The Diary Of An Internet Marketer

I haven’t managed to get much work done this week once again thanks to the stress of wonderful children.  I am emotionally exhausted and just can’t think.

Earlier this week I did send out an email to my subscribers asking exactly what they would want in a report and from the many responses the majority wanted a complete step by step report giving all the instructions needed to start from scratch and complete a project that will make money online.  Many thought that a lot of the ebooks that are out there may give step by step instructions but don’t cover everything needed, that they assume some things would be known by the reader.  So my subscribers want something that covers EVERYTHING, and not assume any knowledge already.

So I thought the best way to do something like that would be to start a completely new project (even though I said I wouldn’t start anything new) and record every step as I went along.  So I have started a project and have been recording everything.  It was going really well until the last couple of days when my son has been causing me stress again.  Hopefully I will get stuck back into it tomorrow.

I’m quite excited about this one as it is showing to have more interest already than I have had in the past on any of my sites within the first couple of days.  I plan to include all my html files and articles that I use for this project in the package when I offer it.

So basically that’s what I’ve been doing for the last week, I think I should have it completed within the next two or three days all going well.  Then I’ll get stuck into my own article writing again.

Take care and feel free to visit my other Internet Marketing blog at http://www.stayhome-mum.com/blog

Take care
Sheryl

Ok, just a quick post today before I head off to bed.  I had another one of the kids home sick today and boy did he really put on the acting this morning.  Within an hour after the other 2 were at school he was fine so I’m pretty sure he was pulling a ‘fakey’.  He’s getting pretty good though he’d probably win an Oscar for today’s performance.

Anyway, yesterday I think I mentioned that I bought a website through a WSO.  Well all I had to do to it was to change the affiliate links within it to my own and then upload the site to a domain name which didn’t take very long to do.  So here is my progress with my new site.

I purchased it just yesterday afternoon at a cost of $27.  Then I purchased a .com domain name for it which was about $10.  I wrote and submitted one article to 2 directories - cost of $0. I set up a PPC campaign (Adwords) and so far have a cost there of about $6.  So all up I have spent about $43 total on this website.

Today I made 2 sales with a commission of $33.90 each so a total of $67.80 in commission minus my $43 in expenses and I have a profit within my first day of around $24.  I’m pretty happy with that and with my only expense from now on being the PPC campaign I should make more profits.  Web hosting is costing me nothing for this site really as I have unlimited domain hosting with Hostgator and I added this site to my account there so it doesn’t cost anything extra.

My PPC campaigns are actually directing traffic to my articles that I submitted rather than to my website itself with the aim of getting  a higher ranking for my articles to get them hopefully up to page 1 in Google.  Once they hit page 1 then I can take off the PPC campaign and run on profits with no expenses.

So that’s my news for the day and it was a reasonably successful day.  I’m still working on article orders but don’t have too much more to do now and then I will concentrate on my own work.  I will aim at getting all 3 kids to school tomorrow and hopefully have the day to myself to concentrate on what I’m doing.

Thanks for visiting, take care
Sheryl

Today I had Lachlan home from school as he wasn’t feeling too good this morning with a blocked nose and headache.  He picked up fairly quickly though and probably would have been ok to go to school.

Today I purchased a WSO (I really need to stay out of the WSO section) it was a review website already made up promoting a particular product. As soon as I saw the product I liked the idea as I’ve seen this product do well for a colleague in the past, so when I saw an already made website for it I couldn’t help myself.  I did some keyword research and there is a ton of searches and keywords to use.

The only thing I had to do with the website was to change the affiliate links to my own and upload it to a domain name which I purchased.  I have written one article and submitted it to a couple of article directories and have also set up a ppc campaign.  So fingers crossed this will do well.  I shouldn’t need to do to much other than drive traffic to the site which I will mainly do through article marketing.

I actually managed to finish another article order and have two more to go. I wish I could be more focused and get stuck into them instead of getting sidetracked and looking through the WSO section.

We had aquantance night at school tonight which I wasn’t going to go to but the kids talked me into it.  Worked out well since they had a bbq there so it saved me cooking tea (I hate cooking).

Well, heading off to bed now.  I do feel like I have been a bit productive today which is good.  I hope you have had a productive day also, goodnight.

Sheryl
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I’ve missed a couple of days diary entries but I have had the worst headache for the last couple of days.  I’ve been struggling along and have been working on these articles orders although they have taken me much longer than they should have. 

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I just can’t seem to focus on my article writing lately.  I’ve had one of those weeks when I just don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere and sometimes I wonder if it’s all worth it.

Do you ever have days like that?  When you think about all the hours and all the effort that you put into your internet marketing business and just wonder if it’s all worth it.

I don’t know what it is but something just keeps me going and wont allow me to quit.  I don’t know if it’s the determination that one day it all will pay off or if it’s just that I can’t let my husband say ‘I told you so’.

I made a post a couple of days ago about being organised and I know that is one huge problem of mine.  I really need to set up a daily routine and try to get my internet marketer work done while the kids are at school and learn to just turn the computer off when they get home.  I feel like I neglect the children a bit because I spend too much time on this computer.

I couldn’t even tell you how much I’m making monthly, I should sit down and work it out.  I am so disorganised that I don’t even have all my financial records in order.  I really should do that, maybe if I had the actual figure of what I was making each month then I could set a goal to increase that a little each month.

I have about three more article orders to get through and I really should just get stuck into them and get them out the way so I can concentrate on my own work.  The only problem is that if I wasn’t doing this writing for others then I wouldn’t be earning all that much. 

Today I installed Adwords Analyzer on my laptop. I had it on my old computer so I copied the file over to my laptop and installed it but it’s just not working right.  It’s really been peeving me off too I hate when you just can’t get something to work properly and you spend way too much time on it trying to get it to work.  I need to do some keyword research on some of my work and although there are free keyword research tools they just aren’t as good. 

Ok, well I’m going to go and try and get some sleep. 

Take Care
Sheryl