systematic
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- May 2, 2013
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Thanks for all the support and for pushing me guys! This is like therapy, and I have to say, I know it's a long road ahead but I'm already starting to feel better. The BJJ gym is definitely helping. My mind isn't ready to recover yet, so I think getting my body in shape in the meantime is best medicine. I'm also sitting down with the owner of the gym today to talk about what we can do to improve his online presence and marketing strategies, so that should interesting.
Yesterday the main thing I did was look for designers on Odesk. For any noobs out there, a good tip when hiring off Odesk or any other job board for that matter, is to repost the job several times throughout the day. Odesk is a global community of contractors, and if you want to seek out the best in the world, you need to remember that some poeple are asleep while others are awake. If it's a big project you may even want to repost several times a day for a week or two. Anyways, I reposted my job 4 times yesterday and after sifting through hundreds of contractors I finally settled on one to handle some last minute design work. He has already submitted to me the first mockup this morning. So I'm going to spend a little bit of today looking over that.
One method I'm going to be using to drive traffic to this site is ranking blog posts for various longtail keywords in my niche, and then linking these blog posts internally to different products I sell. So, with that said, I really need to start producing content. I'll spend some time today offering a number of test writing jobs to various writers (on Odesk as well as BHW) until I can find the right fit, at which point I will place a bulk order. Ideally, my goal is to start with 300 500-1000/word articles which I'll drip feed 3-5 times a day until I'm out, and then set a new goal. Even if each of the 300 posts brings in an average of just 1 visit/day that will be roughly 300 visits/day total or roughly 9000 visits/month. At a conversion rate of 0.5% that's 45 orders/month. At an average of $45 spent/customer that's roughly $2025 in sales/month or $67.50 sales/day. This is just one easy method, and those estimates are really on the low end of what I think I can accomplish. Of course, as I mentioned, I will also be ramping up the number of posts after I hit 300, so there is always room for improvement. I will talk about some of the other methods (adwords, facebook, more seo, etc.) in the coming days. Thanks again for the support guys! One day at a time, this is still the toughest thing I've ever had to face, but I know I'm on the road to recovery.
Yesterday the main thing I did was look for designers on Odesk. For any noobs out there, a good tip when hiring off Odesk or any other job board for that matter, is to repost the job several times throughout the day. Odesk is a global community of contractors, and if you want to seek out the best in the world, you need to remember that some poeple are asleep while others are awake. If it's a big project you may even want to repost several times a day for a week or two. Anyways, I reposted my job 4 times yesterday and after sifting through hundreds of contractors I finally settled on one to handle some last minute design work. He has already submitted to me the first mockup this morning. So I'm going to spend a little bit of today looking over that.
One method I'm going to be using to drive traffic to this site is ranking blog posts for various longtail keywords in my niche, and then linking these blog posts internally to different products I sell. So, with that said, I really need to start producing content. I'll spend some time today offering a number of test writing jobs to various writers (on Odesk as well as BHW) until I can find the right fit, at which point I will place a bulk order. Ideally, my goal is to start with 300 500-1000/word articles which I'll drip feed 3-5 times a day until I'm out, and then set a new goal. Even if each of the 300 posts brings in an average of just 1 visit/day that will be roughly 300 visits/day total or roughly 9000 visits/month. At a conversion rate of 0.5% that's 45 orders/month. At an average of $45 spent/customer that's roughly $2025 in sales/month or $67.50 sales/day. This is just one easy method, and those estimates are really on the low end of what I think I can accomplish. Of course, as I mentioned, I will also be ramping up the number of posts after I hit 300, so there is always room for improvement. I will talk about some of the other methods (adwords, facebook, more seo, etc.) in the coming days. Thanks again for the support guys! One day at a time, this is still the toughest thing I've ever had to face, but I know I'm on the road to recovery.
