Day 15 Recap This is going to be short because I'm in a hurry: Daily Sales Today Still not where I want to be but it's still good to see some colored bars in there. I only submitted 10 articles today, it's bad, and I'm not living up to the name of this thread, and it's frustrating, anyways see you tomorrow!
Excuse me? Did you say it was good to see some colored bars in there? What are you, racist? You only like black bars, but not white bars? Nah I'm messing with you. :] Congratulations! 10 articles a day isn't bad, especially when you're still consistently uploading and adding new stuff. It'll take off soon--just wait. Are you submitting to more than one article directory?
Could you post an update please? How many articles have you published so far? How many sales have you made? What's the progress with your AdWords campaign? Also, how many times do you publish each article?
4 out of 10 articles make a sale you say. Is that the short term? Or do the articles target longtail searches so they stick a lot longer at the first page? The articles are they targetting informations searchers or are those 20 product reviews a day?
Well, the other questions, I'd have to look up, but my adwords campaign is zero progress. Haven't even started on it. As far as publishing article, I guess once? I said that? 4 out of 10 articles make a sale? If I did I was mistaken, I wish. lol I really don't know what the exact number is. I can tell you that I target information searchers because product reviews are just way too competitive unless it's a brand new product. By the way - how do you find out that a brand new product is launching? Anybody have advice?
I said 4 out of 10. I concentrate more on quality and ranking than the # of articles. I can track what sales come from what articles and this is the average i see when i first submit....they do trickle down over time too. I made a sale last week from an article i wrote 18 months ago. Here is a spot to find all new CB products being launched: http://www.jvnotifypro.com/
Here's where I find new CB products: http://www.cbengine.com/new-clickbank-products.cfm http://cb-analytics.com/new-products.php
Dude! I'm writing an eBook where I'll be writing about this topic - how to make money off of product launches. Here's the excerpt that should answer your question - There's a four-month window you should be familiar with: 1 month before the product is launched, and 3 months after the product is launched. Three months after a product is launch, there is very little guarantee that you will be able to give you sales. This is the biggest mistake newbies make. They try and sell products with high gravity. Yes, high gravity means that lots of affiliates are making sales of product. But high gravity also means that it's been around for a while. Very few vendors are able to get 100+ gravity within a few weeks. So, keep a look out for brand new products. This is also the time when vendors start looking for affiliates. They want lots of affiliates sending traffic to their site 1 month before the product is actually launched. You really shouldn't start promoting a product that's not going to be released for another 3 months because if you send traffic to the website, and the vendor is capturing emails, then you have 60 days to make a sale, or else it won't be credited to you. 1 month before is the best time, since the buzz about the product will be at it's peak. On launch day, you can easily grab 5-10 sales for a high end product, or 20-30 for a lower end product. There are three ways to seek out new products: Method #1: Instant Affiliate Accelerator Antone Roundy has a product called the Instant Affiliate Accelerator. The product helps you perform a lot affiliate marketing tasks such as delivering bonuses and creating squeeze pages. But, the product didn't really work for me, so I canceled my membership. However, they kept me on their newsletter. Antone's weekly newsletter is a great resource to find new products. He focuses on four types of products: #1 - Rising Stars These are products that have seen a boost in their sales, gravity, and are offering high commissions. They also see low returns. Usually, these are the products that have just experienced a huge launch. This is where you want to choose most of your products from. #2 - Falling Rocks These are the products that are doing poorly in the Clickbank marketplace. Their commissions are not that good, sales are plummeting, and refund rates are rising. It's not uncommon to see a product a rising star one week, and a falling rock the next. If a product you're promoting is on the Falling Rocks list, abandon immediately! #3 - Dinosaur Killers These are the products you want to avoid like the plague! The focus is mostly on refund rates. The market has clearly rejected the product, and if you're promoting them, it'll damage your