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Running too many projects?

I started with idea to make money online. I’ve read some books and created my first website in 2006 called Easy Site Guide. My plan was to sell 5 hosting packages each day for commission of $100! That would make me $500 a day or $15,000 per month! Not bad, huh?

But that never happened. I sold 5 packages per month, not per day! And no matter what I was trying to do I couldn’t sell more. I thought I am in a wrong niche, it is too hard to sell hosting services and CPC is too high for this niche. And I moved on and bought another domain for a great new idea that I got. Developed a site, did little promotion, no serious money got in so I tried to create another site.

And whenever a new idea popped into my mind I bought several domain names for the project. Jonathan Volk guest wrote an article called Shiny Ball Syndrome for Shoemoney’s blog that describes this state – it probably happened to you too. And soon I had dozens of domain names and no time to make money out of them. I was trying to do Article marketing, Forum marketing, learning how to do SEO, learning PPC, domain parking etc. all at once.

Along with a day job I didn’t have enough time to properly learn even one of these things – so I was jumping back and forth on my projects with no success.

Should I run several projects?

My first advice is don’t start even a second project before you don’t complete goals of your first one. Maybe this sounds a bit conservative. Some of you probably think you will be missing a lot if you stick just with one project. But the truth is: if you don’t know how to make money with your current project, you will be having hard time with another too.

So the solution is to focus on your goal and then read, learn, ask questions on forums to get answers! Then apply these things on your project. Think about joining a membership club that will teach you more about internet marketing (I personally use Wealthy Affiliate). You need to be persistent and really focus on your project, goals, target audience to get things done right. Don’t give up, just because you didn’t make $15,000 in the first month. Eventually you will. But you need to take action.

How to manage several projects at once?

In case you are in a similar situation that I am facing right now (too many projects and not enough time) here is what we need to do.

1. Cut the projects that are not making money! Take just top money earners and work with them. The rest will have to wait.
2. Write a to do list and make priorities for each project (A1, A2,A3, B1,B2,B3 – thanks Jonathan for this idea). We are running multiple projects, remember? So you need to complete no. 1 tasks first!
3. Track everything, then improve! You need to track your stats (analytics, sales, serp ranks, etc) on daily basis and improve your project fast to save time and make more money.
4. Kill the time wasters! Cut telephone calls, instant messengers and email while working. You have a limited time and you need to behave like that! Think of it as special mission with extra efficiency.
5. Store your new ideas! Every time a new idea pops – put it down! Good ideas will last. When you finish your project goals and put it on autopilot jump to your new idea!

That’s it! What you think? How are you handling several projects?

I started reading Shoemoney’s free marketing course and ended at Week 2 (of 12). Now I decided to read them all at once. I printed all the pdfs and will start reading today.

Shoemoney Extreme

My goal is to read each week and then complete the goals set for each week and apply these knowledge to my current projects.

Do you want to join me reading? Do yourselves a favour and read this guide. It might change your life. If you missed the link in my previous posts here it is: Shoemoney Extreme – it is completely free!

Hey guys!

I just published another niche website about Michael Jackson. It is a MJ Poster website with nice domain name MichaelJacksonPosters.net. It is wordpress based and took me 1 week to create.

Michael Jackson Posters

Let me know what you think! Any ideas, comments and suggestions are welcome!

I started doing some twitter marketing, but will launch a PPC campaign also.

Hope to see some sales coming in.

…em 18 to be exact!

Wow! I am so happy!

Here is how I did it:

I registered a domain name thrilleralbum.com, put up some cotent and amazon affiliate link.

Then I launched a PPC campaign on Google Adwords with related keywords and start spending money.

Amazon Earnings Report

Amazon Earnings

Items shipped: 18

Revenue: $180.70

Referral Fees: $ 10.86

Adwords Campaign Report

Impressions: 92,024

Clicks: 229

CTR: 0,25%

Cost: $11.76

Conclusion

As you can see from the figures above, I made $10.86 and spent $11.76. This means i made a loss of $0.9.

But the most important thing I learned is MONEY CAN BE MADE ONLINE with proper website and knowledge.

I made 18 sales in a short period of time (few days). Now I need to tweak my website, PPC campaign to start making profit. Any suggestions?

As you can see I didn’t post for exactly one month. I am not very happy with it, but that’s life. There is so many things that can happen.

Anyway, I am back on my mission to earn 51 grand online.

What’s new?

Well obviously Shoemoney released a few weekly guides of his Internet Marketing Course. We are now on Week 5 of 12. I admit I haven’t read them, but as soon as I do, I will let you know what’s in it!

I bought a few domain names related to Michael Jackson and I am developing content for them. I was not a huge Michael fan, but now that I am reading a lot about his life and listening to his albums I am aware he was a great man (rest in peace).

I decided to discontinue with writing weekly reports…I think it is not very fruitful to set goals that I cannot fulfill. So I will be posting when I have time and when I want it. Maybe my blog will not be updated as frequently as those of Shoemoney and John Chow, but what to hell…It’s my blog anyway.

I hope you are ok and you are making affiliate sales!

Take care and check back for my new posts will be coming later today.

yours,

D Champ.

Shoemoney Extreme Guide

As I said a week ago, Shoemoney Xtreme is a Free Internet Marketing Course. If the first week was a bit of introduction, Jeremy sure doesn`t keep the secrets in Week 2.

Week 2 is called Affiliate Marketing 101 and goes into details of affiliate marketing. What surprises me, Shoemoney did not put affiliate any links in it yet.

He is talking about Affiliate Networks and specific products, but he did not put a link on them. Interesting.

Anyway – Week 2 is a blast and if you didn`t sign up – do it now!

Go to Shoemoneyx.com – it`s FREE!

My plans for this week (June 1st – 5th) are connected with promoting  my website www.best-wordpress-hosting.com. I will:

• Submit it to search engines and directories.
• Spread the word about it on forums.
• Spread the word in social networks.
• Create a few articles to promote it on Squidoo, Ezine Articles.
• Start a new Adwords campaign to promote it.

Will report how well it goes!

Here is what I was doing from May 25th -31th:

• Found how my life and work is connected with Google Services.
• Learned how to track my inbound links with Google URL Builder.
• I launched my new Affiliate Website about WordPress Hosting.
• I listed some benefits of Wealthy Affiliate program.

How are you doing?

Wealthy Affiliate Logo

I joined Wealthy Affiliate on March 18th, 2009. I joined because I wanted to learn more about affiliate marketing. And you know what? I did!

I am not making money yet, but I launched my first affiliate website two days ago. I learned all about it inside Wealthy Affiliate. I got lots of ideas and examples there. And what is most important – i can get help when I need it. When I post a question on forum I get fast response from people who had the same problem I am having right now and they help me.

Benefits of Wealthy Affiliate:

• Ultimate step-by step guide to affiliate marketing called 8 Week Action Plan. I can now understand why every  week new guide is unlocked.
• Members only forum is worth thousands of dollars alone. I don`t get this kind of first hand experience and advice anywhere else on Internet.
• Free $50 Yahoo Ad Center advertising credit. A great gift for starting your first PPC campaign.
• NicheQ reports. Every month a new Niche report unlocks with selected industry report, marketing materials and keywords!
• Free Web Hosting included.
• Personal Support – The support team is very responsive. I had some problems with my credit card and they managed it asap. I also sent a PM to Kyle, one of the owners and he replied in matter of minutes. Now this is what I call support!

These are just a few things I like about Wealthy Affiliate.

If you want to make a change in your life – join Wealthy Affiliate Now! You will learn a lot and you will make money with it.