Those who are succeeding, your 2c worth please!

LB: Great advice. I hope people are listening

LB you'ved nailed it! Great post.

Rich

Thanks LB, I have to do it this way or I'll get bored (sticking with just one thing) however I will do one at a time (E.g. build one site at a time and won't move on to the next one until the previous one is able to stand on it's own 2 feet.

I don't understand what you mean by 'loading up a PPC campaign that directs people to your own site...'
How do you start a PPC campaign? (Yes, I'm that much of a noob)
Isn't Adsense a PPC campaign concept?

The problem is most people suck at this process, especially at first, and flush away a lot of money learning the ropes. If one has money to burn, sure, go for it like you would day trading or playing the keno wheel in Vegas. If they don't, then a different approach would be better for them.

But, I do hope people follow your advice since it will reduce my competition in the niche site SEO arena and perhaps even help my Adsense earnings as they screw up and overbid in the content network.

I'm wondering doesn't pay per click (ppc) end up costing a lot of money. I also hope to find more information about building a list. As for the beginning of the thread I'd say to use squidoo and hub pages.

Thank you very much Don.

I agree 100% - I won't do that on the blogg!

JV = joint venture - a venture between two or more warriors.

Warrior Joint Ventures

HTH

I know JV means Joint Venture

A joint venture is a strategic alliance where two or more parties, usually businesses, form a partnership to share markets, intellectual property, assets, knowledge, and, of course, profits. A joint venture differs from a merger in the sense that there is no transfer of ownership in the deal.
This partnership can happen between goliaths in an industry. Cingular, for instance, is a strategic alliance between SBS and Bellsouth. It can also occur between two small businesses that believe partnering will help them successfully fight their bigger competitors.


Companies with identical products and services can also join forces to penetrate markets they wouldn't or couldn't consider without investing tremendous resources. Furthermore, due to local regulations, some markets can only be penetrated via joint venturing with a local business.
In some cases, a large company can decide to form a joint venture with a smaller business in order to quickly acquire critical intellectual property, technology, or resources otherwise hard to obtain, even with plenty of cash at their disposal.

Howdy Kitfanc
Can you please explain 'back-linking' and the benefits?
Is this simply having links on your site and having other sites link to yours?
Good for SEO, I assume....

Oh, and Hi scattermouse and thanks for the acronym translation! ;P

Thanks mate, appreciate it - If you send me your ideas on where/how I should start I'll be more than happy to turn over all of my ideas offline aswell as online - (I have tonnes of very innovative ideas). You're welcome to them as there's no way i can pursue them all. The only reason I'm not a multi-millionaire is that I am extremely lazy and have NO perserverence (can I even spell it???)... I'm also very UN-focused. Just as one venture is about to take off, I get bored and move onto another one, but I dare say I have so many ideas there's several in this brain that could make someone with proper focus, very wealthy

Trust me, learning SEO and building upon it can be an unbelievably huge Asset. It sounds like you have a sour taste in your mouth. With SEO and building Websites and Blogs you can put yourself in a postion of creating valuable virtual 'real estate' over time. SEO is straight forward and if you stick with it you will find reward. There is no new technique to chase. Build solid original, content at your Site each and every week with straegically used keywords. And then build backlinks to those Sites thru Article Marketing, Blog Commenting, Social Bookmarking, Forum Posting, etc..etc..
Come on its not brain surgery by any means.

Anyone who wants to put in a little time and work can really build a true model of business with SEO. Much more so than PPC!! IMHO
With SEO and Website/Blog building you are killing two birds with one stone . You are building a list and building up Organic Traffic over time. Which can amount to passive income that lasts for a Lifetime. With PPC, you are just building a List. And you have to keep building it with PPC Campaign after PPC Campaign after PPC Campaign. Thanks but NO thanks !! In my views that is NOT a Stellar Long Term Business Model. With SEO and Organic Traffic you don't have to do this. Once you build up to a certain level of Organic Traffic your Lists will exponentially grow to huge proportions while operating on auto pilot.
So that is a huge fundamental difference between these two business models ,and is the reason why I ALWAYS advice newbies to definitely go for SEO and building something of value for the long term.

you can submit your articles at ezinearticles.com & if others use your articles on their blog, website ect. they have to leave your tag line which in turn gets your site found.

(Q) What else can I do to monotise(?) them?

(A) You should start from Adsense ads, Clickbank banner ads, Clickbank products inside your posts, Yahoo publisher network, Bidvertiser, and I could list a lot more but I believe to you are running to fast for monitizing before you even build the site and get traffic.

(Q) What kind of website would you recommend RATHER than the five I listed?

(A) The websites you consider are pretty OK for building a network. This is of course if I understand what you really intent to do.

Q. How do you aquire this list - when people comment on the blog they have to submit their e-mail first? Kinda like in this forum?

(A) You can build a list by using feeds subscriptions in your blogs or websites. Or you can buy an autoresponder account at Aweber dot com, create an opt-in form and use a pop-up at your blogs.

Q. I don't understand how e-mail gathering is done (back-end), nor what/how auto-responders etc work.

(A) For this one simply visit Aweber dot com and watch the videos, it's too long to explain in this post. The video on their site will explain you exactly what you need to know about autoresponders and email promotions.

Q. Once I have a bunch of e-mails - what do I do with them??

(A) In short, you simply provide them with good free/paid resources who can help them to get more familiar with what they want to learn. With the free one's you build trust and relationship, with the paid one's you make money.
Q. How do you sell an e-Book? I make it into a .pdf, then what? I don't have a merchant facility to take credit card number, do i sell it via PayPal?

The first thing to do is to create your ebook. You can write it in Microsoft Word and them convert it into a pdf format. When you have your ebook done, you'll need to build a ministe for your ebook, or find a simple sales page template for free if you are not on a budget. When you have a ready sales page you simply register with paypal and create a button to insert into your sales page. WHen people click on that payment button they will be redirected to paypal to make the payment that you decided to charge when you created your button on paypal.

Q. I've heard of a system where you buy KEYS that activate a pdf, so people would download the eBook and then purchase KEY, which i could e-mail them... Does this sound like a good idea?

You are going to far before you even start do do the essential moves. Try to focus on one thing and when you'll get to the bridge I believe you'll not have any troubles. Firstly create your ebook, be ready to sell it, and then find answers to that question.

Q. What else would you recommend i do with videos?

Create your how to in a format that will invite the watcher to visit your website. When you start the video you should say where the source of the video is. The same at the end of the video, you should invite people to watch even better videos on your website.

Upload all the videos to video sites like youtube, 5min, and so on. Also put them on your website so that if people preffer to come to you to watch they can do it anytime.

Hope this helps you,

Mike G

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