Shawn C. Mason Internet Marketing Addict
Posted 18th November 2009 at 09:12 PM by Shawn Mason
It all started one day in the battle.net forums…
See I was addicted to this game called starcraft.
and one day browsing this forum some signature was like “hey I make money online”..
Curiosity got the best of me, and I was thrown into a world of junk pyramid schemes and traffic exchanges.
It took me the better part of two years messing around with free stuff and not making a single dime online before I felt I was ready, to get serious and buy a few domain names.
I started out with a collection of resale rights materials, put my own spin on it.
Just having the site landed me a JV someone who had a similar site, we exchanged free memberships as part of the JV and almost instantly I built myself a list of paying customers. I began to make real money online, and quit my security job to work from home full time.
The first thing I did was create an offer called “I quit my day job special offer” and reeled in a whole bunch of people to contribute products. It ended up being a huge success, and after all the years of hard work it had finally paid off.
Without revealing exactly what happened, I let some personal stress get the best of me and I broke down.
Falling into a deep depression despite my success, and with no one to pull me out of it I let it all fall apart.
Working for nearly 4 years to become successful online totally wasted..
I obviously regret this more than I can describe here, but that’s not the point…
The point is that once I finally pulled my head up from feeling terrible, the first thing I wanted to do was rebuild my Internet Business. I’m sure you’ve heard it before, what would you do if you had no list, no jv partners and had to start with nothing but a few hundred dollars for hosting..
There I was, faced with the task of rebuilding everything from nothing, and so I began.
I had a bit of catching up to do, my head wasn’t really in the game for some time so I spent some money on what information and products I deemed necessary. I picked I think 18 or so topics and began to build a blog, and twitter following around each one. I didn’t spend a lot of time on any of them I just kind of threw them up there, as a test.
What I discovered was that some topics, would build because of their own popularity, and others wouldn’t.
Because I carefully tracked all my adsense I could sit back and evaluate which topics were worth monetizing and which ones weren’t. It was only after I would discover that the blog was getting pagerank and traffic that I would go out in search of a product perfect to sell to that niche.
It’s important to note that I didn’t start off right away in Internet Marketing.. this is a “hyper competitive” niche where you’re really competing against the best guys in the world. While I did eventually write my Internet Intelligence Report it was only after my work to monetize the niche blogs that I had created.
Internet Marketing is no joke, if you want to compete (as a single human being) you need to know a lot of stuff.
You need to have a passion for something so that you can write about it and not go insane.
Many people do not like writing articles and outsource it. I would hardly say I like it but you read my story I’m pretty positive there is a part of me that enjoys this.. It’s important because from product creation to product promotion it’s all about your content, your sales letter, your articles.
If it’s not your thing you can outsource it, but there’s a big price range between writing articles, and writing copy. Copywriting is important for every aspect of your marketing. The words you choose can easily make or break your website. If you’re like most people and can’t afford a copywriter you can study it yourself.
Beyond buying some popular copywriting courses you can simply look for appealing sales letters (in your market) and create a swipe file of the good stuff. You can learn a lot just by reading into a few good sales letters to understand how they work, and the language that they use.
Enjoy the success!
Shawn C Mason is writer, website developer and internet marketer
With over 7 years of experience online. To learn the exact system
he uses to start from scratch you need to check out
The Internet Intelligence Report -- Create Your Very Own Automated Cash Machine Internet Empire
More articles @ Shawn C. Mason
See I was addicted to this game called starcraft.
and one day browsing this forum some signature was like “hey I make money online”..
Curiosity got the best of me, and I was thrown into a world of junk pyramid schemes and traffic exchanges.
It took me the better part of two years messing around with free stuff and not making a single dime online before I felt I was ready, to get serious and buy a few domain names.
I started out with a collection of resale rights materials, put my own spin on it.
Just having the site landed me a JV someone who had a similar site, we exchanged free memberships as part of the JV and almost instantly I built myself a list of paying customers. I began to make real money online, and quit my security job to work from home full time.
The first thing I did was create an offer called “I quit my day job special offer” and reeled in a whole bunch of people to contribute products. It ended up being a huge success, and after all the years of hard work it had finally paid off.
Without revealing exactly what happened, I let some personal stress get the best of me and I broke down.
Falling into a deep depression despite my success, and with no one to pull me out of it I let it all fall apart.
Working for nearly 4 years to become successful online totally wasted..
I obviously regret this more than I can describe here, but that’s not the point…
The point is that once I finally pulled my head up from feeling terrible, the first thing I wanted to do was rebuild my Internet Business. I’m sure you’ve heard it before, what would you do if you had no list, no jv partners and had to start with nothing but a few hundred dollars for hosting..
There I was, faced with the task of rebuilding everything from nothing, and so I began.
I had a bit of catching up to do, my head wasn’t really in the game for some time so I spent some money on what information and products I deemed necessary. I picked I think 18 or so topics and began to build a blog, and twitter following around each one. I didn’t spend a lot of time on any of them I just kind of threw them up there, as a test.
What I discovered was that some topics, would build because of their own popularity, and others wouldn’t.
Because I carefully tracked all my adsense I could sit back and evaluate which topics were worth monetizing and which ones weren’t. It was only after I would discover that the blog was getting pagerank and traffic that I would go out in search of a product perfect to sell to that niche.
It’s important to note that I didn’t start off right away in Internet Marketing.. this is a “hyper competitive” niche where you’re really competing against the best guys in the world. While I did eventually write my Internet Intelligence Report it was only after my work to monetize the niche blogs that I had created.
Internet Marketing is no joke, if you want to compete (as a single human being) you need to know a lot of stuff.
You need to have a passion for something so that you can write about it and not go insane.
Many people do not like writing articles and outsource it. I would hardly say I like it but you read my story I’m pretty positive there is a part of me that enjoys this.. It’s important because from product creation to product promotion it’s all about your content, your sales letter, your articles.
If it’s not your thing you can outsource it, but there’s a big price range between writing articles, and writing copy. Copywriting is important for every aspect of your marketing. The words you choose can easily make or break your website. If you’re like most people and can’t afford a copywriter you can study it yourself.
Beyond buying some popular copywriting courses you can simply look for appealing sales letters (in your market) and create a swipe file of the good stuff. You can learn a lot just by reading into a few good sales letters to understand how they work, and the language that they use.
Enjoy the success!
Shawn C Mason is writer, website developer and internet marketer
With over 7 years of experience online. To learn the exact system
he uses to start from scratch you need to check out
The Internet Intelligence Report -- Create Your Very Own Automated Cash Machine Internet Empire
More articles @ Shawn C. Mason
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