This is a great post. It definitely took you some time to make it. Thanks so much for your great info.

I really love this piece. You've made my day.

Very many thanks for this advice,
A great concise plan to follow.
Quite a formidable list of actions to carry out.
Maybe one should look to the outsourcing at an earlier stage. As one puts together the content of the plan. Leading to the rinse-wash of the never-stop part.

And that's why 99% of people that get into this fail. That's why I failed for 2 years. I didn't have the money to outsource. I was lazy. I had the know how, but that's not going to do much without the work.

I don't do one step of this anymore. I have teams of people doing this for me. It took me 60 days of this to get to the point where I could outsource everything.

You're right though. Most aren't going to follow through with this plan that is laid out step by step in front of them...for free. They will buy the next product that Frank Kern promotes 12 days in a row or get all happy in their pants finding out how much they can make by creating small niche sites by the millions. In the end, that same 99% will stop before it really can take off just like they've done in the past.

Those time frames are not estimates. They are how long it takes me. I said you are looking at 3-4 hours work a day average. If you read it again you will see that article submissions, video submissions, and podcasts submissions are all part of teh backlink duties. And when you use software ...I use free software in 90% of the cases above...it cuts down hours of time. Writing 7 articles takes about 4 hours if you have to reasearch the topic....after a few weeks there is no research. Reading those 7 articles and recording your voice takes about 20 minutes. Then doing screen capture videos of power point slides takes about 4-5 hours, add the already recorded podcasts as the voice over and your done.

Those time frames aren't exaggerated at all. If I was submitting everything one by one, then this would be a 12 hour day every day project. I made the set up so that I work for 4-6 hours Monday-Wednesday then the rest of the week is 2 hours max usually.

Go for it nichechic. The easiest way to keep up with it is having a large formatted calender. That's exactly how I go about it. Do it for one week and you will be seeing more traffic then you did before so maybe that little boost will give you some motivation to do the next week.

I do use wordpress for every single website I create. Been using it for the past year and a half. It makes everything so much easier and automated. Which means less work for me and that's my main goal in life:

Work less, play more!

Travis

Outstanding information...thank you for your contribution to the forum ...I greatly appreciate it

I do it manually for them all. Twitter is obvious. Facebook, I add myself to every group that's related to my niche then I add all the members of each of those groups as friends...only 50 a day tops. LinkedIn I just add all the professionals I come across thorughout the day. So, any facebook group leaders in the niche, any blog owners that I talk to about guest posting.

LinkedIn and Foursquare are more add as you go. You will get kicked quickly if you were to add just anybody. Foursquare is only for niches that I do locally as well. They are more for building relationships with possible JV's, ad swaps, etc.

Great post, thank you.

Can you please give some more info about FB accounts, is this in your own name or a new account for each niche.

Cheers
Dav

Exactly!!!!! I work on my web empire a total of 2 hours a week just making sure my outsourcers are taking care of business. When I jump into a new niche, I will be a large part of it. But as soon as it's ready to work for me and not the other way around, I'm gone. And that's about 45 days in.

I even just opened a local office and hired a project manager to do this part for me. Some have told me its a waste of money to pay some guy $50k to keep an eye on such trivial tasks. I consider 100 hours a year of my time worth $50k.

How much is your time worth to you? You're the only one who should decide that...not some 50 hour a week corporate job. Everyone of you are worth more then what they will pay you. You are the only one who can make it happen though...it's not going to just fall in your lap.

Damn...that would of been nice.

Create systems people! Systems are something that can take you out of the equation and they still deliver expected results. This is a common problem with businesses and their owners...without the owner, there is no business.

How could I take my 3 month vacation in Spain if that were the case?

Every time I take a vacation, my consulting clients get worried that things are going to fall apart, but it has never happened that way. It's because I implement systems in everything I do..even the client's businesses. They love me for it because it makes them more money and gives them more time.

