Interesting Statistics-Why I Failed For So Long.

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Oddly enough I found a way to get more visitors to WA. Without working or using SEO. Yes I promote WA as many of us do. I couldn't think of a niche when I started and reverted to promoting WA until I could decide on a niche.

But I failed to grow and advance as fast as I should have because of my attitude and my lack of patience.

I Started out by writing articles and redirecting with a call to action paragraph on my website. Lots of work and writing involved at first with limited results. But it does grow just like Kyle says it will. But I think you must have your heart in it. And possibly mine was not. I didn't know how to write, so I struggled through my first year. And I would always come across as a someone selling something, rather than offering information.

Here of late however my stats have changed. I've increased my sales to WA, my credits and my traffic as well. Today is the 17th and I've sent 250 referrals to WA this month without even trying. And will probably hit 500 by months end.

Very few join out of these, but even 4 sales in two weeks is way better than I use to do by writing articles and spending 8 hour days here at my desk. And it is free traffic coming in. So I'm not working at all to get this extra traffic.

All this traffic is an off-shoot from growing my list. As a Solo Ads Provider we help others promote their offers. I purchase clicks from others to grow my list of subscribers. And then sell them as well. My list is now at 20,000 subscribers.

The great part is I sell these same clicks to our groups in Facebook, same price, and thus would break even except I now sell more than I have to buy. So I earn several hundred extra dollars per week working one hour per day. So no money out of pocket. But wow, this traffic flies in and lands like locust! And all my affiliate sales are growing rapidly. Paid advertising does work when done correctly, just as free traffic works.

People are skeptical about paying for traffic. Yet we pay for WA, to promote it. For the training. And we pay for the tools we need and use. I pay out about $200 per month for tools now.

Most all of us start out trying to market for free. We advance though and move on to other strategies. Most top members here who still promote WA have others writing for them. Unless they like to spend the time and write. But most all use other traffic generating strategies and services with the money they make. Same as I do. So it means we scale up, advanced and grow.

Those of us who pay to advertise like the big gun guru types, must first have a system or funnel that converts very well. So if I pay $5000 dollars to my Facebook ad agency, I must have a great system in place where I earn the $5000 back, plus make a profit. Would you risk real money for the opportunity to suddenly earn $100k per year? Or each month? Those that earn this kind of Dinero have risked it all at one time or another. But again, they have been marketing for years.

Those who stick around online long enough to build a converting system, or have a highly converting funnel or offer, will be able to pay for advertising to get tons of visitors to their offer, program, or training. And make way more money much faster.

Without a converting page, however--Paid advertising will not work. I've been there. And I've spent lots of money trying to make money this way. It is why advanced marketers can make paid advertising work. They've learned what it takes. And it is usually years of trial and error to find that highly converting offer and a proper funnel system.

Kyle uses paid advertising through the form of ppc to promote WA himself. Pay Per Click. These are sponsored ads you will find on Google, Bing, and Yahoo searches. I too tried to do this and never had enough money to really stay with it. As it can take thousands per month. It's a long term game.

But I have my own way. I now promote several affiliate programs with recurring commissions. I promote cpl and cpa offers as well from two different groups. One being Cash Network and EPCBoss. And of course I have a link in my Click Magick rotator (tracking software) that captures visitors and sends them directly to a page here at WA.

You need some type of funnel, but after it's built there is no work. No trying to persuade, sale, or talk people into joining from Social Media groups. And I'm now earning credits like crazy here at WA. And I will be cashing out about $120.00 by months end. All Free money that Kyle pays us for referrals.

Being able to pay writers however to write articles on my website now, is probably the best thing out of all of it. No more spending the time to do that. I'm free! I now have 7 hours per day to do other things. So what do I spend my time on? Not on more internet strategies or writing! I get up and walk away from it all.

I write a few emails and schedule them each morning. Which is the only work I do which promotes other peoples offers through my list of addresses. Even while building a list I'm profiting thousands of dollars monthly. And each time the list grows bigger I'm able to profit even more.

In a sense it is free marketing at its finest! Free traffic, free income, and I've freed up my time as well. All by having a system that directs traffic to converting offers. Because if you tried what I have been successful doing, and do not have great offers, or a working funnel that takes a cold visitor to being a hot client, you would indeed spend money and not make it back. Been there done that. It is why most are gun shy when it comes to paying for traffic. They've failed once and now will never attempt it again.

Yet the big guru's fail as well, and the only difference between them and most, is they kept at it until they found the answer. They saw the light, and headed for it with abandon.

My gosh, reflecting back...I was the biggest skeptic here at WA when first starting. I worked at trying to fail I suppose, trying to prove free marketing does not work. I even blogged about putting my website up as a sample of what NOT to do! I criticized everyone and was very negative. Other members here will attest to that. They will probably have commented below, about how I've changed so much.

But I kept at it, and then eventually started to believe that I could make money. But the belief and attitude did not arrive because I earned more money. I had to change all that before I ever started making money here.

Most would have already quit 10 times over, especially if they had my attitude. So I'm really in debt to Kyle, and members here, as they kept helping me and kept talking me back into having a more positive attitude for many, many months.

I'm now signing up 20 new members at WA per month. Even Kyle has commented about how much better I'm doing now. Most of these new member sign ups come from my website. The free marketing strategies do work. And as rank grows, stats grow. Just as Kyle teaches in his training here.

