How can you make $10,000 a month with article marketing?

[alohaoahu1978]

Article marketer,is this a realistic figure? Can you really make $10,000 a month or is just
another dream? And if you do,how do you do it?

Thanks,

Mihye

[dr_lionherat]

i am also wondering the same thing??

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Yes you can...

If you break down the numbers, if you can make 3 $30 sales a day in 4 different niches, you are there.

[ryanman]

You can...As long as you scale everything up.

[Variable]

Is that with your own sites or direct linking to an affiliate site?

[BKenn01]

How many hits can you get with a well written article? I realize it probably varies with the niche. But again I am clueless on this.

[pheonix44]

I would say you can, the trick is to build a list and then market to that list. Article marketing is just one of the means to get you there. Your true goal should be to scale things up with whatever money you earn in the meantime in order to make more money and accomplish things faster. It may also be a good idea for some down the line to have their own products created where you get a bigger payout per sale like 50.00 or more rather then the typical 25-30 dollars.

5000 list

3% response which should be higher if you are good with autoresponder sequences

150 sales at 50.00

7500.00$ all you would need is to market a little better to get to the 10k or use some of this money to pay for some advertising. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO PAY FOR ADVERTISING. I know some are scared to lose money, but this is a really good way to scale it up, especially if you can learn what you are doing. Look at your articles that do well and build off of those, once you scale up what is bringing you the bulk of your money and find ways to get value out of the ones that don't things become much more realistic. If one article is bringing in sales and the other is not then take the article that is performing and scale it up. Tweek the underperforming article for the other keyword and get it out there so it can make money for you as well.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

QUICK AND DIRTY

Alot of people make Article Marketing much harder than it has to be. They have these corny perceptions of having to be a great writer and building authority and all of this other garbage that stops a ton of people from even starting.

I'm going to give you a quick and dirty plan here that has worked for me time and time again. More importantly, it worked for me before I "knew" anything at all really. Before I knew any "tricks" and was still extremely wet behind the ears.

Niche selection - Pick a niche that is embarrassing for people. something that they don't want to talk to other people about. Something that puts them in a desperate situation.

Here are a couple examples:

• Picking up chicks
• Catch your spouse cheating
• Yeast infections
• man boobs
• Penis enlargement

I know alot of people will tell you to pick something your passionate about, but just forget about that for a bit, unless you are passionate about stuff that people want to buy.

Pick something that people are more likely to go online to buy than to walk into a retail outlet and pick up. Hopefully, that makes sense to you.

Once you have your niche, you will want to of course grab some keywords.

KEYWORD RESEARCH - Again, I'm going to go against the grain here. Forget about results in quotation marks and all that other stuff. What you want to look at is the number of sites that are actually actively competing in your niche. The easiest way to do this is to find the number of sites that are rockin your keywords inurl and inachor. I would like to get into that a little more, but honestly, you could fill up about 10 pages on it...

The other thing you want to look at is what *kind* of site that Google is ranking on the first page for your keyword. What you want to see is:

1. Article directories
2. Web2.0 sites
3. Yahoo Answers
4. etc..

Basically, you want to see the types of sites that other marketers are using to rank. If Google will let them on the first page, they will let you on the first page. The key here is to understand that the other marketers that are using those sites to rank are in most cases - Hit and runners. They throw up 500 words of content, throw 10 backlinks to it and if it ranks, it ranks. If not, they move onto the next thing.

So, your goal is to either completely overtake their ranking or to slide into a supplemental slot - Believe it or not, there is a lot of traffic to be had there. The key here is to provide updated content and some decent backlinks.

When I say updated content, what I mean is to add new posts to your 2.0 sites etc so that Google sees your content is staying fresh, unlike your competitor who probaby will never add another word to their page for as long as they live.

ARTICLE TITLES - Your article titles should be keyword rich and FULL OF HYPE. Think of the most outrageous claim that you can think of and still tell the truth and then go with it. The more outrageous it is, the more people will read it.