I preach and preach and preach about the importance of your time. It's the only thing you can't get back.

You can always make more money, buy new toys, find new friends...but every second you lose is gone forever. Not that we all don't like those suggested things, but without the time to enjoy them, what are they other then just a waste.

Travis

Thanks for the reply, Travis.

I know this may be an obvious question to most on here...but...I assume that when you go into a niche you use an alias and avatar and such and the only one that you use your true identity with is your own business consulting blog.

Again, my"rule following" behavior sometimes gets in my way

BTW, I like your blog. It is going to be a good read on my rainy Saturday afternoon.

What kind of percentage breakup would you give the SE, video and iTunes?

I personally can't believe iTunes is in there. Does iTunes work well in the IM market for you?

I think that when you create a post you can set when it goes live.

Using WordPress, you can automate when a post gets posted.

About 60% of my traffic ends up coming from SE, 20% from videos, 5-10% iTunes, and the rest various article directories.

I'm not really involved in the IM niche. I have my email newsletter, but I don't sell IM products in it other then market research items.

Completely right John. You don't have to do each planned day in 1 day. You could spread this out as far as you want. The more content out on the web, the more likely you are going to get a viewer...the quicker you put the more content on the web, the quicker that viewer has a chance to find you. This could be a 3 month plan if you don't have 4 hours a day.

Not one of these days will be more then an 8 hour day...never. That was the main point I went for when I started creating my system. I never wanted to work an 8 hour day again, and I haven't.

If you are brand new to article writing, it might take you longer at first then a month in. Once you write 50 articles in one subject though, you can write a 350-500 article in a couple minutes. Same goes with video creation, forum posts, blog comments, finding friends on SM networks, or any job you've ever done really. The more you do it the easier it becomes. It gets to be your daily activities and gets so easy it's ridiculous.

Then you get that first nice paycheck and you find your outsourcers...then you don't have to do it ever again.

Travis

Awesome post Travis. This reminds me of my old 7 Day Plan I sold with one of my old courses. It's so obvious when you see it all laid out, but most people can't see it until it is laid out like that.

Your 28 Day Plan shows people what you need to do to make your business work. Or at least a viable practically free (money free) method.

One thing that occurred to me...

It might seem efficient to write the 7 articles all at once, but it also could be intimidating. So why not spread the writing part out a bit, since the posting of the articles is also spread out, so these tasks could be done in tandem.

I suppose making the audios is more efficient if you have all the articles ready... and maybe the videos too. But still.

I do really like this plan though, and the action steps. Thanks!

Here's another strength of Travis' plan. He initially set it out to cover 28 days. He never said each day had to be completed in 24 hours.

If you have other sites to tend, or maybe a full-time job or family obligations, maybe some of the 'days' take you two or three days to finish. So what?

Your results may come a bit slower, but they will come.

And they'll come a hell of a lot faster than they will for the person who says, "that's too much work, I don't have time or money to hire it out" or whatever excuse they come up with.

Excellent step by step post detailing a daily work schedule for generating traffic. There are no more excuses. The Warrior forum is responsible for how many successful careers in Internet Marketing? I can just hear all of the frustrated newbies desperate and complaining that they just can't do it.

I like how the 28 days is just a suggestion. Even if it takes 90 days, there are still no excuses for those who are purpose driven, filled with a burning desire and refuse to be denied. Thanks for giving back.

Thanks Travis! After the 28 days, what do you do to maintain the traffic? Do you continue the same activities/duties, do you scale back, or do you simply move on to the next project and not concern yourself with the traffic?

Share away...the more people this helps, the better.

You can spread it out as long as you want. One friend that I mentored and taught my internet marketing to, only submitted 1 article, 1 video, and 1 podcast a week due to he has a 50-60 hour a week job, a family with 3 kids, and much more. So, he couldn't invest 4 hours a day and that's completely understandable.

