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

[mannyf]

This is awesome. The funny thing about it is your post was my sign of direction. Just like you I started a few month's ago and have gained a world of experience in that short time and I too have been listening to the advice of the pro's and somehow "Articles" kept creeping up so I figured since I am NOT making any money with all my other efforts I started working on articles hopefully to be the golden ticket or at least the start. So thank you!! This was my breath of fresh air Good luck to you and glad to hear you finally broke through! All the best

[FormerWageSlave]

Talinn,

Thanks for sharing your success story. Definitely motivating. I know you are probably busy, and a lot of questions have been asked here, but if you can find the time I'd love to hear your answers to the questions others have asked here. Except for the Clickbank screenshot request. That was weird.

Best,

FWS

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by yesacpow

Hey Pettaya,

Glad you liked my book and I really appreciate your comments.

To everyone else, thank you as well and I hope everyone will start to take some serious action so we all can make some serious money.

........
Casey (yesacpow)

casey

I signed up to your course twice and couldn't find a download link!

I just purchased article cash robots instead... does that teach what you teach?

I have over 300 articles in EZA in various niches and for some reason I'm not experiencing nearly the same amount of success as Talinn. I must be doing something wrong!

[newBum76]

Hey Talinn

I've made a couple sales following some of Casey's techniques in his newbie guide, and now I'm waiting to receive his niche package and hopefully I'll ramp things up and see success like yours.

Question for you -
You mentioned that you spoke to Casey for a bit, did he tell you anything specific not found in his guides that made a huge difference for you? Or did you just pretty much follow his plans in the pdf's?

I'd really appreciate your feedback, thanks!
-Jon

[Pam Boyett]

Talinn,
Thanks so much for the info. This makes me think I am spending way too much time on my article writing and I need to kick it in gear.
I really appreciate you giving us the actual information on how you accomplished your success. I would like for more people to express what they are doing in the detail you have given here.
Much luck to you in your new niches!

Regards,

[Andy W]

Great Inspiration to everybody. It just shows that you have to keep on keepin on...
-Andy

[Gitonga]

Originally Posted by Talinn

Before sharing with you my methods and results, I want to thank each one of you for setting me on the right track in Internet Marketing. I started trying to make money online in this May (if I recall correctly), and it was because of this forum.

In May I couldn't make any money. Ditto in June. But I was determined! By the end of July, even though I hadn't made a cent over the Internet, I was already very experienced and I felt that the next project I would create would bring me some cash. In July 23rd I had a talk with the fellow successful internet marketer Casey Gentles who shared with me his golden experiences, and set me on the RIGHT track in Internet marketing.

The next day I made $120. I am not joking.

Well, I couldn't replicate that success for every day, but from July 24rd to August 21st, I made $2,451. If you project it to a whole month by adding four days, I will have made $2830 in my first money-making month over the Internet. That's nearly $100/day.

Not bad, for my standards it's something like earning as much as Bill Gates!

So here comes how I did it. I made that money all from Clickbank. I promoted 5-6 different products, 4 of which returned at least one sale. So it's not only one product.

My method of promotion has largely been article marketing. While this will sound "holy crap" to some of you, I wrote 10 articles per day, and I now have 300 articles published on EZA and other various article sites such as GoArticles, articlesbase and Dashboard.

After a while the niches I'm in sound so familiar that it takes no more than 10 minutes to write a 300-word article. But of course you can write so many articles per day (regardless of how easily you do so) before your head explodes, so I'm now into outsourcing articles in the niches I'm in; and writing new articles for new niches I wish to explore.

My CTR's are high on both article directories and in my sites. (around %40 in EZA, and over %70 in my sites) The conversions are very high, while of course this differs from niche to niche; I am surprised when I see 50 hops and no sales.

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.

I am EXTREMELY and ABSOLUTELY thankful to this forum for making me so much money (in my standards!). So I will be more than willing to help you with any questions, especially from newbies.

Your hard work has paid.Am just wondering what trick you used to get this high click through rates.
How are you able to get 10 different article ideas daily?

