Quit my job to pursue this, no views and no sales.

Let me ask you some questions.

1. Why would anyone want to read a single article you've written on your pick up chicks blog?

2. Who are you? (When I see your site, my first reaction is "another stupid affiliate site with NO transparency and another invisible author." As far as I'm concerned, your site could've been built by a bot.)

3. Are you speaking from a position of authority and experience?

4. Are you writing and posting about your experiences with the various pick up chicks products you're hustling? Even better, do you ever make any appearances on video discussing your results from these products?

5. You quit your job because of THIS SITE? Are you insane?

Hi Colby, You need to learn the basics of Internet Marketing. The number one rule is to build a list that you can market to. Send them to a squeeze page first. On your squeeze page offer your niche something of value in exchange for their email... Example "7 Magic Words Guaranteed To Get You Laid Like Crazy" Enter your email for Free Instant Access... Then instead of sending them to a hard to read boring website load your aweber autoresponder with 30 short messages, provide free tips in the messages, make them short and entertaining, write powerful subject lines to get those who opted in to your list to open and read your messages and every 3rd email or so tell them to check out this video at: BadAssTao.com That's Guaranteed to turn them into a Chick Magnate. Then let the offer convert them into buyers. Your job is to build a list who are interested in your niche, and send them useful and entertaining content and occasionally recommend they check out this link to something that will help them get what they already want. Don't jump around from one thing to the next. Focus on one thing (like doing the basics) and master that one thing before moving on to something else. Sign up to lists of successful marketers in your niche, study their autoresponder messages, learn from others who are already successful selling to your chosen niche... Example:http://www.davidwygant.com/men/start

Cheers,
Steve

PS... There are two kinds of people. Those who can avoid mistakes by reading the experiences of others... and those who just have to pee on the electric fence themselves. You just learnt one lesson the hard way... Don't even consider quitting your day job until your side business is producing more income than your regular job. And here's 10 more common mistakes that you can avoid making if you can learn from the experiences of others.

In a marketplace chock full of REAL experts and authorities, your website comes across as beyond amateur.

You need to learn so much about marketing that it's overwhelming and difficult to give you any one piece of advice.

If you're hard up for money, get a job.

You're NOT ready to make a living online... full OR part time.

What you're demonstrating here isn't prime time ready.

You need to establish a personal brand. (Sorry Steve The Copywriter... I had to.)

The worst thing you can do is quit your job and create a dire, desperate situation - when you're just learning how to run an online business.

And yes...

It IS a business. (Whether you're an affiliate or product creator.)

Mark

I don't know if it is just me but I can't actually see how to buy anything from your site. Also your articles don't come across as being natural, did you write them yourself or copy from somewhere else. They strike me as written by someone with limited English skills.

I echo everyone else on this thread who says you definitely should not have given up your job for this. This is such a competitive niche that you have to provide something extraordinairy to succeed.

My advice comes too late I fear. Don't quit your job.

Maybe you could go crawling back to your old employer and tell them you made a big mistake.

Websites like yours scream "low quality" and "scam" on several scores. The "Pick Up Girls" niche might be a hungry one, but it's also one with a well deserved reputation as a scam niche.

It's also a niche based on objectifying women, reducing complex female humans to mere goals of male domination fantasies, playing to the most unrealistic, ridiculous adolescent fantasies some guys (pathetic losers) have about bending women to their will, as exemplified by this bullet point on your main page, for "Tao of Badass": "Learn How To Control Women.", and this one for another product you're selling: "How To Get Her To Do Anything You Want."

Only an idiotic virgin with no respect for either himself or women would seriously indulge such a stupid fantasy to the point of buying based on those false promises.

Any man with experience with real females (or any person with common sense, for that matter), knows women don't want to, and cannot be "controlled" or made to "do anything you want" other than by force, threats, or another form of coercion. In other words, if the product really lived up to that promise, it would merely be training for future rapists and extortionists.

