When have you failed as an internet marketer?

Thanks guys. I thought that maybe that was it.

I'm pretty good at writing but I noticed I live PPV/CPA better. I've spent $400 and earned $210 there, so my "education" isn't too expensive yet, but I haven't found many campaigns which continuously brought in money yet.

Not to sound like a broken record, but you found success in Adsense. Your best move would be to ramp that up.

To diversify, you could explore the other programs similar to adsense that are not run by G. There are a few out there which would cover you should anything happen with your adsense account.

Hi Stealth17, this post really caught my attention and I would say never give up. Get help from a coach.

As for me it's all started when I attended my very first internet marketing (IM) training by Alex Mandossian on 27th March 2012.

Ohh yea... Its only 7 month since I embarked on my internet marketing journey. The BIG question is what I have achieved so far? What is my progress?

In the past 7 month I was so busy on the internet, writing and posting, and learning various aspects of internet marketing, generating traffic, list building, email marketing, affiliate marketing, social media, link building, creating products and the list goes on...

The outcome...
• Currently I am making $100 every month consistently from selling Clickbank products
• My subscribers list have reached 700 people and its growing everyday

What do you think about my progress?

Personally I am happy with my progress because it's proven to me now, that I can make a passive income from internet marketing business.
If I can make $100 a month consistently then I am confident that I can make $1000 a month and $100,000 in the very near future.

Hereby I would like to declare my next goal...

To achieve $1000 earnings with my internet marketing business...

This target of $1000 will be my next milestone and I am all out to making it happen.

What's next?

Recently I have joined Alex Jeffreys master mind group, a reputable internet marketer whom have coached many internet marketers to become successful internet millionaire. So far I am blown away with his coaching program and realized the mistakes I am making in my very own business.

It's time to ADJUST and CONTINUE to achieve my goal...

I'm going to document my journey on my personal blog garyganesan. com, I hope many people will follow my steps and achieve your goals also.

Please post your comments in my blog, I would love to hear from people in my situation. Let's do it!

Gary Ganesan

Ok, so which of the tactics I know would you recommend me to pursue to hit my goal of earning $2k/month asap?

Hmmm the Big G closed your adsense. Wonder why?
Hmmm Gurus photo-shop their earnings. Maybe the odd dishonest one does, but not all.

The original poster was being more open than ???

Most of the Internet Marketers are honest.

Certainly helpful! Thanks Jarrod .

Nope, mostly selling products, so adding value.

I'm considering scaling up Adsense, writing articles myself and having others write (outsource) or using PPV. Judging by the other comments I think that both aren't exactly adding much value to other people. I know that's something important but somehow I lost sight of it.

And I have to be honest: I'm not really good at person-to-person contact or selling. That's why I focus mostly on Adsense and PPV, to minimize contact while doing what I'm good at.

I know selling is important and I have read a dozen books on it but writing a decent salespage is still challenge. I just can't seem to get it right each time. That's why creating products just isn't appealing to me.

In August I set up a new site and wrote 30 articles for it so it wasn't a thin site. Now I'm slowly building links to it but I'm seeing less than 20 visitors a month which is kinda depressing. I know it'll probably work out in the long run but short-term successes do inspire and motivate me, so that's the appeal of PPV.

I love being an entrepreneur but sometimes it's not easy not to have someone telling you what you should do next .

These kinds of posts are generally not easy to answer, simply because we don't have the whole picture. Most people don't make money in this business for the following reasons:

1. No business plan.
2. Suffer from new shiny object syndrome.
3. They don't invest enough time and money to test out a campaign, whether it's article syndication, buying traffic, SEO techniques, JVs, etc.
4. They don't do the proper market research to find out what exactly will make them money.
5. They don't focus on selling and conversions; if you're not selling you're not making money. I see people spend endless hours on things that don't make them money.
6. They don't understand the distribution channels of their market. I saw a guy try to go head on with mortgage companies on popular keywords and he got nuked. When he finally switched over to long-tail keywords and moved away from Adwords to other ad networks, he did much, much better.
7. They don't track their traffic. Or just as bad, they don't try and improve their conversions.
8. They don't take the skill set of writing sales copy seriously.
9. And the #1 reason for people not making the kind of money they really want: mindset. Whether it's lack of maturity, treating their business like a hobby, making excuses, or lacking discipline, this one is #1.

Only you can decide on when to give up. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. It's a lot of hard work. It takes commitment, personal growth, stepping outside your comfort zone, and a lot of perseverance. The good news is that you ARE making some money.

So it's time to take a step back and see what's working and then focus on that. Success leaves a lot of clues and with the proper, focused research, you can really turn things around.


Probably because they already have the experience and know how to utilize project management in order to do those things and they most likely have some, if not all, of the major work out-sourced. But for someone just starting out or for someone like the OP who has "tried" a lot of different things, they have already proven they cannot juggle a bunch of things at once.

So for most people in the OP's situation, it's better for them to begin focusing on one thing at a time.

RoD

I've tried stuff for different amounts of times. Adsense is definitely the longest running item on the list. PPV is the newest. I tend to try something new, see that it isn't working, go back to what worked, get bored, try something new etc. Vicious circle .

I did my homework, but thank you for pointing it out. I always use Market Samurai for keyword research + SEO Competition and use the Keyword tool to see what I'm missing. So far that hasn't worked here. Maybe the site got hit by the Google EMD update.

I tried selling Clickbank products, but never got to sell much. The moment I switched to Adsense sites started generating money, however little. Yes, I know that 1 sale with $40 commission can easily generate way more than 50 clicks on Adsense, but somehow it didn't work for me.

To summarize all the lessons learned here:
- Focus on 1 thing (possibly the thing you like)
- Make sure it's scalable/it can be automated
- Keep at it
Sums it up?

So do you mean something like adding a forum to sites or having the possibility for people to easily add content (articles) to the site?

My clients certainly weren't losing money! In fact I managed to optimize campaigns quite a lot. I never left clients worse than before I met them.