Today I want to share a really quick idea that I’ve used over the past couple of weeks to:
- Get free, unique, original, high quality content from some of the top experts in my market.
- Build relationships with these experts.
- Significantly increase my traffic WITHOUT any extra effort.
Essentially I’ve set up a high quality blog that works on 95% auto-pilot to publish unique, original content and generate traffic.
Here’s what I’ve done…
1. I’ve set up a “Write For Us” page on my health blog at http://www.RevitaliseYourHealth.com/write-for-us
2. I allow readers to register as “Contributors” to the blog.
3. Once registered they can log-in to my WordPress admin panel and post a new blog post for review.
4. I log-in, read through the blog post, check that it is unique and meets my high standards, check formatting, perhaps insert an Amazon affiliate link or two and a few links to related posts and then press “Publish”.
5. Now I have a brand new, unique, high quality piece of content that will get indexed and start generating Google traffic.
Plus, after publishing the guest post I send an email to my subscribers notifying them of the new post and get 300+ readers within 24 hours.
And on top of that, I email the contributor letting them know that their post is published and that I would appreciate them Tweeting, Facebook Liking and sharing on other social networks – and that it would benefit both of us if they were to link to the blog post from their own websites in the future. That gets me traffic and boosts my search engine ranking.
Essentially I’m getting other people to come up with content ideas, provide content for me and promote that content for me… completely free!
Here’s how you can do the same…
1. Go to your WordPress admin panel and click Settings > General. Under the Membership field, select “Anyone can register”. And under that in the “New user default role” select “Contributor”.
This means that anyone can register but they can only submit blog posts for review. They can’t post directly to the site and they can’t edit any other blog settings.
2. Now you need to create a “Write For Us” page like mine. On this page you need to state the rules and guidelines for guest posts and instructions for submitting one.
You will need to link to the Registration page where users can create their Contributors account. The registration page will be:
Yourdomain.com/wp-login.php
3. Now it’s simply a case of finding people to guest blog. I’ve used only two methods so far and have had over 20 submissions in just under 10 days. (I have rejected about half of these posts due to poor quality)
Method 1
Optimize your page with keywords like “write for us” and “guest post” followed by your niche – for example: “write for us health”.
This means wannabe guest bloggers can find you when they search in Google. This is probably my main guest blogger source so far.
Method 2
Register for free at http://www.myblogguest.com and post in the forum that you are looking for guest contributors.
This has also resulted in a number of contributions.
If the number of guest submissions dries up in the future then I may actively search out writers. For example, I’ll head to some related blogs in my market and invite those bloggers to contribute.
Another idea I have is to somehow get guest authors onto my email list when they register. That way if I’m ever short of content, I can blast an email to my guest contributors email list and see if they’d like to have another article published.
I’m kind of thinking out loud here but there are a number of different directions you could take this idea.
I know it’s not a new idea. It’s been used by a lot of people, but it’s a great way to build a big content site without spending an awful lot of time and money.
I hope this quick article has given you a few ideas and perhaps planted a “seed” of an idea that you can take and turn into money.
Any questions, just ask by leaving a comment below.
And by the way, if you want to see an example of a guest post I’m hosting then take a look at this:
How To Look Younger For Less
After emailing the author of that article, she has Tweeted, Facebook Liked, Stumbled, Dugg and added the post to Pinterest which has given me a nice little traffic boost.
Free content, free traffic and rock solid relationships. The perfect scenario.
Thanks for reading,
James
If you haven’t “made it” online yet, then 2012 is going to be the year you achieve your dreams.
And in this blog post I’m going to reveal an action plan you can follow to create a $250+ per day passive income.
Start on January 2nd (January 1st can be hangover day!) and work your way through this plan throughout the year.
Here it is…
The Set-Up
1. Pick a topic that you can blog about.
For example, gadgets, photography, men’s health, women’s health, beauty, fitness, gardening, money, home improvement, dogs, cats, food and drink, real estate, travel, stocks, self-improvement, gaming, business etc.
You could even pick a target market rather than a topic – for example a blog for men, or a blog for women, or a blog for teenagers, or for OAPs.
Pick a topic that you enjoy, or know a lot about.
2. Set up a WordPress blog on a memorable domain name and configure it to be optimized for the search engines.
Have a theme designed or download an existing WordPress theme – either free or paid. A Google Search will provide you lots of different WordPress themes.
Customize the design and install social sharing buttons. I use ShareThis.
Get an autoresponder account, such as Aweber, and place an opt-in form in a prominent position on your blog. Perhaps have a pop over form, too. (A pop over converts really well). I’ve also found that giving away a free report increases conversions monumentally but you can do this later on.
Add some form of monetization to your blog – such as Google Adsense or some Amazon affiliate links.
Now you have a nicely designed, well optimized, blog ready to generate traffic and revenue.
Daily Tasks
1. Using the Google Keyword Tool, find a search term that gets 500+ searches per month based on the topic or target market of your blog. Write a high quality blog post that targets this keyphrase. Include monetization within the post by perhaps linking to a relevant Amazon product.
Everything we do for the rest of the day is designed to drive traffic back to our blog or blog post and increase its search engine ranking.
2. Send your email subscribers, Twitter followers and Facebook fans to read your article. Obviously for the first few posts you won’t have any of these but as your blog grows so will your following.
3. Write AT LEAST one article per day that you can use to publish on someone else’s blog. This is known as guest blogging and is one of the most effective link building and traffic strategies available. Within the article, link back to the blog post you published earlier in the day. This will ensure every post you publish gets link love.
Read this article on how I find guest blogging opportunities and approach fellow bloggers to publish my content.
4. Turn your published blog post into a video and publish it to YouTube. Link back to your blog in the description and encourage viewers to visit your blog.
5. Once your blog post has been indexed on your own blog, submit it to article directories such as EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com and link back to your blog.
6. Leave a few comments on some of the most popular blogs in your market and include a link back to your blog or a specific blog post.
7. Participate in forums related to your blog leaving a link back to your blog in the signature.
The above seven strategies are nothing new. You’ve definitely heard of them all before – but if you apply yourself every day and complete each task, your blog will grow and grow and grow at a faster and faster rate.
For example, if you have one guest post published per day that sends just 5 clicks each per day to your blog, then after 100 days you’ll be getting 500 visitors per day from just your guest blogging opportunities. Plus, each backlink will move you up a few places in the search engines.
You’ll also have 100 YouTube videos sending you traffic, you’ll have 100 articles published on article directories sending you traffic and backlinks, you’ll have hundreds of blog comments sending you a trickle of traffic and you’ll have hundreds of forum posts sending you traffic.
You’ll also be building a bigger email subscriber database, bigger Twitter following and a bigger Facebook following meaning every email, Tweet or post you publish will result in more traffic to your blog.
