I have a really important announcement! I have slightly modified my life goals. These were my previous goals:

• Make $150 per day through ShahTraining.com
• Purchase Property and Move to India
• Sell Full Length Feature Screenplay
• Start Indian Cinematic Journal
• Start a Family

Here is my modified list:

1. Make $5000 per month through ShahTraining.com – I’ve decided that it’s mentally better to approach affiliate marketing through a month by month basis, then a day by day or even week by week basis.
2. Start Internet Marketing Consulting Business – At least 2-3 people each day ask me questions regarding internet marketing. I think it’s about time I use this influence to start my own business.
3. Move out of the house – I think it’s better if I move out of the house first before I move to India. I’ll be able to learn to live on my own first.
4. Sell Full Length Feature Screenplay – Once I have money flowing in from two directions (website + consulting), and I have the peace and relaxation of living away from my noisy family, I can focus all my energy on writing my screenplay
5. Purchase Property and Move to India – Once I sell my screenplay, I’ll have enough dough to actually make the India dream possible
6. Start Indian Cinematic Journal – This is just another website idea I had. Not fully developed yet
7. Start a family – Yes, find a nice Indian girl, settle down, and have 5 kids.

I’ve printed this list out and posted it four times in my room. One list is posted on the outside of my door, so anyone passing by would be able to read it. It’s time I try to explain to my family what I want to do with  my life.

Update! Had another sale after I went to sleep so I actually made $126.40: This one was from an optin form I had for a Kettlebell product.

So yesterday I set a goal of earning $81. Let see today’s earnings:

Not a bad start! What’s interesting is where the sales came from. Both the sales were from the same individual. This person purchased a product from my affiliate link on February 26.

Now, the vendor had announced that he was coming out with a set of DVD’s. He was going to test them out with his mailing list, then make it available for his affiliates to promote.

So one of the products I got sales for isn’t even available for affiliates! But since the individual purchased something from me a few days ago, cookies are still saved on his computer, and hence…I got credit!

The individual purchased two separate products, so I’m pretty confident that he/she is a trainer of some sort. Otherwise why would anyone purchase so many workouts in such a short time frame?

I’ve had two individuals before that purchased more than one product from me within a short period of time. One of these individuals purchase 8 separate products I was promoting.

Either this individual is a compulsive credit card user, or a personal trainer. One of the products that this individual (the one I got credit for today) was a bootcamp program for trainers.

So, yes these people are trainers and I should do a better job of trying to market fitness products to trainers. It can turn very lucrative if I do it right!

I’ll just add this to the list of strategies I need to try.

By the way – I JUST had this thought. I tend to be able to think of things to do with my site to make sales left and right. In fact, I get so many ideas throughout the day, that I have to actually force myself to STOP implementing everything at once.

I’ve made a list of ideas, and I just keep the list moving and do things one by one. That’s what screwed me over in the beginning – I was trying to do too much at once.

Anyways, another piece of advice for newbies – use your brain. There is no one way to make a sale. Use your creativity. Keep things fun, and make sure Internet Marketing is a passion for you and not just a way you think is going to help you pay your bills (or get your rich).

Let me just stop myself right here before I start a rant.

Tomorrow’s Goal: $80

So, February 2010 is officially over, and I’ve made $1997.52. That’s just $2.48 away from my goal of $2000. My sister says I should just declare it a success.

After all, I did make more money in these two months than I did all of last year through affiliate marketing. That’s gotta count for something!

So, yes. I’m going to move forward and start cracking on March 2010’s goals. First, lets see some screenshots:

So, today I did not make a sale. But that’s all good.

In getting ready for March, I decided to take a look at the comparison in sales between January and February 2010.  Here are some interesting things I discovered:

• I only had 1 sale of Bodyweight Exercise Revolution at $31 in January. In February, I had 3 sales, and two of them were within the past week. I had just modified my review page to make it more detailed. I think it worked. I’m going to be working on it a bit further to see if I can get some more conversions.
• I sold 1 copy of the Workout Without Weights Combo package and 2 copies of the Gladiator Body Workout Combo Package in January. 0 copies of each in February. Even though these are great programs, I have chosen to abandon them simply because I have other products that convert better, and pay more. Also, Coach Lomax seems MIA. He doesn’t seem to be promoting his own products anymore. Where is he?
• In January, I sold 1 copy of the Deluxe version of Kettlebell Revolution, plus 2 copies of the basic version. That gives me approximately $142. In February, I sold 0 copies of the Deluxe version, and 3 copies of the basic version. That vies me approximately $114. Getting people to shell out $97 is harder than getting them to shell out $57. If I try to sell 4 copies of TTKbell this month, I can get $152. Or, I can offer more bonuses for people who grab the higher end product. 3 copies would give me $198.
• I also saw a boost in the number of individual Turbulence Training workouts people are purchasing. In January, people only purchase 2 individual, $10 workouts. In February, I had 6 sales of these workouts. Everything adds up. I will go back and take a look at all 8 workouts that people purchased and showcase them in separate posts.
• However, the main Turbulence Training package suffered tremendously. I think it’s Craig Ballantyne’s fault. He has been trying to get more people to join his Members section, and in turn he modified his main page and offerred his product for half the price, plus a free membership to his members section for one month. I did not get any conversions. His landing page has returned to normal. so I’ll probably see 2-3 sales this month. Not much to do there.

I have a lot of work to do for this month. On top of that I still have to write reviews for 8 brand new products I’m adding to my site, plus conduct about 6 interviews!

PLUS write 10 bonuses to give away with those products. It’s going to be quite an insane month. But I’m looking forward to it!

Lets establish the goals for March 2010 -

• $2500 for the month, net (minus returns)
  • This means, I’d have to make $81 average per day.

Let’s see how the month begins!