I am about to give up affiliate marketing

In 5 months you have 5 websites that all aren't making money. You're spreading yourself too thin. From your sig, it looks like you are in teh IM niche too. That is a very hard niche to get rolling in.

I am no expert by any means, but I would suggest getting 1 website making money then automate that websites work. Then move on to the second website.

You can't lose hope. If you do, you're sure to fail.

But on the otherhand, if you give up, that's one less person I have to compete with =)....that's just a joke. I don't want you to give up.

Hi Annette,

As petelta inferred, it's hard to teach others how to make money if you don't know how to do it yourself. If your dream is fading and you don't think IM works... how can you persuade anyone to buy the products you're selling?

So, as mentioned before, you may want to consider setting up a website in a different niche. Get your feet wet and learn how to make money before you start teaching others.

(BTW, just as an idea -- if those sites are getting traffic, you can make a few quick dollars on them by selling the sites on Flippa. Then you can reinvest that money back into your business.)

Secondly...

In order for us to truly help you, we need to know exactly what you're doing. That is, you need to explain your business model: how you're driving traffic, whether you're building a list, how your monetizing the traffic, etc.

Cheers,
Becky

I agree - the make money online niche is really a hard one to crack. You'd probably do better if you focused on another niche - maybe something you have an interest in and put your full effort into that until you got it making money.

The thing is that in the MMO niche you are competing against people that know a lot about keyword research and marketing their sites. Probably most of them have a lot more money and resources than you do to get their sites to the top of the serps. Plus, like everyone else said, if you aren't making money yourself, how can you sell MMO to anyone else.

I've been at this quite a while myself but I'm going to let you in on one of the big mistakes that I have made (and actually still make) and that is not promoting my sites enough. I don't know what you're doing to promote yours but if you are doing article marketing you really need a boatload of articles out there. I don't know if that's why you aren't getting more traffic but that was one of my problems.

Lee

LOL!

You can sell them on Flippa - probably not for a lot, a couple hundred bucks. The design is nice and since you are getting traffic, that's a good bonus.

Or you could list them right here in the websites for sale section. That would actually cost you less because you could list them all in one listing for $20 whereas flippa is $19 for each site plus a 5% success fee.

Lee

hello friend,
affiliate marketing is a very lucrative business which is easy to start, for you to start making money you need to get somethings right, get it wrong you are out, you should not be targeting an highly competitive market like Make Money NIche, there are some niches that are low competitive and profitable, try to research a market before promoting the product, it may be that the product you are promoting has been promoted to people, i mean not in vogue or trend. i hope this help a little.

Another tip that has helped my motivation with internet marketing has been selling a service on the side.

Like I said before, I don't have much experience to help your business but I do have over a year experience of keeping at it lol. So I know how to keep myself pushing forward.

Lately I have been taking an hour a day to do article writing and submitting for clients and have also been putting together small WSO PLRs that I will be posting shortly. This has helped me stay focused because it's making me money now. Even though it's only a small amount of money, it's positive cash flow. Balancing my immediate money and my long term money (remember your current websites are long term investments) has kept me motivated.

Seeing is believing.

Judging by two of the links in your sig, you fell for the exact same thing that many newbies fall for and that is ... choosing Make Money Online as a niche. It is highly competitive and very hard to break into.

There are so many niches that are much lower competition, easier to dominate, easier to get top listings in Google, easier to make money.

You need to do some keyword research and dig for those niches. Even in competitive niches, with good keyword research, you can find some low competition keywords to target for article marketing, blog posts, etc.

not personal, but i swear i could make a motsa somehow from this type of thing, I think we need a school of hard knocks where we dish up some spoonfuls of concrete for breakfast.

the school of no more crap, lets get tough, so welcome to hard school, first people get all powdery and lovely dovey, o don't do that well not here lets start by what you wrote

but the dream is slowly fading away, = what rubbish the dream is not going anywhere it is still there, whats fading away is your desire and passion.

why you wish for it but you don't want it bad enough, i say how bad do you want it ?