Plus, as your traffic increases, so will the number of people who share your content on social networks like Twitter and Facebook which will have a positive impact on your search engine ranking. Plus, the more traffic you get, the more chance of a rival blogger reading your content and deciding to link to you from their blog increasing your ranking and traffic.
This is a simple business model that, if you follow, will generate you passive traffic and earn you passive advertising revenue and affiliate commissions.
And the best thing of all – it’s really, really easy to get somebody else to do this all for you so you can simply sit back and watch your traffic and your income grow.
Sidenote: Download this 155 page guide called Outsourcing Blitzkrieg that reveals how you can outsource pretty much any task really, really cheaply.
Bonus Tips
1. Each month, create one premium piece of content that is designed to get talked about, get linked to and get shared on social networking sites. These pieces of content can take longer to create, but a well created, well executed piece is capable of getting 10,000+ visitors within 24 hours and providing an incredible long term positive impact.
This guide called Trophy Pigeon reveals how Chris Munch created a piece of content that generated over 100,000 unique visitors and an insane number of powerful backlinks.
2. Add more monetization to your blog. Optimize your Adsense placement, create posts like “Top 10 Gifts For…” and link to affiliate products, create an “Offer of the Month” page and link to a special offer, create your own products and sell them to your subscribers and blog readers, promote affiliate products with your email list and much, much more.
3. Publish a press release to promote some of your more unusual or interesting blog posts. This is often free and can get you lots of backlinks and traffic.
4. Keep learning blog promotion strategies and implement new methods to promote your blog and your blog posts.
5. Encourage experts in your market to submit guest posts on your blog. This will enable you to get completely free content, take no time on your part and you’ll often find your guest authors will promote your content to their audience giving you more traffic and greater exposure.
Eventually, you may be able to reach a point whereby:
- You have so many people wanting to guest post on your blog that you have a constant stream of new content that you don’t have to create or pay for.
- Google loves you so much that every new post you publish is indexed instantly and put on the first page of Google for the target keywords.
- And you have such a big email list, Twitter and Facebook following that you just need to notify them of a new blog post to get a huge instant surge of readers.
ProBlogger.net has reached that point.
90% of blog posts published there are from guest authors. It has over 160,000 email subscribers, 33,000 Facebook fans and 150,000 Twitter followers. Every time a new post is published, each of these subscribers, fans and followers is notified – that’s nearly 350,000 people. Plus, Google loves it and ranks ProBlogger content at the top of the search engines.
It requires minimal upkeep and pulls in an incredible amount of traffic and revenue.
And there’s nothing to stop you doing the same in 2012.
This may be my last contact before Christmas. I’m going back up to London on the 22nd until approximately the 30th to see my parents, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins for the first time in over 2 months and I can’t wait.
I don’t intend on doing any work so, if you celebrate Christmas, I’d love to wish you a very happy one, a fantastic New Year – and I can’t wait to help your business grow in 2012.
Thanks,
James Penn
P.S. If you enjoyed this post and you’d like to give me an early Christmas present, then a Tweet or a Facebook share would be more than enough 
In 2012 I’ve decided to add a new method of income to my online arsenal. It’s something I’ve just started doing in fact.
While I love building email lists and I love selling my own products – I want some form of income that is COMPLETELY PASSIVE.
So what I’ll be doing is setting up really simple websites or blogs promoting HIGH TICKET physical affiliate programs.
I’m talking the kind of offers that pay $500+ commissions with just ONE sale.
There are a number of advantages to promoting high commission products.
1. You DON’T need to generate huge amounts of traffic.
If you’re promoting a product paying $20 commission and it converts at 5%, then 100 visitors per day will make you $100.
If you’re promoting a product paying $500 commission and it converts at just 2%, then 100 visitors per day will make you $1,000 per day. That’s 10x more.
Plus, from my research (learning from others promoting high ticket products) I’ve found that conversion rates don’t differ greatly between high ticket and low ticket products.
2. There ISN’T a lot of competition.
While everyone else is promoting the supposedly “easier sell” lower priced products, you can swoop in with the luxury offers targeting a specific market and pick up $500 per sale or more.
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Just a few days ago I set up my first site promoting a high ticket product – actually over time it will grow to promote a number of related products starting at $300.
The first product I’m promoting costs $14,256. I’ll earn about $1,000 when I make a sale.
Just one sale per week and I would be earning a full time passive income.
Plus, imagine seeing that email notifying that you’ve earned $1,000 – or logging into your account and seeing it right there in front of you.
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Now I want to share a few ways you can find these high ticket products you can promote so you can start earning four figure commissions.
1. Few people realise that Amazon sell many products that are over $5,000. Choose a category you may be interested in promoting and sort by Price: High to Low.
There are products over $100,000 (but I wouldn’t suggest promoting them!) and many over $5,000.
Here’s one product that looks like it would be fantastic to promote.
The P3ProSwing Pro Indoor Golf Simulator
It costs $4,599 so at a 7% commission you would make $322 per sale. Plus, I just did some searches with Google’s Keyword Tool and you could target the below keywords and convert that traffic into sales.
Indoor golf simulator – 1,600 searches p/m
home golf simulator – 1,300 searches p/m
golf simulator reviews – 1,000 searches p/m
pr3proswing golf simulator – 210 searches p/m
A quick note on Amazon commissions. The higher quantity you sell, the higher your commissions. For example, sell one product a month and you’ll earn 4% but if you sell just seven items you’ll earn 6% and your commissions will continue to increase up to 8.5% if you sell over 3,131 items. For that reason I suggest you also promote some low priced offers to increase the quantity you sell and increase the commissions you earn on the big ticket sales.
2. Search for “luxury” items and services on Google. For example search “luxury vacations”, visit the top sites and look for affiliate sign up info. Or search “luxury watches”, visit the top websites and join their affiliate programs.
3. Last night I purchased access to 61 high ticket affiliate offers paying $100 to $10,000 per sale. The affiliate programs are in all kinds of different niches like dating, fitness, golf, forex, health, green, hot tubs, internet marketing, jewelery, real estate, self help, travel and many more.
There are some fantastic offers in there and so if you want to promote high ticket affiliate programs then pick up this database for yourself.
Click Here To Download It For Yourself
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That’s one thing I’ll be doing in 2012 to ramp up my income. I will of course still be updating this blog (even more so next year hopefully), I’ll be building my email lists and I’ll be selling my own products.
One more thing before I sign off…
The key to profiting by promoting high ticket products is to set up a simple review website and then to get it ranked at the top of Google. To get it ranked in the top spots you need to build backlinks – but there is a lot of conflicting information on what types of backlinks you should build, where you should get them from, how many you should get, how quickly you should build them, what anchor text you should use and much more.