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by Gitonga

Your hard work has paid.Am just wondering what trick you used to get this high click through rates.
How are you able to get 10 different article ideas daily?

The way I do it, isn't to get 10 different ideas, no, I rewrite my articles. After you've done this a few times, writing an 250-300 words article isn't hard at all.

So, first I write 1 article and submit it. Then I open a completely blank document and write that same article again, more or less, this way I get a completely unique article every time and now an then I add some new information.

Hope this is helping you

[mekadon009]

great post especially for the newbies ,thanks for sharing

[LegitBlogger]

GREAT job no doubt. I will say what made it
for you is the CONSISTENCY. That's where lots
of folks give up!

[NewbieGal]

Congratulations!! I am starting with article marketing and its great to hhear the success of others doing the same. Are you following a particular guide to get to your success? or are you just dong research here on WF to see what steps to take?

Originally Posted by Talinn

Before sharing with you my methods and results, I want to thank each one of you for setting me on the right track in Internet Marketing. I started trying to make money online in this May (if I recall correctly), and it was because of this forum.

In May I couldn't make any money. Ditto in June. But I was determined! By the end of July, even though I hadn't made a cent over the Internet, I was already very experienced and I felt that the next project I would create would bring me some cash. In July 23rd I had a talk with the fellow successful internet marketer Casey Gentles who shared with me his golden experiences, and set me on the RIGHT track in Internet marketing.

The next day I made $120. I am not joking.

Well, I couldn't replicate that success for every day, but from July 24rd to August 21st, I made $2,451. If you project it to a whole month by adding four days, I will have made $2830 in my first money-making month over the Internet. That's nearly $100/day.

Not bad, for my standards it's something like earning as much as Bill Gates!

So here comes how I did it. I made that money all from Clickbank. I promoted 5-6 different products, 4 of which returned at least one sale. So it's not only one product.

My method of promotion has largely been article marketing. While this will sound "holy crap" to some of you, I wrote 10 articles per day, and I now have 300 articles published on EZA and other various article sites such as GoArticles, articlesbase and Dashboard.

After a while the niches I'm in sound so familiar that it takes no more than 10 minutes to write a 300-word article. But of course you can write so many articles per day (regardless of how easily you do so) before your head explodes, so I'm now into outsourcing articles in the niches I'm in; and writing new articles for new niches I wish to explore.

My CTR's are high on both article directories and in my sites. (around %40 in EZA, and over %70 in my sites) The conversions are very high, while of course this differs from niche to niche; I am surprised when I see 50 hops and no sales.

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.

I am EXTREMELY and ABSOLUTELY thankful to this forum for making me so much money (in my standards!). So I will be more than willing to help you with any questions, especially from newbies.

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

Congratulations!! I am starting with article marketing and its great to hhear the success of others doing the same. Are you following a particular guide to get to your success? or are you just dong research here on WF to see what steps to take?

Hi NewbieGal.
Try to o a search for "Casey Gentles", he has a free report about article marketing.

Apparently, that's the method used here

[maxitman]

Talinn, I can only hope there will be others to do the same as you did. You got something, and you came back to give it back. Fantastic. All the best to you, and I hope to see you again soon.

[john2k]

Congrats on your success and thanks for sharing your results.

[NewbieGal]

Thank you. i will do a search.

Originally Posted by hjalte81

Hi NewbieGal.
Try to o a search for "Casey Gentles", he has a free report about article marketing.

Apparently, that's the method used here

[josher]

Ten articles a day is not a lot for most people. For others like myself, we would rather, pull our hair out then sit and type about something you may not be especially interested in.

I whole-heartily believe in article marketing, my single biggest example would have to be Tim Gorman, with 1600 plus articles. He shows you all his sites and landing pages, and you see how it could work.

For those, of us, including myself, that have a tough time at writing, you may want to look at a different system that is more "ADD" friendly.

I'm just saying!

[Joseph Park]

Congrats, Talinn. Hope that's a small beginning of your
bigger success in internet marketing world.

