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Been pretty out of focus these days and though the sales are coming in slowly, I have decided to go back to basics.  Meaning I have been feeling a bit of loss because I seem to miss a step whenever I launch a new campaign and even though some campaigns may bring in sales, it does not really last that long, especially if there are more and more competitors fighting for the same product sales.

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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Interesting statistics of my clickbank sales that I have been compiling today.  Since I have not been able to do anything these couple of weeks due to me being back training in the army, I was pleasantly surprise to see 2 sales for this week already.

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:

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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

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Frankly speaking, I have not been as hardworking as I should have been and progress has continued to be slow.  But the funny thing is sales for clickbank has been improving a bit.  In the sense that at least there are some sales this month. Still shy from really making a living online since the sales, when compare to any affiliate, is peanuts (hence businesspeanuts).

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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Hi Friends,

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

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First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a “how-to” guide but was always too lazy busy.

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

Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is simply too boring.  Frank Kern was right, do what you like and outsource everything that you do not like.

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

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