That’s why I’m so glad Peter Garety has released his brand new special report called Strategic Link Building. It’s a step by step link building system based on FACT rather than myth. Follow his plan and you will start climbing up the search engines in no time.
I’ve got my copy and I’m going to be going through the link building strategies over the next few days and weeks.
Click Here To Download Strategic Link Building
What do YOU have planned for 2012 to make it the year you REALLY succeed?
Thanks for reading,
James Penn
A few years ago a thread was started on the Warrior Forum titled:
“I’ve Got To Show You This Pathetic Little Money Maker”
It was one of the most viewed threads of all time, so I figured it would be a fantastic email and blog post title. There’s one lesson that, if you take nothing else away from this blog post, you can hopefully put into action in the future.
Anyway, let me get onto the real reason for this blog post.
Yesterday I promoted a training course from Andrew Hansen called Unstoppable Affiliate. It reveals how Andrew finds in demand products (normally physical products), sets up a super simple mini-site in less than an hour and plugs it into his traffic systems to start generating insanely targeted traffic. He then sits back and rakes in completely passive affiliate revenue. And when he wants more, he simply finds another product using his unique formula and sets up another site.
In fact, if you go to this page, you can see proof from some of Andrew’s affiliate accounts – and these aren’t Clickbank accounts (well one of them is). He reveals one account where he made $274 in the month, another where he made $910, another with $1,230, another with $1,710, another with close to $3,000 and then finally a last account with over $2,000.
This passive income business model is something I’ve always aspired to. Who doesn’t want to set something up once and then profit forever?
So in late August I set up my first attempt…
I found a physical product that cost $79.99 and paid $40 commissions. The salespage was ugly, really ugly. I didn’t think it would convert very well but there was a big demand for this product and a lot of people turning to Google and typing things like “Product Name Review” and “Does Product Name Really Work?” Plus, there was very little competition so I decided to go for it.
I wrote my review and uploaded it to an existing site I owned. The fact it went on an existing site probably did help a little with Google ranking initially – but on the contrary, an exact match domain name (e.g. ProductNameReview.com) would be able to easily outrank in the long run.
So my review went live and within about two days I was on the first page for keywords like “Product Name Review”, “Does Product Name Really Work?” and “Where Can I Buy Product Name?”
This was in the last week of August that I set this up, and here are my sales for the August period…
And here are my commissions for September…
And finally here are my commissions for October…
The crazy thing about this is that the product conversion is only 1.8%. Normally if someone is clicking through from a review then I’d hope for AT LEAST a 5% conversion – but probably closer to 6-10%.
My fears about the salespage not converting came true. Seriously, the salespage is atrocious. The wording isn’t so bad but the design is ugly and looks really, really unprofessional. I’ve had at least ten emails from people who have read my review and asked if there is anywhere else to buy the product because they don’t trust the site.
So here’s what I’m in the process of doing…
I contacted the vendor and asked them if I could create my own salespage for the product using their wording (I’ll make a few adjustments) but my own design. They can then upload the salespage to their website and set it up with their affiliate program so that I can drive traffic via my affiliate link to the page I designed.
The vendor is happy for me to do this so now I’m in the process of creating the new salespage. I reckon that by making the page look more trustworthy I can easily get my conversion from sub 2% to plus 5% – more than doubling (and probably more likely tripling) my income.
Finding hot products, creating simple mini sites and passively profiting for many weeks, months and years to come is one of the most fun (and most rewarding) ways to make money online.
If you want to have a go at doing it for yourself and finally creating the passive income that you desire, then pick up a copy of Andrew’s Unstoppable Affiliate.
Go through the training and set up your first site as soon as possible. And then come back here and post, or email me, about your successes.
Plus, while you are here, you may as well have a read of some of my recent posts, too. Click the links below to read them…
Case Study Of A $100,000 Per Month Internet Marketer
How To Guest Post Your Way To Server Crushing Traffic
How To Get 1,000 Visitors Per Day
10 Ways To Add An Extra 25 Subscribers To Your Email List TODAY
How To Get 500 Subscribers Per Day
Thanks for reading and I’ll be in touch again soon.
Talk soon,
James Penn
In today’s blog post I want to share a really simple three step formula to start generating passive income quickly that grows, grows and grows.
This is as simple as it gets and ANYONE can do it and I hope to lay it all out for you, using real life examples, in this blog post.
1. Create A “Money” Page
The first thing you need to do is create a page, or a new blog post, on your blog or website that:
a) Targets a keyphrase that gets 10,000+ exact searches per month.
b) Provides fantastic free content that delivers an answer to the search request. For example, if you are targeting the keyphrase “how to get rid of dandruff” (18,000 searches per month), then you need a fantastic article that solves this problem. It will probably need to be 1,000 words plus.
c) Has monetization methods that pull in revenue.
Let’s go into more detail on these three points now.
a) Targets a keyphrase that gets 10,000+ exact searches per month.
The reason we should target a keyphrase with so many monthly searches is because we are going to be building a lot of high quality backlinks to the page, so we can realistically achieve page one rankings for such competitive phrases.
b) Provides fantastic free content that delivers an answer to the search request. For example, if you are targeting the keyphrase “how to get rid of dandruff” (18,000 searches per month), then you need a fantastic article that solves this problem. It will probably need to be 1,000 words plus.
Google strives to rank the most useful content at the top of the search results. Therefore the first key to hitting the top is by providing the best, most useful, most relevant content for that particular search request.
We’ll discuss generating backlinks in Step #2 of this blog post.
c) Has monetization methods that pull in revenue.
It’s important that we have profit centres on our page or blog post in order to generate revenue from the traffic we attract. Using the “how to get rid of dandruff” example, here’s how I would monetize the page.
Firstly, I would put Adsense ads at the start and end of the post. I’d have them in positions that are prominent, but that don’t make the page look cheap. I may even have an ad unit in the sidebar. It will only generate a few extra clicks but it won’t disrupt the user experience. Take a look at my Adsense layout on my health blog on this post: Five Powerful Natural Ways To Prevent Cold & Flu
I’m not allowed to reveal my click-thu rate, but I know you could easily achieve 3% and make about $0.75 per click.
Secondly, I would link out to Amazon products. Let’s say I suggest that one way to get rid of dandruff is with a dandruff shampoo. I’d then link to a dandruff shampoo on Amazon knowing that a few people will buy a bottle, or buy something else after being cookied with my affiliate link.
Thirdly, at the end of the post I’d recommend a getting rid of dandruff eBook from Clickbankor another affiliate marketplace. I don’t know if any exist, but if they did I’d write a short paragraph preselling the product and then linking to it with my affiliate link.
Finally, right at the very end of the post I’d have an opt-in form encouraging the reader to opt-in for more getting rid of dandruff tips. I’d then use this email list to promote more related products and to send subscribers back to the blog to read related posts where they again have an opportunity to click on Adsense ads and buy affiliate products.
