How I Make 2K A Month Plus What I Could Do Better
This is so good I copied it word-for-word from a marketing forum. It describes a simple method that strips out all the complications when it comes to making money online…
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I have been involved with IM since December 16th of 2007. Since January I have made no less than 2 thousand a month and as much as 4 thousand.
Currently, I am marketing to 3 different niches and follow the same plan for each one. I challenge anyone who is not making money to follow any type of organized plan of attack and not make money. It is impossible.
Here is what I do step by step. I will follow this by what I feel that I could have done in the beginning and would probably be making twice the money monthly. I just could not see the big picture.
1. Niche Research - This takes me all of 5 minutes. I go to clickbank and see what everyone else is selling meaning a product with a high gravity and a good sales page.
2. Keyword Research - Again, initially this takes me all of 5 minutes. Because my main traffic generation is article marketing i go to google and see what keywords are ranking high within article directories. Those are the ones I focus on while trying to target long tails.
3. I set up a Squidoo lens as my landing page. I also set up a hub page, a blog at blogger, and a free wordpress blog. I set and forget my squidoo lens but update my blogger blog, hub, and WP blog every other day or so. I link everything back to my Lens.
4. Write a minimum of 3 articles everyday for each niche.
5. Submit my Lens to 10 free directories a day to build my link popularity.
That is the exact process I follow and consistently get sales each and every day. By no means am I making a killing but, I am able to pay my house note and all of my utilities every single month which, is more than I thought I was going to be able to do. With the limited success I have had though, I do see IM as a way to replace my entire income and hopefully, be able to work at it full time.
I could be making so much more though but, admittedly I am a bit of a dumb ass and frequently do not look at the big picture.
Here is what I wished I would have done from the beginning.
1. Got my own hosting and domains. The reason for this is pretty simple. In addition to it being “mine” I could easily have had an asset that I could have sold at some point for a nice profit if I decided my time would be better spent in another niche. As it stands now I have nothing to show for all of the link building and SEO I have done.
2. List building – Each of my three niches get at least 3000 visitors a month. By now, I could have had one hell of a list to market to. How sweet would it be to be able to be able to send an item once a week to these people? I lost a lot of money here.
3. Outsourcing - Again, this is a dumb a** moment for me. I wish I would have taken half of my profit and paid to have articles written and submitted for me. In the short haul it would have cut into my play money but, by now I have a feeling it would have paid me major dividends.
I really have to thank Chris Surfrider for “bitch slapping” me the other day when answering a question i asked in his thread.
He really gave me a lot to think about but, more importantly he gave me a new perspective and direction to take my business in.
ANYONE can make money doing this. As a matter of a fact, a guy I work with asked me what the hell I am always doing on my laptop and I told him. He said he wanted to give it a shot so I gave him the same outline above and showed him where everything was. He has made 4 sales already in a matter of 6 days and is excited as all hell.
Hopefully, someone can read into this post to see how simple it can be to make money. Hell, for some of the people trying to get into this 2 thousand dollars a month would probably give them the ability to all together quit their regular job and spend more time with their families. In some cases, it might even be enough to improve their quality of life, and that is what it is really all about.
So again, i say, I challenge anyone to follow any type of plan of action to the letter and not make money. It simply can not be done.
THE END………….
Thanks, Dan
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