Enjoy your holidays and time to start losing weight too!

Regards
Andrew

You cannot believe how much time it is going to take me to spin a 800 word article, starting from scratch. I am going to write a few pointers on why I like the software and please continue watching my video review of magic article rewriter.

1 – thousands of words ready in the database to give you suggestions

2 – the flexibility of Magic Article rewriter is that I can add in my own variations, and continue building a database of word variations and with just a click of a button, the software will immediately find all the words in the database I have build, and add in the variations for all the words that can be found in the article.  It is going to save you a lot of time

3 – the ability to just spin 1 article to review if there are any errors and the ability to mass spin 100s of articles for you to submit to the different web directories, web20, and article directories

4 – it has a export function that will change the spin code format so that you can submit to these main 4 article directory submission websites: namely free traffic system, my article network, article marketing automation, and unique article wizard.

5 – there is this “apply magic” function that is not included unless you choose to buy the function.  There is this function for you to build your own database of word variations which I mention above.  And this “apply magic” function is similar, except that it comes with 11,000 word variations which can really shorten the time you will need to spend on spinning your article.

6 – there is the function to show you how many words are in the article, and the uniqueness density (alot of websites requires your spin articles to be around 30% unique so this software can you help gauge how much more you need to spin).

7 – there are also the basic functions of spell checks, cut, copy and paste functions.

Ok. Check out the 2 videos I have done to show you how Magic Article Rewriter works.

Click on the button (as shown in the picture below) to enlarge the video.

Magic Article Rewriter Video Part 1

Magic Article Rewriter Video Part 2

I have also build up a few more videos to show you in detail on how to use magic article rewriter and how to use your spin article and submit to freetrafficsystem.com and get the backlinks you need.  But I will not show it to the public.  It will only be available to people who buy the software through my links.  Here are the bonuses:

Bonus 1

- how to get spin word variations using the software
- how to add and edit your own word variations
- how to use the “apply magic” button to immediately spin your articles
- how to spin 1 article and how to get mass article spins
- how to export your spin articles using the “Spun article” function
- and finally how to submit the spin article to freetrafficsystem.com for backlinks

Bonus 2

- I will personally spin 1 article that you send to me.
- the article you sent to me should have a title,
- and the article body around 450 to 500 words,
- and tell me the anchor text you are trying to build backlinks with.

I will come up with a spin article that you can immediately use to submit to freetrafficsystem.com to start building your backlinks.

I know my English does not sound good nor clear, and honestly, I tend to speak better english when I am not recording.  Somehow, when the microphone is on, I tend to stammer, add in some funny singaporean lingo, and the words like “ok” and “ah” keeps coming out of my voice.

I do not really want to throw in some useless PLR bonus that everyone seems to be doing so this bonus is what I can call my own and share it with you guys.  Just drop me a comment here if you bought the software and i will send you the download links for the videos.  It will be in FLV format but it will be pretty clear since I use camtasia version 6 to record, and use youtube’s technology to do the conversion of avi to flv.

Here are the steps:

1 – Click here to buy Magic Article Rewriter
2 – Drop me a comment and I will get back to you on where to download the videos
3 – Sign up for a free account with freetrafficsystem.com if you do not have one account yet

Anyway, regardless of whether you want to buy Magic Article Rewriter through me or not, I will still recommend it.  Thanks for watching the videos and reading my review.

Regards,

Andrew

I am not a Christian but I have always enjoyed this festive season (there is a sense of happiness amid the dark times).  And it was nice to have a Kentucky Fried Chicken family feast, as well as some sushi with my family (too bad my mum had to work late).  And this will be my beloved niece’s 2nd Xmas.  She has been eyeing the presents I have for her.

(borrowed this belowed picture from freetrafficsystem.com and will be writing a post about them soon)

I know it has been a long time since I have updated this blog with any new posts but writing is not really my forte i guess.  Anyway, another few days and the new year is upon us too.  So it is time for reflections, for new targets (or in my case, renewing my old targets).  These are the questions that always pop up in my head every year end (yes, I tend to talk to myself):

- So how was your year?

