Bankruptcy to Millionaire

Ok… so I’m not sure this guy is really an affiliate marketer, but he could be. Because every once in a while I feel like going bat shit insane.

Happy Friday Everyone. Make sure to enjoy this to the end:

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Alrighty!

Results after last night were certainly promising and disappointing at the same time!

I got 19 pages launched last night (roughly 1/3 of the total landing pages I will create if these are successful. So there is more volume).

I tested for about 2 hours on adwords. And received 26 clicks at a 2.5% CTR!!! This is the best adwords campaign I’ve ever put together.

However, after 26 clicks and $10 later, I noticed I did not have a single email opt in.

Now I realize to your average affiliate (not to mention super affiliates) this is not enough to justify a valid test. 26 is hardly any, however as this is not a Pay Per Opt-in campaign. It’s a pay per sale campaign. I need regular opt-ins to justify doing it.

So I looked at my pages and realized several places where I went wrong. So I’ve spent a few more hours revamping. The landing pages I feel are 100 fold better than they were, and I feel will convert more opt-ins.

I just launched the adwords campaign tonight. I’m going to run it for a few more hours. Hopefully if the 2.5% CTR sticks, I will get at least a couple opt-ins tonight.

I’ll report my exact stats for todays test tomorrow!

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*This post uses insider vernacular. If you are not familiar with Affiliate Marketing and would like to become more informed here is some information on Affiliate Marketing on Wikipedia.

I also visit Zac Johnson’s and UberAffiliate’s blogs daily. They are “super affiliates” and make tons of money online everyday. I suggest you read their blogs if you are interested in learning more about making money online, and affiliate marketing. UberAffiliate had a great N00b post on here site: here* 

Ok, so I’ve launched my affiliate campaign.

After about 1 hour, I think it’s doing pretty good!!!

Here are my (VERY short term) stats so far from Google Adwords:

• I have 19 ad groups. Each with their own specific landing page.
  • In each ad group the key words are all of “Great” quality score. I’ve purged all OK or worse quality scores.
• In just about 1 hour I have 713 impressions.
• I have 17 click throughs
• I have a CTR of 2.31%
• I have 0 email opt-ins
• $0 in commissions

So right now. I obviously don’t have enough for statistical proof. But I’m probably going to pause the campaign tomorrow. If I don’t have a good opt-in rate I am going I will tweak the landing pages and try again.

So far however I’m pleased with my CTR. Lets see what happens by tomorrow morning.

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Short and simple post today:

Today is the day I start testing my online affiliate knowledge. I’ll report my results tomorrow.

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“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

It’s an oldie but goodie from Ben Franklin.

It’s a simple but elegant reminder to take action today.

More Quotes From Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes I feel so paralyzed by procrastination it’s absurd. Many times there is no excuse for the way that I spend my time. Yes unproductivity seems to be my MO all too often.

Not Today.

This blog is short because I’m taking action. Are you?

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On Saturday I blogged on having a lack of concentration. And feeling “lackluster” or stagnat.

That was Saturday.

THIS IS TODAY. And today I feel GREAT! I feel today is going to be a fantastic and PROFITABLE week.

• This site is growing by leaps and bounds. (Just broke the 200,000 mark on Alexa is just over a month of Blogging.)
• Last night at around 12:30a I register my new domain to launch my new site. (More on that in a second)
• I have some great ideas that should make some good money for the company I word for (and generate some commissions!)

What am I going to be doing?

Registering and starting this website will be my first trust step from moving to Bankruptcy to becoming a millionaire. It is a true exercise in wealth building because it could become a somewhat high paying residual income.

What I’ve done is, I’ve created a page to affiliate marketing a Dog Training and Obedience course. But the neat thing I’ve done is I’ve created a seperate landing page for each of the major dog breeds (so far I have about 18 of the most popular breeds).

I am going to begin marketing the site with adwords and other PPC methods. The great thing is this product will lead to a back end market. I will be able to continue to market additional products to the people in this niche. And I have a few ideas that could turn this business into a $1,000,000+ a year enterprise if this site is successful.