2. Guest Post, Guest Post, Guest Post
Once we have our piece of content published and with profit centres in place, we need to build backlinks. Backlinks will do two things for us.
Firstly, each backlink will improve Google’s opinion of us and they will increase our rankings gradually moving us closer to the top page. Each backlink will have a different level of power. The more authoritative the backlink source, the more it will increase our ranking. For example, a link from the BBC will be more valuable than a link from a brand new Blogger blog.
Secondly, readers of the source where we have our backlink may click on our link and arrive at our site. This form of traffic is super-high quality and depending on where you get your backlinks, can be a huge source of traffic.
For example, last week I had a guest post published on Problogger.net which is one of the most popular blogs about blogging. Here’s a link to the guest post:
20 Ways To Make More Money From Your Blog
And here’s a screenshot showing the traffic it has sent me so far. Click to enlarge.
Within just seven days of the post being live I’ve had nearly 700 visitors. Admittedly, the majority of visits come in the first few days, but the traffic will continue for as long as the Problogger blog is online – and that will be a very long time. And the backlink value for search engine ranking will remain, elevating my position in the search engines.
Here’s how you can use guest posting to rise up the search engines and generate traffic directly from your guest posts.
- Write a high quality article that is about 500 words. Make sure the article includes the words “how to get rid of dandruff” or whatever keyword you are targeting somewhere within the article. Hyperlink this keyphrase and link it back to your blog post. You’ll also want to create an author resource box that links back to your root domain so that your entire site gets some “link juice”.
- Contact a blogger in your market and ask them if they would like to publish your post with your links attached.
- Write more content, contact more bloggers and get as many articles as you can published on as many blogs as you can all sending traffic back to your blog post and sending you “link juice” that helps you increase your Google ranking.
These are very high quality backlinks and each will contribute to boosting you up the rankings a few places for your target keyphrase. And each guest blog post will send you direct traffic, too.
Sometimes, if you want to publish a guest post on an authority site, like I did at Problogger, then you’ll need to create something special. If you personally can’t create special content, then you can pay someone to do it for you. Even if you have to pay $100 for an article that gets published on an authority site, it will be well worth it.
I’d love to go into detail in this blog post on exactly how to find and approach blogs to publish your content, but this post will get way too long so later this week I’ll work on that article and share it with you.
3. Rinse & Repeat
Now it’s just a case of rinsing and repeating.
Create another high quality blog post targeting a keyphrase that gets 10,000 searches or more per month. Publish it to your blog and then build lots of high quality backlinks with guest posting to help you achieve first page rankings for your keyphrase.
You could do one of these posts per week and then spend the rest of the week building backlinks with guest posts. I’m sure you could hit page one with one week of active, high quality link building.
Imagine after a year having 50 blog posts each with first page rankings for keyphrases that gets 10,000 plus searches per month… each.
That’s 500,000 searches per month.
Plus you’ll have, I expect, over 1,000 guest blog posts online all generating their own search traffic and funnelling traffic to your website.
You’ll be getting crazy traffic from the search engines and from other blogs. You’ll be generating crazy Adsense revenue, you’ll be an Amazon super affiliate and you’ll be building a huge list. Passively.
Here’s the simple formula…
Create great content that gets thousands of monthly searches, build high quality backlinks and passively profit from advertising and affiliate income.
It’s as simple as that.
I’ll follow this up in a few days with a post about FINIDING guest blogging opportunities and CONTACTING these blogs. I’ll try to include a template email, too.
Let me know what you thought of this blog post and feel free to share it with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks for reading,
James Penn
I’ve discussed my health blog a lot in the past few months as I’ve strived to increase my traffic and increase the revenue it generates.
One monetization strategy that I implemented at the start of September is really starting to pay dividends and it’s a really fun way of generating some revenue.
And that strategy is…
Google Adsense.
I added one ad block in a prominent position at the top of my content and one ad block in a less prominent position on the right sidebar. You can take a look at my ad placement by clicking here. (Opens in a new window)
I’m not permitted by Google’s ToS to reveal my exact click-thru rate, but I can say that having these ad units is generating me about $10-15 per day.
That’s not going to make me rich, but it’s an extra $300-450 per month that I didn’t have otherwise.
Plus, my click-thru rate currently is awful. I believe I’ll be able to double it at least by tweaking my positioning and maybe adding one more ad placement and that will in turn double my revenue to $600-$900 per month.
On top of this, now that I have such a stable income stream I’m much more motivated to increase my traffic.
For example, and these numbers are hypothetical, if I’m getting 1,000 page views per day and my Adsense click-thru rate is 3% and the average cost per click is $0.75 then I’m earning $22.50 per 1,000 visitors or 2.25c per visitor.
Now I know that for every visitor I get I’m going to earn over 2 cents and this is going to motivate me to ramp up my traffic generation and to boost my search engine rankings.
Plus, it’s quite fun to refresh your Amazon account every hour and see the money climb.
It’s much like having one of those jars at home where you chuck in all of your loose change when you have some, except if you place Adsense ads on your website it will be like throwing loose change in every hour or so – depending on your traffic and click-thru rate.
Now that I’ve talked about how exciting making money with Google Adsense is, here’s a quick start plan.
- Sign up for a Google Adsense account and familiarise yourself with the rules and policies.
- Set up a WordPress blog and insert Adsense ad units in positions to encourage click-thrus, but that doesn’t negatively disrupt the user experience.
- Create and publish content based around specific keyphrases that get at least 1,000 exact searches per month.
- Build backlinks to each piece of content with relevant anchor links with tactics such as: guest blogging, article marketing and other link building strategies to increase your ranking in the search engines.
- Create more content, build more backlinks and optimize your Adsense click-thru rates to increase your revenue.
- Rinse and repeat with another website.
Set up one website, get it to the point where it’s earning $10 per day or more, and then use the proceeds to set up another website, and another, and another and another.
Imagine having 20, 30, 50, 100+ of these websites each earning $10 per day.
Adsense is great fun and I certainly plan on investing more time and effort with it.
If you want to learn more about making money with Google Adsense, then take a look at Joel Comm’s Adsense Secrets 5.
If you are familiar with Joel, then you’ll know that he’s now more famous for his multi-million dollar product launches, but he used to be known as “Dr. Adsense” due to the fact he generated – and continues to generate – thousands of dollars per week with Google Adsense.
If you want to emulate Joel and build a full time income with Google Adsense, then pick up a copy of his brand new eBook by clicking here.
Do you make money with Google Adsense? I so, share your tips and tricks by leaving a comment below.
