Pavlo178
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you've a got a point mate
I Have Zero IM Knowledge...Watch Me Make $1,000,000
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you've a got a point mate
zsimpson22
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I agree, goals themselves do not guarantee success. However, your analogy is not a good one. I might be trying to "swim across the atlantic" but I am learning to swim first, and then throwing myself in. Do or Die. You can learn to swim in a pool all you want and get perfect at it, but there are some things about swimming in the atlantic, that you will never learn until you begin swimming in the atlantic. You learn as you swim and adapt.
zsimpson22
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Update:
Alright, the last couple days I have been pretty damn productive and got a good amount of things done. Lets go over em:
So, overall I am pretty much getting to the point now where I need to start doing a good bit of research on SEO and what to do and what not to do, so that is exactly what I will be doing during my downtime. I will be reading and absorbing.
If anyone has any SEO tips or Instagram tips to share for everyone, including myself, to benefit from, you're more than welcome! However, I feel there will be plenty to learn from in the dozens of successful Instagram venture's in the journey's section for those of us looking to learn this stuff.
Everyone reading this, stop reading and go take action! Until my next update of course, then you can read.
Alright, the last couple days I have been pretty damn productive and got a good amount of things done. Lets go over em:
- I organized my trello to a much more organized manner and suited it to my personal needs and preferences. It was good before, but now it's great. Much more organized and fitted to my style of working.
- I have built an email, an instagram, and registered my domain for my authority/membership site. I also decided that instead of creating content as I go, I wanted do it in advance, at least for the first few dozen posts so that coming up with content isn't taking me 15-20 mins everytime I post and wasting my time, especially since this isn't supposed to be my main project for now. So that is what I done. I typed out the first 24 posts for instagram and matched them with pics. I posted the first 6 in pretty rapid succession before following anyone so that I atleast had some pics and content on it. That was yesterday and I will be posting 2 posts per day until I run out of the original 24, where I will take a couple of hours to come up with a few dozen more, and do that over and over. I utilized hashtags and have an average of about 30 likes per pic right now, and by following about 150 people yesterday while I was in the car, I got about 24 followers back. Lol so it is a start.
- Yesterday I received a site that I paid to have done by a seller here on BHW. The site is absolutely awesome and has some great keyword research done for it. Pretty excited about it and have spent pretty much all day today adding to the content, adding all of my affiliate links to the pics, adding my links to different titles of products, and doing some research on further keyword research. I believe I could rank the site how it is now, but I'd rather use it as a great foundation and build on it. So that is what I am doing. Once I get up to about 25 posts, I will begin pushing to rank the site.
- Yesterday before I received that site, I also wrote about 3 more review articles for the site that I am building all on my own. After I post a couple of more, the table and the pillar article on the home page will be my only obstacle before also pushing to rank this site.
So, overall I am pretty much getting to the point now where I need to start doing a good bit of research on SEO and what to do and what not to do, so that is exactly what I will be doing during my downtime. I will be reading and absorbing.
If anyone has any SEO tips or Instagram tips to share for everyone, including myself, to benefit from, you're more than welcome! However, I feel there will be plenty to learn from in the dozens of successful Instagram venture's in the journey's section for those of us looking to learn this stuff.
Everyone reading this, stop reading and go take action! Until my next update of course, then you can read.
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lol that was cute.
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IndigoSind
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Been 5 months. Have you made $1 yet? No shade. Just asking.
zsimpson22
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Update:
Psstt....Yes, I know. This thread is going in all kinds of directions. Haha but I fucking love it, and am learning so much about what I am good at, and what I am not. That alone is worth all the time I'm spending in my opinion. I know some haters are going to come of this thread, me not updating it often enough, me not doing some of the things I said I was going to do, me doing things that aren't in the original plan, etc. That is perfectly fine with me, and I welcome criticism. I would like to remind everyone that I started this thread from the VERY BEGINNING. Before having a clue what I was good at, what I was bad at, what I needed to with certain things, and before starting anything. The total opposite of most peoples journey threads who already have some momentum going when starting it. So the plan is bound to change, some things are bound to fail, I'm bound to make some mistakes that I learn from and take different routes because of what I learned, and I'm bound to find some ventures along the way that intrigue me and pull me toward them.
