I just read a post on the warrior forum from someone who is considering giving up on IM and so I decided to do a little post to motivate you. I know a lot of people may want to give up on IM because there are not getting the results that they want.
Do you ever feel that way?
For example, your work and burn yourself out and still can’t get those sales. Maybe you get a sale every now and then but the reality is that is not enough to make ends meet. I know exactly what you how you feel. When I just started online it took me a while to figure some stuff out. To be honest with you, I still have a ton more to figure out as well.
Don’t Give Up On Your Dreams
What if Bill Gates had give up on his dreams when if dropped out of school?
What if Michael Jordan gave up because he did not make his high school basket ball team?
Do you see where I am going? If you have a dream, you need to work towards achieving it. Ocourse there will be countless roadblocks and hindrances in your way. But that’s what makes success so much sweeter when you overcome them. Internet marketing can be compared to any other thing in life. It is not a walk over and there will alway be something in your way.
What you need to do is to adapt and move on.
On a more specific note, if you want internet marketing to work for you then you have to focus on one thing at a time ans track everything you do. If you want to learn article marketing then go ahead but master if before you move on to ppc. You may FAIL at first but at least you will no what not to do.
So here are some little pointers I want to share with you:
1. Stay away from the markets that everyone else are running into - you know the make money online, the weight loss etc. btw, how can you go into the make money online niche to teach people how to make money if you can’t do it yourself?
2. Choose one method of marketing and master it before moving on - Article marketing, ppc marketing, video marketing etc etc
3. Go for low competition keywords - do try to rank sites of do ppc on keywords such as ‘golf clubs’. Instead, focus on the longer tailed keywords such as ‘how to improve golf swing’. The longer tailed keywords are much easier to rank for and they also convert much better.
4. Always keep track of what you are doing. It;s about working smarter and not harder. Keeping track of what you do helps to you know what is working from what is not. That way you can stick to what works and drop what doesn’t.
5. Whatever you are doing, make sure you are in it to help people. Once you truly start helping people, the money will come. People want solutions to their problems and they will pay to get it. However, you must prove to them that they can trust you and you are the best person to give them what they are looking for.
I am not going to tell you that internet marketing is easy. I personally know that it is very hard and when you don’t see those sales coming in, it can be very frustrated. However, it is very important that you don’t give up. The moment you give up is the moment you fail.
Don’t give up SUCCESS is just around the corner, you just need to open the door and let it in!
I do want to apologize for not posting an update on August 2nd. You see it was Sunday and I was away from home and when I got back home I was very tired. On top of that, this morning my internet was down and I had to go out and purchase a brand new Internet Modem.
Anyways, That’s no excuse and I am getting back on top of things.
So……
Don’t for a moment think that I am quitting of you. Because I wont!!!!
I will endure for the 30 Days- Success Or Failure. Cool?
Now onto today’s Task:
Doing Proper Market Research
From the last post (Niche Selection- Day #1 Updated), you would have known that I have 3 Niches in mind. Now my goal for today is to get to know my niche a little bit. That means, the common problems that they have, where they hang out, their language and exactly they are.
Before I give you my details, Here are some of the things you can do to get to know your Niche Better:
Step #1- What Is The Life Span Of Your Market?
This means, you need to analyze the market to see how long they will be around for.
Long Term Short Term Markets?
Short Term Short Term Markets?
Long Term Long Term Markets?
I am not going to go into too much details about Market’s Lifespan as I cover this in details in my FREE Ebook The Newbies Fast Cash Guide (pages 11- 13) .
Step #2 - Who Are Your Target Audience?
This step is very crucial to our success! We have to know who exactly we are providing a product or service for. Can you imagine trying to sell a weight loss person to someone who wants to gain weight? You Get The Idea?
So we need to know whether or not we are targeting:
Males or Females or Both?
Their age groups: Young Adults, Middle Aged, Elderly or All?
Are we targeting people from a specific demographic?
Are we targeting people rich people :), Middle Class, Lower Class or All?
We need to be as specific as possible. The more specific we are the better we will be able to provide a product or service that caters to our target audience and the better our conversions will be. So you can go ahead and get your answers to the above questions.
Step #3- Where Do Our Target Audience Hang Out?
We also need to know this. Once we can find where our target audience frequents, we can get our offers right infront of their faces.
What’s Good About This?
You see because we would have already done proper research, our offers will be almost irresistible to our target audience. Also instead of waiting for them to find us, we would find them and make more moola.
One of the best ways to find where they frequent, is to locate some of their popular forums. Just an example, you may or may not have been a memeber of the Warrior Forum. If you are then you would know that is where most of the internet marketers hang out and you can visit and get acquainted with their language.
