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In need of a little direction

by Kyle Stankiewicz
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Hello warriors, I have been trying my hand at internet marketing for a few months now. I went through a couple programs (namely Chris Farrell, he is excellent) and gained some valuable skills. I can throw up a wordpress or html website/blog/squeeze page in a days time of decent quality that looks unique.

My problem is that I can't get past how fake my websites feel. Chris Farrell's program focuses on one-pagers explicitly promoting a product, and while it works for a lot of people I just can't get it going. Every time I look at a one-page website I made I say to myself "Wow, that looks gimmicky as hell and I would never buy from a site like this." It's just not my style, I want to back up my product with content and value.

I am a great writer and I try to provide my own content, though I have a massive pile of PLR that I haven't utilized. I was thinking about using all of this PLR content to fuel some content-based blogs and promote some stuff on there, but perhaps there is a better way. I was hoping you could maybe steer me in the right direction, should I find a nice profitable and low competition niche and establish a blog or content site, or should I really try to pump out a good squeeze page? Or perhaps neither? Right now all the money I make online comes from writing articles for a pittance, I would like to supplement it. Thanks for your help, warriors.
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  • Profile picture of the author EvcRo
    Then ignore what you learned and try to test what your feeling says.

    In my opinion, the time of 1 page sites that doesn't sell your own product are long gone. I mean, my only 1 page sites (+ about, contact, privacy, suport ages) are the ones that sell my own info products.

    For everything else they simply dont work (1 page sites).
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    • Profile picture of the author Kyle Stankiewicz
      Originally Posted by EvcRo View Post

      Then ignore what you learned and try to test what your feeling says.

      In my opinion, the time of 1 page sites that doesn't sell your own product are long gone. I mean, my only 1 page sites (+ about, contact, privacy, suport ages) are the ones that sell my own info products.

      For everything else they simply dont work (1 page sites).
      Thank you, that's good to know. I was confused by all the success those sites seem to have, I didn't think anyone trusted a site with that appearance enough to make a purchase.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Your feelings are probably quite correct, and it just just shows that you know how to do better. Often once a program becomes widespread, it is already over done and newer entrants find less success. But the best way to change that is to use your own creativity to make something better.
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnny Optimo
      What I do is have a blog with a ton of dynamic content, but then for a lot of my sales pages I remove the sidebar and strip everything down, and make a sales page from scratch. kind of gives you the best of both worlds and is easy to do in wordpress.

      I think it makes the whole thing look more genuine, like there's more to the site than just the sales page.. BUT, if I need to send traffic to those sales pages, they function as such
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      • Profile picture of the author Kyle Stankiewicz
        Originally Posted by Johnny Optimo View Post

        What I do is have a blog with a ton of dynamic content, but then for a lot of my sales pages I remove the sidebar and strip everything down, and make a sales page from scratch. kind of gives you the best of both worlds and is easy to do in wordpress.

        I think it makes the whole thing look more genuine, like there's more to the site than just the sales page.. BUT, if I need to send traffic to those sales pages, they function as such
        This is pretty much what I had in mind. Thanks for affirming that this is actually a successful method.

        When you say dynamic content on your blog, do you mean that it is feed-generated? Outsourced? Written by you?
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