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Bum Marketing My Way To Multiple Listings

by roxstar
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I have another way of bum marketing which takes 12 hours to complete, and it's pretty good, but frankly I don't feel like putting 12 hours into every single campaign. I've made myself a very fast and relatively painless way get multiple first page listings.

(update: apparently this wasn't clear that this does not take me 12 hours. sorry for any confusion.)

This new style of mine uses search engines mostly, my old one I didn't have to as much. I'm beginning to like this more because frankly I can do a lot more with it.

Here's what you do...

1. Look for something to promote - I like Clickbank, and Amazon. However right now I usually setup my email marketing before this so I can just capture leads. Either way works perfectly.

2. Do a little keyword research, make sure there isn't too much competition or anything. I stopped caring so much about search volumes, but I do like it being about 200+/month.

3. Setup a Squidoo lens. Sprinkle the keywords around.

4. Write an article on EzineArticles and link it to Squidoo (optional).

5. Go to Scribd and upload some PDFs.

Scribd is an almost instant listing - literally within minutes. With EzineArticles it usually finds itself to the top listings. With Squidoo I just build a little bit of Google bait, and build links to it after it's indexed.

It's not very hard to setup any of these, even for a beginner. Writing 250 words is super easy and you don't even need to put your real name on it - you can put an alias. It's all up to you.

Just tried it and got a sweet $35 commission a couple days ago.

Have fun,
Kris
#bum #listings #marketing #multiple
  • Profile picture of the author breakdance
    LOL Kris, keep these topics comin' little bro'!
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      Just to clarify: I understand you to mean that your Squidoo site promotes an affiliate product and that you are linking to that from articles you submit to EzineArticles?

      You mention that you are capturing email leads - where and how are you doing this?

      There is also a strategy which takes this further and uses the initial promotion and Squidoo lens as only a test which can be easily set up to eliminate products less likely to succeed. Once the most promising products have been identified during the testing stage, a proper web site and fuller promotion is put into play. That way you only put a l;ot of work into likely winners.

      There is an ongoing Warrior thread with a lot of posts which discusses this in some depth:

      http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...ay-season.html

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      • Profile picture of the author roxstar
        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        Just to clarify: I understand you to mean that your Squidoo site promotes an affiliate product and that you are linking to that from articles you submit to EzineArticles?

        You mention that you are capturing email leads - where and how are you doing this?

        There is also a strategy which takes this further and uses the initial promotion and Squidoo lens as only a test which can be easily set up to eliminate products less likely to succeed. Once the most promising products have been identified during the testing stage, a proper web site and fuller promotion is put into play. That way you only put a l;ot of work into likely winners.

        There is an ongoing Warrior thread with a lot of posts which discusses this in some depth:

        http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...ay-season.html

        Ivan
        My Squidoo promotes the product, My EzineArticles article either links to 1. Squidoo, 2. squeeze page, 3. straight to the offer.

        My email leads - Aweber + Weebly. Perfect combination.

        I've seen that thread before, and I actually like it a lot. I still like mine since it takes like 20-30 minutes =p except Scribd where I may have to wait for my EzineArticle to get approved -.-'
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by breakdance View Post

      LOL Kris, keep these topics comin' little bro'!
      Hehehe ;p I'll be starting another one talking about mindsets. It's not as mentioned in marketing, but I think it's the most important thing...

      Hope you like it =p

      -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author Nickolie0990
    nice and simple, however, I would post to Associated Content, that way I know I'm getting paid to write the articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by Nickolie0990 View Post

      nice and simple, however, I would post to Associated Content, that way I know I'm getting paid to write the articles.
      Very nice. I may start using them when I bum, guaranteed cash and I make the most of my efforts. I just know that I'll get ranked with EZA.
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      I must be missing something here :confused: 12 hours work for a few places in the top 10 of the search engines? I've done the same thing with a couple of hours work, like this:-

      1. Do keyword research, looking for 'low hanging fruit' with ideally a few hundred searches per month at least.
      2. Write original/seed article, put it on my site.
      3. Completely rewrite entire article 3 times(title, each paragraph, sometimes summary and resource box too).
      4. Spin into 20 highly unique variations(I use the Article Productions spinner for this).
      5. Submit to EZA.
      6. Once approved at EZA, hand submit some of the unique variations to some more of the top Article Directories - Articlesbase, Go Articles, Article Productions etc etc.
      7. Submit to web 2.0 properties - Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Blog.com, Webs.com etc etc.
      8. Look at the top 10 in the SERPS and hope to see one or more of them on the front page.

