Success! $240 in 36 hours

Thanks Al !

I agree, very nice conversions! You should really be proud. It just goes to show you how valuable a list can be...and just think, once you get to that 1000 subscriber and market your 2nd product you'll be way in the lead of getting more buyers and repeat buyers. Way to go!

Amazing story. More than anything else, I think I like your overall approach - you may be on your road driving towards success right now. Keep up!

Thanks for all the replies guys.

I tried quite a few things from clickbank to adsense etc, and none of it really made me anything... i had no interest really in any of the products i was attempting to make money from - in fact my only interest in any of it was to make money. I knew nothign about dating, nothing about some weird or wonderful disease nor could i offer advice on brerakups - yet these were the things i was trying to sell to other people.

I kind of gave up.

It was when i was walking home one night it hit me... i've spent years writing forum posts on the forums i use, and spent those years building up relationships with those users. Those users also have their own blogs and websites. Why can't i write the same forum posts on my own blog (all be it a little more in depth) and utilise the communities i was already part off. Those same people can post links or reviews of my stuff no problems and best of all they are all on topic! And it worked!

Being that authority figure when i spoke about my topic wasn't hard - being someone those people tursted was already there - i wasn't some person with 1 post trying to hook me into something - something a lot of people can sense straight away.

The topic my blog is on is something i do every day, it's my hobby... it's something i've done for almost 10 years and something i can talk quite confidently about. And for some reason i completley dismissed this when i was looking for something to sell.

My advice (and really i am no expert - i've only really been doing this a few weeks!) would be to find 4 or 5 forums that fit your niche, join them and spend time cultivating your profile. DOn't go in with the sale - hell... don't even mention your product. Get in there and meet people, help people out, log in - introduce yourself... your a person after all, make them see that.

Although i post regulalry on around 15 + forums which i post all my links to my articles on - 3 of them get around 80% of the trafic. These are the ones i've been part of the longest, they also have the highest user accounts. I'd look around for 2 or 3 forums with very high post / reply counts within you niche and spent 6 months cultivating your profile.

If your concise and clear with what you talk about , in no time you will become a respected person on that forum that people will listen to. When you get to that point you can start dropping in links to your own articles - imperative it is on topic of the forum. I think this is a great way to build up quality traffic to your blog.

Another thing i like to do is surf around the forums i read looking for threds created with people looking for an answer to a problem (that's on topic with my niche) - i then simply go write a blog post that answers that problem (take me 10 mins tops - remember before i would write a reply on the foum... no i write it on my blog but sound like an article) and then post the link as a reply.

You'll get an instant subscriber there and then this becomes a funnel for all the other people looking for the answer to this problem in future. 2 of these such posts are now my most viewed pages (1416 unique page views in 6 weeks).

Personally i am not looking for volume of traffic, i am looking for quality traffic. By posting links to my content only on forums on topic i can almost guarantee this. Of course Google picks this up - and then i get quality traffic again as the topic is a very slim niche so people won't just stumble across this, and even if they did they wouldn't click through as it's failry dull if it's not your thing!!

That was a bit of a brain dump - so excuse the spelling or grammer!!

I hope that makes sense

It's a very slim market.

I write a blog on tutorials for programming a specific synthesizer.

The product i sell is a pack of sounds for the synth i made. I plan on doing more packs, and also a DVD tutorial on learning the thing inside out.

There cant be more than a few thousand people out there who use this one synth. There is not so much documentation on it, so people turn to the internet to find out about how to use it. But there are not too many good tutorials for it. So i write and have guest writers write tutorials for it.

Very boring i know

Thanks.

No, Campaign Monitor

Hey, i love it! But to be honest i've never used anything else.
I think it is very easy to use and has some great features.

It's free to set up an account - give it a go!

Absolutely amazing. You are probably already in the few elite that have made money online that is honest and sustainable. Very well done indeed.

Yes absolutely join the War room. And when you have you might think about putting your success story into an ebook or even some videos and put it up as a WSO . I am sure it will get lots of interest and some sales.

Thought i would bump this.

Just checked e junkie.

$1663.28 USD since beginning of September

Works out around $33 a day average. Though usually it goes a couple days no sales, then 4 or 5 pour in.

Also got over 1200 subscribers on my list now. I need to start work on product 2 to sell to this list.

Just started work on blog no.2 - i think this new one will be a clickbank product rather than my own product. I found a great keyword (i think) so it will be a good test. Let's see how it goes.