The Money is in the List?

Hello everybody!

Like all other internet marketers, I heard the money is in the list. So to test this out, I set up my own list of emails with a nice opt-in form, and all I do now is wait for leads.

Every lead in my list receives a series of eight emails telling him about the wonders of what I'm promoting, including two videos I made and two others I didn't. The videos appear on my pages, so there is no danger of leaking traffic.

After two weeks the entire series is over and the prospects get the opportunity to look for the best products available for this niche. Guess who receives commissions for these proucts. After two more weeks, if there is no purchase, I kindly ask why he/she didn't buy. Nothing helps more than information from customers and non-customers.

I also started doing some social bookmarking, hoping it will bring some traffic in. So far it's fine, but it doesn't pay yet.

Here is my second video on YouTube. I already have an idea for the next one:


Until next time (or until the money comes from the list),
nadavs

Electrolysis

Hi everybody.

Let's start with the bad news first. After enjoying four months of no refunds, the curse of annoyance has landed on the people who bought through my link, and I got two refunds in two days. That brings me back to a February loss, which is really annoying after finally having a profit.

Lately I've started using ad scheduling on my AdWords campaign. Because, seriously, there is no point in advertising during times that did not produce a single sale. Now all I need is, well, sales.

In addition to ad scheduling, I also changed my landing pages to fully implement the idea of freeway marketing. No extraordinary results so far, but the landing pages do look much, much better.

Today, my friends, I joined the club of video marketers. I finally created a video and put it on YouTube. The video is very simple, and it explains about electrolysis and HHO. Even though it's simple, I think it can do the job well.

You can watch the masterpiece here:



In one month and one day I'm going to be 18 years old, which means an international credit card, which means: new ebook published. Stay tuned for updates.

Until next time,
nadavs

Putting the Signs on the Information Superhighway

Hello everybody.

After thinking about it for some time, I finally put my site's description on the site itself, and as you can see, at the title of this post. Catchy, right? Now I just need to redesign some of my landing pages to include the nice picture with several modifications.

Notice the picture is in a form of a freeway sign, with the intention that people driving around will recognize those signs with my site. I'll let you know if this is just hope, or sales do come from this.

My eBook is coming off very nicely, with 21 pages already (probably the longest document I've ever written). I've also created a sales page for it which I'm promoting right now (and it will be revealed here when I start publishing the eBook). Why I'm promoting it? Because when the visitors click "Get your guide now!", they reach a very ugly page - the survey. I want to see how well my page converts, if it does convert (I highly doubt it, it's very short and probably ineffective). One little conversion (page visit) on Google, that's all I want to see.

That's all for today, friends. See you next time.

Until the conversion,
nadavs

Going Global

Hi everybody.

So far February makes me smile: I'm in the black. Maybe not deep in the black, but not red. All I need this is to continute, preferably with the product I'm promoting now.

After profiting very nicely in one niche, I decided to leave. Not because of the profits, but because of the competition. It just became too intense. I can't handle too much foolish competition without Google's monthly maintenance. There are just too many one dollar domains that do nothing but redirection, a prohibited act on AdWords. I hope Google catches those fools soon and puts them in the $5/click jail.

The niche I'm promoting now is another topic I'm interested in (hint: goal zero). Since usually my campaign for this niche gives ten clicks per day, I decided to go global: on the country list I picked "All Countries and Territories", so if you look for my campaign in Antarctica, you'll probably find it. You can't find it on only one country, guess which one it is (hint: starts with Isra and ends with el).

And finally, I've made some big progress towards my own eBook: I created an account that allows me to build forms! Yes, that's not a big deal, but with my procrastinating attitude this is something big. The next steps are: creating a form, creating a page for this form, creating a campaign for this form, receiving feedback, actually writing the eBook, writing a sales page, putting it on ClickBank. One step at a time to financial freedom.

Until the first sale for the new niche (or before),
nadavs

Foolish Competition

Hello everybody.

January didn't come off with a profit, but with a little $2 loss that can be called break-even. February, on the other hand, looks very promising. As long as the foolish competition is gone.

The foolish competition are the new advertisers that now joined my niche, and appearantly they use almost every keywords I'm using. This of course creates an annoying situation which causes my CPC to rise. From past experience this situation doesn't last too long and the new advertiser goes home unhappy. But if he stays and my CPC stays like this, I'm going to start an inverse bid-war (nice technique to get rid of annoying advertisers). If that fails, I'm going to start promoting other niches. Preferably the one that will help me achieve goal number zero.

And finally, after rejecting the idea of a viral eBook for now, I'm starting to plan a paid eBook. When I break even on the business (around April) I'll start doing surveys for my eBook ideas and see what works. The winner idea will get its very own eBook.

Until next time,
nadavs

Closing January

Hello everybody.

I haven't written in a while. A big while. I know, that's a big blogging sin, and I hope the internet god will forgive me for that. That's because I have great news for him.

January 2008 will be remembered by me as the first month that allowes me to use the word profit. Finally, after two losing months, comes a month and shows me this is possible. Internet marketing does work, there is money to be made out there. If I get another sale today or AdWords doesn't go over $16 today (preferably both), I can put a little plus sign. And if AdWords takes the entire budget, well, losing $4 can be called break even.

Lately, and that's one reason I need another sale, Google gave me wonderful QS, but clicks were nowhere to be found. People just ignore my ads between 0:00-6:00 in the morning (PST). Then they come in a bulk and at the end of the day I end with 30. When my page starts converting 10%, that'll be acceptable. Now it's converting about 4% (which means about 10% of the people who go to the sales page!), so I need 40-50 clicks to make two sales. I suspected the low number of clicks was due to position preference, but now, when I turned it off, it doesn't seem to have an effect. AdWords is a weird system indeed.

And finally, like every quarter, Google is going to report its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the report for the entire year. It's going to be interesting to see how a company that keeps going against its customers (the new QS rules are harsh, but they seem to ease for me. Nine words went from OK of $0.15 to Great of $0.05) turns out a bigger profit than last year. Reports are after Wall St. closes, at about 4:00pm EST. Conference call is at 4:30 pm EST (right when Blogger is down... Weird...).

Have a great February!
nadavs

Better Landing Page, More Sales

Hi again, everybody.
I haven't been updating lately since I was working on some improvements to my landing pages. Someone from DP forum gave me his specially made landing pages to use, and... two sales.
Now I implemented his methods on my landing pages, hoping they'll bring a good amount of sales as well.

Also, AdWords has finally reduced my CPC below the dreadful 30 cent mark. Now I can get about 60-100 clicks per day, but since I use position preference I don't even get near 50 clicks a day. If that continues into tomorrow, I'll resume another campaign which has improved landing pages. And then, who knows? Maybe I'll finally make the $100 mark.

As you can see, I added a list of goals to the blog. You might wonder why there is a goal number zero. Well, that's because it's not really a goal. It's more like a personal wish, and I promised myself that one day I will see "cohypnosis" as the vendor in my transaction list.

The last goal is "Main source of income". I just want to achieve that until I finish my military service, which means until 2012-2013.

See you later,
nadavs