This thread is not as consistent as some people's, I know, isn't making money near as fast some peoples threads, and isn't concentrating on one thing as much as some others, but here is what it IS doing: Showing what happens to a lot of real people, everyday. I have terrible focus problems, get overwhelmed easily from all the ideas in my head, switch from idea to idea, and get paralysis by analysis quite a bit. I have learned through research and talks, that this is a personality trait. A trait that was just fucking born into me, and many others. A trait that makes us want to act on anything and everything we see, and if we begin to act but then see something that may have more potential, we ditch the original to move to that next one. A trait that makes us want to take advantage of EVERY SINGLE opportunity we see. An opportunist. If you have trouble finding something that you are truly passionate about, you may realize that some of these traits belong to you. So I feel that by documenting all of this, and writing about it as I'm going through it, it will help someone else going through the same thing, learn what they need to learn in order to overcome it, OR embrace it and let it take them in the right direction. Because I will succeed in this, no matter the time it takes, and no matter how much the original plan has to change.
So, on with the update....
Landing Clients As A Freelancer...With No Feedback Or Reputation!
Alright guys I have learned that I suck at updating shit haha HOWEVER I have not quit working on my sites and as long as I am making progress with them, I will always come back here to update. Maybe not the next day, but it will always happen. So. through the process of just straight action I have learned that there are some things I have more than average skills at, and I might as well leverage them while I can, and make some money. One of those things is, you guessed it, writing (shout out to those that told me I should try it out). Specifically nutrition and fitness writing. I have gained a few clients and so far they have all been on upwork. I have seen that some people have trouble landing clients when they have no feedback, and what I have figured out that works is making your pitch about them.
Now, I didn't invent this, nor is it something brand new, but it works...
Say something like "you need someone who knows their shit when it comes to "x" (whatever you're writing about), you need quality material with no mistakes that you don't have to take time to go back and fix," etc, etc, you get the point. List some of these points, this catches their attention as long as you actually list things that fit to them and actually take 2 minutes to read the original job offer.
Then hit them with the ole one two punch and land their ass....tell them you're going to do it for free or $1!! In exchange for some feedback. This may sound crazy for some of you, and for those of you who it sounds crazy too, I will say this....you don't want it that bad. Doing a few quality jobs for free or $1, is nothing compared to the value of a long time client. Which is exactly what you will have as long as you do a quality job. Even if you don't land the client for long term, or if he only needed a quick one job contract, you got some feedback anyway! This leads to nothing but quality relationships, quality jobs, quality clients, and quality feedback. After you get some good feedback, you can quit doing this, OR you can continue to do it to land long term clients.
So, that's what I have been doing for some side money, and this has led to multiple clients that have came back to me with paying jobs after I did free work.
What I have done with my sites...
Alright so for the sites, the amazon niche sites are still what I am working with, except for I have turned one of them (the one that I had made for me by a seller here on BHW) into a blog type of website rather than a stationary review site. Was this is a mistake? Time will tell. I have about 40 quality posts now on the site, some of them reviewing amazon products, but some of them just purely to help people out with their problems in this niche. No SEO or anything like that on those problem solving type of posts. Off Page Seo isn't exactly something I'm great at so just 4 days ago I decided to make an instagram for this site, as its a pretty broad niche that plenty of content can be created out of. Maybe even a whole brand. I'm doing it all manually. 4 days later I have over 1000 followers, and have had about 170 people visit the site! This is awesome and motivating. HOWEVER, only about 10 amazon clicks have come of it, and my bounce rate is pretty high. This tells me that I need to redesign the site, or at least the front page. That and building the IG is what I need to prioritize right now. So that is what I will be doing.
I guess I have officially made some internet money with the freelancing so...
Freelancing Money Made - $95
Freelancing Costs - $0, Some Free Work
I'll do "Money Made" with the amazon sites as soon as I make my first sale. Fucking A I hope it comes soon.
