$30k a month in 15 minutes a day blogging

[discrat]

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

I just saw a sales page by a respected marketer that says you can make $30k a month in 15 minutes a day blogging. And you can do it in just 6 months using free traffic.

Honestly, I don't really spend much time blogging these days and I certainly don't make most of my money from it. But before I blow this off completely as BS, I'd figured I'd ask successful bloggers here. Do you think this is possible? Please enlighten us.

I believe it can be done, but not in 15 minutes a day. If it's possible, please tell us - what you would do in that 15 minutes each day to make it happen?

Yes, absolutely possible but come on 15 minutes a day for 6 months. I guess if you really outsourced you could.

[lakshaybehl]

Originally Posted by tomw

Unless born with a silver spoon in their mouths, every "rich man" started off as an "average guy."

All it takes is self belief and productivity. You're surrounded by people just like this right here...

Tom

I thought people with that mindset aren't average...

[John Cabral]

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

I just saw a sales page by a respected marketer that says you can make $30k a month in 15 minutes a day blogging. And you can do it in just 6 months using free traffic.

Honestly, I don't really spend much time blogging these days and I certainly don't make most of my money from it. But before I blow this off completely as BS, I'd figured I'd ask successful bloggers here. Do you think this is possible? Please enlighten us.

I believe it can be done, but not in 15 minutes a day. If it's possible, please tell us - what you would do in that 15 minutes each day to make it happen?

I must of gotten several emails today promoting this.... Sound too darn good to be true if you ask me.... But then again what do I know I am not making any money yet :-(

[discrat]

Originally Posted by Adam Carn

That's pretty cool, do you think something like this would work on free blog sites like blogger.com? Not that getting domains is a problem. I'm just lazy.

Adam

Adam, absolutely. I know I am making well over $400 every month with Free Blogger Blogs and it just keeps increasing.

[tomw]

Originally Posted by lakshaybehl

I thought people with that mindset aren't average...

Maybe so...but I like to think those astute enough to join The Warrior Forum have already got that far.

However, I'm not sure whether you're attempting to bait me into upping my post count or genuinely seeking a response. Either way it worked.



Tom

[update] I am, of course, referring to a p.s. you made in a post about asking me to hurry up and get to 1000 posts *not* because you like the cut of my jib and are a stalker as you refer to below...haha!

[MikeLantz]

Originally Posted by Mark Dulisse

And Mike, thanks for your income statement on your blog. That is great. But that still is not 15 minutes a day. I know, I have a blog that makes that kind of income, and it takes a heck of a lot more than 15 minutes a day to run a business. And trust me, I got every automation tool on this planet.

No, really. I spend about 15 mins per day.

I used to spend an hour a day when I was doing all of the writing, but now I hired someone to write the day-to-day posts, and so I just do occasional posts and maintenance.

Mike

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by Mark Dulisse

I read the post by Andy, and starting with 50 articles, and starting 100 blogs, and drip feeding them with content.

Okay, the adsense method.

Mark Dulisse

I never mentioned Adsense - I don't use Adsense as the main monetisation for any of my sites.

I love Adsense for testing and research - but there are much better ways to make money when you have traffic.

My point was just that - actually making blogs, feeding them content, and getting links - is quick and easy to do in many ways, so the arguments about the amount of time are only valid in a context that means you do them yourself in real time.

We're past the point where people really believe making blogs is hard aren't we? - you don't HAVE to have crap blogs just because you have a lot - outsourcing makes this a no-brainer.

It's all about outgoings vs income - if it costs you $10 to make $30 - who cares what the number of blogs or articles is - you'd want to do more of it.

If money was your goal..

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by John Cabral

I must of gotten several emails today promoting this.... Sound too darn good to be true if you ask me.... But then again what do I know I am not making any money yet :-(

Have you ever tried another niche besides "teaching/showing someone how to make money"?


TL

[TheGodfather]

well unless you have a product that you sell @ $30k a month and the conversion is so that at least one sale is made a month then it's possible... XD

[GCostanza]

I'd kill if someone would teach me how to make $400 a week on a blog. Any takers?

