Month 1: $3117 - What I did in my first month of IM to make $3117

[PWard]

I'm looking at getting a new method to work on now that my article marketing campaign is up & running. Anyone got any recommendations?

[newBum76]

I hear people are doing really well with xfactor's adsense method, you might wanna try that.

-Jon

[opportunites]

Congratulations Pward... And thanks for sharing your experience and method with us!

[robinter]

This is great, we need more stories like yours.

[Oh_Facts]

Than ks for sharing this, it always amazes me how many ways there are to make $ in this
Biz

[Lady_T]

Very inspiring...article marketing works and
when you combine it with massive action,
the money follows.

Good for you! I hope your income continues
to increase.

[vlduffy]

Congrats on your success!! Your story is an inspiration to me!

Thanks for sharing!
VL

[actionplanbiz]

5 articles a day? i have a hard time doing 1 a day

[SellItLikeItIs]

You inspire the heck outta me! Thank you so much for sharing.

[edynas]

Congrats on your success and it shows that focus and action are the most important parts.

Originally Posted by PWard

I'm looking at getting a new method to work on now that my article marketing campaign is up & running. Anyone got any recommendations?

The alternative I also suggest is this 6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)

Edwin

[Watch Store]

Did your articles link directly to the affiliate page or did you build websites or a sales page ?

Well done on your achievement.

Thanks

Marc

[Holland]

Hi PWard

Great thread you have started here and very inspiring too.

I think too that adsense may be a way forward or even site flipping, some of your sites that are selling (proof of income), unless you send people from your articles directly to affiliate sites, will have value. You could built that up over time, let's say the sites that are selling but not as much as others, you flip (al;so known as flopping) for a profit. Over time you will be flipping every month more and more sites.

Just a thought, would fit your article strategy well, but also the adsense sites like Edwin mentioned.

Yours sincerely
Angelina

[Paul Buckley]

People! People! You're analyzing this to death! Some of you thing the magic is in the details: "Did you put the frammis in the whozzis then double-backflip the whatchyamacallit to the gizzmo?"

What he did was very simple:

1) He chose a business model: Affiliate Marketing

2) He made a plan utilising the resources he had; i.e., no money; no website, hosting or autoresponder; just time and commitment. His plan was to post 5 review type articles a day, with his CB hoplink, in various niches using free resources.

3) He executed his plan. He WORKED at it consistently.

That's it. Everything else is just details and tweaking. Take those three steps, work at least as hard as he did and you will have a very Merry Christmas.

Good job, PWARD and welcome to the ranks of the 5% who actually get it and make money at it.

[845]

Thanks a lot. This article really inspired me to get to work.

Right now I am stuck working at Quiznos. ARGHHHH!

[rwb24]

It is so great to see young people that are committed to success. Stay focused and you have a great future ahead.

Robert

[dmgray]

Thanks for your post, it has given me inspiration to get my act together!

I am fairly new to IM and have had a slow start. I do run a website and have written and submitted plenty of articles to attract traffic to my site, with some success. I have tried using squidoo and twitter for marketing purposes but I have much to learn.

I know my problem is not with commitment or effort, it is with choosing one method of marketing and then sticking to it, I need to find my true IM calling! You have given me the determination to continue with my writing and especially article submission. I love writing and research and can write on practically any subject so should probably concentrate on article marketing.

Just one question....

Ezine Articles do not allow affiliate links, did you therefore link to another site of yours when you submitted articles to them?

Thanks for showing me that with proper commitment article marketing can, and does, work.

[Alminc]

Congratulations on your success.
Your story is really amazing.

It seems that in this business the only
thing an english speaking person has to do
is writing a lot of articles, which shouldn't be
a problem if your native language is english.

[Chris Hunter]

Originally Posted by dmgray

Just one question....

Ezine Articles do not allow affiliate links, did you therefore link to another site of yours when you submitted articles to them?

Correct. Ezinearticles.com does not allow affiliate links in the resource box of your articles, but you can purchase your own domain name and have the domain forward to your affiliate link if you'd like, or you can send your traffic to a free site like Blogger.com and have your affiliate link there.

Just be sure to review their terms of service - EzineArticles.com Terms of Service for Authors - before you submit your articles.

