Welcome to the final post in the ‘August 30 Days Challenge’.
It has been a cool little journey if you ask me :). Though I did not complete all the task that I was suppose to do I would still like to say that this challenge was a SUCCESS!
Don’t worry, I would still like to hear your views/ Comments at the end of this post.
Now before I go any further, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has been visiting, leaving comments, sending me email and all. All your comments whether they be good, bad or in between are welcome and appreciated. I would also like to say congrats to all the persons who have emailed me telling me thank you because I have helped them in some way. You guys rock and I encourage you to continue and don’t ever give up until you succeed.
Now what you have been waiting for:
Overview Of The 30 Days Challenge:
For those of you who are visiting for the very first time, let me explain what the 30 Days Challenge Was. At the begining of August, I decided that I would take on a challenge where I expose one of my niche, my landing pages and whether or not my I could make my affiliate campaign a success. The goal was not to make x amount of sales but rather to make as much as possible :). For the challenge to be successful, it was agreed that at least one sale should be recorded. Below are the statistics for the campaign.
Niche I Focused On: How To Stop Excessive Sweating
Website: http://stopsweating101.com
Traffic Statistics For The Month Of August:
From the pic above you can see that the website got over 1365 unique visitors in it’s first month. However, those are not all targeted visitors because some of those visitors were referred by my blog. Those were people checking out the landing page :).
So you see over 211 visitors came from my blog. Therefore the amount of targeted visitors would be 1365 - 211 = 1154 Unique Visitors.
What Else Did We Achieve?
The website is indexed in Google and Yahoo and ranking for some keywords already.
Keyword:How To Stop Excessive Sweating - position 183 out of 361,000 websites. Not bad for a new domain. Just need some more high pr backlinks.
Keyword:Stop Sweating - position 285 out of 3 million websites. Not bad for a new domain. Just need some more high pr backlinks.
Now For Yahoo:
Keyword:How To Stop Excessive Sweating - Position 31 out of over 1 million results.
Keyword: Stop Sweating - Position 49 Out of 45 million results.
I am no SEO expert of the sort but if you ask me I would say those above a so so bad results. No bear in mind that the website is already ranking for several other keywords. I only mention those above because they are the main ones that we are focusing on at the moment.
So we have traffic stats and search engine ranking stats……..
The question you may be asking now is; What About Sales? Well Here are the results below:
6 Sales Totaling $150
Clickbank Hops
644 Hops, 46 Order form Impression Count, 7 Order form Submit Count and only 6 sales. If you ask me that doesn’t sound right to me. I know a lot of persons will disagree but I just can’t understand why 46 persons would read a sales letter with the price clearly stated, hit the order button and then suddenly decided not to buy. Doesn’t sound good to me! What’s also strange is that 7 persons enter their credit card details and click submit but only 6 of those were recorded as sales!!!!!!!
Well I honestly don’t know what to say but let’s look on the bright side shall we?
Now…
It is not a gazzilion dollars but it still shows that if you play your cards right you will make money online. You see I have heard of people trying for years without making a single penny online.
So what did I do?
I took a campaign and make 6 sales withing 31 days. Again it is not much but is shows that with a little dedication you really can make money online. So to recap a little:
** Chose a niche - A hungry market desperate for a solution some problem they may have. In this case the problem that our market have is their excessive sweating problem. Therefore they will spend money to get rid of their problems. We just need to get our offer in front of them.
** Provide The Best Solution To Their Problems - In our case the solution was an ebook that teaches them how to get rid of their excessive sweating condition. It was one of the top products on clickbank. (not really important but just proves that it was already selling).
** Use A Pre-sell To Get Your Prospects To Buy Your Offer - This means you will try your best to get your prospect to be in a buying mood and visit your vendors page to buy the offer. Don’t try to sell to much that is not your job. Leave that to the sales page. That is one of the reason why choosing the right product is very important because you want a page that converts.
** Get Your Offer In Front Of Your Prospects - This means you must drive an army of targeted traffic to your pre-sell page. The more traffic, the more conversion/sales which equates to more money in your pockets.
So What’s Next???????
Although I didn’t get to do everything as planned, I really enjoyed this challenge and I hope you did.
So Here is The Deal:
I will continue to expose this clickbank account and take it all the way up to $1000+ per month. (I wont Stop Until I Get There Either ). I will also get the other landing pages up as well and carry on with the promotions and reveal everything to you for free! How Cool Is That?
However I do Have Specific Challenge For September
Drum Roll
Are You Ready For It????