A good way to come up with titles is to use the hyped up bullet points from the sales pages. You will have no problem finding hype on a sales page lol

ARTICLE CONTENT - This is where it gets a little dicey. I know that the ebooks train you to write award winning stuff and to provide oodles and oodles of conent so that the reader thinks you are a rocket scientist, right? But, let me ask you this - If you give all the info in the article, why the hell would they click throuh on your resource box?

Ideally, you want to focus on pain! If you are pitching an ebook on how to find out if your wife is sleeping with the mail man. Make your content, call out the husbands pride - Piss him off. "Chances are good that your wife is banging the mail man right now" or "Do you wonder why your wife doesn't want to sleep with you anymore? Do you think it has something to do with the fact she is having sex with the mail man?"

You can do the same thing with just about EVERY single niche. I don't want to inform the reader - I want to coax them into clicking my link! They can be informed when the pay $49.99.

RESOURCE BOX - Here you want to reinforce the fact that you have the answer to their problem. I see so many people type a life history in the resource box. Do you really think the reader cares how old you are or where you went to college? Probably not! What they want to do is pay you $49.99 for an ebook to solve their problem.

So, if your pitching an ebooks that is going to show Johnny how to get rid of his man boobs, it might be something like this:

Want to get out of a b-cup and into a t-shirt? CLICK HERE!

I consistently get CTR's of 30%+ with resource boxes just like that.

There are obviously other steps here such as promoting your articles with backlinks and repurposing your content, but I think most of that stuff is talked about so often that it should be for the most part common knowledge.

Personally, I think that most new people to article marketing fail or don't do as well as they could because they are still trying to do "their fathers" article marketing if you know what I mean.

Marketing with articles has gotten more aggressive even since I started doing in in December of 2007. You really have to think outside of the box a little bit and find creative ways to get eyes on your articles. More importantly, to get as many people as possible to click on your resource box links.

I know this is kind of incomplete, but my medicine has me tired lol

Jeremy

[adamv]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Want to get out of a b-cup and into a t-shirt? CLICK HERE!

LOL. Best resource box I've ever read.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by adamv

LOL. Best resource box I've ever read.

lol - did you forget the penis enlargement ones?

Want to make your member a monster with nothing but your bare hands? CLICK HERE!!

[futuremills]

great post jerm....do you promote cpa

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by futuremills

great post jerm....do you promote cpa

We promote CPA stuff quite a bit. I find that the conversions are much better than ClickBank for example.

[apple87jane]

PErhaps, lots of information are there....I no need to talk much...Keyword, outsource your articles for people, back link...etc

[maco]

Great info Jeremy thanks a lot.

[sweattea]

It is important to find a write article submission site, "content is the king" and distribute your articles to social bookmarking sites.

[EndGame]

Jeremy,

That was an awesome break down of how to do article marketing to make money fast. The insight into the niches was really useful as well. It seems like such a simple concept, but I have never actually thought to myself that I should target items that people wouldn't feel comfortable buying offline in a shop, face-to-face.
Thanks for the post here.

To the OP, follow the advice given in this thread and you will be doing good. See what you can learn from a one Mr. Steven Wagenheim through his products, and be prepared to work real hard, and get smart with your outsourcing over the next few months.

[ramone_johnny]

Great stuff Jeremy - nothing new but always worth saying. Mate, I have two questions...

1. Are you actively making money in this vicinity? 10K a month
2. How many sites (logically) would it take, to acheive this? At per say, selling a $30 product per site? 50? 100?

[Michael Silvester]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Want to make your member a monster with nothing but your bare hands?

How Come Its Not Working?

[Anees]

I'm also thinking that conversion on Clickbank is getting lower than earlier! For example, in my niches, I was getting 5-6% conversion but now it is 2-3% Sometimes, I did experience less than 2%!

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

We promote CPA stuff quite a bit. I find that the conversions are much better than ClickBank for example.

[eidoan]

I'm sure you could, but don't expect it to happen overnight. Article marketing is powerful but slow to build up.

[kevinpotts]

The honest answer is Yes and No. Clearly, anything is just about achievable with focus, action and talent.

I think the response to this question really needs to be broadended to say that Article Marketing is a powerful and essential component within any IM's tool box. But it is only a component.

