AdWords Update
It has been a little over a month since my last update. I have to say I'm quite pleased with the results I am getting. Here is what has happened since May 20th:
I have signed up 75 new affiliates and have 24 new activated affiliates on 395 clicks. Based on the 12,791 impressions that is a click through rate (CTR) of 3.09%. And for the last week I am running 3.7%! 75 affiliates means I have a 19% signup rate and 24 new activated means that 32% of those that sign up are activating or in terms of clicks, 6.1% of everyone that clicks on my ad activates their account on Traffic Swarm.
My cost per click (CPC) is running just over 18¢. For the 24 new affiliates I have received 6000 credits. Based on the Traffic Swarm cost to purchase credits I have a $ efficiency of $1.67 meaning I am getting $1.67 worth of value for every $1.00 I spend on AdWords. Additionally, as a Pro Member I receive 1 credit every time one of my referrals opens their Traffic Swarm start page and one credit anytime anyone on my first line clicks on a link on their start page. This has given me an additional 14,521 credits which is worth almost $300.
So I have to say that this has been a great success in my online marketing. I highly recommend to any one wanting to market online that they look into using AdWords and to get
Perry Marshall's ebook to show them how to get the most out of their campaign.
Submit Your Article
I subscribed to
submityourarticle.com today. I don't really like signing up for subscriptions because I see it as a perpetual cost. But I decided that in this case there really was value. For $37 a month I can submit four articles automatically to a fifteen article announcement lists and over ten thousand publishers.
Now if I am going to add up the number of hours I spend submitting articles to the two dozen sites I have used and what that time is worth versus the $9.25 it will cost per article it is a no brainer.
The other positive here is that since I am signed up for 4 a month it will motivate me to get out four a month. And motivation is something you need when you work on your own.
I have read elsewhere about using submityourarticle but had never looked into it. But I was reading Stone's journal posts and see that it is one of the first things that he did. So I copied him. Which is the purpose of the journal. If we all follow Stone's steps and become successful by default he becomes even more successful. But I am willing to let him have that if it gets me to where I can make a full time income from home.
By the way, I was just checking Stone's journal and has he been busy today. He created a
new splash page for us. I looks great. This is the kind of support we are getting. If you are looking for a real work at home business opportunity you owe it to yourself to ckeck the
Plug-In Profit Site out.
Writng Does Not Have To Be Difficult
In the ebook
30 Days To Success, Stone Evans writes about the importance of writing articles. l had written three articles in my first month online but had not done any since. That was until Stone started his online journal at the
Internet Warrior's Forum on what steps he was taking to become his own top affiliate. One of the first steps he took was to write an article and submit it to as many sites as he could. His plan is to submit an article a week. This inspired me so I am attempting to do the same. I am preparing my second article that I am posting to my
new article page.
It is important not only to write articles and publish them on my own site but to submit them to article directories. With the resource box that provides a link back to my site I will increase the number of incoming links and improve the amount of traffic I get.
Writing articles, or blog posts for that matter, does not have to be difficult. The topics jump out all day long. The key is to recognize when one of them does. For example, this post. I was working on my fifth article when I realized that I was writing it as a result of Stone's journal and how much it can impact my home based business. If it was that important to the marketing of my business then it is probably important for others as well. And hence, the subject of this post.
I would suggest that you give it a try. When you have an activity that is aimed at building your home based business in some way take a moment to jot down some details if not an entire article. It will be amazing how easy it comes. And don't worry about how good it is. Not everyone can be a Steinbeck, but if you have an interesting subject and present it clearly it will get read.
Free Upgrades Available
Several months ago I was invited to join a new business that was being started by Joel Sauceda. Joel is one of the most successful offline MLM affiliates and is now creating an opportunity for all of us to have a profitable home business.
Vortex Marketing Group has been working on setting up products, lead generation, backoffice, marketing, etc. for the last several months. I just received an email asking me to confirm my position in the company. There are currently 27,000 affiliates signed up and almost 200 new affiliates are signing up every day. The goal is to have 50,000 when the company launches as an MLM.
One of the products is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). There are other VoIP products popping up everyday, but the key will be services that are offered with it. VMG will include these future developments:
- LAN Phone
- Enhanced Hosted PBX
- Call Center Management SW to Support PBX (Q405)
- Call Cost Allocation
- Allowing each call to be costed directly to an existing account.
- Fax Services
- Windows and Web Based Fax Program to allow sending and receiving faxes.
- Multi-party Conferencing
- Call Transfer
- Additional Skin Interfaces
- User Submitted gallery of designs.
- Shared Contact Lists
- Multiple Lines on a Single PC
- A user can have a UK number, Australian number and US number that all rings to the same handset.
- SMS: From your softphone to any mobile phone.
- Video Support (H.263 and H.264)
- Linux and Macintosh Support
- Spanish and Asian Language Support
Two other products that we will be able to offer are Dish Network, and long distance service.
I have an opportunity for a few folks that act quickly. I have a few Silver Benefactor Vouchers available. These vouchers are for a free upgraded position in the V-Line matrix. Many people have paid the full price of $299 for a Silver level, but with one of these vouvhers the upgrade is free. In todays communication from Joel he told us that these vouchers will expire soon. If you would like one just sent me an
email and I will provide a voucher number and instructions on how to redeem it.