Just keep doing what works for you and scale it up.
You'll see much much more commission coming your way.

[RebeccaL]

Congrats, good to see someone doing well with article marketing - it really does work!

[Matrixzer0]

Its nice to know some of us come out on top. Gives the rest of us newbies some hope. I wish you the best in all your future projects.

I thought you couldn`t make much money in that area. But you proved me wrong .

Good luck and Goodnight.

[PWard]

Great stuff Talinn, Congrats!!!

I had similar success, took me a couple months but I'm making a consistent $150 a day now. May write up the process of how I did it too if anyone's interested

Paul

[newBum76]

Originally Posted by PWard

Great stuff Talinn, Congrats!!!

I had similar success, took me a couple months but I'm making a consistent $150 a day now. May write up the process of how I did it too if anyone's interested

Paul

$150 is about what I made total for this month. Not that I'm complaining, I, just started taking action last month and still learning so I'm happy to have made my first few sales.

But that would be awesome to make that much daily, I'd definitely be interested in reading your plan!

-Jon

[JanisG]

Talinn, your story is truly inspirational.

Let me see if I got your idea correctly. You said that you can write 10 good quality articles a day. You are initially creating a first article from a scratch and then rewriting it multiple times. So at the end of your writing session you have a batch of approximately 10 articles – first article and up to 10 other articles derived from this first one.

2 questions:
1. Do you submit these 10 articles to the article directory in one batch? Can you get them all accepted? Or do you mix the articles up?
2. Do you use the same keyword in all articles in the same batch? Or one batch of articles can have multiple different keywords?

Cheers!

[Art Peterson]

Thanks for the great success story. I too am writing articles I hope to have as much success as you.
Very inspiring


Artp

[jover101]

This post is truly inspirational. I better get start writing those articles too. To tell you the truth I don't think I could do 10 per day as I get bored easily. Do you mind sharing how you do it?

[Yobie]

way to go! That is awesome. I'm new here and to all of this online marketing thing. I have been lurking in these forums for a few days and trying to wrap my head around this in particular (along with other avenues). I just dont seem to understand.

1. sign up at clickbank or another site
2. Find adds that pay high %
3. write article about the specified topic
4. Post article on EZ

I have to be missing somethign.

I know i'm new and sorry for the newbie question

[DAS_Matt]

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 about length as long as they attract interested readers who click and buy!! Sheesh...

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by jover101

This post is truly inspirational. I better get start writing those articles too. To tell you the truth I don't think I could do 10 per day as I get bored easily. Do you mind sharing how you do it?

Yeah.. it's easy to get "bored" when you're doing internet marketing.
You don't have any guarantee for income and that's probably the biggest reason that so few actually succeed in this game...

If you knew you were getting $20 pr. article and you could write an article in 10-20 minutes, I'm sure you would suck it up and wirte 10-20 articles a day... Don't you think?

Well, I KNOW that I'm getting $20 pr article in average (pr. month), so for me it's pretty easy to kill that procrastination...

Unfortunately, it's not enough that I tell you that you WILL make money if you just take a few small steps a day... Or is it?

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by Yobie

way to go! That is awesome. I'm new here and to all of this online marketing thing. I have been lurking in these forums for a few days and trying to wrap my head around this in particular (along with other avenues). I just dont seem to understand.

1. sign up at clickbank or another site
2. Find adds that pay high %
3. write article about the specified topic
4. Post article on EZ

I have to be missing somethign.

I know i'm new and sorry for the newbie question

1. Get a clickbank account and find a product to promote
2. Get a domain name (or a blogger blog) realted to the niche
2.2 write a short review or a inspiring post on your blog, with your affiliate links in it.
3. Write a bunch of articles around that niche
3.2 use the ressource box wisely and link to your domain / blogger blog

(instead of suing a blog, you could also redirect that domain directly to the affiliate link and use your article to presell)

Hope that helps a bit

[meyerb]

can you fill me in how this works

[hjalte81]

Originally Posted by meyerb

can you fill me in how this works

Try to elaborate?