Thanks,
James Penn
Today I want to share a really simple, almost foolproof plan that you can copy to set up really easy “mini-sites” that generate crazy amounts of traffic, suck in hundreds of new email subscribers every week and generate thousands of dollars of affiliate profits and ad revenue each and every month.
I’ve shared a similar strategy in a recent blog post but that article focussed more on building an authority website. This plan involves building a mini-site – a website with 10-25 pages of content.
They are easy to create and you can start profiting with them in only days.
So without further ado, here is my plan for setting up super profitable mini-sites that spit out money every single day.
1. Topic Selection
The first thing we need to do is select a topic for our mini-site. The topic selection really isn’t that important – but I’d say to choose a sub-niche within a main niche. For example, if the main niche is beauty, then pick a sub niche of skin care. Or if the main niche is gardening, then pick a sub-niche of vegetable gardening.
A little tip I use to pick topics for mini-sites that I think would be successful is to head to http://www.ezinearticles.com and look at the sub-categories under the main categories on the home page.
For example if you hover over ‘Health & Fitness’ then you’ll see topics such as Aromatherapy, Massage, Anti-Aging and many, many more.
Pick a topic and then follow the strategies in step two to find out if this topic is feasible.
2. Content Research
In this step we want to find AT LEAST 10 keyphrases that are being searched MORE than 1,000 times per month according to the Google Keyword Tool.
For example, if our main topic was Hair Care, then we’d want to find at least 10 keyphrases related to hair care that we could write a 500 word article about.
To find such keyphrases, I’d go to the Google Keyword Tool and I’d type in something like “for hair”. I’d check the box next to “Only show ideas closely related to my search terms” and perform the search.
I’d then tick the box on the left hand side under “Match Type” that says “Exact” and I’d uncheck “Broad”. I’d then order the list by Global Monthly Searches by clicking on that column.
Now I’m going to go through the entire list and make a note of every single keyphrase for which I believe I could write – or have someone else write – a 500 word article on that topic.
Here’s the list and the number of searches (note: I’m ignoring all keywords related to hair styles as I don’t want to focus on that topic, instead I’m focussing more on hair health.)
Vitamins for hair growth – 14,800
Coconut oil for hair – 12,100
Castor oil for hair – 6,600
Tips for healthy hair – 6,600
Shampoo for oily hair – 6,600
Argan oil for hair – 6,600
Biotin for hair growth – 5,400
Home remedies for hair fall – 3,600
Vitamins for hair loss – 3,600
Jojoba oil for hair – 3,600
Home remedies for hair growth – 2,900
Best shampoo for dry hair – 2,900
And the list goes on and on and on. And there are hundreds more searches you could do to produce more keywords.
Make a note of every single keyword with over 1,000 exact monthly searches.
3. Mini-site Set Up
Now it’s time to set up our really simple mini-site. We’ll be using WordPress which can be installed and set up in seconds if you have the right hosting.
With my Bluehost hosting I simply have to tell it where to install and press Go and it’s up and ready. I presume your hosting will be much the same.
If not, here is a step-by-step guide to getting set up with WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
You’ll also want to install a new Theme so it fits in with the topic of your blog. Do a Google search for “free wordpress themes” and find one you like. If you are unsure how to install it then you can pay a few dollars for someone to do that and customize it for you.
Now you should be all ready to create your content and start publishing it.
4. Content Creation
If you are good at researching and writing, then you can do this step yourself. That way your investment is zero and so is your risk. The only thing you’ll be wasting if it doesn’t work, which it will if you follow the plan and work hard, is your time.
If you aren’t such a prolific writer and researcher, then you’ll want to pay to get someone else to write your articles for you. You can find someone on The Warriors For Hire section of the Warrior Forum.
I recommend you don’t pay under $8 an article. Our aim is to rank #1 in Google for these keyphrases. Google likes quality, well researched content that solves the searchers request. A $3 per article writer won’t be able to deliver this and your content will be effectively worthless.
Give your writer the list of keyphrases you collected, but make sure they are aware they should write for humans and not for search engines. If you have a big list and a small budget, then just give them 5-10 article topics for now. You can give them the rest when your site is generating revenue.
5. Content Publication
Once you receive your first articles from your writer, or once you’ve finished writing them yourself, you are going to want to start publishing them.
I suggest a publishing schedule of one article every three days to start with.
Paste your article into your WordPress “New Post” dialog box and complete the following checklist to fully optimize your article for ranking for its main keyphrase in the search engines.
- Make sure your keyphrase is included in the post title
- Try to make sure your main keyphrase is mentioned in the first and last paragraph.
- Bold, underline or italicize your keyphrase once throughout the article.
- Insert at least one high quality image that includes your keyphrase in the “alt” attribute.
- Make sure your main keyphrase is mentioned in the Title Tag, included in the Description, and inserted into the Keywords tags.
You can upload all your articles right away, as long as you schedule each one to be published approximately three days apart.
What we should have now is a website that’s going to be regularly updated with new, original, useful content around a specific topic. The search engines seem to love these.
In the next section I’m going to reveal how we make money from this content, and then after that I’m going to reveal the ONE strategy I’m using to rocket my content to the top of Google for my main keyphrases.
6. Monetization
Before I get onto the section about generating crazy amounts of traffic, I want to share a few monetization strategies you should implement so that the traffic you generate results in profits.
Firstly, I recommend inserting a couple of Adsense blocks within your content. I have one block in a prominent position at the top of the content with the text wrapped around it, and I have one more subtle block which is in no one’s way but still gets a couple of clicks per day.
You can see my Adsense layout on this blog post: 50 Tips For Ultimate Health, Gorgeous Skin, Beautiful Hair & A Perfect Body
Secondly, insert some affiliate links to relevant Amazon products. For example, if one of our keyphrases is Coconut Oil For Hair, then linking to a top rated coconut oil on Amazon will result in a number of sales.
Simply getting people to click on your Amazon links is 90% of the work. They will then be cookied with your affiliate code for 24 hours and any product they buy you will be credited for.
I once had someone come to my website, click on an Amazon link of mine and they decided to buy about 30-40 books – a couple of which cost $80-100, and a few other unrelated items including two Amazon Kindles. I earned commission on each of these items.
Plus, there are some products on Amazon that cost $1,000-$10,000. If you are really lucky, and this hasn’t happened to me yet, then someone will buy one of these products through your link.
Have a read of this fascinating article revealing some of the strangest (and most expensive) items purchased through this guy’s Amazon affiliate link.
Finally, you’ll want some opt-in forms on your pages. You want to get as many subscribers as possible because then you can promote high value, relevant products with high commission pay-outs via email. I recommend an opt-in form at the top of your sidebar, at the end of your article, and as a pop-over opt-in form – this form will convert the best but it may ruin the user experience.
Achieving a 10%+ opt-in conversion is not unrealistic, so imagine generating just 500 visitors per day and getting 50 subscribers daily.