[Willmarathon]

Congratulations. I wish I had started article writing a long time ago. Now I am just doing one-way links and writing my own optin funnel system. Before Google changed everything in 2008 I had been concentrating on link exchanges when they were useful. There are a few other systems that I am beginning to use that may speed up the process. I'll tell you when they are successful.
I suspect you grouped your articles into topics and then tried knocking out 5
per topic? You didn't publish them on a blog at any time?

[gotcha]

Great to hear about your success Paul! Hard work will always pay off. You can never give up people. It will happen but you must keep pushing at some point something will give.

[John Dales]

What an inspiring story!! Congratulations on your well-deserved success!!

[HenrikC]

Congrats!

Article marketing can really be powerful when made right!

[Willmarathon]

Originally Posted by John Dales

What an inspiring story!! Congratulations on your well-deserved success!!

I took a look at your website BaclinksPhillipines-com and I was wondering,do we get a list of the websites and would you want a list of sites where we might already have backlinks from so there isn't a lot of duplication?

[Marc2008]

This is a very inspiring post. Me and many other people would love to walk in Monday and tell our bosses to kiss our a$$. Yes, even in a recession. Thanks for sharing.

[bertuseng]

Thanks a lot for all the positive information. I also remember the first day I made my first sale. I still use the pictures of me and my clickbank checks! Great feeling.

[SellDGuide]

Wow... That's wonderful. Persistence really pays off eventually. Great work!

[Charleskidd]

Hey Pward my name is Charles and I am kinda of new to the im business. I had a quick question though. If you create a review site do you create subdomains for all the reviews or do the posts in the main domain?

One other thing can a post on a wordpress blog, rank for a keyword. For example: I did a post on weight loss but my domain is a review site. So would that post get one the first page on google for that keyword if I got backlinks?

[mmcqueen]

Way to go Paul! Keep up the good work.

Michael

[PWard]

Originally Posted by Charleskidd

Hey Pward my name is Charles and I am kinda of new to the im business. I had a quick question though. If you create a review site do you create subdomains for all the reviews or do the posts in the main domain?

One other thing can a post on a wordpress blog, rank for a keyword. For example: I did a post on weight loss but my domain is a review site. So would that post get one the first page on google for that keyword if I got backlinks?

I think it can I'm not all that experienced with blogs however!

Originally Posted by mmcqueen

Way to go Paul! Keep up the good work.

Michael

Thanks Michael

-Paul

[Buildingfutures]

OP,

Congrats man. You've done something so simple and easy but takes a lot of dedication to make sure that you see it through, and it paid off!

This just makes me feel better about the road I'm going to have ahead of me in the upcoming weeks.

[housefinder]

Congratulations Paul on a job well done!

[Art Peterson]

Well done. Bravo! I'm glad to here other newbies are out there setting there minds to doing massive action.

I will take your lead and continue to take massive action myself

ArtP.

[wicho696]

I'd read a lot on article marketing, and also a lot on web 2.0 based marketing. I set myself a goal once I got started of writing 5 articles a day because that would be 150 articles a month. 5 a day didn't seem too strenuous and 150 a month seemed like a lot so began writing. I would go to Clickbank, find a product in a niche to target, and instead of writing articles on that niche I was writing almost review pages like 'How I got over anxiety & panic attacks' as the title.

5 Articles a day? Thats really good. I can barely write 3 articles a day. You've inspired me!

[davidjames42973]

That's so awesome! I've been doing affiliate marketing for a little over 2 years and it wasn't until this year that I began decent money. I told myself, when I reach a certain amount months, I would quit my day job. I made it to that goal, but never quit my job.

Now I'm getting laid off in January and I can't tell you how excited I am about it. People don't understand. Employees tell me how tough it is out there and pretty much tell me to worry. I think it actually upsets them that I'm smiling and glowing with positive vibes...

[zapp99]

Wow Paul, what you did thru sheer commitment and hardwork and the results really inspired and motivated a total noob like me to go ahead and 'just do it'.