It’s The ……
Article Writing Challeneg…….WOOOOOOO
I am going to challenge myself to write 200 Articles for the month of September. That is an average of 10 articles per day excluding weekends. So do you think you can manage such a challenge?
Set a number that you think you can handle. Maybe 50, 30 but not less that 20 (that’s cheating lol). You can write about any niche and it doesn’t have to be one niche either because that can get boring and repetitive. So Go ahead and condition your mind for the challenge to come.
I am really excited about this because I know a lot of persons have a problem with writing articles. But remember this, if you tell youself you can do it then you can. And whenever you don’t feel like writing, just start typing and it will come.
Thanks for tuning to my blog once more. I wish you all the best and I look forward to hearing your comments.
Thanks for the challenge. I followed you from AZ and was able to make $511.01 in clickbank sales with about 23 sales.
Wrote 79 articles in just 1 month. Was tedious but I was able to make the long standing Jinx.
I have been online for close to 2 years but all I could do in a month before now was $199 but now I stand a chance of making $3000 if the site is sold ( I will sell it to raise money for other businesses).
I believe I would have done better than that if I had not moved out of Nigeria cos of what everyone knows and if I had distributed the articles to other article directories other than EZA.
Anyway, I am happy with my progress and I give thanks to God and to you for starting the challenge.
any one who wants to buy the site should contact me via admin @ soccerfanbase dotcom
Abayomi Aje
mrmut
August 31, 2009
great job!!! i would like for you to really update your moves on a daily base. this will help everyones mind set. Show what action it takes to make a online business work, is very important. Most beginners think that by working one day for 8hour and throwing up a site, affiliate links, article, ppc campaigns and forum posting, that money will be falling from the sky. I one day thought like that.
Your blog post really explains in some detail the work it takes to get it up and running. KEEP POSTING !!! I am sure you are helping alot of people.
You have help me
Good Luck!
powfada
August 31, 2009
Hey Abayomi,
Congrats on your success. I really love to hear those success stories and I wish you all the best.
Now is time to duplicate your success and make 1000+ for your next month!
Andrew
August 31, 2009
Thanks for helping with this information.
When most webmasters become successfull they become take,take,take.
Your help makes me want to sign up under your referal links on various tools you promote.
I wish you all the best
I really like your blog it’s real informative and inspiring. I have been trying to make money online for almost 2 years with very little luck maybe a sale here and there but with what you have here maybe that will change.
I really want to try the challenge maybe 5 articles a day to see what that can do for me. I will keep you posted on my progress. I am pretty good at writing articles but get hardly any sale. I think it’s my landing pages gonna try what you suggest though.
I am up for the challenge, I mind you I am not new to article marketing. However, I am completly noob on coding. I like you landing pages. Where did you bought the template. I saw you use it a lot…
Casey, it’s really awesome the way that you showed us in detail and that someone followed you and achevied what they did is phenominal.
Well done to you and everyone who followed you.
Thanks Caseyy, and all the best with your September challeneg
Brian
aka Hackbridge
emmanuel
September 1, 2009
hi casey,
congratulations…its really interesting seeing those sales! by the way how were your adsense earnings?
Also i didn’t understand your traffic techniques in this challenge, what did you exactly do?
looking up for the article marketing challenge. I didn’t make a single sale in this challenge, but i am still optimistic to try more. its been a close to 9 months and still haven’t made money online.
thanks,
cheers.
ming
September 1, 2009
Did you write any articles? If so how many? If not how many backlinks do you have to the site? Any rss feeds or social bookmarking? If yes how often or to how many sites? etc
powfada
September 1, 2009
Ok Guys Let Me Try To Answer Some Question:)
**Roro - The template for the landing page was created by me. I did it in an html editor but I got the graphics done by someone else. In the upcoming weeks I may get some templates done so everyone will have a chance to grab them.
** Mitchelle - Majority of the traffic comes from articles. I got about 30 articles posted on ezinearticles as well as Articlesbase. They are written for keywords with very little competition so they are already ranking high in the search engines. Just go back to the keyword research post.
To everyone else, the adsense earnings is just a few cents but I am not worried about that. My main aim is to make the affiliate sales.
Also I am suppose to get some backlinks to my articles but as I said before I didnot get to do a lot of things. So right now I only have the articles pointing to the pre-sell page and that’s the main source of traffic.
Hope that answers some of your questions! Feel free to ask anything I did not mention here or in the post.
Have great day
………
Casey
Tom
September 1, 2009
Hey Casey,
Thanks again for sharing your experiences. For those of us that would like to make money in this manner, your blog has been of tremendous value. I think you’ve given a lot of people inspiration to go out try something. Best of luck to you. I’ll be watching the article challenge too.