I cant hear you , how bad do you want it ? oh there you go, now as the people have said above and even you have said the health can go i was not untested in it anyway ?

and you have 5 things dancing and not working, some smart cookies above have said work with one and find a passion to start with, then this is what you do.

you soak up as much information as you can and you do not quit and you work on that puppy until it starts to work.

you drag that site kicking and screaming if you have to and you make sure you tell that site that there is only one option and that is success.

you then also once it works will see a cloud lift and the sky's clear and then you will live that dream your chasing.

as mentioned the dream is not giving up you are, so that needs to be reversed.

this is best stated in a old quote by Michelle phifer "we all must live for our dream otherwise life is a slow process of dying"

start living, start building that profitabe site and show yourself and your son what people can do when they turn it on.

Annette. Put those sites on the burner for now

Get back to real products and services, ones that you use, ones that other people use and ones that are consumable and are used on a day to day basis.

Shareasale.com
cj.com

You can do it, as you have shown the gumption to get up and build some sites. I just feel you have entered a market which is not really a good market to go into.

When I first got started I built 1 affiliate website and I focused on it for a year, just adding to it daily, working on traffic sources and learning more about the products. This was definately key in seeing it go from a part time income to a full time one.

Affiliate marketing does pay. It's usually the approach to it that prevents people from doing well in it.

Maybe try and promote physical products from amazon or ebay. Some people do good at physical products and some do good at money making niche or info products. All you can do is try. Keep trying to you find anything that makes you a lil $ then run with it fast and as hard as you possibly can.

Okay you are confusing me with your main site...

There are a billion links to a million DIFFERENT products and half of them I personally don't know anything about. (never heard of them)

On another hand you have adsense there... What is your goal of the site? to get them to opt in? buy a clickbank or other product? or just leave?

If you want to make a blog site like that you can have a whole bunch of stuff IF YOUR CONTENT IS TOP QUALITY...

You've got to make them believe you know what you are talking about.

Many people say, "if you aren't making any money online then how can you sell to them" The same exact way a 275 pound, 5'6 man can sell hundreds of thousands of weight loss product.

You've got to be believable, know what you are saying, and relate to them..

Newbie marketers know one thing and that is that they want to make money online. If you know how to make a wordpress site, post it up and put content on it, then you are that much ahead of him..

You can simply make videos showing the new marketer how to get closer to his goal and he will thank you. Give him/her some progress and he will think you are an authority.

In every niche, if you offer value. Much higher value than perceived then you will succeed. But you've got to buckle down and do it.

In 5 months I'm sure you know a little more than those just entering. I've only been doing this for a year.. No i'm not making millions or even hundreds of thousands.. But I know the game and this year will be amazing for me...

Keywords is the game. If you can find good keywords of people who are new and want to make money at home.. Look at the other possibilities as well.

Like the "apply online at ..." there are tons of keywords like that.. people who are looking for jobs at mcdonalds and best buy.. I'm sure the thought of working from home is better than slaving over a deep fryer...

Yes there are tons of people in the market but think outside the box and don't spread yourself out like that. Don't give up believe me I didn't see any kind of income until 6 months after I started... Yes some people make money in the first month because THEY ARE HUNGRY...

Personally i wasn't and I am now understanding that.. My back wasn't against the wall, but now it is and this is the time to really get off our asses. Make that happen for yourself.. Use the 80 20 rule = 80% of the results comes from 20% of the work..

Ask yourself better questions like what can I do to make 2000 extra a month? and then break it down.

How can customers really want to buy my product? and then break it down..

Don't beat yourself up or ask yourself doubtful questions like... what if they don't buy? or why is my product not selling? ask what can I do to make my product sell MORE?

You get my drift...

offer great content and no matter what people will know...

Ok i'm done ranting take care and live with passion!

David R.

Your site (easylife) looks good to me! Don't give up! Just keep going! There is always a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel!

Cheers,
Erica

Don't give up, that's the only guaranteed way of not succeeding. You've been given some great advice, take it, apply it and run with it. You can do this! Use your son as motivation. What would you say to your son if he came to you and said it's been 5 mos and I want to give up, it's not working? You would probably tell him that you need to figure out why it's not working because plenty of people are successful doing what you want to do, what makes them any different. They started from scratch, too. Wising you the best!

Hey Annette,

Can be tuff... "nothing good comes easy" remember that! Please dont give up as there is enough money out there in IM for everyone to get a piece of the pie. I was a little like you and a friend referred me to the following site and I have never looked back... it's free sign up... excellent training material and useful information... have a look you have nothing to lose but everything to gain... to your success http://gdi.bz/WorkAtHomeProfitZone

Kind regards
Catherine Christina

I don't have much experience and have made all of $1.19 in the last 6 months.....BUT....just based on the potential to make money I would say don't quit. There is lots of very useful information here and lots of people willing to jump in and point you/us in the right direction. From what I have learned your sites will come to no harm if you leave them for a while while you re-group.