- Do you see progress or do you feel stagnant?

- Do you feel you have moved a level higher in your IM progress or still stuck at the same position?

- What should be done to improve?

For me, this year was a roller coaster ride.  Income went up and down and discipline was really a challenge to maintain.  And time really flies.  I quit my job and started a full time business online on 1st September 2008 and now is almost till the end of 2009. Wow!

The beginning first six months was pretty ok, and july till October was pretty bad, and now, things seem to be looking up again.  There are so many adjustments and seriously speaking, I am still not really in the “responsibility” mode for my business.

But things are improving.

- I started without any partners in business but ended the year with 2 great business partners (yes, you, Ben and John).

- Got myself a new mentor, and a few of us are learning so much from a certain marketer that is imparting so much skills to us (will soon be revealed).

- Finally found 2 great and hardworking writers (who are on a month long xmas break)

And since there are 6 more days to the new year, I figure I will write some resources that has helped, guided and showed me some ways to leverage time.  And to share with everyone in the next 6 days before I disappear without a post in the new year.

So enjoy the Xmas holidays, the new year holidays, and hope that the world will be a better place (the climate is pretty screwed up these days but no harm in being optimistic).

Always believe in the law of attraction, and just think about having better times and higher income, and through your actions, it will come. (I am telling myself this, but you are welcome to share this optimism as well)

Happy Holidays, Merry Xmas and a Happy Year too!

Andrew

It has the entire blueprint of how John make US$3000 from his wedding blog.

Click here to download now.

P.S: It comes with Master distribution rights and you can give it away, sell it or do whatever you want it.

Make Money Blogging Membership Site

First up, my collaboration project with one of the up and coming blogging expert John Yeo is almost done. Project BlogCashMentor is finally up and running.  He is the man for blogging and it has been a great learning experience collaborating with him on this membership site.  I am definitely not the marketing and blogging guy but in terms of technical skills, and the technical needs of this site, it has been a challenging experience.

Using Amember to power up the membership site has shown me one very important thing on the Internet Marketing scene.  And coming from a guy who used to work in programming, documentation of how to change the needs of these software is bad.  No offense to these software creators from Amember, DLGuard and affiliate-prophet but after testing these software, the documentation provided is amazingly “not helpful”.

Luckily, their helpdesk and forum are very responsive, especially amember and dlguard.  Fast and responsive, and Amember comes out TOPS!

Amember Membership Software

For Amember, these are the things I am doing using the software for:

1 – Creating a membership script and setting the recurring payment from members on a monthly basis.

2 – Using the incremental plugin to slowly show contents for each new month only after they have paid subscription.

3 – Control the One time offer bonus so that only those who have paid the OTO can see the download link.

4 – Control the number of days and the number of times each member can download the bonuses.

5 – Recurring Payment is via paypal

6 – Use amember affiliate system to get affiliates and track their sales (It cannot pay affiliates for you but it can generate a thing call a mass pay which can be uploaded into paypal to pay your affiliates using that list)

Check out Amember here

DLGuard Software

For DLguard, the project I did was to hide the download link of your digital products.  With all the hacking these days, DLGuard is useful for hiding the real link of your digital products and you can actually limit the number of times your customer can download from the product link.  Dlguard can also be use for creating membership site but I have not tried it yet.

Check out DLGuard here

Personal Web Design Business

Recently I accepted a project to customize a zen-cart powered shopping cart website and I have to say that for such a free software, it was amazingly powerful.  And there are a lot of support from the creators and users of this software.  It was another learning curve for me to customize their templates and requirements but damn, it is powerful.

Zen Cart Software:

This is a free software for anyone who is interested in setting up a shopping cart website.  Personally, I think they have a very good forum and some good plugins to use.  Go download it at their website here => zen-cart

Clickbank Progress:

For some strange reasons, I only had time in June to manage some blog post and articles for my love and health niche, and it is nicely moving up to $200 for this July.  Weird but nice.  I like such things because I seriously have limited time for clickbank now.

