My Internet Marketing Money Experiment

It's been over a year now!

2010-11-27T13:37:00.001-05:00

It is hard to believe that I have been trying to make money online for over a year now. This time last year I was anxious because I couldn't seem to make more than 2 sales a day. Ha! Now I am lucky to make two a week.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I had stumbled on some lucky keywords--sigh. Once those words ran out of steam, so did my sales. Now I am working on slowly building trust and brand recognition. No east task, but it beats being taken by every get-rich-quick internet scam artists out there.

Maybe in another post I will talk about the Good Ole' Boy money making system out there that preys on peoples desires to make quick money on the web.

Anyway, I'll give you all you need to make money on the internet for FREE. You have to supply the elbow grease and determination. Here it is: http://tiny.cc/wbbj6 Have it all fr free or ignore it. Its up to you.

CW

Today, June 7th Is Your Last Chance!

2010-06-06T13:41:00.000-04:00

This is your last chance to lock into Wealthy Affiliates for $39 a month. It will be $97 tomorrow. I recommend that you give it a try!

Click Now---->>$39 A Month For Wealthy Affiliate University!

June 7th the prices rise

2010-06-01T13:37:00.000-04:00

June 7th the prices rise from $39 a month to $97 a month for membership to Wealthy Affiliates. This website is that good.

I joined last year and I can't believe the valuable tools, information, and networking here. At $97 it is still undervalued.

Hey I just read that if you lock in before June 7th. You get the low rate for as long as you are a member, Wow.

Click Now--->>$39 until June 7

Affiliate-Marketing-Rules

2010-04-17T15:44:00.000-04:00

Affiliate Marketing Rules

So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money. Promoting other’s services and products is not something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their own rules that you must follow.

Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have a problem. This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.

Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements for the rules.

Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate for Folgers coffee. Your website would not be able to come up above the official Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee is used as the search term. The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who wouldn’t?

Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you need to stand to be a part of that program. This is the best thing that you can do for your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by that company for the best results.

You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself. Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.

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3-Things-All-Affiliate-Marketer-Need-To-Survive-Online

2010-04-05T15:27:00.001-04:00

3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication. There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…

It is all free: A better way to get traffic.

2010-03-23T19:36:00.001-04:00

Turbo Viral Traffic is a new site that says it guarantees more CONVERTING web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test...
My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Turbo Viral Traffic" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Turbo Viral Traffic Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Turbo Viral Traffic link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Turbo Viral Traffic link is clicked, the page loads followed by a cool slide-up ad window at the bottom. It displays an ad PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Turbo Viral Traffic. So if anyone clicks the Turbo Viral Traffic image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Turbo Viral Traffic links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Turbo Viral Traffic (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Turbo Viral Traffic image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Turbo Viral Traffic also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Turbo Viral Traffic even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Turbo Viral Traffic really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT's cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Turbo Viral Traffic. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.
See it and join here:
http://turboviraltraffic.com/aff/1301

Finding Traffic For my List

2010-03-17T13:28:00.000-04:00

Well, today I took the plunge into contextual marketing. This may be the last plunge I take. The idea behind contextual marketing is that a person downloads a free gizmo for their computer and agrees to accept advertising in return. Then you can pay to have your keywords advertised on their computer.

Danger Will Robinson

If you want to use this kind of advertising I found out that you need to check out the advertising companies carefully because many of them spam peoples computers using spyware--not cool. It could ruin your reputation and get you kicked out of affiliate programs if you use the wrong company.

Also, you need to control your keywords very carefully. Don't ever use broad terms in your keywords because I did and got a ton of traffic but no sales. Ouch! There is a great website that can rate your keywords for commercial value. It is free and can be found at http://adlab.msn.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/

The Money Is In The List

2010-03-12T14:52:00.001-05:00

After making about $4000.00 writing articles for The Every Other Day Diet. My keywords quit producing traffic. Unfortunately I was spending all of my time writing under those keywords instead of branching out. Now I realize I need to build a mailing list.

Basically I need to create a free offer with a squeeze page to collect these names. Then I need to give quality content along with some offers. So this is what I am going to begin to do. The Shoemoney System is teaching me a lot and I recommend it to those who really want to learn Internet Marketing.

Get Your Free Article Marketing Report Here While They Last

Advertising Is The Big Sticking Point

2010-02-28T10:28:00.000-05:00

You can write your butt off—yea I don't have one anymore—hope you can achieve a high position on the natural search results for your keywords hope that those keywords are germane to your audience and hope that they will like the product you are promoting. The one good point is that this is all free except for your bleeding stumps that use to be your fingers and that strange twitching of your left eye.

Or you can buy traffic and hope that your ad is germane to your audience and that they will buy the product you are promoting. This is expensive and unless you get it right you will simply be enriching Google so they can have even more control over the Internet—sigh. The question is where do you find advertising that is affordable and not some scam?

