Here’s a little story I made up tonight while talking to my girlfriend on how to find your niche market online:

Long time ago, before they had electricity in the Wild Wild West, there were cowboys and shoemakers. Cowboys killed bad guys and the Shoemakers made the best customized shoes in the whole Wild Wild West, which includes California, Nevada, Arizona, and couple other really dry states.

The cowboys only wanted shoes from this one shoemaker who practiced out of Dallas, Texas. He’s fame wasn’t grown by himself, it had been growing ever since his ancient relatives had immigrated to America from Amsterdam. He’s name was Jeremy, often dubbed as “the ShoeMaker”. They made these leather custom shoes with special iron inserts that’d protect you from anything, even bullets.

Here’s how he did it:

Every shoemaker in the country could make these customized bullt-proof shoe makes, but it was never any shoemakers’ speciality. Meaning, Jeremy the ShoeMaker was the best at the customized shoes, specially made for high pressure cowboy-style gun fights. He’s also the 3rd generation of previous Shoe making legends such as his Father, John ShoeMaker and his grandfather, Darren ShoeMaker. Soon, the general public caught on the the buzz of word-of-mouth marketing and started buying ShoeMaker’s shoes in a frenzy. Soon, the type of shoes became to be known as the “Shoemaker Shoes“. Although these shoes were copied and replicated by other shrewd shoemakers over and over, the legacy of the Shoemakers became known everywhere. The Shoemakers built a brand that could last 100 decades through word of mouth. Their sales? Incredibly explosive, exponential, equal to 9 figure numbers today.

The lesson in this story for our lifetime:

Jeremy ShoeMaker has dominated the market simply by having no competition. He sought out a blue ocean, not a bloody competitive red ocean where you are fightin’ for every dime. Once they had the market to monopolize, they used their specialty to promote themselves forever and ever.

HOWTO do it online:

Find a niche market no one is blogging, e-mailing, wiki-ing, facebooking, or myspacing about.

Make sure it’s something everyone else can copy but you will always be ahead.

Promote it with word-of-mouth like crazy. Network crazy with your fellow bloggers and make new ideas into new monetizable websites.

P.S. None of the names actually were meant to be associated with any real bloggers like Jeremy Shoemaker, John Chow, and Darren Rowse.
We didn’t mean to that is…lol…

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Check out IPSOJOBS, it’s a new job listing website. It’s completely free and you don’t even have to sign up for an account.

You can check out San Francisco jobs here. Guess what? I am the administrator for the San Francisco listing!

Here’s a quick post I did on the Net: (Digg It) Reason for this? I feel bitter about BlogRush about them saying crap about how people are cheating and on top it, I like this Graham Langdon guy, he’s a nice guy and a gentlemen.  They are also giving out some free ads so why not enter?

I have been keeping a keen eye on the new project by creator of Million Dollar Wiki, Graham Langdon. His new EntreCard, a free widget for bloggers, allows bloggers to advertise and trade 125×125 pixel ads for free. The above is a Alexa web traffic charts comparing BlogRush and EntreCard. As you can see, BlogRush did get MASSIVE traffic in the beginning and slowly on its way downhill. On the other hand, EntreCard started very very SLOW, and seems to have caught up with BlogRush already. Once EntreCard gets out to even more bloggers, the viral effect will cause EntreCard to exponentially grow. Am I an EntreCard evangelist? Hell yes, because it’s a great advertising system built on great functionalities unlike BlogRush.

Now, you can see a close-up of what’s been happening between EntreCard and BlogRush in the last 4 weeks. I bet it won’t be more than 2 weeks before EntreCard eclipses BlogRush. What will happen to BlogRush? It will probably die and suffer massively while EntreCard “converts” BlogRush users to its own.

If you are a blogger and haven’t tried EntreCard, try it today. Our card is the one with One Buck Wiki and EntreWiki so, drop us a card!

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With so much fake stuff around could you tell the difference between to real thing and the wrong thing?