Personal Project:

If you look to the right of this blog, you can see this project call CBproj.  Just for fun, I created a small and damn simple app to send you an email immediately if you made an affiliate sale from clickbank.  If you would like to test it, just sign up for it on the right.  I am not releasing it yet.  Creating some videos on how to use the app and then i will release it.

Thats all the updates.  Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andrew

I use a keyword i am targeting that is not that competitive and should be easy to rank as my experiment for FTS.

In the mean while, I just realized I have more than 15 articles in my computer that I have written in the past but never submitted to any article directory.  Stupid move but it sure allows me to have more articles to convert to make full use of the Free Traffic System platform.

By the way, to Andrew Wee, thanks for the tips in the previous blog post comments you made.  I have written down the details and executing them.

Ok.  Thats it.  I have a slow plan to produce 4 unique articles for 4 different platforms and 1 spinnable article for Free Traffic System per day and see how things worked out.  Still have to change my squeeze page too.

Regards,

andrew

This is the current sad status of my clickbank account. And truth be told, since i had found another way to find money on the Internet, I gave up clickbank for quite a while.

But it was always a wish of mine to see the bars of clickbank being in blue and grey everyday. So as of now, I have only made $25.48 for the whole month of April 2009.

Inspired by John Yeo of www.johnyeo.name as well advice from Andrew Wee of www.whoisandrewwee.com , I felt it was time to buck on clickbank. Consistency is the game and Andrew Wee gave me a lot of advice as well. There was no point in showing empty clickbank account.  And since i have all the time in the world, it was time.

Case Study : Weight Loss Niche

On this day, I have decided to document down my steps to turning this website profitable again. When I first started this health website in May 2007, i was hoping for it to be a hit and played around with it. It went through a number of transformations.

1 – It was first a review site, then i use ppc and article marketing to push traffic.
2 – After that, I made the website into a weight loss quiz site (using a script given out freely by Eben Pagan), but i got mixed results.
3 – Then I tried to add articles to the website so that it will look more like a full fledge website
4 – Then I converted the website into a blog but it wasn’t focus enough.
5 – And the final transformations became just a long squeeze page.

When I was very focused, I manage to churn out around 100 articles for this website. And majority of the articles was mainly submitted to ezinearticles. I once emailed Sean Mize and he mention that in terms of article marketing, ezinearticles is still the best and most effective place to get traffic.

Upon the advice, this was what I got:

This is the current status of my article marketing efforts which I have captured from my ezinearticles for my article statistics.

I have another pen name to write those weight loss articles as well.

This is the number of submission I have made:

And after some cleaning up of my subscriber base, i have around 259 subscribers in my getresponse list. On average, I have about 5 to 8 new subscribers per month. This is very bad opt-in rate. Let me show you why.

This is capture by statcounter.com on 23rd April 2009.

On a total basis, this is what I have. A total of 191 visitors for the month of April 2009.

Based on a check of statcounter, I have a page that captures all subscribers who are confirmed subscribers via double opt-in, and this is the results.

But on a check on my getresponse list, out of 10 opt-ins, 3 subscribers have unsubscribed. So I could only find 7 subscribers left for this month.

Facts:

1 – A total of 191 visitors with 10 opt-ins. So the conversion rate is only 0.05%.
2 – Since 3 have unsubscribed, my conversion rate is really just 0.03%.

This is bad. And since only 7 have subscribed, I cannot really expect much sales from the opt-in.

So time for some revamp.

These are the resources i am using:

Bluehost.com – Choice for hosting (Its not free)

Getresponse.com – Choice for collecting opt-ins (Its not free)

Clickbank.com – Choice for getting products to promote (free)

EzineArticles.com – Choice for submitting my articles (free)

Statcounter.com – Choice for tracking where my traffic is coming from (free)

To include into my arsenal:

Affiliate Prophet Software – Choice to track conversion rates (Its not free)

wp-traffic – Choice to distribute my blog articles. It is a paid wordpress plugin. (Its not free)

humanspinner.com – Choice to spin my articles by real humans. (Its not free)

freetrafficsystem.com – Another choice for me to mass submit my articles. (free)

(Read this squidoo lens done up by my friend Eusof on the freetrafficsystem.com here at http://www.squidoo.com/how-i-get-first-page-on-google )

I am still coming up with a final blueprint, which I have to dig where I stored Andrew Wee’s notes (ashamed to say I stop reading it and worst, did not do anything about it too).