Right now it is Google 120 Me 47.5 so you can see who is winning this game. I am going to look for other ways to advertise and I'll let you know how it goes.

The Email Squeeze Page Problem

2010-02-27T18:37:00.001-05:00

So I built this great squeeze page all connected up to Mail Chip and it works great. You get a free article marketing report in exchange for your email. Now I am wondering how to drive quality traffic to my squeeze page.

At first I thought I'd use google ads. HA! That was a joke. They wanted $2 to $3 a click and I don't have any idea what traffic to this squeeze page will be worth. So back to the drawing board. Well, at least I have the squeeze page set up.. Oh, by the way, if you want a decent overview of what you can expect from article marketing click here.

On To Email Marketing

2010-02-23T09:46:00.000-05:00

Ye gads! I am starting my email marketing campaign today. It consists of creating a squeeze page and then driving traffic to it. This stuff really grates on my impatience. I want to see money now, but I know I have to wait for this system to start working. This is the kind of things I am learning with the Shoemoney System and Wealthy Affiliate University, which by the way, has just unveiled one of the most awesome 12 week Internet courses I have seen.

I am going to offer free papers on Internet marketing on my squeeze page so if you want some go to http://www.webproduct.info/Free%20Report and get your copy. It is actually good stuff.

Until Next Time,

CW

An Epiphany

2010-02-19T16:14:00.000-05:00

Boy is it rough here. Mother nature has dumped 3 feet of snow on us. I finally got our to take a walk today. It was so bright my eyes were watering and I was blinking the whole way. Ah well, it was refreshing. Anyway, as I was walking I was thinking about Adsense. For those of you unfamiliar with Adsense it is a way to have advertisements put on your blog and then when some one clicks on it, you get a few cents. You have to have some pretty serious traffic in order to make any real money.

As I was thinking about the $30 I had made in the last two years with Adsense it suddenly came to me. Why not put my own affiliate ads in place of Adsenses ads. That way if some one buys something through one of those ads I'll make some real money. As it turns out there are places on the web that will prepare these ads for you with your affiliate links attached and the look just like Adsense ads. No I'll have to wait and see if this makes a big difference.

Things Are Heating Up With ShoeMoney!

2010-02-18T11:11:00.000-05:00

Well, Jeremy heard our pleas for faster content and now the videos are rolling in. I have been accepted into the AZN Network and will begin my first arbitrage soon.

I am getting really excited because I can see a way for me to achieve my dream. Funny for a man my age to still have a dream, but hey, your as young as you feel...right!

If you haven't checked out the ShoeMoney System yet...you should!

You can check it out here.

Until Next Time,

CW

Signing Up-Shoemoney Teachings

2010-02-14T22:55:00.001-05:00

Well, I am on the cusp of making money in the shoemoney course. The last two videos were how to sign up with clickbank--which I already had done. And signing up with AZN network which I hadn't done. The next lesson will have me trying to make money.

Until next time,

CW

Shoemoney is slow

2010-02-10T22:03:00.001-05:00

No, I don't mean that the website is slow, I mean the pace of new videos is so slow. I haven't learned anything new yet, but the system is designed to take a person from zero to expert in a year. An there is a 60 day money back guarantee so I do not have too much to lose.

I'll keep yoy posted.

CW

Shoemoney So Far...

2010-02-06T13:47:00.004-05:00

I have spent two days learning from Jeremy Shoemaker's Shoemoney system and so far we had step by step instructions on how to set up a gmail account and why you will need one. We have learned about the six ways to make money off of the Internet and have listened to a Q & A webinar.

I am the kind of guy that plows right in. This has been good sometimes and bad sometimes. Jeremy's system doesn't let me plow right in. It is timed out so that I have to watch every video. The surprising thing is is that I have learned stuff from the videos I normally would have skipped.

The $200 a month fee—actually its $197—will come out to be about $2400 for the year long course. That is because this is serious stuff. If it continues the way it has gone so far then I would say that this course is undervalued. In other words it will actually be worth a lot more than $2400.

The Cheap Seats

Since I started trying to earn money online, I have been plowed over by offers. You go to their website and its $47 to buy this system that is suppose to get you earning $100,000 with in a year—yea right. No one would offer a truly working system like that for $47. And what makes it more laughable is that when you click away from the their sites you will get this, BUT WAIT thing, that says if you act now you'll get the whole system plus x amount of dollars worth of free gifts for only $17—what happened to the $47. On one site I kept clicking away until they were trying to pedal their AMAZAING MONEY MAKING program to my for $7. I think a lot of internet marketing right now is clever people selling crap to gullible people and it works. I don't want to make money on the internet if that is the way it is.