In this image the fakes are pretty easy to spot, but with a bit of cosmetic sorting out then it may be impossible to tell for some people.

However these games consuls only work out at around $3 at wholesale, so they are hardly going to be of the same quality as the real thing anyhow and you only get what you pay for.

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Now this is what every blogger needs for motivation and if successful for showing off purposes too.

Once wired up this old time bell will ring every time your blog gets a hit, it will either make everyone jealous or embarrass you to hell.

Whatever the reason, it a cool thing.

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Hey, now we are offering web traffic services on Zedomax.Net. We can bring you about 300 to 500 extra visitors per day. You can see an example of it on Mike’s post on Bloggin-Ads. How much?  Just $200 for a month.  You try it for 1 month and if you don’t get at least extra 10,000 visitors, we will refund your money.

If you need a jump start for your new blog or online e-store, we could probably do it free. But if you want us to do it right so you get residual traffic, paypal us $200 at max [at] zedomax.com and shoot us an email of your website URL.  We will try to keep it low in the beginning, maybe something like $200 per month. That’s about 2 cents per visitor at 300 visitors per day. Not too shabby if you can’t figure out how to get traffic to your site.  We will even add you to blogroll on Zedomax.com as an extra bonus.  (That’s over 6000 pages of SEO links!)

Guess what I did all day today? I made a new logo for Zedomax Network. Actually the logo itself isn’t new. I made the logo when I was 9. (That’s almost 20 years ago!)

I just put slightly different colors to it. Well, any comments on it appreciated. Bring ‘em on!

I am really trying to monetize this blog lately due to my recent joblessness. I will be incorporating soon so that’d be good for taxes, huh?

Check out the new paid wiki services we provide here. I am also working on this new site with a Berkeley professor and my Real Estate friend Josh, but maybe I shouldn’t tell anybody yet.  Shhh… don’t tell anyone yet.

I need to hire people but don’t have that much money, anyone wanna guest blog? Lol…you know that was a joke right? Well, not the guest blog part. If anyone wants to guest blog, send your article and images to zedomax [at] gmail.com. (You gotta be a blogger though.)

P.S. Check out our latest web traffic, we are getting over 450K visitors per month! Too bad, I am not so marketing savvy like John Chow but gettin’ there…

I think we are going to start posting more on making money online and how to monetize your blog. Well, not on here, but on Zedomax.Biz. check it out if you haven’t. I made it so I can say some ramblings on how to make money online. It’s not going well because I am always jumping from blog to blog constantly but will try to post at least one per day. It’s actually a blog/social network made using Wordpress and Pligg. Go figure, huh?

Do you have a business? Whether you have a Mattress Store or other goods and services to sell, you can list yourself on Google Maps. What does this do for you?

Basically, everytime someone searches for a Business on GoogleMaps, you are likely to pop up first if you are near by that location. This could be very good for free advertising since a lot of people have been using Google Maps on their phones to navigate through today’s traffic and find places fast.

Personally, I use a Blackberry 8830 that comes with GPS so I can use Google Maps and press 0, which takes me to my current location. A lot of times, I search for banks or restaurants nearby while I am driving. I’ve saved so much time with this nifty phone and GoogleMaps. But you CAN get your business listed. It’s very simple.

Think about how many people use Google Maps everyday on their GPS enabled phones to find businesses or restaurants. If you are not listed, you are probably missing out on at least 1,000 impressions a day for free advertising through GoogleMaps.

Here’s the directions on how to get yourself listed: (Follow the link and then follow the directions)

Add your business as a Local Business on GoogleMaps

Yes, it’s as simple as entering your business information and verifying it with an automated phone call from Google. If this post helped you, make sure to check out the new Quarter Wiki and the EntreWiki.

Here’s our business listed on Google Maps if you type, “Zedomax” on Google Maps: (Now I tell my friends to type “zedomax” on their phone to find my apartment)

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Check out this cool video I found while browsing my friend Collin’s blog, MixedMarketArts.

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