This will be for day 1. Let’s count down to the first 7 days and see what exactly is my blueprint and what is the results i am seeing. Hopefully, some sales can start coming in. I am doing this same plan for another 1 more website but it will remain more of a secret for now because it is a profitable niche than this weight loss site (Made around $483.50 for this website).

Regards,
Andrew

First up, I have been helping a friend setup DLGuard and Amember software.  What a learning process to go through.  I think i can start doing some videos and selling it.

Second, been running 3 campaigns using Yahoo Search Marketing and after failing to get any sales for my first 2 campaigns, my 3rd campaign is already seeing 2 clickbank sales.  Thanks to friends and a coach who has been giving us some great training.  His name will be revealed soon.

Thirdly, i finally started running my polls for a CPA offer again.  Though I lost money, i still consider it a step forward.  Spent $215 singapore dollars and earn $165 from my CPA network.  This was the first time i ever surpassed $100 for my efforts from the traffic in google content network.

Fourthly, subscribing to SENuke now.  Lets see how much money can this software bring my sales.

Business have started picking up.  Clickbank sales is still way below my usual mark but hopefully it starts to increase.

Thats all for now.  Time to earn more money.

Regards,

Andrew

October  2008 $246.54
November 2008 $268.43
December 2008 $26.30
January  2008 $32.34

Time to buck up, buck up, buck up

Regards,

Andrew

The best part of 2009 is that I found a IM coach that is coaching 12 of us to be better in our preselling of products to customers and hopefully, that works out!

The worst part of 2009, the really BIG BANG for me happened on January 2nd, 2009.  I was about to prepare for a launch of my new adwords campaign and my webhost, Bluehost, dropped me a BOMB! They banned my account because my site is listed as a phishing email site.

I was HACKED!

Worst part, bluehost couldn’t really advise me on what to do except to say I have to remedy the situation.  First time encountering such times and sadly, when you look around online, there is alot of solutions for normal email users but not much solutions for webmasters.  It is so damn frustrating.

The only thing I found out is to be careful of all php and asp files and html files are relatively safe from being used as phishing.  So it was time to do some clean up.

There was no software that I could find to detect which files my web host has that is causing the phishing or could I get bluehost to help in resolving since they say they only provide hosting and it is each person’s own responsibility to take care of what type of software we install onto their server.  Sickening but they do have it in their terms and conditions.  One thing good was that their live chat support was able to answer me immediately to let me gain access to my domain hosting so that I can rememdy the situation.  And once everything was resolved, using their live chat (which is really instant), they enabled my websites to be shown again once I explained my resolution.

So how did I solve the problem?

The best way I know how.

A- Backup all my database,

B – Backup all my web files,

C – Reinstall everything one by one.

I split my solutions into 3 categories =>

1 – websites that are purely HTML

-> Since I read that HTML files seem to be safe, all my websites that are purely HTML will be copied from my backup straight back to my web server.  Just need to make sure that the files are uploaded without problems. This solution if it is pure HTML files.

If you have any php files, Look through the php codes to see if there are any unfamiliar codes sending out some funny commands.

2 – Purely Wordpress blogs

First thing you need to do is to backup all your database tables.  Remember to take note which tables belong to which of your wordpress blogs.  This is very important.

Take note of the SQL tables below

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_terms
wp_usermeta
wp_users

You may have other tables but it most likely belongs to other wordpress plugins and not from your original wordpress SQL tables.

2a – The whole point I am trying to achieve is that I am going to backup all my wordpress blogs into my harddisk, uninstall all my wordpress blogs using bluehost web host’s fantastico function.  And if there are any remaining files left in the folder, I will delete them all.

