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

[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.

[Peter Adamson]

Well done, Talinn. Congratulations, and thank *you* for sharing this valuable information! I am particularly interested in the fact that you made it on CB, where I have never succeeded in making more than a few pennies... LOL... It shows that hard work pays off when it's focussed on the right things. 10 articles a day... Yo!

[Hackbridge]

Talinn,

I'm a huge fan of Casey Gentles, and it doesn't surprise me the help he's given you and it's flipping amazing to say the least how well you've done. Very well done.

Every time I am thinking about what is the best formula for making money, it seems that Article marketing comes along to remind me of what might be.

Are your articles going to squeeze pages or direct to the Clickbank sales pages? I'm sure that Casey has mentioned squeeze pages in his 30 Day Challenge, so that may be what you are doing.

How are you able to write 10 articles a day? That seems a phenomenal amount to me, but if you are doing it then it obviously isn't a problem.

Wishing you continued success in all you do Talinn

Brian

[Diver's]

Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your great accomplishment Talinn..!

[Talinn]

Originally Posted by Hackbridge

Talin,

I'm a huge fan of Casey Gentles, and it doesn't surprise me the help he's given you and it's flipping amazing to say the least how well you've done. Very well done.

Every time I am thinking about what is the best formula for making money, it seems that Article marketing comes along to remind me of what might be.

Are your articles going to squeeze pages or direct to the Clickbank sales pages? I'm sure that Casey has mentioned squeeze pages in his 30 Day Challenge, so that may be what you are doing.

How are you able to write 10 articles a day? That seems a phenomenal amount to me, but if you are doing it then it obviously isn't a problem.

Wishing you continued success in all you do Talin

Brian

Thanks Brian,

10 articles a day really don't take that much time. I'd say, cumulatively, writing 10 articles takes 2 hours... So a $35K/year income with working 2 hrs per day is actually very "lucrative"!

However, those 2 hours take their toll. At first when I saw that writing articles took a lot less time than I would have predicted, I said to myself "well then I can write 50 articles per day and earn five times the profit!" But no, after 10 or so articles you really just don't have it in you to write more.

[The Redfox]

Originally Posted by Hackbridge

Talinn,

Are your articles going to squeeze pages or direct to the Clickbank sales pages? I'm sure that Casey has mentioned squeeze pages in his 30 Day Challenge, so that may be what you are doing.

Brian

I would be interested in hearing if your articles are direct linking or not as well. If you are creating a squeeze page/landing page, I would be interested in hearing the strategy. Thanks for the post!

[Talinn]

I have landing pages for my articles, but no squeeze pages.

[pcpupil]

Do you sell the affiliate product from the landing page?
Or is it kinda a presell page and then they have to click through a link to the merchants sales page.
Those 2 niches are exactly 2 of the ones i was thinking about starting in.
I actually started one with a blog and squidoo page.
Great of you to share a few of your niches.
And great work and success in such a short time.
Matt

[Talinn]

Since I am an affiliate I can only make presell pages for the products.

[Patrick Meeder]

The dating niche eh. I've written articles on sex on ezinearticles as well and as you said they converted poorly. Great to hear you have had much success with article marketing though!

[kennybrewster]

Congrats Talinn, on the great success!!!

It's a story like yours that helps motivate those who may not have had that success just yet... keep moving forward, work with a purpose, and it can and will pay off if you are consistent in your effort.

I have one question about your article writing, did you use any software or program to make your articles different, or were they all completely seperate articles? As a copywriter myself, I know how difficult it can be to write ten articles about the same topic in one sitting.

Thanks in advance for your answer, and continued success in the future.

Make it a great day!

[newBum76]

Talinn, that is just awesome! It really motivates me to see a fellow newbie succeed like that, I'm really happy for you. I actually feel like going out for a beer and celebrating, that's how excited you got me with your story lol

I just started getting into IM last month, and today I set up my first linkwheel so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I just read Casey's book and yeah, he really has a solid plan there, now after reading this post I want to go and read it again.

Thanks a lot for sharing, I seriously do appreciate you telling us about your success......you're a newbie, I'm sure you know how motivating it is to hear stories like this. Here's to your first successful month, I know you'll have a lot more!

-Jon

[adriano9]

Hey Talinn thats great.

I wonder how long did it take for you to see sales coming in after you submitted them.

And are you still getting sales from the first articles you submitted??

[kkchoon]

Originally Posted by Talinn

Thanks Brian,

10 articles a day really don't take that much time. I'd say, cumulatively, writing 10 articles takes 2 hours... So a $35K/year income with working 2 hrs per day is actually very "lucrative"!

