January 15th, 2012  Posted at   Effective Tools
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Have you ever bought something (to do with internet marketing I mean)  and thought oh, yeah, I know about this? Or have you bought something that was way more advanced than you thought it would be?

I  have done both and I think  it is really very annoying. Ok of course we can request a refund, and there are many marketers who do refund immediately. But there are equally many people who don’t want to ask for a refund all the time. I can understand simply because for a small amount of money, relatively, it seems silly to complain.

I have decided that from now on I am going to write about the things that I buy and give them a review. Not sure if anyone but bots will read it but I am going to hope that someone out there will be helped by what I say. If it helps one person well then, it’s worth me putting my tuppence worth out there.

I have tried lots of ways to make money in internet marketing, which you can see by all the posts on this blog. There have been years where I have ignored the blog and gone and done things that are pretty much unsuccessful. Some I didn’t stick with even though I was doing ok – that is making micro sites with adsense – I just got bored and wanted to try something new. Some I got my head round but just didn’t take action on – CPA being one of them. Some I tried and things started off ok, but problems led to me not taking any more action.

I am not sure if it was my lack of effort or simply my brain could not get a handle on being successful – I really think that the state of ones mind is a big part of having success in anything. But now I feel I have got my head in the right place, and this month I have been taking big actions.

Now, don’t get giddy – I am not sure if they are going to pay off. But I remain convinced that massive action is what it takes to have a decent amount of success in IM. I will let you know more especially if all turns out well.

In the meantime, I am going to do my best to write a bit more often here. Especially about the things that I buy, particularly if they are good.

Right now I am trying out Digi Traffic Accelerator. I used it once on a trial and it was good but then other things got in the way. But I figure that if it drives traffic – which it does – and gets backlinks, then it is something that everyone needs. Leave it with me for a few days and let’s see what happens.

I really like the things that the face of DigiResults, Andy Fletcher puts out. I have the plugins Digi Auto Links and Digi Article Blaster, both of which are really effective. With Digi Article Blaster it does take a while for Google to pick up on the links but software like Linkclaw will help with that.

Any questions? Let me a comment!

Ruth

December 7th, 2010  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Much has been said about site flipping. If you have some websites that you want to sell and you can make some money flipping sites.It is something I have mentioned before as something I wanted to do.

However, this used to be something that worried me quite a bit. This is because all my sites are built using wordpress. And moving wordpress sites means you need to go into the databases and do a little bit of programming. Not a huge amount but it was enough to worry me. Technophobe, I know.

The alternative was to build websites using Komposer or one of the other website building tools. Which I don’t really know how to use either. Komposer websites are easy to flip, because they just need putting in a .zip file and sending out to the new owner.

There is a new answer, and that is WPTwin. This is a programme that will clone a website built with WP. It was amazing when the  identical site appears almost magically at the domain I had picked for it. It had taken just a few minutes, probably 7 at the outside. For someone like me, who had no idea how it all worked, it seemed almost miraculous.

So, I followed the SiteFlips formula and now I have an auction on flippa.com:

https://flippa.com/auctions/115226/Automated-Income—Become-a-Published-Author—NR#comment451572

I’m really excited about it. I know that without the confidence I got from doing John Carltons course, I would not have done it. And of course, I wouldn’t have been able to do it without WPtwin.

I will post again on how the auction went. When I do so I will also talk more about SiteFlips and their formula for making money with books on Amazon.com.

Best wishes,

Ruth

October 13th, 2010  Posted at   Copywriting
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It has been nearly a year since I have blogged on here. I notice that seventy of my seventy one posts have disappeared. Technologically challenged as I am, I have yet to figure out how to get them back, but I will continue to work on it now and again.

What happened with Adsense? Well, I made some money with Adsense, I have made more this year with Adsense than I have with anything else. But I can’t say I enjoy the “housework”, the backlinking constantly and always trying to get the sites to get to the top with new keywords etc.

The other thing that has happened while I have been away is that my original sites are doing rather well. They have moved up to the first page of Google and I have started to get checks (cheques) from Clickbank. It is great, I was really pleased. But, having had a look at the statistics, I have realised something. I did think of this two years ago, when I started in IM but kind of persuaded myself that it would be ok. I am talking about my copywriting skills.

