Follow my progress: new $1,500 per month within 60 days

Hi guys,

I've already achieved many of my dreams thanks to Clickbank (as affiliate and vendor) and making money other ways on the internet.

But I am not what you would call a "rich man" and I want more money, naturally .

The good news is that my current income requires barely a few minutes a day to sustain. This is definitely a model I want to replicate.

So I hope you will follow my progress over the next 60 days to generate completely new sources of zero to low maintenance income (at least $1,500 per month which is same as 50 bucks a day).

At this time of writing, I have not yet decided which route to go or how many ideas to follow up. Here are some ideas of mine so far, hopefully I can make a decision within a day or two and start the work.

• List Building - I have an aweber account that needs to be used. If you own your own list, you can make money in many ways such as: on the initial opt-in, regular emails. You can even make money by charging fees to someone else to send an ad to your list. Already I am doing this to a small extent, getting leads via articles at Ezinearticles.
• Bum marketing - I already have 1000 articles at EZA but been a long time since I added many. I can still improve with keyword selection, CTR etc., traditionally my conversion has sucked due to my lack of skills in this area. I will be highly selective with which product I choose, I hope you guys can help me here. For example, I am quite keen to use something like "healthybak". This product has a very low initial earning but a very high earned per sale - so this means the vendor is very skilled in extracting money from proven buyers!
  Also, I am open to ideas for non-directtovendorsite options. Single page review site perhaps?
  My only reservation about this method is that traffic from articles drops off rapidly. However, if I can get great conversions and need to only write less than 5 articles per day to sustain this income, then I don't mind. I prefer to outsource only later after proving the business model.
• Youtube and other videos - I have a friend who is earning thousands per week from doing this. I will likely dedicate at least 2 days purely to filming. Then later some post-production and syndication, traffic building etc.

I am open to other ideas. Traditionally, I have built content sites that now get several hundred hits per day. But knowing google, this took a long time and I did not get this traffic within 60 days. So probably I will not take this route for this experiment.

Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts.

 

Good luck, I'll follow you so keep posting...

 

Sorry for making this kinda OT but...I have a question about youtube marketing-considering the majority of surfers on YT are casual lookers trying to kill time, how do people actually sell them anything?. And that too aiming for that impulse buy-isn't that going to be much harder than, say, with an article and a landing page to pre-sell them into readiness?. I too have heard of people who make thousands a month doing this, and if you did crack it that would be just fantastic-atleast it would be a breath of fresh air from the nth article journal this week.

 

Thanks for comments so far. Part of reason for this post is because I have been a lazy ass for the last 3 months!!! By telling others my plans of action, I must follow through or feel shame!!

As for the YT video, put it this way: those apparently "crappy" videos with a 30 second review of a product, that is all that is needed. I have seen some truly atrocious videos that seem totally insincere but yet they make my friend (and others I'm sure) mega-bucks.

I think keywords are key: choose the right ones and the person is already in buying mood and you don't need to do much convincing, that's my theory anyway.

 

Yes...but how do you get the right kind of people watching?. It doesnt help that youtube features other videos and ads of all sorts along with your video and that is sure to get the real info hungry clicking away from your vid onto others instead of your link most often.

Does anyone have stats of some sort like comparing the sales per day from submitting 10 videos vs. 10 articles?.
Also, I just noticed the word 'magniwork' has over 3.5k results on Youtube whereas e4e has around 900...do brand name vids really convert that well too?.

 

I have decided to do videos first because hey it is more interesting than writing articles though it can be tricky to make videos too. Hey Medic, I am just hoping through keywords there are enough of my target market.

I'll give you an example, the top videos of my friend seem to get between 10,000 and 100,000 views in just one year.

Now I remember reading from Chad Kimball (big video marketer, I may buy some of his products) that he remembered a %age who click through. I forget the figure, maybe 10% or less. Assume 10% and this is between 1,000 and 10,000 clicks. Conservatively assume a low conversion rate of say 2% and this is between 20 and 200 sales per video per year! Assume a $30 commission for example and this is $600 to $6,000 per video per year. Of course, this neglects that some vids may be duds in terms of traffic but I hope to limit those by good keyword selection.

