I watched a video by Brett McFall this morning (on his blog on his site) that describes just exactly how to make money using a computer and the Internet, but with no website, no product of your own and no advertising.
Then I went and tried out his suggestions. Basically, check out social networking sites, find niche market sites, find products in ClickBank and match the two together. Of course, it's a little slower, joining the groups and getting to interact so you can then post suggestions, but still another way to create a revenue stream. And that's what I'm trying to do, create revenue streams - lots of them!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Making my first million? Not quite, but I have made a sale or two!
I took a few days off all this as my head was spinning. Kind of in a literal sense, because my Meniere's syndrome was attempting to rear itself into my world again and make the floor move. (For those of you who don't know, it's dizziness and nausea).
All the links are on my site and I submitted the site to a few more search engine/directory type places. My hits are going up well and the tracking on my pages tells me they are crawling my site as well as attracting real live visitors.
And I made a sale! Not millions, but a sale! And a couple of book sales from the affiliate site that I set up a couple of years ago. Enough to live on? Nowhere near it. Enough to go out to dinner maybe. Still, to me, it proves I am on the right track here.
My next attempt was to find articles, to create a few free reports or ebooks on each topic - painting, drawing, photography and general arts. I looked at a lot of articles from ezinearticles.com but finding the author to get permission to reprint is challenging. Much easier is articlebase.com. I was doing searches on articles about art (try saying that a few times quickly) and found several and contacted the authors. I now have half a dozen articles on painting and one on photography.
Then I remembered I've written a few articles myself a few years ago for the ezine I used to publish, so I've dug those out too and will submit them to places accepting articles, as well as putting them into the ebook.
As a second bonus for subscribing, there is also the ebook, Australian Yarns, which is available for sale on my website.
I've also been doing keyword analysis using my site statistics, and google's keyword search, so I can start an adwords campaign to lift my hits.
All the links are on my site and I submitted the site to a few more search engine/directory type places. My hits are going up well and the tracking on my pages tells me they are crawling my site as well as attracting real live visitors.
And I made a sale! Not millions, but a sale! And a couple of book sales from the affiliate site that I set up a couple of years ago. Enough to live on? Nowhere near it. Enough to go out to dinner maybe. Still, to me, it proves I am on the right track here.
My next attempt was to find articles, to create a few free reports or ebooks on each topic - painting, drawing, photography and general arts. I looked at a lot of articles from ezinearticles.com but finding the author to get permission to reprint is challenging. Much easier is articlebase.com. I was doing searches on articles about art (try saying that a few times quickly) and found several and contacted the authors. I now have half a dozen articles on painting and one on photography.
Then I remembered I've written a few articles myself a few years ago for the ezine I used to publish, so I've dug those out too and will submit them to places accepting articles, as well as putting them into the ebook.
As a second bonus for subscribing, there is also the ebook, Australian Yarns, which is available for sale on my website.
I've also been doing keyword analysis using my site statistics, and google's keyword search, so I can start an adwords campaign to lift my hits.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Starting out
Last Saturday (the 11th July) I dragged myself out of bed and drove the hour down to the Gold Coast to see Brett McFall (brettmcfall.com) who was doing a day seminar called "Making Money While You Sleep." As I have zero income at the moment and limited ways to get more I thought, I can't miss this and a few days before borrowed his book by the same name from the library. ">How to Make Money While You Sleep: How to Start, Promote and Profit From an Online Business.
I got so excited reading the book, that I read it cover to cover in 2 days and had already set up a plan to follow. I took those ideas to the seminar with me. The whole concept is simple. In 7 steps, create an information product people want and will pay for (how to is in the book) and promote and sell it. At the same time, build a big database of emails, to promote your new products to. Once it is done, it runs almost on automatic pilot. The most exciting thing? It can be done over and over again!
I learned so much from the course - the seven steps to starting an online business and Brett was a great teacher, relaxed, lots of audience participation, tons of practical, how to do every step information.
SUNDAY
So I took my product ideas home (now I have 7 ideas) and the next day I checked out the first one using his plan. I checked Google's keyword tracker for researching my idea and found that the search terms for my product fitted his criteria. Then I began to research people I could interview to create my product and the names were coming up everywhere.
MONDAY
My soon to be ex (stbx) took me out for a coffee and was telling me he had a huge database of names through his work and another idea began to form, so I raced home and began to research that! Well, another product is in the planning stages as the keyword searches were again perfect. An hour on Google led to a dozen new ideas for interviewees. And another discussion with stbx about how to promote his company and get to their database.
TUESDAY to FRIDAY
I realised I have a website, Click Art Gallery, with reasonable traffic just sitting there, selling a few books and a few paintings each month that could be doing so much more, with less effort! So I spent a couple of days researching stuff that other people have already created that would be targeted to my artistic audience. I signed up with Clickbank and went ahead collecting links. I decided that html code was not the way to do this and manage it, so I set up a database so I can manage it with ease. Well, so far it's taken about 14 hours, but I have over 30 products for artists on my resources page and it will only take a few minutes to add, delete or edit any part of my resource list.
Well, this is off tangent from my original aim of creating an information product to sell, but my main aim is to make myself some money, and ClickBank marketers offer some brilliant payouts (up to 75% of sales!).
I got so excited reading the book, that I read it cover to cover in 2 days and had already set up a plan to follow. I took those ideas to the seminar with me. The whole concept is simple. In 7 steps, create an information product people want and will pay for (how to is in the book) and promote and sell it. At the same time, build a big database of emails, to promote your new products to. Once it is done, it runs almost on automatic pilot. The most exciting thing? It can be done over and over again!
I learned so much from the course - the seven steps to starting an online business and Brett was a great teacher, relaxed, lots of audience participation, tons of practical, how to do every step information.
SUNDAY
So I took my product ideas home (now I have 7 ideas) and the next day I checked out the first one using his plan. I checked Google's keyword tracker for researching my idea and found that the search terms for my product fitted his criteria. Then I began to research people I could interview to create my product and the names were coming up everywhere.
MONDAY
My soon to be ex (stbx) took me out for a coffee and was telling me he had a huge database of names through his work and another idea began to form, so I raced home and began to research that! Well, another product is in the planning stages as the keyword searches were again perfect. An hour on Google led to a dozen new ideas for interviewees. And another discussion with stbx about how to promote his company and get to their database.
TUESDAY to FRIDAY
I realised I have a website, Click Art Gallery, with reasonable traffic just sitting there, selling a few books and a few paintings each month that could be doing so much more, with less effort! So I spent a couple of days researching stuff that other people have already created that would be targeted to my artistic audience. I signed up with Clickbank and went ahead collecting links. I decided that html code was not the way to do this and manage it, so I set up a database so I can manage it with ease. Well, so far it's taken about 14 hours, but I have over 30 products for artists on my resources page and it will only take a few minutes to add, delete or edit any part of my resource list.
Well, this is off tangent from my original aim of creating an information product to sell, but my main aim is to make myself some money, and ClickBank marketers offer some brilliant payouts (up to 75% of sales!).
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