2b – Then I will reinstall each blog one by one using the fantastico function again.

2c – Then I will upload my previous wordpress theme that was backed up into my harddisk.

2d – Once done, login to your phpMyadmin function in your web host.

2e – Find the correct database that you have backup on your harddisk and reload it back into your SQL tables.

wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_terms
wp_usermeta

For the wp_comments, the data is the people who commented on your blog so it is up to you if you want it to be loaded or not.

For wp_users, this is not necessary since you have already specified a new profile when reinstalling your wordpress blogs.

2f – Reload whatever plugins you need.

2g – Test if all the links are working.

3 – Mixture of HTML and wordpress

This type of situation is when you have normal HTML files as your main files and have a added blog.  Just combined my 2 solutions above if you are in such a situation.

3a -Backup the wordpress SQL tables.  Backup all files and folders for that domain into your harddisk.

3b – Remove all files and folders for that domain in your web host. Uninstall wordpress blog from fantastico.

3c- Add back all your html files first and ensure everything is working.

3d – Reinstall wordpress blog. Load back your previous wordpress theme as well.

3e – Load back the wordpress data that you back up previously.

3f – Test.  Load any plugins that you need.

The End Of Solution

Above is my brief way to resolve my phishing website problems.  Took me 2 full days to complete everything above.  There are many other details I missed out, especially if you are not good in technical stuff like reloading SQL data back after reinstalling wordpress.

Plugin and Applications To Note

There are many web applications and wordpress plugins you have to be careful because these programmers may code good uses of applications and plugins, but it may potentially open up your web server to be hacked as these codes may lack security measures or open loopholes that allows hackers to make your website become a phishing website like mine.

Disclaimers:

Ok, I have to put this because I have no idea if I have resolve the situation.  I do know that I have cleared almost all files that I am allowed to delete and reinstalled anything (those with php files) that is from bluehost capabilities and not from my previous backup.  Only files I reused are those HTML files.  Logically, since there are no more files left, then it means I have a clean slate in the web server.  But I am not sure so please don’t blame me if it does not work for you.  So far, no more problems on my side but keeping my fingers crossed.

Regards,

Andrew

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I sign on to both Patric Chan and Affilioblueprint courses and see if i can breakthrough from my current stagnation and strive for higher sales.  My main aim is still to conquer clickbank sales to achieve at least $3000 per month from it.  Though I have temptations to deviate to CPA networks and such, clickbank is something that i would like to conquer.

Lets see how both courses go from here.

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clickbank_progress_nov08

Most of my sales currently come from this one clickbank product and it has been giving me sales every week for the month of october and 2 new sales in the first week of november 2008.

Total, I have already sold 17 and this is the statistics:

1 refund

9 sales generated from google adwords

7 sales generated from article marketing

Highlights of article marketing:

I have only 5 adgroups to get that 9 sales from google but the interesting part is that I have 13 articles to generate 7 sales.

If each article cost me $4 (Singapore dollars), then I have only spent $52.  And each sales I will receive USD$26.30 so the total is USD$184 (Sing is $272).

Therefore, my total profits is $272 (sing) -$52 (sing) = $220.

I have already lost count on how much i have spent on google adwords due to the constant bidding changes and deleting of useless keywords but ultimately it became slightly profitable.

So the ratio of my articles to sales will be 13 articles : 7 sales => 53.8% conversion rate.

I have around 50 articles in my harddisk that I have not submitted but let me do an experiment for the month of november to submit all 50 articles and if it works, I should roughly have another 26 sales, which will amount to Sing $1012.  Hopefully it will works.

Regards,

Andrew

Technorati Tags: november clickbank sales, finding convertable clickbank product

Clickbank progress october

I have around 60 over articles not submitted yet so progress should have been much much better i guess.  Anyway, I have to apologize if some of you are looking for some information on what i am doing.  But basically, my methods are superbly easy and straight forward. Basically I have been very lazy for this product but it seems to bring in the best results.

This is what i have roughly done so far.

The simple 7 steps to small clickbank sales.

