Well I fired someone today, they were too slow. But at the same time I have someone else writing for me on the same blog that does a better job, faster and cheaper. What a difference.
Anyways not too much to say today, most of my business is becoming highly automated - which is what I want anyways. Having to spend less and less time working on my business as I become better at this.
Mostly all I do now is marketing. Everything else is either automated or done by someone else.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
I'm Baaaccckkk
Okay I sort of forgot about this blog. Anyways heres an update of what I have been doing.
First of all I decided one day to just decide on a market and not change my mind about it. So I did that and went into the how to meet women market. So far its been going great.
I have been outsourcing article writing and getting some traffic from that as well as outsourcing website design. One thing I can say is once you outsource work... you will NEVER go back to doing it yourself - way to easy getting someone else to do it for you.
I have stopped trying to make money fast and instead decided to make money slowly by building real assets in my business. What I can say is that this is the longest I have stuck with a business and it has been going great for me.
Building a list has been very enjoyable and im proud to be sticking with this project. Its been a few months now and ive been learning a lot. The biggest things that changed for me and really helped me were working at a job to invest money into my business (it makes a huge difference having more money to work with online) and outsourcing as much of the work as possible. These two principles have rapidly changed my level of success.
I will try to remember to post more updates in the future.
First of all I decided one day to just decide on a market and not change my mind about it. So I did that and went into the how to meet women market. So far its been going great.
I have been outsourcing article writing and getting some traffic from that as well as outsourcing website design. One thing I can say is once you outsource work... you will NEVER go back to doing it yourself - way to easy getting someone else to do it for you.
I have stopped trying to make money fast and instead decided to make money slowly by building real assets in my business. What I can say is that this is the longest I have stuck with a business and it has been going great for me.
Building a list has been very enjoyable and im proud to be sticking with this project. Its been a few months now and ive been learning a lot. The biggest things that changed for me and really helped me were working at a job to invest money into my business (it makes a huge difference having more money to work with online) and outsourcing as much of the work as possible. These two principles have rapidly changed my level of success.
I will try to remember to post more updates in the future.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Day Twenty Five
Well, things were looking up when I got some impressions from google... until... they rose the price on me by 40 cents!
@!*&#&%!*#&!
Ugh, thats a 200% increase in ppc price in one day! It was bad enough when some of the clicks were priced at 60 cents... but now... they all are!
I am starting to really hate google adwords. It seems as though my PPC ads were not getting a desirable amount of clicks. I was testing different ones but before I know it, google screwed me again!
I also grabbed a few books today, one is on creativity and problem solving that is very cool. The other two are Richard Bransons Autobiography and his book "Screw It Let's Do It". I read most of Screw It Let's Do It today and I must say A+++ book. There is no 'filler' or useless jargon, it is straight forward and easy to understand.
It's actually kind of hard nowadays to find books that are actually written by self-made billionaires. Most of the books on the market are written by ghostwriters.
Overall I learned so much from that little book. I think my difficulties in business are because I am doing for the money. Instead of for fun. When I was doing businesses for fun I not only enjoyed it, but put out MUCH better work - in fact, it didn't even feel like work. It was, a labour of love.
So I think I have to get back to basics and focus on something I enjoy. I have a number of ideas in the works, but that book has completely changed the way I look at things. Hell why was I even doing this business if I wasn't having any fun at it?
What's the point of being rich if you don't enjoy it at the same time. So, I think there has to be some major changes happening. Not quite sure what exactly I am going to do, but I have a lot of ideas being generated.
@!*&#&%!*#&!
Ugh, thats a 200% increase in ppc price in one day! It was bad enough when some of the clicks were priced at 60 cents... but now... they all are!
I am starting to really hate google adwords. It seems as though my PPC ads were not getting a desirable amount of clicks. I was testing different ones but before I know it, google screwed me again!
I also grabbed a few books today, one is on creativity and problem solving that is very cool. The other two are Richard Bransons Autobiography and his book "Screw It Let's Do It". I read most of Screw It Let's Do It today and I must say A+++ book. There is no 'filler' or useless jargon, it is straight forward and easy to understand.
It's actually kind of hard nowadays to find books that are actually written by self-made billionaires. Most of the books on the market are written by ghostwriters.