 

So, you're trying for specific phrase matches?. Won't that...just limit the kind of traffic coming to your videos?. You would need as many people interested in some niche as possible right, and shouldn't that mean the broader the better?. Of course keyword selection should be there, but marketing like this is like a TV or newspaper ad-you want the most number looking into your videos.

Also, all the best with proceeding here on after

 

I have done quite a lot video marketing when I first started internet marketing about 15 months ago.

It is a great way to earn, and it is much easier than article marketing IMO, and it requires less work.

I don't do any video promotion anymore since I focus on working as a vendor, but some of the affiliates of my products have had great success promoting via youtube. Magniwork does seem to convert really well on youtube.

There are tons of earth4energy vids. However, from what I've noticed, people don't usually go for the brand name 'earth4energy', but they try to tackle relevant keywords like make solar panel, home renewable energy, etc... any searches I've done for renewable energy on youtube yielded a dozen of vids promoting e4e

 

Yes its very true, videos get good traffic but to get visitor to landing page is a big task. what is your video to landing page click thru ratio?

 

Hey Rolf... good luck mate..

Video marketing is really a good technique. You can create quick awesome videos using http://animoto.com/

You can also use http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1175714228541#versionTabview=tab1&tabview=tab0

Its also a great tool for creating eye catchy videos.

--DJ

 

Thanks for the animoto tip, I had forgotten about that site. I will definitely use this as part of my strategy.

I tried to get videos from my mobile phone to my PC but damn bluetooth is not working and I don't have the cable. Luckily, I have the webcam on my laptop. I am using this cool free software to make videos:

http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

Now I need to select products and then keywords for the products. Yes I definitely want to use good keywords to snare users in 2 ways:

- via youtube search results
- via google search results

So I think keywords are essential.

e.g. premature ejaculation niche.

keyword "premature ejaculation", if I use this in title my video will be lost and nobody see it.
keyword "squeeze technique video" is much better!

I am undecided how to track results. Using a simple domain redirect is best but unless I buy a ton of domains, I can't track easily.

I could use php for the best tracking or even just CB hoplinks but I can't help but think I will get less clicks this way. I am not yet decided on this. If I go the multiple domain route, I will register a ton of infos, spend maybe $100 on 30 .infos.

 

Or just use offto.net?. Those links work pretty damn well and I've offto links that are a couple years old that still send hops. Plus it's real easy to add tids to these links so you know exactly which video is giving you your results.

 

Didnt you consider SEO? As far as I know creating a SEOed website can bring the biggest amount of free long-term targetetd traffic. And once you get the website running, and build quality backlinks it only requires few hours weekly to add some new content just to keep it fresh in googles eyes.

 

SEO on my own website will not bring me the extra $50/day within 60 days. However, if I leverage the SE value of other sites like Youtube especially and EZA then it can help me.

 

You don't need to spend $100 for 30 .info domains. Just check godaddy.com, you can buy .info domain for $1.07... and also if you buy the domains in bulk, you will get some discount as i keep on getting their mails like "20% discount for bulk domains".

 

TP thanks for that, I had no idea that godaddy were that cheap.

Had some more ideas, what I will do is to create a new youtube account for each product (whether as a vendor or affiliate it doesn't matter). Because I don't want a ton of total BS videos, I do want to also benefit from being seen as an expert giving good information (people will trust more and hopefully BUY more!).

But I will have one generic account for doing tons of different products too.

 

this is going to be very interesting.Thanks Rolf.I have never concentrated on video marketing - so this would be giving me a lot of ideas.Do leave updates.thanks again and Good luck

 

All the best with this rolf, I will be watching closely.

I'm interested to know where you got the 10% clickthough number from for links in video descriptions? I actually thought it was much less then that, which is why video marketing hasn't appealed to me much.

I guess you can have a watermark of your URL but that just screams advertisment. Perhaps featuring the URL at the end of the video is best?

 

Like you me also never get any sales from Video. Let's see. Wish U All the Best