Insert your Adsense ads, add some relevant Amazon affiliate links and strategically place some opt-in forms and then we’re ready to start generating traffic.
7. Promotion
Our number one goal with this business model is to rank as high as possible in the search engines, specifically Google, for the keyphrases we have already researched.
For example, let’s say the first article we publish targets the keyphrase Coconut Oil For Hair. This keyphrase gets 12,100 searches per month. Research suggests that a number one Google position gets 40-50% traffic from these searches, so a number one ranking would result in approximately 6,000 visitors per month.
There’s one main strategy I use to achieve number one rankings for my keyphrases and that strategy is…
GUEST BLOGGING
Guest blogging is the ultimate traffic strategy. It’s completely 100% free, it generates direct traffic from people clicking your links, and it gives you a huge search engine boost due to the backlinks you generate.
It simply involves creating content that is published on someone else’s blog or website in which you can link back to your own blog.
In this section I’m going to reveal how you can use guest blogging to sky-rocket your search engine rankings and generate crazy traffic and profits.
Step #1
Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
The first thing you need to do is find places where you can submit your content. Here’s how you can do that.
1. Do Google searches for things like “your keyword blog”. So if your blog is about hair care, then search for “hair care blog” or “hair health blog” etc.
2. Do Google searches for things like ‘your keyword “powered by wordpress”’.
3. Use DailyBlogTips.com search ideas to find guest posting opportunities.
4. Join free guest posting directories such as myblogguest.com and blogsynergy.com
5. Search for lists of top blogs in your market. For example, a search for “best health blogs” yields a result for an article titled “Top 50 Health Blogs”. There we have 50 potential guest blogging opportunities.
Step #2
Creating Your Guest Post
There are just a few things you need to do to create a perfect guest post. Here they are:
- Identify ONE blog and write an article that would fit perfectly on that blog. For example, make sure it is relevant to the categories on the blog and that it hasn’t been discussed before.
- Write a FANTASTIC 400-600 word article that includes an anchor text link back to one article on your blog. For example, if you want to link back to your article targeting the keyphrase “coconut oil for hair”, then make sure that exact keyphrase is included within your article and link it back to the article on your website. When guest blogging, most people don’t include a link within their text and instead settle for only one link in their author resource box. I’ve always included a link in my article body and my resource box and only one blogger has ever objected.
- Include an author resource box that links back to your main domain. This will encourage readers to come and have a look round your entire site and link juice will be passed to all pages of your website.
Step #3
Getting Your Content On These Blogs
I have a very simple formula for getting published on high traffic, high influence blogs in my market. Here it is…
- Find a contact email address for the blog owner and email them with an article that I think would fit perfectly on their blog. State that should they publish it I will do everything I can to help promote it via social media.
- Ask them to let me know whether they would like to publish it or not and to let me know ASAP so I can use it for other purposes should they not want it.
- 98% of the time, I’ll see my article go live on their website very shortly – sometimes within hours.
- If they don’t want it I’ll send it to someone else and they will publish it for me instead.
It really is as simple as that.
Every single guest post you contribute to another blog will give your website a small boost in the search engines. And it will generate you direct traffic from that blogs readers clicking on your links and checking out your website. They will subscribe to your email list, click on your ads, and buy affiliate products through you.
And every position you move up in the search engines you will get more and more traffic from Google.
If I didn’t get bored, I would spend every single hour of every single day finding blogs, writing articles and getting them published on related blogs in my market because the results are incredible.
I rank in the top 3 on Google for a number of keyphrases that get over 10,000 searches per month and this is purely because of guest blogging.
Plus, I don’t just get the search engine boost, the direct traffic generated from my portfolio of guest posts scattered around the internet pull in a great number of visitors every single day, too.
Just last night I emailed the owner of perhaps the most popular Hair Care blog on the internet. It has a traffic rank in the US of under 10,000 – meaning it’s in the top 10,000 websites in the US. I sent her my article, stated how I would promote it should it go live and she replied within one hour telling me that she loved it and it would go live on their biggest traffic day, next Tuesday.
I don’t know how much traffic this will send me directly but the website in question gets just shy of 10,000 visitors per day and has a page rank 5.
I’m even more excited about my upcoming guest post on problogger.net however.
Problogger, at time of writing, has 158,000 feed subscribers. This means every time there is a new post, 158,000 people are notified. There are also thousands of Twitter followers and Facebook fans resulting in a combined subscriber base of 321,000 readers. It also has a page rank 6.
On Wednesday October 5th I will have a post going live on Problogger.net and it will be promoted to 321,000 readers.
To get on blogs like this you need to create REALLY good content, and I think my post is. I spent about 6 hours writing it and it’s over 2,000 words.
I’ll notify you, if you are a subscriber (if you aren’t then enter your email address at the top right), when it goes live as I want to thank Darren for letting me publish content on there by sending him as much traffic as possible. Plus, if he notices my blog post generates more traffic than most other people’s then he’ll obviously be happy to have me post again. Plus I really think you’ll enjoy the article.
Anyway, I’m digressing, so here’s my quick start guide to set up, and profit from your own mini-site.
7 Step Quick Start Guide
- Pick a sub-niche topic that has lots of searches being performed every month for a variety of keyphrases.
- Identify at least ten, but preferably more, keyphrases with more than 1,000 exact searches per month.
- Set up a simple mini-site using WordPress that you can publish your content to.
- Write an article for each keyphrase and upload it to your WordPress blog. Schedule each post to be published approximately three days apart.
- Optimize each post for the search engines using the five tips I shared above.
- Find as many blogs as possible that you can guest post on, create content for them, and get it published linking back to your blog within, and at the end, of the article using anchor text.
- Repeat step six as many times as possible promoting each one of the articles on your mini-site fairly until you rank as high as possible in the search engines.
Ranking number one is certainly possible with enough hard work and dedication. If you don’t have the dedication to spend so much time writing, then you can certainly outsource the content creation to a ghost writer. And if you don’t have the dedication to find and approach fellow bloggers, then you can hire a virtual assistant to do it for you.
This blog post is a bit longer than I originally anticipated. I was hoping to share a really simple quick start plan in 1,000 words or under but as usual I got carried away.
Still, you can use my 7 step quick start plan if you want to get going fast.
Give this plan a go, let me know how it goes, and thanks for reading!
Oh, and while I was writing this article I got an email from Kim Roach sharing her 21 steps to 1,000 visitors per day. It was a fantastic read so if you want to read her post on her blog then click the link.
Kim is the author of the bestselling Traffic Dashboard product. If you want a point and click system to getting massive traffic then picking up a copy of Traffic Dashboard would be a wise move.
Here’s the link.
Thanks for reading and if you enjoyed this post please share it on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks,
James Penn
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In the last few months I’ve really enjoyed being an Amazon affiliate.