A Great Opportunity Just Got Better
As you are aware, I am a Plug-In Profit Site (PIPS) affiliate. The affiliates exchange ideas and information on the Warrior Forum. Occaisionally someone will post a concern that if a prospective member removes the affiliate ID from the link the page shown would be for Stone Evan's downline. Stone is very good about making PIPS a great opportunitiy for all of us and he just notified us that he has taken care of this concern. If the affiliate ID is removed the resulting web page says that an affiliate ID is necessary. This is good news for us.
But it just got way better. Stone is starting a PIPS business as if he just signed up and he has created a journal on the Warrior Forum documenting the steps he is taking to build his business. In less that two days he has already given us ideas that would take weeks or months do discover on our own. His goal is to be his own biggest affiliate. And we get to follow him step by step. Stone is sharing with us all of the steps he is taking and allowing us to repeat those steps for ourselves. This is an amazing opportunity.
So if you want to make money at home and are unsure of how to go about it, or if you are looking for a way to boost you existing business with 5 streams of residual income you should take a look at the
Plug-In Profit Site.
p.s. As you will see if you check out this opportunity access to Stone's journal and all of the Internet Warriors forums is included.
Another Co-Op Disappears
So we have had another scam artist among us. Somewhat discouraging, but live and learn. Dwayne Freeman of Fountain Colorado offered guaranteed signups (affiliates) for SFI at a cost of $20 for 10 affiliates. The first person to sign up for this offer gave good reports of the delivery and quality of the affiliates. This enticed others to also sign up. Dwayne made assurances that he would update the status page so everyone would know where their order was.
Well guess what. No one has heard from Dwayne for the last 3 weeks. It appears he has taken the money and run. Which prompted me to make the following post on the Warrior Forum:
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So here's the way it works -
1. Make a post in the forum that you have been testing a lead generation system and it is working great. You want to help out your fellow PIPSters and offer to provid them leads at a nominal cost. You explain how the amount paid barely covers the cost generating the leads.
2. Take orders and take money.
3. Provide a couple of names as signups, wether they are real or just ones you make up. Hotmail accounts are cheap.
4. Post in the forum that due to the high volume that you need to replace your server(s). The added expense will require you time to accomplish this. Say that once this is done the leads will be flowing. And don't forget to offer more leads at the nominal cost. There will surely be people still willing to buy.
5. Post in the forum that the server upgrade is complete. You are testing but expect the leads to start coming out in a few days. And don't forget to offer more leads at the nominal cost. There will surely be people still willing to buy.
6. Disappear for a while.
7. When you return post in the forum that you/mom/dog have been seriously ill but that you/mom/dog are recovering and you will be able to return to work shortly. Don't forget to offer more leads at the nominal cost. There will surely be people still willing to buy.
8. Once it appears that you have emptied this well just disappear for good.
9. Find another program/forum to repeat this plan.
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Sad, but true. Even those who you have contact with on a regular basis, albeit through a forum, may not be trust worthy. Face to face can be hard enough to detect the lies, but the web makes it even more difficult. Once again, make sure you know who you are dealing with before you pay your money.
Be Careful Who You Link To
You have probably heard that one of the ways to improve the page rank (PR) of your site is through links. One way links from sites with a high PR is best, but reciprocal links from related sites is also good.
Looking up related sites and sending link exchange invitations is pretty time consuming. But there are services you can sign up for that allow you to look for, and make requests to, several potential link partners a day. I have signed up for a few of these services, one of which is
Link Market.
When I started out I was the one making the requests. But now I have a better PR I get many more requests from others than I make. Part of the problem with this is that as a free member of linkmarket I have no control over what types of sites can request link exchanges with me.
I get several a week from online casinos. Besides not being related to my home business site, I am leery of the integrity of these sites.
Another type of site I get requests from are moving company brokers. I have always turned down these requests, again, because they have nothing to do with work at home businesses.
But yesterday I heard a consumer alert about these types of sites. It seems that many of them use unlicensed and unbonded movers. They often pick up your stuff and upon arrival at your new home tell you that the price they quoted was short and that if you don't pay thousands more in cash they won't unload your stuff. It's worse than being robbed because you invited them in. You can read more
here.
These guys are a black mark on all internet marketers so be careful when dealing with them. And if I have a link to their site, even though I make no endorsement, it negatively affects the perception of my integrity. There are probably legitimate moving brokers out there so if you plan on using one make sure to do your homework.
We Have Lost A True Friend
Sad news today out of California that internet marketing guru Corey Rudl was killed in a auto racing accident on thursday at California Speedway in Fontana. Corey and the driver of the car were both killed in the accident that occured during a club day event. You can read more
here.
Corey was the founder and president of the Internet Marketing Center and Secrets To Their Success.
Tributes are pouring in, a testament to the 34 year old who is described as driven, bright, articulate, honest and hardworking. In today's internet marketing world where fast buck artists try to seperate us from our hard earned money, Corey provided great products and great service. This is truely a sad day for the online marketing world.
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
Ken Calhoun has created a
memorial site for Corey. Take a few minutes to read what others have said and even post a few thoughts of your own.