      I once took 8 of the top 10 in Google using this technique. The key is finding a low competition keyword. I'd also encourage not taking the figures keyword tools come back with as 100% accurate. The term I just mentioned had 'not enough data' and '0' in every single one, but I knew differently If you use your logic and think people will search for it, and it's a buying keyword - you can get some excellent results These days, I find myself simply using the autocomplete feature of Google more and more to find good keywords.

      For example, if you're in the weight loss niche, type something like:-

      How to lose weight

      The autocomplete thingy will suggest to you:-

      How to lose weight in a week
      How to lose weight in two weeks
      How to lose weight in your face
      How to lose weight fast with exercise

      ....and so on. Those terms wouldn't be suggested to you if they weren't being searched by actual people

      Also, I personally wouldn't encourage others to write 250 word articles, I usually write 400 words at a minimum
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  • Profile picture of the author Edk
    I've thanked the post and will look up more stuff here on Bum Marketing. Will probably find your name in there. Does Bum Marketing, all told, work well for you? PM me if you prefer
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  • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
    Here's my take on why BUM marketing is just like your average bum on the street shouting "some spare change, sir?".

    A) You need to work long hours doing repetitive routines
    B) It doesn't make a lot of money
    C) It's difficult to automate anything
    D) The moment you stop working you rincome drops from barely anything to zero

    Bum Marketing = Bums! End of story!
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    • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Here's my take on why BUM marketing is just like your average bum on the street shouting "some spare change, sir?".

      A) You need to work long hours doing repetitive routines
      B) It doesn't make a lot of money
      C) It's difficult to automate anything
      D) The moment you stop working you rincome drops from barely anything to zero

      Bum Marketing = Bums! End of story!
      Wow! I guess you know a lot about Bum Marketing. Points B is simply not true.
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          • Profile picture of the author roxstar
            Originally Posted by seoindia View Post

            I have not heard before bum marketing but got great stuff to implement. Ezine articles and hubpages are easily rank in search engines.
            You should give it a shot, it's actually pretty cool once it gets going. And more listings on page 1 gives you a great chance of traffic. I also find that with some sites, you get traffic besides search engine traffic which is always good.

            -Kris
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        • Profile picture of the author roxstar
          Originally Posted by emaildeliverypro View Post

          you can also use hubpages.com and quizilla.com, they rank much faster than squidoo. I have heard google started kicking back squidoo lenses a lot.

          Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam
          I actually hate HubPages... They always knock my hubs down and then it's just wasted effort =\ And for Quizilla, I kept getting technical problems and never got it to work for me. So then I went to Squidoo because they allow affiliate marketing and it's relatively easy to rank. And thanks for the link! Except it is from 2007, and it's now 2010 so I think things may have changed a little bit.. It is a little more difficult to rank it, though, I agree.

          -Kris
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        • Profile picture of the author fresh marketer
          Actually that was back in 2007 when Google got heated with Squidoo. I set up several lenses a few weeks ago, and without any back link building I was getting and still am getting traffic from Google to my lenses, as well as from other search engines. Anyways, it seems they kissed and made up. Hope that helps.
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      • Profile picture of the author roxstar
        Originally Posted by yourreviewer View Post

        Wow! I guess you know a lot about Bum Marketing. Points B is simply not true.
        Lol, yes, thank you.

        -Kris
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      • Profile picture of the author roxstar
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        I disagree with almost all of this, really ... and (like some others here) actually started making a decent living out of the fact that they're not at all accurate!
        Lol I think it's funny how all the bum marketers all just started teaming up on him...

        -Kris
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    • Profile picture of the author LandoFormosa
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Here's my take on why BUM marketing is just like your average bum on the street shouting "some spare change, sir?".

      A) You need to work long hours doing repetitive routines
      B) It doesn't make a lot of money
      C) It's difficult to automate anything
      D) The moment you stop working you rincome drops from barely anything to zero

      Bum Marketing = Bums! End of story!
      Disagree I must, I am afraid...

      Bum marketing is not the perfect way for getting "paying customers". PPC can do the job much better. The purpose is to get prospects to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you - it's the perfect step1. of the 2-tier approach to converting prospects into buyers...
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      • Profile picture of the author roxstar
        Originally Posted by LandoFormosa View Post

        Disagree I must, I am afraid...