To me, there is little point in having websites at the top (or near the top) of Google which are doing not as well as they could be,  because I simply haven’t learned to write well.

So, I decided that it was time to invest in myself and go to the best. I didn’t want to go to the US, it did not really fit around family commitments, and it wasn’t in the budget.  So I got John Carltons Simple Writing System home study course.

It is actually very intensive, the workshop was over just two days I believe, but John does cover a huge amounts. There are worksheets, so that I can do the same exercises as the attendees did. It’s a real learning experience, for sure. Less embarrassing when I make mistakes than the poor attendees, they got their mistakes videoed for everyone to see!

I am really enjoying Simple Writing System and I am learning a great deal. I have already tweaked some of my sites, it is too soon to say whether they are converting better or not. I will let you know!

The downside of Simple Writing System, the home study course, is that I don’t get my exercises critiqued, so I don’t get direct feedback from John himself. I watch him talk to the attendees about their results, which is helpful. But there is not the personal input.  This is actually quite a big downside, because there is no substitute for a personal mentor.

Fortunately, because of hanging out on the Warrior Forum, I have  come across a highly recommended copywriter by the name of Paul Hancox. He mentors students, and he is a great guy.  I have chatted to his students and he seems to be universally adored!  I contacted him and I will be joining his programme in the new year, if not before. I cannot wait!

So, by then I will be able to write good copy, not just for myself, but for other people also.  I do worry that I am flitting too much, but I know that ultimately, learning the skills to sell will benefit me in many different aspects of my life, including earning a living on here, the good old internet!

To our prosperity,

Ruth

November 9th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Hello!

This week I took a few days off, after writing myself into a brain melt. So many articles! It yielded results though, so I shouldn’t complain.

This week I found a thread on the Warrior Forum that is extremely interesting. In it an internet marketer known as xfactor has diligently explained exactly how he  makes $300 per day (yes, guys, that is day!). He does it using an exceptionally simple method including Adsense.

Now many people have said Adsense is dead – but I say long live Adsense. John has given everyone every bit of information that he knows for free on the forum. He has answered so many questions, some of them more than once, and this has resulted in a thread that is 32 pages long.

What is interesting is that he has made all the information anyone would need for nothing, no cost at all, on the forum. He was specifically asked more than once to write a product putting all the information together, which he has done. But actually, all the information is there on the forum which he frequently tells us. In fact, his signature which tells us about his report refers the reader to the thread, so that they can get it all for free.

Also on the thread are people reporting on their successes. So people have actually taken the free advice and made money.

Now you would have thought that bearing in mind they can get everything they need, why would they then buy the course? There is not much difference, although in with the paid course you do get one extra.

The product also includes a forum, and I know one member of the Warrior Forum has designed a wordpress theme to go along with it, although I have no idea if there is a charge associated with the wordpress theme.

To me, this really underlines the Law Of Reprecosity. If something is given freely then a person feels that they ought to give something back. The value of the information is very high, and I have no doubt that xfactor has done extremely well out of patiently answering questions time after time.

This is something I want to practise more of, regardless of the outcome. To me it feels like good karma to share something positive in our lives.

If anyone has any questions about what I do to earn money then please mail me on Gale_10@hotmail.co.uk.

During this week I am going to make a list of the tools that I am using to make money, as well as sharing the tips that I do.  I want to make sure that I give everyone the benefit of my experience.

Incidentally, I have not yet bought the product that xfactor has written. I have taken the information from the thread and started a couple of sites, which I will let you know about in due course. Adsense is something that you do need to be consistant at, as well as all the other sorts of marketing.

I think $300 a day within six months is a great leap though. It just shows what you can do if you put your mind to it!

Best wishes,

Ruth

November 3rd, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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If you want to make money typing at home then you do need a definite plan. Then you need to stick to it!

If  you read my previous post about having a second project on the go while I do the first project – project two, which incidentally was about flipping websites, has definitely died a death.

An interesting point came up on the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint forum. At what point does one give up on a campaign?