Any decent product in the niche would emphasize finding a match with someone who shares some of your agenda, and learning to compromise on the parts they don't share, rather than promising that any "hot" woman can just be "controlled" or made to "Do Anything You Want".

One of your main articles you call "general advice", titled "All you need to know to start dating a hot blond" (already a big lie for most men; women have eyes and dating criteria too), you start off with these lines:

"Blonde hair, big tits. Wide hips, big lips.

Blonde hair appeals to our primal sides as a sign of youth and value. Anna Faris from Scary Movie and her blonde transformation for The House Bunny is an example of how golden skin and hair have a mesmerizing effect.

Now, our goal is to attract these blondes as sexual partners and girlfriends."

So from just the first few lines of your article, we learn that blonds are more desirable than brunettes, and whites more desirable than people of color on a "primal" level (golden skin and hair). We also learn that the writer is shallow beyond belief, and assumes the reader is as well. "Now, our goal" is the goal of a man with a mindset that any woman in her right mind would find repulsive.

And we learn from the rest of the article that it isn't hard for any man to date a "hot blond", and that the writer's experience, which presumably any reader can make his own, is that: "By direct lust, desire, and intention to FORCE myself onto every Blonde girl in my immediate vicinity I manifested a surprising number of hot girls into my life." (Could the writer be more ridiculous?)

One has to give you the benefit of the doubt, and hope you don't really literally mean "FORCE" even though you capitalized it, but the implication of using it figuratively is still appalling, as is the obsession with blond hair and light skin.

I should say I've never seen the products you sell, and they might be high quality, but the way they are being promoted on your site is with false promises, and a horrible attitude (that it is a legitimate goal to seek control over women for one's own pleasure, rather than seeking relationships with equals, which involves give and take, not "control")

I'd be appalled if your site was successful. You need to learn a thing or two about women before proceeding with giving men dating advice.

why the hell would you need the entire day, every day, to work on a site like that?

If you have to get another job while you are trying to build an online business, get one in basic sales. One that you will get a salary instead of straight commission at first. Something easy like shoe sales or computers, or whatever. You could learn a lot by being objective to the whole marketing process in a position like that. My way of thinking is that the foundation of marketing is sales. It sure couldn't hurt to learn the whole sales process.

In the meantime, you could start building your library of books and courses on writing advertising copy. Practice writing that stuff a lot. That would be a massive help, I would think.

I would recommend purchasing books used on Amazon. I got a whole bunch of outstanding books by guys like Gary Halbert, Dan Kennedy, etc. for dirt cheap prices. I got Dan Kennedy's ad copy writing course for $25.00 on eBay used.

One of the best things you can do on here is network with people that are experts and ask them what books and courses they would recommend.

As far as taking action; always ask before you act. I'm getting a great education from these people and even though they are blunt and sometimes crass, they are a massive help. In the age of the Internet you can always talk to people that will try to help you on places just like this forum.

At any rate, get a job. You need to survive and have money coming in to take care of the basics. If you are single, you only have yourself to worry about and if you are smart you won't incur any debts that are unnecessary. No bills = freedom to act without stress.

I hope this was a help to you.

God Bless, and Merry Christmas!

ELMO

I feel REALLY bad for you right now.

I'm sorry, man. Just go get another job in sales (like elmo said) and learn the way of sales WHILE you're making money. That's a really good idea.

I'd suggest getting a website designer to make you a website if you don't have time to learn HTML/CSS along with copywriting and marketing etc.

Oh and get a different cover girl.

But HEY! EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES! Life is a learning experience and you can't evolve if you don't **** up. I actually recommend you try to **** up as much as possible haha. You'll bounce back from this, man. Don't worry just be committed to getting a job.

By the way Mr. Colby, I agree with Mr. Greg above. It is a very tough niche and it shows no respect to women. Perhaps you could start a course that shows men how to respect women. That would really be something! LOL!

