The 30 Days Challenge- Day #1 Updated

by Casey Gentles on August 1, 2009

Hey folks,

What’s up??

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 at The 30 Days Challenge Overview.

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:

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2. Created a new Gmail Account:

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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

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** Niche Stats On Clickbank:

growtaller

Niche #2 – Stop Sweating

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Niche Stats On Clickbank:

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Niche 3- Rocket Spanish

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Niche Stats On Clickbank:

spanish2

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.

Have a great evening.

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{ 12 comments… read them below or add one }

Jim August 1, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Hey Casey,
Looks like a real good process you have here in selecting clickbank niches. I’m following you closely but I am confused already. Hey it isn’t even the 3rd day yet.

But I see how you’re selecting programs within clickbank that has the highest potential in payoff and best gravity and affiliate stats. Okay well done I understand that.

But I am confused as to why you would purchase the domains associated with these niches BEFORE you’ve done your market research on the niche?

Actually I believe that the clickbank stats are a reference point for validating whether people are buying the product but still if tomorrow is your market research day then that should actually be prior to the purchase of your domains.

But then I’m here to learn and immerse myself into understanding how to put together this whole project.

thanks,
Jim

Chandan August 1, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Exiting! Its like a great adventure for me…I will try to follow you with my level best..

powfada August 1, 2009 at 9:35 pm

Ok To Jim,

I should have mentioned I did some background research but nothing to detailed to know that these Niches can be profitable. In the next post I will outlined all this information as I don’t want to confuse anyone. It will defeat the purpose of the challenge.

If there is any specific question you have, please post them and I will try to answer them as best as possible.

Wilter Q August 1, 2009 at 9:45 pm

This is IM 101, Thank you so much.

Nikhil August 2, 2009 at 12:40 am

Very exciting.Thanks for your time Casey

Vishal August 2, 2009 at 2:51 am

Thanks Casey, This is ideal blueprint for newbie marketers like me. And your strategy is really helping me to carry forward my own very first 30 Day Challenge.

My Status to Date:

1) Selected 5 Clickbank Products.

2) Now I am onto the product + Keyword research part.

So best of luck to all. and Thanks again for this wonderful 30 Day Challenge.

Shuren August 2, 2009 at 5:56 am

Hi would love to be a part of this journey with you..but what im afraid of is the recent google slap on affiliate websites?Do you think this will be a problem down the road?

how to get rid of belly fat August 2, 2009 at 5:58 am

Hi casey,
Thanks again for this post, i am following you as close as i can.
I have already selected some products already but i have a question to ask. I have tried to select more than 6 products, but i want to reduce them to 3, and they all fit the criteria you mentioned but violate one in those mentioned, 4 of them have higher gravity above 200, and so my question was suppose i manage to find keywords that are marketable that is not having many competing pages, are those products worth it to start at promoting them?

thanks,
emmanuel.

Nikhil August 2, 2009 at 11:06 am

Hi Casey,

I don’t know how to contact you personally that is why I am asking my doubt in this comment section.I have a small doubt about accepting payment through paypal.You have implemented a technique where the visitors are notified that they have to click on the “return to merchant” button after payment in a separate page for some seconds and automatically redirected to the order form.May I please know how you implemented it?

Thanks for your time

Nikhil

Taiwo August 2, 2009 at 1:53 pm

This is a great job here. I will surely follow.

Thanks.

Joe August 3, 2009 at 2:39 pm

Hi Casey,
Even though I have been doing the internet for a long time, I am a relative newbie to “internet marketing”… I am also doing the 30DC and want to thank you for posting your info. I also thought about going through CB and finding a niche / product at the start.
Additionally, I hope you do not mind if I ask this.
I’m very impressed by all your post on Ezines. Carious as to if you wrote all those articles yourself?

Thanks
Joe

Tom November 22, 2010 at 9:03 pm

Following the 30 days challenge. Sounds really exciting.

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