In need of immediate help with my internet marketing ! I'm dying

Hi chrisfrye

Your best bet would be to offer a service for which you will see money coming in over the short term.

This will then take the pressure off you to earn money with the affiliate and drop shipping side of your business.

As that side of your business becomes more successful you could ease off from providing the service and concentrate on the passive income which the former should provide.

As to what service to offer, have a think about your skill set, website design, graphics, writing etc. Take a look at fiverr.com to give you some ideas and go from there.

All the best

Gary

Hey well done for taking action.

It's impossible to diagnose the problem without looking at the analytics, the offer and the advert.

But, possibly based on what you've said it sounds like it could either be a problem with your traffic, a problem with your offer, or a problem with your advert.

So, how targeted is your traffic?

Are you testing different offers / sales copy?

Are you testing different ad copy?

It might even be a problem with how you're stacking things together.

Are you warming them up first, or are you expecting them to buy from you the first time they visit you?

Then are you retargeting them?

And are you following up after cart abandonment?

Lots of questions, hopefully they might help you to solve the problem yourself.

I posted an accurate answer
I was then notified that dkk06 had commented
When I checked back to read the comment, both my post and the comment had been deleted from the thread

Perhaps it was because I gave reference links
None of them were affiliate links
There is no way I could have personally profited from the time I invested to answer this members problem

An answer cannot be comprehensive without reference links

I found a free valuable resource that is helping me rethink my approach to building my online virtual travel agency.

This is a share not a plug for Mirasee.com's free resource:

Go to Mirasee.com and download their free pdf "10 Lessons-- From Debt to 7 Figures Without Selling my Soul"

Should address a lot of what you are going through.

Even if you have what you think are quality products/services you probably are missing the actual REAL first step to all of this: the WHY you are doing this specific business path.

Peace.

Anthony

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It's called 'shopify' because it's a shop
How do people shop?
How do you shop?
You say 'I wanna buy that. Let me see if it's cheaper elsewhere'
If they can find your products on amazon or ebay that's where they're going to buy it
If they can put your product in a google natural search and it is offered at the same price on a site they trust more than yours, that's where they're going to buy it

How do shops beat their competition?
They have special offers and combination deals that their rivals don't

So either sell in-demand products that aren't available elsewhere
or create offers that aren't available elsewhere
That's what marketing IS
Internet Marketing is nothing more than 'how to sell stuff' online
and 'how to sell stuff online' is not dissimilar from 'how to sell stuff' OFFline

With regard to your affiliate product funnels
every internet marketing guru says exactly the same thing
Create a great free offer that nobody else is offering
and give it away in exchange for opt in
and build a list
Then build a relationship with the list
and send them special offers and combination deals not available elsewhere

You can probably see a theme emerging
Marketing is all about creating special offers and combination deals
And Internet Marketing is Marketing
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Seems to me any sort of business online (one's own from scratch) is all about suck it and see (try it and test it again and again) and it is the last man standing that is the success story. Very expensive investment - as a business always is. I have an IM; NM and two bricks and mortar businesses. All have been diy jobbies apart from the first two and i have used IM for all the businesses. But, I only see success stories from people who have tapped into a 'system'- someone else has formulated. Notice how there are far less failures in a McDonalds/Starbucks/Costa franchise than Giovanni's new blend of roasted smooth coffee. Even though Giovanni's new coffee is going to taste 100 times better than anything in Costa. Could this be your problem? If so no amount of 'advice' here is going to help (and some of it is really good) because we are touching the tips of the iceburg. Find the 'system' that is proven.

Build one funnel and promote it until you get it in profit.

It's been posted so many times because it works:

#1 Lead magnet/freebie/loss leader.

#2 Low priced entry level "qualifier" product.

#3 Continue to promote to non-buyers.

#4 Run buyers through an increasingly high priced series of products. As they buy, move them to the next level.

#5 Continue to drive as much targeted traffic to the mouth of your funnel as possible.

