Why is scaling up so difficult - it drives me NUTS!

Good post George,

Your problem is your business model.

The business model of creating smallish sites and and ranking them in google and selling clickbank and cpa offers is only good to a certain degree.

Sure you can make $15-30K per month if you really crank it but that's usually the high end and only after 100+ ranking sites.

The people who make more than that with these methods are the people that then go and teach others how they were able to achieve these results.

You mention you don't do paid ads or buying traffic. Can i ask why is that?

Surely if you find an offer that is converting you would like to push it as hard as possible, and in my experience, paid traffic can be extremely effective. Could be something to look into.

How about trying local marketing also? You are already really good at seo and keyword research so why not Pre rank sites in your local area (such as criminal lawyer {insert location}) then sell these websites to a criminal lawyer in your area. Because each client is worth a lot of money in these industries, you could easily sell these websites for 1-10 grand each.

Just my 2c

Dear George,

This is what's been reported many times by my coaching clients, when we're just starting: as if you have some threshold, and usually even, when you make money in some new source, somehow it evens up so, that you don't go too higher than where you were, anyway.

It is the matter of, really, the power of your mind, as maybe crazy as it seems. Your income is coming to you as a reflection, a manifestation (sorry for those words, becoming really scammy these days) of your energy regarding your money. And you can work with your money energy, working with your thoughts regarding this subject.

Why for some people multiplying the income in such gradual way is more easy? Because they take it easier as a "permission slip", that now their income can become higher.

(I'm really fighting here with words, as I'm more accustomed to speak with people, for whom work with energy is a more usual thing, they're more accustomed to see themselves as not just physical beings, but as physical beings as a frame, but vibrational beings at nature. That's why your thoughts matter - because it's your energy that then gets reflected to you all over the place.)

So for these other people it's easier to take that "permission slip" and convince themselves, that now they can earn more, and for you, you as it seems, already came to the threshold where you have to do a little more of convincing yourself, that you do deserve it, that it can come to you, that it's an obvious thing to be able to happen, etc.

It's a work to be done with your beliefs. Obviously you can't just sit back and relax, and it's really not what's required here. But the work is better to be done not in trying to find another physical avenue, where you can "make it happen", "achieve it", but in going down deeper and finding out, what holds you where you are now, and how you can rise from there in your understanding of the situation, - and then the outer reflection will follow.

Actually, I could congratulate you on coming where you just came. When a person just goes with physical achievements, and goes and goes for it, and it works out for them, then they don't have the motivation to do the inside job. And doing the inside job is an enormous leverage. So it's good that you came to the stage where you're pushed to do it. Believe me, when you do it, it will not only work out for you externally, but it wil also give you a very satisfying, truly satisfying ride.

If you're up to it, George, I could give you some exercises to work with, but if you're really willing to go inside.. And also, I would recommend to you first to find out, what are those beliefs that don't quite allow you to rise higher, as on that also depends, which exercises would be the most effective for you.

Different offers are different. It's a simple as that.

Have you tried to scale in other ways?

- More sites on the same keywords?
- More keywords?
- Buying traffic?
- Buying more traffic with higher bids?

I guess we see these things from really different points of view. I will not argue about it, several years ago this part of the forum was used by people who understood the value of leveraging the energy. For us it is obvious, that until you do the inner work, the outer searches for the techniques that will do it for you, markets that will do it for you, etc., will be hard, very frustrating and highly not-satisfying. But of course, everyone is learning on their own experience, not on someone's words. Each path is valuable.

Olga,

interesting..to say the least. Basically, in simple words...it's my mind-set, some block inside me which makes me believe that i am only "allotted" that much success but no more. This is INDEED highly interesting because such a mind-set might unconsciously reflect back at how i work and what i do. For example, if i make "a few dollars" a day i stop because "i don't believe" i can easily multiply this..so i am sub-consciously creating this block myself.
I think i am getting what you are saying.

Nice post. You are hitting on an issue which is the main reason I joined this forum. I agree with Christian that at least part of your problem is your business model, but there is also the way the Internet has been evolving.
Look around here on the forum. Practically everybody has issues with scaling.
Is there anybody here who built a $100MM company?
Many of the people on this forum really need to think and act very differently if they want to make "real money".

JimMN

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