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How I Increased My Productivity – A Simple Tip

Nail — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:13:34 +0000

I know that whoever enters the internet marketing realm, they are flooded with information overload. They keep searching for a better method, for an easier way. They find really valuable information that will work for them if they just followed it; however, they keep looking for and barely take action.

I was once like that. I was reading all the forums related to internet marketing, downloading all the ebooks with catchy titles, in short I was trying to make money without doing what was necessary to make money. That is to take consistent action until it works.

Now, I continue to search and learn about new methods and strategies, though the time I devote to taking action is much more than the time I spend learning. So, how was I able to change my mindset like this?

At one time, while I was reading an ebook, I realized that I knew what it was talking about. The only thing I lacked was the required action the book mentioned. Then, I decided to leave the ebook open and do what it suggested rather than just reading it. I followed every step the report talked about and finally I was at a point where I was taking more action than reading.

From that time, whenever I find something that grabs my attention, such as an ebook or a forum thread, I leave it open and do not read it until I finish taking action in my plan for that day. Because I know that no matter how incredible the ebook or thread is, it will tell me one thing only: Take action, whatever it is.

I got my lesson, and I am on my way to taking more and more action.

Small but Promising Progress in My Efforts

Nail — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:29:36 +0000

I see that it has been more than two weeks that I last updated my blog. I was busy with lots of things and I started to see some really promising progress in some of my projects. I will talk about each item in detail in the following days, but for now I just want to talk about the titles I am working on at the moment.

Firstly, I made my first Adsense money in the previous week. That was a $0.56 click and it came from a website I started after reading about XFactor Adsense method in Warrior Forum. The thread is closed now, though you can read and find a great deal of valuable information on how to make money with Adsense niche sites. After the first click, I started to put more content and create more backlinks to the site and the number of clicks are increasing slowly but now I know that I am on the right track.

Secondly, I continued to work on promoting CPA offers after seeing some success as I talked about on the post My First CPA Money Ever. And I was able to increase my earnings to just above $100 in January. In the post that I mentioned, I had said that what I was doing was scalable and although I am at the $5/day range now, I will work more on this and try to increase the earnings.

Another thing I had success is selling PLR and MRR products. Selling Master Resale Rights product is something I knew for a long time but hadn’t done anything about. About two months ago, I decided to give it a try and collected some MRR ebooks from the net. I uploaded about 5 products to Tradebit and waited a few days, after seeing no sales I simply gave up. Then one day in December, I got a message telling that I had a sale. That made me really happy and decided to work more on this. After the first sale, I searched the internet and found lots of PLR membership sites and downloaded lots of ebooks. I am now uploading them from time to time. I already got 3 sales in January, and I know I can increase this if I work more on this.

Lastly, I did some more freelance jobs that I like to do about wordpress and excel, and I earned enough money to pay my next three years of hosting. Doing freelance jobs is not my main interest and also not the subject of this blog however, when you need some urgent money, it can be really helpful.

As I said, I will talk about each subject in detail in the following days so stay tuned.

The Biggest Lesson I Learned in 2009

Nail — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:27:44 +0000

As the new year starts, it is better for anyone to look back and evaluate the previous year in terms of what they learned and what they did good or bad in total.

For me 2009 passed a bit fast, because I was in the military service in the first half and didn’t have much time to bother with online things. After that, in summer, some offline stuff took a lot of my time and again I couldn’t devote the necessary time to my affiliate marketing efforts. Yet, I never lose the spirit inside me and I always waited for the right time to come when I will be free to work hard on this. Thanks to that, now I started to see some promising results from my various internet marketing efforts.

Luckily, in the last three months of 2009, I had the time to spend some real effort on internet marketing and what I want to talk about now is the most important lesson I got after reading hundreds of ebooks, forums posts, blogs; and trying and failing lots of things. It is:

“Find something that works and scale it.”

I know this is obvious and you all know that, but this was something that I really ignored in the past and I bet most of the beginners do so too.

In the last 18 months of my internet marketing journey, I did lots of things from selling digital photos online to promoting Clickbank products, from Google Adsense to CPA offers and freelance jobs. Nearly all the methods worked less or more and I made between $0.10 to $100 from all these different methods that I implemented. However, I was always looking for a better method and a perfect way to make money online with less work in a shorter time.

