Well, it’s been a little while since I was last here, but that has to be a good thing, right?  Especially when I’ve been working my socks off building up my business.

So here’s the news.  I’ve developed a whole new niche and it is HOT!  And what’s good is that it’s within my business plan and overall plan and through sticking to that plan, I believe I’ve found my over all niche!  I’ve already had more hits with this one site than I’ve had with my other sites combined!  I’ve started making money - I’m giving myself a month to add it all up and then I’ll post the amount here!  I’m tracking the income on a daily/weekly basis, but I want a full month before I post it!

As per my stated plan, I’ve not spent any money on PPC or anything like that.  I’m Bum Marketingand really enjoying it. I’ve written my first ebook and outsourced the graphics. I had to, the thought of learning PhotoShop and inevitably making a mess of it just wasn’t worth while!  If there’s one thing these past few months has taught me is that when you need to spend money on your business, do it!  Anything else, branching out into a realm that is not your expertise will in the long run, cost you money!

I’ve also been doing some forum marketing and I’ve found a couple of ways to add backlinks to my sites.  This week I plan to stay on the backlinking to my hot new site and boost the standing in Google. Keep Google happy and fed and that can only bring in new visitors.

Happy marketing guys!

Well all is well with me, I feel a lot more positive about my prospects and outlook in IM and it is pretty much just a matter of time before I start seeing some cash rewards.

I have seen some success via selling off some old stock I’ve had hanging around.  Made about $600 on Ebay over the past two weeks.  Good money that I’ve flung at my debts and I’ve got to say it was great to pay a little chunck of it off.  It’s important to me to clear out the old stuff of my life - Ebaying is what I’ve been doing for the past 18 months and I gotta say I’m sick to death of it!  So, yes!  Great to shift this stock and move forward!

I’ve just done some backlinking to my main blog, because let’s face it, you can do all the daily posting you like, you can write all the articles and submitt them to directories, but if you ain’t got no backlinks, you’re pushing a pea up hill with your nose!  So I’ve laid down a plan, spent the whole of today implementing that plan and I’m hopefully going to start seeing some backlinks to my blog that the big G will gobble up.

The last product that I bought, I’ve been working through that and been enjoying it.  Right now I’m at the stage of learning - AGAIN - about how to do Keyword Research properly!  It’s really funny that no matter how much you know about something, or you think you know what you’re doing, it sometimes takes one writer to write it in a certain way for the information to hit home!  Kerching! 

Keyword Research is vital when embarking on a new niche and you miss out certain steps at your peril.  You approach it with too much emotion, at your peril!  And you approach it in a half-assed, piss poor way and you just end up losing a whole pile of money.  Well I did my research and I got me a whole new niche, with killer numbers, and I’m gonna invest in that niche in the next few weeks, just got to stick to my plan and keep on working on my main blog!

Happy marketing whoever’s reading!

Did you ever feel like you’d arrived late at a very boistrous, all hell let loose party, where sex had taken place, where money and wealth were the entry tickets?  Where the ordinary looking guy with bad skin, got to go home with the beautiful girl and in a Porche no less!  Where everyone already knew everyone elses name?  Where everyone knew the latest dance and there you were, badly dressed, no dance partner, no money in your pockets, struggling with the steps as you try to keep some kind of rhythm to the music?  Music that you’d never even heard before?  Ever felt like that?

Remember when your mother told you to switch that computer off and go out and play with your friends?  To go get some exercise or you’d turn into one of those pastey faced geeks who spoke an obscure language and whose only relief was to masturbate until he was blind, cause he’d never get a girlfriend?

Reader,  I won’t go for the plural on that and humilate myself, I’ve just checked all my stats: Commission Junction, Adsense, Clickbank, PayPal and today I made the grand total of $0.01.

Not much more to say really is there?

Well I’ve had my head down for the past two weeks working on one project, that’s the way to approach this Internet Marketing, I’m told.  Stick with one project until that’s earning a few dollars and then lather, rinse and repeat.  So on another of my sites, I’ve been concentrating on getting traffic to it.  It’s my oldest site, the site I first set up and it’s not doing at all badly.

I like to go the free route whenever I can.  Adwords, at the moment, is not for me.  If there’s a way to make a little dirt stick, I’m always gonna try throwing it myself, rather than paying someone else to throw it for me.  I’ve been Bum Marketing as much as I possibly could - which works out at eleven articles and I’ve also been posting to my blog every day.  It might not seem like a lot to some, but for it’s mamoth. 

I also changed the theme on the blog and it’s looking a whole lot more professional and inviting.  I’m already getting comments on the blog, so I’m super happy.  There can be nothing worse than writing away and having the distinct feeling that no one out there is reading/listening.  But the comments tell me otherwise!

I’ve also set up a couple of squeeze pages, to split test and see which one gives a better return - I’m even getting a hold of the lingo, as you can see! 

I’ve set up a Squidoo Lens and linked it to my blog for even more traction and I’ve also done the same with a Hub.  So as you can see, I’ve been busy.  I’ll be sticking with my lead project for perhaps another week and I’ll evaluate it from there.

Happy marketing guys!

I’m on numerous Guru and ordinary Joe’s lists and sometimes the pinging of the inbox does get a tad annoying the amount of drivel that gets delivered, I believe it’s called email blindness!

But one list I’m on is Willie Crawford’s, and only very recently.  So anyway a couple of days ago, my inbox goes ping and Wille Crawford has sent out an email and this email talks about setting up a site a day and trying to earn $5-$10 a day from each site.  This you do for 30 days and you guessed it, you end up with 30 sites each making…well you do the maths, it’s been a long day and I don’t have the energy to open my inbox and find the email.  Not bad change aye?  I think he called it something like slot machine plan or something like that.  Obviously some sites will make more, some will make less and some won’t make a penny - slot machine.

So since I have all these ideas, never been short on ideas me, and I’ve got me an unlimited hosting plan with Hostgator, off I go planning out my first campaign.  Well I got me a site up and it’s around a Niche that I know about.  I did my keyword research, checked out the competing sites and managed to write 3 articles and one blog post.

The trick is to keep going I suppose.  Aye, hasn’t that always been the trick though?

Wish me luck!