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15 years ago

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

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

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.
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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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

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Norma Holt

15 years ago

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

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

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
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Rajul kaushik

15 years ago

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.

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

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
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Ryan Even

15 years ago

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

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Norma Holt

15 years ago

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.

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Hamida Harland

15 years ago

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?

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Andyhenry

15 years ago

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

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Mohsin Rasool

15 years ago

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

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Thanks Mohsin

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

Regards
Abhi

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Mohsin Rasool 15 years ago

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
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- Greg Cooksley 15 years ago
  
  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
  
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lexilexi

15 years ago

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!

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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.

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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

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lexilexi

15 years ago

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.

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Mark Coverdale 15 years ago

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.
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tommen

15 years ago

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

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Mohsin

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

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Tommen

All the best for your blogging and list-building ventures

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Greg

This is a very exciting time for me

Thank you for your all your wishes...business and personal!

Abhi

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davemiz 15 years ago

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.
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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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

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Resale Rights Ninja

15 years ago

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!

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Hi Ninja

Thank you. Really appreciate your positive comments. Hope it helps others as well
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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Update :

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

15 years ago

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.

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Marhelper 15 years ago

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.
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ShaunAllen

15 years ago

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.

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DougBarger

15 years ago

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

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athena08

15 years ago

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.

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Banned 15 years ago

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.

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robseko 15 years ago

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.
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xanol

15 years ago

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.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Dave

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

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

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!

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rondo

15 years ago

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

Andrew

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Michael Dominic

15 years ago

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?

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trippmarxx

15 years ago

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

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KevL

15 years ago

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!

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alyoung

15 years ago

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.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Update :

I have now moved up from #5 to #4

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rondo 15 years ago

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
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teenmoney

15 years ago

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?

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CanuckMike

15 years ago

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.

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Innocent Akuma

15 years ago

Hi Wingsofsuccess,

You really inspired me!
Wish you all the success that follow hardwork.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi

A message to all those who want to know how much sale i have been averaging...

I am using Articles as the main source of traffic for my sites. And I have started submitting my articles to EZA just 2-3 ago.

If you have tried submitting articles, you would know that it takes a while before you see traffic. You WILL get traffic...and hoards of them...but you require a lot of patience, and have to give time for the articles to spread.

I hope that within the next 1 week or so, i should start seeing results. I will keep the forum posted about my progress and sales.

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Originally Posted by wingsofsuccess

Hi

A message to all those who want to know how much sale i have been averaging...

I am using Articles as the main source of traffic for my sites. And I have started submitting my articles to EZA just 2-3 ago.

If you have tried submitting articles, you would know that it takes a while before you see traffic. You WILL get traffic...and hoards of them...but you require a lot of patience, and have to give time for the articles to spread.

I hope that within the next 1 week or so, i should start seeing results. I will keep the forum posted about my progress and sales.

Wow, kudos on the massive action. I do wonder if it might have been easier for you to start smaller. It sounds like you did all of this work before driving traffic to any of your websites. Was there a reason for not submitting articles sooner?

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Hi Thomas

Thank you

As i had mentioned in one of my posts, i have a site i created 2 years ago. Wrote around 20 articles for that site. And just those few articles are responsible for around 15 sales a month from that site alone.

So i knew that this business model works.

I wanted to repeat it. So instead of doing it one by one, i did all of them together. I believe it would have taken me several years had i started slowly.

With so many distractions around, it is very difficult to maintain focus for an extended period of time. And when i am focused, I prefer doing things in a big scale.

I know. Many people like to play safe and start low. And i appreciate that. But that's just not me. I believe in big numbers and i know the law of averages will play its role.

Regarding articles, it took me a lot more time than i expected (3 months more than what i had originally planned). But i am glad that it is all ready now!

Abhi
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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi

Update :
Moved up from #4 to #3 (on EzineArticles Expert Author's list)

Abhi

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ShafirAhmad

15 years ago

Wow Abhi,

Thats a massive effort you have taken. If I'm not mistaken, you did a lot of groundwork before submitting any articles to EzineArticles. So about a month ago, you would have been at a rank of 10,000 or more in EA, and today you are #4 !

That must have given the editors at EA a lot of headaches. But hey, that will get you some massive traffic.

Am interested in hearing your results of all that traffic in a week or so. Also what are your ongoing marketing plans. Do you plan on writing and submitting more articles for each product, or are you going to wait and see what happens before taking the next step.

Peace,
Shafir

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Hi Shafir

Yeah, there was a lot of groundwork before i started my submission. No, i wasn't at #10,000 . I was at #728 because i had already submitted a few articles a few months ago for some other niches. I have now moved from #728 to #3

I started my submission after communicating with EZA. Did not want them to think that i was spamming them!

I will keep you updated about the results.

Abhi
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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Update:

Made 3 sales last night!!!
2 regular. 1 OTO.

Abhi

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Update:

I now have 6,929 articles live on EzineArticles. Less than 100 left before I reach the 7,000 mark.

I got 52 subscribers for my niche sites yesterday. I am already at 39 today. Since i have more articles live today than yesterday, hopefully i should cross 75 subscribers today.

