A little Break From Blogging…..
May 29, 2008 at 7:13 pm in COACHING by ian
I’m taking a break from blogging. It occured to me sometime last week, that I simply don’t have that much to say. Sometimes silence is a virtue, and i’m thinking this may be one of those times. I am however, actively writing and working on my business at a frenzied, frantic pace – some days putting in close to 18 hours of non stop article campagns, landing pages, copywriting, PPC, and lots more across a whole host of niche blog networks that will be my focus going forward.
Interestingly, while I have contributed very little of consequence to this site in probably a few weeks (give or take a post here and there) I’m literally working my fingers to the bone. (although I do have bony fingers to begin with so that’s probaly not a good metaphor)
I do still check my analytics on this site daily, and interestingly enough, the readership numbers are growing day to day…even while I do nothing. Which, to be honest, had I known would work 6 months ago, I would have spared myself lots of creative blogging bursts at 2am and just caught up on old episode of Matlock instead.
In deference to the above seemingly conflicted sets of metrics, I would like to put one standing offer on the imaginary table for anyone who is reading this. While I will not be pro-actively posting on here for the forseeable future ( maybe a few days – maybe a few weeks, not until my time frees up a little bit anyway) I will answer any questions you have, marketing related, via the comments or, if it sufficiently stimulates my cognitive creativity, I will create a post to answer it for you instead.
This is much more enjoyable for me anyway, rather than blathering on about something I think is relevant…only to find out that most people only really care about making money on Craigslist…which frankly, just bores the hell out of me already.
So as the late, great Layne Staley said so eloquently years ago – " I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth. I will speak no more of my feelings beneath."
Again – anything that YOU want to know – just ask. If I can help you make more money (which I’m pretty sure I can..:-) it would make me happy to be able to help. Also - just disregard the cheery message below about emailing for private coaching and all of that happy horseshit – I’m taking a break there too, I’m just too lazy to change the message.
I will come back to this at some point as a premium priced service for people who want to drain my brain and implement my system for automated online publishing profits. ( of which I’m re-tweaking my entire system for my own niche business’s and seeing a dramatic difference in our own efforts) But otherwise – I just need a bit of a break…and this blog seems to wrap a healthy helping of guilt around my neck – a perpetual reminder that I’m not doing enough.
Last time – if you have questions – I have answers. Short of that, I’m keeping my fat trap shut..:-)
Ian,
Question,
Lets say you’ve got a campaign in the financial market that pays out at $28/lead on a first page submit. This can obviously bring in some serious clams at that price per head, how would you go about maximizing your efforts with no PPC? Like how many articles would you be writing per day? how many ads in craigslist?
I’m taking a break from my niche sites and getting into running multiple high paying/converting campaigns, but I dont want to use PPC, and dont want to build a website, just get a good domain for redirect, do my kw research, and start plugging away…
“down in a hole… loosing my soul…” One of my favorite tunes of all time…
Hi Elijah –
The volume of effort is simply going to be in direct proportion to how much money you want to make. If I wanted to make 10 sales a day, for example – I would do a lot more than if I was only striving for one..:-) If I was going to promote that offer you have above without PPC, I would honestly do it exactly as you intimated above.
1)Articles, CL posts, Press Releases –> all hitting the root domain on a redirect to the affiliate offer
2)As I’ve mentioned before – I would also build a secondary wordpress blog on a subdirectory (i.e. top level redirects, on the secondary directory you are going to aggregate content and post the articles you using above to drive the traffic to the affiliate offer)
This gives you the added benefit of building a site that has value down the road – you get natural organic traffic for free, and you can automate a signifcant percentage of the blog building with RSS aggregation tools and of course, most importantly, you have your own content to boot from above.
CL traffic is generally less valuable so you will need to have more eyeballs to convert what article traffic will – and in my experience (and it’s pretty extensive in this area) article traffic is a great lead gen – but won’t convert as well as PPC on first blush.
The other thing you might want to do is simply swap out the redirect on the home page for an opt in, which sends them a free report, then forwards to the 28 dollar lead gen offer – the only downside to this is while you may get more names up front (always a good thing!) you are going to have some atrophy on the conversion if it’s a form on the affiliate side – as many people won’t want to fill out two forms in a row. ( but you have their name and can send them to this form later, as well – the name is always the most valuable thing in this process – and I do less of this than I should as well)
Using a straight redirect is dead simple and beats the brains out of these people telling you to build 5 dollar mini sites – most WON’T make 5 bucks a day in adsense – and it’s much easier to register 10 99cent .infos – one stacked hosting plan and redirect until your eyes bleed and let the AFFILIATE sell their own stuff to your customer. ( by and large they will do a better job than we will) Buildindg the secondary blogs (on secondary domains) allows you to build an asset as well – and when you don’t want to redirect anymore ( as no reputable will from the index) you simply put a different front page on the site that points to the blog, you’ve made your money – and now you have a completely legit content site that has, in my opinion real value.
On straight amount of content – just figure out how many hits it takes to convert one sale – then, how much traffic one article is sending – one cl ad – on press release, etc – and then multiply out to meet your goals – all becomes very predicatable and a function of simple math after you’ve got enough stuff “on the street” so to speak…you simply adjust to meet your budget.
Or, just forget the above and put it all on the Lakers in 6. Less work and far more exciting – even if you lose.