[Christian Fox]

Article marketing has made a comeback for sure. I have recently revisited it myself.

[Talinn]

And I'm looking into quitting Article Marketing more and more with each passing day now

It is, as I said, ultra boring and I want to play my game up by entering SEO.

Anyway this thread was back in August, and now it's nearing December I feel obliged to make a status update. I don't think I'll create another thread - all I have to say is that I have dramatically reduced the number of articles I write each day (from 10-15 to 3-5) and have been able to keep making around $3K-4K per month!

I bought myself a super powerful computer, a new guitar, a biiig TV set with the money - and quite frankly I can't think of anything else to spend the rest of the money on, so they just lie in the bank for now

I'll take $500-1000 out of the remaining money and reinvest.

[SimonHarrison]

Originally Posted by Ian Jackson

Well done Talinn
Er, a squeeze page is another name for landing page

While a landing page can be a squeeze page, it's not always so, I personally use the terms differently and generally find most people do.

Landing page = sales page, pre-sell, review site etc
Squeeze Page = lead magnet, opt in.

A landing page can be a squeeze page, but not always so, they are often referred to differently, certainly in my book.

[gbd]

Little flying spaghetti monsters...now there's a visual writer if ever I saw one =).

[Yobie]

Originally Posted by hjalte81

1. Get a clickbank account and find a product to promote
2. Get a domain name (or a blogger blog) realted to the niche
2.2 write a short review or a inspiring post on your blog, with your affiliate links in it.
3. Write a bunch of articles around that niche
3.2 use the ressource box wisely and link to your domain / blogger blog

(instead of suing a blog, you could also redirect that domain directly to the affiliate link and use your article to presell)

Hope that helps a bit

isnt that more affiliate marketing not article marketing. Wheres the part about putting them up on EZA. Thanks for the help by the way.

[DASHBOY]

Great post Talin!!

Your an inspiration to us all.

[mello]

What an inspiring story - thanks a bunch for letting us know and for being kind enough to give us an update! Sure makes us newbie's more motivated. Well done ... and I'm sure you can find some other ways to spend that money but way better to make it work for you!

All the best

Mel

[patselby]

Talinn,

Congrats on your article marketing...............have you ever heard of mass article submitter? It may help speed up your article marketing process.

[Murtaza Naqvi]

Hi Talinn,

Its great to hear a realistic story about money-making on the internet. Most marketing gurus claim to be able to help you make money instantly, but since I have started, this is far from true. It takes time, but you just have to be consistent and positive.

Thanks for posting your success story, and a couple of months down the line, I hope to post mine as well.

Thanks
Murtaza

[greenowl123]

Very inspiring Talinn ! Article marketing is very powerful but so many people fail to take advantage of its power...

I would say 80% of my traffic comes from articles.

Congrats on your success ! I wish you lots more !

[ramone_johnny]

You have been successful because you sought the advice of a MENTOR!!!!

If you want to make it in this industry you must find yourself a MENTOR!!!

MENTORS MENTORS MENTORS !!!!

Ill say it til Im blue in the face

[Jason Matthews]

It's nice to see someone who is able to to give a realistic view on what internet marketing is, and what it isn't. Too many times we get to see people's success through their rosy-eyed goggles. They flaunt their successes while forgetting that their were many difficulties that tripped them up along the way. It really helps someone, like me, who is new to the IM scene and needs the realistic approach. That way I know exactly what to expect along my journey.
Thanks,
-J

[Talinn]

Thanks everyone for your kind replies. I agree that most IM'ers tell their stories in such a way that you feel like quitting after trying for just one week.

It's no shocker that there are a lot of different methods to make money over the Internet. All of them work for somebody - it's not the methods holding you back, it's that you're often not consistent enough.

Have a good mentor, do things right; and keep doing them right even if you earn no money for the first month. Or the second. Or the third (it took me three months to make ANY money). Keep in mind that you are looking into making the money most people aren't able to make with jobs that require them to wake up at 7 AM and prevent them from coming home before 6 PM every work day of the week!