I have to say I think it is a personal thing. I personally draw the line at 500. So, if I have 500 clicks of a product that I really believe in, but no sales, then that is it – I do no more to promote that project.

This brings us to one of the quandries of internet marketing. During my five hundred clicks I will have done some testing – changing my style of article or maybe changing my landing page, trying different things out. I usually let the change test for 100 clicks. I am not saying I am correct here, and this is what everyone should do, but this is how I do it.

Actually, I have never read anywhere anyone saying well, give it this many clicks and then call it a day. I think that is because then the allow for – dare I say it – failure of a product or campaign. But we all know that failure is the way forward.You have to fail many times before you find what works.

Two other interesting things I have heard this week include: A story which was quoted to me as being from the Warrior Forum (wonderful place to pick up great tips, for beginner or even advanced marketers).

A man knew nothing about internet marketing but wanted to make some money online. He just wrote five articles every day when he came home from work. Every day, five articles, this went on for a month. At the end of the month he had made $3,000!

Now, some of that has to be luck, but it was the person who made consistant effort is the one that got lucky! It just shows us consistancy (one of my main problems) is the way forward.

Secondly was a story of a man with a family to support, no money, no job, no home of his own. He started doing internet marketing with no previous knowledge, just using what was given away for free! He worked at it for 15 months, by which time he had managed to become financially stable with a nice house etc.

I wonder how quickly it would have happened for him if he had bought Four Day Money Making Blueprint? As you may know, I made money 15 days after buying 4 Day Money Making Blueprint - something which shocked me, to say the least.

I am hoping to quit my day job this side of Christmas, although I am aware it may take me to the end of January. Here’s hoping, huh!

If you want to imitate the $3,000 man, (nice, just before Christmas!) or the 15 month man, then you might consider the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint as a way to make money typing at home.

October 25th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Many many people look online to make money; doing affiliate ebook marketing, as well as many other things.  And we all know that it is much easier said than done! When your back is against the wall, and bills are coming into the house thick and fast, it is easy to hop from one thing to another to another. Read more… »

October 19th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Hi there!

Just some thoughts today.

Over the last two days I have been cleaning my room. Now I know that makes it sound like I was living in a pigsty – but no, it was just one of those total spring cleans, although it was looking pretty bad.

I have to say I feel much better about things since I did it. My desk is clear, and it feels like my mind is clearer too. Clarity is a great thing.

Now, I am not saying this will happen to everyone, but today after I had finished doing all the spring cleaning; I checked Clickbank, and I was pleased to see that I had made a sale from the work I had done on 4 Day Money Making Blueprint.

4 Day Money Making Blueprint made me money less time than any other programme I have ever bought. I think that this is because it takes you step by step through every single little thing you need to set up a campaign online.

It is ideal for newbies, because it really does cover everything. Rather than assume you know this or that, it explains it in great detail.

When you have bought the plan you will then discover a second book, I haven’t found it on Clickbank so I do not think you can buy it separately. It is very very inexpensive – but contains everything you need to know about copywriting. Both of them are available for less than $50 which is a fantastic bargain in my opinion.

Finally I will leave you with this little experiment.

Put a book in front of you.

Open the book.

Do not open the book.

Try and open the book.
Do you notice that trying to open the book is very much like not opening the book?

The same way, trying is very much like not doing!

So don’t try to be successful. Do it!

(From The Simple Way To Success by Larry Winget)

Best wishes,

Ruth

http://www.how-to-earn-money-online.devhub.com

October 11th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Hello!

Many of you will have heard of Travis Sago, and his bum marketing methods. For anyone who doesn’t know, Travis Sago is said to have invented bum marketing – literally, marketing so simple he could take a bum off the street, and teach him to make money using this method.

Travis has provided many instructional videos and if you join his email list, he gives lots and lots of information on the bum marketing methods.

Travis is also a very active member of Wealthy Affiliate, which I am sure I have mentioned before.

Until recently there has never been an indepth ebook or ecourse to buy about bum marketing. But I have found one, and it is a doozy!

Named Conversations With Travis it is for the total newbie, and it teaches affiliate marketing right from the beginning. There are no assumptions that the newbie knows this, or that; this is ultimate basic affiliate marketing.