If you are going to spread it out, you have to understand it might take 3-6 months before you even see anything positive though. That's where most will fail. A lot of people won't continue with something they don't see immediate results. Packing this in within 28 days will pretty much guarantee you are getting a decent amount of traffic. Or it will at least show you the potential of how much you could get with 28 days more of it.

You want your main homepage to be a page that you can rank for. You are going to have a hard time ranking a squeeze page. My websites have my main page which is set up just like a blog would be except, I have a portion on the top that is always going to be an insert of text that introduces the website and is keyword focused. The boost in rankings from a domain with your keyword is awesome.

Make the squeeze page an extension..travispetelle.com/squeezeme/. Don't worry about ranking the squeeze page because every piece of content on your site should have a link to your squeeze page. That's where your call to action kicks in. You can also have a optin form to the right side of the website. You could also add a pop up form if you want, but test these things. Sometimes it decreases conversion rate.

To edit a wordpress homepage to include more then just the latest blog posts, go into the index.php file. Look where it calls for the "content" and just use simple HTML right below there. It's pretty easy to find. Just copy paste your original index.php file into a notepad document just in case you screw it up.

It certainly does. This is great stuff! You are really going the extra mile here for us.

There's never a reason to fail...only a reason to succeed.

Welcome Jeffrey. Even if you've been involved with internet marketing for a long time, you are going to find lots of great stuff here.

As far as finding the right outsourcers, it's all about how you explain the job at hand. I started by hiring 3 of each duty that needed to be done and I would choose the best out of the three.

Now, I send new employees a huge file of screen capture videos that explains step by step what I want them to do for each task. So, I will record myself doing my social marketing tasks and that will be one video. I did it for each task needed so that there is no confusion. Make sure they are informing you of what they are doing at least once a week. You wouldn't believe the amount of people that say they do something but don't.

I'm actually starting to hire locally. It costs about 5 times as much, but I like having people I can talk to face to face and motivate. And I love having the local office. Just got an office last month on the 36 floor downtown Nashville overlooking the city (this was always a dream of mine). My prospect consulting clients are pretty much hooked the second they hit the elevator. It's like taking candy from a baby sometimes.

My enterprise is starting to move it's focus away from internet marketing campaigns though. Even though that is a large part of my current income and I will always be involved, I am in the process of building a large marketing and consulting firm.

I have been setting up my internet marketing company to teach my new workers how to become self sufficient with internet marketing. All of my new hires are people who want to learn to be success internet marketers. They start out as low paid workers willing to learn but end up as partners. It's more like a mentor program. I offer the guidance, the know how, and the nice equipment for the jump start. After a certain amount of time working for me, I offer them a project niche website of their choice and I want to develop it and have them run it themselves and expand. I just take a small percentage from that point on, but it will be their own company. It's kind of like franchising my system.

This is a new project but I think it will be very successful. I'm trying to make as many entrepreneurs as I can. As I see it, I will have a giant empire of companies that I have a silent partnership in and will have to do zero work all the time being able to help others. I believe once I have a few successful employees out there, I will have a nice network of affiliates as well.

Who knows how it turns out though...employees can be horrible. I used to be one of the horrible employees lol. I had no problem quitting a job at the drop of the hat just because I didn't want to go to work in the morning. That's why I always knew I had to run the show.

Got a little side tracked there...anyways, outsourcing takes technique in itself. More than not, you will come across poor employees especially when you are only paying them $2-$4/hour. It's all in how you explain the job and what's expected out of them.

do not add too many at the same time.. do it hourly ... 5 people within 1 hour.. just play safe...

5 X 24 = 120 people you can get in 1 day.

I always include the keyword I want to be ranked for.

Exactly. And after a couple months, you just outsource and you don't work hard anymore. I never understand why some people think it's going to be any harder than working 8 hours a day in an office. You're not going to get the returns from that job that's for sure.

1. Always provide the best quality you can. Any content on the web is the first impression on my business and it's the first obstacle to overcome when trying to build trust with a prospect and generate a buyer.