However, those 2 hours take their toll. At first when I saw that writing articles took a lot less time than I would have predicted, I said to myself "well then I can write 50 articles per day and earn five times the profit!" But no, after 10 or so articles you really just don't have it in you to write more.

With proper keyword research and good writing, you just need few articles to get tons of traffic and generate a decent income.

Getting backlinks to your article is very important, you can target for more competitive keywords instead of cherry picking and the accumulate method to generate traffic

[gerardS]

Hi
I have started 20 days ago and so far I have made $27.
I spent some money in those programs I got but I am worried that I may make my money back.
Anyway congratulations for your success.
Gerard S

[jendoe]

Wow Talinn, that's awesome - congratulations!

Any tips you want to share on how you got such high click-through rates on the articles? I've done a few articles, and didn't come anywhere near those numbers!

Also, were you rewriting articles, or doing completely new topics/stories for them? 10 articles in 2 hours means you were averaging just 12 minutes per articles, that's phenomenal to me. Did you start out slower than that and speed up as you gained more info on the niche, or are you just a super-fast writer?

At any rate, congratulations on your success!

-jen

[Kris.Sm]

way to go...tht is so inspiring..well i am going in search of Casey Gentles.

[darksaberco]

Have you heard of clickbank bonus domination? It might be right up your alley. I own a copy and really like it. It is low cost($47) and you can have it deliver bonuses and auto subscribe buyers for you. Makes everything easier! Just google it to learn more, it might help to further increase conversions and build a back end for your affiliate marketing.

Just a thought,
-Elliot

[chitika]

Very inspiring.. thank you very much for sharing your experience.. and congrats

[Globe_Trotter13]

That's amazing to hear Talinn! It does indeed motivates us newbies to follow in one plan.

Congrats!

[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.

[feixia913]

Wow, Talinn. Congratulations! Thank you for your information, great help.

[Talinn]

Thanks everyone! Now to answer some questions:

kennybrewster: "I have one question about your article writing, did you use any software or program to make your articles different, or were they all completely seperate articles? As a copywriter myself, I know how difficult it can be to write ten articles about the same topic in one sitting."

My answer: No, I didn't use any program. I just rewrite and rewrite. It gets ultra boring, unfortunately, but so is backlink building

adriano9: "I wonder how long did it take for you to see sales coming in after you submitted them."

My answer: I made sales the first day I submitted the articles. I don't know whether I still make sales off of those articles, because I can't track it now that I have a lot of articles.

jendoe: "Any tips you want to share on how you got such high click-through rates on the articles? I've done a few articles, and didn't come anywhere near those numbers!

Also, were you rewriting articles, or doing completely new topics/stories for them? 10 articles in 2 hours means you were averaging just 12 minutes per articles, that's phenomenal to me. Did you start out slower than that and speed up as you gained more info on the niche, or are you just a super-fast writer?"

My answer: CTR's vary GREATLY with niche. But generally speaking, the best method to increase CTR is to not give out too much information. If you are talking about some method to achieve something in your article, talk about how great the method is, the fundamentals lying behind the method; but don't talk much about the method itself. If you do, the reader might just say "this method sucks" and might not be interested. Or, he might think "wow, this method rules, I will now give it a try" and try it out himself instead of buying the product you are promoting. At least this is what I have experienced. It might be the case that this method might be increasing your CTR but decreasing your conversion.

darksaberco: "Have you heard of clickbank bonus domination? It might be right up your alley"

My answer: No, I'd never heard of it before, but now I'm curious!

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

My answer: 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!

[yommys01]

Congrats. I appreciate your success. I am also a big fan of the Jamican Usbain Bolt ( Oh I mean Casey).

[PrettyJenny]

In my opinion, in article marketing, long articles (800 words for example) do not do as well as shorter ones. Around 300 - 400 words are perfect I think, as these articles serve the "presell" purpose, you want readers to be curious and click through to read more, not to satisfy their reading needs (or to bore them).

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.

And congrats Talinn on your success! That is great motivation for any internet marketer!

[jimborders]

Wow that is simply incredible!
I have struggeled online for 8 months now, only had 2 sales.

I will want to try article marketing soon. But i'm not sure about the landing page/squeeze page, can someone advise me? Thanks

[ebizman87]

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.

Let me ask you a question..If you're looking for a quick information which one would read?

300 words article or 800 words?

Which one may look easier to comprehend?

