The week was long. Just continued with my link building efforts. Articles were not written and am very frustrated about that.  I have been all over the net trying to learn from others, implement new strategies but results might take some time.

Otherwise on another note this is the last time I openly display my online earnings. I will only share these details with members in my opt in list. I might sound weird but I have my reasons for keeping this information to my loyal followers. They new system am implementing starts on 11th September 2010.

Weekly Sales Report 29

Dennis

Its been a while but I gather most of you have heard from me directly via email. Anyhow, been busy as usual. This time just my day job plus I have this new habit of ‘taking time off’ during weekends. But am generally enjoying these work from home programs.

Internet marketing is fun but when sales are slow it aint fun! For one reason or another my clickbank sales have taken a plunge and I still can’t figure out why. Its really frustrating to see $0.00 on my ClickBank home page. I now check this twice a day – guess am scared to face the truth! Well, that’s what this “making money online” business is all about. One minute you are making $400 a day and the other you are making $0.00 for three straight days.

Ohh…you must be wondering and saying Dennis is ‘stressed’ – you are dead right I am and to be perfectly honest I am putting it out here because I want to show you guys that this ain’t as easy as people make it seem. making money online is really like any other job. You have to put in the hours if you are to get anything out of it and sometimes you willl go through ‘dry spells’ that will test your resolve.

I have been on forums like WF and am shocked by what people claim to be making. they dont have any proof but others seem to believe every word. Am not sure about you but I am very cautious and only listen to others that are rather open with their online adventures. People like Clyton, Justin, Michelle keep me going because they openly share their experiences online.

Meaanwhile I thought something weird was going on via clickbank recently and it probably explains a general dip in sales for me and many affiliates I follow. See screenshots below:

ClickBank Madness!

If you pay close attention to the above image you will notice that there are “0″ hops. Now take a look at the items screen below.

Would you be able to trust this tracking system?

From the above image it clearly shows three hops but the total count in the previous image was “0″…..I hope you get what am saying. Well, if we are to trust clickbank, they need to improve their tracking otherwise affiliates like me seem to be loosing money unfairly. It annoys me that all affiliates would have a sudden bump in sales within a week. Across the board I noticed everyone was “crying” but on closer attention to my clickbank stats I just realised the system has some problems otherwise we would still see the “spikes” in our click bank pages.  This isn’t an attack on ClickBank but am simply saying the system can’t be trusted 100%

Otherthan that nothing new to talk about. My attempt to go after media buys didn’t really work out well. The company I wanted to advertise with turned out to have extremely high rates and unfortunately I couldn’t justify spending that much on a market that doesn’t convert well. I have only made one sale to a person in New Zealand and honestly the sums just don’t add up.

As for the partnership am into, well, we are still doing the ground work. Got a few videos made up for training our new writer who happens to come from Uganda.  We are also looking for other writers from freelancer and that should help us produce as much content as we would like. We are working one website at a time so that will keep us pretty busy for the next couple of months. I think over time this project will result into a significant amount of sales given all the newsletter series that we shall run. I am super excited about this!

Last week I offered the backlink script and well, I got about 30 signups – not bad way to start building my list. And yes, my list wont have to worry about spam emails as they will only be getting weekly insights on what I am doing. It might sound weird to many of you who have followed me for the last 28 weeks but am thinking of taking my clickbank screenshots off my weekly reports. If I do, this will only be reserved to the list. Am not sure about this but would like to hear your opinions.

Meanwhile I must admit I was unable to follow through on my promise to post regularly on this blog. It will definately happen sometime in the near future.

Scrapebox seems to be working fine. I have gotten over 200 links from it for thi website alone and am thinking of trying it on my money sites but others have warned me to only use it on my link wheel sites like blogger, squdoo, hub pages because it could hurt my sites as they might get sandboxed.

On a postive note I also received a check from ClickBank – my 8th to be precise.

Otherwise, there isn’t much to add aexcept that I probaly need to diversity and stop relying too much on ClickBank. I know this now and I hope I can work towards diversification.

This post is getting way too long.  I guess this is when I have to reveal my “dry spell”…..

Weekly Sales Snapshop - Week 28

Cheers,

Dennis

Many thanks to all those who contacted me in response to my call out. If you haven’t received a reply hang in there.

I will get in touch soon. I now realise this blog is starting to gain momentum and I am planning on changing the way I blog. Starting this week I will start writing more frequently than I used. The blog has to evolve and thats just what my mind has to adapt to. I cant simply hold out for a week anymore yet I could add great content and improve the profile of my “baby blog”. So guys expect more posts, am thinking of 3 posts a week but will see about that!

Okay, time to share. Well, last week I spent a few hours on research. I have learnt quite a few things from James of IM Relations and we are often talking on Skype. He knows his stuff and you guys might also want to learn from him. I have actually got James to add 900 bookmark to one of my sites and if all goes according to plan I could have him working on other sites that am developing with my new partner. Oh…I almost forgot to tell you that I have formed a partnership with someone on the other side of the world – USA to be precise. The time difference sucks but we have to work around it. Anyhow, we have set up tasks and the like for each party to accomplish on a weekly basis and all that is coupled with regular emails. At the end of every week, Friday USA & Saturday New Zealand time we shall then have a meeting over skype to analyse and plan strategies and many other things for the upcoming week. This partnership is very exciting for both of us and I think am going to be more productive than before…..will keep you all posted on how this all works out.