[tomw]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

I'd kill if someone would teach me how to make $400 a week on a blog. Any takers?

Do we get to select the target?

Tom

[TheGodfather]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

I'd kill if someone would teach me how to make $400 a week on a blog. Any takers?

Heck, I'd kill for fun.... but $400 a week sound good to

[lakshaybehl]

Originally Posted by tomw

Maybe so...but I like to think those astute enough to join The Warrior Forum have already got that far.

However, I'm not sure whether you're attempting to bait me into upping my post count or genuinely seeking a response. Either way it worked.



To

I don't agree with the first part. People can be sitting right in the same room with Allen Says and Jack Duncan And Andy Henry and John Taylor and Paul Myers and you... and still be average due to their belief systems. However I do agree beliefs can be changed. And so can be the reality.

Second Part... What? You think I am going to forum stalk dudes in UK who misspell their 3 letter first name? ;-)

Neither... I was trying to say people with stud beliefs aren't average people.

-Lakshay

[John Cabral]

Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator

Have you ever tried another niche besides "teaching/showing someone how to make money"?


TL

Hey TL you lost me there but I didn't get get my quota of caffeine...
so I am a bit slow today.

[lakshaybehl]

Originally Posted by TheGodfather

Heck, I'd kill for fun.... but $400 a week sound good to

Now I have to ask... Who... or rather What do you kill, really?

Is it that four lettered word that starts with a 'T' and rhymes with 'slime'?

-Lakshay

[drwynn]

I just started in the Internet business and I usually just pass on by this type of thing. I'm looking for a more complete system that actually teaches and SHOWS you from start to finish. I also realize that beginners would have no such luck with this type of thing.

[GCostanza]

Yes, any target is fine.

Killing time is funny.

I'm serious though. Someone teach me this stuff and I'll love you forever. Or find a nice girl for you that will.

Mike

[keyaziz]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

Or find a nice girl for you that will.

Mike

From the looks of some of the comments made in this thread about women, I think they are going to need that, so you might have yourself a deal.

[Video Rob]

Of course it's possible. Work harder and smarter, pick an untapped niche and you can rake in the profits.

Send $500 to my address in nigeria and i'll tell you how.

[mohammad111]

Originally Posted by lakshaybehl

Whats your traffic strategy?

My main traffic source is Google but the problem is that my blog just dropped from PR3 to No PR.

Now my page is indexed but it's not get me any traffic so I just dropped the plan right now. I am just thinking of getting a .com domain and then transferring my blog to a self hosted blog. I know I will have to do all the link building and stuff once again but I think I don't have a choice.

[MavisAA]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the valuable info in this thread alone.

I can hardly wait for your 1,000th post! Could you send an alert of some sort? Just a thought!

[TommyBussey]

I totally agree with you! I'm so sick of seeing stuff like that. I remember seeing two separate products from the same marketer and that "luxurious life" section of his sales page was identical in each page for the separate products. Anyways, good observation!

Just a side thought here, but I like the idea of sales pages being interlaced with some actual content and examples or product demonstration or "sneak previews." Something that lends itself to becoming more transparent with your customers, therefore, gaining more trust and more sales and happy customers

Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate

A clear example of yet another overly hyped IM product that claims what's simply impossible to achieve.

Scroll down the website and you'll see a photo that reads "me and my supermodel girlfriend on holidays at the Bahamas". That in itself made me stop reading. Seriously, that crap (along with photos of Ferraris, flying dollar bills and lux villas) is so 2004! Now a days this market is more sophisticate.

No wonder IM gets bad press

[DogScout]

200 blogs making $16,000 is only what? $80 a blog? That is not much. make 400 auto blogs and the hype lives (assuming you can make 400 blogs in 6 months)

Does auto blogging make a blog that is readable? I have seen many selling auto blogging software and giving examples. Looking at the examples, I can't imagine why they are even indexed because a human from Google or other search engine couldn't have personally visited. I have yet to see one that is not almost humorous in it's content, as those I have seen are practically unreadable by humans. I would click an adsense ad to get out of there as fast as I could. Lol.

