My Strategy for $800 in my first month

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You don't need an established website to make a great deal of money with clickbank or any affiliate program for that matter. This strategy will work whether you have $0 or $100,000 to advertise, as it is based on hard work and free methods. Outsourcing this work is entirely possible and recommended for experienced marketers. Incorporating other strategies such as an email capturing tool would be incredibly powerful, but is not recommended for noob marketers.

For one month I did the following every single day with $0 earnings until the very last few days of the month. At that point I made $800 in three days, but it took a month of prepartion and hard work.

Here's how I did it: $800 in my first month with Clickbank (works for any affiliate program though)

Week 1

Step 1: Create blogger.com blog for free. Didn't even buy my own domain. Also install google analytics. Finally, submit the site to google for indexing.

Step 2: Write articles throughout week one and have them all qued up to go throughout the month. This way I don't have to worry about having articles appearing on the site and can focus on the marketing aspects. If you can't write one month's worth of posts (daily publications are best) in a single week then you aren't ready for this strategy.

Step 3: With each published article I submitted it to ezinearticles.com and linked to both the post itself and the blog.

Week 2

Step 1: Continue republishing articles to ezinearticles.com. Modify the articles slightly to increase conversion rates and to appeal to the ezinearticles.com audience.

Step 2: Identify 5 blogs using google blog search in the same niche which you can write guest posts for. Get in touch with these authors and start writing guest posts.

Step 3: Get active on a forum related to your niche and create a signature that links to your site. Don't talk about your site, just chat it up in the forum and be helpful. Reuse the content of your daily postings (including ones that haven't been published yet) to increase credibility on the forum.

Week 3

Step 1: Some if not all of your guest posts should get published by the end of the week. Comment on these posts to everyone that replies with a question or thanks you for the post.

Step 2: Continue republishing articles to ezinearticles.com.

Step 3: Review your google analytics and see where your traffic is coming from. Has the forum sent you anything? How about your guest posts? Has google found you yet? Focus on keywords now and adjust your prewritten articles to meet the keywords you want to hit. You'd like to get a handful of google hits per day now that you are becoming better known. Make sure you rank #1 to #4 for your exact title on google search.

Step 4: Identify a product and more importantly, a product author who you can contact and sell to your audience. Do an interview over email with the person: send them questions and ask them to fill it out as if it were a live discussion.

Week 4

Step 1: Prepare your audience with a post stating that you are interviewing an influential member of the community about a new product they are developing to make everyone's lives easier and do X well.

Step 2: Towards the middle of the week, release your interview and sell the product with your affiliate link.

Step 3: Oversell a little bit by releasing a post on how you are using the product successfully.

Step 4: Focus on writing ezinearticles which talk about reviewing the product and also have keywords like "interview with Author Name", etc.

Month 2

Repeat the process, write your posts for the month, find more guest posts, get another product to sell, etc.

This is how I made $800 in my first month of online marketing, with absolutley no knowledge of how the gurus did it or even how to properly use adsense.
#$800 #month #strategy
  • Profile picture of the author Coyotex
    Awesome stuff Chris! Thanks for sharing. When you say "make sure you rank #1-#4", how to you do that?
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    • Originally Posted by Coyotex View Post

      Awesome stuff Chris! Thanks for sharing. When you say "make sure you rank #1-#4", how to you do that?
      I could write you a thousand pages on how to rank, but let's leave it at doing good SEO and making sure that your title, description, bolded body text and keywords closely resemble the phrase you want to be found for.

      With regards to ranking and traffic, you are going to get traffic from ezines, guest posts,the forum you visit and google hopefully.

      If you do a good job of becoming a member of the niche you're marketing to, you will get far more traffic and viral marketing from other members of the niche who discover you.

      Going to where your audience is already will do you the most good. That's what this strategy is focused on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oneal Degrassi
    Do you do any link building at all, or do you just get them from EZA?
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  • Profile picture of the author Amit.Raut
    thanks for the suggetions
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    • Profile picture of the author The Bad Blogger
      U know... I was hoping this post was out in 3 years back and I might just follow your step to make some money when I just started out ... well... $800 to a lot of people who are new is really a big deal seriously... is really nice of you sharing this ...
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  • Everything is great apart from the over selling... that isn't overselling ... That's a pure lie.
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    • Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

      Everything is great apart from the over selling... that isn't overselling ... That's a pure lie.
      I didn't mean it in a technical way, I was merely stating that you were going to sell it more than once to your audience, so I felt "overselling" was an appropriate term for it.