Psstt....Yes, I know. This thread is going in all kinds of directions. Haha but I fucking love it, and am learning so much about what I am good at, and what I am not. That alone is worth all the time I'm spending in my opinion. I know some haters are going to come of this thread, me not updating it often enough, me not doing some of the things I said I was going to do, me doing things that aren't in the original plan, etc. That is perfectly fine with me, and I welcome criticism. I would like to remind everyone that I started this thread from the VERY BEGINNING. Before having a clue what I was good at, what I was bad at, what I needed to with certain things, and before starting anything. The total opposite of most peoples journey threads who already have some momentum going when starting it. So the plan is bound to change, some things are bound to fail, I'm bound to make some mistakes that I learn from and take different routes because of what I learned, and I'm bound to find some ventures along the way that intrigue me and pull me toward them.
This thread is not as consistent as some people's, I know, isn't making money near as fast some peoples threads, and isn't concentrating on one thing as much as some others, but here is what it IS doing: Showing what happens to a lot of real people, everyday. I have terrible focus problems, get overwhelmed easily from all the ideas in my head, switch from idea to idea, and get paralysis by analysis quite a bit. I have learned through research and talks, that this is a personality trait. A trait that was just fucking born into me, and many others. A trait that makes us want to act on anything and everything we see, and if we begin to act but then see something that may have more potential, we ditch the original to move to that next one. A trait that makes us want to take advantage of EVERY SINGLE opportunity we see. An opportunist. If you have trouble finding something that you are truly passionate about, you may realize that some of these traits belong to you. So I feel that by documenting all of this, and writing about it as I'm going through it, it will help someone else going through the same thing, learn what they need to learn in order to overcome it, OR embrace it and let it take them in the right direction. Because I will succeed in this, no matter the time it takes, and no matter how much the original plan has to change.
So, on with the update....
Landing Clients As A Freelancer...With No Feedback Or Reputation!
Alright guys I have learned that I suck at updating shit haha HOWEVER I have not quit working on my sites and as long as I am making progress with them, I will always come back here to update. Maybe not the next day, but it will always happen. So. through the process of just straight action I have learned that there are some things I have more than average skills at, and I might as well leverage them while I can, and make some money. One of those things is, you guessed it, writing (shout out to those that told me I should try it out). Specifically nutrition and fitness writing. I have gained a few clients and so far they have all been on upwork. I have seen that some people have trouble landing clients when they have no feedback, and what I have figured out that works is making your pitch about them.
Now, I didn't invent this, nor is it something brand new, but it works...
Say something like "you need someone who knows their shit when it comes to "x" (whatever you're writing about), you need quality material with no mistakes that you don't have to take time to go back and fix," etc, etc, you get the point. List some of these points, this catches their attention as long as you actually list things that fit to them and actually take 2 minutes to read the original job offer.
Then hit them with the ole one two punch and land their ass....tell them you're going to do it for free or $1!! In exchange for some feedback. This may sound crazy for some of you, and for those of you who it sounds crazy too, I will say this....you don't want it that bad. Doing a few quality jobs for free or $1, is nothing compared to the value of a long time client. Which is exactly what you will have as long as you do a quality job. Even if you don't land the client for long term, or if he only needed a quick one job contract, you got some feedback anyway! This leads to nothing but quality relationships, quality jobs, quality clients, and quality feedback. After you get some good feedback, you can quit doing this, OR you can continue to do it to land long term clients.
So, that's what I have been doing for some side money, and this has led to multiple clients that have came back to me with paying jobs after I did free work.
What I have done with my sites...
Alright so for the sites, the amazon niche sites are still what I am working with, except for I have turned one of them (the one that I had made for me by a seller here on BHW) into a blog type of website rather than a stationary review site. Was this is a mistake? Time will tell. I have about 40 quality posts now on the site, some of them reviewing amazon products, but some of them just purely to help people out with their problems in this niche. No SEO or anything like that on those problem solving type of posts. Off Page Seo isn't exactly something I'm great at so just 4 days ago I decided to make an instagram for this site, as its a pretty broad niche that plenty of content can be created out of. Maybe even a whole brand. I'm doing it all manually. 4 days later I have over 1000 followers, and have had about 170 people visit the site! This is awesome and motivating. HOWEVER, only about 10 amazon clicks have come of it, and my bounce rate is pretty high. This tells me that I need to redesign the site, or at least the front page. That and building the IG is what I need to prioritize right now. So that is what I will be doing.
I guess I have officially made some internet money with the freelancing so...