I hear (ear to the ground) that the powers to be are trying to automate a way to auto detect auto blogs and auto de-index them. Is there an auto blog poster that can mimic a human so well that another human cannot tell it is an auto blog? (It seems to me, if the auto poster was any good, a PR4 blog with tones of posts and affiliate links would bring in more than $80/mo?)

Twitter is 90% one bot trying to sell to another bot unless you spend time choosing carefully who you follow, but even if you do and your 'click is a good one, that doesn't mean 90% isn't crap and just automated and spun twits. Will blogging become the same way soon? If there is an auto-blogger that doe make it look human (a I have seen one that just spins and re-posts RSS feeds from other blogs that 'looks' OK from the surface... until you read at the bottom every post was 're-posted from...' disclaimer.)

Just rambling random thoughts

As to the offer, it may or may not be that a system worked for him. As to whether it will work for me or not, I am generally turned off by pictures of beaches and the beating of chests, so I'll take my chances and pass. 98% that buy the product won't use it, so why not sell it, even if it can work .

[kindsvater]

Why is everyone so skeptical?

What you're doing is presupposing that only a certain number of 'blog posts' or a certain amount of 'time' is required to make money online.

But when you think about it - that's bunk.

On the other hand, that sort of nonsense is implicit in the pitch about 15 minutes a day - which rightly is why people are ripping it. I saw that in an email and deleted it without even bother to look at the product.

I think everyone here knows, or will realize when they think about it, that one can blog 24 hours a day and not make $30k a month. The money has little to do with the time involved.

Simple example: could Allen on this forum spend 15 minutes sending out a forum-wide PM promoting a product and make $30k a month? You bet. Am I going to get similar results on my little blog? Nope.

[zapseo]

Kinda reminds me of how would you make a small fortune on wall street...

Well, first you start with a big fortune.

As I said in your other thread, Andy -- people SHOULD ask questions. This is a GOOD sign. Limitations DO HAVE A PLACE. Recognizing one's limitations is not a bad thing unless it's done incorrectly. The problem is, as you point out, people limit them beyond what they think is truly possible.

Reminds me of some articles I read a while back about the "possibility" thinking of Jack Welch and Mark Phelps. I think someone was analyzing one of those "getting things done" type of things, which said something along the lines of "setting achievable goals." And the proceeded to point out -- who in their right mind would think that Phelps and Welch's goals were achievable?

I mean, I have sometimes wondered if Bandler didn't get himself thrown in jail to prove a point to himself about his own "behavioral flexibility." (And such behavior I don't condone in the least.)

[Mr Money Maker]

I don't think so....but hey how about this one.....Make $1,000,000.00 in only 7 minutes online.....yes I saw this also.....2 years ago. The guy claims everytime he creates a domain name he get a million.....and he does it 3 times a week...yeah right.........oh well dream on people and make money online the fast easy way...LOL

[csc4u]

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

sales page by a respected marketer

I'm curious what's considered a respected marketer. Most of the more well know marketers I've subscribed to or bought from have turned out to be huge disappointment. Sending different products and programs to their lists everyday with each promising to be better than the others. I have a word for them but I wont use that kind of language on this respectable forum.

[JaniG]

Ll, my friend John Chow makes $30k + per month from hos blog and spends like 15 mins a day writing a blog post

but it took him over a year to get to that level

so I know it can be done

Jani

[Razer Rage]

Seems like we have ourselves another myth for the WF version of myth busters. Anyone care to find out if it's really possible to make $30,000 per month in 6 months just spending 15 minutes per day blogging?

[jimlovingu2]

I'm very new at this game, but at first I was excited about the whole idea of making money online. Tho I'm sceptical about the thousands per day claims and other such hype, I was hoping that I could at least be able to generate 1 or 2 K per month. However, after reading a few forums, I'm getting a little discouraged. So, I'm glad you asked that question and will be reading all the replies. I'm also wondering if you are making a decent money and if so, did it take you a long time to do it?

[zapseo]

Originally Posted by teamfire

Ll, my friend John Chow makes $30k + per month from hos blog and spends like 15 mins a day writing a blog post

but it took him over a year to get to that level

so I know it can be done

Jani

It can be done. (C'mon...what was that crazy book everyone was reading ... 4 hour work week?)

