I worked on development of my new website today Home Energy Alternatives which is a niche website developed to market renewable energy products and information products. I set up a test Google Adwords campaign to test whether I could translate clicks into affiliate sales. For the product offered, not one click translated to a purchase. It was good to see how to work through the keyword research and ad creation process. I searched on Google and found my ad near the top of the listings. I’ll eventually run more campaigns, but need to develop my content more. I’m working to integrate Amazon, Ebay and wholesale products into my site. I would like to transform this into a local store front. I’ll source the products first, and learn more about installation. This is one interesting niche that has a lot of growth potential.

I’m finding that Wordpress is not the ideal platform on which to base a static market website. I can set up a page relatively easy using a given theme (I really like the flexibility of the Atahualpa theme), but Dreamweaver and just straight HTML coding seems to be ideal for niche stores.

Here are my thoughts on my business setup so far. The Wisdom Lovers site will be used as a tool for clarification, for meditating on goals, and translating them into concrete plans for daily work. My work is eclectic and worthwhile. I am available to help my community each day, to help my neighbors and customers to become successful in their work. Wisdom Lovers supplies multimedia production services (documentaries, editing, book publishing, book writing), as well as freelance writing, mediation services, and meditation teaching. I can find grants to fund this work. Madison Niche Marketing is my business development, advertising and marketing service company. This company develops niche websites that provide services and products to a worldwide market. The challenge is to work through how to source products carefully and successfully. Niche ideas — Madison business products marketed to a global audience, product development with local businesses, online sales for these products, energy, martial arts, coffee related products, meditation, shamanism and mysticism.