2. A normal article size...350-800 words.

3. I use a few different themes. I have done coding for the past couple years as a hobby, so I can make any theme the way I want it. I like the journalism theme for a simple two column layout.

4. I rarely sell directly through my website. 95% of my sales come from email marketing promotions. Everything else is designed to get them on my email marketing campaign. Like you said, most links are pointing towards the squeeze page. The other links are pointing to more content on my site. Never let them leave!

Hey razza,

I'm glad you've gotten motivated to do the work. It's worth it...trust me.

I understand that you might consider creating more than 1 facebook account against the rules and slightly unethical...that's fine. But, consider it this way. I create separate accounts on all my social media platforms first off because I want always to keep my personal life separate from my professional life. I don't use FB much for personal use, but I have had the same account since freshman year of college when it first came out. It's for talking to friends and family...not promotion.

And secondly, I am involved in 16 niches right now. If I were to use only one account for all these niches...I would lose some credibility in each industry. If people see you're an expert in gardening, dog walking, canoeing, astro physics, music production, etc, they will think you as just a marketer.

Yes, I do have a LinkedIn account with my real name.

Now in regards to buying a domain that is a year old. It depends on what the previous owner of the domain did with it. If it was a link farm or something like that, Google could of put it on their "no fly" list and you could never see the light of day with it. Age for a website doesn't play a huge roll. The reason the older websites do better is because they've had more time for their backlinks to get indexed. You can out rank any age website.

Travis

Travis,

Wonderful post! As mentioned earlier I believe...it's posts like this that keep me coming back to Warrior Forum every few days!

Now, as I've skimmed over all these pages, I may have missed the needed clarification I'm looking for in regards to:

"...Create 30 days of social media messages..."

Could you elaborate, if possible, on what a social media message would be, as I'm just not getting the right picture in my head in order to fully implement your 30-step strategy.

Thanks,


Ray

Figuring out what buying keywords are just takes some time being an internet marketer. The more you get involved, the more you see what type of phrases cause people to buy your products.

Things that really do well are people looking for:

brand/model specific keywords: "brown olson M6GV car sterio"

how to keywords: "how to lose cankles"

location keywords: "detroit gym"

That set up would be fine. Articles bring traffic, videos bring traffic, podcasts bring traffic, guest posts bring traffic, search engines bring traffic, forums bring traffic, blogs bring traffic, press releases bring traffic

I use all forms of traffic to generate a ton of it.

Glad I've been able to help!

There are definitely certain niches I stay away from...not because they are too saturated though...because they won't make me enough money.

The more saturated the market, the more money it can make you. Once you have your system down, competition isn't so much of a problem...it just causes the results to take a little bit longer the more competitive the niche. But don't think that makes it not worth the wait.

I don't discriminate on how long a keyword is...that doesn't really come into my thought process. The only thing you must consider when choosing keywords is search volume, competition level, and value of the actual keyword (meaning that people would actually want to buy something when they search that keyword).

I have products in each of my niches. I start each niche as an affiliate to test out what works. Once, I know it makes money I do a special product creation series...just posted a post about it. I don't have the link right now though.

The length of product creation depends highly on the product.

Travis

So, a guy who is bragging in another thread about making his first dollar online is disrespecting the guy who has built a real business from scratch? You say your plan would look a LOT different than that... Well, come back in a year and post your BETTER plan -- for free -- like Travis has... and then maybe you'll have a foot to stand on...

People wonder why guys don't post and help out as much as we used to... This is it. Travis spends hours writing this up and answering everybody's questions - and the last post is "blah"............

I wish I could go into researching, backlinking, and the hundreds of other steps...but I've written 300 page ebooks on those subjects. Not sure I could fit the good stuff in one WF post.

Your post makes no sense either since the articles, the videos, the profile backlinks, the social media duties, the blog comments, the guest posts, and the press releases are used for SEO and backlinking purposes.