Do I do it? No.

Do you do it? Well, from the sounds of it, no.

Can it be taught with reasonable success to others?

Ah, now there's the crux of the matter.

I used to follow this mad-man around (well, okay, I ponied up a lot of 1980s dollars to attend his seminars -- got certificates saying I could do this and that -- ...and sorta stalked a Congelese Dance Class he attended -- which was good for me in many ways. The dance class, that is.) His bailiwick was/is modeling behaviors of excellence. Point being, people who do things well frequently don't know what are all the ingredients necessary to make up that excellence, so that it can be taught to someone else.

[Alican Yenidogan]

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

I just saw a sales page by a respected marketer that says you can make $30k a month in 15 minutes a day blogging. And you can do it in just 6 months using free traffic.

Honestly, I don't really spend much time blogging these days and I certainly don't make most of my money from it. But before I blow this off completely as BS, I'd figured I'd ask successful bloggers here. Do you think this is possible? Please enlighten us.

I believe it can be done, but not in 15 minutes a day. If it's possible, please tell us - what you would do in that 15 minutes each day to make it happen?

Ron,

I know people that make more than 30k/month by spending 15 minutes a day blogging. The one for example I know of is a software blog. He is a well-known software developer and writes about programming most of the time. The problem here is, you have to be on the top, or be one of the first in the niche to achieve this.

Someone new and someone with no knowledge can not do this. Also the person that I know posts 1 post in every 3 days, so it is less than 15 minutes/day. He has over 100k rss readers and lots of ads on his site.

But the point is, it took 30years + 15 minutes to achieve this..

Alican

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by Mark Dulisse

Okay, the adsense method.

Does anyone realize how long it takes to build a adsense empire of $30k a month?

The learning curve is pretty long. However, once you have a working formula - IF you can develop a working formula - it borders on 'easy'.

DISCLAIMER: 'easy' means 'repeating your formula'. While that product in question is probably way over-hyped and over-exaggerated, and I certainly make no claims of doing it in 15 mins. per day, I can offer this scenario:

Keyword research - 60 mins. to come up with a small (5-10) group of related keyword/phrases with the following properties: combined search volume 300/day, EPC = $1/click (Adwords cost $4+), reasonably "rankable".

Setup - 1 hour to find & register exact-match keyword domain name, install Wordpress, configure theme, plugins, etc.

Article outsourcing - costs: $150 for 25 decent 500 word keyword/phrase articles.

Ranking - Article submission, automated linkbuilding (Onlywire, SocialBot, RSSBot): 2.5 hours/week (appx. 20 mins. per day).

In 60-90 days, you'll have Page 1 listings for most or all of your keyword/phrases, provided you did your keyword research well. At that point, you are getting appx. 100 visitors per day. With a good, 'properly-matched' theme, you'll get a CTR of 20%. At $1/click, you are netting $20/day.

You launch 1 site per week. You are now spending spending appx. 1.5 hours/day (excluding initial setup). 120 days after reaching & holding at $20/day, you can get appx. 10x monthly for the site. That's $6000. Multiply times 4.5 (1 per week) comes to $27k/month.

Mark

[Martin Luxton]

It would be more helpful if we knew two things

1. How many hours a day did the person work to enable them to get that point where they can claim this kind of income from 15 minutes a day "maintenance".

2. How many hours, if any, do outsourced workers put into the project?

It's like people who do a big launch claiming one million dollars in one day. The fact they worked 24/7 for the previous six months, paid out $300,000 in wages and $600,000 in affiliate commissions mean they made the equivalant of about $6,000 a month for a 40 hour working week. Still decent money but it doesn't have the ring of one million in one day. On the other hand, it's only about half the salary of a marketing manager employee (taking into account company benefits)
Marketing Managers

As Steven Wagenheim pointed out in another thread, people don't want the hard work option. They want the fantasy lazy version.

Martin

[dspa72]

It's possible but:
1) you need great content for less searched keywords
2) you need SEO traffic (i.e. backlinks for starting)
3) you need the right tools

I'm making good money every month from blogging