After a few months of making some decent money on eGay, they limited my 5yo spotless account to 15 sales a month without giving a reason. To be honest, I think they have done me a favour - all my time was being spent packaging stuff and appeasing idiotic buyers. When I started this in July, my mission was to make money while I slept, and work proactively when I worked, so eGy was only 50% what I wanted. Anyway, as a result of them limiting me I started reading up on Affiliate marketing, spending my time researching and learning.

Today I started on my first product through clickbank. I've identified a very good keyphrase with 345 views a day, 31k comp, low comp in the top 10 (mostly green on samurai and the top rank in google is actually a yahoo answers page lol) and wrote a damn good article on squidoo. Next is to work on building the website I created a few months ago into a review site, which I'll start on tomorrow with the product I've already identified. I'll build that up for the next 2 months until I have 50-60 products affiliated, then go to work on my own products to package and sell digitally. I'll pretty much be spending all my time on articles/research and outsource the backlinking through guys I have used on here.

Sound good? I think so!

Anyway I'll be updating here regurlarly with my progress, any help or suggestions would be welcome.

Sounds great keep up the good work. Ebay has done the same thing to me multiple times on both there and paypal. I am looking to start using clickbank as well. May I ask what are you using for products? Whats your niche? How are you promoting it?
Thanks feel free to message me or add me on skype: jim.bob213

Way to go, Good luck!

Originally Posted by A1pha

Sounds great keep up the good work. Ebay has done the same thing to me multiple times on both there and paypal. I am looking to start using clickbank as well. May I ask what are you using for products? Whats your niche? How are you promoting it?
Thanks feel free to message me or add me on skype: jim.bob213

No offense bud, but I spent 4 hours today searching for a niche product and for keyphrases that were quality, then another 2 hours writing a squidoo lens with keyphrase-rich content, I'm not about to give that information away.

All I'll say is if you did the same research, you'd find your own.

Will be following to see how much you're earning when it's all said and done. :]

After about 18 hours since my first post, I realised this: whatever you think you can make from an affiliate per month, quadruple it. Instead write and package your own products, then get your own affiliates.

I'm very excited at the possibilities and opportunities out there if you're willing to reseach and put some degree of effort in. I estimate that a week of research will give me a product that makes a minimum of $20k per year. Then it is a case of rinse and repeat to "scale it up".

Watch this space.....

I wish you the best on your journey ..all the best

Good luck, I will follow this thread to see how its going!

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

After about 18 hours since my first post, I realised this: whatever you think you can make from an affiliate per month, quadruple it. Instead write and package your own products, then get your own affiliates.

I'm very excited at the possibilities and opportunities out there if you're willing to reseach and put some degree of effort in. I estimate that a week of research will give me a product that makes a minimum of $20k per year. Then it is a case of rinse and repeat to "scale it up".

Watch this space.....

Please update more. Need earnings and such!

I have a same plan. Already found a enjoyable niche

Very interesting. I definitely would like to watch this topic. I have not spent near enough time her to learn what I need to learn to make things happen. I need to make a point to visit and research at least a couple of times a week.

I'm making minimal affiliate sales from a personal design related blog, but would like to create a few niche sites and really focus on making the money.

I run a web design business and am hating it! When someone buys a finished product like say a dress, they don't come back a week later and ask the cashier to add a pink ribbon to the bottom of it for free. I mean it's more like, oh can you change the color, and oh can you make the entire thing green instead of brown, and oh can you add this or that or make it bark like the Bart's Toaster site? That's how web design is, and my rates are way too low.

I've developed some digital products and am starting to make traction with sales - money while I sleep, woot! Ready to expand into other arenas.

I apologize if this post is off topic. I think it may be my 2nd reply here.

At first... post like these were called journals.... now they are called missions.

Things are getting serious.

So today marks the start of my first full week, there is lots to be done. I'll certainly be kept busy in the coming months!

After doing some research, I'm going to hold off from making my own products to begin with, simply because it will be more profitable to start by diversifying my products and sell multiple affiliates' goods. After all, if I spend a month creating one product, it may not sell! However, in that time I could possiby have multiple products selling in other niches.

