#3 on EzineArticles Expert Authors + My Business Plan...What Next?

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi

15 months ago, i laid down a business plan.
15 months later, i saw it become a reality.

I want to know from Warriors what i have done right, what i have done wrong, and how can i take this further. Any help/guidance will be greatly appreciated!

Here is a (not-so) brief run-down of the steps i have followed:


Created 200 eBooks

1. Rummaged through several hundreds of niche (non-IM) PLR books i had. Selected around 200 of them.

2. Completely re-formatted all these 200 books so that they looked visually better and more appealing. Spell-checked them as well. In fact now they look completely different and are of better quality from the originals.

3. I wanted to provide great value to my buyers. So I put in more content to each of these books by adding 30-40 relevant articles. Hence the resulting book was more than double the existing number of pages. (1.5 line spacing, font 10). And really FULL of valuable content.

4. Created fresh 200 ecovers for these books.

5. Re-titled each book to make it fresh and attractive.

6. Added relevant 2-3 affiliate Ads (mainly from Clickbank) in each book.


Webstites

1. Completely re-formatted the 200 sales letters that came along with the 200 ebooks. made them more attractive than their original counterparts.

2. Wrote fresh headlines for each of these 200 sales letters. I wanted to change the headlines because your headlines can make or break your campaign (i am far from a copywriter, but i did my best!)

3. Created 126+ autoresponders and added them to these sites to capture leads (managed through Aweber) Each autoresponder has around 10-15 follow-up messages. These messages are full of content, and i am promoting around 2-3 affiliate programs after every few days.

4. Created 126+ One Time Offers for my websites where i give my buyers 3-4 books (that compliment their purchase) for a price less than what they have just paid for 1 book.

5. Categorized these sites according to their niches, and uploaded all of them across 25 different domains



Free Books

1. Created fresh 126 books containing massive content (around 70 pages on an average) and gave them away when people signed up for my autoresponder. Overall the content would be around 8,000+ pages.

2. Inserted related affiliate ads from Clickbank in each book

3. Also converted these 126 books into rebrandable books, so that people could add their affiliate links.

(I recently offered these 126 books as a WSO and the response was great!)

4. There is one ad in each of these books that points directly to one of my related websites. This thus creates a viral effect, and gets visitors back to my site on auto-pilot.


Article Marketing

1. I hired a team of writers and I spent almost 1 year and thousands of dollars to write 7,000 articles related to my above 200 websites.

2. I started submitting these articles to Ezine Articles and right now i am at #3 in the Expert Author's section.



Affiliate Program

1. I run my affiliate program through CB as well as Fantasos. Any affiliate can promote any of my 200 ebooks and earn around 75% commission.


The entire business process mentioned above is managed through Fantasos as my back-end. It is like the Almighty, controlling everything!


My immediate next step

1. Get married (11th December!)
2. Go for my Honeymoon :P
3. Adding all 7000 articles to my websites
4. Create blogs with my articles as content. (you might be surprised, but i don't have a blog yet!)



As you can see, i put in some effort to create all this. All my books have link back to my main site. So this is a kind of a huge network, where one product is also promoting other products. And i hope this network will grow over time.

I would like to know from expert Warriors what can i do to take this to the next level.

What have i done wrong?
What can i do better?
What should be the things i should now focus on?
Any suggestion that adds value to my products?
Any suggestions that make my products irresistible to my buyers?

In fact, i am very open to any ideas that helps me grow this baby into a Godzilla!



Regards
Abhi

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Abhi,

It seems like you have been busy

Not really sure what you could do better because I don't know what kind of results you have had as far as how much you are banking for everything you've done.

But, it seems like you have your bases covered

[Rajul kaushik]

You are a real example of determination and focused action plan.
Taking action is the real thing which you have taken and I congratulate you for being goal oriented.

I also think that you have covered almost every thing that's required to become a great internet marketer.

It will however be more important to analyse the success you have had from your journey thus far so that you rinse and repeat those actions which have resulted in dividends. That will help more.

[Ryan Even]

Very inspiring to the new members of the forum or those struggling with their business!

[Norma Holt]

There is a lot about your business that grates with me. If I was an author of an e-book and found that someone had copied and then changed it to look like their own, if done without permission, I would be screaming plagarism.

I think you better check out the legals in terms of what you are doing. It might sound OK but your might get caught out if you are doing the wrong thing.

