My Warrior Success Story

I have not been around the Warrior forum in a while, but I wanted to come back and share some of my successes in hopes that it may inspire someone to take a little action. I must apologize for the length of this post, I've made it as short as I could. While I don't stop by and visit the Warrior's everyday any longer, I do owe a lot to this forum. I really started my education here and I learned so much which have helped me to unlock some of the secrets to Internet Marketing.

I remember when I first found the Warriors in back in 2006 I thought I knew a little about the Internet. The truth is outside of being able to program a little with Web Technologies, I was a total newbie.

So I started reading and posting and a little over time I started to pick up some things. This is the reason for this post as I wanted to give a little back to this place in the spirit of Christmas.

Now for a little history, when I came here I had a few sites doing anywhere from a couple of dozen to a hundred unique visitors a day, but I was not earning a lot of money. A little here and there, but I definitely was not going to be able to do this fulltime on the money I was earning.

At first I read as many threads on the forum as I could find and I tried this method or that method, with varying degrees of success. After a while I realized this was part of my problem, I never saw any one method all the way through. I was not focusing my time. I needed to correct that issue so I started a list of what I needed to accomplish everyday and I stuck to it. Then I started to see success with my activities. But I wasn't quite there, then it occurred to me what every successful Internet Marketer needs. You really only need two things and the money will take care of itself once you have these items in place.

The first is unique content. Without unique content you are dead when building long term websites. There is only three ways to get unique content on the web and you must choose a method.

You can buy content. You can hire people on eLance or one of the other many freelancing sites to write this for you. Of course for many people this is not an option as they just don't have the funds starting out to purchase content.

You can get your users to create your content. This is an option for a lot of people, but in order for this to really work well you must offer some type of unique site where people want to submit content such as a site like Digg.com or StumbleUpon. To have one of these sites that offers something unique then you will definitely wither need to program in some unique options or pay a programming to do it. This can get real pricey in a hurry.
So most people are left with the third option. You write it. I would urge everyone you wants to make a living on the Internet to spend a good amount of time writing your own content. It helps you to gain a better grasp on your niche, plus it helps to develop your writing skills. Now you may say but I can't write. We are not talking about writing the next great American novel, but you must write. Writing is a learned activity and the more you force yourself to do it, the better you get.

The next items that you must have and it's just as important as content is traffic. Traffic is where most people fail in Internet marketing. If you don't have traffic then you are dead before you even start. No matter what method you are using to generate traffic, whether its SE organic traffic, Adwords, social networks, whatever, spend some time learning the system. If you really dig into some of these social networks, you will learn about features that a lot of people do not use which can help you a lot with getting traffic from the networks. Don't assume that all you can do in a social network is post links to your site as there are normally some great little tricks buried in the network that can really help.
Sorry this post has gotten so long, but I wanted to help explain my mind set which now allows me to turn out sites with the traffic numbers posted below at will. It does take work, but if you get out there and think outside the box then you can create a viable internet presence which will allow you to create traffic generating sites. Once you have the content and the traffic, monetizing that traffic is the easy part.

These are the traffic stats of just one of the sites I've built in the past year using my mind set of creating unique content and then ramping up the traffic. The site below earns me over $1000 per month in revenue and its just one of many I own. You can do this too if you get to work and work smart.

Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages
May 2008 4854 5990 9536
Jun 2008 26329 33728 81638
Jul 2008 25533 33082 90095
Aug 2008 25022 31153 70152
Sep 2008 23958 30493 78217
Oct 2008 47103 56562 136374
Nov 2008 49280 59378 145894