You forgot to add that he didn't tell us how to bake a cake, or build a house either, lol....you know, two other things his post wasn't meant to cover.

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Accuracy is tough on all platforms. Sometimes they can be killer accurate and sometimes they are way off...this goes with every tool out there, free or paid for.

I use Traffic Travis to mostly just evaluate my competition and is usually only the first step of it. Let me give an example:

For a keyword i want to get ranked for, I will throw it into Traffic Travis to determine the top 10 competition. This shows me number of backlinks, edu/gov, PR, is the keyword in the h1, title, description, are they in directories like DMOZ, things like that. Don't go by the Traffic Travis star rating for a keyword...even though they are close sometimes they are way off.

That will give you a general idea of not only if the competition is but what needs to be done to beat that keyword.

Next step is visit those sites and see what content they offer. What subjects and tools are they providing? I provide at least that plus more.

I take a look at the site in Yahoo Link Explorer and I take a look at exactly where the links are coming in to that site from. This gives me a big list of places to go get links to my site.

Then I throw my keyword into Google Alerts. This way if I see my competitors gets a link somewhere...I go do the same then get one more. This makes sure I'm always one step ahead of them and soon enough top ranked.

1. I just use analytics. I don't worry to much about bots because I don't just look at the initial traffic coming to my homepage. I dig deeper and examine where my traffic is going...what sites they click on....how many sign up to my newsletter. Bots are just the ones that disappear right off the bat and don't have any activity.

2. I use PRNewswire. I used to use free services and even had PressBot at one time, but I like the PRNewswire a lot. They are costly for internet marketers...like $200 a release, but they get your material in front of good journalists and also give you a very valuable list of targeted publications that I use every day.

Great Share. If you take action on this it will work. Having lots of content pointing to your site will be money in the bank one day!

Cataclysm1987, if you're still following this, just read what you, yourself, posted. See if you catch the patronizing, dismissive tone you used every single time. Then tell us again how all you wanted was a few more specifics, without asking specific questions.

If you hadn't noticed, Travis has been providing specifics for days after his initial post.

If you really did intend to provide constructive criticism, you missed the mark, and you owe Travis an apology...

Thanks for the post. Ah that just didn't do it justice. How about:


THANKS!!!!!


Now that's better!

(I wanted to put the whole "Thanks" in a box but there is 10 image limit LOL)

I signed up for your launch for tomorrow (Thursday) and look forward to it and welcome the opportunity.

Thanks again.

It's funny you said that. I just finished Dave Ramsey's latest book on investments and he put it the exact same way. You can't expect to lose 30 pounds and be super fit with one day of exercise.

33 buyer keywords is a great place to start. You can always write content on lower searched keywords to give your site more material. Just focus your backlinks on the main 33...at first I would suggest your main 3.

It's in the pending messages area.

It works for any selling method. It's just a traffic generation guide.

Hi Travis,

Great info here. I have a 1 and a half year old site that is earning me close to $200 per day now. All of my traffic is organic and mostly from google- about 150 visitors per day. I know I could be earning so much more if I put a little bit of effort into getting more traffic. I'm going to see how much traffic goes up after 28 days.

I'm starting on day one and I already have a question. I've signed up with hootsuite but I can't figure out how to upload 30 days worth of messages. What am I not seeing?

You can join has one on one coaching program, I did so earlier today
Just click on the link at the bottom of one of his posts to find out more.

It should be a great program.

Dave

Hi Perfect love,


I'm not Travis,

but just use TubeMogal to blast theme out. I'm pretty sure that's what you do..

I've already started putting these together and will be sold through the my newsletter list.

Hi Travis,

I'm at the point where you add a pdf to scribd. I'm assuming that this is done for a backlink, but I don't quite understand where the backlink comes from. Will the links within the pdf itself give backlinks?

A bit confused about this.

Just add as many as you can without getting into trouble. 100 was just to give a number to shoot for in the original plan.

