Some Modest EZA Stats...They Add Up

I don't check my stats often. I'm not a stat checker. But today I decided to
take a look at just one stat...my articles under the topic of Home Based
Business at EZA.

To date, I have 138 articles under the category Home Based Business, which
ranks me 9 out of 6,823 authors.

Each of those articles goes to a very specific opt in page so they're easy to
track.

This month, according to my opt in stats, I've had 126 opt ins from those
138 articles. That comes out to 4.8 opt ins per day for that one list.

If you average that out over a 30 day month, that's 144 opt ins monthly.

That may not seem like much, but over the course of a year, that's 1728
opt ins...and that's just from 1 of about 20 lists I run.

Now, 138 articles, if you wrote just 1 a day, that will only take you about
4 and a half months to reach this point.

In other words, in less than 6 months time, you can build yourself a decent
sized list with hardly any work at all. I mean 1 article a day? How hard is
that really?

Point is this. You don't have to unleash a massive cannon on the world
in one shot to make it in this business.

Don't have massive funds to invest in advertising?

So what? With little baby steps you can get to where you reach the point
where you can start investing in your business. I certainly don't recommend
continuing to just write one article a day for the rest of your life. It'll take
you years to get any place really substantial. But there is no excuse not
to start building your business slowly using something like this.

What could you do with a list of about 1700 people?

Imagine the money you could make if you were targeting a market with
a high end product of several hundred dollars per sale. Even if you
converted at just 5% (which for me for a personal list is low) you're
talking about 85 sales. If the product pays you even just $200
commission, that's $17,000 for the year for writing an article a day.

If you're used to looking at things in huge terms and feeling overwhelmed
by it, try looking at things like I've outlined above.

Baby steps.

In the long run, you'll get less frustrated if your goal is to get just a few
opt ins a day rather than to try to make $5,000 a month right out of the
gate.

Sure, if you have the money and the plan and the intestinal fortitude to
go big right away and have the confidence that you can do it, go for it.
The worst that can happen is you fail.

But if you're too overwhelmed by all that's involved (some people just
can't handle too much at one time) then start small and slow.

Naturally, only you can decide which course of action is best for you and
the above is only recommended as an outline for those who have a hard
time structuring a large business from the very beginning.