Easy First Steps for Potential New Internet Marketers
As a brand-new student (7 days today) of the Internet Marketing profession, I'm really excited and encouraged by what I read here on the Warrior Forum (WF). Ironically enough, I came across a Yahoo! Answers questions about working from home. Someone very casually mentioned WF. The moment I got here, I was hooked.
So, what's my purpose with this thread?
I want learn from those who have more experience and help other green IMer's like myself.
I've heard that action is everything in this business, so here's what I've done in my first 7 days.
- Setup Publisher accounts at ClickBank, Commission Junction (CJ), and CPALead.
- Setup Facebook and Google PPC accounts.
- Found 3 ClickBank offers to promote and am attempting to profit from the 7 or so ads I've setup in 2 different campaigns (1 product category I tried to work wasn't accepted by Facebook).
- I found a high-traffic, low-competition niche in the craft industry and created a WordPress based, SEO-optimized website where I'll build my list by offering a 100% unique eBook. Content is limited at this point as article writing takes me time.
- I created a CPA landing page that utilizes a content unlocker from CPALeads to give away an eBook in an online gaming niche after survey/download completion.
- I began article writing for the Yahoo! Contributor Network, Demand Studios (eHow), and Break Studios all in an effort to earn part-time income, and more importantly, learn how to write SEO articles.
- I've placed Commission Junction banner ads relating to web hosting on my business website and a banner ad on a customer's website.
- I've contacted about 5 sites about possible small media buys.
- For my first campaign (a direct-linked Facebook ad campaign promoting ClickBank's CityVille Secrets guide by T-Dub), I was able to get 497 hops in 6 days, but neither of the 2 order form submits converted. I stopped the ads after spending about $60. This was a good learning experience.
- Campaign number 2: Same style as above for a different vertical, and have generated about 20 hops for about $5. I had 1 order form submit not go through. This is still active.
- No traffic to my craft niche site- this is to be expected with only 2 articles currently on there.
- In about 3 hours, I generated more than 30 unique visitors to my gaming niche landing page. None of the 5 surveys/download that were attempted actually fully converted.
- My writing has gone well; I've had 4 articles accepted and my hourly rate for those is averaging about $8-9/hour.
- None of the CJ ads have done anything as these websites get very little traffic. But hey, it's a start.
All in all, I've learned a TON in these 7 days. There is more to read on this subject than I can take in. My process seems to be: I read or listen to something exciting, and go and try it... or at least think about trying it. Then, I get distracted by another skills/resource/SEO method, etc.
To date, I'm out $60 and about 70 hours or so, but hey, at least I'm moving forward right? And, thank you SO much to those pro's out there that have posted step-by-step guides on how to do stuff- they have been extremely valuable to me.
Questions for the masses...
Suggestions for where to go from here?
What do you think are the top 5 skills a newbie needs to develop to be successful at IM? (SEO, article writing, writing in general, niche research, etc.)
Are there any other brand new folks like me who want to motivate each other?
Are there any actual profits to be made outside of the IM to IM market? (I see everyone on here selling their "expertise" to new people)
Thanks for your time and the advice!
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