Well I have now sent out 3 mailings in total, to supposedly 6 million people. Lets discount the last mailing since it went out yesterday, so for the sake of argument, lets make it 4 million people.
My total number of opens, based on my tracking software, which is very good by the way,……………
DRUM ROLL PLEASE…………………………….
16
Now that’s pretty crappy now isn’t it. Looks like my friends were correct, Safelists don’t seem to be working for me, at least not this one.
I will continue with another seven mailings as I promised myself I would do ten in total before I came to any rock solid conclusions, but it ain’t lookin good!!!
Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year To Everyone!!!!
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Well there are a few answers to why 95% of people fail at making money online in my opinion, but the #1 reason, I think, is a very simple one.
“Information Overload”
There is simply too much information to absorb at one time, especially in the “make money online” niche.
Have you ever been to a carnival? Or even better, a bazaar a foreign country. All the vendors are barking out their products and prices at you all at the same time. You end up walking out with a bunch of junk or with nothing at all, rarely do you leave with something you really wanted or needed.
Well, the Internet has turned into a “virtual Morrocan bazaar“. Whether you are a complete newbie or even have a little experience, getting bogged down trying to juggle 10 projects at once will doom you to failure.
If you are just starting out, my advice is to pick ONE project you want to work on. Whether it be a blog, marketing a particular product, whatever, just pick one and put all your effort into that one project. Test it out, and if you see its making you some money then ramp it up to make you more.
Now if you see after two or three months that it is not generating a reasonable profit for you, dump it, don’t waste your time on it anymore, just move on to a different project, but still keep it at one project, until you find one that’s making you money.
Once you have established yourself with that one project and you’ve tweaked it, optimized it, and done everything you can to make sure it producing the most money it can for you, then, and only then, should you move on to adding another project to your business.
Believe or not, this is also a very low stress way to start an online business, and you’ll actually enjoy what you are doing.
When I started out I was trying 20 different things at once and doing all of them badly. Once I realized that I was being caught in the “Internet Marketer’s Web” of Information Confusion, I put everything aside for a week and then started to look for that one project I was most interested in. Luckily for me that first one did become profitable, but the second and third were duds. Nevertheless I approached the second and third ones individually and not at the same time. I was able to realize they had very little potential relatively quickly and moved on.
Number four was a hit. I nurtured it, optimized it, tweaked it, then optimized it some more until it basically ran itself. Now I had two businesses online. So it was time to look for another business, or income stream, I like to call them, and the cycle repeated itself.
As I’ve said before my niches previous to this try at the “make money online” niche, are Web Hosting and SEO. I have more than one income stream for both niches so I felt I had done all I could in those markets and that is why I started this blog in this particular niche. It may do well, it may fall flat on its face, I’ll know that by February or March I believe, but because I approached my previous businesses they way I did, I can now afford to give this one more time to develop, especially since this niche is so competitive.
Peace
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Hey guys,
You might notice that I just put up a page title “Web Hosting with a Refund”
You should give a minute and check it out. The two companies I suggest are Hostgator
and Webhostingpad
.
OK, so why am I promoting them?
Well first of all, I make money if you sign up through my link, I mean that’s what we’re all trying to do here isn’t it?…………..Make Money Online?
You don’t pay anymore than you would if you went directly to their sites, they simply use affiliate programs as a way of getting extra business.
Second, as I said in a previous post WebHosting is one of the niches I am established in. So it’s a good technique to “cross-promote” one niches products to another. Especially since this niche, the “make money online” niche is both new to me and extremely competitive.
By the way, all hosting companies pay the same commission, within a 10% variation range, so commission was not a factor. I’m looking for monthly volume.
That being the case, the fact is, I would not have begun to promote them had I not thought they offered true value to my readers.
Believe it or not it took quite a bit of time to research what they offer in terms of disk space, bandwidth,tools, like cPanel and one click WordPress Install and more.
I looked at many of my affiliate hosting companies but could not find the right mix of services offered, easy of use, and price, for this target audience.
Which should be, if I did my research correctly, is composed mostly of people who are just starting to get serious about making money online .
What did differentiate Hostgator and WebhostingPad was their 45 day and 30day, respectively, 100% Refund Periods.
I found affiliate clients that offered the same value and services, but not the refund.
So that’s why i picked these two to start a page with.
…..and they, Hostgator and Webhostingpad , had the right mix AND Refund Policies.
It’s doesn’t always have to be about “just the money”………. good businesses last because they offers their customer(readers) a good value, regardless of what the they are going to make in commission.
It’s up to me to do the work to provide the right solutions, to the right audience. If people have a need for the solutions I offer, I’ll make money.