Hi Chrisfrye,

I'm sure you're not the only one going through this. True, it really feels frustrating for MOST of the time when you're trying to put things together. I've been there as well. Based on my experience I have the following advice for you:

1. You may want to get your marketing off the ground but you may not yet have an email list. Hence, it's absolutely crucial to start building your email list. You can send targeted traffic to your sales page using solo ads and in the process you can start collecting email addresses for your list. But be cautious, there are some unscrupulous solo ad vendors out there.

2. Watch out for your budget. Your budget may be low and hence the reason why you cannot get moving with paid traffic sources.

3. Don't do the mistake I did at the beginning. I did not followup with subscribers on my email list because they did not buy from me when I advertised.

4. Even if you have only 10 subscribers on your email list. Please followup with them by sending them further encouragements (not pitches) about the benefits of your product.

5. That's only for the email list. there are other sources which will be too long to talk about here. But I know that the greatest setback is your advertising budget. Get this sorted out and you'll be on your way. It will not be easy because you may be indebted already. But it'll be worth your go at it.

Dying ... ??

I would say that it is impossible to focus on two very different things at the same time. Unless you are saying our affiliate marketing is all about your dropshipping business. If you are trying to do both there won't be enough time. Master one and then the other

Depending on what your niche is, you could try solo ads. Solo ads are only good for certain niches, but they are definitely worth it (assuming you get quality solo ads).

Please share a short list of the goods/services you have tried marketing w/o success so far.

Sorry in advance if you already posted such a list and I missed it.

Thanks.

Anthony

You don't want more money.

I'm sorry about your struggle and believe me, I've been there more times than I would like to admit but it's not money you're after. Here's what you do.

If you know about affiliate marketing and have been marketing online for quite some time now, then you understand the process.

You need a convincing landing page - the landing page is NOT for just capturing a subscriber. A landing page should be dedicated to weed out those who are serious and not serious about seeing what's on the other side of that email they just submitted. People tend to treat email subscribers as a number instead of realizing that, these are humans that are on our list.

You need a high converting product - it does not matter how great your ad is or how great your article is or any previous content that got them to the sales page, if your sales page can't convert them into a sale. Before they even see your sales page, either your landing page has to be convincing enough with enough details or you yourself have to be convincing enough to send them to your sales page already warmed up.

You need certainty - if you don't have confidence and certainty in your knowledge then that confidence and certainty will be extremely hard to convey and inject into the mind of the prospect.

You need money - as you already know, money is simply another tool to help get people to your content and to help you become a more knowledgeable person to deliver value to those people.

In the world of affiliate marketing the people who make the most money are the people that people trust the most. What knowledge do you have? Make videos based on this knowledge. Don't die with this information tucked in the recesses of your mind.

Every marketer seems to want to market the same way, which is fine but they have to expect the same results. The foundation of their results will be their knowledge and the seeds to grow their business will be how they disperse this knowledge. People are your currency, the value you give people are their currency and when they buy from you, they are spending the currency that you gave them. Give them a small amount of value, then they won't have enough to buy the product you're promoting (mental currency)

I hope this helps.

Warm Regards,
-Daniel

I've seen solid advice here offered you Chris. I know how maddening this journey may feel. Like you are going freaking mad! Failing, trying, getting angry. I have been there. Many times.

Following my fun versus trying like hell to make money changed things for me. Like....I wasn't trying to make anything work. I was just having fun creating eBooks and courses and blog posts and videos for people, to solve their problems. I promoted top bloggers to befriend them, they promoted me, I expanded my reach and the income grew.

It is a mindset/energy issue. Because the practical tips are all here, and are not too tough to follow....but when you are more dominated by fear versus love/fun, it's impossible to see and follow successful marketing advice. Feel the fear of loss - however tough - and you can clear those energies, to get in the right mental space for following proven tips.

Keep yer head up....we are with ya and here to help.

Ryan