Follow what you feel is the best advice the experience folks can give you and keep the faith....and your dream.

I forgot to mention the WAR Room. I was fortunate to have someone sponsor my membership and I joined on Sunday. The information in there is ........(fill in your favourite word that means amazing). I believe that if you have the $37 and can join it will make a huge difference to your future.

how much does it cost to have 100 visitors to your site? have you tried ppc or banner advertising? i know they will not bring you much but at least there is something to keep you in the black... maybe your website is at an inflection point and it is about to take off!!!

as far as the niche you are in, it is not too bad.. all niches are crowded... it is not like you can find a niche that you are the lone provider...

Hi Annette,

There is a popular saying, "The more failures you have, the more success you will get."

If you feel you are about to quit, do not quit. Because that is a great sign that you will get success.

I have an inspiring article that I would like to share with you to read so that you will be inspired and be encouraged. Just PM me if you want it.

Cheers!

James (^_^)

It's always disheartening to see someone get discouraged like this. I'm pretty new to affiliate marketing, but I am actually quite pleased with my results so far. I've tried a few different systems and have developed a method that works fairly well for me. After having read all those Ebooks and putting their teachings to work somewhat successfully I am seeing you make at least 2 classic mistakes.

1) Putting too many eggs in too few baskets
I suppose there are many strategies, but most of the ones I've read say pretty much the same thing, that is: It's a lot easier to make a little money with each of a lot of different sites, than it is to do it with just one or just a small handful. You are getting 100 hits a day on your sites. To me that's excellent! My best only gets about 25 on a good day, but I make about $50 a month on that one site. Now I'm replicating that and scaling it out, hopefully to about 200 sites. My sites are simple and require very little maintenance, essentially set it and forget it (after the first couple of months) so it should not be a maintenance headache even when I have the full compliment running. Oh it will be a full time job for sure, but ya gotta do something with your time right?

2)Going after the wrong niches.
You are going after extremely highly competitive niches. That means an enormous amount of work to get on top and stay there, to what purpose I would ask? You can do a fraction of the work to maintain 50 sites all of which will rank in or near the top 10 easily and earn far more from the combined total than you would from one in the niche you are working in.

Just my two cents.

Hey there,

don't give up. Most of the time it's all in the mindset. Start by focusing on one and only one item and if you know that it can work, then make it work.

Don't try and focus on too many items at the same time because it will probably do more harm than good.

Also, as someone said you can also try to find some type of side income that will keep things positive such as offering some type of service to people.

Whatever you do, don't give up.

Kevin

Anette,

Your weight loss site looks interesting but the content is not very good, if you want to snazz it up a bit have a copywriter to look at it.

There are some small mistakes costing you sales. For example you have a section on stomach fat exercises but don't give any examples of how to do a proper sit up or any other exercises, the content just drones on with common sense stuff most every reader already knows.
Also your links are not well defined and this could be loosing you sales

Example in this sentence:

( For the best diets and stomach flattening exercises to get rid of belly fat and get six pack abs visit this website today and start with the new you right now.)

the link is in the the words themselves, unless you mouse over it you would miss it, you have to make the link stand out and call the reader to action. put the link right there in front of the reader, don't assume they will find the link by mousing over it.

You have potential , just clean up the site some and make the content better.

You need to sell 2 or 3 of those websites off on Flippa.Com.

Your biggest mistake is trying to market 5 different websites.
That's suicide and your asking for failure. You can't possibly
keep track of your websites unless you have a team behind
you, and I have to assume you don't.

It's not neccessarily the niche you get into that'l make you
money. Most people will tell you NOT to get in the IM niche,
but if your PASSIONATE about numbers, money, and how
it works - even as a newbie - you can excel.

But if your passionate about a long term problem you had
with weight, you can act as a business women and make that
successful.

Personally, I only work on 2 business models at the moment,
because that's all I care to personally handle. Some people
can do more. You have to know your limits and make ONE
thing work first before you move on to the other.

Anyways, I gaurantee you can sell those websites on flippa,
I do it myself (one of my businesses).

