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I Need some help to make consistent income

by Shannon Spoon
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Hi fellow warriors, I have been doing Internet Marketing since June 2009 and i have made a little over $1,000 dollars doing article marketing, building websites, hubpages, Blogger, etc.

I was wondering if i could get some guidance from someone to help me make consistent money. I feel like i know what i am doing for the most part. I feel like my weak points are building backlinks, and making a good review page for Clickbank products. I can't afford to do PPC or other paid methods.

I am a one man show, but everything takes so much time to do. I am not complaining, i just really would like some help to boost my income so i can do this full time by Oct 2010.

If anyone out there would please help crack this nut. I love doing this, it just seems so difficult sometimes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    Firstly, well done for getting as far as you have.. so many people make a whole lot less in their first year.

    You could scale up what you're currently doing.. it's a lot of work I know, or you could pick one of the many systems from the War Room.. there's some great info in there. Pick one that appeals to you and stick with it.

    Of course to me, the best way to make money is to sell a product or a service. It's also the quickest way that I know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emily Meeks
    First and foremost, pat yourself on the back. You've accomplished two things:

    1.) You're taking consistent action.
    2.) You've identified your weaknesses.

    Building backlinks and Clickbank review pages are two things that can be outsourced. There are plenty of people you can find in the Warriors for Hire section who will do this for you, for very affordable prices. If you are really serious about making IM a full-time income for you, you must outsource. You are one person with just 24 hours in a day. Free up some of those hours by outsourcing the things you're not so great at, so you can focus on your strengths.

    Which brings me to... identifying your strengths. You say you generally think you know what you're doing, but let me ask you this - what are you GOOD at?

    If you know you're really great at something, you should start EXCELLING in that area, which will be easier once you've freed up time by outsourcing what you're not so good at.

    Your energy is a precious commodity.. invest it in things that will serve you the most. If you've never outsourced before and/or are reluctant to try, remember, it's inevitable in any business that intends to keep growing. You can always make more money, but you can't make more time.
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    • Profile picture of the author DeonKrey
      Originally Posted by moneysoapbox View Post

      First and foremost, pat yourself on the back. You've accomplished two things:

      1.) You're taking consistent action.
      2.) You've identified your weaknesses.

      Building backlinks and Clickbank review pages are two things that can be outsourced. There are plenty of people you can find in the Warriors for Hire section who will do this for you, for very affordable prices. If you are really serious about making IM a full-time income for you, you must outsource. You are one person with just 24 hours in a day. Free up some of those hours by outsourcing the things you're not so great at, so you can focus on your strengths.

      Which brings me to... identifying your strengths. You say you generally think you know what you're doing, but let me ask you this - what are you GOOD at?

      If you know you're really great at something, you should start EXCELLING in that area, which will be easier once you've freed up time by outsourcing what you're not so good at.

      Your energy is a precious commodity.. invest it in things that will serve you the most. If you've never outsourced before and/or are reluctant to try, remember, it's inevitable in any business that intends to keep growing. You can always make more money, but you can't make more time.
      Right on!

      Outsourcing plus time management equals to automation.

      For you to be able to make more while you haven't enough time, feel free to hire someone who could provide help in the business that will also give more focus to the "core functions" of the business that will make it grow even better such as creating more networks, joining ventures, conducting interviews and such aside from merely doing repetitive admin tasks. Indeed, these are both crucial in the business but you do not have to focus on all of them at once because it will only add into the work overload.

      Seek help, find outsourcing firms that'll suit you and your business and train them. Once that's done, allow them into your business systems and get everything started.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Article marketing, SEO, PPC ... yada yada yada. Just find something that works for you and then scale it ... Bammm! Consistent Income.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kella Bella
    I agree that if you have some areas you could work better in-while you are learning that no harm in outsourcing for backlinks and review pages. There are many classifieds here for both of those at good rates so they won't kill ur pocketbook while you work on learning them. Congratulations too on making money already-looks like ur definitely in the right direction :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Spoon
    Thank you for your replies. I think i am good at keyword research and building wordpress sites for selling Amazon products. I have only built a few and already sold over $300 worth of products.

    It just seems like no matter what i do, i can't keep my hops at a steady level on ClickBank. I have over 200 articles on Ezine.. not counting the ones on blogger and all the other article directories. How can i get my hops above 100 a day without PPC?
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    • Profile picture of the author Emily Meeks
      Originally Posted by spoon4160 View Post

      Thank you for your replies. I think i am good at keyword research and building wordpress sites for selling Amazon products. I have only built a few and already sold over $300 worth of products.

