Interview with Mike Geary, how he makes 1 million per month

Will read thank you.

lol I thought making $800 an hour is good enough but i'll check it out

He goes into quite a bit of detail about sending traffic. It's a great read.

Excellent interview!

Interesting how he says he would not do anything differently, even his mistakes - because he learnt a lot from his mistakes.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Sanjeev

this was posted about 2 weeks ago, but thanks for teh link. Ta. It is a good read for those out there wondering. And a great niche too.

It is a great read. I posted about it here a while back on this thread:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ilionaire.html

Definitely take the time to read it.

Bookmarking this one. I love reading stuff like this. It always makes you think of new ways to tackle your current products.

Yeah, this guy makes so much on that product. I recently started promoting it through PPC campaigns and it brings in some good conversions.

Especially in the weight loss niche, you can say that he has a pretty good piece of the pie right now.

That was an excellent read. Anyone struggling with their business should read the article. Notice that Mike Geary's success to achieve those numbers took 5 years of hard work. It took him 2 years to get to 50k per year. It was a nice read because of his unabashed candor, something that you don't find very often in these kinds of interviews. He also shared some of his tipping points.

He treats his customers like "gold".

He treats his affiliates like "gold" and he goes into some detail on he accomplished that in the article.

He also took some chances, took some risks, lost money, but never lost his focus.

Another thing I like about this article is that he went into a very competitive niche, one that a lot of people have called "saturated" and yet he was able thrive.

There are a lot of powerful lessons in this article, none of which have anything to do with SEO tricks, push button software, or the latest traffic gimmick.

I liked this quote when he was asked about media buying (If he had 5k to start off with):

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

RoD

Thanks for sharing, this is very motivating as well alongwith being informative.

Thanks for sharing. I will check this out!

What I find funny is that if you scroll to the comments, a few comments down is one from a guy named Timmay.

He's talking about Six Pack Shortcuts, and at the time it wasn't all that big, but I think that dude now makes over $1M a year.

I've seen a link to the interview before, but it's well worth reading again.

Very committed marketer who truly understands his metrics. As Dan Kennedy would say, "He knows his numbers"....it reminds us that it's about more than being creative and how taking the long term view can pay off.

It's funny if you read down into the comments, there's someone remarking that he doesn't understand why Geary uses such a long, cluttered sales page after all this time?....and I thought, "Do you suppose maybe he's TESTED IT, that's why?"
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Bruce

Thanks for sharing.

This interview is packed with juicy im goodness. It's
dripping with honey-dipped tips to give any sagging
marketing campaign a jolt... Killer stuff!

I'm lovin' it.
Vince aka makingiants

What a great and inspiring article! Thanks for sharing! I think we cal all related to these sentences:

"To build more time freedom into my life. I desperately wanted to design my new life with much more free time to enjoy my hobbies, friends, and family. This “time freedom” was actually a higher priority for me than the financial rewards of starting a web-based business. And this may sound funny, but I also had a goal to eventually NEVER have to wake up to an alarm again (aside from traveling). I despise waking up to an alarm!"

I had not seen this article yet - thanks for sharing. I was disappointed at first thinking it was just a disguised sales pitch. I'm glad I kept reading because there are some great insights from someone that knows his stuff. Is he a War Room member?

I wish I could do this...

Even though a lot of us can't do $10k "test" campaigns or some of the other high dollar things he mentions the principles and methods will still work at smaller scales.

but you see, not everyone will be able to do that.

But its a great general knowledge.

Reading about Stevejobs doesnt mean you can rival apple.

Read it a few times. Very inspirational.

The thing that set Mike apart from his competitors was (1) his mastery of paid traffic (which anyone can learn) and (2) his high % to affiliates, which again anyone can do.

I do not want to minimize his accomplishments, but anyone can do it. I am working on it, and I WILL be on that level in the next three years.

The most important lesson learnt from that interview is one word: FOCUS. It is so easy to start doing multiple things and after a few months or years down the line, you suddenly realize that you are doing hundreds of things and nothing is working out well. He stuck to one thing and did it well and it helped.

Very good interview - thanks. His slow pace at the beginning didn't hinder him, so it pays to stick with it. Very inspiring words.

Watched what? It's an article interview? Seems you are trolling to increase post count.

Is this a good article? Sure... but everyone seems to be missing a critical point.

"The business as a whole (all three components listed above) generates just shy of $1 million in revenue per month. Total revenue for last year was approximately $11 million."

What's the key word in that snippet from the article?

If you don't know, you're missing something VERY important... the key word is "revenue". Does he turn a good profit? Sure, but is he turning a profit of a million a month? Hell no... revenue does NOT equal profit.

The biggest marketers out there are spending a ton of money on advertising, and seeing a return on that investment... Nearly everyone I know with an AMEX Black Card is a big advertiser, not a guy with deep pockets. They're spending 100k - 200k (or more) a month on advertising to bring in a 10-20% return on that spend...

Saying "I do 150k a month in revenue" sounds a lot more impressive than saying "I spend 125k to make 25k" a month... Most people can't wrap their minds around spending even $100 on advertising, let alone $100,000 on it.

Big difference.

-Gary

Thanks for the share, this is very motivating to be honest.

The take away yet again for me was how hard he worked.

Also I notice he did not put his book onto the other publishing and sales channels like Kindle.

Here's the key snippet in my opinion from the entire article:

I agree entirely with that quote. Assuming you have a quality product and a converting sales page, it all becomes a traffic figures game. It's by far the most important factor for any website.