Help for a not-so-newbie please...? bit of a strategy critique

During the last 2.5 years of my IM learning curve, I've been exposed to all the usual strategies and methods offered by all the usual people; and as with any business, there's plenty of good, plenty of s**t.

I've struggled to find, and commit to, a model that suits me and my personality. I'm gradually studying/applying the "Law of Attraction" to develop my personality/character.
I'm a full time employee, which is both a blessing and a curse; since time for developing my IM business is restricted, but it's provided the investment - historically anyway.

Anyway, during this 2.5 years, my ROI has been little; a few $s but not yet even enough for Clickbank to release my renue. My investment/funds/budget for my IM business has now dried up, and other circumstances (the current economic climate, for one) prevent me from further investment budget for the time being - until I get some ROI!

To give you an idea of my IM skillset to date, I've worked on two plans thus:

Plan A...

I was being mentored by Sean Mize, who's model is "massive action" in terms of submitting (original) articles to (mainly) EZA, and developing one's own product funnel (a coaching course with respect to my chosen niche). He relies purely on article marketing and no other media, for the low-end part of his funnel. Sean's income is substantial. When he started, he was writing up to 30 originals every day...

I signed up to his 250 articles per month subscription, rewriting them at a rate of 15 per week (average), and getting no refusals from EZA.

Problem was, it took all my effort to do just that amount sometimes, because although I seem ok at re-writing (plus writing a fair few originals) I quickly get stale/bored with it, in spite of the potential rewards. So I'm not sure that I have the mental energy (or time) to submit 15 article sper day, re-writes or otherwise.

Outsourcing would be the way to go, but is currently not an option. One other factor - note that I didn't say problem - is that the subscription only ever has 4 or 5 topics - during the months I was subscribed anyway. Sean critiqued a few of my re-writes, and suggested he'd be happy for me to do re-writes for him...

I started off in a (financial) niche that I was learning about before my IM activities began, in which, according to search tools, there's a quite a lot of interest.

However, I've had to learn how to build, upload, and market a website too, and by the time I'd figured how to that, I realised I had more knowledge about IM techniques per se, than in my niche. I also observed that the figures for competition versus hungry market, are in favour of IM by quite a margin. Rightly, or wrongly, my current plan is to follow the IM route with Sean's model.



So, I decided I needed a strategy to generate sufficient income to develop and outsource the above.

Onto plan B...

I found Steve Wag's affiliate blueprint (http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ng-repost.html) and thought his model would suit my niche, and my character and current circumstances.

(At Step 3: Since I have hosting etc, I did a website instead of a blog. I have a blog too but it's rather sparse at the moment, and am unsure (exactly) how to furnish it).

I'm quite comfortable pursuing this model though, the only niggles being;

Step 7: This took a couple of weeks, but got there in the end. However, I have had only 39 views and 1 subscriber... in 6 days. so I'm hoping it may only be down to KW choice; PM me if you feel you have the inclination to offer a critique (that applies to blog too!). It's non-IM and I don't want to be seen as trying to spam or promo through WF.

Step 8: I'm still yet to fathom what constitutes a "free download site" is, in the eyes if an IMer promoting affiliate products. I could guess - and be way off target.

Thanks to Angela Edwards, I've a few months worth of backlink sites to get going with too, so am gradually applying that method to Steve's formula (Step 7.5 ) too. I find it a tedious process, but it has good reviews, so I'll struggle on with it since it's not someting I have to learn, just apply.


I really think that if I could get the plan B steps ironed out, then I may stand a chance of getting bit of ROI for my 2.5 years of effort, and be able to develop plan "A".

Plan B is one model I CAN apply... and then repeat. Yes, I'm historically guilty of opportunity-hopping, but these are two models that, importantly for me, I QUITE LIKE. I see one as being the "business model funnel" for the other.

Because of time and financial restraints, I've gone nowhere near W2.0, adsense, or PPC. One thing I find is that very often, in order to apply any one "IM tool", one is often obliged to pursue what quickly becomes another viral path of learning/sign-ups/folder-creating, and so another valuable week or two goes by in a flash. Not a complaint, just an observation.


Forgive my rambling, but I'd be really grateful for your thoughts, input, criticism etc. Does my strategy/approach make sense?

Thanks