      Overselling for one person can mean more than once, for others it is more than ten times.
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      • Originally Posted by Chris The Traffic Blogger View Post

        I didn't mean it in a technical way, I was merely stating that you were going to sell it more than once to your audience, so I felt "overselling" was an appropriate term for it.

        Overselling for one person can mean more than once, for others it is more than ten times.
        I've no problem with that, but I mean, are you actually using said product successfully?
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  • Originally Posted by Ryan Kole View Post

    So, you made all of the $800 from Google:AdSense revenue alone? Altogether, great post for some newcomers looking for a plan...

    I would recommend switching to a different article directory, now that EZA has been not slapped, but "knocked out" by Google. It's still usable, but you should look out for others as well.

    I said that I made nothing until the last three days, all my profit came from affiliate sales from a product interview.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigjara
    Sounds like an interesting strategy. I'll have to keep it in mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    Its interesting
    I would also be interested to see if you maintain this. If not then it was just a blip

    if so then you deserve kudos
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  • Profile picture of the author schttrj
    Originally Posted by Chris The Traffic Blogger View Post

    You don't need an established website to make a great deal of money with clickbank or any affiliate program for that matter. This strategy will work whether you have $0 or $100,000 to advertise, as it is based on hard work and free methods. Outsourcing this work is entirely possible and recommended for experienced marketers. Incorporating other strategies such as an email capturing tool would be incredibly powerful, but is not recommended for noob marketers.

    For one month I did the following every single day with $0 earnings until the very last few days of the month. At that point I made $800 in three days, but it took a month of prepartion and hard work.

    Here's how I did it: $800 in my first month with Clickbank (works for any affiliate program though)

    Week 1

    Step 1: Create blogger.com blog for free. Didn't even buy my own domain. Also install google analytics. Finally, submit the site to google for indexing.

    Step 2: Write articles throughout week one and have them all qued up to go throughout the month. This way I don't have to worry about having articles appearing on the site and can focus on the marketing aspects. If you can't write one month's worth of posts (daily publications are best) in a single week then you aren't ready for this strategy.

    Step 3: With each published article I submitted it to ezinearticles.com and linked to both the post itself and the blog.

    Week 2

    Step 1: Continue republishing articles to ezinearticles.com. Modify the articles slightly to increase conversion rates and to appeal to the ezinearticles.com audience.

    Step 2: Identify 5 blogs using google blog search in the same niche which you can write guest posts for. Get in touch with these authors and start writing guest posts.

    Step 3: Get active on a forum related to your niche and create a signature that links to your site. Don't talk about your site, just chat it up in the forum and be helpful. Reuse the content of your daily postings (including ones that haven't been published yet) to increase credibility on the forum.

    Week 3

    Step 1: Some if not all of your guest posts should get published by the end of the week. Comment on these posts to everyone that replies with a question or thanks you for the post.

    Step 2: Continue republishing articles to ezinearticles.com.

    Step 3: Review your google analytics and see where your traffic is coming from. Has the forum sent you anything? How about your guest posts? Has google found you yet? Focus on keywords now and adjust your prewritten articles to meet the keywords you want to hit. You'd like to get a handful of google hits per day now that you are becoming better known. Make sure you rank #1 to #4 for your exact title on google search.

    Step 4: Identify a product and more importantly, a product author who you can contact and sell to your audience. Do an interview over email with the person: send them questions and ask them to fill it out as if it were a live discussion.

    Week 4

    Step 1: Prepare your audience with a post stating that you are interviewing an influential member of the community about a new product they are developing to make everyone's lives easier and do X well.

    Step 2: Towards the middle of the week, release your interview and sell the product with your affiliate link.

    Step 3: Oversell a little bit by releasing a post on how you are using the product successfully.

    Step 4: Focus on writing ezinearticles which talk about reviewing the product and also have keywords like "interview with Author Name", etc.

    Month 2

    Repeat the process, write your posts for the month, find more guest posts, get another product to sell, etc.

    This is how I made $800 in my first month of online marketing, with absolutley no knowledge of how the gurus did it or even how to properly use adsense.
    That's actually a SOLID plan! I love when people post such genuine marketing strategies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    This is a spectacular way to make money but it seems like lots of work for just $800 but hey some people make zero with all that work.
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  • Profile picture of the author remyhenry
    Great marketing strategies for beginners.
    Thanks for sharing
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  • Profile picture of the author vlsh
    great post, this is almost like the missing traffic link to this youtube video about picking a niche. he even shows you which niche he used at first to make some money:
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