First off I'll be turning the website I already have into a sort of "squeeze" site, with multiple squeeze pages in one place giving away free stuff in exchange for an email. The advantages of doing this is the website is already running and indexed, so should start seeing more traffic than if I set up individual pages. Also, the site has a "brand" feel to it, and any future email marketing can go out with that "brand" on it - make sense? They'll all be in different niches, which I'll categorize on the site and through Aweber. This sort of sucks because it means I'll have to spend $1 to set up the autoresponder service for the first month.

Great, earnings so far = minus $1!!

Then I'll create another site (another $8 on a domain name, sheesh that will be minus $9, this is getting expensive lol!) in a dedicated niche with a link to an affilate that I found the weekend, then just rinse and repeat until I start seeing success.

Doing the backlinking is going to suck to start, simply because I am not gonna start paying others to do it until I've made some $$, after all I'm already going to be down 10 bucks by the time the niche site is up!

All the while, I'll be getting "customers" to go on my email marketing list, so I need to find some free shit to give away. Any suggestions? Is there anywhere on BHW that has free ebooks etc to repackage and give away?

Thanks for reading, and for any help or advice.

Definitely gonna follow this. Wish you good Luck and waiting to hear about your Success

its only just a beginning of your success...God Bless

all the best

I think in my defiance of letting problems get to me, I have stumbled upon a good thing....

My unlimited hosting is with ipage, but they charge a friggin fortune (over $20) for registering .com domains. I needed to buy a new domain for the niche website I designed, so I bought one from godaddy for about 8 bucks after registering a code, which I was then going to transfer to ipage and host.

However, in the smallprint (which I obv missed) it said I couldn't transfer the domain for 6 weeks, bummer. Now I was left with a domain which I couldn't host for 6 weeks and a niche website I had designed that I couldn't go live with. So, I thought "sod it" and bought a 1 month hosting plan from godaddy for about $5 for 4 weeks - I just wanted to get the site live.

After getting the site and squeeze pages set up, I got a message from godaddy that I had a $50 FREE facebook credits voucher!.

Long story short, I now have a $50 advert on facebook, targeted at people who would be interested in my niche after spending just $13!!

This basically means that so far I have spent $14 on domains hosting and an autoresponder, have 3 clickbank products affiliated with me AND I have $50 advertising on facebook that cost me ZERO! All in about 7 days!!

Now I just need a sale to get me started....

Dude, why are you transferring when you could just redirect the servers?

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

However, in the smallprint (which I obv missed) it said I couldn't transfer the domain for 6 weeks, bummer. Now I was left with a domain which I couldn't host for 6 weeks and a niche website I had designed that I couldn't go live with. So, I thought "sod it" and bought a 1 month hosting plan from godaddy for about $5 for 4 weeks - I just wanted to get the site live.

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Originally Posted by 4starsoftware

Dude, why are you transferring when you could just redirect the servers?

LOL, didn't even know I could do that - I am such a noob!

Sokay, but for the future, you can buy a domain anywhere and redirect the servers to any hosting.

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

LOL, didn't even know I could do that - I am such a noob!

All you have to do is change the nameservers on godaddy and point the domain to your host. Ipage is kinda weird though, I have only worked with them once. I couldn't give you instructions on how to add the domain there once your nameservers have been set via godaddy. They may not let you point a domain there. Like I said they are sort of weird.

I do know of a really sweet gal who has a free hosting service that uses CPanel, but I don't want to broadcast it here. I'm also too new to send PMs.

Another free host that I know of and have used many times is FreeHostia. The free version does have some limitations in regards to email and installing themes/plugins for wordpress. You have to manually upload themes/wordpress upgrades/plugins, and you can't set up a contact form through wordpress either. I just used a 3rd party free embeddable contact form tool.

So yeah, it's not point and click like iPage, but you'll likely delve into learning the PHP applications after you get going with all of this stuff.

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

No offense bud, but I spent 4 hours today searching for a niche product and for keyphrases that were quality, then another 2 hours writing a squidoo lens with keyphrase-rich content, I'm not about to give that information away.

All I'll say is if you did the same research, you'd find your own.

clickbank

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

Now I just need a sale to get me started....