Step 1: Find a product in clickbank with gravity between 50 to 200

Step 2: Find long tail keywords and do abit of keyword spying on the competition, gather around 30 keywords (google keyword tool and keyword elite)

Step 3: Buy a domain name (namecheap.com) similar to the product you are promoting

Step 4: For the new domain name, set a redirect to your clickbank affiliate link

Step 5: Write 13 articles and submit to ezinearticles (3 sales from here. I still have 30 articles not submitted for this product)

Step 6: Use those 30 keywords and get as targeted as you can possibly be for some of these keywords. I created around 20 adgroups and slowly eliminated and left with only 6 adgroups now. But these 6 adgroups have generated around 8 sales over these 2 months.  I only did my homework in September and I got lazy, so it has been just 6 adgroups without any change for these 1 month plus.

Step 7: Monitor your adgroups cost versus your sales. As well as monitor which of your articles seem to be bringing in the sales.

Thats it.

Simple steps to accomplish right? I tried doing my own landing pages, squidoo pages but heck, I just can’t get the right formula.  So might as well just start driving traffic and get some sales on the road, and once there is money, I will spend more time perfecting my landing page skills.

For the time being, the bulk of my money will still have to be on creating websites for clients, as well as doing some part time jobs so that I can outsource more in future.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andrew

(I will be gone for 3 weeks for my army incamp training so hopefully, my sales will not be affected when i do not have access to my computer)

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Great news if you are a bum marketer who is using article marketing for traffic.  Ezinearticles, one of the best article directory, is going to reveal the keywords that visitors use to find your articles.  The keyword search will be from august 2008 onwards.  So far, I can see my august and september search and which keywords are used to find my articles.

There are 3 things that immediately comes to mind:

1 – there are more keywords that i can use to write articles

2 – these keywords can be used in my PPC campaign

3 – I can actually know how popular each of my articles are and how good/badly each article is doing

Check out this blog post from ezinearticles:

http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/10/traffic-search-terms.html

This is another great arsenal you can use to make your own bum marketing efforts a big success.

Regards,

Andrew

Technorati Tags: ezinearticles revealing search keywords, bum marketing tools

Anyway, I wanted to segregate the active from the inactive just by looking at the list and for some strange reasons, I deleted the whole list of people.  Though the list was only consisting of 20 over people, I still couldn’t believe the mistake i made.

So sorry to anyone who sign up.  Deeply apologize. I better start writing that ebook, that was left half-done about a month ago.

Regards,

Andrew

My past and present performance below.

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First week

Income – $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses – $170.58

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Second week

Income – $120.32

Expenses – $89.35

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Third Week

Income – $170.10

Expenses – $193.71

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $121.80

Adwords – $8.41

Food – $45.00

Newspaper – $0

Taxi – $0

MRT/Bus – $0

Miscellaneous – $18.50

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Fourth Week So Far:

Income  – $252.00

Expenses – $20.27

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Adwords – $4.27

Food – $16.00

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Last week, I bought this product call Market Samurai (bought it for US$87) and the promises seems good but the performance and stability has been questionable. It can do keyword research, find all the hubpages, squidoo lens and ezinearticles that has the keyword you are trying to target.  But the problem is performance.  And sometimes, the loading just cannot seem to finish.  I am comtemplating to ask for a refund or to wait for a further release.  Anyway here is how it looks like.

Market Samurai Pics

It is offering a free trial for 30 days.  It cost US$147 for the full version but there is no full version at the moment.  Whether you are using free or paid, it is the same version as they are still trying to solve many issues and the estimated time for the whole software to be stable seems to be at the end of the year.  So if you intend to buy now, I think you should just save your money until a stable system is out.

Regards,

Andrew

Technorati Tags: full time marketing online, market samurai review

Second week was much better.  Starting writing articles (about 10 so far), made changes to my adwords campaign as well created 1 new CPA campaign as well.  Got 1 clickbank sale from my article marketing effort and also got paid $70 from a friend to guide him on using some CPA tools.