I’m by no means making a significant income with it, but it’s growing and it’s passive and I know that within a few months it will be fairly significant.
And I’m doing it very differently to the way most Amazon affiliates do it.
I’ll talk about how most do it, and how I’m doing it in just a minute, but first let me share a quick reason why being an Amazon affiliate is so good.
The other day I logged into my Amazon affiliate account to check my stats for the previous day.
I was expecting the usual 4-5 sales and $3-10 in commissions.
To my disbelief there were 44 sales. Someone had come to my website, clicked one of my Amazon links, and purchased 44 different items – including a number of items over $100.
Once you get the click, the power of the Amazon shopping experience takes over and people just end up buying and buying and buying.
Anyway, let me share with you two very different Amazon affiliate strategies….
Here’s how most people do it… (and I’m not saying this is the wrong way because it can be a very profitable strategy)
1. Find the name of a branded product or set of products – e.g. Invicta Men’s Watches
2. Set up a website at something like invictamenswatches.com < just an example.
3. Create a new page and write a review for each individual product with a link to the product on Amazon
4. Try desperately to rank at the top of the search engines for keywords like “Invicta Men’s Pro Diver Watch” but struggle because so many others are trying to do the same. Plus, the keyword only gets like 3-4 searches per day anyway.
5. Receive a trickle of traffic because a) hardly anyone searches for those keywords and b) because the competition is so high.
6. Earn a few dollars per month in Amazon commissions.
Some people make a fantastic living with the above strategy and it CAN work because the conversion rates are so high. But more than likely you’ll need to invest a lot of effort, a lot of time, and you’ll have to continue working hard to maintain your search engine rankings.
Here’s how I do my Amazon affiliate marketing…
As I’ve mentioned in my last few blog posts I run a health blog.
It covers a huge number of topics – such as weight loss, stress relief, beauty, skin care, anti aging, energy, essential oils, hair care, colon cleansing, herbs, nutrition, relaxation, detox and many more topics.
Pretty much, if it’s to do with health then I can write about it.
Instead of writing posts that review Amazon products (although I do do that occasionally) I write (or hire my team of writers to write) problem solving articles.
Why?
Because there are more searches (way more searches) for keyphrases that solve problems and keyphrases whereby the user is looking for information rather than “review” keyphrases.
For example, here’s an example of a “problem solving” keyphrase with a real life link to a post on my health blog.
Castor Oil For Hair Growth
This keyphrase gets 2,900 searches per month – much more than you can get for any review product – at least any product you can rank for. I’m currently on the third page for this keyphrase but that’s with ZERO backlinking or promotion. I know I’ll be on the first page soon.
And if someone is searching for this in Google you know that they are:
1) Interested in growing their hair
2) Considering using castor oil for their hair growth
This gives you the perfect opportunity to peddle either hair growth products or simply castor oil.
From 2,900 searches per month a position 1 spot (which I think is achievable) would generate you about 1,500-2,000 unique visitors per month (not to mention the traffic you’ll get from related keyphrases). And that can generate you a lot of Amazon clicks.
Imagine ranking on the top page for 10, 20, 50 even 100 keyphrases like this.
The second type of search I referred to was an “informational” search.
Here’s an example with a real life link to my health blog.
The Magical Benefits Of Shea Butter
“Shea Butter benefits” generates 3,600 monthly searches and I’m in position 15 already despite publishing this post just a few days ago, and again, with no backlinks yet. I’m already generating traffic to this page from Google and even made an Amazon sale for Shea Butter today.
Another example of an informational post that I recently published that is doing well is this one…
The Health Benefits Of Manuka Honey
“Manuka honey health benefits” gets 1,900 searches per month and I’m on page one for that keyphrase. On the page I recommend a Manuka Honey that costs $40 and I’m making a sale about every other day.
Manuka honey benefits gets 9,900 searches per month and I’m on page 3 currently and climbing.
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While the conversions for these types of articles aren’t the same as review articles, you can still generate sales.
My conversion rate is about 5% which isn’t too bad.
The key to getting sales with Amazon is simply to get people to click your links and get logged with your affiliate cookie.
The cookie lasts 24 hours – meaning that any item that person purchases within 24 hours of clicking your link gets credited to you as a sale.
And to get clicks you simply need to get traffic and then convince your visitors to click on your links.
And for a little motivation, have a read of this article from Problogger.
It reveals the 11 strangest items purchased through this guys Amazon affiliate link in 2010. (It includes a product for $5,300 – making 8% on a product like that is nothing to be sniffed at!)
And then after reading that, have a read of this Amazon series from the same guy (Darren Rowse) revealing the 11 lessons he’s learned from making over $120k as an Amazon affiliate.
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Right that’s it for this post.
Nothing to sell here. I’m going back to my health blog to do some promotion and earn more Amazon commissions
I’ll be in touch again soon
If you liked this article, please share it on Twitter, Facebook or wherever. You can use the links below to do just that.
Plus, leave a comment below letting me know what you thought and sharing your experiences.
Right, time for bed.
Talk soon,
James Penn
The last couple of days I’ve been hugely motivated to share some great free content with you guys.
I think the reason for that is twofold…
- Writing this article means I don’t have to collect data for my final year Psychology project. I think I’ve chosen the most boring, time consuming study possible and I’m seriously regretting it!
- Every time I make a new post and notify my subscribers I get a bunch of fantastic comments on the blog and private emails. That’s my main motivation so if you want me to keep producing this stuff then leave a comment at the end – and if you could Tweet, Facebook or promote this post in some other way then that would be hugely appreciated, too!
Right, then…
In this blog post I want to share EXACTLY what I would do if I had to start from scratch and make $500 per day in consistent, stable income with the potential for massive growth.
The system I’m about to share with you is based on what I’ve learned from Nano Continuity by Ryan Lee.
It’s definitely the best training course I’ve downloaded this year, and probably one of the best ever.
I say that because I’ve now drafted out an entire continuity program teaching list building strategies and list relationship strategies. I will charge just $4.95 per month and deliver weekly PDF training articles, arrange special interviews and case studies with other top marketers and share actual results and test data from my business.
I have massive confidence that many of my subscribers will be interested in this due to the hugely low price and that I’d also be able to funnel new members from other sources on the internet using the member getting strategies that Ryan teaches in Nano Continuity.
I have full confidence that by providing incredible value and charging such a low $4.95 per month price, I will be able to reach the point where each month I have 1,000 people sending me $4.95 per month.
And that’s all due to Nano Continuity.
If the thought of setting up a super simple continuity offer (you really can be set up in just 60 minutes) is something you want to do then grab yourself a copy of Ryan’s Nano Continuity. It’s certainly my best purchase of 2011 and I hope it will be for you, too!