        Bum marketing is not the perfect way for getting "paying customers". PPC can do the job much better. The purpose is to get prospects to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you - it's the perfect step1. of the 2-tier approach to converting prospects into buyers...
        Lmao, once again, I think it's hilarious how a bunch of marketers are saying otherwise.. :p

        -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author Aira Bongco
    I really liked how you just put everything out there. I surely learned a lot from this thread. Time to implement a new method tomorrow.
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by Liam Hamer View Post

      I must be missing something here :confused: 12 hours work for a few places in the top 10 of the search engines? I've done the same thing with a couple of hours work, like this:-

      1. Do keyword research, looking for 'low hanging fruit' with ideally a few hundred searches per month at least.
      2. Write original/seed article, put it on my site.
      3. Completely rewrite entire article 3 times(title, each paragraph, sometimes summary and resource box too).
      4. Spin into 20 highly unique variations(I use the Article Productions spinner for this).
      5. Submit to EZA.
      6. Once approved at EZA, hand submit some of the unique variations to some more of the top Article Directories - Articlesbase, Go Articles, Article Productions etc etc.
      7. Submit to web 2.0 properties - Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Blog.com, Webs.com etc etc.
      8. Look at the top 10 in the SERPS and hope to see one or more of them on the front page.

      I once took 8 of the top 10 in Google using this technique. The key is finding a low competition keyword. I'd also encourage not taking the figures keyword tools come back with as 100% accurate. The term I just mentioned had 'not enough data' and '0' in every single one, but I knew differently If you use your logic and think people will search for it, and it's a buying keyword - you can get some excellent results These days, I find myself simply using the autocomplete feature of Google more and more to find good keywords.

      For example, if you're in the weight loss niche, type something like:-

      How to lose weight

      The autocomplete thingy will suggest to you:-

      How to lose weight in a week
      How to lose weight in two weeks
      How to lose weight in your face
      How to lose weight fast with exercise

      ....and so on. Those terms wouldn't be suggested to you if they weren't being searched by actual people

      Also, I personally wouldn't encourage others to write 250 word articles, I usually write 400 words at a minimum
      That's not what I mean. I have another thread about 12 Hour Marketing which is basically bumming and list building without absolutely needing a search engine.

      This thread is just getting 3 listings with about 30 minutes of work.

      Originally Posted by ivana View Post

      Go to Scribd and upload some PDFs.

      Honestly, I've never used and heard of SCRIBD, I am just wondering if you would like to share some tips on it? Of course if there are any...
      Sure, well the most important tip is to make the title of the document when you upload it search engine friendly. There will also be other options where you just put in some keywords and description, etc.

      Originally Posted by Edk View Post

      I've thanked the post and will look up more stuff here on Bum Marketing. Will probably find your name in there. Does Bum Marketing, all told, work well for you? PM me if you prefer
      It works pretty well =p Make easy sales, and all that. The only thing is that it's not always the easiest thing to find low competition keywords sometimes... That's why bumming isn't the only part of my business.

      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Here's my take on why BUM marketing is just like your average bum on the street shouting "some spare change, sir?".

      A) You need to work long hours doing repetitive routines
      B) It doesn't make a lot of money
      C) It's difficult to automate anything
      D) The moment you stop working you rincome drops from barely anything to zero

      Bum Marketing = Bums! End of story!
      A. Everybody has to work long hours and get into a routine of some sort.

      B. Well actually, Travis Sago generated several thousands per month from this method. I know one warrior on this forum who generates a few hundred per month, a well. I'd say that's pretty impressive for a bum And also did you know that some bums who are actually on the street make well over 100k/year?

      C. Why automate when you can outsource?

      D. I beg to differ...

      Originally Posted by airabongco View Post

      I really liked how you just put everything out there. I surely learned a lot from this thread. Time to implement a new method tomorrow.
      =) I wish you good luck

      -Kris Roxas
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      • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
        Originally Posted by roxstar View Post

        That's not what I mean. I have another thread about 12 Hour Marketing which is basically bumming and list building without absolutely needing a search engine.

        This thread is just getting 3 listings with about 30 minutes of work.
        My apologies then, the wording of your OP threw me off I took it as you saying 'here is a way to get multiple listings with 12 hours work, but I wouldn't like to do it all the time'. Thanks for clarifying
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        • Profile picture of the author roxstar
          Originally Posted by Liam Hamer View Post

          My apologies then, the wording of your OP threw me off I took it as you saying 'here is a way to get multiple listings with 12 hours work, but I wouldn't like to do it all the time'. Thanks for clarifying
          No lol problem =p I kind of suspected something like that would happen

          -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author lulu25
    Hi Kris,

    Thanks for the post. I have got something from here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas W
    speaking of squidoo.com they sent me 9.88 cents to my paypal account. I must of missed the part where they said they payout.
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by Thomas W View Post

      speaking of squidoo.com they sent me 9.88 cents to my paypal account. I must of missed the part where they said they payout.
      Lol I can't tell if that's a good comment or a bad one, honestly... But congrats on the 9.88!

