My Results After One Month of Intense Article Marketing

[Gunter Eibl]

Supermania

I agree. Sometimes its not the best to do what "all" are doing.

Gunter

[Daniel Molano]

sree94, this thread is an inspiration to all newbies, would you mind keeping us updated on your sales improvements?

[sree94]

I keep getting consistent sales.

I plan to soon release a WSO on the process that I use, which is much more than article marketing.

[mamza]

Originally Posted by sree94

I keep getting consistent sales.

I plan to soon release a WSO on the process that I use, which is much more than article marketing.

hi ree94, maybe you can give brief idea on how you do that...

[Hamida Harland]

Originally Posted by sree94

I plan to soon release a WSO on the process that I use, which is much more than article marketing.

I had an inkling that's what this thread was all about

[firemanks098]

This is awesome as I have just started article marketing myself. I have not published near that many articles but I have gleaned a ton of information from this thread that will really help me. I am even more motivated now than ever before.

[dclodge]

Wow - that is amazing. I am not close to that amount of articles a month, congratulations. I am just starting out and have benefited well from the valuable resources within the warrior forums. My question to you: while you have written a ton of articles, what has allowed you to build the traffic to your articles? You said you have had little time to do anything else, so what has worked as far as promoting the articles and getting the traffic. Thanks

[SusanUSA]

I also congratulate you on taking massive action and for the results you had as a new IMer.

Maybe I missed it in reading all these posts, but have you considered the niches themselves and the products you are selling? With a good CTR, lots of articles of quality content, and products that are for a hungry audience, you should be able to make a nice monthly income.

I know my first IM experience was almost unbelievable because I made more than $12K selling two eBooks I wrote and sold for less than $10 each. I also did no article writing (I didn't even know about it when I first started) and instead wrote about 6-8 posts on a Wordpress blog. But the biggest element of my success was because I offered good quality "food" to a very hungry audience.

So, my advice is to check out your audience and the products you are offering them. Make sure the price point is appropriate. My audience wouldn't pay more than about $10 for the eBooks. But I made up for that in quantity. So your product may not be the best match or the price might not be right for your audience.

I hope the best for you!

[dtcash7]

In regards to list building and lead capture pages, I have found a service, Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, to be helpful.

CLICK HERE for a sample squeeze page (and opt-in of course )

Also, CLICK HERE for the link to get the service yourself (along with 3 other templates and free products)

Maybe this doesn't help at all, especially for your particular niche. Then again, it may be just what you need.

Take care!

[onlineleben]

Originally Posted by sree94

Monetizing the traffic by selling Clickbank products

So far, 17,553 page views--- click throughs- 3,849

That's roughly 17% if I do the math in my head

Compile some of your articles into an ebook and givie it away as a bonus to those buying via your clickbank-id.
This way you start not just a simple list, but a list of buyers who are really interested and paying for information in your niche.

[theredcell]

Great post. I think Fabian and Mike have hit in right on the head. There was also the tip about re-investing some of your profits and getting articles made for you. Great stuff but you definitely need your squeeze page to capture those names.

You dont need a high end program to create these, you can use a simple html editor like NVU but you're going to need a list host like Aweber or getresponse. Throw some benefit driven bullets on your squeeze page
and your on your way. Market to your list with related products to the articles you are writing...

You got off to a good start...Congrats ...

Jose

[Alan Petersen]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

And all right, I'll hang my head in shame and confess..I haven't built a list. I don't know, I have a site that tells people how to get into nursing school. Do what with a list?

You can send promotions about nursing schools, school loans, etc. I took a look and a lot of affiliate programs that pay $15-25 CPA! That's pretty sweet since they don't have to buy anything just sign up to request free information and you get paid. :-)

colleges*::*Affiliate Program Directory*

Great job sree94 and awesome tips in this post. It's a PDF keeper. :-)

[redicelander]

How do you build a list if you don't have a web page and you just write articles on ezine? Sree, is each article pointing back to a website?

[sree94]

Yes, each article points back to my site

[Ping Liang]

Your story impressed me very much.

Looking at it from a newbie's perspective, I can see my future there. Thank you for that.

The only challenge left is to brainstorm some ideas and write, then.

[George Stavrakakis]

Great input and advice on this thread.

I guess I will have to be the one that puts a little bit of a downer on things. If you are in the States (and probably every where else in the world) you need to take some of that money and put it aside for Uncle Sam or else you may not have to worry about expanding your business.

