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My New Plan For ACTION

by Burtgummer
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Alright, I'm getting down and dirty here. I'm sick of not seeing any improvements in my internet marketing ventures. I want to prove to myself and my family that it IS possible.

So my plan.....

Outsource 30 articles per week, all in the weight loss niche. Everyone promotes a product in that niche, so I don't care I'm announcing it. It's got a constant demand, and buyers are more apt to purchase because of their emotions.

I've got my first 30 articles ordered, and they should be here in a little less than a week. I've already got a platinum EZA account from previous attempts at article marketing.

Once the articles are up, I will Social Bookmark each one with SEnuke, and I will nuke my author RSS feeds, along with pinging of course.

By the way, the 30 articles will cost $75 for each week.

I will be sending my EZA traffic to a landing page that I host, which I will be working on today and the next few days. If any landing page experts are willing to help in creating a good converting landing page, I would be extremely grateful!

I'm promoting Fat Loss 4 Idiots. I know it converts, I know it's a good product. With those 'proofs', I can safely assume that if I don't make sales with 30 articles a week, then I am doing something wrong, and I will dig deeper once I'm getting traffic to find the source of the problem.

First, I will check my traffic to the articles. I am already shooting for specific keywords, so they should get decent traffic if they rank. If I am getting traffic, I'll check my URL clicks and my article CTR. If that's 40% or above, then that article is fine. I would then check my landing page and find it's CTR. I'll call it acceptable if its 40%+ (Is that too low?).

If I'm still not getting sales, then the last stat to look at is my hop conversion ratio. If that's bad, then it has to be a bad presell on my part, since I KNOW Fat Loss 4 Idiots can convert well.

So that's my plan. Feel free to offer any insight! I'm really trying to take action this time. I have before, but I've fizzled out early. I hope to do this for at least 1 month/4 weeks, and if I don't get any positive results, then I'm not sure what I'll do at that point.

Once again, please comment on your impressions, and if there is anything I should change up before I really get this going when I get my first batch of articles.

Thanks soooo much Warriors!

Best Regards,
Sean Beever
#action #plan
  • Profile picture of the author Lisa Gergets
    Wow, that is a great plan! It's awesome to see you're so motivated to DO IT! YIPPEEEE!
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  • Profile picture of the author Davioli
    Yeah.. Its an awesome feeling when you have plan of action like that. From the looks of it it seems very workable.
    If you've selected good keywords you should be able to get some long tail rankings and eventually traffic to your landing page.
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    That sounds like a great plan. I'm actually doing something similar but I'm sending the traffic to a squeeze page that eventually promotes a PLR ebook (so not an affiliate program).

    But, I have one thing I am doing different that you might also consider. I am submitting my articles to article directories that do all the work of promoting your article for you.

    Over the years I have learned that I am much too busy/lazy to do all the promotion work that is involved (for me, just social bookmarking them does not really do the trick).

    I'm not sure how many other article directories will do the promotion for you but the ones I use are Article Directory - Article Marketing Community and https://www.articleproductions.com/ - they both charge money to belong.

    Lee
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    • Profile picture of the author Burtgummer
      Originally Posted by cashcow View Post

      That sounds like a great plan. I'm actually doing something similar but I'm sending the traffic to a squeeze page that eventually promotes a PLR ebook (so not an affiliate program).

      But, I have one thing I am doing different that you might also consider. I am submitting my articles to article directories that do all the work of promoting your article for you.

      Over the years I have learned that I am much too busy/lazy to do all the promotion work that is involved (for me, just social bookmarking them does not really do the trick).

      I'm not sure how many other article directories will do the promotion for you but the ones I use are Article Directory - Article Marketing Community and https://www.articleproductions.com/ - they both charge money to belong.

      Lee
      Well I've got SEnuke to aid in my promotion efforts. I don't really want to invest in any more 'trinkets' in the IM business right now. I've got the necessary tools like Micro Niche Finder, SEnuke and Aweber.

      I'm just trying to keep this as simple as possible. It's as if I need to prove to myself that it is indeed possible to do. I have read many stories of people doing near exactly what I am starting to do as far as outsourcing is concerned, so why shouldn't it work for me too?

      Basically, if I can't manage to make $1 profit from this plan, then I honestly won't know what I'm doing wrong, and will probably come to the conclusion that IM is not for me. I want to give it an honest shot though, so I can say that I did for the record.
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  • Profile picture of the author Burtgummer
    Originally Posted by Desmond Chen View Post

    maybe you should try PPC too
    I have.....several times.

    I've got a content campaign running right now, but It's had 0 searches since I started it last week.

    I don't plan to start any new ones, especially on the main search network. Adwords is a pain in the butt to deal with, and I'm finally figuring out how to rank websites organically.

    I haven't thrown PPC out of the window.....but I won't be using it in the near future.


    Originally Posted by Mr.Sinister View Post

    I'll play devil's advocate for a moment...

    Your linguistics are border-lining on setting yourself up for failure, already giving justifications if you fail. It sounds like your "shot gun" approach to IM is hit or miss, even with that big-buck-shot spread.

    You'll hit the target if you keep your aim. If you fire this round off, and miss, you haven't lost anything. You've just gained a valuable lesson. What that lesson will be, only you can find out. But I would employ you to take a different perspective... the old saying, "A man is only beat who admits it," may be one of the most empowering things you can believe.

