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Total sales this week: 8

Goals for this week:

• Make 18 Sales (2-3 sales per day)

Where did sales come from?

• 4 came from Mailing List
• 4 came from SEO

Now that I have a better understanding where my sales are coming from, I can create a better plan of action. I recieved a total of 2,827 hits this past week. If 2,827 hits brings me 8 sales, then I need around 6,360 hits to bring in 18 sales.

My conversion rate is still around .2-.3% Still pretty bad, but I’m not sure what else I can do to find a more targeted audience. So, I’ll focus on amazing content, and increased traffic.

6,360 hits per week is equal to around 908 hits per day. In essence, I’m trying to double my traffic. How? SEO. My SEO is powerful, so I’ll be pumping out a ton of content targeting some brand new keywords.

I’m not dealing with article marketing anymore. Lets focus on what’s working.

I seem to see two different sets of marketers on this site: a) People are making consistent sales, and b) People who’s sales are sporadic.

I’m not an expert, but I did some article and PPC marketing, and I must say it’s a lot harder than sending out an email to someone. I see it to be really strange that people are not generating a mailing list. I send out mailings on a daily basis.

Most people get into this because they want “freedom.” I don’t want to work 9-5 and make some other jack**s rich while I toil away at making HIS company successful. No, I want to be successful with my own project.

That’s the first reason. The second reason that I’m personally doing it is because I need a way to finance my lifestyle. There are lots of things that I want to do with my life that will not be possible if I end up in somedead end job.

So here are 2 reasons why your CB sales suck. And I hope this helps people out:

1) You’re not retaining potential clients

Do you really think people buy on the first visit? How many times have you gone to a mall, or store, or looked up a product and said, “Hey! I need this. I’m going to buy it!” Never. I’m not an impulse buyer. I’m really really frugal. But at the same time, I purchase at least one fitness product per month. Why? Because I’m interested in it. Which brings me to my second point -

2) You’re not attracting the right clients

What you want is someone who needs that product. The people that come to my site are people that already workout. I’ve had people buy multiple times from me because I showed them a need through my blogging. I had one guy buy 5 products from me!

So in conclusion, what you need to do is start an opt-in list. Don’t do bum marketing. Instead, write your articles and target keywords that arespecifically for your target market. Make the articles really good so they click on it. The idea is to win their trust as quickly as possible so they sign up to your list.

I had one guy buy from me 2 days after he signed up after my email list. Now that’s how you convert people. Not by sending people to a vendors site and hoping for the best. Yesterday I spent around 6-7 dollars onPPC and didn’t get a single sale.

I realized this morning that I need to what’s working and stop listening to all these people are supposedly experts – but I’m making more sales than they are. I’m officially putting a hold on allppc marketing.

It’s going to be solely about growing my list as quickly as possible with relevant people. Don’t be afraid to send out email everyday. The only people that will unsubscribe are people that will not buy from you.

Hope this helps people out!

Most of my sales are coming from my mailing list. I’m really great at writing blog posts, then incorporating a call to action to get people to purchase a product.

However, I feel that the SEO traffic I’m getting is a missed opportunity and so I should at least try to either grab some emails or make some sales through SEO traffic.

I want to try to make some sales before I test out grabbing emails. Right now, I’m growing my mailing list through article marketing. My squeeze page right now has a 21.9% conversion rate.

So, here’s my current landing page: http://shahtraining.com/

Here’s my squeeze page for the opt in list: http://shahtraining.com/get-your-fre…orkout-manual/

Opt-in squeeze page will naturally convert better because of I’m giving away something for free. So, here are some questions i HAVE:

1) Should I keep the landing page as is right now?
2) Should I change the landing page and use the same format as the opt-in page?
3) Should I place the opt-in list as my front landing page, hence focus on just collecting emails?