People love their dogs. And they love to take care of their dogs.

I am going to be tweaking and testing this site over the next few days to find out if there is any life to it at all. I will report my progress over time.

*Side note: Finally I am getting to the nature of why I started this blog. Yes it has started off slow. But with some skill, and some luck, and I DOCUMENT exactly how I go from doing nothing. To make real money. In REAL TIME. Thanks everyone*

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*thinking silently to myself out loud*

What is my problem? I can’t seem to concentrate on getting stuff done. I feel incredibly unproductive and stagnant. I know the things that need to be done. But I’m not doing them. At work. Extra projects. My projects. I am not taking action like I should. I keep thinking about taking action. Talking about the possibilities. But I’m just not DOING IT!

I’ve read about 19 year old successes. 12 and 13 year old successes. 23 year old successes.

What the hell is my problem? I know it can be done. I know I have it in me. Why don’t I just take more Massive Action and start DOING IT. That’s all it takes. Just to do it.

I need to stop procrastinating and just get to it.

I hate being negative, and this will be one of the few posts I make that is. I’m just in a strange state of mind right now. Maybe I shouldn’t be blogging???

Anyhow I am going to kick my own ass even harder. Set firmer goals. And make more progress, more rapidly. I cannot afford to just “think”. I must DO. I must own it.

Thank is all.

*End Brain Spew*

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*Note: There are ZERO affiliate links in this article*

I hope everyone had a fantastic Turkey Day (In the U.S. at least… everyone where else I hope you had a wonderful run-of-the-mill Thursday ).

Ok, so I’ve made a bold commitment:

“I will go from DEEP in debt and negative in my bank account to becoming a millionaire in 48 months. And I will blog on my entire journey to prove it.”

So I’m just over a month in… and I still have a TON of work to do. There is still a lot of work to be done on my integrity and my personal fortitude. There are still many things I would like to change within myself. But as I’m doing those things I have to be looking at how I am going to start turning a massive profit.

The first secret I know to become a millionaire is I CAN NOT trade my TIME for MONEY. I’m working a job, and I’m doing magic part time. That accounts for about $1900 in monthly income (even if I had no monthly expenses I would become a millionaire in about 526 months).

Needless to say I’m not going to become a millionaire in just 4 years with this approach. I must find a way in which to begin find out how to do work one time, and get paid for it over and over.

So what’s the best way? I spent a lot of my Turkey Day (and many other days) looking at various ways that people are making money. I found a few interesting things that I’ll share in a second… But first, let me be clear:

I am not some sort of delusional freak looking for the “Magic Pill” that is going to make me RICH overnight. I know there is only one (reliable) way to true, personal wealth. HARD WORK.

This is what I’ve come across in the last couple of days that *could* make me a million dollars in the next 47 months:

• Copywriting
  • There are a ton of opportunities out there to make good money, especially if I can write a piece that converts. My dad *whom is supporting me greatly in the journey, even by sponsoring this blog!* told me of a few interesting ways to get into mail order houses, that will test your list, and pay you on the amount of letter they actually mail. If you write a letter that converts, you could make TONS of money residually for a long time.

• Mail Order
  • This is related to the copywriting field but a little bit more extensive, and requires a bit more capital. But the profit potential is HUGE. I’m just finishing reading through Vincent James’ The 12 Month Millionaire for the 2nd time. This man made TONS of money in the Fake-Medicine market (XYZ enhancement pills).

    I DON’T want to sell the shysty pills he sold. But the information he provides in his book is PHENOMENAL. I do have a few ideas that I think may be a GREAT may order idea. And will tie in perfectly with an online promotion I have planned.

    I have every intention of doing a mail order campaign as soon as possible because I believe this is where becoming a millionaire is MOST LIKELY. Although this probably won’t be launched for another two or three years.