So overall:

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First week

Income – $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses – $170.58

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $32.78

Adwords – $16.90

Food – $43.50

Newspaper – $1.40

Taxi – $16.00

MRT/Bus – $25.00

Miscellaneous – $35.00

Actions:

Create 2 articles. Submitted to ezinearticles.

Met new friends in the IM industry.

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Second week

Income – $120.32

Expenses – $89.35

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $0.00

Adwords – $17.40

Food – $48.90

Newspaper – $1.40

Taxi – $0.00

MRT/Bus – $3.00

Miscellaneous – $18.65

Actions:

Wrote 7 articles but did not submit.

Wrote 2 articles and submitted to ezinearticles.

Created 2 CPA Polls.

Got paid for advice on CPA website creation.

Set target with Donald to make SGD$3000 by December 11th, 2008.

Spoke to Chee Kui for advice on what he do day to day to achieve 4-figure paycheck now.

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I am not calculating my other income that is coming in from my part time jobs so that I can track those money that has to do with online.

I have still got a long way to go but for being lazy in the first 2 weeks, it is still ok I guess.  Just need to work much harder next week.  Let’s see how things will go.

Regards,

Andrew

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As some of you know, I am turning to IM full time on Monday 01-September-2008.  My last day on the job is actually Friday 29th August 2008.  So I will rest 2 days during the weekends and next monday, it sounds like a good day to start my journey from ground zero.

Anyway, I will write down my experiences here starting from Day 1 to Day 30. Let’s see how i can apply Patric’s methods to boost my earnings for September 2008.

So far, my IM earnings for August is below:

Earnings from Clickbank is US$84.93

Earnings from PayPal is US$167.5

Earnings from ebay is US$5.84

Total Earnings: US$258.27

The biggest problem is I cannot withdraw money from ebay and clickbank because the amount is too low for me staying in Singapore.  So the target will be to increase my income from clickbank and paypal account to $2k each.  And starting from September to December (4 months), lets see how i can increase to such an amount.

Anyway, I have a few part time jobs so I can still have some money for expenses but ultimately, I have burn the bridge of my stable monthly income to force myself to succeed in Internet marketing.  Some people say why not wait until you get a stable IM income before you become full time, but my job as a programmer is taking up so much of my energy and time that I barely have any strength to do IM.  So it is now or not.  The journey starts 1st September 2008.

Anyway, I will be using Patric Chan’s Inside Marketing Lab as the basis point of my journey.  Track me here.

Thanks for reading.

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This was an article in March 08 and as you can see from the graph, the peak was in May 08 and after that, the traffic didn’t really pick up much. I remember that this article was bringing me one to two clickbank sales per month during those peak months.

In the past, I was recording the statistics myself to track the performance of each articles so that you will know how to improve the SEO as well as get more links to it. But with the monthly statistics and graphs, it will definitely make my life simpler as an article marketer trying to make sense of how each of my articles are performing.

Kudos to EzineArticles for including this new feature.

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3rd clickbank sales in first 10 days of August 2008. First time in my own slow history that i got 3 sales in 10 days. Woo hoo!! Spent $5 on advertising and got back $25.92. It sure felt great!

Now, I am stuck though. I have a set of keywords using google adwords but I am not sure how to scale it bigger to increase my traffic and sales. Time to read more books and blogs to find a solution. If anyone can advise me on the next step, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

andrew

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Oh, will be starting a CPA campaign again.  Hope this works fine.

Regards,

Andrew

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The last time I achieved a sale from clickbank was in last year september 2007 and so far, in my first 4 attempts at google adwords, I have already lost $400+. So for this fifth time, it feels great that my cost is still low and yet, the profits are there.

Finally … Finally…Finally..

Why the initial dejection from me? Because I have 2 campaigns, one for a CPA offer and one for this clickbank product. I was making a lost on that CPA offer but when the smell of profit is just about to come, I seem to have been slapped on that domain by Google. And the clickbank campaign was not really making money. But after these 3 days, it has been a joy!

CPA offer Campaign – Still Slapped!

Clickbank Campaign – Profits finally!