[Duc]

Thank Talinn for sharing your strategy with us.
In "The Challenge 2010", Ed Dale taught a pretty cool method to create good content quickly. I thougt maybe this may interest you guys, too.

I cannot post links yet, so just go to youtube and search for:
The Challenge 2010: Module 2/Day 3 - Free Writing

Cheers, Duc

[celente]

Originally Posted by Talinn

Before sharing with you my methods and results, I want to thank each one of you for setting me on the right track in Internet Marketing. I started trying to make money online in this May (if I recall correctly), and it was because of this forum.

In May I couldn't make any money. Ditto in June. But I was determined! By the end of July, even though I hadn't made a cent over the Internet, I was already very experienced and I felt that the next project I would create would bring me some cash. In July 23rd I had a talk with the fellow successful internet marketer Casey Gentles who shared with me his golden experiences, and set me on the RIGHT track in Internet marketing.

The next day I made $120. I am not joking.

Well, I couldn't replicate that success for every day, but from July 24rd to August 21st, I made $2,451. If you project it to a whole month by adding four days, I will have made $2830 in my first money-making month over the Internet. That's nearly $100/day.

Not bad, for my standards it's something like earning as much as Bill Gates!

So here comes how I did it. I made that money all from Clickbank. I promoted 5-6 different products, 4 of which returned at least one sale. So it's not only one product.

My method of promotion has largely been article marketing. While this will sound "holy crap" to some of you, I wrote 10 articles per day, and I now have 300 articles published on EZA and other various article sites such as GoArticles, articlesbase and Dashboard.

After a while the niches I'm in sound so familiar that it takes no more than 10 minutes to write a 300-word article. But of course you can write so many articles per day (regardless of how easily you do so) before your head explodes, so I'm now into outsourcing articles in the niches I'm in; and writing new articles for new niches I wish to explore.

My CTR's are high on both article directories and in my sites. (around %40 in EZA, and over %70 in my sites) The conversions are very high, while of course this differs from niche to niche; I am surprised when I see 50 hops and no sales.

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.

I am EXTREMELY and ABSOLUTELY thankful to this forum for making me so much money (in my standards!). So I will be more than willing to help you with any questions, especially from newbies.

Brilliant post, and if you think article marketing is dead or keep seeing death of article marketing threads around in other forums, then direct them to this. We have about 1900 articles on EA alone, and I can tell you we get optins, sales and people contacting us to do JV's every day, through these articles. Do they work? you bet your butt they do.!!!

Just keep adding more buddy, sounds like you are on a real winner here. And when you are onto a good thing stick to it. Smart marketing is all about doing things that work, and doing less of things that dont work.

Now just upscale and outsource more, and you have yourself not just a money spinner but a real business that fully automated.

[Qamar]

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

You have been successful because you sought the advice of a MENTOR!!!!

If you want to make it in this industry you must find yourself a MENTOR!!!

MENTORS MENTORS MENTORS !!!!

Ill say it til Im blue in the face

LOL that is funny! but I think the exact word should be...
GENUINE MENTORS, GENUINE MENTORS, GENUINE MENTORS...

[steveshills]

The thing i love most about this success story, is that guys first language is not english, which is simple amazing, Congrats!!! and i wish you well for the future.

[Andrea Wilson]

So inspiring! Being determined is surely what it really takes to make the first sale in Clickbank. Im glad you did it. Congratulations!

Andrea

[kimberly Aita]

I usually only write mine just over 300 these days and my click through rate seems to be higher because of it. I have read several times that if you want someone to actually get to the bottom of your article and click your link that shorter is better IMHO Not to mention that you can then of course write a lot more articles and so have a lot more resource boxes out there somewhere.....

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.

[KatyaSenina]

Congrats! This is proof that scaling it up can speed up the process. Instead of focusing on one product at the time, why not try 6 different niches at once? I pretty much plan on writing 10 articles a day as well in a variety of different niches. I think it's the fastest way to start seeing any progress.