Overview of My First Money-Making Month In IM: 2830 Dollars

[futuremills]

job well done, pretty inspiring stuff in this thread

[clarissa25]

can someone give me a link to show me what a landing page looks like. Talin, would u mind? or just anyone else. I really don't get what a presell page is. also, talin did u have to spend a lot of money on domains? do you have .com's for these landing pages. Are u able to do a landing page on blogger?

[TyBrown]

Originally Posted by Cutthroat

300 words? Eh, in my book that is not a "article"... It's a single paragraph. An article is at least 800 words. 300 is a small blog post... IMHO.

Who cares what you call it? If it's making money then it's making money.

[HiTom]

Originally Posted by Cutthroat

How do you breakup one article into three parts and then put it on three different sites? Won't people notice that the article has no beginning and end (if the middle piece) or no end or no beginning if one of the end pieces?

I don't understand how this works...

I think this one was for me. The 3 parts are all submitted to all directories. EZA receives the 3 parts, articlebase received the 3 parts too, and so on. The only thing that I change is the title, but since the keyword is in the title it gave me multiple listings.

So I haven't the 3 articles on EZA showing on Google for that keyword, but one part from 3 different directories. If someone visit one article directory, he/she will find the 2 other parts.

So I end up with something like this (admitting the keyword is lose weight) :
For EZA :
How To Lose Weight - Part 1
How To Lose Weight - Part 2
How To Lose Weight - Part 3

For articlesbase :
Lose Weight The Easy Way - Part 1
Lose Weight The Easy Way - Part 2
Lose Weight The Easy Way - Part 3

and so on.

I hope I made it clear enough, sorry for not having answered earlier.

Tom

[Mark-Dickenson]

Absolutely Awesome!!

Very motivating. I love the part about you going into July, not making a sale, and keeping on...with the same method

If more people did that, more people would make money.

I raise my glass

-Mark

[dean7227]

Talinn,

What a great post and you definitely motivates all the newcomers and even some old timers here.
What you post- somebody else would just keep it to themselves. Thank You for posting this- You really open up my eyes.

Regards
Dean

[cheesy]

Very well done, i love threads like these, they always make me inspired.

[marcus passey]

Hey Talinn

Thats fantastic great going,as well as the other things I am doing I really want to speed up on writing articles, picking the right keywords and clickbank product.

Then I can just keep banging em out and hopefully sales will come in from all over the place.

And Casey is a very cool generous guy he has helped me out,I am watching him very closely.

Thanks Casey

Marcus

[pi365]

Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work!

[Vince N]

very nice to hear about your results talinn

It has reinforced my belief that all it takes is just a single method to get started making atleast a reasonable amount of money.

As you already mentioned, outsourcing will probably be the best way for you to scale up.

Thanks for sharing with us your success.

[TheNightOwl]

Originally Posted by HiTom

How To Lose Weight - Part 1
How To Lose Weight - Part 2
How To Lose Weight - Part 3

Hi HiTom,
If you've done this, then fine. But my understanding of at least EZA's TOS is that you cannot break an article into three parts like this; that you have to provide a "complete", "stand-alone" article.

Now, that's not to say you can't break an article into what is essentially three different parts, add an intro and conclusion and slap a new title on it.

But I don't think you can do the old "Part 1", "Part 2", etc malarkey.

Could be wrong, though. *shrug*


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@Talinn -- good on you! That's awesome!

TheNightOwl

[megabuck4u]

Congrats! Talinn for sharing your success and strategy with us. It's encouraging and motivating to many of us that are in this business. Keep the flag flying.

[kimmer551]

Love the story. You can succeed if you try.

[FriendlyRob]

What you just described, is exactly what I just told my wife I was going to start doing. Now that I know there is money in it, I can't wait to tell her that also.

[luckystepho]

Well done, this is a really inspirational post, just shows what sustained effort and hard work can do although I reckon you must have researched your niches well too.

[Kappa]

Wow, I'm just now realizing the power of article marketing, at first I didn't see what was the big deal, now I understand that writing articles and driving traffic to your affiliate can be a great way of making money. Good googly moogly, 10 articles/day? Were you writing and spinning, or what? I procrastinate for at least 2 days before writing one article. I am a good writer, but years of having the write for school has totally soured me on the process, which is a mental issue for me.

Good luck, it looks like you have a great growing business model there and you are a success in your work!

[Tomwood]

"Before you ask, my niches are: the relationship niche and the female health niche. I promoted some products which made sales in the sexuality niche, but their conversions were kind of terrible, so I decided against wasting my time with them."