Don't Go Cheap

If someone is trying to sell you an Internet program that is suppose to make you a living from affiliate marketing for $47 you can bet it ain't worth squat. Simple economics will tell you that. If something can really teach you a skill where you will earn a lot of money doing it, then the lessons will be more expensive than $47. You pay for value.

Be Prepared To Pay $$

There is a reason community college is cheaper then Harvard and that is due, in part at least, to the fact that a Harvard degree will earn you a lot more money than a community college degree. It is the same with Internet marketing. So look for the following points if you want to become an Internet marketer who makes a living at it. Buy the courses if...

The people offering the courses are credible and have Internet marketing pedigrees
The price isn't too low indicating that what is being sold is junk
The course has verifiable money back offers for a reasonable period
There isn't any over promising and hype
The payments are monthly and not demanded up front
You have researched the program and the authors of the program.

Hint: If you have never heard of these guys and you can't find them on the internet then forget it.

Good quality instruction is expensive but it will more than pay for itself and believe me $47 isn't going to buy you that.

CW

Ok I Think I Have A Plan

2010-02-05T08:45:00.000-05:00

I have been wondering lately how to move forward in affiliate marketing, how to have affiliate marketing success. If i had to start over today here are the steps I'd take.

Join Wealth Affiliates
Spend a month reading everything on that sight.
Select a product with around a gravity around 30 that had a good pitch page.
Then write, write , write.

As I made some money I would progress to the only other really honest teaching site that I have found Shoemoney which is a place where you are given specific step by step video lessons on how Internet marketing works by Jeremy Shoemaker.

Wealthy Affiliates is a community of internet marketers and its value lies in networking and the tools available on the site. Shoemoney's value is in the step by step instructions you receive. Usually one video lesson every 3 days. It cost about $200 a month, but you actually do get what you pay for.

These are the actual programs that I am using to try and become an affiliate marketer. The men that run these sites are some of the best affiliate marketers on the web so I figure If they can't teach me, no one can. I'll keep you posted on how it is going.

CW

Seeking New Streams

2010-02-04T20:03:00.000-05:00

A lot of people think that affiliate marketing is dieing but I beg to differ. It is changing and getting more competitive. Right now it is like a gold rush, but as with all gold rushes they eventually slow down. That is comming. A lot of folks were thrown into a tizzy about the new FTC rules, but if you are an honest person you have nothing much to worry about there.

Right now is the time to join Wealthy Affiliates or Shoemoney and LEARN!

Been busy

2010-02-04T09:52:00.000-05:00

Well it seems like I have hit a wall. Most weeks I am earning around $300 which is not bad for some extra spending money, but since I am unemployed at the moment it doesn't begin to cover my needs and I am writing all of the time. I have wasted a lot of money trying to get PPC campaigns up and running. PPC, for those that don't know, are where you pay search engines to place you ad when someone types in your selected keywords. You only pay if someone clicks on the ad.

It is hard to get people to buy once they have clicked on an ad so you can end up losing a lot of money. Anyway I have signed up for Jeremy Shoemaker's Shomoney program. It cost around $200 a month, but if there is anyway to make a living as an affiliate, he will teach you. This is simply the best program for the money. You'd have to spend $1000 for this kind of coaching. I'll let you know if I can break the $300 a week barrier soon.

By the way, if you visit Shoemoney and I recomend you do if you want to succeed, be paitent. The Shoemoney page takes forever to load.

CW

Wierd Stuff

2009-12-21T12:43:00.000-05:00

It is like someone turned a spigot off. Since about December 16 I have had almost no visitors and no sales. I am hoping that it is because of Christmas. I mean, who wants to buy anything but presents before Christmas. Since my product is mainly health related I hope the spigot will turn back on after the holidays.

This affiliate marketing business is weird. Anyway, like I have said before, I am going to succeed because I am not ever going to quit and I believe that short of death or disability that is the main key to success.

Merry Christmas!

$2000 mark and onward!

2009-12-17T18:12:00.002-05:00

Things are beginning to go pretty well for me. I have found some hot keywords to write about and I am getting this landing page creation down pretty well. Excuse me but I am going to try something here just to see if it works. If it does you should see a form for my free people search engine.

Cool, it actually worked. This is one of the projects I am working on to promote my free search engine. I figure if it works here it will work on my landing pages. Go ahead and give it a try!

Reached the $1000 plus mark!

2009-11-30T15:00:00.001-05:00

Well things have finally gotten off the ground. I still have a long way to go yet, but my first goals have been met.

Make My First Sale
Make My First $100
Make My First $100 Plus Day

I have learned how to get web pages listed in the natural search engines and now I am learning how to get them to stay there or rise higher. Once you have a money making page that lists on the first page of Google for the key word you are focusing on you need to give it a little Google glue to get it to stick.