There are lots of radio host websites you can submit too. I think I even put some links up earlier in the post about where to post podcasts.

I started this plan when I worked about 10-12 hour days and traveled 95% o the time so I was in airports most of the time when working on IM.

You have multiple options you can choose:

1. Don't do as much each day that is on the plan. Your results will come slower, but they will come as long as you keep at it.
2. Just bust out 16 hour work days for the next month or two.
3. Find a more lenient job.

I was doing option 2 when I started this just because I was sick of the life I was living and I wanted more for myself. I know you probably want the same, but I wasn't going to let it not happen. That mentality brought me results quickly and the work ethic to bust out 16 hours minimum a day helped too.

If you have kids and a family, I suggest just doing 1-2 hours a day. Pay close attention to what brings you traffic everyday and start putting most your effort into those areas...HINT: guest posts, videos, niche specific locations.

Or you could always quit your job and find something that's more lenient...I know that isn't a feasible option for most, but it is still an option.

When someone comes to me and tells me they don't have time in the day, I just consider that an excuse. I've preached this same principle when I was a personal trainer too. You can always find an hour in the day and more than likely 2-4 hours that you could work on bettering your life.

Here's a good way to find that time and then eliminate it:

- Write down every single thing that you do for the next 3 days. If you brush your teeth, write it down...if you are watching tv, write it down...
- Keep track of the length of time it takes you to complete these tasks too
- After three days, see what areas are really a waste of your progress and start replacing that time with productive work time. You can also start multitasking some of the things that can be done simultaneously.

You are going to turn yourself into a productivity machine if you do this. TV, browsing the web, etc are all wastes of time for the time being.

I think Dave Ramsey's quote on how to become debt free fits perfect for this scenario as well:

Live like no one else so that you can live like no one else.

This 28 day plan, the amount of work I'm telling you to put in, the elimination of fun from your day are all NOT PERMANENT.

It is hard work to create a business from nothing and make it into a full time income..very hard work. But, IM is the only way to make it with only 30-90 days of hard work.

Once you have viewers strolling into your site on autopilot, you are set. Once you have enough revenue to hire outsourcers to do all the work in the plan, you are set.

This plan was what I used, myself, to go from nothing to the beginning of my successful life in about 45 days.

Now after 45 days, I wasn't making the income I am today. If I remember correctly, I made about $1300 those first 45 days. I knew once I made $1 from a system I created, I could make $2...$3....$50....$100...$1000...and so on.

That's what the hard work is for. It's for the beginning to click. Once you have that click..in your business...in your mind process...you will succeed. It just takes an extreme amount of dedication and hard work to hit that click.

I got a little side tracked here because I was talking with some of my students about motivation and dedication today lol.

I completely understand when you work a full time job and can't find the time to do the necessary work.

A rule of thumb I've always used even on my most miserable days is to get at least 3 things done a day that will lead me to where I want to be.

So, pick out the 3 most valuable tasks at hand and don't stop working on them until you are done. The key is to do this everyday. There are no breaks until you have accomplished your goal.

Then you can relax.

Travis,

when you submit articles to the directories, do you backlink them or do you just backlink the articles on your blog?

Thanks

Personally I would like actual specifics. Case study/example of one of your actual sites. But the thing is of course, if you do that -- it will probably dilute the overall effectiveness since there would be so many people doing it. So hehe (50% joking) -- if that was just for me, I'd happy with it

Travis,

do you really think a WSO is needed?

It seems that every question that anyone would want to ask has been asked and answered in this thread.

Unless there is something that's going to make the WSO different from this thread.......I'm not sure if a WSO is needed.

Not to mention, I would not want to spend $997 on coaching and than see a WSO for $47 about the same stuff. I'd feel like the WSO was motivated by greed. I've seen to many WSO's like that.

Right on, man. Starting any business is going to be work and most aren't going to commit what is required. It won't matter what you show them.

Travis