The Daily Grind

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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