I write other articles that are more informative about the subject of my money making article. I do not worry so much about key words and such with these articles. I worry more about the quality of the content. Then I submit these articles to as many high ranking article directories as I can. I do not worry about changing any of the content since I am not really worried about whether these articles get listed or not. These articles are written to get quality back links to my money making articles to keep them at the top of the search engine and maybe even boost them higher.

So there is my recipie for Google Glue.

Until Next Time!

More Sales!

2009-11-18T22:01:00.000-05:00

Well, I have finally made multiple sales in one week. I hope this is the future. It is now Tuesday and I have made $116.00 since Sunday. The one single change I have made to my money funnel is picking and writing about late cycle keywords. This has jarred lose the funnel so it is starting to produce.

It turns out that there are keywords for each part of the buying cycle. For instance when some one is first considering buying something he or she will probably be in the research part of the cycle. If you write your articles with research type key words then you may get plenty of clicks but no sales. Once I was made aware of this I switched to late cycle keywords, keywords that people search with when they are ready to buy. So I will let you know how it goes.

Learn more at Wealthy Affiliate University.

Until next time,

CW

Fishing For Words

2009-11-09T15:09:00.004-05:00

Just like my last entry stated about fishing for the right product, you also need to fish for the right keywords. This can be a pain, but each time you throw an article in to the pond so to speak you will have to watch to see if it gets nibbles or bites on its keywords.

Sometimes you can have brilliant copy but your keywords are words that no one is researching in search engines. As you monitor your articles in places like http://www.articlesbase.com/ you should take note of those articles that start getting hits like crazy. Check out the stats on such articles and see what keywords are getting the bites. Once you have done that you now have those keywords to use in many different articles promoting your product. All of this may seem confusing, but if you go to Wealthy Affiliate University and spend a measly $39 to check it out for a month you will be surprised at how much better you will understand it. If you do, give me a shout.

Fishing

2009-11-03T04:40:00.000-05:00

You know fishing isn't that hard to learn, especially bate fishing. You put the bate on the hook, drop it in the water and wait. You will catch fish if you do this where there are fish. I am finding this to be true with affiliate marketing. You can learn all of the techniques and execute them perfectly but if you have the wrong product you'll get nothing.

Part of the trick is trying different products with your techniques until you get a bite. Remember not too many at once, just two or at most three. Also if you do article marketing your testing only costs time.

Until next time

The Clicks Rise

2009-10-15T12:20:00.000-04:00

I have been concentrating on writing articles for a select landing page and the results are beginning to pour in. This graph is showing me that my articles are successful at getting people to click over to the sales page that the products maker has constructed. Even though this is good news, it is not the final part of the money funnel. These people still need to decide to buy or not to buy the product. All of this is now out of my hands. It is like hitting a golf shot. Once the club contacts the ball you have no more control over it--sigh! The only thing that no sales from an increased click through rate can suggest is that your articles lack relevancy to the final product, or the product's sales page is no good.

Write like your life depends on it.

2009-10-14T06:44:00.002-04:00

If you can get a good landing page--there are some products that provide good landing pages for you, and if you find the right keywords then you are ready for writing. There is a guy at wealthy affiliates that has written over 700 articles in 3 months, but he has made $13000.00 in the process.

I have not written that many articles yet, but using the tools at wealthy affiliates I am able to track the clicks I am recieveing and they are definantly rising. My sales are rising also. What I need to do now is write, write, write. This is the way to go unless you are loaded then you could spend, spend, spend your money on PPC.

Until Next Time
CW

Don't Offer Too Much

2009-10-05T19:26:00.001-04:00

Well the lesson I learned today was, do not offer too much on your web page. I have been lamenting the fact that I get a lot of hits, but very little sales. Kyle, one of the founders of Wealthy Affiliates, reviewed my web page and told me that I was offering to many options on my web page which only made potential customers go back to research mode. Hmmm? It makes sense. I am cruising to buy a new gigmobile and when I get to the page I find that there are three models of gigmobiles and they are offered by several different companies. Instead of buying my gigmobile I will scratch my head and go back to researching.

Until Next Time,
CW

Sales pick up!

2009-09-25T05:07:00.002-04:00

Interestingly enough, it is PPC marketing that has begun to show promise. If you have been following this thread—who knows if I am just publishing this into a virtual black hole—you know I blew some money on PPC marketing. Well, when Wealthy Affiliates decided to offer a $1 trial membership, I remembered how I had agonized whether to join or not when I first heard of them. I was very leery of all of the "Get Rich Quick Schemes" on the Internet. And even though WA didn't use that claim It was associated with Internet Marketing and thus suspect. I would have loved to have a $1 trial to check out Wealthy Affiliate University.

