I'm lost.. please help
Hi. I've been lurking here a while. I haven't read much of the forums but I have done searches every once in a while to look for specific info. I had a few friends who were really successful with IM and knew so much that if I ever had a question to ask, they'd be able to answer. I'm out of touch with about five of them and I've had a serious falling out with the last three.
My situation is quite unique and I really don't want to go into it. Suffice it to say, I guess I'm the very definition of a bum. So as you might imagine, when friends told me about IM and bum marketing at the end of 2008, it was seriously appealing to me. I became a Clickbank affiliate and made a few blogs. I spent months building up each with articles and such, but it turns out that two of the niches I was working on don't work very well with my limited resources. It took half a year for me to realize that. The moment I realized that, I gave up and thought that maybe it wasn't for me. But just a few days ago I decided to check my Clickbank account. Apparently the third blog, the one about hemorrhoids that I didn't really spend much time on, has generated a few sales I had no clue about. Now I've been thinking that I need to give that third niche a try again since it seems to be suitable to my needs. And that's where the problem starts.
I've forgotten 80% of what I was taught. RSS feeds, what are those? Backlinks, where do I get them from? Where to get traffic? SEO?? None of that's coming to mind. I've completely lost my senses for this kind of thing. I remember that I would write up articles for EZA every day, but I've heard they're way worse than ever before for traffic now. One thing I did remember though is that you should buy traffic once you've gotten some consistent sales.
My current goal is to make at least $60 a day. I remember hearing in the past that $100 a day is simple enough to achieve with work but I don't even care about that right now; after I work through the first goal then I'll take a look at the next. From what I've been reading though, you pretty much have to spend money to make money. People here are giving way some secrets pretty freely, but they take some cash to implement. I only have about $100 in the bank, and that number won't go up by a cent anytime soon unless these sales go up. I'm thinking a good move would be to scrounge together any cash I can find and spend it all on something that will drive traffic to my blog, but I'm not too sure about that.
The reason I'm making this thread is because I'm looking for any kind of help I can get. I really want to get my sense for IM back. I want to learn how I can quickly pull some traffic to my blog, especially if that traffic ends up paying for itself. Mostly though, I want to learn what I can do to increase my sales. Absolutely any help is appreciated here guys.. I have plenty of time, but that doesn't mean I'm not dangerously close to ending up on the streets for good. Thanks in advance.
My situation is quite unique and I really don't want to go into it. Suffice it to say, I guess I'm the very definition of a bum. So as you might imagine, when friends told me about IM and bum marketing at the end of 2008, it was seriously appealing to me. I became a Clickbank affiliate and made a few blogs. I spent months building up each with articles and such, but it turns out that two of the niches I was working on don't work very well with my limited resources. It took half a year for me to realize that. The moment I realized that, I gave up and thought that maybe it wasn't for me. But just a few days ago I decided to check my Clickbank account. Apparently the third blog, the one about hemorrhoids that I didn't really spend much time on, has generated a few sales I had no clue about. Now I've been thinking that I need to give that third niche a try again since it seems to be suitable to my needs. And that's where the problem starts.
I've forgotten 80% of what I was taught. RSS feeds, what are those? Backlinks, where do I get them from? Where to get traffic? SEO?? None of that's coming to mind. I've completely lost my senses for this kind of thing. I remember that I would write up articles for EZA every day, but I've heard they're way worse than ever before for traffic now. One thing I did remember though is that you should buy traffic once you've gotten some consistent sales.
My current goal is to make at least $60 a day. I remember hearing in the past that $100 a day is simple enough to achieve with work but I don't even care about that right now; after I work through the first goal then I'll take a look at the next. From what I've been reading though, you pretty much have to spend money to make money. People here are giving way some secrets pretty freely, but they take some cash to implement. I only have about $100 in the bank, and that number won't go up by a cent anytime soon unless these sales go up. I'm thinking a good move would be to scrounge together any cash I can find and spend it all on something that will drive traffic to my blog, but I'm not too sure about that.
The reason I'm making this thread is because I'm looking for any kind of help I can get. I really want to get my sense for IM back. I want to learn how I can quickly pull some traffic to my blog, especially if that traffic ends up paying for itself. Mostly though, I want to learn what I can do to increase my sales. Absolutely any help is appreciated here guys.. I have plenty of time, but that doesn't mean I'm not dangerously close to ending up on the streets for good. Thanks in advance.
Gareth M Thomas
Serial Entrepreneur
Auckland, New Zealand