April 19, 2008

Projects update

Filed under: Money — Alan @ 1:46 am

I’m finishing my tests with my Adult blog V2, so far, I’ve reached $130 with one blog in 10 days, for 1 day of setup + 1 hour of work every day. Not that much yet, but I’m gonna stop working on it, and see how much more it makes.

I’m also testing the sponsor, I should be receiving my first payment soon.

What I’m really happy about it is how I manage to create a powerful moneymaker, thanks to the experience of the first adult blogs project.

The problems with the first blog project were:

- not too easy to setup

- generating traffic was a bit tedious

- sales were difficult to get, the sponsor was not so easy to market

- it was more a long-term project, it took months to make sales

The good things were:

- the blog was a “set and forget”, once done, you didn’t have to take care of it

- if you like adult videos/pics, it was fun

- you could expand it and make a big network (=big money)

So I decided to keep the advantages and find new solutions to get rid of the disadvantages. And I’ve managed quite well. Now the adult blog v2 has the following good points:

- damn easy to setup (requires some html knowledge though)

- generating traffic is a breeze thanks to a couple of techniques + some automation tools I’ve written

- sales seems good. As written above I’m at about $13 a day for 1h a day, and I’ve not even yet optimized my work, I’m still testing many things. I already know how to add a 10-15% increase within a few days AND multiply the figure by 2 or 3 after a month or two (yes that means one blog could generate up to $50 a day, and you can setup as many blogs as you want).

- it’s short term for sure (The first day I did my blog, the second day I started to market it and made the first money within 24h). I don’t know if it would work long-term but I’m pretty sure this can last one year at least.

- the blog is a “set and forget”, once done, you don’t have to take care of it

- if you like adult videos/pics, it is fun

- you can expand it and make a big network (=big money)

So, as promised, everyone who wrote me to be part of the adult blog project v1 will be able to take part of the v2. I’ll have to finish my testing. Basically I’m waiting to receive my money from the sponsor to certify that the method work, and after it will be a question of fine-tuning.

I’ll contact the people who wrote me, and be aware that I’ll put some kind of “activity control” for this project, because I want everyone to really do the work and to make the money. I think this will be unique and very interesting, because when you take part of any project on the internet, no one is looking at you to see if you’re working. On the opposite, usually people are selling subscriptions, and their goal is to have consumers who are paying but lazy and never make money so they need to stay subscribed. I’ll do the opposite, there will be some dashboard where people will see what task they’ll have to do on a weekly basis, and they’ll be controlled. By doing that, they’ll make the money and I’m sure it will be a good motivation to start. And the people who are lazy and don’t care of earning money will be out of the project,so other people can have their slot.

And since this project is private (it’s necessary that not too many people are doing it in order to keep its effectiveness), I will also write a post about a different project, a whitehat/greyhat one, nothing to do with adult, I don’t have the time to implement it, so I want to give it to you so maybe some of you test it, hopefully make some money, and share their results…

Write you soon,

Alan

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April 2, 2008

You have to write an e-book.

Filed under: General — Alan @ 10:51 am

I’m taking a bit of time to give you a few tips about writing an e-book,

But before a few updates.
I’m still getting emails for the adult blog project, and the waiting list goes very long, but the good news is, I’m currently experimenting an evolution of the adult blog project, mixed with the be a whore post, added to some of the latest moneymaking tips I got. If it goes well, I’ll create an adult blog project v2, still free and still private. And Everybody on the waiting list will get access to this new project.

Besides I’m having 2 other projects to share with you but no time to prepare them yet!!! So probably you’ll discover them around may or june, so if you didn’t do it yet, subscribe to my RSS feed to be sure not to miss those.

Now, why do I say that you have to write an e-book? I’ll tell you my little story.
I began in the business of internet marketing in 2004 when I decided to write an ebook.
You know the trick: You choose a subject that you know. You write an ebook. You sell it, and you become rich.
Of course it doesn’t work so easily, but it was a good project, I learned many things, and it really got me started in this business.
It took me around 6 month working part-time, because I knew nothing at the time… SEO? Affiliate? What? I had to learn everything along the way.
I picked up a subject, wrote a 50 pages ebook about it.
I did some keyword research with wordtracker, and registered a domain with those keywords, then set-up and SEO’ed a website.
I did some backlinks building, nothing fancy, mostly by hand.

I waited then for the money to flow, but nothing, I was really disappointed (first lesson, don’t expect to become rich so easily!) so I didn’t take care anymore about the website. But after 6 months, I got my first sale! Still it wasn’t enough to make me spend more time marketing it. (first mistake, you always have to be patient, and put the effort to make money). Anyway after one year, when I checked the sales, I realized that I had made $600! Totally passive income. Imagine if I had worked a bit more to get more traffic.
I had to close it for some personal reasons, but I decided to re-open it in 2006.
Meanwhile, some domain squatters had already bought my domain to put some domain parking on it :)
So I used the same name and added “tips” : “xxxxx.com” became “xxxxxtips.com” so I could have the same keywords in the domain name
And I added a blog.
This one is really what everyone should do when they sell an ebook.
You look at any ebook landing page, you see it is always this big white page with a long speech and testimonials. They all look the same.
But by adding a blog, I think it gives some trust to the people, because

1) you give some info to people, if it is good enough, they see you’re not going to sell them a crappy ebook.

2) By seeing some activity, they know that your site is still maintained, it doesn’t looks like old stuff (even if you wrote your ebook 4 years ago like me).

What’s my routine? I write a short article on the blog, every two month. If my article is too big, I cut it in several pieces.
I wait a bit to get my new post indexed by Google.
Finally, I go to those articles directories, and submit my article to get some traffic/backlinks.

I have maybe a dozain of articles since 2006, and spend an evening once every two months for writing the new article, but I could write more articles if I wanted to market more my ebook.

Results? I get a steady 150 visits per day and make a couple of hundreds per month.
Having a blog really increase my organic traffic and my sales.

So I advise you to write an ebook, it’s not a big instant moneymaker, but with consistance and patience, you can get a nice passive income.
And you’ll learn many things along the way.
There is the majority of people who try to make money on the internet and fail/don’t make a lot. I believe that one thing that the successfull minority has, is patience and consistence. Yes, you can try to make big and quick money, but ALWAYS work on some long-term side project, even if you earn nothing now.

It’s like the stocks market. You can make a lot of money quickly but it is not easy. Or you can make good money on the long-term if you take some safe stocks that you know for sure they work with time. But of course, it is more boring, and you need more patience.

Some long-term project is basically everything that involves creating your website around a subject you know: Sell an ebook, but could also be to set-up a community through a forum, or create a resources website (like those myspace goodies websites)…
You have plenty of opportunities, just take action now!!!

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