Just got laid off, time to put my efforts in overdrive.

21 Feb 12 7:44 pm

Hi,

That's bad news but good news I guess. If you apply yourself, this could turn out to be a blessing!

Article marketing is a long term strategy. Have you tried anything more direct, PPC for example? What about video? Build up some good videos on Youtube and other sites, search out subscribers. Same goes for Facebook, create a fanpage. Give people some unique content. Search out leaders in your niche and engage them.

How's your list? Keep them up-to-date with what's happening in your niche, send them to videos that you create and possibly make free stuff and bonuses, etc. that nobody else has.

You'll need to live and breath your niche in order to make a strong, long term connection.

Most importantly, create a plan and don't get distracted. Entire days can be wasted when we don't know exactly what to do next.

I know you can do it!

22 Feb 12 9:50 am

Hi Paul,

I won't say I'm sorry to hear you lost your job because that will go against my saying THINK POSITIVE! It's great that you have all that time to focus on your affiliate marketing projects. You have time now to pursue other hobbies and learn something new in the process. Not to mention all that time you get to spend some quality time with your partner. :)

I've always been a believer of schedules and routines. I would suggest you think about your goals and then think of how much time you need to spend of each task to accomplish each goal. You can then map out a schedule based on that.

I would suggest you add more to your backlinking strategy like forum and blog posting/commenting, guest posting. This is also a perfect time for you to read up on new backlinking strategies.

But what is most important is what esolutions have pointed out earlier: maintain your focus. Stick to the schedule you set and do your best not to get distracted. :)

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

22 Feb 12 12:59 pm

Hi Paul

I can understand where you are at. At the moment I am going along a similar path.

My suggestions are to make sure that you develop multiple streams of income online. Don't just rely on one site or one type of site (eg. affiliate site, adsense site).

For example, I have one affiliate site that is ready to really take off. I average about one sale a week with 100 visitors a day, but no newsletter. I believe that with a bit of consistent effort backlinking (I mainly go after high PR links - I don't waste time on traditional article marketing - you shouldn't either) I can increase the visitors to several hundred a day and when I get my newsletter sequence up, I should be able to make a lot more sales: 80-90% of my visitors are new and this means that I am losing a lot of potential customers because they only see my site once and I don't get a chance to build a relationship with them. A lot of people these days are talking about "Relationship ROI" - especially Chris Farrell and Mike Filsaime.

Secondly, I have converted the articles on my site into a book which I am selling on Amazon. I published it about a month ago and it is currently selling about two copies a day and climbing quickly. If I can get this to around 20 a day, I will be free!!!

Thirdly, I am building a Facebook fanpage which I am going to sell this book for a lot more than on Amazon. I am going to use paid traffic for this, which means that once I find a profitable approach I can just scale it up infinitely and make huge money without having to waste time building links.

Fourthly, I will probably put this product on Clickbank and get other people to market it as well.

Fifthly, I have another book of about 400 pages (in a different niche) which I have almost completed. But I need to think about how to maximise the income potential of this as it could be a home run for me if I package it in the right way - it is very unique material in an almost untapped niche.

With a bit of hard work, I think that in the next few months I could be doing very well with making money online - without teaching people how to make money online!!!

So Paul, make sure that you are strategic about your approach. Work smart, rather than just hard!!!

22 Feb 12 5:22 pm

burkhardt5 wrote:Nice plan easyrider!
And thank you all for your responses.

I am taking all of your info into consideration to put together a game plan. Even though article submission is not super effective, it has gotten my site and some internal pages to the top off google for some OK phrases and there are few blogs in my niche (world of Warcraft) that allow comments and the forums usually do not except links on them.

I will keep you all posted.
Thanks!
Never Give Up!!!
Paul

Sounds good, Paul! If it works for you then I think you could continue doing it :) Try submitting your articles to sites with the highest percentage increase after the panda update (ie wikihow (79.1%), instructables.com (16.7%), howstuffworks.com (15.9%), ehow.com (13.6%) ).

I recommend that you also do guest posting. Submissions to the Affilorama YO Blog are being accepted. Approved articles get a do follow link from your Affilorama YO Blog post back to your site. And if your submission is really good, we may publish it on the regular Affilorama Blog, which means a backlink from a PR6 page. :)

You could look at your situation as a problem or an opportunity to change and improve. It will not be easy but if you work hard (and smart as Greg advised) I'm sure you'll efforts would be rewarded. It seems that you are looking at this positively and you have your wife's support so all seems well :) We're here for you, too!

All the best!

28 Feb 12 2:05 pm

This is turning into a great thread guys!

My thanks in particular to Greg (aka Easyrider) for his contribution here. Greg - you've given me some new ideas as well.

It shows how we can leverage our existing, high quality content by thinking laterally to branch off into different directions.

I'd also agree to work smarter not harder as you don't want to become discouraged and feeling burned-out through over-work and over-analysis as frequently happens.

Concentrating on one thing at a time is best, take it from me!

Good luck!

04 Mar 12 6:49 pm

Thanks heavysm.

I seem to have a knack for writing that I didn't know I had so freelancing might be a good start.
I am taking in as much information as I can to put together a good game plan. Your info will be added to this game plan.

Thank You
Never Give Up!!!
Paul

11 May 12 12:59 am

If you have just a little bit of education in this business, there should be no need for you to have to
go back to your job. It should be fairly simple for you to get above the $200 per week mark provided you
are doing affiliate marketing correctly. Re: Squeeze page, autoresponder, follow up series, sales page, and of course a great product/service to market.

List building and follow up are key to success, Articles, answers, yahoo answers, blogs and everything else
are great for backlinking, but if you aren't set up correctly; you will have limited success.

Here's to your success - And hopefully never returning to that job!

Marc LaClair

13 May 12 3:42 am

easyrider wrote:
Secondly, I have converted the articles on my site into a book which I am selling on Amazon. I published it about a month ago and it is currently selling about two copies a day and climbing quickly. If I can get this to around 20 a day, I will be free!!!

Hi

Will Amazon consider the articles from yr site as duplicate content and not allowed to be published? I heard that duplicate content from PLR articles are the no no for Amazon kindle or ebook. Is it true?

Eileen

27 May 12 1:34 pm

Thank you Mark

Your right, I will not drive myself crazy and spend all my time working on my sites. I would probably start making bad choices and writing poor content if I get burnt out.

I will devote some time to each aspect of the business and take time for other things.

Thanks again to everyone!
Never Give Up!!!
Paul