Certainly, I would have been in a different position, if only I hadn’t done what I did and instead stick to one method at one time and push it forward to as much as I can, i.e. scale it as much as possible.

Now, I see myself lucky because although it took me a bit long to find things that work, I finally found them and now I am working on to scale them as much as possible. Lately, I have unsubscribed from lots of useless newsletters and stopped signing up for new ones. I am not sure but the number of ebooks I have downloaded in the last three months are not more than 10.

I am starting to the new year with a much more dedicated mindset that knows the importance of managing the time wisely and taking action no matter if it works or not.

I hope you also got your lessons from 2009 and you will enter 2010 accordingly. I wish you all the best in 2010.

How Did I Achieve PageRank 1

Nail — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:51:15 +0000

Great news here! My blog is now PR1. The last time I checked, it was PR0 and I guess it increased with the latest update. Well, this made me happy.

I know this is not so big and doesn’t mean much but it is one of the steps that motivates me.

So, what did I do to reach a pagerank of 1? Let me tell you that I didn’t do any special things, no tricks or bulk backlink submissions. Mainly I have backlinks from two forums related to internet marketing as signatures. One is Warrior Forum and the other one is Digital Point Forum. Next, I have a few articles on ezinearticles.com and other article directories and I have some blog comments here or there. All done in a natural way, without a “how to increase PR” mindset. Adding all these contributed to PR1.

Now, I will try to get to PR2 but again in a natural way, doesn’t matter how much it takes.

See you.

What I Learned Today

Nail — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:34 +0000

For the last couple of weeks, I have been busy with lots of different stuff like building adsense friendly wordpress sites, testing some adwords campaigns, promoting CPA offers on Youtube, writing and submitting articles and doing some freelance stuff. Meanwhile, I kept learning about all these things in terms of both marketing and technical parts as much as possible.

Now, I see that all these stuff got a bit scattered and disorganized. And I need some sort of organization and keep track of what I learnt and what I applied, what worked and what did not. Hence, from now on, I decided to update this blog with my daily progress whenever I have time. I will include anything I learn and try that day so that I can keep track of the progress and learn better by noting it down. Also, I will keep updating the results of my efforts.

This post will expectedly be a milestone for my affiliate marketing blog and from now on it will evolve into a much better blog, full of useful information, resources and real life experiments.

Now I will go back to work and update here as soon as I come across anything worth to mention.

My First Clickbank Sale

Nail — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:42:04 +0000

Do you remember how you made your first-time money online? What was the thing that you sold/promoted? How did you promote it? How did you feel when you first saw that sale?

I remember my first sale ever online, which was on May 19, 2008. Been more than one year now. It was a Clickbank product related to downloads. It made me feel like flying over the clouds when I checked my account and noticed that sale. I was so happy that I knew my life would never be the same again. It took about one month for me to reach that level, from zero knowledge on internet marketing to having made a Clickbank commission. Although it has been more than a year now, I am not at the point where I would like to see myself today, due to some offline factors. Nevertheless, I can say that I will not leave this path until I find myself at that point someday.

I will try to briefly explain my process from zero to first sale, below.

I don’t remember how exactly I got infected by the internet marketing virus back in April 2008, however what I remember is that I found myself searching for some guide on how to make money online. I was like an internet marketing virgin and vulnerable to all the attacks by the sneaky internet marketers at that time. All the promises and fantastic offers were to good to be true, and I believed most of them. Luckily, I was not someone who could be sold easily. After some research, I decided on joining a membership site where I would find the necessary information and tools to start and follow step by step whatever they suggested.

Fortunately, I came across two of the great courses of the time. Wealthy Affiliate and Profit Lance. I did a lot of research on both programs, as what features they had, what people said about them. My final decision was the Wealthy Affiliate University, although I believed that Profit Lance would have been a good choice too.

Let me open a paragraph here about Wealthy Affiliate, because they deserve it.

I stayed as a member for three months and I was totally satisfied with what they offered; great articles, tutorials, videos, software and a priceless forum. I would continue my membership if it was not for some offline reasons. Thanks to WA, that was the first and last time I spent money on a how-to-make-money product. I learned the very basics at Wealthy Affiliate and now I figured out that I do not need any more make money reports since I know almost all the things about it, just what I need is to take more action.

Back to the story.