If you are an affiliate marketing newbie, and you want to learn step by step all the basics and get your first campagain up in very little time (less than a week) then this is the course for you.

Everything to do with basic affiliate marketing is covered. Not just covered, it is covered in detail with videos taking the reader through every little step.

Imagine having an expert explain something to you, and being able to pause him part way through so you can actually copy what he is teaching you – or even able to rewind him if you don’t understand something! That is how it works.

The man who wrote this is named David Bocock and he wanted to make money on the internet to fund his legal bills – he adopted a daughter when she was five weeks old, but the adoption had errors in the paperwork, and didn’t go through properly. He has been fighting ever since to keep his little girl, also he has two other children.

So he knows what it is like to be skint, short of money, and desperate. Sound familiar? So many of us are suffering in the down economy, but with this is the hope that we can get our families out of it!

Imagine being able to pay the bills, to have your partner smile again. Imagine proving them right! Yes you were right to bury your head in the internet, desperately trying to find something, anything to get an income!

Imagine your kids being able to say proudly: “My Dad works at home on the internet” – knowing that because you do, you can pay the bills and be there for your children.

Imagine your life in six months time, with your debts paid back, with your arm round your wife watching your children play in the yard. You know that not only do they have a home where the bills are paid on time, but also that they have a safe financial future. Priceless!

If that appeals to you, if you want that kind of security, then you must click on the link and have a look at conversations with travis.

I am sure that you have seen many internet marketing or affiliate marketing products advertised, and that everyone wants you to buy their product to make a quick buck.

Let me tell you, as someone who has been around the internet marketing block a few times, I have never seen a programme as thorough as this one. I have never seen one that assumes that the newbie knows nothing at all about basic affiliate marketing.

If you have read all of this post you must realize that you need to click the link : Basic Affiliate Marketing

July 28th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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*Looks round at the dust piling up………………*

Yep I haven’t been around for about a month. I took July off to spend some time with my family, plus I had one or two items that needed some time spent on them away from the internet.

As I come back people are talking about another Google slap. It seems to me that there isn’t much information about the slap that is utterly quantifiable right now. One thing I have heard is that Google doesn’t like affiliate marketers and it is us that are getting slapped hardest.

If any of my readers are concerned about this, I would like to direct you to a guy I have been following for a while and who makes a whole lot of sense, Andrew Hansen. You can read his thoughts on Google slap.

So, one of the reasons I took some time off was because I was totally fed up with affiliate marketing, internet marketing, the whole nine yards.

I felt pulled in all sorts of directions, I felt let down by people I respected, and I felt that perhaps this just wasn’t going to be the career for me. I think many of us feel like that from time to time.  Taking a month out has given me time to think about what I want to do and where I have been going wrong.

Many of you will know that I have been internet marketing for about a year now. I am sad to admit that I do not yet earn enough to “fire my boss”. I did seriously think about giving up the whole deal, canceling my Aweber and Hostgator accounts and heading back to what some consider normality. But there is something inside me that knows that this can work, and that it will work for me.

I have gathered so much information in the last year, so much knowledge, that surely it must count for something? It feels like I have all the pieces of the jigsaw but I just need to line them all up right.

Then I realised what was missing. It is fairly embarrassing to admit but what I have lacked is consistancy.

I know I need to keep doing things day after day to make the links and get the recognition I need to succeed. I need to be seen as an expert in my niche, and I need my site to have links, great links.

For your information, I have tried a few link shortcuts and frankly they do not work. I have added my site to link directory after link directory – don’t bother. Unless you have a page on your site that has a load of reciprocal links (who would want that anyway, it would ruin your SEO techniques) then you really shouldn’t waste time with that.

I believe that in order to get good quality links you need to think about what you are putting out there. Get links these ways:

Putting articles on EzineArticles. GoArticles or similar

Making Squidoo lenses, or hubpages, or ehow to’s

Writing good comments on peoples blogs. By which I mean not “great blog interesting info” type comments – add some value people! I get hundreds of comments that are just a waste of time. I mark them as spam.

