The 1 Year Wake Up Call
Just a quick check in here to update my blog. 26th of this month I've been here a year.
Satisfied that I've learned what I need to be able to making sufficient money from the net.
I can rank sites but I can't monetize the blooming things.
Started scrutinizing what I've been doing and I've been doing too much of nothing.
Jumping around niche to niche. Firing websites on the first page of google without a clue of who my audience is apart from that their searching for a keyword phrase where I can park my site in front of them.
Unfortunately, since I don't know the crowd I'm trying to talk to their vanishing into cyberspace and I don't get paid. Boo-Hoo
I could sit around whining that I'm not making the set amount I wanted to or I could kick my butt into gear and actually do something about it.
That's what's happening. I figure the puzzles just missing a couple of pieces.
1) I need to get to know my audience.
What am I doing about it. Picking 3 sites for my second year at WA and concentrating on them
2) Delivering what I should have been from the start
Keeping the contacts. The email scenario. What stopped me. Fear. Probably fear of failure and making an a** out of myself.
But ranking websites front page of google and not making much from them I figure I've already got that part covered. Yep, looking like a clown already to the tons of visitors landing on my site and thinking another crappy search result from google.
So it's time to up the antics. As WA folks say you have to take action, you have to fail to succeed.
So today marks the start of the new me on the net. Quality content, backed up with free opt in stuff and start building that dreaded but necessary email list. First product is in the works.
And I got me I nice fancy PO box incase i mess up badly email marketing and start getting hate mail. :)
All the best
Robert
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I myself am guilty of the same inaction's to some degree. It took my 19 year old daughter to get me to wake up and get serious. She knows nothing about IM but is a very organized college student. She basically told me what I already know and it's the same stuff that Kyle, Carson, Marcus and Jay tell us day after day. So game on IM. Good luck Robert!
It sounds like we all know where you are coming from. Working on the internet somehow makes jumping from one thing to another just too easy and at the same time very destructive to real progress ;-)
Take your other sites (the ones your not going to work on) and place a large or medium adsense rectangle at the top of the page/post across the site. Run text ads only. If you are on first page this stale site will make you some bank. Will help finance your outsourcing for the 3 you are upgrading. Remember... a site that is making some revenue can be flipped for 10x the monthly income.
@ burntout, Yeah, raise the bar. Glad you got a chuckle. A year seems a long time but it's nothing compared to what can probably be built for a lifetime. Just hope things turn out like that.
Hi Joan, Look forward to the day a lot of stuff can be outsourced. It does take forever to learn but I'm realizing the learning part is done by doing and not just reading tutorials.
Seems to be a process with the goal being to get it all moving at the same speed. You find that there are parts of IM that you like doing better than others, so you spend more time doing what you like and neglecting other important parts. When you have decent cash flow, you can outsource what you don't like to do, or what you don't have time to do. I'm usually a quick study, but IM has taken me forever. What's most annoying is when people who know nothing about the art of marketing say "Well, so and so is selling tag sale stuff on EBay and supporting the family with the proceeds, and did it from day one. It can't be that hard". Cute, huh?
Hey Robert. Gave me a chuckle. I been monkying around for a year also and ditto your thoughts on making this one a bit more ambitious and profitable. Best of luck!
Hi Craig, I'm determined to make the most of year 2 at WA. Back to the action plan it is. My long term goal was to have a success post in the forum by the 26th. Suppose the realization of what needs done could count.
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@ KLRider. I never even thought about adsensing those other sites. Cheers for that. Robert