I know, I know. But I am really just trying to add something that will be useful.

George

[sree94]

Originally Posted by theredcell

Great post. I think Fabian and Mike have hit in right on the head. There was also the tip about re-investing some of your profits and getting articles made for you. Great stuff but you definitely need your squeeze page to capture those names.

You dont need a high end program to create these, you can use a simple html editor like NVU but you're going to need a list host like Aweber or getresponse. Throw some benefit driven bullets on your squeeze page
and your on your way. Market to your list with related products to the articles you are writing...

You got off to a good start...Congrats ...

Jose

I have set up an opt-in on each of my web sites.

I am basically hammering people with emails until they buy from me

[alex84]

hammering people with emails until they buy from you is not a good way to keep a list. You want to give them valuable content, some free stuff and then from time to time you send them an affiliate product that you promote. Also if you send them a free ebook, put some affiliate links in there.

[redicelander]

Sree, I'm curious if you wrote 200 articles for just one product? Do you have multiple products on multiple websites? Multiple products on one website?

I was just thinking it would be hard to write 200 articles for just one product. That would be a lot of different angles to take, no? So how many articles do you usually write for one product? How many different angles are you able to take? Thank you for your response.

Red

[jimfurr]

List building is king, no doubt about it.

Most Article courses talk about writing articles about topics and give parameters for the keywords. However, they never mention anything about Staying on one topic. How else can you build a list? I mean, you don't want 100 different topics and 100 different capture pages with 80 people on each list.

So, my point, find a niche that will last for the long haul if you are going to build a list.

Preferably a niche you enjoy writing about and learning about.

Jim Furr ><>

Tim and Mike - you guys are tops!!
(And everyone else too

[sree94]

OK, so my intense article marketing period ended about four weeks ago. Since then, I have cut back on the articles. I basically write only one article a day for the niche that is bringing me virtually all of my sales.

I've tried to get tons of backlinks to my "performing" sites, though I am not seeing much increase in rankings.

I have now decided to get involved in as many niches as possible, to get as many income funnels as I can.

My biggest frustration is not being able to get more traffic to my main converting site. I am still only averaging 50 visitors a day, yet I am selling almost one product per day. If I could just get this traffic up!!!!

[Paxton]

List building is a must of course, but I concentrate on building RESPONSIVE lists. It's not difficult to build a huge list that never buys anything from you, so for me at least I concentrate on building responsive lists.

My main money comes from small lists, where I get very high conversions. 40% from one recent email.

Responsive lists, not just big

[CodrutTurcanu]

Ok, give us (or PM me) with these facts:

- the niche you're into
- at least one article sample
- what you promoted (the product/service url)
- the article directories you submitted these too

And I'll give killer, step-by-step, practical tips on how to improve your resource box CTR, and the offer you're pre-selling.

Isn't this what you really want?

[Mike Montgomery]

I was going to say what Kim said about taking most
of the money and outsourcing the article writing.

In addition to the forum I've found some amazing writers
at Textbroker.com - Each Word Counts for some crazy good prices.

mx

[Paxton]

Article marketing combined with a half decent promotion campaign and sales are very nice indeed.

Don't just go for masses of articles submitted to all the article sites.

My particular preference calls for a total of 45 articles, spread over a 30 day period and my August commissions were over $25,000 - mixture of physical / digital products.

Fully agree with article marketing - just not totally on board with the mass approach.

Plan where and when to release your articles and you can magnify the effect many, many times over.

[rosan9]

Wow, there's a wealth of info in this post.

First off, great job with writing your articles. Isn't it really exciting to see your effort paying you back?

I can't think of anything to add to Mike and Tim's posts which were great by the way. They've encouraged me, I'm gonna write five articles today. It will come back to you.

Great Job.

[TLTheLiberator]

You've done the hard work and made some money, now - outsource!

Outsourcing is the key to big, big money!

When you get your hands on a pile of profits, work hard to figure out how to multiply your efforts through outsourcing.

Like someone mentioned earlier in this thread, outsource the article creation and submission process, then I would spend the a lot of my time...

Repositioning my articles into other types of content and plaster them all over the net.

- Blog posts & ping ( start a small blog farm )
- Hub & Squidoo Pages
- Bookmark EVERYTHING!
- Other methods...

( look up Matt Bacak - in this forum for article distribution/re purposing tips )

Of course, it won't hurt your long term business situation - if you begin to build and market to your lists.