I'm looking forward to seeing you get your first sale on Clickbank and share how you did it because I'm currently advertising Clickbank promotions on my new website and need a sale so badly! :/

Hi mate, hope you will do well, i'm following this

Why don't you make a youtube channel along with the website? I did this for my new website and it's a good way to start getting traffic while you wait to get your site ranked. And it will give more credibility.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by Majin95

Hi mate, hope you will do well, i'm following this

Why don't you make a youtube channel along with the website? I did this for my new website and it's a good way to start getting traffic while you wait to get your site ranked. And it will give more credibility.

Cheers.

May I ask how you are getting some traffic off of YouTube channels?
I find it kind of hard and time-consuming to gather traffic with Youtube other than Tube Toolbox.
And what kind of videos would you post anyway about a niche? :P

Thanks.

Success!

I know it's only $4, but...

I am happier about this than I was when I won $17k in one month playing online poker!



This has just given me a massive boost - I thought it might take a month at least to make some $$, it took just 9 days.

Happy Christmas!

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

Success!

I know it's only $4, but...

I am happier about this than I was when I won $17k in one month playing online poker!



This has just given me a massive boost - I thought it might take a month at least to make some $$, it took just 9 days.

Happy Christmas!

what niche is that? $4? is that a trial?

Obv I'm not going to tell you what product/niche it is....do your own research.

And no, it's not a trial. It was from the 3rd option I set up (new website) at 75% commission. I just settled on something after keyword reserch that had 0 grav, that I figured eventually would get me 20-50 sales a month, which I believed in.

The beauty of it is, the website is about a popular niche that I can promote further products on, I did my reearch and gave away something for free to add them to an email list, so that = future sales.

No more sales so far, but my website is getting more traffic each day and I now have about 10 names to target on my autoresponder list. Still getting as many backlinks done as possible by targeting blogs that are within my niche to comment on.

I've noticed my ranking for my keyword bouncing around quite eraticly on google. I was on page 6 for a while, now I'm dropping like a stone although only a couple of links are showing in a google search - weird? I have a feeling this is just what google does until your backlinks start showing up.

The website is now pretty much done. I've tinkered with it every day to get the look and feel right. Next on my to do list is...

Originally Posted by Majin95

Why don't you make a youtube channel along with the website? I did this for my new website and it's a good way to start getting traffic while you wait to get your site ranked. And it will give more credibility.
Cheers.

...to make a youtube vid with powerpoint and camtasia, which I should be finished with by Sunday. After that I'll set up an email campaign for my autoresponder list, then concentrate on setting up other products on my review site, whilst still posting on any blogs that I get from my g-alerts.

This seems a slow process. I have to remember that Rome wasn't built in a day, and that most noobs would not have even got this far.

Anybody have any other ideas as to what I can also do?

Originally Posted by Freddyjames

Anybody have any other ideas as to what I can also do?

No offense dude, but when people ask you questions you refuse to give answers... then ask us what you can also do?

Originally Posted by Windmill

No offense dude, but when people ask you questions you refuse to give answers... then ask us what you can also do?

So I should do all this work and research, then just tell people what my product or niche is so they can compete against me?

No offense dude, but that would be bloody stupid.

I started this thread because I educated myself on how to build a website, on hosting, clickbank, driving traffic and affiliate marketing. It took at least 4 months to figure out how to start. Most of the information I received is on BHW - I read, researched and learned how to do it. I am still learning, and have a lot more to do, however I am putting some serious effort into it and I know damn well I am going to succeed in my goals. I wanted to give something back by telling a story of one way to get started making money online, and show results over the coming weeks/months to show people it works if you put the time and effort.

At no point did I say to anyone "please show me how to make monies" or "what product are you selling?", I did my own research, just like all the people here making big bucks tell people to do.

This is why if anyone asks "what is your product" etc, I pretty much tell them to f off. They are missing the point of this journal.

lol all i asked was what niche.i didnt even ask what product.you sound very obnoxious.at least you are hard working.good luck with your clickbank endeavors.

A hint would help you get more suggestion from experienced members. No one asks you for the product. Without product and keywords, it's hard for someone to compete against you, until one has a Phd in that.

Originally Posted by contentcouch

A hint would help you get more suggestion from experienced members. No one asks you for the product. Without product and keywords, it's hard for someone to compete against you, until one has a Phd in that.

stop inflating your post count with spam bish