Nadav's Outsourcing and eBaying Journey

Today's progress: nothing. The only decision I made is to take off eBay from this journal. It's useless.

I'm staying at my base this weekend, so I'll probably update here again next Thursday or some other day (if I'll be home for a few hours).

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 36
Published articles: 36
Income: $174.30
Expenses: $105
Outsourcing total: $69.30

nadavs

 

You must live close to your base, what do you do there?

 

I'm not living close to my base, but close enough. We're allowed to go home for a few hours once in a while. What I'm doing there is secret.

nadavs

 

I'm home today (until tomorrow), so here's another update. First, I got a sale and a refund. Since the sale was bigger, I still made a profit which sums up to $23.05. I also ordered a fresh bunch of articles for next Thursday, this time half of them in a niche I wanted to sell for a long time. One product there also gives $100 per sale. Worth it, I think.

See you next Thursday.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 36
Published articles: 36
Income: $197.35
Expenses: $105
Outsourcing total: $92.35

nadavs

 

כל הכבוד אחי!
אתה חייל בצה"ל?

 

Is that Hebrew?

Google translate:

"Well done, brother
You IDF soldier"

Not sure how good of a translation that is....

 

Nadavs, any updates?

 

The translate is excellent!

I am an IDF soldier too!

 

Well, here are the updates:
I received two more CJ sales, which brings the total sales from CJ to 4. However, it's not related to the journey, so I'll leave it out for now.

On the journal side: two more sales for a total of $115.34. I also bought new articles, so it's -$55 on this side. So far, the statistics are in my favor. That's an ROI of 95.4%, which is a great ROI.

I'll be home until Monday, and then another Saturday away from home. Well, that happens too.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 56
Published articles: 36
Income: $312.69
Expenses: $160
Outsourcing total: $152.69

nadavs

 

Congrats on the sales. Are the new articles Forex related, or are you moving into more niches?

 

Let's start with the answers and move on to the progress:
TigerPublishing - only half of the new articles is forex related. The other one is in a niche I won't reveal now, but it can be very rewarding.

Progress:
1) I opened a blog for the new niche I'm targeting. So far I have only 2 articles for this niche, which I wrote myself, but 10 more articles will be approved soon. Keyword domination, here I come!

2) I created a mailing sequence from my forex articles. It turns out I have 61 of them, but I only managed to find 60 to add to the mailing list. Well, never mind. The current list is long enough to keep emailing for 178 days, which is nearly 6 months. With 10 more articles coming, another full month will be occupied (3 days between emails).

3) I didn't have sales today. Yet.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 56
Published articles: 56
Income: $312.69
Expenses: $160
Outsourcing total: $152.69

nadavs

 

Wow, this is really starting to come along. Well done nadavs

 

And... Another day of nothing. Well, I got two leads in my forex list and a new list for Earth4Energy. Hopefully they'll bring in the dough. At least some dough.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 56
Published articles: 56
Income: $312.69
Expenses: $160
Outsourcing total: $152.69

nadavs

 

Today I didn't get any sales, but I did lots of other things. First, I purchased myself a brand new copy for my driving test guide (prepare yourself for a re-launch!). I have unlimited revisions for 6 months, certainly enough time to test whether the copy meets my requirements (3% conversion rate). If I get this conversion rate, I'll relaunch the product (probably on my birthday, again) and pay for the work ($160) in less than a month. I know this sum is not much for a copywriting job, but their feedbacks looked good and they look very credible.

I also began to see results from my email marketing. Someone sent me an email with 13 questions regarding a forex product I promote. As a result, I earned a potential client, I earned her trust with quick responses, and I put a FAQ section on every review page to eliminate any chance of future questions, and of course to improve conversions (FAQs converted for me in the past). If more questions will come, I have a place to write them.

And finally, I did some conversion tracking with my email list. Now I can see which pages generate the most leads.

See you next Monday!

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 56
Published articles: 56
Income: $312.69
Expenses: $320
Outsourcing total: -$7.31 (What a loss )

nadavs

 

Hi Nadavs, I'm from the IAF, hit me up on ICQ , lets chat a bit ; 387-531-952...

 

After a rather annoying week, I'm back home to two sales and a new sales copy. Now I'm looking for daily sales and covering the cost of the copy within one month.

Not much was done besides that. Let's do the statistics, and I'll see you again on Thursday.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 56
Published articles: 56
Income: $392.55
Expenses: $320
Outsourcing total: $72.55 (What a bad ROI - just 18.5%)

nadavs

 

This is experiment is yielding awesome results, and considering you didn't put down all that $320 at once your ROI isn't bad at all, even if you stop now the traffic and sales will continue to flow I'm sure. This has got me inspired now, I look forward to your next update.

 

Honestly, 18% profit isn't huge, but that's way better than most businesses get. It's really a matter of scale. Article Marketing will work best if you have a longer view plan of action that it helps build toward.

For example, doing individual campaigns for individual products is fine, but if you had a themed niche site that all of the articles funneled to, you would have some longer term traffic options. I've had some sites where I don't do anything to that still bring in sales quite often to old content. At some point it just becomes a numbers game. Numbers of links, numbers of posts. Volume, scaling, numbers.

 

Great news: the new sales copy works. 2 sales in 3 days so far, and today may bring another sale, which will meet my goal (one sale per day, for now). No sales in other niches in the last few days.

New articles ordered. I'll upload them next Monday.

Statistics:
Purchased articles: 76
Published articles: 56
Income: $440.49
Expenses: $320
Outsourcing total: $120.49 (ROI: 27.3%)

nadavs

 

Answers, answers, answers...