Day 18 - Bum Marketing Adventure

Another couple of really nice lenses done. Still waiting on ezine. That's killing me right now. I need to be able to put up more articles, but ezine is probably one of the slowest sites I've ever seen.

I think I'm making progress, but I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I should be seeing more progress given how much work I've been doing. I'm looking at other people and seeing how much they got accomplished in the same time frame and I can't help but wonder what the heck it is that I'm doing so wrong.

I really think my big problem is I need more ezinearticles up. They rank well and get a lot of views. Unfortunately, I've had my 10 submitted for about 6 days now and still sitting on basic membership. Because of that, instead of having 20-30, I still have 10. I think I really need to start cranking out tons of articles. I think that's the key. So that's what I'm going to start doing (once ezine decided to play along). Make a lens, then find at least 5 related keyphrases I can dominate with an article, and do so. Link my site to the articles.

The other thing that's killing me is trying to make good connections between my articles, pages, and affiliates. It gets messy. You have to be able to match keyphrases to articles, articles to your page, and your page to your product. If any of them don't flow perfectly together, you don't seem to sell a thing. It seems like a long shot to sell anything. First, you need to get your articles ranked high enough. While that's usually doable, it isn't guaranteed. Then you need to hope they click on your article. Then you hope they follow your bio link. Then you hope they buy something. It's a long chain that seems to break down easily. Two part articles help a lot, but it still seems like a long shot. I have a couple articles that get views that have a part 2 that perfectly match. I was really, really proud of how well they went together. But I don't sell anything. That was probably my best work so far, and it isn't converting. I'm unsure what's wrong.

Although I really shouldn't be so pessimistic. I'm comparing myself to people that made thousands by the end of their first month bum marketing...but it wasn't their first month on internet marketing. So they have a huge leg up on me. The bum part is easy, it's the marketing part that takes experience. And besides that, I've made 40 bucks in the last four days, which is technically completing my goal for the whole summer. Now, I'm not optimistic the sales will keep coming in, but still, I think I'm getting pretty close to completing my goal already. Hopefully by the end of the month I'll be confident in getting my 10 bucks a day done.

So I guess it's time to be positive. Despite my frustrations and failures, I'm DEFINITELY confident that I can get 10 bucks a day by the end of 120 days. I'll honestly be disappointed if I can't at least triple that.