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Mini Site Research, Creation and Marketing 101 |
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What is a Mini Site?The term Mini Website or Mini Site refers to a small website that is constructed with a singular purpose, to promote a particular idea or sell a particular product. Comprised of usually no more than one or two pages a mini site is designed to promote a sole asset or agenda.Mini websites offer a quick and inexpensive way to put your product out on the web for world wide consumption. With no more than a domain name and a page of HTML your offering can be seen by the whole internet community. All it takes is a product that is desirable to visitors and then submitting it, via a mini site, to the various search engines. |
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The process of designing a Mini SiteBy following the lead of successful mini site operators you can use the same process to build your own. The breakdown they use for designing a mini site is research, creation and marketing. Or to clarify, research to find your target audience, creation of the website and the marketing or method of monetizing your mini site. |
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| By following the steps to mini site design presented below you can produce a successful mini site in no time. | |
Mini Site Design Process
Find a Niche
Decide upon the group of people that you want to reach. This field of prospects can be hobbyists, collectors, tradesmen, etc. The important thing is that they are a clearly defined audience who eagerly employ your product or have a passionate interest in what you have to offer.
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This audience should be large enough in number to be profitable to you or be interested enough to employ your services on a regular basis. Once you have picked the niche you want to target you are ready to begin the production of your mini site.
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| Find out what your visitors are looking for. |
Try different products through online ad placements.
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Find a profitable product and produce it.
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(2) Creation |
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| Online services | Product Sales | Outsourcing |
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(3) Marketing |
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| Online advertising | Merchant account | Autoresponder |
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A merchant account allows a business to accept credit cards, debit cards, gift cards and other forms of electronic payment. This is also widely known as payment processing or credit card processing. |
An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex. An autoresponder replies to all e-mail from your visitors. |
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