The main reason for your success is in no small part due too correct niche selection
The niche is everything

[Hackbridge]

If I could write a 10 word article and make money I'd be happy.

@Cutthroat And thanks for the encouragement - Not! Some people are just starting out, so when they make money that's good - Isn't it?

It's just nice to be more encouraging. One day you might post a similar post and it wouldn't be nice for someone to diss you.

Brian
Ps IMHO

Originally Posted by Cutthroat

300 words? Eh, in my book that is not a "article"... It's a single paragraph. An article is at least 800 words. 300 is a small blog post... IMHO.

[Alican Yenidogan]

Tebrikler Talinn

Keep up the good work..

[chandan_dutta]

Hey Talinn

That's really a great achievement. Congrats! 10 articles each day! Really a great job.

And Casey is a great warrior. I have come across few people like Casey, who help newbie for their success..

Thanks for sharing your experience..

[anwar001]

This is a very inspirational post. This should get me motivated to write articles everyday (atleast 3-5 articles per day initially if I cannot start with 10 as you have done).

I have a couple of questions which I hope you will answer:

1. I would like to ask whether you have submitted your articles to only a handful directories like ezine, dashboard etc or did you do mass submissions to 50-100 article directories?

2. Any tips on improving article CTR?

3. Tips on keyword research.

Your advice and help would be highly appreciated and I think all readers of this inspirational thread will benefit if you care to provide answers to the above questions.

[Karamazov]

Great post Tannin,
Thanks for sharing. It's really inspiring to see people succeed in this part of the world (I live in Bulgaria).

Keep up the good work!

[mrmut]

great post. i also follow casey, and backlink bully and have gottten great results. You need to follow a system. If you walk off the road you will get lost. If you are starting off and have no clue what to do next, Pick up a copy of casey ebook and a copy of backlink bully. Both system will get you in profit mode!

good luck

[freddy smith]

can you show video prove your clickbank account

[Jason Johns]

Well done to you Talinn for not only taking action and succeeding, but in sharing how you did it with the people here. You have done a fantastic job, and keep up the article writing and it won't be long before that income is even higher.

Great news and well done ...

Good luck for the future

Jason

[Simon74]

Hello

Congratulation Talinn and thak you for sharing your success! All the best!

Simon

[firedragon]

Hi Talinn,

congrats to your success. I see I still have some way to go before I am at your level and by then,....

Continue with your success, it helps me stay on track

Cheerz,
Marcus

[dou9las]

Talinn,
Great Job! You obviously did very well in selecting niches that convert, in addition to your work ethic of generating 10 articles a day consistently.

Question: Although direct affiliate links per se are not allowed at Ezinearticles, people are able to get around that by linking to a masked redirect, such as "www.yoursite.com/vendor1.php" which is actually just a redirect to the vendor's site with your hop link embeded, etc. Are you doing this, in addition to linking to the presell page, from each article? Just curious.

Not that you need any additional help, since you have discovered how to effectively use article marketing and can now just ramp things up - but One Week Marketing Plan is a good resource which is very consistant with what you're doing.

It takes the basic strategy of article marketing, and expands it into using Squidoo (or Hubpages, etc.), and blogs, and article directories, etc. with the goal being to both maximize exposure, while building backlinks at the same time. Just Google it if your interested.

On article marketing - as Ian at KarmicConsulting says, a great strategy is to write a 300 word article that is not actually complete - and finish it in the bio box (up to 250 words) but in a way that builds curiosity and provides strong calls to action.

You're probably already doing this, but many people may not be aware that they can put essentially half of an article within the bio box, and often this helps drive up CTR, if it is done right.

Originally Posted by Talinn

...You can call them little Flying Spaghetti Monsters instead of articles, I don't care that much as long as they keep making me money!

ROFL - Beautifully said Totally agree, for IM purposes, 500 would be the max and works fine for getting indexed. Shorter is better if it can build interest, curiousity, and clicks.

IM is not, and should not, be approached like academic prose writing. As thousands of great marketers often repeat, people online skim, and read Headlines.

I'm getting hammered in the Copywriting forum as we speak, on a salesletter I wrote that was way to verbose, but I digress..(see what I mean?)

[TrevorB]

It is very encouraging to read stories like yours.
It is only the thought of writing so many articles that puts people (including me) off....

