quit or continue?

The key to really finding success is being dynamic. Go with what works. If something doesn't work out as you'd hoped, that's ok. It's normal. Just be creative and see how you can tweak your system. Try lots of different things, and you'll find a handful that you like, and that bring success.

Everyone is willing to say that you're "wrong." That's easy. But in all honesty, that's a totally relative opinion. Everyone has their "secret" that looks like madness to the others. Find your own secret, and most of all, enjoy yourself!

yeah dont listen to anyone. Everyone thinks they are an expert these days.

What I learned in the past 10 years of being online and making money is that you need to have on your website an opt in form so that you can follow up with your subscribers about different offers.

If you are not doing this then you are missing out on bigger commissions and more customers.

Having your own opt in list also allows you to send your leads more then 1 offer at a time.

Over your 3 years, how much time did you spend actually working on the site rather than studying information?

Do you only have 1 site built in this time? And how much content (say, pages) do you have on the site now?

Without knowing much else, I'd say the site possibly had keywords that were too competitive to rank for. The use of keywords that don't have much SEO competition can mean all the difference in the world in making it easier to rank, and therefore pull in more traffic and sales.

Tell us more about this part.

i tried another method - and made slightly more money from it, QUOTE]

If this method works stick with a little longer and see it continues to make money. This might be a better path to follow. Maybe the other path leads to no money or the niche is not profitable?

You also might be real close to more money hang in there!

Stick with the method making you money!!

i just got feedback on my website and been advised that its completely wrong thats right. 2yrs spent on designing the site with all bits, and the layout is wrong.

Change the layout

the freebie is wrong shouldve used video instead of normal optin.

test both

despite all this ive actually made 2 sales. so question - should i continue or quit?

If it took 2 years to make 2 sales I really have to question what the hell you have been doing. Definitely quit the strategy you're using at the moment.

ive also spent $700 on getting it optimised and im stuck halfway through. has anyone had this experience of spending so long on something and then wanting to give up?

If you are passionate about what you're doing and can see the end goal, you should never want to, or feel like, giving up. No one ever said being a success was easy, at least not any successful person.

wait story not over - i tried another method - and made slightly more money from it, which was originally intended to be a way to drive traffic to the first site. should i continue with both? or just continue with the second one?

Why would you continue with the least effective method? How has it taken you 2 years to find a method that works better than the "2 sales in 2 years method?

fact is, i have other ways of making money, not just this, but im just wondering whether i should continue just to say i succeeded in IM?

You may as well quit, because your definition for "success" is distorted. If it took you 2 years to make 2 sales, how many more do you think is needed to call yourself a successful marketer?

3 years is 3 years regardless and it sucks to find out no matter how much you study, no matter how much you read WF and how much focus you apply, that it doesnt necessarily work out the way you imagined it...

Nothing ever does. Reading a forum, studying, and focusing on a useless strategy will get you no results. Believe me, if you study a proven system, create a strategy and focus focus focus you will make a hell of a lot more sales than "2" in 2 years. Now, what have you been doing?

The most important thing you could have included in this thread was your URL, it beggers belief you left it out. It's not as if someone is going to steal any of your niches and/or ideas now is it?

Have your site reviewed here and have and open mind on the feed back, good or bad.

Take the advice you got for $700 and take action on it... use the method that made you more money, and see where you are in a month and re-assess.

Some people spend years and never make a single dollar! My best advice is test, test, test!

Find out what is and is not working, then scale up and continue doing the same thing that drives people to your website and lets you make sales!

IMPOSSIBLE to comment intelligently without seeing the site.

Most people who post these "I want to quit" questions are just looking for reassurance from their peers (A lot of whom are probably not making it either).
If you have other ways of making money, why waist more time.

My advice QUIT!

What makes you think what you're doing is wrong?

Video opt-ins don't necessarily outperform text optins... Don't over complicate things.

All you need to do is:

1) find a niche of hungry buyers
2) offer them something they want for free for their email address
3) advertise and promote your squeeze page where the hungry buyers hang out
4) sell them stuff
5) repeat 3 & 4

Once you see the big picture you'll realise pretty much everything else is just mechanics

Hey, what is the website. Maybe warriors can give their individual feedback if we can see the site.

first thing i will say is what on earth have you been doing for 2 years to build a site?

also you really have to change your mindset before you go any further if you want to succeed

you have to look at everything as education and not think in terms of failure

did you hear about the guy who worked for a wall street firm?

he was fairly new and he made a big mistake which resulted him in losing the company $10 million dollars

the following day he came into work and packed all his stuff up and then went into see his boss to apologise and explain that he understands why he is getting fired

His boss replies "fired"

"good god" "I`m not firing you boy"

"Iv`e just spent $10 million dollars on education for you so now you know how not to do it, now get back to work"

Paul :-)

You should only keep working on this project if you believe that it can give you a lot of money. However, you are not so sure, and you want to continue only because you already spent a lot with it.

Since you are not so enthusiastic with this site and you don’t feel you should pursue success through it, you should abandon it. If you'll continue you'll simply spend more and more solving various problems and never seeing the results you desire because you don’t want to care about this site.

Leave it for later. Work on what is giving you money right now and wait for the time when you’ll find what to do with this site.

To me quitting is a no-no (your breakthrough is probably just around the corner!). However! If it's not a passion, not doing what you want it to do or what you want to do, then by all means, stop the bleeding...

It's ultimately up to yourself to decide the final fate. But personally I wouldn't give up. I would work on the site, get feedback and just keep plugging away.

I would give some feedback if I knew what the site was.

I wish you luck.

Chad

My suggestion is use what you have learned and go back to basics. As others have said, reflect on what has and hasn't worked. There is good info here but I have also found great resources at Wealthy Affiliate with thier Open Education Project too.

If you want info on that then see my member info because I am a member there.

I would change niches. Doesn't take long to exit out one niche and enter into another.

There seems to something out of whack on this part. "Constantly" updating a site would result in more than 1 article/post/page every 1 1/2 months approximately unless they were very long and very detailed pages.

Mark

Give up??? You should ask yourself what makes you get started on this? I used 4 years time in IM and faced a lot of pitfall, scam, crap product & etc. But I never give up because I believe what I believed in since I started it.
And I strongly believe you will make it in one day!!

If you spent 3 years and you can say to yourself that you put your hard work in and you only made 2 sales then it means you picked up the wrong road. Choose another and start from there. I have gone from $0 and 0 knowledge in IM to $5000+/month in less than a year. I obviously put a lot of work into it but by the sound of it you do seem to be a hard worker. You can do it too man. Best of luck.

It all depends on why you are doing this in the first place. If you enjoy internet marketing, feel you can or will be good at it, then keep going. If you doing it just be able to say you did it, maybe that's the wrong reason. Your heart will never be in it and you will be spinning your wheels forever.

Unless your site is just dawg ugly and it's content unreadable .. it is not the site. I know there are a lot of Warriors who put a lot of stock into the color of your header and all of that. There can be some truth to that but it is not a major sales hurdle.

Changing or tweaking design can improve a site that is already selling but seldom will these changes go from zero to one hundred sales a day.

2 sales in two years tell us where to look first.

Is the product in demand?

Is it in demand by a lot of people?

Are you competitively priced and if not are you justifying a higher price point?

The majority of the time the problem will lie in your presentation. Sales copy is king in this business.

As far as quitting .. that is a personal choice. I know you have already went 1 year and 11 months longer than I would have before doing some major changes.

If worst comes to worst, you can easily sell the website if it has as much content as you say.

However, never take advice if someone ells you your website is wrong if it is functional, works well, and is actually selling. Stick with what works, and try to expand on that.