To find forums of your specific Niche, you can just go to the search engines and type in your niche + forums. Let’s use the golf Niche as an example. (golf + forums).
After doing this, you will know if your market is one worth pursuing. This will be your own opinion because, In my opinion any market can be profitable once they spend money!
Step #4 - Does Your Niche Spend Money?
Wow Wow WoW
Let Me see a raise of hand from all those who would want to enter a niche that doesn’t spend money?
Great No One!
I thought so…..
I guess this step is self explanatory. If no one is spending money in the niche then there is no way we can make money from it (duh).
Here are some of the ways to know if people are spending money in the niche:
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1. Are there adwords advertisers or any other forms of search engines advertisers?These are people who are spending money to advertise in these niche markets. Though not conclusive, but we can almost say that once there are many perons spending money to advertise the products that they are making a good sum of money from these products as well.
2. Are there any Television Commercials with related products? A good example is the acne and skin care industry! If you see similar products being advertised on your television then it is a good indication that the market spends money.
Why?
Because it cost a lot of $$$ to run television commercials so you can bet that they are making a huge profit.
3. You can also check your local newspapers and Magazines! Yes this is also a way to find out if people are spending money. Just like tv commercials, it also cost a few bucks to advertise in a magazine as well!
My Results:
This post has gotten rather long!!
So I implore you to carry out the steps above to get to know your niche better.
I will post my results first thing in the morning tommorrow.
I apologize for the long post but I still hope you had a wonderful read
Task For Tomorrow:
1. Post My Market Research Results
2. Keyword Research
Thank you for reading and as always I welcome your comments
Welcome back to my blog on the 30 Days Challenge. This is the second post for August 1, 2009. You can see the first post where I lay out some of the objectives and expectations >> The 30 Days Challenge– Day #1 >> Are You Ready?
Now I just want to keep you up-to-date on what I have done for the first day of the challenge. Today is Saturday so I didn’t do too much. However I am still going to post about what I have accomplished for today.
1. Created a brand new clickbank account for this Challenge:
2. Created a new Gmail Account:
3. Chose 3 Niches:
Before I get into the niches I chose, I would also like to give you some tips so that you too can chose your niche/s without picking your hair out. Cool!
Look For Products That:
** Pays a minimum of $20- Anything lower may not be profitable for you. Remember our goal is to make up to $1000+ per month. So if we have one product that pays $36 per sale that would be even better as we would only need to make one sale per day to make $1000+ per month!
** Has a gravity between 30 and 200- anything less may not be worthwhile and anything higher can be too competitive. This not gospel but it is a guide I use to ensure that I select products with the highest profit potential.
** Has % referred higher than 60%. This tells that a number of affiliates are promoting the product and making sales.
** Has a professional sales page. Don’t over look this. If you really want to make $36 per day the product sales page has to convert. So read it and see if it convinces you to buy. Does it have great bullet points, does it have short testimonials that don’t bore the reader, and does it have added bonuses that add to the value of the main product?
It makes no sense sending traffic to a sales page that doesn’t convert. Total waste of time and money
** Has an affiliate section with complete marketing tools. Banners, images, articles or anything that will make your marketing efforts easier. The trick is to work smarter and not harder.
Now Onto My Niches:
Niche #1- Grow Taller For Idiots
** Niche Stats On Clickbank:
Niche #2 - Stop Sweating
Niche Stats On Clickbank:
Niche 3- Rocket Spanish
Niche Stats On Clickbank:
I also ordered 3 domain names for these Niches but I will keep them private for the time being. I don’t want to have everyone checking out these websites and messing up my stats. Sorry for that But I will still let you know how I am promoting the products as I go along.
SO that’s it for today.
Tomorrow I will analyze each of these Niches and give you a full report and how I plan to attack each of them.
So the Goals For Tomorrow:
Market Research
Keyword Research
Glad you could join me and I wish you all the best and success.
I can’t tell you enough how excited I am to actually be doing this… I am really excited. Yea!!!
But..
I am also Nervous lol
You see this is the first time I am actually doing something Like this and I really want it to go well. I want to help as many people I can by doing a live case study or Journal for 30 days with the hope of getting as many persons as possible to get up and TAKE ACTION.
So let us get down to business shall we?
What Is The 30 Days Challenge About?
If this is the first time you are visiting my blog or if you are not one of my loyal subscribers then you may be wondering what the heck I am talking about. Right?
Here’s The Dilio..
Over the past few weeks, I have been getting a lot of questions from my subscribers. I wont get into all of those questions, but they all boils down to the same conclusion. >> How Do I Make Money Onlinestarting from scratch.
