Yesterday I told you about an excellent free offer that my good friend Marc Quarles has put together that gives you…

• Detailed market & keyword research (not just basic research… but very detailed)
• Excellent market analysis (shows you exactly how to dominate the market)
• High quality PLR content (that is actually REALLY good)
• Beautiful and Unique Templates (very high quality)

I also mentioned how every month he is giving away “1 niche pack” to those who sign up at …

http://bit.ly/bCCGpp

This is all cool and everything but I thought…

How can I make this cooler for everyone!

So here is what I convinced Marc to do. Marc is allowing me to give away one lifetime membership (costs $77 per month) to “Niche Files”!

Now that is cool but to make it even better, on top of that I am going to give away a life time membership to my SyndicateKahuna system (costs $47 per month) where you can publish your content to thousands of blogs.

This is a perfect combination of…

Research + Content + Link Building

…and all you have to do to enter for your chance to WIN is…

1. Go to http://bit.ly/bCCGpp at sign up for the free monthly niche pack.
2. Review the package that was sent to you and then…
3. Come back here and comment about our thoughts on what Marc is giving away for free each month.

This contest closes at 12noon EDT (-4000) on Tuesday July 20th and make sure your comment uses the name and email address that you registered with Niche Files (so we can double check that you did sign up for the free offer) and so we can contact you.

NOTE: Please do not post multiple comments, a lot of them will go to moderation, so if you submit your entry and do not see it right away… do not worry… it will be approved before the draw.

The draw will be a random draw and each comment will be giving a number and then a random number will be drawn using the generator at http://www.mathgoodies.com/.

So what are you waiting for… go check out this great free offer now at http://bit.ly/bCCGpp

If you have been a reader of JohnCow for a while now, you will know that we are constantly holding contests here. Contests are fantastic ways to get a good amount of exposure, gain readers and more.

One of the huge advantages of us having a well established blog (along with lots of business contacts) is we have been able to sponsor some pretty sweet contests that have not cost us a single penny. This however does not mean that if you are just starting out and have few (if any) contacts that you can not hold a successful contest. What it does mean however is you are going to have to work a little harder to get some buzz going for it and you may have to spend some of your own money on the prizes.

Over the next week or so I am going to put together a case study for promoting a new blog which includes how to hold a contest and we are going to lay out every step of the process here in a blog series so you can learn first hand how to do it. The blog I am going to use for this is a blog that my beautful wife of 12+ years just created at http://www.anaudlife.com

Since I first got into running a business online, my wife has had 0 interest in any part of it. She did not like computers, had no interest in running a business and had not a clue as to how to describe to others what it was I did. The only part that she had any interest in was spending the money that it generated

As a stay at home mother (raising our two daughters) she has recently started to show an interest in blogging and getting involved with some forums and places like FaceBook and about 2 months ago asked if she could have her own blog. After about 10 minutes of laughing (because I thought she was joking), when I could tell from the look on her face that at that moment she thought I was a jackass… I then said in disbelief…

“Are You Serous?”

Well, she was serious and so immediately it popped into my mind… “What a great opportunity for a case study for my readers!”

So the first thing I had her do was list the top 5 things she was passionate about and loved to research on the internet. Number 2 on her list (after shopping for clothes) was rheumatoid arthritis. You see my wife was diagnosed three years ago at the age of 30 with rheumatoid arthritis and in fact it had gotten so bad that she had to use a cane full time. Once she knew what the cause of the pain was, she immediately began researching and testing treatments and everything else related to this condition. She has since eliminated the need for a cane completely and has become very physically active (our dog cant even keep up with her anymore).

As soon I saw this on her list –> BINGO!

You see, having a niche that you are 100% passionate about is a niche you want to be in. You can write with passion, relate to your readers and best of all it encourages you to learn even more about the topic so you can have stuff to write about.

Over the past 4 weeks Audrey has started to piece together a blog that is pretty darn good and she has done it by herself…

She has wanted to learn how to do it and so alI I have done (other then a little graphics help from some of my office staff) is provided some direction. It is a definite learning curve for her (little things like how to write a title, researching keywords, using forums for ideas and so) but I am very proud of how well she has done so far.

She is now at the stage of starting the promotion for her blog and this is the part that I am going to get a little more involved in and this is also the part that I am going to completely share with all of you. You will see first hand what we are going to do and the first part of this is going to be planning out the promotion strategy and organizing a contest.

So, you are going to want to get your pen and paper ready (you will want to jot down ideas that pop in your head) and get ready for some fun learning. I also recommend, if you have not done so already, that you subscribe to our blog so you can keep up with us… we will also be putting this into an ebook form for all our readers after it is done.

PS – One of my good online buddies is putting together a wicked contest for you all that will be hosted here on JohnCow starting next week, so stay tuned!

So out of curiosity…

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• Part 1 – Planning Your Promotion Strategy
• Part 2 – Understanting the How and Where of Your Promotion Strategy
• Part 3 – Planning the Subscriber Traffic Strategy
• Part 4 – Planning a Contest to Get the Buzz Going
• Part 5 – Planning the Contest Criteria

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