Now if I can just figure out how to leverage on my blog which seems to always appear on top of google search without me even knowing how I did it! Can anyone tell me how do I take advantage of this blessing and how to determine a 'niche' in animal abuse?

ps: I really want to thank a lot of warriors, but I can't seem to find the 'thank you' button?! Is it coz I need 50+ posts before I can do stuff like PM and such?

[geoffcruz]

PWard

this post really inspired me man, do you send your traffic to a landing page or do you just redirect?

[mrozlat]

well done... a true testimonial for article marketing and taking action (consistently)!

[mrozlat]

Originally Posted by PWard

I'm looking at getting a new method to work on now that my article marketing campaign is up & running. Anyone got any recommendations?

just my 2 cents... but have you outsourced your article marketing campaign?

then whilst someone is working on your article marketing campaign and building it to an even bigger and better empire... you may start with a new technique/tactic/system that you can master and then outsource... etc

[SeanSupplee]

Really great work and nice write up just got done reading though it. Just wanted to point out it makes sense you did not make anything for the first 3 weeks. Article marketing is about getting content out there and building links back to your business. However it takes time for search engines to find this content and index it then rank it higher and higher based on the content you provided. I do expect to see you keep increasing your earnings the longer you keep with it and your articles become indexed more and more over time.

[Alexchan338]

Pward,

This is exciting to see that you have climbed over the hill! Your next goal is to climb over a mountain.

I have just started as well, and since reading what you have done and have success with it, I will walk and follow your foot steps (if you dont mind), and I know I can conquer my fears and uncertainty and climb over a hill.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful story. Keep up the great work.
Lets all grow and prosper.

Alexander

[David Hamer]

Congratulations Paul!

There are hundreds of ways of making money online - I think what you've proved is that you have to stick to one idea or principle and then FOCUS HARD on it until it succeeds.

If you'd have spent the last few months looking at dozens of ideas - you'd still be doing your old job!

All this sounds obvious doesn't it? But how many people actually focus with almost lazer accuracy like you have done.

Once again - Well Done and enjoy your new self made lifestyle.

Best wishes - Dave

[topher]

What really got me thinking is not even how hard he worked and how consistent he did it, but the brilliant strategy is how his articles read; "how I got over this..." etc stuff. That approach is brilliant because people love to hear stories. They make them want to read to the end, and if the write-up is well done, they even get to the buying point, almost on impulse. Thank you for your post. I am really inspired.

[Kelly Verge]

Originally Posted by PWard

I'm looking at getting a new method to work on now that my article marketing campaign is up & running. Anyone got any recommendations?

Yes. Stick with what's working for you and ramp it up.

If you feel that you really need a new "method" to keep you motivated, learn outsourcing and use that to ramp up what you're doing.

The number 1 rule of fishing also equally applies to IM (or any business, for that matter): "Never leave fish to find fish."

[petelta]

hey paul, i read your post a few months ago and just found it again and had a question for you. I see you are linking to your other articles thru your articles but are you doing any other backlinking other than this?

[keivn2]

I am curious about his 2nd month earning.

[jyzackoh]

Thanks so much! I just finished my exams. Have been trying to do internet marketing full-er time but I'm always so caught up with school. Was thinking about starting from article marketing and your experience just confirmed the decision for me!

Thanks,
Zack

[Bob Harmon]

Congratulations Paul!

It is always good to hear about someone who figured it out. You have proved hard work and dedication are truly the "magic formula" for making it online. I wish you all the best in the future.

Bob

[anu_smart]

That was really really inspiring!!!!

Thanks for your info!!

Hats off to your hard work!!

[JAIDEEP2959]

Congratulations friend.

Thank you for sharing the method.

You could have easily sold this info under WSO.

Best of luck.

[GeorgR.]

Great story! You had the big advantage you started with something which totally worked - and basically each minute you spent (writing articles) totally paid off!

Know that many IMers might start out making nothing for months and months, and it might take VERY long to find a method which makes actually decent money!

Yes, article marketing rocks and you seem to do it right - now imagine what happens if you use like 25% of the earnings and outsource, hire a team of writers and increase article volume accordingly. You almost made twice as much as in your old job (tell me about it!) at your first try.... Excellent!!!

Edit: Keep going, consistency is key. Keep those articles (and the cash!!) rolling in!