowstone tour 398
yellowstone pictures 398
yellowstone packages 398
yellowstone motel 398
lake yellowstone hotel 325
yellowstone wyoming hotels 325
yellowstone motels 325
yellowstone cabin 325
yellowstone snowmobile 325
yellowstone village 325
So we can see a list of example search queries and an estimate of how many times these are searched for every day. Of course some of those terms would be more appealing to our hotel owner, some would be more likely to bring in paying customers, other terms may be too general. If the hotel was in the West of Yellowstone then the phrase
west yellowstone hotels 2433