To take one model (and there are many) as an example:

1. Identify a niche ( a hungry group of potential customers)

2. Register a congruent and relevant domain name for that niche.

3. Create a quality free product (resource report, newsletter etc)

4. Get a great Autoresponder (Email Marketing Software, Email Newsletters and Autoresponders by AWeber or Shopping Cart Software | Ecommerce Software - Interspire etc)

5. Build a series of relationship building emails to convert the prospect once you've captured them.

6. Build a simple one page web site with capture field from your autoresponder for First name and email address and make sure the web site is highly relevant.

7. Drive traffic, squeeze via your site, provide the free product, start to build a relationship via your automatic email series and at the right time, introduce them to a paid, quality product, be this your own or as an affiliate.

So article marketing really figures in point 7, and is one of many SEO, traffic driving strategies.

During my first year, after founding the Cambridge Business Academy I spent a couple of hours every day, writing and submitting articles. Over a year I guess that was about 500 articles, but I submitted them with tweaks and adjustments to a list of around 150 article sites and those articles went viral, each from a well ranked article site, each with a One Way Link back to the academy and each therefore contributing to my first 7 months income when I only have just one product....those prospects were turned into 1507 paying customers and just over £189,000 of income, which paid for my film studio in my backgarden.

So the answer is yes. But you need to follow a model, be disciplined, learn the craft, and take action, each and every day.

Kevin

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Great stuff Jeremy - nothing new but always worth saying. Mate, I have two questions...

1. Are you actively making money in this vicinity? 10K a month

This isn't a cop-out, but I honestly don't discuss my income publicly. What I can tell you though is we have done live training with a group of 1,000 people that saw us use the techniques above and make $1,200 in 11 days in 1 niche with 2 articles a day. Another group saw us make $600 in a different niche is 5 days or so with 2-3 articles a day.

Article Marketing works if you can wrap your head around the process and simplify it. It also helps if you can make yourself be passionate about stuff that people want to buy.

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

2. How many sites (logically) would it take, to acheive this? At per say, selling a $30 product per site? 50? 100?

You don't have to do it anywhere near that scale. Like I said above - 3 sales a day in 4 niches will get you to 10K. 3 sales a day can be accomplished by GETTING 1 ARTICLE TO STICK ON THE FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE.

It really is just a matter of wrapping your head around it and simplifying it

[Tomwood]

I am with Jeremy on this one the niche your marketing too is the most important factor. Like anything else in life location is everything.

However $10,000 every month is a big ask and it won't happen over night and will take considerable time (or capital if you out source) as you will have too get a lot of articles out there, or fewer high quality articles with backlinks.

You can take the quantity or quality route it's up too you both will take time and effort.

To make anything like $10,000 a month you will need to build a list and/or have an effective sales funnel

[Steven Wagenheim]

Jeremy, no way in HELL could I EVER top such a fantastic post.

You really nailed it to the wall with this one.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Jeremy, no way in HELL could I EVER top such a fantastic post.

You really nailed it to the wall with this one.

Thanks Steve

My medicine had me "out there" a little bit and it was definitely a bit "raw" lol - but, hopefully people are able to see what I was trying to get at.

[geoffcruz]

Dang Jeremy once again you have made another post of real value! You are right about getting your head around it. For me it took a while to realize the process, now its made more clear to me because of your posts.

You rock!

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by Michael Silvester

How Come Its Not Working?

You have to squeeze REALLY hard, Michael...

[adamv]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

lol - did you forget the penis enlargement ones?

Want to make your member a monster with nothing but your bare hands? CLICK HERE!!

Of course not. I could never forget those. Unfortunately that is an image that is permanately burned into my consiousness.

It's just that telling a guy to get out of a B-cup made me laugh out loud.

[alohaoahu1978]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Niche selection - Pick a niche that is embarrassing for people. something that they don't want to talk to other people about.

Pick something that people are more likely to go online to buy than to walk into a retail outlet and pick up. Hopefully, that makes sense to you.

Jeremy

That totally makes sense,Jeremy.

Why didn't I think of that.

Thanks a bunch for the great tips!

