I’ve read on the Blueprint Central Forums from Steve Clayton himself that they are soon to launch Niche Blueprint 2.0. Later I got an email confirming that Niche Blueprint 2.0 will be released on January 11th, 2010. It will have updated videos and manuals, updated ecommerce software, more tools and so on.
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I’ve Bought Niche Blueprint 2.0
I’ve just bought Niche Blueprint 2.0 (the upgrade version for existing clients), and I just have to say I was quite impressed by the new Discover Niches tool. Not only you can find profitable e-commerce niches with a click of a button, there are more ways you could use this. Here’s a picture of the tool with some great results:
As you can see from the picture, all you have to do is enter the min traffic and you get all the ecommerce keywords which automatically have high commercial viability and which you can sort by competition.
In case you’re wondering how is this different from other keyword tools, here’s where it is unique. In no other tool can you browse the keywords without specifying the seed keyword. This is important because identifying the main keyword which you can then expand on is half the work. Of course you can do that here too, but you don’t have to.
As you will read my Niche Blueprint results from a year ago with the original product, it took me days to find a niche that looked somewhat decent, but the above niches that took me just a minute to find are all quite good niches. That is really useful.
So that’s my first impression, everything else seems to have the same idea, plus the updated software for your store.
My Niche Blueprint Results
First, here’s some background about Niche Blueprint as well as some of my results after using it. Niche Blueprint was released in January 2009, and it was a product for creating niche ecommerce stores. It has attracted a lot of attention and the response was huge. I’ve bought it that time. Then, there was the second release in March, once again with an enormous response. Clearly people got really excited about creating ecommerce businesses – not every day you see an IM product about that, about something “tangible”.
I’ve delved into it right away and began creating my store. It didn’t take long to set up, I’ve quickly found a dropshipper from the directory that came with Niche Blueprint, I’ve followed the link building plans and used the 3 Way Link Blueprint service, all of which has resulted in ranking on the first page of Google for my key term withing few weeks. I was quite pleasantly surprised how efficient it was.
Later I’ve left the store and stopped selling dropshipped products because I realized I didn’t like the involved customer support on my part. My products were on the lower price end (which is what Niche Blueprint warned about and I didn’t listen), meaning a low profit margin and lots of work to get little commission. Instead, I’ve replaced the products with Amazon products, which is a great way to turn it around if you ask me, even though it’s not part of the course.
Almost a year forward, the store is still where it was and I make Amazon sales from it now and then on complete autopilot. I haven’t touched it since around March. Needless to say, it says a lot about the Niche Blueprint, even if I use just a fraction of it.
How Niche Blueprint Works
Rather than listing and talking about all the modules of Niche Blueprint 2.0, I’ll explain how it works and what you would be doing with it. You can see the modules that are included on the official site.
- First of all, you will be researching niches. You’ll go to Amazon, Ebay and some other popular online stores to hunt for ideas, to find what people are buying online.
- With the list of several niches you’d have found in the previous step, you will drill down into the keywords. In the first version of Niche Blueprint, we used Market Samurai to do that, now in the second version you’ll also have Discover Niches and Keyword Blueprint which is a great tool I’m using since Commission Blueprint 2.0. The idea of this research is to find some keywords in one or more of your niches that would have decent traffic and relatively low competition. This process is well detailed in the manuals and illustrated in videos with real life examples (there’s that famous train horns site – a real life Steve and Tim’s store given as one of the examples).
- Next, you will go to the Dropship Blueprint, a huge directory to find dropshippers for products in your selected niche. The dropshippers are wholesalers or manufacturers who agree to ship the orders of your customers. You can set your price margins, discounts and so on, but the actual shipping and handling is done by the dropshippers.
- Having the products to sell and negotiated with the dropshippers, you will find a domain name and set up the store. Niche Blueprint is using osCommerce platform, in the new version it will obviously be the latest version with new and more design templates.
- The best part begins with the actual promotion of the store. You get the exact marketing plans and all you have to do is just follow them to the letter. In Niche Blueprint 2.0 there will be 3 new tools to help you with this step – Article Blueprint, Authority Hub, and Link Blueprint. The process is easy and depending on the competition of your keywords, it can take just a few weeks to rank on the first page on Google and start getting some sales. Optionally, there’s the paid marketing plan for PPC, for even faster results.
- Your stores will not run on autopilot, it really is much like selling your own products. You have to update the stock, process the orders, answer customer questions and so on. It’s all explained in the blueprint and you get the guidelines for best results.
- To automate your stores, you may outsource the maintenance tasks. How to outsource is also part of Niche Blueprint 2.0 course.
- Finally, you will be shown how to sell your ecommerce store if you wish. I saw a few members on the forums doing just that – quickly creating stores, making a few stores and selling them for a lump sum. That’s certainly one way to do it to get fast income.
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On a final note, let me just clear the waters and say the obvious. Not only I am a customer of Niche Blueprint, I strongly believe in it and I am an affiliate, so in case you buy after clicking a link leading to the official Niche Blueprint 2.0 site, I’ll get a commission.
Also, my results aren’t typical – they suck. 
As I mentioned, I’ve done nothing after a few weeks of setting it up and it’s still getting traffic to this day and making some sales now and then. Your results will depend on how much time you can afford to dedicate to it. Set up a few stores, follow the plan to the letter and you will see good results. For really good results, try to find more expensive products (that cost $100-200 or more); you have to realize something here – the products cost as much as they cost and people know what to expect, so they will buy them whether they cost $10 or $1,000. For you, it makes sense to sell more expensive products because then you can have higher margins and higher profit.
