Affiliate Marketing Journal: Day 7 Update
Today has been a hectic day, with New Year ’s Eve and New Years day having very little work production since I was visiting my girlfriend’s parents house. I came back today and planned to do lots of work.
But before I go in to detail I just want to make a point. Whether you are self employed working on Internet Marketing full time or juggling a 9-5 job that you hate whilst trying to create a network empire which will support you and your family and allow you to quit your job. You need to ensure at some point during each week that you make time for YOU. Do something you enjoy doing, even if you enjoy Internet marketing like myself. Do something different. I also enjoy snooker so I would go and play snooker. Go out, get some fresh air. I enjoy cycling so tend to go cycling a lot. At some point during each week and during each day take a little bit of time of and do something for yourself. If you enjoy cooking, go out get some fancy ingredients cook yourself and perhaps a loved one a meal. Spend quality time with your family and friends because no one is here forever and you never know when it’s going to be the last day you will get to spend together.
I apologise for the depressing start to todays up date however I feel it is extremely important to make note of this. Too many people take for granted the time and chances they have to spend with ones they love. Yes, money is important it helps provide a quality life for yourself and your family but it is not everything.
Love cannot be bought and time with loved ones does not have a price.
Anyways, I hope that inspires and motivates some people to go and spend more time with their friends and family. Now where was I?
Ah yes, today’s activities. Well today has been an extremely busy day. I started the day with a to-do list, very important for anyone who wants to get somewhere in life. Especially when you are self employed and do not have a manager or supervisor breathing down your neck, the to-do list replaces this position.
I planned on creating two websites in one niche one was going to be a copy of a products sales page and then a redirected affiliate link to their sales page and to their payment page. The second site was going to be established as a blog and a sales page on the domain.
For example www. mysalespage.com – this would have the sales page OR review page then;
www. mysalespage.com/blog - would have the blog on. The purpose of this is to ensure that I have space for a sales/review page and to increase my chances of conversions and my options. As I can now direct traffic to one of two areas. The sales/review page or the blog.
I then purchased/found some PLR material for this market as well as the website I created over the last two days. I purchased this from tradebits.com and then repackaged this to create 2 products per market. One which I plan on giving away as either a bonus or an incentive to subscribe and the other which I would sell through Paypal for $7.00 and $9.97. These pages have also been created and have the whole payment system running.
I have also created two opt in pages for each market both listing the benefits of subscribing to the newsletter whilst making clear that we don’t spam or give away their contact information to any third party company. I think this is very important when trying to collect email lists in any other market apart from Internet marketing. As most people are unfamiliar with newsletter lists and are still sceptical about giving away their email addresses and other contact information.
I then spent the remainder of today creating lists and ideas for what I would send out in the newsletters. I plan on giving away free tools/information straight away including eBook guides then creating 10 or more follow up emails containing weekly guides or information to help those in my area of interest.
The benefit of doing this is that you build a long term relationship with the potential customer which helps for relationship marketing. After several days or weeks follow up emails the subscriber is used to opening my emails and used to me sending them valuable information. They then start to respect and trust me and listen to what I say and that’s when I start to soft sell a product or service perhaps my own or someone else’s. After several days or weeks soft selling a certain product I would then end it with a hard sell or push for them to purchase the product with a higher percentage of people converting.
After the initial purchase you start providing more information for free and valuable tools/resources because you know that they convert. Once you get a subscriber to purchase through you then the chances are they will purchase again so they become even more valuable to you and a bigger asset of your list.
Overall today has been an extremely productive day I also came across several other ways of making money which I will be testing out over the next couple of weeks. Tomorrow’s plan of action is to finish creating the last two websites in the latest market for testing then to start with these three markets for bum/article marketing and see where it takes us. An important note to make is with each market I will be creating a list of subscribers for long term financial rewards.
Also just to note the first market I have acted on for this journal has started to provide sales I will speak more about this tomorrow as it is one I started a week before the journal but one I will be including in this journal.
Yesterday’s income from this market: £80.54
Thanks everyone for following this journal if you have any questions just ask.
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