It has been a while since I have posted to this blog.
Sorry about that.
The thing is when you start out trying to make some money online as an affiliate marketer you get all excited and go into way to many directions at the same time. Because of this you get spread to thin and things are lost and forgotten.
For me, progress as an affiliate marketer has been slow but steady. I am quite a bit more knowledgeable in this area since my last post, but am in no way at the level I would like to be. Maybe I have set my expectations to high but I will keep working at it!
I have learned a couple of things about myself concerning this business. One is I can be quite a procrastinator. That is not good so I am working on that one.
Also I am very disorganized but I have made some improvements in that area and expect more from myself in the future.
Now your thinking "OK tard, enough about you, what have you learned about Internet Marketing?"
I have learned a lot.
There is two paths to follow in IM.
1. Become an expert in a particular niche and expand into related niches.
2. Be an invisible affiliate and dabble in many niches, a sort of "jack of all trades", a more deversified approach.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
For the first you will need to be very social and get followers. A sort of Guru that everyone imitates. You will be building mailing list and keeping in close contact with your audience. You will start out offering affiliate products but will eventually develop your own.
The second is a more informal approach. The best way I can describe it is being the middle man (or woman). You connect buyers with sellers. Finding and directing traffic to the merchant's sites for commissions. Being the center of attention is not necessary. Just locate quality products and promote them.
I personally like the second approach the best and have chosen it as my model. I am building dozens of mini sites across many niches and using search engine optimization (SEO)for getting traffic to them.
My goal is to have 100 or more of these making me at least $1 a day each. I build them with an exit strategy, meaning they are designed to be flipped for some quick cash if I need some money. Many IM'er just flip sites for a living!
How am I doing?
Well I started this plan in March of 2010 and have 22 of these sites as of today's date. My oldest site is doing an average of $3 a day and others are starting to produce some income.
Not lighting the world on fire but I am creating an income stream that is about as automated as you can get without spending tons of money (my monthly expenses are just under $100).
I spend my profits on more advanced tools to speed things up and make me more efficient. When I have the tools I need I will then start outsourcing some of the task so I can expand.
If you think you might be interested trying this yourself don't be afraid to contact me and I will give you a link to some videos that will explain things better.
Hey, I got to go... have some links to build... I will be back and it will be soon!
Bob
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Saturday, November 14, 2009
If You Think There Is No Hope- Read This
When I first started article marketing in January of 2008, it took me a week to write one article. After I wrote it I would then submit it to an article directory and then admire it for another week even though it was trash! I was alternating submissions to 12 different articles sites and was completely disorganized and misled by the duplicate content myth.
Between my plodding along, having to deal with 12 different formats of submission and getting the rejected articles (there was a lot of them) edited and resubmitted I was about to quit article marketing. I also didn't really understand how keyword(s) research really applied to articles. I was still thinking along the lines of PPC even though I was broke from failing at that.
The sad part about all this is the solutions were in front of me all along. I was a member of WA since October of 2007. The release of STF at WA and the “STF Affiliate Blueprint for Success!” inspired me to get back to work. I stared writing daily again in August of 2008 and by October was getting my 5 articles a week usually taking all 7 days to get it done. Now (February 2009) I have no problem making 5 and can do a few more.
This is not to brag because I still have a lot of improvement to make but I just wanted to emphasize the fact that it can be done, even by a high school janitor! I see so many Newbies like myself give up just before things start to click for them. That just wouldn't be right.
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