How to Profit From Awesome Mini-Sites

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

Firstly, a “mini site” is targeted to a very tight niche market, and delivers very specific 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 within. A mini-site can have at bare minimum two pages; the sales page and the download page. Even larger minisites rarely have more than 10 pages,since the content itself is distributed in PDF formats.

Traffic from search engines is just one of the ways to make sales from your own minisite. Since all the really good content is behind closed doors, Google will never be able to index it and give it a favorable search engine ranking. Therefore if you want to create and sell 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 minisites, 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 salespage images 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 ready-made mini site 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. If you have no money for Photoshop, try GIMP.

With a couple of good GIMP video tutorials you can get all the skills you need as far as creating mini-sites is concerned, but you probably can’t make use of cool stuff like Photoshop cover action scripts and templates.