Mihye

[opiel]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Want to make your member a monster with nothing but your bare hands? CLICK HERE!!

Jeremy... you are a poet!

[Peter Temp]

Yups that can be done, proper time management and proper dedication is the must to reach it + above advices

However, I am getting some $$$ from it per month,

[Marhelper]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

We promote CPA stuff quite a bit. I find that the conversions are much better than ClickBank for example.

I love your stuff on article marketing as you stand out from so many. I have done really well with CB but get quite tired of the seesawing with CB and do not fully trust their analytics. I am seriously considering going to the CPA side of things. It seems that your CPA course has really helped a number of Warriors.

[Wade Watson]

This thread is a real keeper thanks to Jeremy and others. Now, I'm wondering, though, is anyone reading this doing $10K/mo. from article marketing? I'm guessing none of the posters so far are. And the consensus seems to be that that income level requires considerable additional IM work, such as list marketing. But I would think that with diligent effort and the right high value product-- possibly an ongoing commission arrangement-- you could do it with article marketing along. I'm all ears!

Personally, I prefer the models of niche affiliate sites and product creation in my pursuit of the 5 fig./mo. goal, but article marketing is a certainly an important component of most any good plan.

[DyLan Lee]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

QUICK AND DIRTY

Alot of people..........

Jeremy

Awesome! With your creativity. Your dream will come true real soon...

Thanks for sharing...

I will try this out. Hope that it works for me as well.

[misterwrecker]

Originally Posted by geoffcruz

Dang Jeremy once again you have made another post of real value! You are right about getting your head around it. For me it took a while to realize the process, now its made more clear to me because of your posts.

You rock!

Should we wrap our head around it or wrap our hands around the "head."

[mmixon]

Great Topic...Great Posts...Great Information! Thank you Warriors for all the training tips. I think I am going to have to start a binder and fill it with posts like these!

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by Wade Watson

This thread is a real keeper thanks to Jeremy and others. Now, I'm wondering, though, is anyone reading this doing $10K/mo. from article marketing?

For the most part, the people that are doing 10K a month in anything are not going to own up to it for the most part. Sometimes you will see it on sales pages or whatever, but I don't think it is the norm.

With that being said...

For anyone that wants to make 10K a month at anything, the best advice that I can give anyone is to just start blasting!

You DON'T have to do everything right. As a matter of fact, my first couple sales came from an article on goarticles with BROKEN anchor text. Someone had to literally copy and paste the link in their browser to go to the site.

But, guess what that proved to me?

It proved that it was possible. It showed me that If I put my content where people could read it that I would make money.

As soon as I stepped back and looked at it and realized CONTENT=VISITORS=MONEY it was GAME OVER.

I'm not a smart guy. I didn't even graduate high school. Hell, I didn't even get out of the 9th grade before they kicked me out - But, I can put content on the net which means I can get paid.

The problem as I see it is so many people try to be perfectionists and think that to even play the game you have to have some complicated "business plan" - which isn't true.

The first thing you should be concerned with doing is PROVING TO YOURSELF that the money will actually show up in your account if you take action. Sure, you see screen shots of money in other peoples accounts all the time, but it's not the same as seeing even $5 in YOURS.

Originally Posted by Wade Watson

I'm guessing none of the posters so far are.

I would assume that there are at least 2 people in this thread so far that make at least 10K a month from Article Marketing.

The thing that most people don't realize especially when just starting out is that 10K a month is CHUMP CHANGE. Seriously, once you GET the big picture, 10K is a STATING POINT.

Originally Posted by Wade Watson

And the consensus seems to be that that income level requires considerable additional IM work, such as list marketing. But I would think that with diligent effort and the right high value product-- possibly an ongoing commission arrangement-- you could do it with article marketing along. I'm all ears!

I don't think that anyone would say that Article Marketing is the only piece of the puzzle. Just like any other revenue models it definitely has its pros and cons - It is however, the most effective way that I have found to drive traffic short of media buys which can be very expensive.

[Ernani Dias]

Originally Posted by alohaoahu1978

Article marketer,is this a realistic figure? Can you really make $10,000 a month or is just
another dream? And if you do,how do you do it?