[Andyhenry]

The only sensible advice I can give is - Look at what's making money and do more of it.

Since you never mentioned whether all this effort is making any money, there's no way to tell you what's right or wrong since it's only wrong if it didn't make money, and only right if it did.

So - track as much as you can and do more of what's working.

Andy

[Hamida Harland]

Originally Posted by Norma Holt

There is a lot about your business that grates with me. If I was an author of an e-book and found that someone had copied and then changed it to look like their own, if done without permission, I would be screaming plagarism.

I think you better check out the legals in terms of what you are doing. It might sound OK but your might get caught out if you are doing the wrong thing.

I don't understand - he used PLR ebooks and isn't that exactly what you're supposed to do with them?

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Jeremy / Andy

Thank you.

My main source of traffic right now is through articles. Some of my articles have gone live just 2 days ago. It will take another few days for all my articles to be live. So i think i will need to wait a while before results are seen.

2 years ago I had authored one book, and made it popular by writing just 20 articles. I get around 10-15 sales per month from that book alone. All free traffic. I just rinsed and repeated the process for 200 books. And 7,000 articles.

I know some books would be real losers, but some would be real winners. Its all a numbers game.

When i did my WSO for my 126 rebrandable books, i made 40+ sales in 2 weeks.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hello Norma

As Hamida correctly pointed out, I have used all PLR books, and i have all rights to modify them as much (or as little) as i want to.

So there is no problem with that.

Regards
Abhi

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Ryan

Thank you.

I would be glad if someone follows what i have done, or maybe even improve my steps... and get great results.

It really feels good if we are able to help someone achieve what they want.

Regards
Abhi

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Rajul

Really appreciate your kind words.

I did take 15 months to do what i have done. But if i am asked to do it again, probably i will to it in 6 months.

I have made a lot of mistakes, trusted some wrong people, dreamed a little less than i should have, not outsourced enough, etc.

But its all a journey where we learn and grow.

Yes, i need to do some extensive testing and keep an eye on whats happening, and whats not!

You are a hard working entrepreneur too.
And i wish you all success in whatever you do.

(wow, that was a nice little rhyme!)

Regards
Abhi

[Mohsin Rasool]

Hi Abhi,

Wow, you have really taken MASSIVE action...
Did you track your efforts... how were the results...

This is huge amount of work you have done, i would expect
great results also :-)

Wish you MORE SUCCESS,
Mohsin Rasool

[wingsofsuccess]

Thanks Mohsin

Yeah, now i need to do extensive testing...and build on the sites that prove themselves

Regards
Abhi

[Mohsin Rasool]

Originally Posted by wingsofsuccess

Thanks Mohsin

Yeah, now i need to do extensive testing...and build on the sites that prove themselves

Regards
Abhi

Abhi I wish you MASSIVE success with your plans buddy.

I would suggest that pick the top 5 winners out of 200 sites/products
and put your all efforts and energies to make more sales, more leads,
and bigger lists... this way you will have more leverage from your efforts..

Again I am proud of you as you have really proved how serious you
are about your business and online success :-)

Mohsin

[lexilexi]

Wait a minute, you rebranded 200 eBooks and have them up for sale on CB.
You created 126 eBooks of average 70 pages of content as free giveaways to promote.
You created 7,000 articles.

Thats AMAZING.

I take my hat off to you for your incredible dedication and hard work.

I'm a believer that one of the keys to this game is "volume and scaling". Put another way; if you can create something that brings in $5 per day, create 100 of these. Not only that, but all the products in a catalog help sell the other products and lift the whole network higher.

My only critique of what you have done... it's sometimes good to test things small scale before going big. That way you know that your efforts have been in the right direction. However, it sounds as though you've been working to a masterplan from the outset... and it seems you've created such an incredible asset for yourself that it's destined to take off.

Would love to be kept up to date on how you put this Godzilla into motion; and how well it does for you. Are you going to blog about it? Let me know, I'll subscribe.

All the best!

[wingsofsuccess]

Originally Posted by lexilexi

Wait a minute, you rebranded 200 eBooks and have them up for sale on CB.

Yes and No.

Yes, i do have 200 books that anyone can promote through Clickbank.

But No, i do not have these books in the CB marketplace. I am using Easy Click Mate to manage multiple CB products through one CB account. Using this method, only 1 product per account will be live in the CB marketplace.

Once a few products emerge as sure-shot winners. I will be creating different CB accounts for each of these products.