Thank you for all the great advice I been getting recently. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I’ve been getting really high click backs lately, at least 10 for most articles. I noticed a few very important things:

- The title needs to be simple, with the keyword as the base of the title. Don’t make anything too flashy, or too common. If there’s 4000 other articles with the same title, chances are your article won’t rank too well.

- The body needs to be personalized. Don’t regurgitate the same BS as every other article. Don’t give out too much information either. The one’s that that have a higher click rate focus more on results and benefits than actual advice.

- Make sure you have a call to action. Just don’t say, “To find out more, click here.” Say something like, “Now it’s time to reveal to you guys how I achieved some great results…”

I’m sure these pointers are nothing new, but I noticed a ton of questions about Ezine articles, so I’d thought I’d share these quick tips.

Here’s the truth though – despite the great traffic I’m getting from ezine, not many have converted, especially with the particular article I’m talking about with 20 something click backs within a few hours.

This could mean that my landing pages suck, or that ezine articles just don’t work as well as email marketing. At the end of the day, it’s the people that trust you, who’ll buy from you.

One thing I have achieved though. Remember I said I couldn’t get sales Monday thru Thursday? Well, I’ve gotten at least one sale each day this week except Wednesday. So at least that’s a good thing.

UPDATE: I just spent yesterday changing the link back to ALL of my ezine articles (all 90 of them) to point straight to my opt-in page. At this point, I’m convinced that the Ezine to Landing Page concept of “bum marketing” is not my time. So far, I’ve made ONE sale from bum marketing. All others come from my email list.

So the goal is to get 100 sign ups per day to my opt in list. That’s 100 potential customers DAILY. If I get around 10-20 (lets say, 15 per day) sign ups right now. That’s 105 per week. I get around 5-10 sales (lets say, 7 sales) per week

105 sign ups per week = 7 sales per week
105 sign ups PER DAY = 7 sales PER DAY

Most of my sign ups were coming from PPC, so I’m guessing ezine articles will have more qualified leads. I think this is the fast track method to seeing double zero daily commissions.

I think it has a lot to do with my target market – busy professionals. I do a ton of email marketing and so these professionals probably only check their personal email on the weekends.

The strategy I been using is very simple:

1. Use PPC AND Article Marketing to Generate Traffice to Opt-In List Landing Page
2. Write Blog Post designed to Get People to Purchase Product

Two simple steps and I’ve already doubled my earnings. My goal for next week is to break past $400 using this strategy.

The only thing is, as most of you have noticed, I tend to get 0 sales between Monday and Thursday (Except for Today, but I think that was a spillover from SUNDAY.

Here are the products that I’m selling right now:  turbulence training, gladiator body workout, naked commando system, meltdown kettlebell training, superior dumbbell workout, average joe workout, and workout without weights. So that’s 7 products, and I have 10 products featured on my site. 3 are not selling…yet.

I’ve seen a few sales that are not from my email list - so I just GUESS and say that they’re from either SEO or Article Marketing.

I think Article Marketing works, but just going crazy and writing random articles is point less and boring. I’ve been paying close attention to what headlines work, what kind of copy works, and what kind of call to action works.

I’ve been writing less articles lately. But higher quality. An article I wrote last week has already recieved 35 click thrus. My highest ever was 25 for an article that’s been up for months.

HOWEVER, I did not get any sales for the product I’m selling. That could mean that the copy on my website sucks. I’ll fix it and see what happens.

Bum marketing may be great, but not many people can sit there, put their brain to the side, and just write random junk. I’d rather write 3-4 articles that have 30 click thrus each and results in 3-4 sales per day rather than 20-30 articles with 3 click thrus per day resulting in 3-4 sales per day.

When you crunch the numbers and add in time, you realize you’re doing a lot of useless work for nothing. No one ever measures time. Time is just as, if not more important than money.

traffic does not necessarily equal sales. We know that. I’ll be doing some analysis on the past few weeks – how, where, what resulted in sales. The goal is to make at least on sale on monday through thursday. I’ll share my findings with all of you.