Thanks,

Mihye

hi alohaoahu1978,

you can make... too is my dream !!!


best regards,

ernadi

[Liason]

Hey Jeremy,
Very nice, simple, and straight forward......This post is stickie stickie stickie....

thanks

[doctfeelgood]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Thanks Steve

My medicine had me "out there" a little bit and it was definitely a bit "raw" lol - but, hopefully people are able to see what I was trying to get at.

Hi, I am new to this site and been reading your threads and would like to say a big thank you. You are so helpful and at the same time your information will help others.

[majidmaskat]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

QUICK AND DIRTY

Alot of people make Article Marketing much harder than it has to be. They have these corny perceptions of having to be a great writer and building authority and all of this other garbage that stops a ton of people from even starting.

I'm going to give you a quick and dirty plan here that has worked for me time and time again. More importantly, it worked for me before I "knew" anything at all really. Before I knew any "tricks" and was still extremely wet behind the ears.

Niche selection - Pick a niche that is embarrassing for people. something that they don't want to talk to other people about. Something that puts them in a desperate situation.

Here are a couple examples:

• Picking up chicks
• Catch your spouse cheating
• Yeast infections
• man boobs
• Penis enlargement

I know alot of people will tell you to pick something your passionate about, but just forget about that for a bit, unless you are passionate about stuff that people want to buy.

Pick something that people are more likely to go online to buy than to walk into a retail outlet and pick up. Hopefully, that makes sense to you.

Once you have your niche, you will want to of course grab some keywords.

KEYWORD RESEARCH - Again, I'm going to go against the grain here. Forget about results in quotation marks and all that other stuff. What you want to look at is the number of sites that are actually actively competing in your niche. The easiest way to do this is to find the number of sites that are rockin your keywords inurl and inachor. I would like to get into that a little more, but honestly, you could fill up about 10 pages on it...

The other thing you want to look at is what *kind* of site that Google is ranking on the first page for your keyword. What you want to see is:

1. Article directories
2. Web2.0 sites
3. Yahoo Answers
4. etc..

Basically, you want to see the types of sites that other marketers are using to rank. If Google will let them on the first page, they will let you on the first page. The key here is to understand that the other marketers that are using those sites to rank are in most cases - Hit and runners. They throw up 500 words of content, throw 10 backlinks to it and if it ranks, it ranks. If not, they move onto the next thing.

So, your goal is to either completely overtake their ranking or to slide into a supplemental slot - Believe it or not, there is a lot of traffic to be had there. The key here is to provide updated content and some decent backlinks.

When I say updated content, what I mean is to add new posts to your 2.0 sites etc so that Google sees your content is staying fresh, unlike your competitor who probaby will never add another word to their page for as long as they live.

ARTICLE TITLES - Your article titles should be keyword rich and FULL OF HYPE. Think of the most outrageous claim that you can think of and still tell the truth and then go with it. The more outrageous it is, the more people will read it.

A good way to come up with titles is to use the hyped up bullet points from the sales pages. You will have no problem finding hype on a sales page lol

ARTICLE CONTENT - This is where it gets a little dicey. I know that the ebooks train you to write award winning stuff and to provide oodles and oodles of conent so that the reader thinks you are a rocket scientist, right? But, let me ask you this - If you give all the info in the article, why the hell would they click throuh on your resource box?

Ideally, you want to focus on pain! If you are pitching an ebook on how to find out if your wife is sleeping with the mail man. Make your content, call out the husbands pride - Piss him off. "Chances are good that your wife is banging the mail man right now" or "Do you wonder why your wife doesn't want to sleep with you anymore? Do you think it has something to do with the fact she is having sex with the mail man?"

You can do the same thing with just about EVERY single niche. I don't want to inform the reader - I want to coax them into clicking my link! They can be informed when the pay $49.99.

RESOURCE BOX - Here you want to reinforce the fact that you have the answer to their problem. I see so many people type a life history in the resource box. Do you really think the reader cares how old you are or where you went to college? Probably not! What they want to do is pay you $49.99 for an ebook to solve their problem.