When you pay good money for links, I think those are the links people make. Generic meaningless comments that just get deleted.

So make it meaningful, add some value, give an opinion, help someone out, that way your comments will be appreciated.

Use forums. Most of them will allow a signature. This is a great way to build a reputation, build relationships. You can easily add value to a discussion in your particular niche. Every time you add value people will not only see that you know what you are talking about, but they will also see your signature with your website on it. It’s another link.

I read somewhere that a new site needs about 1,000 links. That sounds like a huge amount, but if you are consistant (see it comes back to that again!) that amount is possible. Decide how long you want to work on your site before it becomes successful, pulling in many visitors per day. 100 days? So you need to produce ten links a day.

I have a site that is a few months old and it has links, a few. Some internal links too, of course, they are vital. But I am going to work hard on it. I am going to invest some time in it.

Every single day in August I am going to add an article to my site, to EzineArticles, plus to anywhere else I can where I can add value. I am aiming at ten links per day. I will not be checking email every five minutes, hanging out on twitter, chatting on the phone, or any other distraction. My daily goal is ten links which add value. Until I do that everything else can wait. It is my attempt at consistancy.

As always, my friends, I will let you know how I get on.

Best wishes,

Ruth

June 27th, 2009  Posted at   Uncategorized
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Hi there,

I know a few people signed up to affiliate windows after my previous post. I wonder if you have made a squidoo lens? Is it sitting there doing nothing? Have you made any money yet? Are you getting traffic to your lens?

Putting up a squidoo lens is not enough to make you loads of money. If it was as easy as that, everyone would be doing it.

What you need is links. Links mean Google can see who you are linked to, and you get kudos by association. The more links you have the more possibilities for traffic to your lens.The more traffic to your lens the more likely you are to get sales!

If you have something you are passionate about, and you make a lens on that, it is easier because you probably know a bit about your subject.

That is great because you can add value to your lens, and it will make it more attractive to traffic.

But you do need to let people know you are there.

One great way to do that is to use forums. Most forums allow you to add a signature to your postings. If you put the address of your lens in there, then whenever you post your lens link will be seen and possibly clicked on.

I have a link, just one, on a forum and that link alone gets me 5-15 visitors a week to one of my lenses.

Obviously the best forums to choose are ones that get a lot of traffic themselves. Find one where there are other people passionate about your subject, that ask questions. When you answer the questions you will get publicity for your lens. A busy forum is a great resource!

Another way is to post comments on peoples blogs. Don’t just go to any old blog and write about your subject, find people with similar interests.

If you go to www.icerocket.com you can put in the keywords you need and it will come up with blogs that have postings on those keywords.

If you like you can use one of the many free page rank checkers to find blogs with high page rank. Google ranks pages from 0 to 10, 10 being the highest. For example, squidoo.com is currently ranked 8 I believe.  Not every site has a ranking, but as soon as your site gets ranked you will see a sharp rise in traffic.

Anyway, I digress, back to links and your squidoo lens.

Another way to get links is to use your rss feed. If you look on the left of your lens you will see the symbol used for rss feeds, the orange square. You can click on that, and you will get the code for your own personal rss feed. This can then be submitted to various rss feed directories. Try feedage.com and feedest.com.

Another way to get traffic is to join squidoo groups. First make sure that your lens comes up on Google though, put the full title of the lens in “” and do  a search for it. If it comes up then start joining squidoo groups. There are groups for every subject plus there are general groups also. By joining these you can increase your traffic as people will visit you from your group. Be sure to return the favour and rank, lensroll and favourite your new friends lenses.

Another way to increase your web presence is to make more than one lens.  You can link the lenses together using the introductory module, and this makes you look like more of an expert in your field.

Don’t limit yourself to squidoo lenses. Try eHowto.com, and hubpages.com.

You could even set yourself up a weebly website which is easy and free. You can start yourself off a blogger blog, again easy and free, and write in it regularly.  Add links to your lenses and also add the rss feed of your blog to your lens, that way your lens gets new information on it regularly to help attract traffic.

Here are a couple of video tutorials you may find useful:

Do let me know if you have any questions, I am here to help.

Best wishes,
Ruth

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