Originally Posted by lexilexi

You created 126 eBooks of average 70 pages of content as free giveaways to promote.
You created 7,000 articles.

Thats AMAZING.

I take my hat off to you for your incredible dedication and hard work.

Thanks

Originally Posted by lexilexi

I'm a believer that one of the keys to this game is "volume and scaling". Put another way; if you can create something that brings in $5 per day, create 100 of these. Not only that, but all the products in a catalog help sell the other products and lift the whole network higher.

My only critique of what you have done... it's sometimes good to test things small scale before going big. That way you know that your efforts have been in the right direction. However, it sounds as though you've been working to a masterplan from the outset... and it seems you've created such an incredible asset for yourself that it's destined to take off.

Would love to be kept up to date on how you put this Godzilla into motion; and how well it does for you. Are you going to blog about it? Let me know, I'll subscribe.

All the best!

Even i believe in testing things out before going gung-ho about something! But i am not too much of a testing freak. I feel testing involves a lot of variables that are beyond our control.

I know that around 5% products would do really well and around 25% would not do well at all. But around 70% would give me average sale. By average, i mean at least 1-2 sales a month. That's around 150 sales a month.

But these % that i have given are just very random. I would wait and see what the actual results are.

And thank you for your encouraging words. Really appreciate it.
I am not planning to blog about it right now, but if i do, i would sure keep you posted.

Regards
Abhi

[lexilexi]

Thanks Abhi.
It's interesting what you say about sure-shot winners and the top 5%... I've found this to be the case with many of my IM ventures.
For example, my most successful web site gets ten times as much traffic as the second most successful!
It seems you have to try a lot of things to find the winners. If you only create one or two products, one or two web sites, you're not giving yourself every chance of success.

Best,
Alex.

[tommen]

Abhi, you sure have been busy.I have concentrated completely on blogging and building a list.

[Mark Coverdale]

Wow Abhi,

That is a huge amount of work. You desrve all the success that come of it.
I agree, its a numbers game, but with that many products out there you are sure to hit a couple of big winners. And I hope you do.

All the best mate, and well done.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Mohsin

Yeah, you are right. It's just like..."throw them all at the wall, and see which ones stick!"

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Alex

Yeah, if i am good at testing, i might find out the 5% winners. But then, i would be missing out on the 70% average sites, that may not be worth much individually...but together, they can generate a good income.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Tommen

All the best for your blogging and list-building ventures

[wingsofsuccess]

Hey dooly

Thanks dude

I believe the law of averages is as true as the law of gravity. And it's all a numbers game.

[Greg Cooksley]

Hey Abhi,

Good on you for actually following through on your plan....

Well done...

And I want to wish you every success and unbelievable happiness
with your upcoming marriage....

Regards

Greg

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Greg

This is a very exciting time for me
Thank you for your all your wishes...business and personal!

Abhi

[davemiz]

congrats. its a lot of work..... key thing: what are the results so far?

hard to know where you should go without knowing whats worked for you.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Dave

My article submission is currently underway. Should be having all articles live in the next few days. I should then give a few days for the articles to "mature" before seeing some results.

The results that i am already seeing is in terms of my subscribers. Since the last 2 days, i have seen a 3x increase in my subscriber base per day. Let me see if this is just a one-time phenomenon or it is here to stay.

A few more days into this would give me a better picture.

Abhi

[Resale Rights Ninja]

That is awesome, and inspiring. Thank you very much for this uplifting post. See what happens when you set a goal, and follow through on it? You should make a post on the goal setting site 43 thing. Way to go!

[awesometbn]

Hello wingsofsuccess,
I just wanted to say thank you for posting so much detail and clear descriptions of your activities. It's a great game plan. Thanks for sharing your success with the rest of us.

[Marhelper]

Wow, your diligence and thoroughness are truly impressive. The bottom line is --> scale the stuff that is producing the money and continue to tweak it.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Ninja

Thank you. Really appreciate your positive comments. Hope it helps others as well

[wingsofsuccess]

Update :

From #6, i have moved up to #5 on EzineArticles

[ShaunAllen]

WOW!

I just checked everything out. I am impressed. I wish I could take action like that. Your salesletters look pretty good too. Especially considering most of the products I see being sold on there.

[DougBarger]

Hi Abhi,

Great job for creating your plan, working your plan to achieve your goals and taking focused action.

