I respect the hustle.
A tip of my black hat to you sir.
Wanna hang out sometime?
Thanks for the kind words. I'm not going to comment on your project, just that I think you're doing a good job learning the ropes but a bit nieve out of the gate. Keep doing what you do, and I think you'll be fine.
Nieve is putting it mildly. I have a lot to learn and a long way to go. Just getting started.
I was looking for a success story post April, this seemingly overhyped google "Penguin" update was put in place. Glad to hear you are still doing well! Definitely gave me some motivation. Hopefully I'll launch a test campaign this week
The main project started as a huge failure, its how I reacted to it that made it a success. That site has a long long way to go but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and Im no longer coming out of my pocket to keep it running.
God damn I think you just kicked my lazy ass into gear.
Excellent post, you really have motivated me to begin on this journey myself. Thank you for the tips, my friend.
Good
Great to hear your success.
But I have to say that most of the people doing well in this biz seem to be doing well by selling stuff/services to IMers. It's like back in the gold-rush days, the 49'ers themselves rarely got rich.. but those who sold the 49'ers supplies got rich much more reliably. It kind of seems like that's happening a lot in this biz and that's a shame. Most paid-IM gurus and service suppliers reading this right now know that this is true but likely wont admit it.
I've got to wonder how many people are getting rich off of REAL affiliate marketing anymore (not just selling a dream to IMers). Personally I have great success with e-commerce of my own products. But I'd love to branch out into more things though.
I currently dont have the time to get into anything else. I have dabbled in AM and had some almost profitable stuff along with a lot of no where close profitable stuff. Im well aware of the risk/reward and I have a high tolerance for the risk so losing the money that Ive spent so far on testing doesnt bother me, what bothers me is that I thought I could do that and everything else thats on my plate. Im ok with losing money just not throwing it away. Until I can sell the ecomm site Im going to live off of BST sales and other little flim flams I have running. Once I can get the ecomm managing it self (hired my first employee two weeks ago - 250$ a week that has lowered my stress level fuck tons) I will be going at AM full steam.
Great post dude. Really motivating. I'm into e-commerce myself and just started making a little above even.
Keep grinding. Pull the fucking trigger.
good post...keep up the hard work
Thanks
The secret is to go for high value niches. Niches where a customer is worth 3-4 figures in revenue to an affiliate, rather than say $30.
You can then generate much more income from low volume, highly converting search phrases typically skipped over by marketers.
I have been looking around for a good 1-2 year build up for a site (sites) just havent picked a niche yet. Good tip. Thanks
Your posts have helped me a lot. Thank you.
Good job man. Did you basically just focus on one main site?
Sometimes the ecomm takes my soul and I give it 20 hour days 6 days a week. I havent had a week like that in a while, but in the begining, yes my focus was purly getting that thing off the ground. I remember when I got my first order (Ozark, Alabama) I did a jumping backkick in my office and bought 10 domains/more hosting/and built wordpress sites all night. Now most of the grunt work is done, and I know what the site needs. Before I was just going in blind, throwing shit and the wall to see what stuck. Now I have a general idea of what I'm doing and have a plan in place for spending on development. Currently I have a few other things going that are dripping in money for me to live on. I realized that I need to have a few things going at once so I didnt fuck the main one up. My biggest problem is that I was so consumed by it that I would just do work on the site just to do it and messed a lot of things up. Having to go back and change/redo was a learning experience, but not much fun. Running sales threads in the BST and picking up SEO clients helps me tweak appropriately.
It's pretty damn scary where life can take you if you're prepared to just work hard. Great share, and best of luck for the future!
This shit is addicting. Once you start seeing results its hard to stop.