You can do the same. You can retire your spouse. You can eventually work an hour per day and command a full time income as I do. Or at least get it down to a few hours depending on your strategies and offers.

You will soon make a full time income from home and earn more than you ever could at a regular job. And do it in less time. Freeing yourself up to enjoy life. The freedom for me is probably more of an enjoyment then the money I earn.

It is a "laptop lifestyle of freedom and income" we all seek. You are next for success! But you need to believe you deserve it and put in the work, first. Do what others are unwilling to do...and advance a little each day.

Do you want it?

Rick


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Thanks for sharing Rick.

Good stuff Rick!!

It's an interesting situation. You are referring people to a system that didn't work for you. So you won't actually be much help to your referrals when they struggle with doing it the WA way.

But congratulations to you for finding a way to make easy money.

Nope, Free methods do work like WA says. But it takes years in some cases. So I can help with that as well. What didn't work for me is writing reviews. But I can help others with anything but that. I really don't suggest doing anything that does not make one happy. As you will make money and never be satisfied just doing the work you dislike. So you have to like what you do. And that is where I come in with advice to others.

Most of the referrals don't sign up, but the ones that do, I help them by showing what I do. They have the ability to take into consideration both traffic strategies. FREE marketing and PAID marketing.

I might have been slow on the take off, but I never really failed. What I'm saying here is I don't like writing. And if you want to make money with a website you will have to create the content.

That said, it takes time to have good results. So it will feel like failing for many years for most members. As free advertising is a slow growth strategy that takes time.

I think you misunderstood the blog, But no matter, you have your results, I have mine. :)

Everyone using free marketing methods will not be successful, as this has so many working variables. If you pick the wrong niche you could quite possible never make money. If you pick the right niche at the wrong time it could be limiting.

Like me with writing. I hated it so it limited me on my results. If you don't want to work 8 to 10 hours per day for a possible online business in ten years, you probably don't need to be here anyway.

Making money is a bi product of doing things right. Everything right. And very few things wrong.

The many variables to SEO, free marketing and many strategies is they have risks. Especially paid advertising. AS I've spoken about here, and how it has helped me move forward.

Only about 5 percent of us ever earn enough money to our call our business successful. It means the failure rates are massive.

I suggest that all do everything they can here to learn the free marketing fundamentals, as a bootcamp to moving on and advancing to be their own guru!

But if I was one of your referrals and read what you wrote, I would be thinking, "Oh, so WA didn't work for him. So why did he recommend it to me?"

Wonderful inspiration Rick, thank you.

So inspirational! I have heard other members talk about the funnel. Where do I find out more about creating this conversion funnel?

Each funnel is basically a way to target your traffic to be more specific to your needs. But remember, if you don't have an offer that people are wanting, no way in hell a funnel will even help.

So what is your offer and what are you looking to get visitors to?

It all depends on your niche and what you are promoting. Some niches require you to build relationships with them. While others do not.

So your funnel has to be specific to your niche. A funnel however can be created just by adding a sign in form to the right website.

Or a link that takes them to a sign in form. And then a thank you page...A follow up autoresponder sequence that teaches more information and build that relationship.

So there are several different ways to go about this, but it does depend on what it is you are marketing.

Thank you for taking time to clarify. I need to think about how to incorporate what you have suggested.

Great post Rick, thanks :)

Thanks Rick for the great message, very encouraging!

I wished you lived next door, so you could hop over for a beer , and talk things over, with the laptop on my terras, I don't get this stuff

I don't teach what I do because it involves paid advertising. But you can search funnels and such that you can use with different niches.

What I do is offer a service to help others grow their list. In doing so I earn money and am able to send lots of opportunity seekers to affiliate offers. I do this by a squeeze page and a thank you page, bonus page, and a follow up email.

I've helped explain this to dozens of members. It makes sense when I show them my pages.

You might as well written this reply in Arabic, that would have made equal sense. I had email subscription, but I couldn't get the hang of it, so I stopped it again. People like me, have started WA without any previous computer education, I did the getting started course 5 times before it would stick, I really don't know what a funnel is

Great truth in what you say, Rick. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Rick! I like your down to earth posts. I'm at that stage in my learning where I want to buy two good small lists; One to promote WA and one to promote my LED product sales to electricians. I just don't know where to look for the lists. the places I have looked are way above my budget. I use getrespone to manage my e-mails. Please PM me if you have any recommendations for a retired, low income vet who has made a lot of bad choices but will never quit! we had a saying in the Marine Corps, "Don't fall down until your shot!" LOL William :)

I'm building my list daily. Started at the first of this year. We don't buy lists because you never know what you might get, and it is actually illegal to buy subscribers addresses.

What you may be thinking is renting a list. You take an offer and you pay someone to promote it to their list of say 20,000. People from their list subscribe to your page. I can help you create these pages. Anyway, the person subscribes and becomes your addressee. You are building your list.

But to save money you send these subscribers to a thank you page where you offer them bonus offers they can join, buy or become an affiliate of. You make back some of your income.

Then I offer this service myself to others, so I make back the money I spent in the first place to build my list and even profit as well.

Its a little complicated but easy to understand if you seen my system or funnel. It all makes sense as we target the very people that are looking for great offers like WA.

And with our list we can promote other offers so it is a win win.

I like your message. And I like your niche. If you need more information just pm me.

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