reputation. #4 - New Products This is just a list of brand new products. This is where you will most likely find a product that is about to be launched. Most of the new products are still in the testing phase. I've also found vendors of new products the most difficult to convince to give away a free version of their product. This is because for most this is their first product, and they are not seasoned Internet marketers yet. Method #2: CBengine If you do not want to sign up for Instant Affiliate Accelerator (I think there's a 14-day free trial), then you can simply use the myriad of free Clickbank - tracking websites such as CBengine. These websites will give you listings of brand new products, and specific information about the product. Frankly, I don't use the websites too much, so I can not tell you how best to use them. However, I thought I'd mention them. Method #3: Relationships with Vendors I advise you to get on the mailing list of as many vendors in your niche as possible. Now, I'm not talking about their affiliate newsletters. I'm talking about their customer newsletters. Most good vendors will have an op-tin form on the front page of their site. Get on that newsletter. This is because most vendors stick together, and you can get a sense of an upcoming product launch if all of a sudden you're getting emails promoting someone else's product. In addition, some of the vendors who's products you're currently promoting will eventually create a new product in the future. If they know you by first person, and if you're making them at least 3-5 sales per week (very doable), then they'll most likely contact you and inform you of an upcoming launch. There are more than enough methods here to 1) help you choose the right products and 2) to get your hands on a review copy of the product you're promoting. Getting a review copy will also help you make a better decision on what products you want to spend more time promoting. I feel kind of guilty not promoting a product once I have a review copy (unless the product is an absolute piece of junk, in which case the vendor should be punished for being so lazy/sinister (whatever you want to call it)). But on a side note if you come across a product that you do not agree with 100%, then right a review of it, put it on your site, and let it sit there. If the vendor asks you why your sales are low (which they won't, ever), then you can just say you're trying your best. Of course, this strategy is only useful for people who have a guilty conscience. If you don't care, then you don't care. Sometimes not caring is better for your business.
Action is cool and everything but I don't even have to read a single post in this thread to say you're working harder rather than smarter... and it's not sustainable. Seriously, check this out... The first post on this page says you're on day 15. That means roughly 300 articles. Say each article is about 400 words. That's about 120,000 words. Tim Ferriss's new BOOK is just over 170,000 words. I think you can see where I'm going with this. Pick a niche you're interested in that has a lot of buyers. Write a short book (no where near 120,000 words) filled with content. Create a special report from that book. Create a squeeze page. Create some more valuable content (probably pieces taken from the book) to give to reputable blogs and joint venture partners to drive traffic to your squeeze page. Build your reputation in the niche. Make sales of your book. Get more affiliates/partners. Promote the products of others to your list. Create more products. Win. Win. Win. Win.
I'm obviously not going to quote the whole post.....but - very very interesting information, thanks a lot man, WILL LOOK INTO!
I definitely plan on doing this on the future. I keep telling people, I need money right now! - I know all the squeeze page, aweber techniques, all that stuff, but right now I'm just writing 20 articles a day until I get some money to afford the tools I can to further my income. Me creating products has been thought about a long time ago....trust me. I do plan on doing this in the future. Plus, if I write an Ebook, there's a ton of work that comes associated with it. You just don't create a book, put on it on the internet and become the next millionaire. You have to find JV's, promote it either with PPC or SEO, drive traffic to it, have customer service, landing page design, creating bonus products, creating mailing lists to hold on to customers, hours among hours of testing and finding which designs convert or not, adding little stuff to make it convert even better, finding affiliates, finding reputable blogs to give the information to that will actually accept it.....it's not as simple as you're making it sound, it's really really not. This is really just barebones marketing, it is good advice however, just not in my situation.