      -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
    Have you made decent money from the low competition keywords? Did the time you put in warrant the money you got out?
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

      Have you made decent money from the low competition keywords? Did the time you put in warrant the money you got out?
      Well, I've had this strategy for a about a week =p but a few days ago I made a nice $35 commission. And yes, the time I put in was worth the money I got out. I'm still looking to get more money, forunately =)

      -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenceh
    Pardon the pun but I bummed my way to my first IM earnings, and it's a great start for newbies not wanting to risk money trying out ppc.
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by laurenceh View Post

      Pardon the pun but I bummed my way to my first IM earnings, and it's a great start for newbies not wanting to risk money trying out ppc.
      Lol that's actually what I recommend to a lot of people who come to me for help.

      -Kris
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  • Profile picture of the author mlord10
    Bum marketing is an excellent way to make some extra income, and is a nice way to get started in internet marketing. It has evolved somewhat since the ever popular "Bum Marketing Method" was first released by Travis Sago, however it is still highly effective.

    If you are going to use the "bum method" then keyword research is very important, and something that you must not forget. If you think that you are going to make a sustainable income by blindly submitting 20-30 articles a day then think again.

    However, with smart "bum marketing methods you can rake in over $1,000 per month with affiliate marketing fairly easily, which is how I launched into affiliate marketing.

    My only concern with the post is the use of Scribd, which is notorious for banning people. I have not personally been banned from Scribd, but another great document sharing website that you can try is DocStoc.com. You will essentially get the same results as Scribd, but do not have to worry about getting banned. (Provided you are not too promotional, and provide quality content)

    Find the right keyword phrase and write some good articles, and you will have little trouble getting 2-3 web properties on the first page of Google. Just remember keyword research and backlinks!
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    • Profile picture of the author davidjames42973
      Great post.

      Just for the record, this is an excellent way to find out if niches will convert or not. This is not a permanent strategy.

      Instead of taking the time in building a website for a specific niche to see if it'll convert or not, you can test the niche by using this method.

      I use this technique for 3-5 niches at a time. It's an awesome way to find the niches that convert or not.

      If the niche you're targeting doesn't convert, you didn't lose anything but a little bit of time...
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      • Profile picture of the author roxstar
        Originally Posted by davidjames42973 View Post

        Great post.

        Just for the record, this is an excellent way to find out if niches will convert or not. This is not a permanent strategy.

        Instead of taking the time in building a website for a specific niche to see if it'll convert or not, you can test the niche by using this method.

        I use this technique for 3-5 niches at a time. It's an awesome way to find the niches that convert or not.

        If the niche you're targeting doesn't convert, you didn't lose anything but a little bit of time...
        That's true, but I find that niches I target will convert to a certain degree anyways. I choose niches that interest me so that I have something to write about, and I'm more likely to get somebody who shares the same passion as me. And online or offline people will have to buy stuff, and will, if that really interests them. I'm also not using this to go for the commission anymore, I'm using it to build my lists.

        I also pre-research my niches to see if people are actually buying, which is good enough for me. So now there are also list owners and product owners that I can potentially partner with.
        -Kris
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    • Profile picture of the author roxstar
      Originally Posted by mlord10 View Post

      Bum marketing is an excellent way to make some extra income, and is a nice way to get started in internet marketing. It has evolved somewhat since the ever popular "Bum Marketing Method" was first released by Travis Sago, however it is still highly effective.

      If you are going to use the "bum method" then keyword research is very important, and something that you must not forget. If you think that you are going to make a sustainable income by blindly submitting 20-30 articles a day then think again.

      However, with smart "bum marketing methods you can rake in over $1,000 per month with affiliate marketing fairly easily, which is how I launched into affiliate marketing.

      My only concern with the post is the use of Scribd, which is notorious for banning people. I have not personally been banned from Scribd, but another great document sharing website that you can try is DocStoc.com. You will essentially get the same results as Scribd, but do not have to worry about getting banned. (Provided you are not too promotional, and provide quality content)

      Find the right keyword phrase and write some good articles, and you will have little trouble getting 2-3 web properties on the first page of Google. Just remember keyword research and backlinks!
      I've never been banned from Scribd, and I have yet to see it happen to me. I enjoy both, but I've tried out more with Scribd and liked what I saw. So then I just went with them instead. And I always do try providing lots of value, even when I am bum marketing. My philosophy of marketing is give some great info, and then pointing them in the right direction for more help.

      Keyword research is also very broken down for me now. I can find plenty of keywords which I find low competition for. And since I'm bum marketing with no competition I never find the need to build links unless I think that a certain term would make me lots of money, or not. The keywords I look for typically get a few hundred searches, and I usually don't bother with anything less. I've even found keywords with 22,000 searches and no (real) competition.

      -Kris
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