Please help me. I've bought a lot of WSO but still lost.

Well said. If you can't find a way to focus your efforts, you will not make money online. Just stop buying any new product now, instead go through all the wso products that you purchased, choose 1 or 2 product that you believe will help you, then implement the strategies you just learn, draw an action plan , do it NOW and track the result. From time to time, adjust the action plan in order to improve the outcome. You need FOCUS on a project long enough to see any returns.

Hope this help

I'm unsure why you are looking for new solutions when you already 'cracked the code'. You didn't succeed because of the SBI platform - you succeeded because you built content-rich sites that visitors liked. Isn't that the 'secret' of every successful website on the internet?

Get a new host. Transfer your domains there. Build new Wordpress installs on each domain. Copy over your content. There's no harm in doing such a rebuild now that your visitors are flatlining. Then, instead of being dependent on Google, start mixing it up with social networking. Hit forums, Facebook pages, blogs in your niches - in exactly the same way as you're making yourself known here at the Warrior Forum.

Hi thanks all for the outpouring of support here. I like the advice about "staying out of the WSO section"

I actually have a full-time job in the day, so I can't afford much time to do this at night, with wife and kids around too.

So in a way, I need the income to be "automated". Selling a service (e.g. building / customizing sites to sell) is a good idea. Just that I fear I may not have the time.

Currently the best option for me, like you guys said, is to focus on ONE or TWO niches only. Do you all agree? Perhaps I can just renew the domains which I have no time for and park them under "future projects".

The other thought I have is - and this is an important question - am I barking up the wrong tree?

I find many of the successful online folks actually get into IM ... doing stuff like my niche sites is really just a training ground ... most actually move into IM eventually, or offer IM related services like writing, site building or SEO, etc. Is that your view too? Love to hear your thoughts.

Hi Alex

Thanks for the tip - I'll PM you

I think you need to break this down into smaller processes.

First is getting traffic. Not just any traffic, but the right traffic that will match the type of products you want to sell.

Second, once you got traffic, work on list building. Try out different incentives to getting people on your list, different emails be sent out and then...

Third, start looking at converting them into sales. Matching the right products with your list, preselling them if you are selling affiliate products, giving them good content so they look at your offers.

Whenever you are overwhelmed, look at breaking it down into little processes. You will be surprised at how easy it will be once you do that. Not only will it be easier, it will also help you figure out what you need to test and tweak.

Funny thing is that, a great wso or a great coach doesn't matter if the MINDSET of the student is faulty.

If the student wants success as badly as they want to breathe, then nothing can stop them. They either get rich or die tryin'

If you're family has been there since day one, they will always be there. I've been there with my family and the stress and frustrations with my wife, and looking back, it made me focus even more and took out unnecessary distractions in my life.

a year later we are closer than ever and the online business seeds I had planted, has grown into oak trees.

The great thing with online business is that internet marketing does get slapped by google if you are not careful.

You must have a system that creates your brand and must be protected and surrounded by other a diverse types of links for it to rank on top.

the days of micro niches are gone and done and its now all about attraction marketing and google gives value to those who gives value to their audiences.

Maybe it's time to rethink your strategy on how you should relate to your audiences.

Joe

7. (And the one that's got you stuck) Put passion first, opportunity second. As long as you're meeting a real need in the marketplace, passion will give the drive to STICK WITH ONE THING until it works. Right now, you're chasing opportunity first. That's why you're changing your approach every time you see a new opportunity. That's a direct route into information overload and becoming a consumer instead of a producer.

That's what's happening to most people on this forum.

You have no business plan right now. You have to stop buying every WSO that comes out. You must know what direction you want to take your business and keep following that plan until you are making money. Come up with a business plan, break down your business plan into small goals so you get your business up and running, and you must test and tweak until you get your business profitable.

Buying WSO's is not running a business. You are just a consumer when you are constantly buying WSOs. You need to be the one selling products and services, and marketing your business.