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Right then, now I want to share my plan for reaching $500 per day…
I’ve realised now that continuity is the only REAL way to have a stable, dependable income. I’m not saying it’s the best way, but it’s the only way to guarantee a pay check each month – if you have members that is.
That’s why with this plan I’m going to focus on building continuity income. But don’t worry if the thought of creating a membership site scares you, it can actually be REALLY, really easy.
I’ll get onto setting it up in just a minute.
First you need to decide upon a market and choose what content you’ll be delivering.
I always suggest to just go for the big markets, like health, weight loss, beauty, dating, finance, internet marketing, food etc.
You can be more specific if you want, but since I generate the majority of my traffic by getting competitors to send traffic to me (such as affiliates, bloggers, email list owners) it makes sense that the more competitors there are, the more traffic I can “steal” from them.
Now you need to decide upon a price point so that you can choose how much and what content to deliver.
Ryan Lee of Nano Continuity suggests that $4.95 per month is the “sweet spot”. It’s the price that encourages more members to join and produces the highest retention rates.
And retention is what we’re after with this model. Some continuity offers with a higher price point have a greater attrition rate. For example, they may be gaining 50 members per month but losing 100 members per month meaning their income is constantly declining.
With a low price point like $5 per month we’ll have no trouble attracting new members and members will be so pleased with the content and the low price that they’ll stay members for years.
Now we’ll be able to add 500 new members per month, while losing just 50 meaning we’ll be adding an extra $2,250 per month to our income.
And that’s stable, dependable income every single month.
At just $4.95 per month, you don’t have to create out of this world content (although I plan to with my continuity program to ensure extremely high retention rate).
Here’s what I plan to deliver each month when I launch my continuity offer – and you could offer something similar for your market.
- 2-4 five page PDF’s per month revealing list building strategies, list relationship strategies and revenue generating strategies that are working in my business.
- Regular “Premium” articles revealing test data, quick tips, and ideas.
- Monthly question and answer sessions where I answer the top 5-10 questions from paying members.
- In depth case studies and interviews of how other marketers are building their email lists.
- And a few bonus contributions from other top marketers, such as paid products for free.
Now here’s how you can set this up in just a couple of hours.
First, create a super simple salespage letting potential customers know what they will be receiving and why they should sign up. This doesn’t have to be a work of art since the price is so low customers won’t need a whole lot of convincing.
Secondly, create a Paypal subscription button in your Paypal account that charges $4.95 per month (or whatever your price point) and then as soon as someone completes their purchase redirect them to a Thank You page on your website. This thank you page should say something like:
“Thanks for becoming a member.
All member content will be delivered to you by email so please enter your email address into the form below and then confirm your email address.
Unless you complete this step and confirm your email address you will not receive any of the member content you’ve signed up for.”
Then below that put your Aweber opt-in form code (or whatever auto-responder you use).
Now you have a member set up paying you $4.95 per month, and every time you have content to share with your members you simply send a broadcast message to your subscribers.
That’s a continuity program all set up and it’s so, so simple.
Now it’s simply a case of getting members so here are a few FREE things that if you do EVERY SINGLE DAY will have a massive cumulative effect to pump new members into your continuity program.
- Contribute one guest post per day to an authority blog in your market.
- Submit one article per day to article directories like EzineArticles.com
- Post 5 new messages in forums in your marketplace.
- Make 5 blog comments on authority blogs in your market.
- Create your own blog and write one keyword targeted post per day.
By the end of the year you’ll have all the below content with links pointing back to your continuity sales page.
- 365 guest posts
- 365 articles on article directories, plus other publishers will pick up your content and syndicate it on their own blogs and in their email lists with your author resource box attached.
- 1825 forum posts each with your signature attached.
- 1825 comments on high traffic blogs.
- 365 blog posts on your very own blog sucking traffic from the search engines and promoting your continuity offer.
Those are all free traffic strategies requiring only a time investment. That means if you have very little start up capital you can get going with only a Paypal account (free), hosting and domain ($80 for a year if you go with my suggestion, Bluehost) and auto-responder account, like Aweber (only $1 for the first 30 days).
Using only those strategies will probably not enable you to add tens of new members per day – but it will give you a consistent stream.
To get a crazy number of members you need affiliates and joint venture partners.
Unfortunately with a $4.95 per month price point, it’s not really worthwhile to give half of that away to an affiliate. And even if you did, no affiliate in their right mind would promote something for a $2.50 per month commission.
Instead you need to create a “front end offer”. This could be something like a $10-$20 special report, audio or video. Set that product up with a high converting salespage and allow affiliates to promote it for 100% commissions.
Then, once a customer has purchased you can convince them to join your $4.95 per month continuity offer WITHOUT having to pay any affiliate commissions.
This way you get the best of both worlds. Affiliates send you traffic and are happy to since you give them 100% of all sales they generate and you get free traffic and buyers that you can turn into $4.95 per month members.
Now here are a few daily tasks you can complete to get affiliates to send you more sales and members.
First, have a read of my recent blog post revealing three clever ways to find affiliates.
- Find and contact one blogger in your market and convince them to recommend your product on their blog.
- Find and contact one product author in your market and convince them to put your front end offer on their download page.
- Find and contact one email list owner in your market and convince them to promote your front end offer to their subscribers.
- Find and contact one Squidoo publisher and convince them to promote your product on their Squidoo lens.
As well as the above, find other places where your market hang out and get the person in control of that traffic source to promote your front end offer.
You can realistically achieve 100 brand new front end sales per day if you are motivated, dedicated and consistent in your actions. The cumulative effect is immense.
And you can realistically convert 25%+ of those 100 customers per day into paying members to your “Nano Continuity” offer.
Not only that, but if you’re adding 100 new buying leads to your email list per day then you are building a huge list of highly qualified subscribers that love to spend money and you can promote other offers and affiliate offers to them.
This is such a fantastic business model and it’s the one I’d implement if I had to start from scratch to reach $500 per day. And it’s the one I’m going to implement (as soon as this pesky university work is over) to reach $1,000 per day and beyond.
I learned this business model from Ryan Lee’s Nano Continuity training course. I STRONGLY suggest you get yourself a copy of it if you want to set up your own continuity offer.
He goes into WAAY more detail than I have here and he has all sorts of incredible cheats and shortcuts, plus real life working case studies, including one continuity offer that generated 18,000 PAYING subscribers.
Click Here To Download Nano Continuity
I hope you’ve enjoyed this action plan. If you have any questions, ask by leaving a comment below. And if you just want to let me know what you thought of this article or if you have any extra info to add then add a comment, too.
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So, that’s all for today.
I REALLY have to do some university work now, but leave your comments below and I’ll be in touch again soon.
Thanks,
James Penn
01/16/2012