So I thought why not promote WA's $1 trial directly to those who are in the position I was in? In other words, market to people who had already done the research and wanted to try WA, but were afraid of being ripped off. When I picked the keywords that were very specific to those people the clicks I was getting almost stopped. They went from the maximum number of clicks to 2 to 3 per day, but out of those I begin to get a sale about every 4 clicks whereas before I'd had 70 + clicks with no sales. So I will stick with this for the time being.

Until Next Time,
CW

Writing For Money: The Funnel

2009-09-22T17:06:00.004-04:00

When you set out to do affiliate marketing by writing articles you are really trying to earn money through a chain of events or as some put it, you are creating a money funnel. If you make a website and do a great job of it, what are you going to do next? You can put all of the best advertising on it that you want, but who will see it. It is like getting a great deal on a store front except the store is on Unknown Street in Deserted Town USA.

You have to drive traffic to your website or else all the rest is a waste of time. So the wide mouth of the funnel is your articles which lead people down the cone of the funnel to your website with all of your affiliate advertising, landing pages, and squeeze pages. Once you have delivered the potential buyer to the affiliate pitch page the rest is up to them. Creating articles that presell rather than articles that are sales pitches is the key to sucessful article marketing. That and quantity of course. So get out your pencil and paper and start writing.

Work, work, work

2009-09-18T15:28:00.003-04:00

Don't be fooled, this Internet marketing is either going to require an investment in time or money or both. You will have to work smart and hard to succeed. Getting the rudimentary principals down is relatively easy, but applying them is the heard part. If you are going my rout, primarily article marketing, you have to write, write, write! Even then you can never tell exactly how an article is going to perform. And then there is the funnel. If you don't have all of the parts to your money funnel working correctly it will clog and you will get nothing out of your hard work.

In my next post I'll go over the money funnel,

CW

The Daily Grind

2009-09-17T17:31:00.002-04:00

Now I am not talking coffee here. I have been writing articles for a month now. I wanted to write two a day, which turns out to be a bit aggressive for me. I haven't really managed one a day, but I get two to three a week. So far it has increased visits to my websites to 3 to 4 visitors a day up from zero per day and I have made a sale through them.

Just to remind everyone and to slip in a less than subtle plug, my web sites are http://www.thedietclearinghouse.com/ dedicated to finding great diets that work. I am not interested in scams or unhealthy remedies. Also I have http://www.healthjournal.biz/ which is more of a health blog. I write articles there about weight-loss and fitness. Last but not least there is this sight and http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/ a people search sight. I love this one because it creates 8 income streams for me. You can check it out at Acme People Search . If you know what your doing you can make some nice spare cash here.

Until Next Time,
CW

Ok, PPC Restarted

2009-09-15T20:58:00.001-04:00

I restarted my PPC campaign to promote Wealthy Affiliate's new 7 day trial for $1. If you have wondered if this site is a scam or if it fits you, you should definitely go have a look. It only will cost you a dollar and these guys are really good about cancellations. No game or other garbage. You can just cancel any time during the 7 days and only pay a buck.

So take advantage now!

PPC Marketing Shut Down

2009-09-11T10:47:00.002-04:00

I shut down my PPC marketing campaign last night. It was just bleeding money. I jumped into that boat way too soon. Of course that is my nature. Leap then look. I am now back to full time article marketing. The one nice thing about article marketing is that it doesn't cost you money, only time. My mentors inform me that when I get good at it it should bring an average of one sale per article per month. So if you get enough quality articles out there you should be able to get a nice income going.

So far by reading the tea leaves of Google Analytics there is a growing interest in my websites http://www.thedietclearinghouse.com/ and http://www.healthjournal.biz/. (Shameless plug alert!)

By the way, starting on the 15th of September you can buy a trial membership to Wealthy Affiliate University for only $1. That way you can see what I am talking about and check it out for yourself!

Until next time,
CW

More Sales

2009-09-08T14:58:00.001-04:00

Well, I have made another sale over this weekend. Slowly I am beginning to make progress. At this point I would say that relevance is the hardest thing to understand. Most of the stuff I started with was far too general. You literally have to find a niche in niche marketing. Just advertising how to groom dogs will not get you anywhere. You need to advertise, how to groom adult pugs etc.

Check out my money making links,
CW

PPC Marketing Scramble

2009-09-06T14:58:00.002-04:00

So I ended up with $150 in my Yahoo PPC account. I transferred it mistakenly from Pay Pal--oops. And I didn't get the promised $50 from Yahoo. (Not their fault, it was a mix up with the guy that was promoting it. There had been a $50 coupon, but the offer had expired and he hadn't updated his affiliate information.) Any way I decided to go with it. Wow, one thing it did was to spur me on to learning PPC marketing. I really would be in trouble with out Wealthy Affiliates. If you are going to try to do what I am doing, please find a reputable place to learn and be supported like WA. They are in my money making links. There is only two places I would trust. Wealthy Affiliates and Bum Marketing. Bum Marketing is run by a guy named Travis and he is HELPFUL.