Now to be honest, I am not a guru nor do I claim to be one. However, after months of trying and learning different methods, I do know how to make some money from the internet.I have shared some of that knowledge with some of my subscribers already but it is almost impossible for me to get to every single question individually. Especially how I get the same questions over and over.
So…
instead of trying to answer all the emails, I am going to do a public case study for 30 days. That’s right, I will try to make some money online in 30 Days. All Are Invited
You get to see my mistakes, my success, everything…
Objective Of The 30 Days Challenge…
First and foremost it is about You. Now Me!
I want to do this for you my readers. So if after the challenge is complete and one person come back to say they have gotten something valuable from it then I would be very happy.
Specific Objectives:
1. To Create A Brand New Clickbank Account
2. Select 1 or more Niches and Market Products
3. Write At Least 30 Articles
4. Create At Least 15 Hubpages
5. Create At Least 5 Blogger Blogs
6. Create At Least 5 Squidoo Lenses
7. Create At Least 5 Press Releases
8 Create At Least 5 Videos
9. Get At Least 1000 (human website visitors) to our landing pages
10. Make as much sales as possible.
Crazy amount of work isn’t it? Well, I didn’t say it was easy did I? Are you crying? Are you giving up already?
Come on stay with me ok!
We are going to do this together and make it happen no matter what. Cool?
It is about 10:44am already and I need to get working so that I don’t fall behind. I am off to work now.
I look forward to hearing your comments and what you would like me to include in this challenge.
Benefits Of The Challenge:
Unfortunately there are no cash prizes involved :(.
However, if you follow along with me and carry out the daily task which I will layout in the upcoming post, I guarantee that after the 30 days are up you will achieve a whole lot that you could ever imagine. Things will be clearer, you will see the light and it is very possible for you to at least make your first sale if you haven’t or double up if you were just making a few dollars.
Casey here and I just want to welcome you to this blog post.
It has been ages since I last post and I am soooo embarassed to say so.
However, I want to make a very informative post today on the topic of getting traffic to your website, blog, or whatever your money pages are. Now forgive me for the simplicity of everything but I am not going to assume that any of my readers know much about website traffic. Therefore I am going to breakdown everything as much as I possible can.
With me?
Ok Cool!
What is website traffic?
Website traffic is basically the “human” visitors that lands on your website. I say human because there are various softwares that will show up in any tracking mechanism you have as visitors. Now these are of little importance because a software can’t spend money and buy from you.
How To Get Traffic To My Website?
There are many ways to get huge amount of visitors to your websites everyday. It all breaks down to two major categories:
1. Paid Website Traffic
2. Free Website Traffic
Today I will focus on Free Website Traffic. Maybe some other time we can talk about paid methods.
The first thing I suggest is that you install some tracking mechanism to your web pages so that you can see where your traffic is coming from. Google Analytics is one of the most popular tracking mechanism and it is free. You can get step by step instructions on how to set up everyting on Google itself so I wont go into that here.
Step #1- Seo (search engine optimization )
This is the fist step to getting quality traffic. You have to optimize your website/blog or your money pages for specific keywords so that they can be found when someone search for those specifi keyword.There are two main types of seo, onpage as well as off page.
One page optimization
This basically means what you do on your website itself to make it search engine friendly. This involves optimizing your keywords in the:
Title of your website or blog
Description Of your website or blog
Once every 100 words on the webpage itself.
That is the summary of it. You may hear a lot of stuff about on page optimization in a lot of forums but this is basically what you need to do to make your websites or blog search engine friendly.
Off Page Optimization
Off page optimization is basically what you do off your site to get it to be search engine friendly. Here is what that means: n order to get your site ranking high on the search engines, you will need to have other related websites linking to yours. This way the search engines will see that your website or blog is important. It is also important to get other authority websites to link to yours as their links will be most valuable.
Of page optimization and be both naturally or induced. By naturally, some persons may visit your website and like the content and link to your website from theirs. By induced I mean that you will literally have to go and search and build lins to your website.
So that is basically it for off page optimization; getting a ton of high pr, related authority links back to your website.
Getting Traffic From Articles
Articles are one of the most popular methods of getting traffic to your websites. It has been around for a very long time and won’t be going away any time soon. You see people are constantly searching for information and so you will have to keep providing them with fresh content.
So How Does Article Marking Works?
In summary, you write an article on a topic, submit it to a top article directory with a link back to your website. Now if your article is very informative and of a high quality then when someone reads it, they will more than likely want to click the link through to your website.
Here are some important factors to note:
1. Do proper keyword research. This means that you should write your articles around topics that people are searching for.
