I am looking for some feedback on my campaign

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Hello WF.

I have been lurking about here now for about 6 months and have only recently decided to man up and get active on the forum. I paid my $37 bucks for my War Room Membership and it was easily the best money I have spent since I began researching internet marketing. I see a ton of ways I could be making money daily in there. I am trying to focus on one money project for now.

Before we discuss where I am and where I am hoping to go I think it is important to start with where I have been. I have made my living for 6 years by promoting/dealing/organizing poker games in NYC in the underground scene. I used the internet to recruit and screen players eventually filling close to 1000 seats at poker games in 3 states. Along the way I got married had a kid and blew it all. Made it back and blew it all again before I learned my lesson. Youth is ignorance and I wish I could go back and slap the hell out of myself.

Due to circumstances beyond my control the poker business has dried up for me now. Between crooked games, houses stealing from players, robberies and raids the player pool has diminished considerably. Even for those of us who run an honest game. That combined with the close proximity of new casinos in the area has severely impacted my ability to provide for my family in my former trade.

Obviously when one earns at a certain level for a period of time your expenses tend to rise with your prosperity. Needless to say it has been a difficult adjustment. With a 6 year gap in my employment and a 6th grade education finding something with high enough ceiling has proven to be near impossible at best. I need to draw a workable income from something where I work for myself as normal work suits nothing about my character.

I have immersed myself in IM and SEO strategies for the last 3 months now. I have rebuilt my network for poker games so as I can continue earning a base living. I have about 1k invested in my IM business and training so far. I have 1-2k more on deck for startups.

I have a business service (funding and cash advances) I am contracted to carry and sell directly in a highly competitive niche. I also offer a one of a kind service that is similar to many of the servcies out there at first glance. I am targeting secondary keywords as my primary KWs rather than attempting to shake giants from the top of the standings for the primary KWs for my niche. These deals are highly lucratie IF they can be written.

As of right now I am writing most of my own content. Rewriting the rest from outsourced writers. I have optimized my page for search terms. I have used available tools to evaluate my optimization. The page has been developed to be SEO friendly(I outsourced I do very little coding work) I am building 6-12 dofollow backlinks a day through blog commenting focusing on keeping the PR higher than my own. I submit my new content to social bookmarking. I have submitted articles to several outlets. I use Digg and stumble upon to post my new articles. I use pingomatic when blog updates are available, I have submitted to free directories.

I am just wanting feedback on my efforts to see if I am applying all the information I have been striving to understand for the last 12 weeks in the correct fashion. I am asking knowledgable and experienced warriors if they can evaluate my effort thus far. My page is very new and has been up for 8 days now. I running some advertising and have drawn about 5 applications all from people who clearly didnt read the qualifications. My website is in my SIG which just got activated : ) please take a look and let me know what impressions you get.

Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this text wall
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  • Profile picture of the author packerfan
    Good luck!

    I'd make sure to start making connections with bloggers and ezine publishers related to your niche. Then focus on getting your articles syndicated on their sites. You'll not only get great, relevant backlinks, but targeted direct traffic as well.

    Also, don't forget to use press releases. The $20 at webwire.com is awesome.

    Again, best of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    A man with a plan! your ahead of a lot of us who are just fumbling around.

    That blog commenting work seems like the sort of grunt work you could out-task while you are busy doing bigger things. Seemd like participating in the gaming forums and getting profile/signature backlinks would be important. Though adwords is too pricey and prohibits? your biz. There's lots of cheaper media, CPV (contextual ads) allow you to pop up a live site, not just banners. (Sounds tricky to maintain word of mouth confidentiality using online promotion)

    That recent arrests of big name online poker site operators probably doesn't hurt the real world biz.
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    • Profile picture of the author conceptmarketing
      Thanks for your feedback.

      Originally Posted by webapex View Post

      That blog commenting work seems like the sort of grunt work you could out-task while you are busy doing bigger things.

      Well I try to focus on the backlinking quality especially on what I am hoping converts into being my money site. Outsourcing I am unsure what kind of content they will link to meet their quotas. Is this the right way to think about this?

      That recent arrests of big name online poker site operators probably doesn't hurt the real world biz.

      Yeah but local land based authorities are cracking down in my area as well. Even casinos have not felt the bump they expected when the online game went down. Turns out live poker is too slow for some online players.

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  • Profile picture of the author conceptmarketing
    Was hoping for a little more feedback... feel free to chime in Warriors : )
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