    Don't quit, that's got to be your foundation. If you run out of money, pay with blood (sweat, tears, whatever you have) and keep going. If you think it'll be easy, life will make it hard. If you're expecting it'll be hard, it's probably much easier than you think...

    Be also warned of your enthusiasm that will wear off, and will be met with it's opposite, melancholy. Use this time to develop a system of work you can fall back on when your motivation and inspiration runs dry, because that will happen too...

    So far, so good, hold your head high brotha, your 1-step closer to where you want to be.

    -_- Mr.Sinister
    Trust me, I know the feeling all too well. I've been failing since June. I've had days where I ask myself why in the world I'm spending so much time on this. Basically, I feel REALLY crappy. Usually it's because of a method that I try to put into action, but I find I can't repeat one of the steps. Not because of ability, but rather application. It's something you can only know how to do after experience.

    It's even worse when the product explaining such a method mentions "PERFECT for newbies!"....but it's not. The mechanics of the methods may be simple, but the experience factor of knowing how to carry out each step in the method will come into play.

    I'm a really analytical person. It's probably obvious now. That's why I said I want to use "Proofs" to figure out my mistakes. My proof in this case is that "Fat Loss 4 Idiots" DOES sell. If I can't sell it, then there's any issue. And I will track down the issue like I mentioned in the first post.

    For instance, I'm semi-promoting a "Mafia Wars" product. From my experience, all of the products I've tried to promote from that niche convert like absolute crap. However, I don't know if that's the general conversion rate among all affiliates, or just me. That's what's different with Fat Loss 4 Idiots. I know it converts, and if I can't convert it myself, then I have something on my end that I need to tweak.

    I enjoy knowing that I am the reason for failure, and not something out of my control, if that makes any sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author angela99
    Sean, I like your plan. Looks good. :-)

    One point, re "I hope to do this for at least 1 month/4 weeks, and if I don't get any positive results, then I'm not sure what I'll do at that point."

    I suggest you aim for THREE MONTHS of effort, minimum. Nothing much will happen in a month, with a completely new project. If you stick to it for three months, on the other hand, you'll have started your snowball rolling, and you'll start to see results which will only improve over time.

    Most people stop long before three months, and then wonder why they don't succeed.

    Stick to it for three months. You'll be shocked at the results.

    Good luck... but remember THREE months is the magic number. :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author ryanstreet
      Originally Posted by angela99 View Post

      Good luck... but remember THREE months is the magic number. :-)
      I second this one! Make sure you stick with it.

      I would add one other thing. Since you have your plan of action, don't be afraid to learn new things. Don't try new all new methods, but do things that compliment your current plan.

      Example: If you are doing EZA articles, maybe you will run across a traffic method to pull more visitors to those articles. Try it out, adjust, rinse, repeat.

      One of my favorite sayings is this:

      "Be like a postage stamp. Stick with one thing until you get there."
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  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    wow sounds good let us know how you get on
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Enthusiastic
    Looks like a detailed plan to me, Sean.

    My only suggestion is to be sure to use the copywriting forum's help on this:

    Originally Posted by Burtgummer View Post

    If any landing page experts are willing to help in creating a good converting landing page, I would be extremely grateful!
    If you post what you have there and sincerely ask for advice, you'll probably get a good batch of suggestions.

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  • Profile picture of the author bizmarketingrev
    Hi,

    Wow that's great. Planning is very important in every endeavors because you have a clear goal of what you want to achieve. Best of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Magoo4242
    Sean great post. Really hit home for me as I was sitting here working out my plan of action tonight and I can say it looks very very similar to yours. Thanks for posting. I too am curious to hear about what anyone else has to say.

    I also have the same concerns about the landings page. So I guess I should ask for the help in the copywriter section.

    Sean if you do not mind send me an PM or an email as to where you are getting your articles written at? I was on the fence about writing my own or getting them outsourced. Have you used this person or company in the past? I would appreciate the help.

    Again looks great. Keep us posted as I will do the same.

    Thanks,

    Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    why not put all of that time and effort into building a real web site and use proper seo to promote it and generate traffic?

    I don't understand the whole concept of paying to have articles written then submitting them to an article directory in the hope that that traffic might follow your links to your money page.

    why not build a weight loss web site, put those articles on your web site, then promote that website.

    I know your method is popular and some guru is making a lot of money by pitching that technique but it just seems like an ass-backwards way of doing things.

    ok article kids... flame on!
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    • Profile picture of the author Burtgummer
      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      why not put all of that time and effort into building a real web site and use proper seo to promote it and generate traffic?

      I don't understand the whole concept of paying to have articles written then submitting them to an article directory in the hope that that traffic might follow your links to your money page.

      why not build a weight loss web site, put those articles on your web site, then promote that website.

      I know your method is popular and some guru is making a lot of money by pitching that technique but it just seems like an ass-backwards way of doing things.

      ok article kids... flame on!
      Beause getting a website ranked for every single keyword you want to target is more time consuming to do by building a complete website. With EZAs PR, it's much easier to get ranked high with them right off the bat.

      If I happen to notice that a particular keyword is doing well, then I would make a website for that keyword.

      Articles make quick and relatively easy traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Sean, sounds like you have a solid plan of action. I'd suggest spending some time on creating a nice squeeze page that converts well, and try to split-test different variations as well. If you're going to be paying for articles on an ongoing basis, you might as well spend the effort on a high-converting squeeze page that extracts the maximum conversions out of your EZA traffic.
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    Congrats on posting it publicly, it will help hold you accountable.
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