Sell one website at a time, and get over the $20 fee because
that's what stops alot of people from considering using the
service.

Price your website at BIN (whatever value according to traffic
and potential sales - likely not more than $150 $200 bucks) and
set the start price at $5 with a reserve half way between your
BIN but DO leave the sale of your websites up for negotiation
despite your desired sale price and reserve.

You will make from the sales of those sites what it's worth in
the marketplace. You can alter the value some to make more
money if your a good salesman or marketer and make a strong
case why your website can be profitable to a buyer, but for
the most part, people are going to pay for what it's worth.

So, find $20, and sell each of those bad boys one at a time until
you get to 1 or 2 to devote your attention to

Hi Annette

I really sympathise with you. Give up, you must not though! I've been at this IM thing nearly 5 years p/time now, from zero knowledge.

My f/time job is too well paid to give up just yet! & I have spent (invested) a fortune on my IM/niche education, learning a lot along the way. My ROI is still embarrasingly in the red! (big time).

I used to get really down each time nothing worked, but somehow a PMA keeps me going, and I'm steadily making progress, building my business bit by bit. It's a long hard haul, so what I'm saying is - you're in good company & try not to measure your performance against time; it's a marathon, not a sprint

hth

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Hi,

Firstr of all well done for getting your sites up and getting some traffic. With another niche 3,000 visitors amonth could earn you upwards of $500 a month which is a start.

Pick something non im and go for a more minimal site. I have some sites that are less than 10 pages so the content creation is minimal. I then work on them for a while until they are ranking and build another site.

Quite quickly you can have 10 or so of these mini sites making you a good living.

Finally you have not wasted your time so far, you have learnt a ton of valuable skills you just need to adapt a little and go in another direction.

Personally I would not sell your sites just don't work on them and go back to them later.

To reiterate what others have said, you've definitely spread yourself too thin. It would be far more effective to put all your energy into empowering ONE site, rather than adding pieces to multiple sites. Once you get one site rolling, you can use the money from that particular site to fuel your other endeavors more quickly (you know why some marketers make a killing with multiple sites? They outsource - after all, they have the exact same 24 hours as everyone else, and setting up everything yourself is extremely time-consuming).

If you're not interested in weight loss, don't worry about that niche. It's also very overcrowded. Your niche should be A.) Something That People Will Gladly Pay For and B.) Something You're Actually Interested In. If either one of those factors is missing, you're not going to get very far.

Consider the business model as well. Unless you have a massive outsourcing budget, promoting random products through article marketing, etc. won't get you very far either. Most affiliate marketing success comes from building relationships with a list. Don't forget CPA marketing, blogging, Adsense, or some combination of all the above. I see you're a War Room member - there's tons of brilliant ideas in there, so peruse through it with an open mind. Find a single idea or business model that not only appeals to you, but plays to your strengths. What are you good at? Base your decision based on what you excel in, or willing to learn more about. Draw up a daily action plan and STICK TO IT.

Last but not least, I've seen people transform from struggling newbies into successful marketers here. I myself have been struggling, and am coming out of my shell. Remember - it's not enough to learn from your mistakes, you must APPLY what you have learned. Stay dedicated, consider all the responses, and take action, and you'll reach your goals. Good luck.

You probably should give up on it at least for a while. Get it out of your head and then come back to it clean. Why are you trying the approach you're trying? Is it because it seemed "easier" to have a lot of sites rather than really focus on one? As you've seen, that doesn't really give the result lots of people claim it will.

What I would recommend is that since you seem passionate enough, pick a niche you actually care about, and spend 6 months building a presence in that market with a site, forums, blog, tweeting, building a list - pure content. Build an audience. Then market to them with ads on the site. You only have to focus on content and interaction, and then picking offers they may like.

When you've learned to do that in another niche, THEN come back to IM. IM is more interesting in that you can market to people AS the content, but approaching it straight in will be frustrating and make you want to quit. Case in point.

EDIT: I wanted to add - I checked your sites. I wouldn't buy from them. Would you? Now I might buy from YOU. You seem nice, and genuine, and sincere. So be THAT person that you are HERE, on your own sites. Be you.

The only way you will ever fail at IM is if you quit. As long as you are still trying, still working, still learning, and still taking action, you have not failed. Take a day and write down your goals and your plan to meet them. Then, come back and find the information or help you need to achieve your goals and meet your plan. Be precise. Be focused. Be resilient. You'll get what you want in the end.

