I had my first month clearing $10K

My old home page just had 2 options presented on there: sign up for my free membership or go to the sales page for my $59 "full access" membership. There wasn't anything else on there because I assumed people would already know who I was from YouTube.

Well, now my home page has a welcome video explaining why they should become a member. It also has a few samples of what's inside, along with some positive reviews.

Still same 2 options, but now I'm getting about 100 new signups each day.

Also, once they sign up for the free membership, I made a "thank you page" to be a sales page to upgrade to full access or choose the "no thanks, I just want to proceed as a free member". I didn't even have a "thank you page" before! This let's them know right away what I'm selling and why they should buy, rather than just letting them figure it out on their own.

Also, I beefed up my sales page with a lot of graphics and better descriptions of all of what's included inside.

In short: I'm "leading" them much better now.

Considering I wrote this post last night as I was laying in bed at 2 am, I guess I recalled that 148 number, but forgot to include the other 20 or so sales that I made in the beginning of September at $45 for my Labor day sale.

However, if you are skeptical then I would advise you not to buy my premium course that I have linked in the description about how to make $10K per month.

They had some up sells products on the backend. This is the only way he could have gotten to $14k+-.

I definitely will be using paid traffic. I'm working on adding some physical products to my site right now, and once I have that in place I will start learning how to use FB ads. I've been following some YouTubers about this, and it's definitely intimidating, but I I definitely want to learn. I want to have more than just 1 product for sale prior to using paid traffic though.

Yes, every video that I post on YouTube is also hosted on my website via Vimeo. This way, if YouTube ever bans my account I'm still backed up. Each video comes with an associated "written version" too for SEO purposes.

The entire site is built using wordpress, and my "product" is simply a membership using the "memberpress" plugin.

I make these videos in my room with a little camera and a decent microphone. I then edit the videos using Sony Vegas. Pretty basic setup.

I've found that the trick is to just keep on working on your business every day, and never stop!

Great stuff! This post definitely has me thinking in new ways. Thank you!

You guessed wrong.
His site is about music. He made a lot if sales at $59.

Reading first would have helped you here.

Yup, just click the link in my sig to buy the course

I've tried doing a recurring model of $10/month or $99/yr...that model always fails for me. Pretty much every time that I've tried to either raise the prices and/or make it into a recurring model, sales have massively decreased.

My solution has been to start focusing on adding an ecommerce store to my site. Additionally, I'm going to be building a second site that has monthly subscription model...these things won't affect what's already working!

Yes, in order to become a member of the site at all - whether free or paid, people have to fill out a form. This puts them on either my prospect or buyers list.

How many of those people "upgrade" as a direct result of my email autoresponder sequence vs. How many of those people would have bought the full access membership anyway? I'm not exactly sure.

All I know is that having people sign up for the free membership, then going through the series of 5 promotional emails definitely helps. This is also good for the long run too, so I can run sales as well as let people know about my other products when they become available.

Sure.

First off, I'm not selling anything here on this warrior forum. I'm not even in the MMO niche (although, I may build a course one day explaining exactly what I do as a second project). I'm in the music niche.

My entire philosophy is based off Steve Pavlina's. I don't know if you follow his blog, but he is the only person that I ever followed since I got into IM. His website is about personal growth, with only a small portion of his content geared towards how to make money.

Basically I just give everything away for free. I'll sometimes spend 2 to 3 days just making a YouTube video (which is free). I currently have about 150 YouTube videos.

Because YouTube has control over my videos/account, I also have a duplicate of every single video hosted through Vimeo on my site. This way, I actually own and control all of them. I also make a written version of each of these free videos for SEO purposes.

When people sign up to my "free membership" that's what they get. They get access to all the stuff that's already free on YouTube, with the main benefit being that everything is organized better on my site.

I then have the option to "upgrade to full access" for a one-time fee of $59. This gives people access to about 3000 additional videos. I'm also constantly adding more and more stuff, which they don't have to pay for since the one-time fee includes all updates to the site.

In short...I give all my knowledge on the subject away for free. I then have an extremely low-cost offer available which offers WAY more value then what I'm charging. The upgrade is almost a no-brainer!

If I were a better marketer, I could probably make 10 times what I'm making now. However, I am learning all of this stuff myself. I hired a coach back in January for $5000...he was a bit helpful, but not much. Everything that I have done so far has all been me just figuring this stuff out along the way.

A good marketer would laugh at my "method", because I honestly feel that I'm leaving a TON of money on the table. However, it's generating enough income each month to make a decent living for myself, which was the goal from the start. So it works for me .

Hopefully that helped. Any other questions, feel free to ask.

(I'm purposely not sharing my YouTube link though. I'd like to remain somewhat anonymous on here.)

Hey, it's just basic guitar lessons with an emphasis on music theory .

Each email is simply a "sneak peak" a full access member video, along with a button that says "learn more about becoming a full access member".

The emails are very non-invasive, but also still giving them a reminder of what I have to offer.

In the final email I thank them for following the series, and then let them know that I will be emailing only about once per month from this point forward.

After that, I just shoot out monthly updates and holiday sales.

Hey, I started this business in April of 2016. I never paid any mind to rankings or SEO. I just built the site to help people, and I made it as user-friendly as possible. My objective was to just continuously add fresh, new helpful content as much as possible and stick with it for AT LEAST 5 years. I'm in year 3 now, and it's beginning to pay off .

What got me started on the path that ultimately led to where I'm at today, which is simply "have a website, have content, and have something for sale on it", was a course called "getting rich with eBooks".

I spent $497 on the course, and while it seems ridiculous to me to have spent that on what the course actually taught me, it still caused me to force myself to take lots of action.

In other words, sometimes it may be worth buying an expensive "crappy course", because at the end of the day it is 100% entirely up to you to take action. Dropping a bunch of money on a course will definitely help push you to do that!

He said it right here:

Haha no...I've been building this business for over 3 years. These 150 YouTube videos were made over a long period of time. I just happened to make one that got a bunch of views, and it caused a traffic spike for me.

This is not the result of a "quick method" or anything. This is a long-term business endeavor.

I was steadily making about $1000 to $2000 per month from selling my course, but then it just spiked up in September and October.

I'm not sure exactly what my monthly traffic numbers are, but I was doing about 200 to 300 "sessions" per day according to Google Analytics for about the last year.

In September, the traffic spike jumped up to about 1000 "sessions per day", but it has since been going down a little bit. I'm floating around 600 to 800 sessions per day as of now.

The changes that I made were:

1.) Make my homepage better so it adequately describes what I'm offering

2.) Beef up my sales page with more images and better descriptions of what they will get after purchasing

3.) Always try to follow the "one page, one goal" principle that people waste $97/month on Clickfunnels doing

4.) Add a "thank you page" after someone signs up for the free membership to my site. This thank you page is a sales page to upgrade right then and there.

Other then that, it's just been 3.5 years of grinding and working at building this business every single day .