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Makeitrein

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Since the other journals in the forum turned out to be extremely helpful -- thought I'd make one for me.

Who I am - A guy who is a little bit fed up with people telling me what I
can and can't do.

Budget - Bootstrapping this project with minimal funds.

Products - HostGator Hosting (Aff link)
- Wordpress Themes (Aff link)

How - Youtube "How to" guides, light SEO, a lot of Yahoo Answer spam, and some (possible) PPC.

Please share your ideas and thoughts. :2drinkspit:

The plan for tomorrow -
1) Drop unsuccessful old blog.
2) Register domain for new blog (SiteG.org).
3) Chill out while domain propogates
4) Start/possibly finish youtube vid

Wish me luck! :banana_sml:
 


Day 1

Bought the domain makedasite.com and hosting for one year at HostGator for $83.

Sold old domains/cancled old HostGator plans.

Got halfway through youtube vid. Decided to call it a night early.

Total is -$83
 
Well, I took the night off early cause...it was Christmas.

Lol -- website will be an introductory guide to making a website.
Hostgator hosting and premium wp themes will be promoted throughout the site.

Also - a question to y'all - Is it worth my money to buy youtube traffic?
 
Day 2
Youtube = :disgust:

Dead, deceased, kicked the bucket, and took the bullet.

I tried to make a simple screencast of making a website.

10 tries and 5 technical failures later - I gave up.

For tonight and tomorrow - my goal is to make a good looking website. I'll post it up when its done.

Oh, @kaisdavis -- Agreed - there is no "right" answer.

Total is -$83
 
Makeitrein said:
Well, I took the night off early cause...it was Christmas.

Lol -- website will be an introductory guide to making a website.
Hostgator hosting and premium wp themes will be promoted throughout the site.

Also - a question to y'all - Is it worth my money to buy youtube traffic?
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Are you targeting everyone making a website or only those within the affiliate marketing niche?
 
Makeitrein said:
Everyone and anyone!
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IMO, that wouldn't be wise. Do you have any idea how many sites are out there that are dedicated to making websites? No offense, but you'll have trouble making money when there is so much competition. It would be better if you targeted the affiliate marketing niche. Not that making websites for affiliate marketing is too different but there are variations, such as implementing tracking (you can make tutorials for all the different tracking software there is), newsletters, etc. You would have to be very selective. But again, this is only my opinion.
 
All true - except I know a good amount about building websites and relatively little about affiliate marketing.

Does this change your answer?
 
Makeitrein said:
All true - except I know a good amount about building websites and relatively little about affiliate marketing.

Does this change your answer?
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No it doesn't. Maybe you don't know much about affiliate marketing yet but maybe you can learn more about the building a website aspect of affiliate marketing. Do you get what I mean?
 
Makeitrein,
I dont want to discourage you from making a website about something you love but I do worry that you're missing a lot of what is out there and more easily profitable via aff marketing.

you're launching a site into a relatively small market and in my opinion it's just not a profitable way to be spending your time.

Find an affiliate network like Ads4Dough, Convert2Media, EWA, etc that has affiliate managers that are also affiliates and can help you decide what to promote.

Sign up on their website and be ready to answer a quick phone call to make sure you're not a fraud. Tell them you are new and are good with websites and need advice on what to promote.

If you get denied for being inexperienced, move to the next network and try again. You'll get approved somewhere.

You'll get an affiliate manager who will (hopefully) tell you something that is selling and selling well and answer your questions related to making a campaign. Your affiliate manager will be on AIM 9-5 and EWA sends out guides weekly that would probably help you.

Google or yahoo search the offers they recommend and you'll see the landing pages of guys making money currently with them. Make your own version, get some traffic and you're almost sure to start making some sales, it's your job at that point to get it profitable and scale it.

I dont know how youre driving traffic but at any rate I think you'll find that by sending your visitors to a proven product / service that makes sales consistently youll make more money without as much guess work.

luck,
AA
 
DTAlexOne - I think... I get what you are saying. In my own words - I should start making websites for affiliate marketing to learn about the process. Start with something I know and build from there, no?

AffAholic - That was a golden post. Well-written, direct, and great information. Thank you for writing that. You're right - I do love building websites. And I will continue to work on launching my website blog.

However, I will also start applying to some affiliate networks and check out the landing pages of successful campaigns like you suggested. I gotta come out of my comfort zone sometime. :cool2:

If you have an affiliate network AffAholic (or DTAlexOne) that you would like to recommend to me, I will be happy to sign up under you guys with an affiliate link. (Your posts have been very helpful to me)
 
Makeitrein said:
DTAlexOne - I think... I get what you are saying. In my own words - I should start making websites for affiliate marketing to learn about the process. Start with something I know and build from there, no?

AffAholic - That was a golden post. Well-written, direct, and great information. Thank you for writing that. You're right - I do love building websites. And I will continue to work on launching my website blog.

However, I will also start applying to some affiliate networks and check out the landing pages of successful campaigns like you suggested. I gotta come out of my comfort zone sometime. :cool2:

If you have an affiliate network AffAholic (or DTAlexOne) that you would like to recommend to me, I will be happy to sign up under you guys with an affiliate link. (Your posts have been very helpful to me)
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Exactly. What gives newbies a lot of trouble in this industry is the technical aspect of building a website and everything that it entails. Such as setting up tracking and even things like finding the right host and creating databases and whatnot. I think you can fill that small niche. From there, you can promote themes, web hosts, and products that would help the average newbie set up a website.

I think you'll do fine if it's your passion.
 
Makeitrein said:
AffAholic - That was a golden post. Well-written, direct, and great information. Thank you for writing that. You're right - I do love building websites. And I will continue to work on launching my website blog.
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All good Makeitrein,
the advice will be there for ya when/if you need it in the future. and remember, you would still be making websites to promote the aff products which is what you love, and the income potential is far greater running these popular offers.

food for thought, good luck.
AA
 
Things are going slow here...

I have waited 36 hours for my DNS to propagate - nuthins happening.

I'm contacting Hostgator in the morning if I still have a dead website.

Total is -$83
 
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