FWIW, I've been where you are at. I still consider myself a newbie (been dabbling for lack of a better word) in IM for about 1 year. I made the mistake a year ago of trying to start a "Make Money Online" website, even though I hadn't earned a dime.

I took a few month hiatus, regrouped and came back more focused and energized.

I now focus basically on one website in a niche that I think has a need for people no matter what time of year and no matter what the economy brings.

I also learned that I cannot be an expert at everything, swallowed my pride, and outsourced what I either 1) don't have the expertise to do or 2) don't have the time to do (at least do correctly)

I've only been back in "the game" for a month now, but I can see how things are slowly coming together. I made my first affiliate commission of $40 (not a lot, of course), but it keeps me focused to keep doing what I'm doing.

In short, don't give up. If what your doing isn't working, change your game plan

If you're not making money online then why are you in the make money online niche.. this is a mistake so many people make. There are THOUSANDS of niches out there. The one you chose is the toughest to break. With that said your ranking of 27 for a top phrase deserves respect. There's no need to "leave" that niche but you obviously need to be making money, so let those sites age and get something else going.

I don't recommend Clickbank. People recommending you to go to Clickbank are just rehashing the same old useless "advice" from ebooks and 'gurus' who probably market nothing but IM ebooks. Clickbank products are generally not easy nuts to crack.

I recommend targeting micro-niches. If you need some help to get started PM me. I hate seeing people get discouraged with affiliate marketing just because they are looking at it from the wrong angle.

There are some fantastic ideas in this thread. I think you have a few business models to choose from. I would like to share one more. This is a little trick that I have used in the past in to gain some extra money flow.

1. Sign up with a well know CPA network like Neverblue or Copeac.

2. Look for offers that are INCENTIVES. Email campaigns work best. Even though they have a low payout, you will be able to get a lot of sign ups by executing the following steps.

3. Now what you want to do is hold a contest of some kind. For example, you might want to give away something cool that people would go gaga over like a branded snowboard (just get creative). You will need to build a basic website with a picture of the branded snowboard and a quick sign up form (I would use GetResponse or Aweber). Once the user signs up to the contest you will send them an email directing them to the incentive offer. Tell them that they must sign up to be registered for the campaign. As for the actual gift, I would suggest getting your hands on a branded snowboard. This way, when you make enough money and get the picture of the winner with the board, you can easily market to that same group with another contest as there will be some kind of trust built between you and that group.

4. You will need to drive traffic to your offer. So here is ONE way of doing so. Start a fan page on Facebook. Add some photos and some basic updates about the contest. You will need to start a basic campaign using the ad platform. The beauty of this system is once you have enough people on the Fan page, you will be able to have this campaign go viral (word of mouth). I would suggest to only use around $100 in campaigns and let the Facebook script take over. Also, when you start you campaign, you can target people that would love this gift. If you are looking for snowboarders, well, you type in keywords like snowboard, snowboarding, etc... catch my drift? Than the magic happens...when one friend joins, all their other friends will see that they have joined and this is where the snowball effect begins.

The beauty of this system, is when you get everything rolling, it all runs on auto pilot. Hope this opens the flood gates. Good luck at making some money online.


Michael

It seems to me that you jumped in with the sharks instead of jumping into the bay with fish.

IM and Weight loss are freaking tough niches.

I think you should try more regular things like everyday physical products - they are really easy to sell. I think once you get that experience under your belt, you will see more success in the more competitive niches.

Hi Annette;

I felt your frustration. One thing I want to challenge you to do is MAKE SURE your WHY is strong. I mean REALLY strong. I am a single parent with a 14-year old son and I can't even begin to tell you how big my WHY is. I will never give up or stop learning about IM.

As and Event Manager, I love marketing, pr, working with the media, all that stuff, and now ready to transport some of that online, but it took me a very long time, like a gent said here, I dabbled for a couple of years and only got serious a year ago, and even then, I spent hours and hours (and hours) opting in, reading emails, reading reports, reading reading reading until it hit me one day from a post here about whether or not I was ever going to get around to taking action. It was time to unsubscribe and get over my analysis paralysis.