In a short time, I learned about affiliate marketing, digital products, promotion strategies and finally Clickbank. I signed up with Clickbank and started to explore it. At one instant, I stumbled upon a forum post by a fellow wealthy affiliate, Travis Sago. I am sure most of you have heard of him before. The post was related to Clickbank and USFreeads. Travis was illustrating in videos how he used USFreeads to promote Clickbank products. I really liked the style of Travis, he was explaining each step so detailed that I followed him immediately.

I registered at USFreeads for a premium account. I went to Clickbank Marketplace and grabbed an item -a product related to downloads- without looking for much. Then I created a really simple ad on USFreeads that described the product. I created some more ads about other products that I found in the marketplace.

The next day, when I checked my Clickbank account, bingo! I had made a sale from the first ad. I jumped out of the chair and started dancing. Words can not describe your feelings at that moment.

I made two more sales like this in the following days. It was just some plain simple ads on USFreeads without any marketing. It was the beginning for me. And I knew that it will not end soon.

So, what is the story of your first sale?

The Real Secret About Internet Marketing

Nail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:01:00 +0000

It is highly probable that you hear sentences like “the internet marketing secrets exposed”, “the secrets that gurus never would like you to know about”, or “long hidden secrets of making money online revealed” all the time, if you are struggling to make money on the internet. Do you believe them? How often do you follow the trail? Did you happen to find that secret they keep talkig about? Please tell me, if you did.

I don’t know about you, but I myself, have always been interested in such things until I figured out that there was no secrets which’s untold.

Believe me my friend, there is no such secrets about internet marketing or simply anything that lives on the internet. Think about it for just a moment: Can you believe that there could still be secrets after having thousands of forums, article directories and blogs open to public cycling around the world? I guess not.

So, what is the secret that people are rushing to sell and others rushing to buy?

Exactly nothing. Nothing new.

Unfortunately, there will always be such kind of people who sell and more interestingly people who buy that crap. Here, my humble advice will be to think twice before buying the next long-kept-alive non-existent secret.

God bless you.

How to Handle the Information Overload

Nail — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:57:34 +0000

Is there a single day that you don’t learn something new about internet marketing? For me, there is not. Whenever I look for something I come up with a different idea or tactic about copywriting, marketing or the technical stuff. There is so much to learn but there is not that much time to apply all the things that is learned.

Believe me, I came across dozens of strategies that promised me to make money in a short time, however none of them really worked, since I didn’t work on them enough to make them work. It took me about one year to realize that it wasn’t the tactics that is failing, it was my mindset. And I am on the way to change this.

Today, I made a promise to myself:

I will never fill in a sign up form -which consists of a name and email field- for anything related to making money online. Because I now have nearly all the tools that a marketer needs to make money online and I believe that I have enough knowledge on the subject. What I need is not to learn more but to act more about what I already learned and to learn by acting, to learn by failing and to learn by succeeding.

I know there are thousands of brilliant tactics that could be used to make huge money. I know because people sell those all the time, and people buy it. On the other hand, I know some really simple tactics, which are obvious and have a higher chance to work for you. I know because the people who sell those tactics do utilize them and the people who buy do not.

So, instead of just waiting for the next great tactic that will make me rich, I will keep searching for it, and at the same time I will be using the simpler ones to get into action and build my business on a strong base. Meanwhile, I may find the great one, while working on the simpler ones.

To conclude, what you need to do to handle the information overload is to stop acquiring more knowledge and to get into more action.

The Real Secret About Internet Marketing

The Last Ebook You will Ever Need to Read

Nail — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:42 +0000

Dear Fellow Marketers,

Not so long ago, I realized that I was doing something wrong. I have been considering to share this idea for a while now. Finally I decided to create a small report. This will probably be the last ebook you will ever need to read before you start making some real money online.

What I am about to reveal in this free ebook is the most important ingredient of internet marketing, no matter which area you are trying to specialize. Whether you go the CPA path, the Clickbank path, the Amazon path or the eBay path the idea is all the same. I don’t want to go into details here, since the report itself is short enough to read in five minutes. Though, I believe you will have a totally new point of view to your internet/affiliate marketing efforts after reading it. Thanks for your interest, and if you read it, please tell me whether you liked it or not.

You can download “The Last Ebook You will Ever Need to Read” by clicking here.

How I Increased My Productivity – A Simple Tip