• Affiliate Marketing
  • Promotion of other peoples products for a profit share. I have one of these planned to execute in the next two weeks in the Dog Care Market. I do not plan on making millions here. But it could be a nice profit nest egg generator for my future endeavors.
  • PPA/CPA networks. This is the one I’m the newest to. I’ve just began investigating these opportunies through some guys that are putting up some pretty penomenal numbers. (Shoemoney, UberAffiliate, Zac Johnson, and others) Some of these guys are putting up absurd numbers in the PPA networks, and I’m officially fascinated. But again, it appears you’ll need some start up cash to test what works. And from what I can tell you must DEVOTE tons of time to make sure everything is optimized.

So for those of you that were curious on how I was planning on becoming a millionaire in only 4 years. It will probably be in 1 if not all three of these markets. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Over at Problogger.com there was a post written Haiku Blogging. Now at first I thought it might have talked about something I have done recently, and that is post a Haiku as a blog post. But it’s not. It’s something quite more important. And really relates to another blog I’ve found myself reading often. Specifically on the post of simplifying anything.

It’s helped me realize that my life is TOO DAMN BUSY. I make everything too complicated by not focusing. My time management is… well it’s HORRIBLE. I’m still far to easily distracted. I spend way to much time on this blog being “unproductive”. I spend way to much time check traffic stats, and other pointless time wasters.

It’s helped me realize I need to concentrate on what’s important. Getting my blog known, and making sure I get visitors. Sure, that’s important. But checking in every hour to see how many visitors I’ve had in the last 60 minutes… Not quite so important.

I’ve not realized if I concentrate on allocating only so much time everyday to important tasks, and cut out the not so important. I’ll not only get more things done. I’ll get them done more efficiently, and as a result create a better overall experience for everyone involved.

In spirit of being brief, I’ll end it there. I just would like to wish everyone a GREAT Thankgiving Break. Make sure you enjoy it.

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I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to find my passion. If there is one rule that I know is that you must LOVE what you do to become ultra successful at it.

I want to become a millionaire. And I only have 43 more months to do it. I think I need to find my passion.

First of all I know I love talking about money. I just find the subject of it fascinating. How people make it. How people lose it. I love hearing of peoples great success stories. I love thinking “entrepreneur”. Take an idea… any idea. How can you make money with it? I’ve been thinking that way since I was 7.

I can burp (loudly) on command. Can I make money doing that?

But even though I liked to “think” this way. I was a thinker. A talker. Not a doer. I never stopped talking about it long enough to just DO IT!

So then I second guess myself. Do I have “it”. I sit on my duff a lot, and do a whole lot of nuthin’ FAR too often! Because if my passion is just thinking business. I’m flat SCREWED, because I’ll be flat BROKE.

But finally; it’s starting to *click*. I think I am about to harness “it”. To focus “it” into a whirlwind of action and success. I can feel “it” brushing the tips of my fingers just ahead of me, and if I can just grab ‘hold and pull it close. I feel an explosion of success is inevitable.

I’m realizing. I absolutely, positively love to write. I thoroughly enjoy putting my thoughts and my words in black and white. I am also realizing how to monetize those words. Maybe this blog. Maybe a product. Maybe copy. But through practice and ambition. I believe that I will be able to find how to use my words to mine the cash into my pocket.

I have at least 3 business ideas in my head RIGHT NOW. I feel inspired. I feel action oriented. I feel RICH.

I am going to write these things down on paper RIGHT NOW. And develop a plan of action to get each one done in succession. And I am going to COMPLETE the project, and pull the trigger (quite unlike what I have done in the past. Where I started and gave up before I ever even gave some ideas a shot…).

I am going to COMMIT to a very modest goal. I am going to make it public, and I am going to do everything in my power to achieve it.

I commit to earing just $250 in profit in the Dog Care niche by the end of January.

Yes. I have had this *GREAT* idea for about 2 months. I have put a ton of it together, I just haven’t taken the final step and went live. Then begin to tweak and change to make it profitable. I am going to take this idea–that I absolutely POSITIVELY know will be a success–and full commit to it. I am going to turn a profit from it, because I know exactly what and how it is to be done. I just have to take the step necessary for doing it.

Now lets get to it! Lets start taking some action!

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