Which one will be faster to read and finish?

In fact most of the successful article writers suggest articles of 400 words or below.

The quality of your article is more important than it's length..Trust me bro!!

In fact most of the articles by Casey Gentle (I'm a big fan of him) are of high quality but short and simple (300 words or below). Still he's making solid money from his articles

My 2c..

[petelta]

Hey Talinn,
Congrats on such a successful month. I have a few questions. What kind of backlinking did you do, or did you just submit to those article directories? Also did you link straight to the product page from your articles or did you go to a review page? Good job again. Im working on getting my $100/day.

[Cutthroat]

Really? Wow, I have been thinking short articles are not good quality that people would think it is a thin affiliate site. And I don't write crap, which is probably why it takes me so damn long LOL.

[HiTom]

Originally Posted by Cutthroat

Really? Wow, I have been thinking short articles are not good quality that people would think it is a thin affiliate site. And I don't write crap, which is probably why it takes me so damn long LOL.

Yeah, you don't need really long articles, plus you want people to click on your link. Also, since you want to create more and more backlinks, having a long article doesn't matter, you'll still put one in the resource box.

You can split your 800 words article in 2 parts, it's twice the amount of backlinks that you'll get, and you'll even have multiple listings in Google for the same keyword ! This week I've submitted a very long article that I splitted in 3 parts, each part submitted to top article directories.

For the keyword I targeted, Google show Part 1 from ezinearticles, part 3 from articlerich (both on first page), and part 2 on articlesbase (on page 2).

Edit : also if you outsource your articles writing, it usually cost you less to have 300 words written than 500, or 800 words. So you can have more articles

Congrats for your success, great for a first month.

[BenFedrick]

How can I get the exact course from Casey Gentles.... can anybody give me an idea?

[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...

[Hamida Harland]

Originally Posted by BenFedrick

How can I get the exact course from Casey Gentles.... can anybody give me an idea?

Article Marketing Secrets Revealed- Make $4000+ Per Month

[amitcor]

congratulations Talinn!!

could you please tell me:
1) did you use backlinks to push those articles on the search engines?
2) on avarage how many views do you have per article?
3) do you just write articles from your head as fast as possible, or do you take the time to research keywords?

Thank you for your help and keep up with your great performance

[SMP]

Hey Talinn. Congratulations for persevering and making IM work for you.

Starting off with article marketing is not always that easy and, to all newbies reading your success story, this should be an inspiration to them and encourage them to stick with it, get the right advice and persevere.

All the best.

Steve.

[yesacpow]

Hey Talinn

Casey Here,

First I must Say thank you for publicly commending me. I really appreciate it.

Secondly I want to congratulate you on your tremendous success. A lot of people spent years to reach your level of success. I wish you all the best and hope that your business will grow exponentially.

Now to all Newbie Warriors:

It is no secret what Talinn has achieved. All she did was follow a proven plan and take consistent action. You can do it but you must

Believe that you will succeed!!!!

No Ifs
No Buts
No Maybe

Internet marketing is working for thousands of people and it will work for you. But you must first believe that it will work, get a proven plan to follow and then take consistent action on a daily basis and you will succeed.

Have a great eve everyone

.......
Casey (yesacpow)

[Joe118]

Talinn great to see you succeed!!! AWESOME! YES you can do it. Even more important -- now that you know how, you can do it AGAIN!

"little Flying Spaghetti Monsters" lol. I'll call all my articles that from now on

You'll do even better if you're able to get your articles on the most viewed and most published lists on EZA. To do that you can build backlinks to your articles.

And your presell page must be awesome. Getting a 70% CTR is amazing -- I want to learn how you do that.

[proveitworks]

Originally Posted by yesacpow

Hey Talinn

Casey Here,

First I must Say thank you for publicly commending me. I really appreciate it.

Secondly I want to congratulate you on your tremendous success. A lot of people spent years to reach your level of success. I wish you all the best and hope that your business will grow exponentially.

Now to all Newbie Warriors:

It is no secret what Talinn has achieved. All she did was follow a proven plan and take consistent action. You can do it but you must

Believe that you will succeed!!!!

No Ifs
No Buts
No Maybe

Internet marketing is working for thousands of people and it will work for you. But you must first believe that it will work, get a proven plan to follow and then take consistent action on a daily basis and you will succeed.

Have a great eve everyone

.......
Casey (yesacpow)

Just subscribed to your blog,great step by step approach there well thought out.

http://caseygentles.com/articlecashsecrets.htm

The keyword research stopped me in my tracks VERY clever. Well done.

