Wow, I’m back to making $0/day. I had a few profitable campaigns in the past few months which lasted for a while. But they’ve all died out now. So what do I do? Well, the only option I’ve got is to get back to the long grind, and work smarter this time. Get back to the basics. Get more creative. And think long term. So here’s the list of things I’m gonna concentrate on in 2010.
SEO, link building and all that shit
I’m no SEO junkie, but I have lots of cool data from the campaigns I ran on search during the past 3-4 months. Yeah, I’ve been kicked out of Google. And YSM seems to hate my stuff more than anything else on the planet. So the smartest thing would be to SEO my landing pages for the top converting, long tail keywords. Low competition. Free traffic. I’d be a complete douche to miss out on this.
Social media = $$$
I got into Facebook just a little while ago (I don’t know what took me so long to give it a try. Fuuuuuuucck) and I broke even on my first week. Nothing too big..spent around 600 bucks and made $650. But what was evident was the VOLUME. There is so much volume out there in social media. And lots of monies to be made.
So the first quarter of 2010 is going to be all social media for me. Facebook, POF, etc.
List building, media buying, etc
As I get more comfortable with monetizing social media traffic, I’d love to expand into email marketing and media buying. If I can get there as soon as six months from now, I would be very glad.
EWA Network FTW
I love these guys. They treat me with respect. I got my first wire on just the 8th day of running with them. Hands down EWA is number 1 on my list. I’m so looking forward to growing with them. Great guys to do business with.
Number 2 would be Hydra…my AM there is good, and they’ve always paid me on time.
2010 is gonna be great
I had a really cool year in 2009. Learned so much and more importantly, took action. So I’m looking forward to take that momentum into 2010 and make more inroads. With so many projects at hand, I’d like to take one step at a time, & try and be less of the lazy ass marketer that I usually am. There are so many opportunities out there, overwhelming at times…I’m hoping to keep up with the changes in the industry and get some real work done. Comparing what I knew last year and know now, 2010 could well be the year for me.
This shit gets me excited all the time. I love this industry :)
Hello Folks
I just remembered that I have to get this blog going..and when I took a look at all the older posts that I wrote, I feel real stupid. A few months is a lot of time in this industry and I evolve a lot when I come across new ideas and people. The point is this – the posts that I’ve been occasionally dropping here are so fucking lame and so naive that they serve no real purpose or use to anybody. And I don’t want it to be that way.
Now I’ve got two options. 1) Take the blog offline. Seriously, with all the ‘my-affiliate-journey’ blogs out there, the world would be better with one lame blog less. 2) Post something useful every other day..and try to help people make money or love life or get high..something that will fetch me a gazallion rss readers.
I think I’ll go for option 2. It should kinda give me the ‘internet guy’ persona where i get to shove unsolicited information on my readers’ faces and walk away with a multitude of noob fans stalking my every step for magic tactics(!) to make moar interweb moniez. I might even get to meet the president.
Sounds pretty good. But still lame. So after some deep contemplation (while staring at Katie Holmes on my desktop), I have decided to take option 3!
Manu, I see 2 options above. What the fuck is option 3?
Help and network with real affiliates like myself!
So here’s what I think I’ll do to ensure the quality of my reader base and keep the blog cool:
Wow pretty long ass post. I can’t believe I actually wrote 300 words trying to explain that I was naive before I took a 4-month hiatus and now I’m all intelligent and evolved.
Anyway, peace.