Until next time,
CW

PPC Marketing

2009-09-04T20:43:00.001-04:00

Ok, so I started too early. I didn't intend to but I ran across a coupon that was suppose to give me $50 of free ads on Yahoo. When I joined I was informed that the offer had expired. Why me? Anyway I had placed $150 in the account so I thought I'd give it a spin. Well, nothing so far except watching Yahoo go Kaa-ching with my or what used to be my money. I am learning though, learning all of the ways to lose money on PPC marketing. I do know that it is possible to make money with PPC and I intend to find out.

So far I have found out that I am not converting, but I don't know whether it is my landing page or ads that are irrelevant. I have changed up my landing page 3 times, if you care you can see the current one at www.thedietclearinghouse/stf.html. By the way if you want a good diet buy this one while your there.
I am pretty psyched about the new up grades to Wealthy Affiliate that are going to be launched on September 15--stay tuned. I will also update you on my PPC adventure.

Until Next Time,
CW

Making Conversions.

2009-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:00

The chain of events from contact to conversion are wrought with peril. Contact is when you first contact potential customers either with a paid ad or a free article. Using your contact instrument (article or ad) you try to nudge them over to a landing page. From their you hope they will go to the pitch page and finally buy the product.

The rub comes in tracking all of these components. For instance I might write a dynamite article that attracts 100's of people, but if I get zero conversions I need to find out where in the links of events I have a break down. When you are article marketing it is compounded by the number of articles you write, where you published them and how they are performing.

Paid ads are a bit easier to diagnose since you know when a customer has clicked on your ad and you can easily follow where he or she went from there. It is a beautiful thing when you have a great chain operating for you, but it is a frustrating waste of time and/or money when there is a broken link somewhere.

Until next time,
CW

Wow, It Worked!

2009-08-31T09:32:00.002-04:00

I got $125 in commissions today as promised. I have been looking over the opportunities that I have signed up for. In principal they are all sound opportunities. I just need to figure out how to take this http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/ to the next level--that's code for getting it to make more money for me.

In all of what I am doing here, I truly want to provide a service and that is finding really good opportunities for money making and in the process make some money myself. What I do not want is to make money with false promises, or scams. The thing with http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/ is that you need to know about affiliate marketing or else you'll sign up but not know where to start.

You really should sign up with Wealthy Affiliates and People Search to get the most from this. Then you should expect start slowly as you learn, but if you don't give up you will be successful.

Could This Be A Mistake.

2009-08-28T10:06:00.004-04:00

I signed up for an affiliate program promoting people search engines. I did it because it provides multiple income streams, but I am beginning to think I may have made a mistake, because I am still new at this and I can't imagine how I am going to article market this. I think a pay per click approach would work better, but I have promised myself not to do that until this article thing starts making money. By the way I have made $165.37 in profits so far.

Anyway, I now have a people search engine site and a promise that I will make $125 in commissions in two days, we'll see. After I signed up I was given this website http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/. I had to pay for hosting. I'll let you know if I get $125 in two days or more. I don't know exactly what the .ws is, but I do know that these domains are much cheaper than .com ones.

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Be Patient.

2009-08-26T14:32:00.001-04:00

Well, I have found out that it pays to be patient. Once I joined Wealthy Affiliates I rushed too fast and made several mistakes. My advice is to follow the 8 week action plan. As I read it I could instantly see where I had made some mistakes--sigh. I am a "learn by doing" kind of person so it is no wonder that I rushed things a bit.

Another thing I am discovering is that Ezine and Goarticles.com seem to get your articles more attention. So far I have no sales, but I am getting click throughs. Make sure you go to Google analytics and hook as many of you web pages to it as you can it is an unbelieveable resource.

Where To Start

2009-08-23T10:40:00.001-04:00

Today I am going to submit my first articles. I am not sure I have the keyword ideas down yet, but I learn best by doing. So here goes. From my research I have found that EzineArticles.com and Goarticles.com are the place to start. We'll see.

One thing I have found is that when you start to research affiliate marketing everyone and I mean everyone seems to want to sell you something. So if you join Wealthy Affiliates are some other legit marketing school, beware. Even in these places greenhorns will be hit up for every imaginable marketing scheme by other members of that site.

Some offers are good, but you need to be the judge of what works for you and what doesn't.

Until Next Time,

CW

A Little More About Keywords.

2009-08-21T10:29:00.002-04:00

I just want to explain a little more about keywords. These can be anything from a single word to a complete sentence and they are what search engines use to find your article or place your ad. If a person types in a search term like "Yellow Bananas" and you have "yellow bananas" as one of your keywords then your page could be referenced by the search engine.