If I didn’t do my homework right regarding the target audience or the solutions themselves, then its on me if I don’t make money.
You can never get mad at your customer/readers for not buying your product. If they are not buying its your fault, the blogger, affiliate marketer, not your customer’s.
Peace
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Yep, that’s what I think. I mean Commission BluePrint is obviously not the exact same thing as Arbitrage Conspiracy, but for the most part it teaches you the same skills you need to accomplish what AC is geared to, CPA/CPL Marketing, which, by the way, is a really great way to make money online.
But the best part is Commission BluePrint costs $2,000 less!!
Now the guys who made AC are probably cursing me to high heaven but lets take a look at the facts.
1.Commission BluePrint teaches how to master PPC, specifically Google Adwords, with in depth keyword research………….So does AC.
2.Commission BluePrint teaches you how to use those keywords to build “sales grabbing” landing pages that will maximize your PPC conversions……………..So does AC.
3.Commission BluePrint shows you how to test PPC campaigns for affiliate products, weed out the ones that aren’t working, and scale up the ones that are working……………So does AC.
Those three things right there are at the core of what you need to be successful using PPC campaigns in the affiliate marketing arena to make money online.
So what are the differences, there must be some, right?
Well, Commission BluePrint focuses on marketing ClickBank Products, while AC focuses on CPA/CPL products like free trails, memberships, email submissions etc.
Ok, so instead of building your landing page around a ClickBank product, as is done with Comm Blue, for Arbitrage Conspiracy you would take the same landing page that Comm Blue taught you to build and optimize and simply change your link to you CPA advertiser instead of you ClickBank product……..basically you’re changing links…………….that it!
Now the AC peeople will say….”well AC teaches you how to build email marketing campaigns……..”. With all due respect, just Google “Email Marketing” and in a few minutes you’ll have most of the tools you need at your finger tips, and by the way, SafeLists may not be the way to go, if you’ve been reading my posts on the subject, but that’s a different subject.
So now the AC people will say………..”well AC shows you where to find CPA/CPL networks”, again, just google “cpa networks” or “best cpa networks” and you’ll be good to go. As a matter of fact here are a few you can use, and I won’t charge you a dime for the info:
Commission junction
ClickBooth
Azoogle
Hydra Networks
Affiliate.com
………and there are probably over 100 more you’ll find after you do your google search.
So whats the bottom line?
If you already think you know everything you need to know regarding optimizing PPC campaigns and landing pages then you don’t need either product, Commission BluePrint or Arbitrage Conspiracy.
On the other hand, if you need a little help or don’t know a thing about PPC and optimizing landing pages, aren’t you better off spending $97 as opposed to $2,000? I know what may answer would be, only you know what yours would be.
Grab Commission BluePrint, its worth the measley $97.00, in my humble opinion.
Peace
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Hi everyone, today I sent out my first mailing with the service I signed up for earlier in the week. Supposedly it will go to at least 2,000,000 verified opt in email addresses.
I set all my tracking codes to keep track of impressions, which would be people opening the supposed 2,000,000 emails, and clicks, anyone who might have opened the email and then clicked the banner add.
I’m very skeptical about this, I have to say, but because it only cost me a $35 one time payment I’m giving it a shot.
I’ll post the results of my first mailing once I give it a few days.
Peace.
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I found this interesting article on EzineArticles.com. Its about using ebay to build your mailing list, its a good short read, check it out:
Building a list is absolutely essential to any online business, and should without question be one of your top priorities when starting an online business. Many internet marketers claim to make $1 per subscriber per month that they get to join their list. This means that if you can build a list of 10,000 or 20,000 people then you can make a quite lucrative income online.
How exactly do you go about building a list? There are many methods, but one of my favorites I will refer to as eBay list building. This is a process where you place classified ads on eBay in your niche, and have an opt in form within your ad. The reason this is so effective is because each classified ad that you place on eBay will get at least 100 views per month, which should translate to about 30 new subscribers. Now just think how productive this strategy could be if you have 100 ads running!
Another benefit of eBay list building is that it is very cost effective. A 30 day classified ad on eBay with only cost you $9.95, and you will get at least 100 visitors to your offer from this, if not many more. I have seen some well written ads that pull over 500 visitors per month. As you can see this method is easier and more cost effective than Google AdWords, but shockingly still has little competition.
Building a list with eBay classified ads is one of the fastest ways to build a huge list. It is possible to ad 5,000 people to your list monthly using this method. Imagine how that could boost your online income.
So go ahead and give eBay list building a try, you will like the results and will have much more success with your online business.
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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Matthew_Lord
I know I’m going to try it out. If you have experience with this method please give us your feedback by leaving a comment on this post.
Peace
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