I love the MMO niche too b/c I was learning so much and wanted to share my new-found knowledge, my trials and errors with more newer newbies....but I finally wised up. Now, its time to take action. You need to be online. I don't know about spending 9 hours for months on end like you mentioned - there has to be some balance or else you can overwhelm yourself with frustration.

I don't even have advice of how many websites you should have, I just know that if you have the right mindset ~ you're a winner.

I think you and I had our biz blogs set up by the same person. Mine came with content. All the newer posts are now mine and I realize its time to kick it up a notch.

I hope to stay connected and share strategies.

Best of luck to you......

Terri

Before selecting a niche for affiliate marketing you need to do proper keyword research. Otherwise we will not get proper results even after working hard for months.

Well what can I say. Affiliate marketing is not for everyone. If AM doesn't appeal to you and you see no success, maybe there is some other niche you would want to specialize in? Regarding internet business, maybe you could become a copywriter or a designer.

There are so many pages out there right now that it's not the good old choose a niche-> make a page -> wait for them to come anymore. You really have to think out of the box and be unique to meet success or just find some really small and obscure niche that nobody has specialized in before (not that easy).

I found a good way to earn money online is via offering quality services. Maybe you could offer some of your skill as well?

PS: I personally think you should choose the make money niche as long as you are not making money yourself. And by making money I mean making good money. If you are a millionaire, feel free to start teaching others.

Hey guys,

I am new to this forum, but I can give a little solution for the problem arise to 101 million ads. She told that she is going to giveup her affilite marketing. Because of the frustration and having more than 5 websites and not making any money.

I didn't have any own website, but I could earn $120.81 in just 2 days of set up a clickbank product and with youtube. If you have time please read the story.

First
google.com/trends
Find any tv serials like vampire diaries, gossip girls, desparate house wives, etc,
not only this evey day some tv episode will be listed in trends with its name and season and part also. i.e. vampire diaries season 2 part 1 something like that.

I am not telling to you to take this topic only, choose topic what is hot on that day?
Because everybody is running behind weight loss, online money making, casino poker, etc,

These topics are always having too much competition, so it is difficult to gain money from these topics unless if we have strong website backround.

find a good topic which is hot(1-10) in google trends. Go to clickbank, find the suitable products to match tv episoedes such as vampire diaries are relating to tv channels, online tv and movie products.

clickbank gives a product called satellitedirect.tv is one of the advertiser who is giving $30.00 if any one register under your link.

select a product like this and save it in note pad. go to ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool to analysis the competition of your product, pick keywords that has search counts upto 20000.

search any video already uploaded by some one. download it from keepvid.com edit using windows movie maker. end of the video say something like " tv episodes can be removed from youtube, so it is better to watch rest of the episodes and other channel serials in my own site put below your URL

cloak your clickbank referral link in snipurl.com


give the exact trend name, to the video, and give the related keywords provided from google trends and youtube keyword tool, select the catagory and save changes. done at youtube.com

if possible make some annotations tells about your website which is cloacked to redirect your click bank referral link.

if the topic is hot on that day - serial or what ever it is , you will get from 2000-5000 views with in 3-4 hours.

then go and see your earnings you will definitely made 2-3 sales that u give a decent income of $90.00 is it easy to implement? no investment or buying domains or hostingst.

try it... don't give up I will help u.

You're doing the right thing.

Affilliate marketing days are coming to an end.

Builld a website, build a buisness.

Google will love you for it.

It's not an easy one to crack but rest assured once you've done it, it's an easy climb. Start with a low competitive niche and if possible, something that you're genuinely interested in...it only makes the work easier. Learn as much as you possibly can about the various ways to drive traffic...paid as well as unpaid. PPV has been a great winner for me the past 6 weeks. If you want quick results, paid advertising is the way to go...but make sure you start carefully as it can burn your pockets very quickly if you just dive in.

Also, don't forget about offline marketing (good 'ol newspaper ads etc)...it's worked a treat for a couple of my affiliate campaigns.

Don't lose heart...keep at it and you will succeed! Hope this has been of some help for you.

RemotedB,
Sounds like you have a nice business model. Care to share more details?
David

Hi Annette,

I just finished reading through this thread a 2nd time and have to say there is some good, quality advice. In particular I have to mention Jon Mills, Becky Hagel, David R and Lee (cashcow).

My advice is one I preach and try to live by every day. Focus! Focus! Focus! Your shotgun approach is not working, but by taking the time to focus on one project and mastering it before moving on to the next one.

