My MLM Dream Team

If you want to make money online, creating and marketing with minisites is perhaps the fastest and cheapest way to achieve your goals.

Firstly, a “mini site” serves a very specific niche market, and delivers very specialized content, usually in the form of a members area. Mini-sites are not like blogs or other type of content sites; they sell access to the information instead of giving it out for free. A mini-site can have at bare minimum two pages; the sales page and the download page. Even larger sites rarely have more than 10 “member” pages.

Traffic from search engines is just one of the ways to make sales from your own minisite. Since your content is mostly in PDF / audio / video format, Google will never find it rank it. Therefore if you want to market minisites, you need affiliates – and LOTS of them. When your site is new and you need to make sales fast, a little bit of PPC knowledge comes in handy.

The most important part of any mini sites, besides the content, is the sales page. You need to understand how to write basic sales copy that sells, and also arm yourself with a lot of sales page graphics and other images you can use to make your copy look appealing. Creating a pure-text sales copy is a big mistake, but most people still do it.

The overall design and appearance of your mini-sites also matters. You can either hire someone to create your design or you can buy web 2.0 minisite templates and easily put together a stunning site yourself.

If you create minisites a lot, you need to pick up the basic web design skills. GIMP is a great free alternative to Photoshop.

With the right GIMP videos you can get all the skills you need as far as marketing minisites is concerned, but you probably can’t make use of cool stuff like Photoshop e-book cover scripts and templates.