Overall I learned so much from that little book. I think my difficulties in business are because I am doing for the money. Instead of for fun. When I was doing businesses for fun I not only enjoyed it, but put out MUCH better work - in fact, it didn't even feel like work. It was, a labour of love.
So I think I have to get back to basics and focus on something I enjoy. I have a number of ideas in the works, but that book has completely changed the way I look at things. Hell why was I even doing this business if I wasn't having any fun at it?
What's the point of being rich if you don't enjoy it at the same time. So, I think there has to be some major changes happening. Not quite sure what exactly I am going to do, but I have a lot of ideas being generated.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Day Twenty Four
Well today I managed to get some impressions by going for different keywords that were similar to ones I had chosen earlier. Basically, so far my ads are not getting clicks, I dono why, but they just aren't.
So I have been modifying the ads and monitoring their progress throughout the day. So far there hasn't been much luck.
So I have been modifying the ads and monitoring their progress throughout the day. So far there hasn't been much luck.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Day Twenty Three
Well today I first made all of the bullets for my salesletter. After that I worked over the intro and the offer, then finally I got the headline working.
After that I formatted and put up the salespage as well as made some tweaks to the book. After a long day of work I was ready to start sending traffic via google adwords until...
I learned it was 60 cents per click and there are only 4 advertisers! what a load of bullshit.
I checked the ppc three days earlier and im pretty sure it was a much lower number. Googles driving me insane but maybe I will try content network ads.
After that I formatted and put up the salespage as well as made some tweaks to the book. After a long day of work I was ready to start sending traffic via google adwords until...
I learned it was 60 cents per click and there are only 4 advertisers! what a load of bullshit.
I checked the ppc three days earlier and im pretty sure it was a much lower number. Googles driving me insane but maybe I will try content network ads.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Day Twenty Two
Alright well today was incredibly productive. I managed to get the book finished which is a major plus for me. So I am planning on working on the sales letter tomorrow and may even be able to do a WFSO by tomorrow evening.
I credit my newfound speed in getting stuff done to my book. It helped me to further apply my own principles into what I was doing and caused me to become hyper productive. Overall I am pretty happy with how things turned out, I have a product to sell now and so next comes the copywriting.
So that's all for today, tomorrow should be very interesting. I do not want to rush the sales letter too much, I have to make sure I craft a really good one.
I credit my newfound speed in getting stuff done to my book. It helped me to further apply my own principles into what I was doing and caused me to become hyper productive. Overall I am pretty happy with how things turned out, I have a product to sell now and so next comes the copywriting.
So that's all for today, tomorrow should be very interesting. I do not want to rush the sales letter too much, I have to make sure I craft a really good one.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Day Twenty One
Well man oh man what a day, as I write this book on success I also start to see flaws in my own approach. One thing I am learning is that it is a big pain in the ass to write a book.
From now on I want to hire someone else to do it for me. This is a lot of work and I would rather be focusing on marketing the damn thing rather than writing it. Ah well, I suppose that's just life and I am going to have to deal with it.
This is a hell of a lot of work. Writing is no fun if you ask me. Whatever, its better making money using a pen and a piece of paper then working my ass off all day. Still, I don't like this whole writing business, I would rather be selling it than making it.
Oh well, I am working hard on delivering my customers with exceptional value, I don't think there is anything easier to write sales copy about than a exceptionally good product with a great offer. It is definately a lot more work to have higher standards for product quality, but I am not just getting into this to make money, I want to genuinely help people and do more than what the average marketer does. Albeit, its a lot more work - hopefully it will be filled with rewards.
From now on I want to hire someone else to do it for me. This is a lot of work and I would rather be focusing on marketing the damn thing rather than writing it. Ah well, I suppose that's just life and I am going to have to deal with it.
This is a hell of a lot of work. Writing is no fun if you ask me. Whatever, its better making money using a pen and a piece of paper then working my ass off all day. Still, I don't like this whole writing business, I would rather be selling it than making it.
Oh well, I am working hard on delivering my customers with exceptional value, I don't think there is anything easier to write sales copy about than a exceptionally good product with a great offer. It is definately a lot more work to have higher standards for product quality, but I am not just getting into this to make money, I want to genuinely help people and do more than what the average marketer does. Albeit, its a lot more work - hopefully it will be filled with rewards.
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