Sunday, November 23, 2008

Article Marketing - To Generate Traffic

Hi,

I have been busy writing articles to post on article directories to drive traffic to my site where I launch an eBook on How To Sell And Buy On eBay.

Well, let's see how much traffic I can generate and any sale conversion from them.

At the moment, not that promising ... I have to be honest with you.

But let's wait and see...

Dave

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Launched My Own eBook Product For Sale

Hi,

I just completed launching an eBook for sale yesterday after about 1 calendar week of work.

Just to share with you what I did... and this is one of the approaches to launch your own product for sale.

So how to create a new eBook product?

1. Either you write from scratch, something you know well or source for Private Label Rights (PLR) materials.

Of course, you should research whether you have found a niche topic to write.

In this case, I found that I have purchased some PLRs early this year and did not use it at all so I decided to make it into an eBook eventhough it is already a popular market niche. I just want to try out the approach.

So the PLRs are in WORD or text format and I have to edit it and do some formatting to make it more presentable. I also read and amend the contents, if necessary since I am familiar with the topic.

2. I then drafted a Sales Page or some may called it a Squeeze Page to market the eBook. This is the page you see when someone is trying to sell you a product.

Or copywriting is another term. I suggest you looked at a few of them on the Internet and then tried to learned their style of writing and formatting too.

You can use WORD to do a draft and then use a free tool like PageBreeze to generate the html codes. It will help if you know some basic html codes so that you can do some simple editing, if necessary.

3. Similarly, you will need to create a Payment page for the customer to use PayPal as a means of payment. You need to log onto PayPal and generate the 'Buy Now' button and copied the codes over to your Payment page.

Upon successful payment through Paypal, you must load the Download page.

4. Similarly, create a Download page for the customer to easily access the eBook on-line immediately after successful payment.

5. Upload your eBook and the 3 pages into your website or domain using ftp utility like Filezilla.

Then test the pages and make sure that the Sales Page, Payment and Download pages worked as expected.

6. Now then how do you get customers to come to your sales page?

I use US Free Ads to advertise my eBook and also another site that is based on this niche market.

I am monitoring the traffic and hope t get a few sales, at least..!

Basically, once you have mastered the setting up of the pages... you can replicate it for other new products that you can create.

If you are doing affiliate marketing ( ie. selling other people's products ), they are likely to provide you with the salespage and you need not have to create the other pages as it is all taken care of for you. Once a sale is successful, your commission will be paid to your Paypal account.

I hope the above is of help to you, otherwise send me a comment and I will try to help you with any queries on the matter.

You just have to adopt an approach and then tried it. If it fails, then analyse it and see if you can refine it or try another marketing approach ....

You can CLICK HERE to see my sales page, and click on the 'Buy Now' button to go to my Payment page. Stop there unless you want to buy my eBook. Upon successful payment, it will direct you to the Download page. You should understand this whole process.

So Stay Focus, Plan and Do It...!

Good luck!

Dave

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Site Traffic Statistics

Hi,

I have been reviewing my traffic statistics of all my sites to see which sites have the heaviest traffic and also to tie them to my recent earnings.

Why?

So that I spend my time wisely on what to do :

- On those popular and profitable sites, I will look into what is attracting the income and can I do more to increase it.

- Do something to those sites that are not profitable.

- Just leave those that have no traffic and no potential at all. Move on to build new sites for another market niche.

I have been enhancing my few sites and they do bring in additional or new income.

Yes, you need to do some analysis and, hopefully, you get things right and traffic + $$ will come in.

If you do not have cPanel to monitor your traffic then go and install StatCounter into your blogger site, it is FREE.

So check it out at StatCounter here, if you need it.

Here is a sample of the summary but you can get graphs too.



Better still, I get an email report weekly and monthly to monitor the movements.

So Stay Focus, Plan & Do It...!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Affiliate Marketing - Earnings

Hi,

I thought I should also give you some indication of my earnings from Affiliate Marketing to-date.
Adsense is growing slowly and I have shared some info with you in my earlier postings so Iwill not touch on it here. In my opinion, Adsense is small income and I am now focusing on selling Affiliate products or Affiliate Marketing as the commissions are much bigger.

One commission can be as much or more than one month's Adsense income.

However, there are a few gurus who specialized Adsense and claim to be making good income from it. You can check that out, if this is your interest.




I only made one sale in Oct......sigh!

Either I chose the wrong affiliate product or not doing the promotion correctly....?








Ideally, it should look like this; a snapshot I took from one of the more successful Affiliate Marketer.




This is my target....!







I have also just created an eBook for sale and strategizing how to sell it.....

Consulting or discussing with my buddy as he has done slightly better than me in this area of business, Affiliate Marketing.

Stay Focus, Plan & Do It..!

Dave

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Traffic in October

Hi,

Another month has passed and this is my traffic statistics :


Well, my unique visitors is only 764 compared to 925 in the previous month....sigh!

As you can see, I have been putting in more efforts in the last 3 months but still plenty of room for improvements.

Again, this figures are considered very low compared to those 'gurus' or established Internet Marketers.

So I still have a long way to go.......!

Importantly, use these figures as a guide to reflect on what you have been doing and how you can improve on them.

So hang in there if you are in the same boat as I am or if you are doing better, I am happy for you too.

Take care!

Dave