[sikaz]

This is informative indeed.Sure to try it out myself.

[Pattaya-Addict]

i read casey's clickbank ebook and have to say it is superb !! I believe its much better than most of the rehashed garbage ebooks i have bought. And best of all its free. Well done on your success talinn..

two question though, did you build links to your articles? and
did you use the methods in caseys ebook for KW research?

cheers

[Ian Jackson]

Originally Posted by tousif

hey talinn
tnx for providing the information and i also think that article writing has great scope as it gives u money if u have a true and owned article..
i would lik e to know that what are the niches that can be explored in writing articles...and is it necessary to promote some affiliate products in the initial stages...
what is a person does not have a website...then how can he/she do affiliate marketing..??

i hope i will get answer from u soon
tnx for the info once again

I think you need to spend some time in this forum and get a feel for internet marketing. Also you need to take time to learn about building and publishing websites; again there's plenty of info in the forum and on G.

"i hope i will get answer from u soon" there is no short answer -if there was we'd all me millionaires by now. If you can afford it, invest in a good mentor.

[TheDebtEliminator]

Hi Casey,

Great story and very motivational for anyone who wants to write articles

You are prolific - Kudos

Many will want to follow in your footsteps

All the Best

[WarriorMaster]

Wow, I wish I had the skills to write that many articles and that easy. I really hope you continue doing what you do and good luck

[Ian Jackson]

Originally Posted by Talinn

I have landing pages for my articles, but no squeeze pages.

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

Originally Posted by pcpupil

Do you sell the affiliate product from the landing page?
Or is it kinda a presell page and then they have to click through a link to the merchants sales page.
Those 2 niches are exactly 2 of the ones i was thinking about starting in.
I actually started one with a blog and squidoo page.
Great of you to share a few of your niches.
And great work and success in such a short time.
Matt

A landing/squeeze page has ONE job to do; collecting the name and email of your prospective clients so that you can add them to your list-building.

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Talinn, Casey -
Do your articles send readers to your blog/presell, or to a squeeze/landing page, i.e. you're list-building? You seem to be using "Blogger" blog (p58 of free download); are you not at risk of getting it pulled (commercial site) at Google's whim?

Talinn, discounting outsourcing, I'm assuming you were/are submitting 10 articles/day in total, i.e. a couple for each niche? - not 10 for each.


Well done anyway! Yes, articles are definitely powerful

[MisterMunch]

Remember Tallin, that a lot of the articles you write will bring you traffic forever (or at least for a few years). The first article I ever wrote on Ezinearticles still brings in 40-60 visitors each and every day. That was done in October 2006. I have more articles pointing to that site now, but I am pretty sure that article make between 2-3 $25 sales each week.

In other words, that one article I spent Two hours on has made me a total of $ 9.000 - 10.000.

If you write 10 articles each day you are sure to accidentally make a few of those each month. Maybe you already have 3 or 5 of this in your account right now.

Backlink to your articles to make them rank higher! Those with the highest click through rate should be worked on first. After you have spent 2 hours writing articles, spend a few hours backlinking some that you alreaddy have.

[MisterMunch]

And aren't 2830 pretty good in estonia?

2800 U.S. dollars = 30 558.6781 Estonian kroons according to google

And the average monthly income in estonia is 9000-10000 kroons. So a three month regular income from 60 hours of work....

You are actually able to live "The 4 hour work week" exept you need 5 hours a week.
Or you could continue to work 2 hours a day and be rich.

[Ehanson]

Very nice work. Action combined with value will make money. It takes time but with consistent action everyday it will come.

Also, I just came across one of your articles at Go Articles and visited the link to your Squidoo blog- you've done a lot of work in only one month and have produced some nice relationship advice.

Now as far as they lying controversy goes, from what I saw it looks like you've placed testimonials from the sales page on your Squidoo page which I think is fine as long as you not making any false claims or are trying to mislead anyone.

Your formula is simple and serves as nice blueprint for newbies.

[Talinn]

I do not live in Estonia, I live in Istanbul, Turkey.

Thanks everyone for your support.

[Ross Bowring]

Great job Talinn. Thanks for sharing your success.

[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)

Originally Posted by Pattaya-Addict

i read casey's clickbank ebook and have to say it is superb !! I believe its much better than most of the rehashed garbage ebooks i have bought. And best of all its free. Well done on your success talinn..

two question though, did you build links to your articles? and
did you use the methods in caseys ebook for KW research?

cheers