I haven’t updated in a few days, pretty much because there’s not much to say. This past week was the worst sales week ever. I only earned $35.

Last night I made a huge change to my blog. I put any blog post that resulted in a sale on the front page. How did I do that? I just looked at my CB transactions, and matched the dates with the blog post.

Now, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a blog post resulted in a sale, becuase I didn’t start putting tracking codes in until very recently. However, it’s a clue.

I also made sure those posts were actually decent. So, I think I have a nice spread of posts on the front page. By the way, there’s 50 posts on the front page.

This should be magic for SEO. In fact, I woke up this morning and found a sale. It wasn’t from my email list, so someone probably found my site through search.

The sale was from my side bar. Meaning that someone clicked on the product through the side bar and purchased it. That’s the magic of tracking codes – You know exactly how the customer got to the product.

But what you don’t know is what triggered the sale. My cousin asked me the other day about this. He gave me some ways to track this, but it didn’t work.

I’m not an expert in google analytics, and I’m going to spend some time to try and find an answer to this questions – “What actually results in a sale?”

- Is it a series of posts that they read?

- Are they looking for a review of that product?

- Where they already searching for that product?

A lot of my posts that are made through my email list can be easily traced back to a particular post. However, when it comes to search traffic – it’s difficult.

It’s going to be search traffic that’s really going to allow me to live the type of lifestyle that I wish to live. This thing needs to be hands-off.

Right now I’m putting in around 30-40 hours per week. Eventually, that number should go down to 4 hours. Most of the tools have already been set in place:

- High Traffic blog

- Targeted Maling List

- A selection of affiliate Products

So, it’s only a matter of time. I need to be smart, patient, and willing to experiment.

Last night I started a screenplay. It’s been over a year since I’ve written anything that is not related to Shah Training. It felt really good. I forgot how therapeutic scrpt writing can be.

Future plans are naturally to just keep working on Shah Training. The goal is to optimize the site for search. I want to see at least 10 sales per day just through search.

I just looked at my analytics and notice 33 hits from Google already. It’s 8 am so far. That’s not too bad at all. I usually so only 20-30 hits overall in the morning. RIght now my total hits are 87 from a variety of sources.

Alright, lets see what happens the rest of the day.

CB-analytics and similar sites are great research tools, but at the end of the day to choose the right product you need to be an expert in your niche.

If you know about your niche, then you can easily spot a BS product just by reading the sales page.

I’m exprimenting with autoblogging with FatLossPrinciples.com.

The plugins I’m using are FeedWordPress and Twitter Poster. FWP is a powerful syndication plug in, which can pull content from almost any blog out there.

Twitter Poster tweets all your blog posts automatically. Hence, you get SEO and Twitter traffic almost immediately. Well, at least that’s the idea.

I’ll let you know if this actually works, as it’s only been up for around 50 hours.

Hop data is updated every hour. However, the analytics are not 100% accurate. You will see some crazy numbers sometimes.

But overall, I think the CB hoplinks system is trustworthy. I’ve usually seen crazy numbers when I attach a tracking code to the hop link.

People are getting really frustrated with all these random clickbank sales patterns. People seem to from making $200 per day, to literally $0 per day. Why is this that case?

Well, there can be a lot of reasons for this, and the economy is certainly one of them. But I personally don’t like to spend too much on the “why.” You see, the “why” is something we can’t usually control:

* Bad economy
* People leaving for holidays
* A niche becoming over saturated

There are probably a ton of reasons WHY patterns are so random. I think it’s more important to look at things you can control. Most non-successful affiliates sit around and wait for something to happen.

I know this because I used to be one of them. You need to literally be a go-getter. You need to be fierce. You need to say – ok OBVIOUSLY, what I was doing isn’t working, so what can I now do differently to jump start my income once again.

It’s a lot like weight loss. I’m talking about this because I’m in the fitness niche, own a well-read blog, and have gone through my own personaltransformation.

On the first week, you lose 5 pounds. Second week, you lose 3 pounds. And then you keep losing 1-2 pounds each week, consistently. Then all of a sudden, you hit a plateau.

The one who fails will be the one who keeps doing the same thing expecting different results (i.e. breaking through a plateau). The one who succeeds is the one who completely changes his approach and pushes himself into a new level of fitness (or marketing, in our case).

That’s how it works in EVERY endeavor that your pursue. So stop complaining and start 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!

So I’ve had a site up for a while, and it’s just been this month that I decide to focus primarily on Affiliate Marketing.

Here’s the screenshot of my earning so far. As you can see, I tend to get my best sales on the weekends:

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.