You had asked for any ways to improve and I'd just like to suggest

taking some of those free reports you offer to get opt ins

and submitting them to the several giveaway events as gifts

to get more targeted traffic in front of your one time offers,

in your follow up system and back to your site.

The reason it is targeted traffic, is because only the people that

read the description of your gift and decide they want to opt in

are on your list and that can add a lot of extra sales to your one time offers as well as help you build a list of buyers from those who

take you up on your offer.

If you'd like some more info on easy ways to get started with that and to really maximize it, drop me a pm.

Doug

[athena08]

Abhi,

I am amazed at the magnitude of what you have put together and most definitely interested in knowing how it all works out for you. Congratulations on that fantastic business effort you put forth.

Please keep us posted here in the forum as to how things work out, the good and the bad.

Thanks for sharing. Proof that it's always good to have a plan.

[Black Hat Cat]

The results that i am already seeing is in terms of my subscribers. Since the last 2 days, i have seen a 3x increase in my subscriber base per day. Let me see if this is just a one-time phenomenon or it is here to stay.

But what does that mean? 3x increase doesn't tell us anything. If you were getting 2 subscribers before, that means you're getting 6 now. Are we to assume by your tone that so far, your strategy hasn't resulted in sales? With over 3,000 articles live, I hope this isn't the case.

Kudos on your effort, but I'm not sure it was the best way to do things. But at least you took action, which is more than most. I hope it pays off for you.

[robseko]

Wow! I am humbled by your focused effort and I am sure it will pay off handsomely. You could get even more traffic by optimizing your websites and submitting them to as many search engines and directories as you can. I wish you a happy marriage.

[xanol]

Wow, you hear the phrase "MASSIVE ACTION" being thrown around a lot, but this is a great example of what you can accomplish when you commit yourself to a goal. I have no doubt you will find success.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Dave

Thank you!
Getting started is half the battle won. And i am glad that i started.

[wingsofsuccess]

Hi Doug

Thank you for your suggestions:

1. I am already using the free books to get leads. In fact, that was the main reason i created these books. My 126 free books are getting me leads for 126 different niches.

2. Free giveaways are a good idea. In the IM niche, most giveaways do not allow more than 1 product per person. I will need to find out about giveaways in Non-IM niches. And if i find some, i think its a great idea to work on. Thanks!

[Norma Holt]

Originally Posted by wingsofsuccess

Hello Norma

As Hamida correctly pointed out, I have used all PLR books, and i have all rights to modify them as much (or as little) as i want to.

So there is no problem with that.

Regards
Abhi

Hi Abhi, Sorry if I misunderstood. I have been working too hard I guess. You have done well then and like people above have said is it making you money>

God bless

[rondo]

Wow that's a huge effort.
How much traffic are you getting from the live articles?


Andrew

[Michael Dominic]

According to your Twitter, it seems like you submitted most of the 7,000 articles within the last few weeks? That's amazing! Good work my friend.

I wonder what EZA thought of this! Must have backed them up a little bit...

How long did it take you to submit all of your articles?

How many articles are live right now?

How many article views have you gotten so far?

How many clicks to your links?

How many e-mails have been added to your lists?

[bhuff85]

I'm impressed by these numbers.....

How are you doing with sales in relation to the number of articles you have out?

Are you currently submitting these articles anywhere other than EZA?

If possible, I would submit these articles to the top 10-15 article directories out there. More backlinks never hurt anyone

[KevL]

There is no right & wrong really, all there is, is better or worse results - one thing is for sure, you've put in a boat load of effort!! Nothing can be wrong about that, now really all you can do is deal with the results - and tweak anything that you find you could have done better, in terms of results.

The only real wrong thing, I think, is not taking action in the first place, you've taken action, and massive action at that!

Good on ya!

[alyoung]

Great plan and good keep job sticking to the plan and seeing it thru. This is a blueprint of maxing out profits form PLR articles. Keep us posted.

[wingsofsuccess]

Update :

I have now moved up from #5 to #4

[teenmoney]

That is quite amazing. Way to plan and then actually follow and carry out your plan.
How many sales have you been averaging a day so far?

[rondo]

Originally Posted by wingsofsuccess

Update :

I have now moved up from #5 to #4

That's great but what's it doing for your traffic and sales?


Andrew

[CanuckMike]

Thats an incredible number of articles and work. Very well done. I too would be interested in seeing how many sales it is averaging?

Hard work really does pay off.