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Interesting Statistics-Why I Failed For So Long.

RickBell57

Published on August 17, 2016

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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.

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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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