Intro to Business Breakdown ToolToday I have a very simple, but powerful tool for you.

It is a Business Breakdown poster for your work space. It gives you a look at your market, what makes you different in that market, how you are niched down, and a look at your ideal customer all on one sheet.

Once you fill out the poster, you might want to print it out and post on the wall or save it as your wallpaper on your computer’s desktop.

If you want to jump into downloading the large format image, the link is at the bottom of the post, but I suggest reading through the explanation of how to use and the example below before getting started.

How to use the Business Breakdown Tool

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April 20, 2014 by Jason Love

A crazy week as usual.  It was hard to find the time to put in my 16 hours this week.  My wife is due any day, the comic book (Madman of Magic) my wife and me are working on, my laptop died, family is planning to come to see the baby, I signed a new contract for putting on animation workshops for the local schools, and …. Well that is all I remember I can remember, but I did find 16 hours to work on the Niche Site.

Still in the Middle of my BackLinking Strategy

I have figured out that attempting a backlinking strategy for the first time is very time consuming.

This tool makes it a little easier (it is free):
http://www.my4hrworkweek.com/ultimate-backlink-tracker/

Some Notes on article directories:

These are links for my back linking strategy.  If you don’t know what that is, please read my post from Week 5: Back links and Article Marketing

Sites that no longer work or cost money

  • Article Dashboard now charges money.
  • Article Blast said my account hasn’t been approved yet.  It has been a few weeks and I still haven’t heard anything.  I did have to submit examples of work, which is cool, but you think they would have contacted me by now.
  • Aricle Alley said the email provider (gmail) is blocked.  This is weird to block google email accounts, but I am not opening or using one of my website accounts for a backlinking strategy.
  • Buzzle said external links are no longer allowed in Articles.  I signed up and was about to post when I read this.
  • The Free Library does not accept new articles at this time.
  • iSnare says you can post an article and have your website on the article, but if you want it to link back (be clickable) then it costs money.  I put one article on there just for the heck of it since I went through the trouble of opening an account, but I will not be posting any more.

Sites I did use

We are still puttering along with the niche site and the back linking strategy.  To be honest, I will be glad when it is all over.  I guess this is why everyone says choose something you love.  While I don’t mind doing articles on pregnancy and pregnant woman’s health, it is hard for me to get excited about it.

The only thing keeping me working on this niche site is:

  • I want to see if the strategies for niche sites work.
  • I enjoy learning about putting up niche sites.
  • I feel that my Jason Loves Life readers (you) hold me accountable to see this through to the end.

Find out “What’s my Ranking”

I did a search on YouTube fore “How to find google keyword ranking” and who’s video should appear?  That’s right, Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income (the dude really is everywhere).

I have Market Samurai, so I am using that software to figure it out.

Here is the video:

Week # 7 (seven) Results

Still working on Back linking

It has been a rough week trying to figure out the marketing for our niche site.  There is a lot of information and I spent more time watching videos and reading articles then I really should have.  There is a lot of information out there and a lot of people contradicting each other.

I have decided to stick with system Pat Flynn talks about in his www.thebacklinkingstrategythatworks.com article, but with some adjustments.

My back linking strategy is to create original articles; spin those articles; and submit the spin versions to article directors, use some on Web 2.0 properties, and blog sites with all of those articles having links to my niche site.  Then I have to link to these spun articles through article submission software and using social bookmarking.

From Jason and Jeremy’s article on Internet Business Mastery (http://internetbusinessmastery.com/a-quick-start-guide-to-attracting-search-traffic) I tried to diversify the “words” that contain my link to my site.

They suggest:

I have decided to take up the challenge of the Niche Site Duel and in doing so I’ve also decided to drag my wife into it as well. Instead of doing the duel with Leah (my wife) and I trying to build sites at the same time, we are planning to work together on each site including choosing a niche site, writing posts, creating videos, etc, etc.

Each website will be different in that for one we will be mostly be using Pat’s technique and the other one using Tyrone’s.

RULES: