Dec 04

After the Thirty Day Challenge, I began working on two paid membership programs to take my internet marketing to the next level.

The first program I began working with is Wealthy Affiliate. I’m in the midst of their training program. It’s an 8 week self-paced program.

The second program is The Immediate Edge from the creators of the Thirty Day Challenge. I’m much more lost in this program than Wealthy Affiliate, but it is packed. Every time I go to the site to read I learn so much.

These are two entirely different programs and each provides a great deal of information directed in different ways to learn to make money with internet marketing.

There is so much information, I’m still overwhelmed. But as time goes on I’m getting adjusted to the huge amount of information and able to process it better. When I get really overwhelmed I stop reading new material and go back over previous material until I feel I understand it. Then I go ahead and read new material again. Sometimes I stop and implement some of what I’ve learned before going back to learning new material and studying.

I’m also considering Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind subscription learning program on blogging for income, which is what I do most of all. But I only have until the end of December 9th to decide whether or not to join. If I join I’ll have to give something else up, most likely The Immediate Edge. Or I’ll give up both that and Wealthy Affiliate.

The biggest thing I seem to lack in my online earning efforts is focus. I start a bunch of projects or start to implement some ideas but never give any of them sufficient attention or effort to make them successful.

As I’ve given my scarce attention resources a thorough thinking over, I find The Immediate Edge is beyond me right now and I’m not sure I will benefit from it anytime soon. At least not soon enough to continue to spend money on it monthly. I only have so much time to devote to my online earnings and I’m not interested in a ton of research and continuously doing long-tail niche market projects and building a ton of websites. I want to build some blogs that I can truly devote time and effort to making the best they can be instead of using the shotgun approach and shooting in a large number of directions hoping to hit something. Wealthy Affiliate isn’t turning out to be what I thought. I do plan to complete the 8 week training course before I make a final decision on whether or not to keep that subscription.

Of the 4 sites I built as a result of the Thirty Day Challenge, I’m stuck on one completely and getting bored with another one. So two of my seven blogs just aren’t floating my boat and I’ll have to think hard and be very creative to keep adding fresh content to those sites.

Fortunately, the other 5 hold a great deal of passion for me and adding fresh content and keeping them active is relatively easy. This is one of those sites. I’m considering selling the two blogs I’m not doing much with, or at least selling the one I’m stuck on for more and better content.

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written by joubess

Dec 04

Online Income Goals

  • Adsense: $80
  • Amazon Associates: $10
  • Clickbank: $10
  • Commission Junction: $25
  • Associated Content: $4 (publish one article)

Total: $129

That equals $4.16/day everyday this month.

My first goal is supposed to be $10/day per month. I joined Amy Bass’s facebook group in September with that goal being the first goal. But, I need to at least make payout on each affiliate account before I work towards $10/day.

How am I going to increase my earnings?

  1. By accomplishing my internet marketing goals to increase traffic and subscribers.
  2. Hopefully, more traffic will lead to more clicks and more sales.
  3. Pick better affiliate products to promote (I’m learning that through WA).
  4. Research other affiliate programs like, TextLinkAds.com and Yahoo Affiliates.

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Dec 04

I finally sat down and wrote out my internet marketing goals. This is the first time I’ve written them down. Some are earnings goals and some are non-financial goals that will lead to greater income later. I’m putting them into a post because it will help me be more accountable to make these goals reality.

Blog Subscriptions and Traffic

Double the average number of subscribers over the month to each of my blogs as measured by Feedburner (the number listed is the goal. Divide by 2 and you know how many current subscribers I have).

Increase blog traffic by 50% each. The numbers given are the average total number of visitors I want to have over this month based on Google Analytics.

How am I going to increase traffic and subscribers?

  1. Please visit each of the blogs above and please leave comments and subscribe if you like what you read!
  2. Finish moving my blogs to HostGator and setting them up with WordPress. I have 7 blogs currently. Three are completely moved, up, and monetized. Four have all the posts moved, but I still need to customize the sites with new templates, widgets, and they need to be monetized.
  3. Write a minimum of 1 post twice per month worth reading for each blog (14 posts/month).
  4. Choose one blog of the 4 blogs that still need a lot of work and dedicate few months on making it the best it can be. Write great anchor articles for it, write promotional articles to promote them, and research the subject to provide the best content possible.
  5. Set up a BlogRush filter to keep the lesser posts off of syndication through them.
  6. Submit the best posts to the social sites through Socialposter to get the word out.
  7. Have the WordPress subscribe_remind widget installed on each blog to increase the number of subscribers. This widget asks the reader to subscribe at the bottom of each post. If they enjoyed it and want to subscribe, all they have to do is click on the link.
  8. Continue working on Wealthy Affiliate training. Use the knowledge to improve my affiliate program income.
  9. Continue working on The Immediate Edge training.
  10. Continue reviewing the new Thirty Day Challenge content if it changed since August.

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