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My Affiliate Marketing Plan

June 28, 2008 By Jeff 3 Comments

So I have decided to jump in and do some CPA Affiliate Marketing.  So now I need a Plan of Attack!

I have a few ideas on what “niche” and market that I am interested in getting involved in. so…

  1. Pick out the niche and product that I want to start targetting.
  2. Find an “aged” domain that has all of the properties that I am looking for, or add a sub-domain to one of my existing sites (this is the way that I am leaning for these tests).
  3. Pick out specific products that I am going to market.
  4. Start working on gathering content and keyword related articles.  I am going to use a basic version of wordpress for the CMS as I have found that it works very well, and it is easy to add content to.
  5. Start a PPC campaign.  For this I am going to start with Adwords as it is still the Cadillac network when it comes to volume of traffic.
  6. Refine keyword list, refine landing pages, repeat.

My goal is to break even in what ever area that I decide to get started in, however I am going to give myself a month to do this.  I am also setting a $$$ limit on what I am willing to put up.  I don’t want to dig myself into such a hole that nothing I can do will get me out of it.

As for timeline I am planning on having my niche, domain and products decided on this weekend.  Then the landing page, contact page, about page and at least 5 other articles related to the product group published.  From there it will be getting some easy links to get spidered.  This will take me about a week or so.  Then the PPC, this I am planning to have started by the second week of July.

I will have a series of weekly posts every Monday or Tuesday as the experiment runs its course.

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Running into some Writers Block

June 24, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I wrote a post a while ago about writers block, however it has not helped me very much lately.  I take a note book around with me everywhere.  It sits in my bag and when I think of something that I think that I should write about, or a niche idea that I think I should explore I write it in there.

The pages have been very empty lately.

I think that it may have something to do with the amount of stuff that I do during the summer.  It is really too nice to be inside, and I have also filled my evenings with sports.   This does not leave a lot of time for sitting and thinking, which in turn leads to burn out.   I am starting to feel like I am sinking in a hole, which leaves my mind not relaxed.

I have been trying to get to the gym.  Hitting the weights has always been a good way for me to clear my head of everything.  When you are there the only thing that you think about is the amount that you are lifting, or the speed that you are going.  it really helps to focus for the rest of the day, but I haven’t been doing even that lately.  I have been playing ball hockey and ice hockey very late so that means that I am not getting up early enough to hit the gym.  This is something that I am missing out on, and it is something that I am going to have to make a priority if I don’t want the advances that I have made in the last month to slde.

So now I am off to play hockey, and then it is off to bed.  Tomorrow morning I am going to begin my new workout at the gym to see if I can get focused again, both at work and at home.  I hope that this new routine will get me motivated like I was last month.

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Marketing Leverage Contest

June 20, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Marketing Leverage has gone crazy with the contest sponsorships.  Not that I am complaining I have joined in a few hoping to get something out of them.

The one that I ALMOST missed was John Chow’s.  Today is the last day to enter.  All you have to do is reply to his post or write a blog post with a trackback and a link to Marketing Leverage.

This is my post for the contest :)

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