      It just seems like no matter what i do, i can't keep my hops at a steady level on ClickBank. I have over 200 articles on Ezine.. not counting the ones on blogger and all the other article directories. How can i get my hops above 100 a day without PPC?
      Keyword research is always a great thing - and will definitely help you out should you ever go into PPC.

      Since you're good with building wordpress sites, have you ever considered flipping any of the sites? I'm personally no expert in flipping sites, though there are quite a few people - sbucciarel, yommys01 and Gene Pimentel come to mind - who can guide you more if you go that direction. If an Amazon site isn't doing particularly well, you might flip it for some quick cash if you don't feel like working on it anymore.

      As far as Clickbank is concerned, that's not necessarily your fault... Clickbank has somewhat of a mixed reputation around here now because of their faulty affiliate reportings (I remember one thread where somebody asked a friend to purchase through their affiliate link - and CB didn't pay them... there are other incidents but I can't tell you any more specifics). If you've been buying your own domains/using subdomains for your redirects, you may switch them to new affiliate programs and see how they do. PayDotCom is a good alternative.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Spoon
    What do you guys think about Commision Junction? Would you promote their stuff the same way you would Amazon products or how would you do it?

    I actually did try Paydotcom when i was a super noob, but never got anywhere. I will keep that in mind about site flipping. I thought about it but i don't know a lot about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author genietoast
      Go into the WSO section and check out Daniel Tan's Backlink Syndication System about Press Releases.

      You just need a lot more traffic. If you're already earning an income, hone in the stuff that's really making the money and drive more traffic to it.

      I learned this tip from a lady named Tinu Abayomi-Paul from freetraffictip.com. She says she's got a formula of how you determine your traffic by the income you want to make.

      S/C x (2) = V.

      S = Sale. the amount you want to make per month divided by the cost of the sale or commission. e.g. say you want to make $10000 a month. And you get a commission of $25 per sale. Then you do $10,000 divided by $25. That gives you S.

      C = Conversion. The conversion rate of our product. If you don't know, assume its 1%.

      V= The amount of traffic per month you need to have to help you make you monthly desired income.

      The reason why you multiply by two is because, in Tinu's experience, half of that traffic is actually going to be utilized for your purpose. So you want to double it.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGuruHub
    I don't know if you could apply anything you do to a membership site but that has been the most consistent income for me. I sell quite a few ebooks but they are up and down each month so I was looking for more stability like you are about a year ago.

    The membership model is great recurring income. It starts off slow and you have to keep fine tuning it but it really makes a nice backbone to your overall business model. Even if you start at $17 per month and add levels and step people up that want more detailed information, it still is a winner.

    The only call out is to remember you have to produce consistent content whether you have 2 members or 2000 and in the beginning when you only have 2 or 3 members you have to stay motivated.

    Best Regards,
    Gregg
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Spoon
      Originally Posted by TheGuruHub View Post

      I don't know if you could apply anything you do to a membership site but that has been the most consistent income for me. I sell quite a few ebooks but they are up and down each month so I was looking for more stability like you are about a year ago.

      The membership model is great recurring income. It starts off slow and you have to keep fine tuning it but it really makes a nice backbone to your overall business model. Even if you start at $17 per month and add levels and step people up that want more detailed information, it still is a winner.

      The only call out is to remember you have to produce consistent content whether you have 2 members or 2000 and in the beginning when you only have 2 or 3 members you have to stay motivated.

      Best Regards,
      Gregg
      Thanks for your reply, i will look into that.
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  • Profile picture of the author priyankeshu
    Originally Posted by spoon4160 View Post

    Hi fellow warriors, I have been doing Internet Marketing since June 2009 and i have made a little over $1,000 dollars doing article marketing, building websites, hubpages, Blogger, etc.

    I was wondering if i could get some guidance from someone to help me make consistent money. I feel like i know what i am doing for the most part. I feel like my weak points are building backlinks, and making a good review page for Clickbank products. I can't afford to do PPC or other paid methods.

    I am a one man show, but everything takes so much time to do. I am not complaining, i just really would like some help to boost my income so i can do this full time by Oct 2010.

    If anyone out there would please help crack this nut. I love doing this, it just seems so difficult sometimes.
    In my opinion you can try building hubpages and writing articles on sites with adsense sharing...


    Adsense is probably the best passive income source. Just spend some time in reading more about what a good adsense site would be. Create tens of websites that make you x amount each and you are set...
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