I haven't got the capital to outsource yet so I guess that I just got to get writing

[GIahGroup]

Nice work T,

especially all free traffic and only 2 hrs per day.

works out at around $90 / hr which in anyones book is ok.

I guess the only thing is like you say its gets repetitive and boring and not every every niche will be so easily to duplicate.

great work and keep it up.

[Talinn]

Thanks to all of you for your kind words!

The last two weeks were very good to me - about $900 each week! I am getting better and better. But it's still nothing compared to the success I am DREAMING to achieve.

I doubt I'll be satisfied even if I see $10K weeks. It's not the money, but the FUN in growing your business!

To hell with money itself! As long as I can continue doing my business (home, food, laptop, Internet) I don't care about money at all.

One week later it'll be my second month, and I'll create another thread about the experience I gained and what I did to better my earnings.

Stay Tuned!!

M. Talin

[buckz55]

care to show a screen shot of your clickbank sales? im sure that would very helpful to many of us

[Talinn]

Originally Posted by buckz55

care to show a screen shot of your clickbank sales? im sure that would very helpful to many of us

lol, in what sense would it be helpful to you ?

[buckz55]

so I know for sure loll i need motivation ..... i dont want to write 10 articles a day and not know what to expect

[buckz55]

sorry , i know im being rude .... im just dying to make some good money on here so I don't have to get a day job... i just want to follow your system for now on but would like to know for sure it's a good one

[Talinn]

lol fair enough, but I think I need permission from CB to publish my sales!

[buckz55]

great thanks ... not sure if you do or not ... but I appreciate it alot ... im sure others will too

[gtrplyr]

Hey man, definite props to you. It feels good to make money, doesn't it?

[The Copy Nazi]

That's the way uh-huh-uh-huh I like it!

[LilBlackDress]

Are your sites one page Talinn or how many pages are they?
Do you list build or are people going from your site directly to the sales page?
And are you doing other backlinking?

Congrats! This is great news!!!

[jhongren]

Terrific! now who else wants to say making
money online is hard...

I must say that it is because you took
Massive action , and that is why you are getting
Massive result!

Congrats again!

John

[Roy Carter]

You deserve much credit for simply putting your nose to the grindstone and actually getting stuff done. i.e. You took ACTION in a big way. Result? You started earning decent money.

Too many beginners look at the potential work/hours involved in article marketing and then don't take the required action. Result? They make no money.

Two pieces of advice. 1) Now that you have started to make some reasonable income use some of it to outsource the articles. 2) Make damn sure you are capturing names and emails and building a solid list from your efforts. That way lies the gold.

Well done.

[davidomni]

I agree with Roy, you got to TAKE ACTION if you want to earn!

Last year I made no cash. Nothing. Making money online was like chasing some myth
that was just so mystical and attractive to me.

Now, because of this forum (and some other products) I have made a total of
$321.13! It has made me a believer!

Keep the faith guys. We are all a new breed of men and women!

One thing I have found about all who do make money, (myself included)
is having the ability to suspend disbelief. And just trust your senses...

Despite what other people say or do!
They can have their "jobs"

Keep it up warriors!

[Liam Hamer]

Talinn - you're an inspiration to us all Since I started getting into article marketing a month or so ago, I've seen some pretty decent results but like you I'm always striving to evolve and improve. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your story

[bertuseng]

Thanks for the post, it was very informative, I am also doing article marketing, but it is a long process, just getting my posts accepted takes more than a week everytime. Guess it will go easier later.

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by bertuseng

Thanks for the post, it was very informative, I am also doing article marketing, but it is a long process, just getting my posts accepted takes more than a week everytime. Guess it will go easier later.

It will, as long as you focus on writing quality articles, you'll get an upgrade (if you're using ezine) and then your articles will get approved in no time

[Talinn]

Originally Posted by bertuseng

Thanks for the post, it was very informative, I am also doing article marketing, but it is a long process, just getting my posts accepted takes more than a week everytime. Guess it will go easier later.

Hey;

Don't forget that Articlesbase and GoArticles can be just as good as EZA!

[dou9las]

Hey Talinn,
Was wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing a link to one of your sites/blogs where you promote CB products from? 70% CTR is really high (in my experience.)

I would love to how you are managing to get that! (not that I don't believe you - I just want to improve my sites... )

[katiec]

Thanks so much for sharing your success and information for all of us! Congrats and continued success!

[kapoerchan]

Talinn,
Thanks for sharing and congratulations on a job well done!
10 article/day -> landing page -> SALES!
Wow, awesome! And simple!
Great success story!