I am aiming at 200 subscribers per day in the next 2 months.

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Jason Fladlien

15 years ago

I'm not impressed... yet.

I think a lot of you who are commenting are missing the point. I would not applaud Abhi's work ethic until I saw some numbers. For example, total profit generated. How much did he make from this excursion? Next, how many hours did he put into it related to the profit he made from those hours?

The key is not just massive action. Doing a lot of hardwork that doesn't result in big payoff isn't smart... it's dumb.

I'm into doing the tasks that have the highest leverage of my time. So what I want to know is hour to profit ratio.

Second, I would NOT have sunk 15 months into so many projects. 80/20 rule. Out of those 200 books, I'd bet $1500 that only 10-15 are really making any money. Result: dump the rest and then focus my time only on the money makers. Develop continuity programs and complimentary offer on the backend. This is where the real money is made. You already have proven demand... you can leverage that 8 ways to sunday and make 10 times the cash you're going to make on the front end. So it'd be a dumb business move NOT to do this.

Anytime someone isn't forthright with their numbers, and focuses on less significant numbers, a red flag goes up in my mind. As an entrepreneur, the first thing that is always on my mind is profit. profit. profit. Not how many articles did I submit. How many products I made. My ranking on ezinearticles. I want to know average profit per article. average profit per product. etc.

That's how you make business decisions.

Lastly, it sounds to me that this isn't getting the success that Abhi initially envisioned. And I'm speculating of course, but if that is true, then I think the reason is obvious. Abhi is NOT focusing on the client actually wants but on what he thinks the client wants. So he equates bulk to value. The marketplace doesn't always do so. He equates nice looking ebooks and covers with value. That's not always true in the marketplace. Much much more important is what they are desperate for and what they want more than anything else. Find a solution to that and you can write it in crayon on the back of a napkin and you're delivering 10 time more value than a beautiful looking ebook with tons of well-researched but not groundbreaking content.

The only reason I'm being the professor of harsh reality here is because I think a lot of you warriors who are trying to succeed online are making a huge mistake if you're thinking what Abhi did is smart and something to model. I don't know if it was a smart business move or not. Only when I see the numbers.

Remember, at the end of the day it's profit. That's the only number that matters in business.

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Jason

That was a great post and a very passionate one too.

I agree with most of what you have said. At the end of the day its profit and nothing but profit.

I think i have been very transparent in my posts mentioning that it has been just a few days since i have started submitting articles. And i need to give it some time before i can get the "real numbers".

Had this been a big JV launch or something, probably i could have given the numbers within 24 hours. But unfortunately this is all about getting organic search engine traffic.

My focus from the very beginning was getting traffic through articles I knew JV and other modes of traffic would soon follow. And no matter how much i dislike this fact, the thing is, i need to give a gestation period before i see real numbers.

I have structured this entire project so that there are various points of monetization:

1. Sales from my front end books.
2. Sales from my OTO of my front end books.
3. Sales from OTO after a subscriber subscribes to any of my lists.
4. Sales from the affiliate ads in all my front end books
5. Sales from affiliate ads in all my free books
6. Sales from any rebranding package of my free books
7. Sales from my Affiliate pitches in my autoresponders
8. Sales from any affiliate broadcast messages to any of my niche lists.
9. Any earnings from contextual (adsense etc) or In-text (kontera etc) across my thousands of article pages on my niche sites ( i am still in the process of setting this up)
10. % of sales made by my affiliates.

I have tried to structure this entire setup so that the above monetization methods are all linked to each other, like a huge network. The traffic i would be getting would be driving sales, and each sale would be driving more traffic.

I believe in 80/20 rule too. And i know just a few of these books will be winners. The others, though not winners will give me some sales every month. And if you add them up, it will surely put a smile on my face.

Just an example. Two days ago i made my first sale. And it was from a niche that i would least expect. It was about perfumes. Out of all the interesting niches i have, this was something surprising.

Now if i tested all my niches before starting my work, i am very sure that creating a site on perfume would probably be the last thing i did.

Creating nice looking ebooks, formatting the books well, may not be enough in themselves. But they are very important pieces of the big picture. In their own rights, every element counts.

Bulk may not equal quality. But there is quality in bulk. If that was not the case, we would not be talking about building huge lists. Because 80% of those on the lists hardly buy anything from us. Only 20% do. These 20% are hidden somewhere in our lists.

80% of my 7,000+ articles will probably not give me enough traffic. But 20% will.
Which 20% are they? I don't know. Only time will tell. But they are there, for sure.

My main point here is this:

1. Organic traffic takes time. And it is unfair to expect "numbers" so soon.
2. Testing is great. But getting overly obsessed with testing might make you lose several additional sales from between the cracks.
3. There is power in bulk. Quality will surface only from quantity.

Regards
Abhi

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discrat

15 years ago

Originally Posted by wingsofsuccess

Hi Jason

That was a great post and a very passionate one too.

I agree with most of what you have said. At the end of the day its profit and nothing but profit.