Freelancing Money Made - $95
Freelancing Costs - $0, Some Free Work
I'll do "Money Made" with the amazon sites as soon as I make my first sale. Fucking A I hope it comes soon.
miten99
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- Aug 12, 2015
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Just tuning in now, I applaud you for doing alot of the work yourself. I feel like that is the mistake alot of people including myself have made, by outsourcing you dont really learn anything, plus your ROI is much less. Good look on your journey, I will be following. Cheers.
The Old Simeon
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- May 23, 2016
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Oh my, you're an optimist if I ever saw one. In all honesty I wouldn't bet on your success, but I wish you well nevertheless.
Read everything, will be following. I believe your biggest mistake was giving everyone your expectations of how many times youll be updating the thread haha. Currently learning a lot myself at the moment, but I believe its better to start and get my head right in the game as opposed to learning a sh*t ton and then starting, may start a journey myself lol. Goodluck with everything, I am also currently unemployed and on a school break so will be on the similar boat for a while.
zsimpson22
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Haha I think you're right man, I probably shouldn't have talked about daily updates and what not. However, I still fully plan on updates every time something significant is done or happens, and go over it step by step when I do it. I would rather have a long detailed post every couple of weeks when something actually takes place that I can cover, rather than load the thread full of four sentence updates that just provide no real value.
You're right, you will learn way more by just going ahead and doing things rather than reading. I learned more in the last few months by acting than I have in the years I spent here lurking. Just start. Good luck on your success brother.
zsimpson22
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Alright guys, so I am starting to see some decent traffic to two of my sites, specifically the one I made an IG page with. However, it seems pretty inconsistent. I will have 70-80 people for a few days, and one day at a time have like 150. This spike happens every few days. My question with this is... what the fuck? Does google analytics count their crawling bots as traffic?
Tools I Have Found -
Alright so there are a couple of really helpful tools that have helped me out so far that I didn't know about beforehand. Most of you probably already know about them but surely someone does not that is reading this so it is worth it to type it out:
keywordtool.io is the first tool I have found (I am not affiliated with them, so stfu) that helped me a good bit for some keyword ideas. It has a free version that gives you keyword ideas, and a paid version that also shows you search volumes. Who needs search volumes though when keyword planner is a thing? Lol just leave a tab open for each of them, is what I did.
The next tool I know a lot of you have heard of... its ahrefs, but what I didn't know (which you're probably thinking is a lot at this point), is that they have a free toolbar! I had been using the free trial version of the site and only able to check a few competitors backlinks per day. The toolbar will not show you the deep stuff, but it does give the number of backlinks to the page, number of backlinks to the root domain itself, DA, and a few other important things. So, you can't do super in-depth analysis with it, but it's way better than nothing, and just knowing the number of backlinks helps a lot.
Here's that toolbar - https://ahrefs.com/blog/meet-ahrefs-seo-toolbar-monitor-key-seo-metrics-fingertips/ (and no, I'm not affiliated with them either...dude, I barely know how to build a site, you think ahrefs would want me promoting them?)
Tools I Have Found -
Alright so there are a couple of really helpful tools that have helped me out so far that I didn't know about beforehand. Most of you probably already know about them but surely someone does not that is reading this so it is worth it to type it out:
keywordtool.io is the first tool I have found (I am not affiliated with them, so stfu) that helped me a good bit for some keyword ideas. It has a free version that gives you keyword ideas, and a paid version that also shows you search volumes. Who needs search volumes though when keyword planner is a thing? Lol just leave a tab open for each of them, is what I did.
The next tool I know a lot of you have heard of... its ahrefs, but what I didn't know (which you're probably thinking is a lot at this point), is that they have a free toolbar! I had been using the free trial version of the site and only able to check a few competitors backlinks per day. The toolbar will not show you the deep stuff, but it does give the number of backlinks to the page, number of backlinks to the root domain itself, DA, and a few other important things. So, you can't do super in-depth analysis with it, but it's way better than nothing, and just knowing the number of backlinks helps a lot.
Here's that toolbar - https://ahrefs.com/blog/meet-ahrefs-seo-toolbar-monitor-key-seo-metrics-fingertips/ (and no, I'm not affiliated with them either...dude, I barely know how to build a site, you think ahrefs would want me promoting them?)