Factors
There are other factors to consider. If 15,000,000 other people have "yellow Bananas" as a keyword on their web page then your page may be buried under a mountain load of search results. So the trick is to find a search term people are using that is relatively high. You can use Google's Keyword tool for this. Then you can check that key word out by typing it into google using quotation marks and in the upper right hand corner of the search page you should see how many pages have that key word. The lower that number is the better.

An Example
Let's say I go to Google Keyword search too and type in "yellow bananas"; it shows that there is an average monthly search volume of 1900 searches. That is pretty good. Now I type the same term in quotes into Google; it shows that there are 32,800 unique pages with this keyword. That is a lot of competition. I really want my competition to be in the 4 digit range. If it had been then I would have written an article on "Yellow Bananas" and would have stood a good chance of it being listed high in the search results.

Until next time,
CW

Links:
Wealthy Affiliate University
Strip That Fat

Niche Marketing.

2009-08-20T09:00:00.002-04:00

Today I learned about niche marketing. In essence you find a niche that relatively no one has filled and you pitch your product to that niche. I have chosen dieting since I have some expert knowledge of that area. Now to find a niche, I am supposed to use a keyword search and find a keyword that has a fairly high search rate on google. Next I check to see how many people out there are using that key word in their articles. If the ratio is a relatively high search rate to a low use rate then I am to write an article around that keyword. This is suppose to boost my article near the top of the search page for anyone using it to search the Internet. So far it all makes since to me on paper. But will it work when I try it?

One thing good that has come out of this is the discovery of great new diets to try. I can go through the offerings and weed out the bad and ugly ones and promote only the good ones. Strip That Fat is a great one. I am trying this one right away and if it is as good as it sounds then I will market it. I chose this one because it lets you create the diet out of foods you already like to eat. How cool is that?

Next time I'll let you know how article writing is going.
CW

Links:
Wealthy Affiliate University
Strip That Fat

2009-08-19T15:44:00.005-04:00

Well, I have spent two days now studying at Wealthy Affiliates University and I have figured out that affiliate marketing in a nutshell is driving people to Internet businesses for a commission and that there are basically three ways.

Buy advertising.
Write informational articles and submit them to article web sites.
Search engine optimization—that is making a website and getting search engines to list it near the top.

I can't afford buying anything right now so I am going to opt for number 2
—no this is not an attempt at bathroom humor. I like writing so I figure I will go for this option and start writing.

Until next time, CW

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My Money Experiment

2009-08-16T16:56:00.003-04:00

Well I know I said I wouldn't post on the weekend, but after paying my fee and opening Wealthy Affiliates I was shocked and overwhelmed. This place is NO scam, but it is also overwhelming to me at the moment. There is so much information and tools I can't begin to absorb it all. If you don't believe me fork out $40 and check it out yourself.

I will begin to digest some of this info and share it here. Keep reading, I will tell it exactly as I see it.

Until next time, CW

My money making experiment.

2009-08-14T09:22:00.000-04:00

This blog is about my health and wealth journeys and so far I have written mostly about my health. Today I am starting out on an experiment to try to earn some money on the Internet. I invite you to tag along and see how it works out. Except for the weekends and holidays I will give you a daily update here. For some time I have been interested in working from my computer to make some money. Lately I have become earnest and have begun researching the best way to do it. Affiliate marketing seems to be the best way for me since I do not have a product to sell or a warehouse to hold a product.

The basics of affiliate marketing are that you sell other peoples products and they pay you a commission. It is a simple model for making money and it has been around a lot longer than the Internet, but I was wondering how I could apply this to the Internet. You have to be able to reach a lot of people and unless you have an extremely popular website how are you going to do that. I ruled out spamming right off the bat, I hate it! I could spend my money advertising, but if I didn't know how to write the correct advertisements I would go down the crapper in a hurry while making google rich. By the way, do not run after any quick money schemes or easy Internet marketing schemes. I did and I shouldn't have. I wasted my money.

I also needed to focus on a specific product. Trying to sell everything would either waste my time or my money or both.

Today I am ready to take the plunge. After much research I am going to join Wealthy Affiliates University. I have looked every where on the web and this seems to be the best site to learn Internet marketing. I am only going to join for one month because I am still skeptical. I will post here how things go.

Until next time, CW

Health & Wealth

2009-08-12T17:37:00.000-04:00

Wow, what a day. My wife and I had the two grand babies over--enough said. It turns out that diet cookies don't work. Who would have believed that. Anyway if you are planning on a diet based on diet cookies, don't. Check out the story here.

It turns out that the best diets are really based on sound nutrition and as the old saying goes: If it sounds to good to be true it probably is.

Lose 2 - 3 pounds of body fat per week (Healthy).