So, if your pitching an ebooks that is going to show Johnny how to get rid of his man boobs, it might be something like this:

Want to get out of a b-cup and into a t-shirt? CLICK HERE!

I consistently get CTR's of 30%+ with resource boxes just like that.

There are obviously other steps here such as promoting your articles with backlinks and repurposing your content, but I think most of that stuff is talked about so often that it should be for the most part common knowledge.

Personally, I think that most new people to article marketing fail or don't do as well as they could because they are still trying to do "their fathers" article marketing if you know what I mean.

Marketing with articles has gotten more aggressive even since I started doing in in December of 2007. You really have to think outside of the box a little bit and find creative ways to get eyes on your articles. More importantly, to get as many people as possible to click on your resource box links.

I know this is kind of incomplete, but my medicine has me tired lol

Jeremy

That is how people make $10,000 a day believe it or not and i am considering doing it, the only question will be, when.

[Lance K]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

My medicine had me "out there" a little bit and it was definitely a bit "raw" lol - but, hopefully people are able to see what I was trying to get at.

I'm pickin up what you're puttin down!

You knocked that one out of the park.

Not only that, but you even employed the basis of your "Article Content" section (toned down from your example) within the reply. Nicely done.

[Cash37]

Jeremy dropped a lot of jewels in this thread... you have everything you need to make 10k a month from his 3 replies.

[Bayo]

The answer is you can but you need to combine article marketing with list building and affiliate (and or your own) product promotion

Main issue?

Many people lack the discipline to follow through and get results.

[Cash37]

Originally Posted by Bayo

The answer is you can but you need to combine article marketing with list building and affiliate (and or your own) product promotion

Main issue?

Many people lack the discipline to follow through and get results.

You really dont.

I know guys that make 10k/ day and have no lists. Building a list isn't even a profitable tactic in every niche.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Originally Posted by JustinHart

sure anything is possible, but the amount of work needed to reach that amount is huge... we're talking years of steady effort

That in my opinion is not true.

Like I said earlier - All it takes is to get 4 pages ranked on the first page for keywords that can generate 3 sales a day each.

[Vyliss]

The biggest problem facing noobs is taking action to actually start DOING IT. It's pretty easy to say what to do but it's another to keep doing it.. consistently... even when there's days (and they'll be many) when you see no sales, little pageviews, little to no traffic and just no results.

The ones who make it through understand it takes a lot more than doing the simple 1-5 steps it takes to be successful (just because someone else said that's what you need to do).

Great posts Jeremy. That is the HOW-To aspect taken care of.... now doing the action everyday, consistently until you reach that goal? How many people can stick it out?

It took me a long time to figure out that making 1 sale from one article meant that I needed to be putting out that article everyday if I wanted to continue to make sales. But people get delussioned into thinking, because they got 1 sale per article, that means if they write 10 articles, that's 10 sales. It doesn't work like that!

As you'll find, when you scale up, the number end up ALWAYS looking worse than when you started lol. Write 10 articles, put it out there, track your results. There could be a number of reasons why you're not making money,

- Bad offer
- Wrong keywords (wrong audience or no audience)
- Terrible Resource box with terrible CTR -> little traffic to offer

Test these in batches of 10 until your numbers start to increase.

Also SPY and COPY FROM YOUR COMPEITION.

Not only in your own niche but other niches too!

[gjd6599]

Hey Jeremy, When you link from your articles to the product offers, do you link direct to the merchant, or do you link to your own presale page. Also with cpa offers do you link directly to the offer from the article, or do you have a page you send them to first.

If you are sending to a page in between, do you have an old page you don't care about anymore, you would be willing to show, so I could see how you set them up. I have been doing article marketing for a few years, sending traffic to my sites, but never thought about using it for selling directly from the articles for cpa offers.

Great post, it gave me some ideas.

Thanks Glenn

[hyperlite]

There are plenty of people who make 10k a month with article marketing. It would require a lot of keyword research though. You cant just spam out 50 random articles per day and expect to hit it. You'd have to find keywords that your articles can rank on the first page for and hope that they stay there for a long time.

[actionplanbiz]

wow wow wee Jeremy!

Super Hot Post!