It is nothing wrong with buying a WSO that helps to enhance your business or business model, but just buying every shinning object is not a good thing.

I believe you will get things going again. Here's to your success!

Gary,

You have Googleitis and WSOitis. Don't feel bad about it. This is a common issue for many; myself included. I started the IM journey six months or so ago as I seek for home-based business opportunities. I'm a techie by trade, but I never made a dime online. Here's my lesson-learned and hopefully you and other newbies can benefit from my faulty start.
1. Get Clarity - I concur with those who point this out. You need to ask yourself why are you doing this. It is NOT the money. Money is only the byproduct of your success, my friend. It is the feeling and desire. Here's mine.

I wanted time freedom, and the opportunity have my wife stay home. She works in a hotel since she arrived in the U.S.A eight years ago. It is hard labour. I owe it to her. She doesn't even have time to go to school and learn proper English because hotel doesn't have fixed schedule.
You know something, my friend, because I am super clear on my goal, she has been home for a week now. After some plannings and adjustments to our lives, we don't need her job to stay afloat nor do we need me to make money online to replace her income.

That's how the Universe works. You need to get clarity. Then, the Universe will start to open up doors for you. It might not be something that you want or thought of.

In our case, we thought it was money, but that was not our solutions.

2. Up until recently, I poured in money into new WSO. I purchased a countless number of programs. Honestly, I was addicted to buying. This reminds me of Groupon, SocialLiving and PricePlunge. They offer deals all the time. I thought that I was smart and jumped on them. Here are a few that I purchased and never used. I bought a Groupon deal to learn how to fly an airplane. Then, I bought another one on parachute jumping. Because I didn't have clarity (#1) and got trapped in a vicious cycle of one shinny object after another, not only that I didn't get to fly airplane, parachute jumping, but I didn't even get to learn from any of the programs.

Now that I know my problems, that's half of the battle won, right? So unplug yourself from this trap of purchasing. I cut back a lot but still suffer from WSOitis. lolz

3. You got to know your market. This is similar to #1. You have to understand people's pain point. This is the fundamental of buying and selling. I authored a book on Unconventional Ways to Buy and Sell your Property. Funny enough, I don't apply this concept in IM which I should and will. To understand your market, you need some researches done. Here're the basic steps.

Pick a niche or two or three. This is regardless of an authority site or micronic. Pull up your favorite search engine. Then, type:
<niche name> forum
<niche name> web site

This might be a flaw in my thought process, but I think if the niche is big enough there got to be a forum or website for them. Just like you, you wrote SBI blog posts to answer some common computer problems.
Next, go to Quantcast and Alexa to determine the demographic. This serves multiple purposes. You want to validate the demand in those niches. Also, you want to know if folks in those niches have money to spend or not. In addition, the demographic info tell you the age range, gender and location. Some people tell you to run ads on Facebook or Google. To have penny click, you need to narrow down your audience.
Yeah, you have a job now. You and I wasted so much moolah on WSO. You have to do it properly though to reap the benefit long-term.
Once you understand your market, move your SBI site to self hosted WordPress, focus on creating authentic contents and don't worry about building your list at first. Just put yourself in someone's else shoe. Don't you get turned off when you first visit a blog or site, and they have popups everywhere? If you provide values and you already know the market needs your info, they will come back. At the very least, leave them a good impression, so they will share and like your articles.

4. Unique and value content - when you focus on a number of niches, you have more time to write your own content. This is SUPER important. Part of the value is YOU, my friend. People buy products and services because they tend to like who you are, how you write and what is part of the package. You don't want to deal with people who shop for low price because they won't return to your site next time. So start building your brand and be yourself. This is what I didn't do, and I was all over the map. Now, it is just my firstnamelastname(dot)com I basically start over again using the info that I am sharing with you now.

5. When you produce great content, you need to let the world know. You highlighted the 80/20 rule. Excellent! You have a plan. Spend 20% on content production and 80% on marketing. How? When you first started, write your own content like I mentioned above. After you made some dough, then thoroughly do some screening of college students near you and find one or two who can adopt your writing style. Put that into a standard operating procedure and repeat the process when the first batch leaves you. Have that first badge recruits and hires their replacements before they go.

