Profits With Chris

Hey guys,

It’s been a long time since I posted. It’s one of those things where an idea for the blog will hit me, but then I get back behind the PC and I will forget it! And yes, I do carry around a notebook!

Anyway, we’re pretty much at the halfway point now so I thought I would share my progress with you.

When you think about it, making money on the internet is essentially a simple equation:

CREATE A PITCH + DRIVE TRAFFIC = MAKE MONEY

Of course there is a littmore more to it than that, especially on the subjects of conversions, but the simple equation still fits the bill.

Now there is a simple way of making 50 bucks a day starting today - you can do bum marketing like John did (I forget his Warrior Forum name). See his blog here: Blood and Guts Marketing

He drove article traffic to a presell page and sold mainly Clickbank products. By writing 50-100 articles per day, he was soon raking it in and easily beating $50 a day. The problem is that you leave no spare time for anything else so your earnings are limited. I don’t especially need the short term funds that this could be good for so I’m not going to go crazy and write that many articles per day (I don’t even think I could!). I also know someone who outsources their articles for a dollar a day and gets good quality ones. I’ll have to look into that because the last time I did it I paid 5 bucks a day and the articles were mediocre from all 3 outsourcers I tried (never trust the ratings on rentacoder).

So I am sacrificing some early income, and using my time to build now for the future. Having said that, I still want to meet this target of 50 bucks per day average by the end of March!!

So here’s my progress compared to my last post:

• My leads are now at 568. So comparing to my “zero” of 475, that means that I have gained nearly 100 leads in 2 weeks. Not amazing but also not bad considering I have been slacking on the article marketing front and hardly submitted anything.
• I have finally today completed all my review sites. We are talking here something like 8 review sites. The best thing about Ross’s script is that my autoresponder is also visible on every page. So I am going to go nuts shortly in the run up to the end of the month and drive traffic like mad. Much of it should sign up for my autoresponders (backend sales will take weeks to come through) but I’m really hoping that a good effort here will also help me big to reach the $50 per day mark thanks to surfers checking out my reviews and then buying. Certainly, I think that the pages should be good pre-sells and hopefully convert well.
• My poker portal is now complete. Although there is a gambling theme derived from Revolution, it is a bit of a rip off (expensive) and I chose to customise Revolution myself instead (I have bought the Developer pack, such is my faith in these themes). Need to drive traffic like nuts to this one, it is mostly set up for recurring commissions but there are also a few CPA offers.
• Casino portal - as much as I really wanted to have this site, I asked myself whether this would be a wise decision? In the past, I have created a lot of rubbish blogs. Now quality is not my concern anymore with this casino site, but no doubt I would be spreading myself incredibly thinly with a new site like this. Let’s see how the poker one goes before I use the synergies and jump into the casino world.
• I have decide to also have a portal. I will be using the Revolution Theme and hoping for good long term SEO. Basically there is a broad genre that I know a lot about. I would not call it a great passion but I can write so easily about it because I know so much. Combining Google’s love for Wordpress, my easy article writing plus Revolution’s great functionality, oh and also some nice ebook and product reviews mixed in, I think that this site could be a nice slow burner.
• I am also going to experiment with one of Moreniche’s feeder sites. I have bought a domain for this purpose to redirect to one of their feeder sites that they claim has a good conversion rate. I don’t know whether to be dubious of these claims but the least I can do is test them before either continuing or abandoning this concept. The redirected site is called Weight Loss Research. What do you think?

So, what is left on the horizon in the last couple of weeks?

• First of all, I will be driving traffic like nuts. Check out this recommended download - Nick’s Traffic Tricks. It is excellent and will be the basis for my traffic building. I have created pretty much everything that I need for this initial $50 hurdle so it’s now all about traffic, traffic and traffic!
• Secondly, I have decided to sign up to Wealthy Affiliate. Remember that poker affiliate money, nearly 2 grand, that I didn’t know what to do with? Well, after seeing even more favourable testimonials from non gurus, many complete beginners, I have decided that it is a safe bet to join WA and learn how to do PPC to make and not lose money! I also have the budget to get to grips with it.
• Lastly, I will also be going back to creating products. My first two products were a total underestimation of the market and I have learned well from that. I am ready to dive into my next product but really feel that I must wait for this traffic driving period to be over with first. I’d love to start now but I know that my emotions are trying to defy my logic here. The question is, do I start the serious PPC efforts with WA before the product creation, or the other way around? I am still undecided on this. April will be very telling….what do you think?

So I’d love to hear your thoughts and also please tell me your own progress if you are joining me on this challenge. And if you haven’t joined already, then why not? Without goals you can never achieve them!