You doing a lot of hard/smart work. Why not build a long term asset in the process?

TL

[Brad Spencer]

Originally Posted by sree94

Or at least I think it's intense. 200 articles was pretty intense for me

I recently bought a WSO that said to write 10 articles a day for a month. The author said after that time, he made $3000

I was unable to write that many. My article count stands at 200. I made $855.

I am happy about that, since it is double what I have made in any other month since I began IM back in February.

I must say, writing that many articles was exhausting! And it seems as if I need to be cranking them out everyday. Plus, this gives me little time to do anything else with IM (link building, social bookmarking, expanding on niches)

I really want to expand this business to be in the thousands per month. Any ideas?

Here's an idea.

Build a list by redirecting each article to a squeeze page. Market to the list...and make more sales.

Take that 855 dollars and reinvest in some PLR (easier to rewrite) or get articles freelanced. You've done the hard work...now repeat it and use some leverage!

Cheers and GREAT JOB!!!


Brad Spencer

[Gunter Eibl]

The problem with "intense" article marketing is that most people are not passionate writers and therefore simply can't churn out tons of quality articles each and every day. You can burn out quickly writing articles.

The second problem is that today, with all the article marketing competition out there, you really have to know how to write well for getting enough views and click-thrus. Submitting a lot of crap won't get you anywhere today anymore.

Gunter

[aboutalhah]

Awesome results!

Don't know how I missed this thread.

Make sure that you outsource like TimG advised.

And you mentionned that you are "hammering your list"... Make sure that you build a relationship with them. What you need is to get them opening your emails and see your offers.

There are a lot of awesome advice in this thread.

Remember:

1. Build a List
2. Outsource
3. Did you think about your own coaching program?

All the best,

Franck

[talfighel]

That is great. This just shows you that Article marketing is ONE of the best ways to bring in unlimited FREE traffic to ones site.

I personallly have written close to 200 articles and this has brought me in a very good amount of free traffic. I see some online internet marketing gurus who have over 1000 articles and this is the only way that they are making money online. This is the only traffic source for their income and traffic.

Tal

[shrinagesh]

Congratulations. Would love to hear more about your future successes

[Sami]

Originally Posted by ptwain

Sree,

... Recently I have been doing article marketing(about 150 a month) but only made about $100 for all my effort.
...

Paul

Originally Posted by jj88

I've one article page views 1900 in 1 month (CTR 12.5%) compare to many others only manage no more than 350 page views in 5 months....because of title.

Have a squeeze page and follow up emails. However, hard part is very low conversion to actual sale....
Only 3% of those that opted in to my list made a purchase.


Perhaps it is the merchant website that is not so good in sale pitch. Now that point to this question: How to choose a good affiliate product?

Any more mature and successful warriors out there can point out any methods or some good programs out there how to choose a good affiliate product AND how to make a good sales copy?

Jerry

Hi guys

I've posted 2 comments on Tiffany's thread that answer much of your above questions. Quite a few people seemed to benefit. The links are below.

Paul

There's ALWAYS a REASON why a proven method is not giving YOU the results that you want. This might be the answer...

(Takes you straight to the answer) ==> Tiffany Dow’s 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

Jerry

In affiliate marketing YOU MUST NEVER LOOK FOR A GOOD PRODUCT! (Not primarily anyway). If you do, YOU will lose! Here's why...

(Takes you straight to the answer) ==> Tiffany Dow’s 30-Day Warrior Article Marketing Challenge

Does this help?

I'll have more for you another time.
Good luck
Sami

[lpezzini]

downloan didn't work. please send e-book

[AndrewCavanagh]

Originally Posted by sree94

I have set up an opt-in on each of my web sites.

I am basically hammering people with emails until they buy from me

That shouldn't be necessary with all the articles you've written.

If you have your articles on your own website as well as on sites like Ezine Articles then you can send your subscribers to each of the related articles in your niche.

On the page with each article you can have affiliate links, products you sell etc etc.

So your subscribers (who signed up because of one of your articles) keep getting more of the same plus a gentle nudge to buy over and over.

If you're writing articles you definitely want them on your own website as a priority.

Ultimately you want to create your own traffic to your own website, create your own email lists and over time perhaps even have your own products or products you've created with a JV partner.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

[sylviad]

Originally Posted by dtcash7

In regards to list building and lead capture pages, I have found a service, Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, to be helpful.