Science Daily says studies show that weight loss improves mood in depressed people. I wonder what that really means--I mean, if I were depressed because I was overweight, well then of course it would improve my mood. Maybe depression can lead to obesity in some individuals. Who knows what these things mean, but I thought I'd pass it on.

I'm still making some spending money using holmes-people-search I can't call it wealth but as my dad use to say, "It's better than a kick in the teeth."

If you want to know more details visit here.

Until next time, CW

Exercise won't make you thin.

2009-08-11T11:11:00.000-04:00

Wow, I just read in the LA Times a story on a controversy about whether exercising helps you lose weight. It is true that you would have to do a lot of exercise to burn just the calories from one piece of pizza. You'd have to walk for an hour. It turns out that the body is pretty efficient.

I guess the upshot is:

exercise
diet correctly
drink plenty of water

Good eating principles are:

Eat complex carbs instead of simple carbs.
Eat food as close to its live state as possible. (eg. fresh fruits and veggies.)
Drink Plenty of Water--is there an echo in here.
Get planty of sleep--not too sure if this is an eating princaple, but ut works.

Until next time, CW

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Easy Fast Weight Loss Diets

2009-08-11T10:10:00.000-04:00

I just compiled my top three picks for easy fast weight loss. The first two of these are free and I have tried all of these diets and they work.

#1 The Cabbage Soup Diet

#2 The Fruit Flush Diet

# 3 Strip That Fat

You can read my full compilation at My Top 3 Easy Fast Weight Loss Diets

Other than that I am heading out today to try and create a french drain--sigh. I also have all of my nieces and nephews over tonight for a fun carnival--heaven help me!

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Web Dreams

2009-08-10T14:32:00.000-04:00

I've been thinking about a website lately, so I went ahead and began creating one. Since I have spent so much time on health topics in my life I decided to try different diets and then make an online dieting guide, a sort of what has worked for me and what has not.

Don't know how long I'll do it, but it is a creative outlet for now. I decided to call it The Diet Clearing House. Visit it anytime to see my progress.

>>Visit the diet clearing house.com<<

Hopefully this link will take you there, I always have a hard time getting all of the correct stuff when I type a link. Any way there are some pretty good diets out there and some pretty bad ones. Sometimes it is all a metter of perspective, what is good for one person is absolutely terrible for the next guy. It is this way it is with my wife and me. If I like a diet she hates it, and if she loves it then I'll probably hate it--sigh.

2009-08-09T12:25:00.000-04:00

I have restless leg syndrome like you wouldn't believe so I spent a lot of last night doing people searches Ye gads, I found more old friends, a few enemies and a lot of people who share my name. I wrote a hub about it. If you want you can read it here. In order to get my complete search results free I had to sign up for some free genealogy accounts , but they ended up being fun also. Ah well, it passed the night. I though I might start a Christian Walker convention with all the CW's I found in the US. I even was able to see some of the people's houses.

As fun as it was, hopeful tonight I'll just sleep.

CW

thedietclearinghouse.com
holmes-people-search.ws

2009-08-09T11:58:00.000-04:00

Dag, I just finished a week of the Cabbage Soup Diet . Suprisingly it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and I lost 10 lbs. This week end I gained back 3.5 of those lbs at a wedding--sigh.

I have always promised myself that if I exceed 205 lbs I will go on a protien diet until I am back to 205, but I am rethinking that at this point. I think I will try eating only live food--no I will not go rutting after grubs in the yard! I will just eat raw veggies, fruit, and nuts until my weight is back at its set point. Boy was that wedding good!

CW
thedietclearinghouse.com

2009-06-12T20:46:00.000-04:00

Well another day and I am still holding. I find that if I weigh myself every day I do better. I also am on the track of some satisfying foods that do not destroy the scales. As I discover them I will put them on this page. So far I have found some sugar free candies that are pretty good except it is hard to remain polite after eating more than two pieces. (sigh)

Christian Walker's Weight

2009-06-11T17:03:00.000-04:00

Man the season for weight losing is here (sigh). I guess no one wants to hit the beach with to much cargo. Over the years I have become good at losing and gaining weight. I once lost 48 pounds in 6 weeks, unfortunately it was the same two pounds over and over again. Admittedly better at the gaining part than the losing. What I really stink at is the maintaining part. The momentary joy of eating often outweighs the stress and drudgery of everyday living--no pun intended.

I have used the hCG diet to peel off the pounds quickly--you can read about my journey at http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Skinny-on-The-hCG-Diet . I don't even try explaining this diet to my co-workers since it involves self-injecting and pregnancy hormones, but hey it works.

Now I am trying modified emergency Atkins to keep it off. Every time I surpass my target weight I go on a six-egg day which as the name implies I eat only 6 eggs that day. It usually brings the weight right down. I think I'll be OK at the beach for a married guy my age.