2. Make your Article Titles Captivating. As you must know, there are literally thousands of people submitting articles everyday. So what make some want to click on yours? Get The point?
3. Have A Strong Call To Action In Your Resource Box. Most article directories will allow you to have a link back to your website in the ” resource box” or “about the author” box. This is where you will sell your website to get someone to click through to your page. So you must tell your readers to do just that otherwise they will read the article and just click away.
Using Forums For Traffic
Forums is another way to get targeted traffic is used in the correct manner. There are lost of forums on almost every topic you can think of. Just go to the search engines and type in “your topic + forums” and you should see a ton of them. Most forums will allow you to have a link in your signature to your website.
Rule of thumb, never go to a forum just to get traffic! Instead participate in the conversations that are taking place. Give help where you can as well as ask question. After you are on the forum for a while, you will build up trust among the other members and they will want to check out your websites.
Getting Traffic From Videos
This may sound a bit challenging to most people but it doesn’t have to be. All you need to do is to get a screen capture software and make a powerpoint presentation of your articles that you have already done. Read them out and at the end provide a link to your website.
Videos are getting very popular these days and can really provide a lot of traffic if you submit them at the right places. Some of these places are youtube.com, googlevideos.com myspacevideos and a ton more.
Here are some important factors to note:
1. Place your keywords in the title of your videos
2. Add a link to your website first thing in the description of the video. This way someone can click through to your website without having to tying your address in their browser.
3. Speak Clealy So that your viewers can hear whatever you are saying.
4. Always provide a link to your website before and at the end of the video.
5. Once your videos are approved, bookmark them on as many social bookmarking sites as possible.
Get Traffic From Commenting On Other Persons Blog
Depending on your website’s topic, you can visit other related blogs and leave comments. (NEVER SPAM) You can go to other blogs and read them and leave comments based upon what you have read. A good thing to do is to look for high traffic blogs and subscribe to them. This way once the owner makes a post, you will be informed ans so you can leave your comment as soon as possible. Doing that will get your comment more exposure so that other persons will see it and click through to your websites.
What Are You Suppose To Do Now?
This post have been a long one! However, you should now have a direction as to where to go. Everyone of the methods above are proven to drive crazy amount of traffic to your websites. It should be noted though that this is not a one time process and you will have to be consistent if you want to have a constant flow of traffic to your websites.
What is traffic to you?
Only you can tell! It may be more sales or more leads but whatever it is to you, you need it so start taking action now!
I hope you enjoy this post and I wish you all the best with your traffic.
Please feel free to leave a comment and speak your mind
It’s been a while since my blog has been resurrected and been a while since I made a post.
Let me first say, if the is the first time you are stopping by then you can subscribe to my RSS feeds (Top Right) so that you can be notified whenever I add some killer tips and strategies on here! Cool?
Also I invite you to download my “Newbies Fast Cash Guide“, My blueprint to make up to $4000+ per month without spending a dime on advertisement.
Now to the real Deal…….
The title of the post says it all.
I was just thinking to myself, on how I could give some tips and ideas on how to help someone to get their internet business up and running if they only had $50 to start out with.
What Would I Do If I Only Had $50 To Start Over My Internet Business Knowing What I Know Now!
#1. *** The first thing I would do is to chose A Business Model which is Affiliate Marketing.
Why????
Well knowing what I know now, I can say that affiliate marketing is one of the easiest way to get set up and running to start making money online. All you need to do is to promote someone else product or service and get a share of the profits.
No Customer Service, No Answering Of Email, & You don’t even Need your own website. Cool eh?
At this point, we still have our $50 Dollars!
#2 *** So the next thing I would do is to find a product to promote. This means that I would have to do Proper Market Research to find a hungry crowd. i.e A common group of people with a common need. I will also look for the best product that will satisfy that hungry crowd.
Note I wont go in ‘market research’ here but you can download a free copy of “The Newbies Fast Cash Guide” for a step by step process on how to do it.
Ok So Let’s say that based on my research I found a profitable market, what will I do next?
#3 *** The first thing I would do, is to get adomain name that is closely related to the market I chose. Now I wouldn’t be doing much SEO so the keywords in the domain name is not of much importance to me at this point. It just need to be related to the market. For example if it was the weight loss market, I could have something like: fastweightloss.com or rapidfatloss.com etc, etc.
#4 *** Now that is about $8- $10 gone already. SO now I need a reliable web host to host my domain name. So I would research to find the Best Web Host and sign up for a monthly plan. You can get web host for about $4- $5 per month.
So let’s say we have $35 left!!