Cheers,
Tom
Neal
September 1, 2009
Thanks for letting us follow along with you Casey. Your work proves that making money online is possible.
I’d like to continue to follow your progress with this niche as you take it to $1000 per month.
I don’t think I follow how you write an article for a specific keyword..
Is the keyword in the title? in the resources area? I’m not sure what you mean man.
And once again, you rock! Thank you so much for doing this!
Ahh.. Got it.. So it seems that if you are to weave a keyword or phrase in the article, that would therefore be writing the article for the keyword. Am I wrong? I think I am on the right track here.
Speaking of track, I just watched Bolt run the 200m.. That man can move. Incredible.
powfada
September 2, 2009
Hey James,
I am going to make a post and tell you how I write my articles and hopefully that will help you as well as others who may have a problem.
Hey Casey, your progress for 30 days was very inspiring…
I am now charged up to write 10 articles a day…
So I’m in for Sep Challenge and will keep you undated on this one… Thanks
Stuart
September 7, 2009
Casey I am really gratueful for your GREAT contribution in helping the others.:)……
I have a question: As mentioned Above
“A Story - Create a narrative piece- Remeber not all stories are real (fiction/non-fiction) so just create a story from your point of view! - Eg I was a former sufferer of acne so I know first hand how painful and devastating this condition can be. etc etc”
Dont you think it’s bit un-ethical to lie while adding such things in Sales Letters and articles, that you have not got affected or tested for? hmmm Is there any better solution for positioning yourself or products your promoting?
Hope to hear from you very soon:)
Regards and Thanks Once Again..I have really learnt a lot from you….:)
powfada
September 7, 2009
Hey Stuart, I can see what you mean from your point of view. But you don’t have to word it like that. Take for examples doctors. Do you think they try all the medications they prescribe?
No! But they have enough intelligence to know that it may work! It is the same here. You are recommending a product that you think will help others! Remember it would be impossible to try every product your promote just as how doctors do not try all the medicines they prescribe!
Just write your pre-sell in away that you don’t lie! Forgive me for my example I just wanted to get a point across!
Hope that helps and if you have anymore problems please let me know.
…..
Casey
Jenny Francoeur
September 11, 2009
Casey,
I was not able to follow you for the whole month (computer problems). Where can I go to view your blog from day 1 on for the entire month? Great job!!
Great post Casey and nice blog. Refreshing to see someone showing a live campaign.
I looked at the sweating product too with gravity of around 72.2. I calculated that I needed around 150 clickthrus to make a sale. So you’re conversion is great.
I think people hitting the order button and then not purchasing are people looking to use their own affiliate link and are checking to see if their nickname was at the bottom of the page.
I stopped selling “copy and fix xbox” type products for this very reason. I was getting around 150 clickthrus a day and converting at around .25% which is pants! I believe commission was being stolen which is so easy with Clickbank products.
My article “http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Copy-Xbox-360-Games-Straight-to-Your-Hard-Drive—The-Stealth-Way!&id=2398780″ which I wrote under a pen name (Denzel Chen) just to test the market performed really well and for the first few days sales were great. I was averaging a sale every other day.
I concluded from my experiment that I was only going to promote products with either a tiny “affiliate link” at the bottom of the page or none at all. This particular product I promoted had the affiliate tab at the top with the other menu buttons and so when people found that they could get it cheaper (using their own link) were signing up and purchasing under their own ID.
The acne article you have is pretty impressive in EZA (most viewed), are you getting good conversions on this? Looking at the gravity of 65.14 for Acne Free In 3 Days and you being the avid writer that you are, to go into battle on this product with article marketing would be pretty hard for me. Even if we both had spots 1 and 2 in EZA we’d have to get over 200 - 250 clickthrus to make a sale which is a lot of work for $20.
I think producing your own product in a hungry market and having it on clickbank is the way to go. Then when you’re promoting it through article marketing you get two bites at the cherry. There’s also a nice stream of newbies that will run ppc campaigns etc that will send you lots of traffic.
Thanks once again for the post. It’s inspirational and honest which is rare in our field
Thanks for sharing your inspiring journey. Reading about your thirty day challenges really reminded me of a personal productivity on steroids article I read a while back. And the timing was good too being at the start of the month, so I am following in your footsteps and taking up an article writing challenge.
My goal is 30 articles for April.
Hi, Casey Gentles here and I want to thank you for visiting my blog. 
). I will also get the other landing pages up as well and carry on with the promotions and reveal everything to you for free! How Cool Is That?
I just wanted to get a point across!