CLICK HERE for a sample squeeze page (and opt-in of course )

Also, CLICK HERE for the link to get the service yourself (along with 3 other templates and free products)

Maybe this doesn't help at all, especially for your particular niche. Then again, it may be just what you need.

Take care!

Someone might have pointed this out to you... I haven't read that far yet.

You can't put affiliate links within your posts... only in your sig.

Just for your info.

Sylvia

[jasonl70]

I see some people are taking issue with your comment regarding hammering your list. There are some very successfull marketers who hammer their lists. Anyone ever hear of Mike Filsaime

I have tested this.

I set up 2 lists in aweber, and alternate the opt-in form on one of my squeeze pages bewteen the 2 lists.

I've had around 3,000 opt in to each one.

One list I send an email to every day for 15 days, and the emails are very heavy on the promotion. no relationship building, etc. It's nothing but straight promotion for 2 weeks. I would add more to the autoresponder, but I've slacked off some

The second list I did just the opposite with. They get an email once every 3-4 days, they are heavy in content, etc.. You know, the whole 'build a relationship' type thing. I've got enough emails in this autoresponder to go out a few months.

List 'one' has a higher unsub rate, but actually makes me more money. And those who stay on the list are in fact 'high responders' when I send a broadcast.

I'm still testing both lists, as I'm planning a launch and want to see if the results are the same.

What can I say - I'm a testing freak And my test results sometimes run counter to 'warrior wisdom'.

[donlester]

Everyones results are different but those results are nothing to be disappointed with for a first try. I would be happy with those results and I think it shows the power of article marketing is still strong.

[nebuer]

Wow. Amazing job! I can tell right now you're going to go a long way with IM.

[Tracie Johansen]

That is great that you were able to write 300 articles in one month. Why not try writing 104 articles next month on how to get through nursing school.

Use your articles about getting into nursing school to get people to your site. Next, put together 104 articles to use to build your list on how to survive nursing school. Put together 2 years worth of autoresponder messages to go out once a week. Then put an opt in form on your site for your newsletter.

Some ideas to get you started . . .

How to get the money to get started
How to stay focused and learn good study habits
How to balance family and school
Tools to help you get through nursing school

You can build a huge list this way. Think about how many people are going to nursing school. This is a huge niche. Stick with it and you will see your profits grow each month.

Good Luck!

Tracie

[folkcare]

I applaud you your application and dedication to the cause. I really couldn't do that myself. As for list building that's probably the way, I'v got myself set up with an autoresponder, but don't know where to go from there. Will have to consult the gurus I guess, because I'm getting a lot more visitors now.

Missing the jig - darn it.

[Sjcorp]

Thats amazing, how do you find a topic to talk about? You must've had a major brainstorm.

[Stephen Chua]

A question about the 200 articles. They were directing traffic to only 1 site or multiple sites?


stephen

[faithwerks]

I have started article marketiing. Members of my team and I share articles and tweek them to make them our own an save time.

[Charles Harper]

Connect your Expert Authur RSS Feed to Twitter for even more traffic.

Charles

[tommygadget]

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Connect your Expert Authur RSS Feed to Twitter for even more traffic.

Charles

How exactly do you do this? I am new to twitter.

TomG.

[Cali16]

Sree, congrats on your great succes! I'm just about to start some article marketing and your post has been very inspirational! I do have a couple questions though that others have also asked, but I haven't seen you answer them (if you have and I missed your answer, my apologies!).

Are your sales coming from affiliate products that you are promoting on your site? If so, how many different products are you promoting with those 200 articles?

I will say, as far as "hammering your list with emails". I can only speak for myself, but when I get on someone's list and get "hammered" with emails, I am very quick to unsubscribe... not to mention, they have lost me as a customer for good. Again, that is just me, but I just don't have time to read a ton of emails every day....and I don't like to be pushed that hard to buy something....

[Sami]

So Sree, hows it going now?

Any updates?

Sami

[Stephen Chua]

ibw13, you mean post articles on craiglist and usfreeads?

stephen

[sree94]

Originally Posted by Sami

So Sree, hows it going now?

Any updates?

Sami

Well, about 80% of my business is coming from one website.

I guess my dilemma now is whether to try and squeeze as much as I can out of those other sites that are not performing quite as well, or create new sites. I would like to create new ones to have an increased number of income funnels. Plus, I find linkbuilding to be a never ending battle. No matter how many links I submit, I just can't seem to rank high