As for sales, nah…am going through a “dry spell” like Justin likes to call it. IM is funny. One moment you are up there making hundreds within hours and the next minute you are not earning anything for three consecutive days! Its urrghhh….

Yesterday, I got a nice script that helped me get close to a hundred links with just a click! Awesome piece of sript. I would recomend this to anyone who has a relatively new site. Its basically a two step process and away you go – 100 links! Now most of you must be wondering where did you get that? Well, I have lots of internet buddies now and they share quite abit of info with me so I guess you understand what relationships mean in this business! Anyhow for anyone that wants this script -  “mini software” how about you join my newsletter right now. Just enter your details in the form below and I will send you a free copy! Its that simple.

Update: Offer Closed 29th August 2010

If on the other hand you want to spend an hour getting links well, here you go – marketingblogonline.com/autobacklinks I must warn you though. You will spend atleast one hour of your precious time doing tasks that the mini software could do for you!  just saying….

Okay, show time…wow….whats there to see? $0.00 days! This week hasn’t been that great but am doing alot of work in the background so next week might be different.

Week 27 Sales Snapshop

As for the JetPack, I got my writer to start writing articles for one site. She will rewrite all twenty by the end of this week and I expect to rank pretty quickly since the keyword research has been very intense! Plus its two brains at work this time round. I love the whole partnership stuff and can’t wait to see the results. Most of our work is outsourced. Well, I could go on and on about this but I guess I have to stop and get back to work!

All the best guys

Dennis

Three weeks of silence…well, am not yet dead! Am actually seeing progress and it looks like my recent endevours have started to pay off. Unfortunately though, my writer is way too busy with her own projects and has decided to reduce on how much work she can do for me. Am abit gutted but also happy for her. Atleast, she still gets to write for me a few articles. Am now loking out for new writers via freelancer. I wont waste time time with elance. Someone also suggested I try craigslist philipines but am not keen. I have another option that am keeping to myself. I know a place where you can hire pretty cheap labor but alot of training is needed. Even then, am considering this and will post those details once am succesful at it.

On another note though, I have stopped using SEnuke. My earnings donot allow me spend that much. This has forced me to review my entire business and how I operate it. A few months a ago I put together a very sketchy business plan that I haven’t really followed through.  Now I realise I need to have a solid one and last week I contacted a local firm to help me get started with the whole registration of my business. I want to make it formal. Its not a hobby anymore. Am spending hundreds of $’s so I out to treat it like a real business. I bought myself ScrapeBox and for $57 it was a steal – this small “BEAST’ is God sent!

My tools have changed and I will now only use these:

• AMA
• Free Traffic System
• ScrapeBox
• IMRelations Bookmarking Service
• Article Productions
• All Article Directories (Still not sure where to buy an article submitter – please advise)

P.S Don’t get me wrong though, SEnuke is a fantastic product if you have $127 / mo to part with.

Am very keen to see what ScrapeBox will do for my money sites but judging from the reviews there could be a whole bunch of #1 slots to steal i the SERP’s.

Am pretty confident that by Setember I will hit “a sale everyday” if I follow my revised SEO strategy.

Ohh…I almost forgot to tell you all that I got myself a copy of the AffiloJetPacks – and yes I bought the entire package of 11 websites – that should keep me away from trouble…lolz…Nah..seriously I looked at various sites people offered me but they were lacking that “wow” effect plus the sales from some were not worth considering sales. Most were Adsense sites that were making between $0 to $50 a month and for me thats only one ClickBank sale! Sorry guys but thanks for the offers.

Anyhow, back to the AfiloJetPacks. I obviously cant see myself building all 11 sites before December but am positive that atleast 8 will be up and running by Christmass. If I get a good writer soon, then maybe the sites could start ranking on page one pretty quickly. The JetPack training is intense and there is a different approach to things. I won’t dwell into it as I will be revealing more than I should. But seriously guys the JetPack was the easiest option for anyone to either get started or take their business to the next level. If you missed out I would recomend AffilobluePrint. That’s what got me started and helped me earn up until now.

Internet MasterMind / Social Groups

This week I was also able to start calling and chating with other bloggers / marketers. It was great because I learnt so many things and shared my personal experiences with them. I was able to speak to James Pruitt of IMRelations, Anuraag, and another newbie who I will call Stefan for now. Anyway guys, why not talk to others directly? We could hold conference calls and the like. I know we might be new at this but this socialising could help all of us. We are competing for the same slots in the SERP’s but that doesn;t mean we can’t share strategies amongst ourselves! To anyone interested – add me via skype/gmail/yahoo: pitdenis. email – dennis@pitdenis.com. Guys lets get to know one another – you never know where that could lead us!

Week 24

I was way too busy to write a report on both Week 24 and 25 but as you can see I made a mere $36.17 and it got thinking. Why did this happen even though my rankings were way up in the SERP’s. After this incidence I decided to branch out of my confort zone – SEO . Am now researching media buys and honestly for between $20 to $50 its worth a try. I have a new local site to try my first media buy. Price is a mere $25 (NZ $).  Will post results next week.