ELMO

I thank everyone for their input. I will post back on this thread in some time with how i succeeded for future reference of all reading. Again i do appreciate everyone taking the time to offer their advice.

Do not give up, get another job by all means, but do not give up.

Why not try another niche:

How to get ugly women who are fun to be with with and won't crush your soul

You're best off building a targeted list of prospects, fast. And mailing them every day.

If you're ultra-committed to making this work, hook yourself up with a proven mentor. Structure a relationship where they get a piece of your action long term so it's worthwhile to them to spend time with you and they don't feel like they're just training another wannabe.

Treat'em as a partner.

Let'em use you as a case study or testimonial if they want.

Keep a diary so you can go back and see your progress, your learning, ups and downs, good days and bad.

Then do what they tell you--to the letter. Do not second guess them.

Stay away from alternative IM education during this time. Especially Warrior Forum. It'll just confuse you and ultimately compromise your results. Stay focused. Do not read or watch anything unless it comes from your mentor.

Bust your ass. Never complain.

Then, when you get your first optin or your first sale, celebrate it. Because there's more where they came from.

None of this is "hard" or expensive. But it does take a certain mindset and there are lots of "rules" you must learn. Your mentor will help shortcut your learning.

Good luck,

- Rick Duris

PS: Prediction: Venture into PPC at this point in your career, and you will lose it all.

Scared, desperate money always loses. Always. This isn't about luck.

You've gone about this backwards. You already know so I won't rub it in. If you can get your job back, do it ASAP. If you can't then get some type of income coming in. Only then should you work on this project (it needs a LOT of work), taking some of the suggestions offered here.

If it hasn't already been pointed out, the black background with white text causes seizures. If it doesn't right off, it will eventually. Good luck.

Get a job! Doing this type of work is never guaranteed (pay wise). A job at least provides a paycheck (while employed). Do this stuff on the side and if it makes you more money, than your job, then consider quitting it. Many people quit their jobs and think success is a given with their side business. Look for a job and do your side business and good luck!

Theres some great advice on this post already but if your getting into this niche I would suggest working out your traffic source as ppc and seo can both costly in this niche. A good way to get a idea on what style of pages are converting is to check out some of the ads for pua/ stuff on pof.

Good to see you taking action but I would suggest getting a job to reduce the pressure on yourself. You should be able to do this in your spare time until you scale up.

I read a good saying the other day "goals are like dreams they give us a nice feeling buts its action plans that make money"

Check the WSO section or War Room for things you can
use to get some cashflow. Pick one, dig in and do it.
You'll probably find the labor tedious, but that's
a dirty secret to internet marketing too: it is labor
to make it work.

Look at coupon marketing and things like that. Unless
you live in an isolated area, making cards and flyers
promoting a good online offer can really work, like
the coupon offers. I forget what it's called right now,
but there was this video game site where kids
(I use the word broadly) could get the newest computer
games for free for like a month or two... kind of
like Netflix for video games. Of course many would
like it so much they would stay on as customers...
seems like a useful thing to put up flyers around
college campuses and other places where people
with enough free time to play computer games
hang out.

It's not too late to start over. Be realistic about your finances. If you need to, get another job to tide you over.

I thank everyone for their input. Just as an update I've since learned my lessons. Am attempting to cut my losses with the oversaturated niche i was in and am trying to sell my site. Afterwords i will be trying again with all the things i've learned. Again thank you to everyone who chimed in on this!

I'm new to the forum, but I've been in Advertising Marketing and Sales for over 20 years now and I've got to say, your site is horrible. From a basic marketing perspective, I wouldn't stay on this site 5 seconds. You desperately need to have a professional developer remake your site and a professional writer to rework your content. A PPC campaign will do you no good until you have something worth visiting. I'm with you, trying to figure all this out, but the first 2 issues mentioned are just basic marketing issues. It's the easy stuff. The hard stuff comes AFTER you get those issues fixed.