Focus is the one thing that took me from where you are now in your business; too where I am with my business today. And frankly I believe that most of the successful Warriors on the WF, will tell you was and is one of the main keys (if not the # 1 key) to making a go of it on the Internet.

Reevaluating, (as mentioned by rlharding) is your first step, focus on that and then focus say on selling or flipping one of the sites, to raise cash or finance your next focal point.

It's also important for you get out from in front of your computer and spend some quality time looking after yourself. A brisk walk every day can do wonders for helping you focus on the right things.

Ken Leatherman

The Old Geezer

Hi annette...
when I was a newbie and almost give up, I give myself a "small victory". Small victory is doing some things in internet and get at least $1 from it. that money keep me surviving because I have an evident that internet really can be a source of making money. So, as a gift for u, just feel free to try fiverr and get your $5. Dont give up.You can do this.keep learning.because when u success, you will laugh at the fact that u ALMOST leave your financial freedom opportunity.
warmest regards for your family

Hi there I am newbie and yes it is very diificult, I sold 2 products in 1 month but it is avery tough area to succeed. I have lots to go through yet. If you want good free advice check out stevewebbermarketing. and he will also answer your emails and you do not have to join his site, one of the things he suggests is going into smaller niches such as photograpy and if I do not succeed in what I am doing now i will do the same take a look and see what you think/ Thanks

Maybe you can find some mentor to guide you on, you can find a lot of people here that can help you out try WSO section ... lol , anyway well if you still make some $$ from your online venture then there is still hope, you just need to tweek your strategy to get more higher $$ , Like others say, you can try to sell your best site at flippa to get more income. Well Good luck

But stats shows that you're doing well...

Easycash4life.com Site Info

Peopleshealthportal.com Site Info

Perhaps, you should look at how to improve your monetization skill... traffic is there..

For fast cash though, just sell those websites...

The only advice I will give you is that "winners never quit and quitters never win". Try to figure out what you are not doing right and make a change to it. That may be the solution you need to start making money from your website. Get good online marketing guide to help you that.

The difference between success and failure is often just plain old persistence, you can't win if you give up. If your sure your doing things in the correct way, you should see some signs of success in the near future.

Focus on 1 site.
Do not put your eggs in one basket, build multiple revenue streams.
There is no such thing as get rich quick, there is such a thing as get poor quick.
Never quit.
It can take YEARS to make a decent revenue from online business. If you can't accept that possibility get a part-time job to supplement your income.

Anne, how can you give up, success is already there but you have to look within you....

It is possible to be successful, everyone has to pass that breaking point if they want success, and that's the reason why most fail because when they get there they turn back and give up, but only a few actually really break through that point....

And when you do, that's when you start to see success.....

Anne I advise you not to give up and to carry on, but change your mindset, maybe your mindset is holding you back....

Also make sure to focus on one thing....

If 1 website isn't making you money why create 10?

You need to take step at a time, and make sure you don't focus on making sells, but focus on making LEADS!

Hope you the best, don't give up be strong change your mindset and empower yourself, because what you have to understand is success is within you....

Louise Evans

I don't mean to sound mean at all, and I sure appreciate the whole mom-at-home situation, but... Make Money Online and Weight Loss??? I mean really? You admit that you don't make any money online youself and moreover you state that you dislike weight loss, so... WTF are you doing in those niches???

Look, you really gotta think out of the box if you want to make it in this game, and you're NOT going to make it if you follow what every Tom, Dick and Harry out there are doing (meaning Make Money Online, Weight Loss, Forex, etc).

My advise? forget ALL you read in this forum about "hot" niches, keywords, SEO, etc. None of that matters at this point to you because you gotta start from the foundations of a solid online business: pick a niche you actually enjoy and are familiar with, and build ONE solid, real, worth-subscribing-for blog or website. Focus on that baby and build it up, firstly on content and traffic, and then on monetization ways. The rest will be history...

Annette,
Just read through this thread and visited your sites so please forgive me if I missed this somewhere but are you using adsense at all as an income stream? If not, you should add it to your sites because you are ranking well and receiving traffic so the only thing missing is the income generation.

Also, if your sites can produce some adsense income you immediately increase the value of the sites should you choose to sell them. A strong combination of traffic, rankings and income is more then enough to get many sites sold for a decent amount.

Respectfully,
Tim