Breakdown From Clickbank

Using Adwords From 1 Clickbank Product : SIN$105.76 (USD$78.34)
Adwords Expenses 11/07/08 to 31/07/08 : SIN $34.35
Profit (Sales minus Adwords Expenses): SIN $71.41
Article Marketing To Clickbank Product: SIN$35.58 (USD$26.96)

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Total Profit(Adwords Tactic + Article): SIN$106.99
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This is the first time that i had 4 sales from clickbank and the special moment, 3 of them came from adwords. And using a tracking software, I am beginning to know my first profitable “long tail keyword”.

For The Future

I have just tendered in my resignation today and hopefully, for the month of August, since it will be my last month on the job, the game will be raised to a higher level. Both on the article marketing and adwords front. Maybe when i see more success with august, i can start sharing some strategies that i have just recently learned.

Thanks for reading!

Regard,

Andrew

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As you can see, there were 3 days which did not have any activity. This was because Google stopped my ads. And I deleted it because i thought i have been slapped by Google but apparently, sometimes Google will stop your ads as they will do a review of your campaign. Did not know about such things until I read this in a forum. Luckily, google adwords does not totally delete away your campaign so it was just a simple click of a button to reactivate that campaign.

Things I learn:

1 – Continue to pump out new campaigns to find more gems to earn more.

2 – keyword tracking is super important. From keyword tracking, I can even gauge which keywords are bringing in the money for me.

3 – The way Google adwords run our ads and what are the ways to lower the bids or raise the bids.

Money Sense:

Part time transcripts jobs – SIN$170

Setup webpage for customers – US$50 – SIN$63

Earnings from CPA Offers – SIN$41.69 + SIN$7.02 (money made from 2 other campaigns) – SIN$48.71

Adwords Expenses – SIN$180 (Just realized i have another 2 unsuccessful campaigns)

Clickbank -> SIN$106.65 commission – SIN$22.52 adwords expenses = SIN$84.13

Total Earned -> SIN$388.36

Total Spent -> SIN$202.52

Profits -> SIN$185.84

Latest News:

I will be handing in my resignation letter this coming week and will be concentrating full time in my IM business while doing any part time jobs to supplement my daily expenses.

Interesting Findings:

Found this blog, http://www.businessblogreview.com/, that did a blog post review on my businesspeanuts.com website at

http://www.businessblogreview.com/personal-finance/business-peanuts.html

Pretty interesting. Thanks for the review, whoever you are.

Thats all for now. Once I have manage to get my earnings to be more than my advertising cost, then i will share with you how i do these campaigns.

Regards,

Andrew

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First Time Setting Up A CPA Campaign

I can tell you it is so much simplier than trying to setup a website to sell a clickbank product but the cost can easily go high up because I am using adwords content network to generate traffic.

How this works is this:

1 – Create landing page website

2 – Use adwords to generate traffic to landing page

3 – Get visitors to go to the CPA offer

4 – Visitor submits their email address and you get paid per email submits.

Each offer can range between a few cents to a few dollars.

Sounds easy?

After my first night of experimentation, it is pretty scary. I will not tell you what my landing page are but I can state the statistics of my first night.

Statistics Of My First CPA Campaign

Spent Singapore dollars $25.31 on 105 clicks from the content network.

And out of 105 who came to my landing page, 55 got to my CPA offers but only 1 submitted their email so I only got $2.025 for the whole night. So I lost around $23 dollars on the first night. But I was pretty happy as well because this was my first CPA lead. And of course i am sad cause my conversion rate was amazingly poor.

Making Changes

Anyway, I have made some changes to the sub-headers as well as change the CPA offer and things seem to look up cause my earnings as of now that i am typing this blog post is around $7.02. Currently google adwords is down for maintenance but I am sure I am still losing money but at least the losses seem better.

My budget is set at $25 and since I manage to get $7.02, at least i have reduce the losses to $17.98 for my second night. So my next target is to match my earnings to cover at least $25. Hopefully, I can do it.

Will update further next time. Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andrew

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