I think i have been very transparent in my posts mentioning that it has been just a few days since i have started submitting articles. And i need to give it some time before i can get the "real numbers".

Had this been a big JV launch or something, probably i could have given the numbers within 24 hours. But unfortunately this is all about getting organic search engine traffic.

My focus from the very beginning was getting traffic through articles I knew JV and other modes of traffic would soon follow. And no matter how much i dislike this fact, the thing is, i need to give a gestation period before i see real numbers.

I have structured this entire project so that there are various points of monetization:

1. Sales from my front end books.
2. Sales from my OTO of my front end books.
3. Sales from OTO after a subscriber subscribes to any of my lists.
4. Sales from the affiliate ads in all my front end books
5. Sales from affiliate ads in all my free books
6. Sales from any rebranding package of my free books
7. Sales from my Affiliate pitches in my autoresponders
8. Sales from any affiliate broadcast messages to any of my niche lists.
9. Any earnings from contextual (adsense etc) or In-text (kontera etc) across my thousands of article pages on my niche sites ( i am still in the process of setting this up)
10. % of sales made by my affiliates.

I have tried to structure this entire setup so that the above monetization methods are all linked to each other, like a huge network. The traffic i would be getting would be driving sales, and each sale would be driving more traffic.

I believe in 80/20 rule too. And i know just a few of these books will be winners. The others, though not winners will give me some sales every month. And if you add them up, it will surely put a smile on my face.

Just an example. Two days ago i made my first sale. And it was from a niche that i would least expect. It was about perfumes. Out of all the interesting niches i have, this was something surprising.

Now if i tested all my niches before starting my work, i am very sure that creating a site on perfume would probably be the last thing i did.

Creating nice looking ebooks, formatting the books well, may not be enough in themselves. But they are very important pieces of the big picture. In their own rights, every element counts.

Bulk may not equal quality. But there is quality in bulk. If that was not the case, we would not be talking about building huge lists. Because 80% of those on the lists hardly buy anything from us. Only 20% do. These 20% are hidden somewhere in our lists.

80% of my 7,000+ articles will probably not give me enough traffic. But 20% will.
Which 20% are they? I don't know. Only time will tell. But they are there, for sure.

My main point here is this:

1. Organic traffic takes time. And it is unfair to expect "numbers" so soon.
2. Testing is great. But getting overly obsessed with testing might make you lose several additional sales from between the cracks.
3. There is power in bulk. Quality will surface only from quantity.

Regards
Abhi

Ha Abhi,
That is so Awesome to be able to do what you did. Great job and keep it going. Also, I want to commend you on how you reacted to the guy who was obviously trying to make controversy in the post before yours. Good job for NOT feeding into him . As to me he was just wanting to rile you up and be a hater. Congrats, on taking the higher ground.

You are going to be incredibly successful !!

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Amy Bass

15 years ago

I commend you for your determination and hard work. Sounds like you are doing awesome! What sort of income are you pulling in now from those 15 months of elbow grease if you don't mind me asking?

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wingsofsuccess

15 years ago

Hi Amy

Thank you

Regarding my income, i have just written a detailed post above..phew!

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Cash37

15 years ago

May I ask how well you are doing financially? Are you full time? 4 figures a month?

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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Hi Cash37

Yeah, I am full time with a comfortable 4 figures a month.
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wingsofsuccess 15 years ago

Hi Tyler

Thank you

Netmarketinglegend

Yeah, if i were to start again, i would outsource more. And do things faster and better!

-Abhi
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prodozoan 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Cash37

May I ask how well you are doing financially? Are you full time? 4 figures a month?

For folks that do not recognize him, he is Abishek Agarwal from Matt Callen's Adsense arbitrage case study...are u a full time could be an understatement

About your current project, I wish you luck and I will be surprised if it breaks even or profits for you. But I hope to be surprised

Also a bit curious, does the arbitrage model still work for you?

Ajith
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- ShafirAhmad 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by prodozoan
  
  For folks that do not recognize him, he is Abishek Agarwal from Matt Callen's Adsense arbitrage case study...are u a full time could be an understatement
  
  No wonder I thought the name looked very familiar. I just could not place the name.
  
  While I applaud the effort expended, I think it might have been a good thing to stagger the articles, ie to submit a few articles per subject per week, instead of going one shot and flooding the market with the articles.
  
  We do know that Captain TimG has around 1500+ articles, and makes 5 figures a month from them (He does not even have an opt in on many (all?) of his sites) but he does do a lot of testing on which niches work.
  
  Frankly, I do not know what kind of results to expect from such a massive article blast, though from my own experience, 5 articles in 1 day did worse than 1 every few days for 5 articles.
  
  This is still a phenomenal effort, and sticking to the plan must have taken massive willpower.
  
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Tyler Boshears

15 years ago

This is very motivating! Thanks for posting this!

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Ewan Robb

15 years ago

Amazing effort, you have put in a lot of hard work so you deserve to reap the rewards. as for me, i will let others do all the hard work for me and i will just use their turnkey systems

not because im lazy but because i would not have a dam clue to start with all the stuff you did

Well done mate,

All the best in your success