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What is the true earning potential from article marketing?

by Tre81
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Five figures? Low six figures? Mid six figures? Maybe even seven?


Not trying to make this a "how much do you make" kind of thread, I'm just curious about what level of income is possible strictly from article promotion.
Maybe a few of you guys will even give us some juicy details!
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  • Profile picture of the author aaron_nimocks
    Are we using decimal points and is this per day/month/year/decade?

    You get what you put in. It's possible to make 7 figures. But just to guesstimate you will need to work for 20 hours a day for 5 years before you get there.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by aaron_nimocks View Post

      You get what you put in. It's possible to make 7 figures. But just to guesstimate you will need to work for 20 hours a day for 5 years before you get there.
      Exactly so.

      It depends whether you adopt a "write for clicks, rinse and repeat" model of article marketing, with which you can get off to a relatively fast start but will probably always have a relatively low earnings-ceiling with much of your income continually fading away and needing fast replacement, or a "write for syndication, build a business" model, with which you may have a slower start but will eventually probably earn far, far more, because the residual income from work already done continues compounding as you also add more and more new input.

      (I had a slow start - a very slow start, in fact, because I tried "the wrong model" first, as many do - and finally got up to five-figures per month only after about 26/27 months. But the first 15 months of that was about 25 - 30 hours per week of fairly concentrated work: I do a lot less than that, now, having established that I'm on the right path.)

      Originally Posted by inter123 View Post

      If the Sale price on average at $40, that is $30,000 over 4 years which is $7500 per year.

      This is just based on Ezine Articles but if other article directories where the articles published on Ezine Articles are allowed, it will probably bump up the figures somewhat.
      Most of the real income available via EZA copies of articles doesn't come from anything you can see or work out on their site itself: it comes from the subsequent syndication.
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      • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
        My friend (co-author of my course) writes for strictly adsense clicks. He hadn't submitted an article since July 2010 until the tail end of December, and, every single day, he made $50+/day entirely passively. Had he integrated affiliate links (like I tell him to do), he could very well be seeing $75/100+/day.

        And, the kicker is that it's on a low authority website.

        (I know those earnings don't really compare to yours, but it's still nice considering that it's entirely passive.)


        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Exactly so.

        It depends whether you adopt a "write for clicks, rinse and repeat" model of article marketing, with which you can get off to a relatively fast start but will probably always have a relatively low earnings-ceiling with much of your income continually fading away and needing fast replacement, or a "write for syndication, build a business" model, with which you may have a slower start but will eventually probably earn far, far more, because the residual income from work already done continues compounding as you also add more and more new input.

        (I had a slow start - a very slow start, in fact, because I tried "the wrong model" first, as many do - and finally got up to five-figures per month only after about 26/27 months. But the first 15 months of that was about 25 - 30 hours per week of fairly concentrated work: I do a lot less than that, now, having established that I'm on the right path.)



        Most of the real income available via EZA copies of articles doesn't come from anything you can see or work out on their site itself: it comes from the subsequent syndication.
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    • Profile picture of the author RaptorGabe
      Originally Posted by aaron_nimocks View Post

      Are we using decimal points and is this per day/month/year/decade?

      You get what you put in. It's possible to make 7 figures. But just to guesstimate you will need to work for 20 hours a day for 5 years before you get there.

      HAHAHAHAHAH 20 hours a day 5 years huh? Lets get started . Actually if you have the right fingers and the right keyword sense you can do it considerably quicker
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    One lecturer estimated that the monthly revenue per month for a typical marketer is $5 per article - per month, while exceptional marketers manage to earn $20 per article - per month. Theses would not be simple direct link affiliate articles, these are earning figures for an integrated marketing setup with articles linking to affiliate pre-sale pages, or your own sales pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author inter123
      So where are is the info of this "lecturer" published?

      Originally Posted by webapex View Post

      One lecturer estimated that the monthly revenue per month for a typical marketer is $5 per article - per month..
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  • Profile picture of the author inter123
    I have no real life experience doing Article Marketing myself but this is just a few stats I noticed. I saw some dude on Ezine Articles with around 3,000 articles published in the last 4 years.

    These articles have received close to 500,000 views. If the click through rate was 15% (which is about the average) that is 75,000 visitors to his website(s). If the conversion rate is 1%, that is 750 products sold in 4 years.

    If the Sale price on average at $40, that is $30,000 over 4 years which is $7500 per year.

    This is just based on Ezine Articles but if other article directories where the articles published on Ezine Articles are allowed, it will probably bump up the figures somewhat.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    I think it really depends on the niche and competition. You may be able to rank high at first, but then your rank can go down if you don't build back links that that particular article. I notice that my articles start on the first page and then end up on page 10 unless I promote the articles as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigslamgyrl
    I spun my wheels with article marketing for a year or so. I made money, but I could not break a part time income.

    Article marketing is great, but once I learned to use my articles to build my email list, that is when those articles really started paying off.

    If someone is interested enough to read your article and click your link, odds are that they will be interested enough to sign up for your email list. Then you can reach them over and over again.

    My article marketing really started to make a difference once I learned this.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    I have had articles that by themselves generated 5-figures.

    I have had a couple years where my gross earnings were 6-figures as a result of article marketing.

    It all depends on what you bring into the equation.

    Its potential and your potential are usually different. Will you potential reach where you could truly go with article marketing?

    Only you know the answer to that, and the answer depends as much on what you are willing to invest into it as anything else.

    Most people who do article marketing are always looking for the shortcuts... And shortcuts generally lead the person using them to ruin...

    It really is up to you whether you reach its full potential or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tre81
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      Do you see article marketing getting you to the next level (mid six-seven figures) or do you see it as a platform to fund a bigger project you have in mind?
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by Tre81 View Post

        tpw

        Do you see article marketing getting you to the next level (mid six-seven figures) or do you see it as a platform to fund a bigger project you have in mind?

        I see article marketing as an integral component of any marketing plan for all of my online properties.

        The only areas I see article marketing to be ineffective is in local marketing and offline marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart S
    Yes, I know you can achieve 6 figure income if not 7 figures. It really depends if on how well you can pre-sell your product in the article and if you capture the people who click through in a list aswell.

    Also I always see AM as a numbers games so it's really hard to look at an average because some of my articles perform substantially better than others I guess it's the old 80% of your results come from 20% of your work.

    But I guess you learn from what doesn't work, so you really need to just begin writing articles and learning some basic copywriting skills and don't be upset when some articles don't deliver.
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