Sunday, April 26, 2009

Free People Search as a Niche Market

Free People Search
In the opening I explained that 30% of all searches on Google and Yahoo are people search related. With the People Search Engine system it takes advantage of those figures. Every time someone uses your search engine to find some one you generate a commission through Clickbank, Mylife, and HD Publishing as a affiliate of these companies, which all are free to sign up with. Really, No costs so far. The owner of the system then pays you on three levels on all your referrals earning a total of $30 for each person you refer. If that wasn’t enough he has added Global Domains Inc or GDI. Your search engine now can also refer people to your GDI business which you earn $1 for each referral. Doesn’t sound like much but it does add up when it get going, plus the fact GDI pays $100 when you refer 5 people in a week. All of this is intergrated into one website, your people search engine. One thing that grabbed me was the guaranteed commission of $125 with in 24 hours. This statement is clearly marked and advertised and is fact whether he can gain the referrals or not. So far, this system does seem to be a solid business opportunity. I almost forgot the owner Tissa Godavitarne offers free training on how to market this niche business.
How do you get this system going? Well, when you sign up you sign up for the free affiliate programs which is very easy to do. Then you sign up for hosting of your search engine. You have a couple of options; 1, use lunarpages which is low cost $4.95 a month which is what I paid, or 2, use GDI which is also a low cost $10 a month. If you don’t have GDI now don’t worry they have a link to get you started there as well.
How do you advertise your search engine? Well, he has that covered as well for the first month he advertises for you. After the first month, he charges you $29.95 a month to advertise your site, and he explains that you need to learn how to advertise you site yourself, which is a must on the internet.
Wait, this is supposed to be a review and a review has two sides. I will in all honesty try to find some negative points of this system.
Upon sign up you are directed to sign up for the affiliate programs that Mr. Godavitarne suggests. I am a believer that you really shouldn’t sign up for to many affiliate programs. This is a big mistake many new marketers make, myself included, it takes your focus away from your business, and it can lead to being overworked. But if you are good at time management it can be done, just don’t let the income streams that are making money slide away. The web hosting isn’t much of a problem at $4.95 a month, but they ask for it up front for the entire year. There is no option for monthly subscription, unless you choose GDI. Then you have the last step, advertising to obtain the guaranteed commission of $125 you have to sign up for the monthly subscription or buy something from him of equal value, to recieve 30 days free advertising and if you are not satisfied just end the subscription before the end of the 30 days. However, if you used the lunerpage hosting that is lost if you don’t create a new website. This is something to consider if you are new to developing websites. Free Training is available, he hosts webinars on specific dates and times, I haven’t found any past videos of past webinars only draw back that I see here.
There is one last step, that I haven’t mentioned here and is the last thing he mentions after you have done all the steps of setting up your people search engine. Maximizing your profits. If you want to take this step you have to sign up for another training program called Wealthy Affiliate University and take one course on article marketing or PPC advertising. The Monthly subscription is another $29.95 and the course cost $67 and he will turn on the super affiliate switch which could make you another $3000-5000 a month. I honestly would wait on this and see if you can make some money first and use the profits to pay for it. However, if uses another affiliate program through Lunarpages which if you use it for hosting they automatically sign you up for. To maintain your super affiliate switch you have to keep up all the steps and subscriptions.

In summary, I believe this system to be a solid business model, and since I have already made my Guaranteed Commission plus one referral I can recommend this business, and if you are already in GDI its another great way to promote that stream of income.
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