Here's the marketing part. You the know the feeling of being hit by Penguin and Panda so you probably know what you did wrong.
Google and other search engines love fresh, authentic and relevant contents. Since you write your own content, it is authentic. Your market research as outlined above will provide relevant content. You already said that you will do this consistently. Then, you will have fresh content.
Next, you will want to focus on a few SEO strategies at most to begin with. Also it is a part of your branding. Garytanuser(dot)com is available. Make sure you protect your brand by securing the same handle with all social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and fifty plus others. I'd use fiverr to help me with this unless you have kids who you can exploit lol or you want to save $5. Since you and I spent so much on WSO, what is five buck anyway. lolz

Once you have your social signal setup, link all your accounts to socialadr, tribepro and onlywire. Those are the services that I am using. There are other similar services out there. PM me if you want referral or other recommendation. This will semi-automate your content distribution and syndication.

The next part is to go out and interact with your market. Remember, I told you to search for <nich market> forum? Alright, pick two to three top one, create account and start providing value in the forum just like what I am doing now if you haven't notice I am not selling you anything or pushing you toward any particular direction. You are the ingredient to your success, Gary. You have to find your own path and define your own vision. Then, you have to walk it. No one else can do it for you. They can just show you what has worked for them.

Rinse and repeat - once you got one site going, leverage on content syndication to get the word out and you only infrequently need to refresh your site with new content. There are several billions of Internet users out there. It will take a few years for all of them to read your valuable content so focus on create one that will last.

Heck man, I am preaching this, but I have not walked the walk yet. My new branded site will hopefully follow the same outline that I am sharing with you today. Off course, I will do grammar check before I post as I am not great with it. Pardon me for all the spelling and grammatical errors.

Happy Easter everyone!!! I'm a reformed Buddhist, but I try to observe all major holidays especially the one that get me a day off from work.

Gary, are you singaporean?

Maybe you should start selling wso.

I too suffer/suffered from information overload and lack of focus. I have just started to unsubscribe and have committed to quit buying "shiny baubles". I have picked a mentor and am following their advice, Time to focus and put what I know into action.

What about the most basic question - what is even mildly interesting and intriguing to you? Site development (and most really successful people say develop one site as an authority site rather than chasing hundreds of niches) writing for Kindle, selling services?

Is there anything that makes you smile at the thought of it?

Write out a game plan, write out your goals, and then take action immediately. If you need help creating a business plan that you believe will work, you might want to find a coach in your field that can help you put together a 90 day plan to get started in the right direction.

The reason you are seeing this is because you are spending all of your time looking for IM/MMO information. If I spent all my time looking in chicken coops, I might get the idea that the only birds are chickens.

I'd be very careful not to turn this into a "follow me" thread, as they are not allowed. The place to document your journey is on your Warrior blog or your own blog. Link to it from your sig.

The problem with "thinking like a hungry man" is that it's way too easy to get trapped in that thinking. If you're always in scrape and scrounge mode, you'll never do the things that will take you past that.

Better to spend at least some time thinking about how to get in a position to pay for what you need. Then you no longer have a problem, you have an expense.

For example, three of your current sites are throwing off cash, to the tune of almost half of what you said you wanted to make.

Switching from SBI to a decent shared account could knock a 0 off the $2100 per year you pay SBI. On a monthly basis, that's another big chunk towards your goal.

Sell or dump the sites that are not making you money, and show little or no chance of doing so in the future. Then put your energy to building one or more of the remaining sites in a smart way to make it the rest of the way to your goal.

And unless you have something very specific to look for that will advance your business, stay the hell out of the WSO section.

The key isn't in getting all your traffic for "free", the key is being able to pay more for your traffic than anyone else. Once you reach that point, you could make it more profitable for your competitors to send their traffic to you than keeping for themselves.