Trying New Ideas and Testing

Constantly searching for new ideas online, and getting bombarded with ads that I cannot control, I resorted to the library internal databases and print media for new ideas and information seeking, ad-free. It's working for me.

Most people don't realize how big library databases are, and how much information and free resources they have. I call it the forgotten databases.

Some ideas I want to test this year that may have promise:

1. Using Google sites for fast templating of websites and landers: I have discovered some operators are creating backlinks using google sites since they are so easy to create and duplicate, and have different generic addresses. It seems to be working for some keywords I typed.

2. Trying my hand at a coupon site. I built a tremendous email list in a grocery brand poll and want to see if I can monetize it using a grocery-related coupon site. I've read good and bad things about these kind of sites.

3. Create a portfolio of SEO websites in foreign countries domain names and see how well they rank, I am hoping for less competition and more traffic. Latin America mostly.

4. I want to try affiliate marketing in lesser known ad networks like Taboola, RevContent, etc. There's a lot of them..have to do more research but I like RevContent because they also allow you to send traffic to a domain parking page as well, as long as there are relevant ads being displayed on the cash parking page..like Bodis.

5. I got some results from Facebook groups and want to see how far it will go. I made a group last year and it kind of keeps generating its own traffic and memberships, over 2000 so far. I also got a Facebook page to rank well in SEO and wonder how this would work on purpose for an SEO linked website.

6. Getting a job because I have failed so many times over and over in Internet marketing. The only thing that ever made me money in my own business was real estate flipping and investing, making websites, direct mail, selling ebooks and audiobooks on Amazon.

Most were all experiments that kind of worked but I never went all in with because there was some huge adverse factor that I didnt like, such as:

Real estate: Dealing with contractors and trades, sucked the life out of me, tying up vast sums of cash for months, inconsistent income, rentals and tenants, lawsuits.

Making websites: I love it but only for myself, I hate making websites ofr others because they dont see what I see, and they want mega design for peanuts, literally. Its so bad now too. Then there are clients that dont pay. I just did a 3 domain mega web job for a plastics manufacturing outfit here in Ohio, they totally scammed me, I spent money upfront, they went total dark on me. Very frustrating, but if I could find better clients maybe not so. I did just to a gmail business conversion job and it went well, they really needed a better email system and gmail was the solution.

Ebooks: This was unexpected. I bought one of those kindle courses back i 2017 and just followed it for about 1 year, making about 65 books and using cheap writers, etc. I spent about $9,000 total on all the book costs, and the business has made over $700-$800 a month every year since. In 2020 I had a major spike of course. So this made me money, very passive because since 2018 I really dont do anything to it anymore. I wonder how it would be if I kept making more books and had 500 in there..

The only think that I ever really enjoyed doing was making ads and testing them, and my first experience into IM back in 1998. Under the guidance of a guru back then, I started making seo websites and selling ebooks on them and it was FUN, and easy, but not easy. But very fun, for a 21 year old, and it worked, I was making about $1000 a week till my little hack stopped working in SEO.