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What I Learned Today

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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

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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

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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

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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.