#5 *** I would spend a day and do some preliminary research and write a 5 page report that caters to the market I chose. SO again lets use the weight loss market. I could write a report about “Top 10 Tips For rapid weight loss” or “5 Tips To Lose Belly Fat That You Need To Know” etc. etc. I would also place my affiliate link at various section in the report for the product that I am promoting. You get the idea right? Once the report is complete, I would use the free software at Open Office to convert it into a pdf file.
I will be giving away this report for free in return for peoples email addresses!
#6 *** SO I now need a medium to collect these email addresses as well as to deliver my free report. i.e I need an Auto-Responder service. SO I would sign up with Getresponse Auto-Responder Service for $17.95 for one month. Also, think the offer a 30 day free trial so I may not even need to spend that $17.95. Well since I am not too sure, let’s say we have $35- $17.95 = $17.05 LEFT.
#7 *** I am going pretty good so far!!! Now I will set up my squeeze page to give away my free report. This is a simple page with a captivating headline and some Importnt Bullet Points about my free report. There will also be an opt-in box for my visitors to submit their name and email addresses.
So the only actions my vistors can take are:
a.they submit their name and email addresses to get my free report or
b.Leave my website.
Now here is a little trick: When my visitors opt-in, they will be re-directed to the merchants page immediately. So there an then, they will be presented with the offer and if they buy immediately I get the commision.
However, If they don’t buy immediately, I have their name and email addresses to build a relationship with them overtime and send the offer in the future. At this time they will trust me and more likely to buy. Get the idea?
Note We still Have $17.05 LEFT!!!!!
Now I Need To Drive Some Darn Traffic To My Squeeze Page!
#8 *** I would now do Proper Keyword Research (as outlined in the Newbie’s Fast Cash Guide) and get as much keywords as I could possibly can. I would then write a MINIMUM of 5 Articles everyday and submit them to Ezinearticles with a link to my squeeze page in my resource box. Once my articles are approved on ezinearticles, I would then submit them to the other top ten article directories.
So After 30 Days, I should have at least 30 X 5 = 150 Articles sending traffic to my squeeze page. You Must Understand that this is serious work
Now after the 30 Days, I should be getting subscribers and sales!!
So now I have a list of targeted subscribers, I can promote new products to them, I can ask them their problems and use my profits to hire someone to create a product that satisfy their problems.
And Then, I rinse and repeat in a new Market……….
Note I didn’t even use all of my Initial $50 Dollars!!
So I started my Internet business with $17.95
This post actually got longer than I thought. I really do apologize if I bore you. But please before you go leave a comment and tell me what you think!. Just Scroll to the bottom of this page and submit your comments. I really appreciate it.
First off, let me welcome you to my blog. I am glad you stopped by and I hope you find helpful tips and products to help your grow your online business.
Secondly, I invite you to subscribe to my RSS over on the top right hand side of this blog. That way you will be kept updated with any post or when I add something new to my blog. Cool.
Now you may be wondering what do I mean by “My Blog Is Resurrected“. Well let me explain…….
Back in February, I started my blog –> Internet Marketing With Casey Gentles. I specifically was documenting my internet marketing journey on how I wanted to reach a goal of $10,000 per month by December 2009. If you were one of my blog readers then, you would know that I gave away some damn good tips and revealed everything on my blog. ALL FOR FREE.
I loved it, I and got emails everyday from persons telling me how much they appreciated the info I gave.
And Then The Worse Thing Happened
Come on Casey What Happened????
Ok Here it is…
I was installing a blog for one of my niche websites, BUT… You see I am no techy guy and so I installed the blog to the wrong database. And Guess What?
I overwrite everything that was on my personal blog :(. And So that was the end of my Blog.
Well not really! I am Starting Over –> My Blog Resurrected
So today Thursday June 04, 2009 I spent the whole day trying to get my blog to have a cool look. Remember I told you I am no techy guy so I had to be learning some stuff and applying them at the same time.
So Where From Here?
Well Over the coming weeks I am going to be doing some stuff to help you explode your online profits. You see, too often the “Guru’s ” bombard our inboxes with offers after offers but never really show us the real deal. They say you can do this or that and you will make a killing online. But
The Lied!!
Seriously, I know because I have been lied to too. But don’t worry, If you have been trying to make some serious cash online and failed, then I have good news for you:)
I am going to help you get over your hurdles so that you can start making some real cash Online.. Step By Step.
Stay Tuned.
In the mean time, Feel free to Download My Book –>The Newbies Fast Cash Guide– The Secret To Generating $4000+ Per Month Without Spending A Single Dime.
Hi, Casey Gentles here and I want to thank you for visiting my blog. 
But I will still let you know how I am promoting the products as I go along.