Business = work. There's no way around it. But it really, really is that simple... Look: Buy Dan Kennedy's "The Ultimate Sales Letter" for like $10 on Amazon. Buy Joe Sugarman's "The Adweek Copywriting Handbook" for like $15 on Amazon. Read those two books. Research and pick a market you're interested in that has lots of buyers. Create one book. Write the sales page based on what you just learned from the two books mentioned. Create a single support email address that you check once a week. Or download and install a free piece of help desk software called OS Ticket. Create one report using the information from that book (hell, offer the first two or three chapters like Eben Pagan does). Create a squeeze page based on an already-proven layout (hint: Eben Pagan or Frank Kern) and write the copy using what you learned from the books mentioned. Create unique, valuable content for reputable bloggers within your market. Their day job is to create content for a blog... you approach them with a piece of unique content, just for them... you've just saved them a days work for nothing more than a link back to your squeeze page. This is ridiculously targeted, free traffic. Approach partners showing them that you and your product have been featured on a reputable blog or 7 (social proof) and offer them a generous commission. Hell, give them 100% (irresistible offer) because you'll be capturing prospects and buyers to sell to later. Again ridiculously targeted, free traffic. Don't go after the "top dogs" in the market, start with "low players". Treat your subscribers well; give them quality content and only promote products you've seen and can honestly say are good. Don't spam them. Those that buy can easily be segmented to a new list just for buyers in any decent autoresponder. Launch a small PPC campaign for consistent traffic and leads... $20 per day and setup an A/B split test for your landing page. Pick the control after 100 visitors and launch a new test. Keep doing that until you're satisfied. Gradually grow and expand the campaign. If your sales page isn't converting at the rate you want, launch an A/B test on that too. Pick the control after 100 visitors and launch a new test. Keep doing that until you're satisfied. Create a blog if you want some SEO love... but I can tell you paid traffic and JV traffic is worth A LOT more. Create backend and new frontend products interviewing previous partners. Easiest way ever to create a product. ... and I can keep going laying out the whole process to build a business starting with VERY LITTLE CAPITAL but I think you'll get the idea. This is exactly how I built my first info business... but you need to remember something. Building a business is a process, not an event. Just because your book doesn't have bonuses in the beginning doesn't mean you can't add them later. Just because you don't have a backend product in the beginning doesn't mean you can't add one later. You're making things more complicated than they need to be. Even after you get every little tool or course, nothing will be perfect. Ever. One thing successful people have in common: speed of implementation. Ready, fire, aim. There you go. A much better, more sustainable, simple model you or anyone else reading this can easily start implementing right now.
it’s a talent that you can write 20 articles /day. are you using Instant Article Wizard ? or such other tools or special SW ? do you make any article spinning or rewriting or rephrasing ? or you write the article from the ZERO ? thanks
These do seem like excellent tips, A wise person told me that the learning process is never ending. I have a couple of questions though, how do you go for JV's, do you just approach people in the forums? Is there a website to go to? What do you do? Thanks for the advice. As far as me, I definitely do plan on implementing my own product, I'll take those two books into account, I was just going to find a proven landing page model and pay someone to do it, I mean.....that's smarter than actually writing it yourself right? But things like creating a blog for SEO love - that requires tons of time; you can't just put a blog up and just expect to earn money, you have to target keywords, backlink from other websites, interlink, find all the plugins for wordpress and implement them, track and see what pages are earning you the most funds or getting you the most traffic, creating content, or finding a good writer to provide content, find a great theme and customize it, blogs aren't easy, I'm not making it seem more complicated, I'm telling you the truth, it's hard work and alot of time. And this is coming from someone who has done work with blogs. Creating PPC with 20$ a day & split testing & buying tracking tools - that takes money. Marketing either takes money or time, there's no way around it. So Like I said, I'm doing this 20 articles a day because for me, #1 writing articles is easy, and #2 because I need money now - your business model probably works, I especially like the idea of writing a quality article for a blogger and having them go straight to your squeeze page, I'm definitely going to implement that in the future - thanks! I mean I feel I'm working smart, probably not the smartest in the world, but smart enough to make atleast some cash, considering articles don't really consume that much of my day to type. I just type regular, I type on subjects I already have a pretty good amount of knowledge about so it makes the whole process easy. Thanks bro!