Focus

[Gary Ogden]

What do you do when you get that starting to lose focus/will to carry on feeling with your internet marketing?
Try as I may, maybe too hard my goal of making any money is not happening yet, I have been doing Google Ads linked to Click Bank products for about a month. Ok it takes longer I know. I am getting a great response CTR to my ads over 6% ctr some days!
No one is buying though.
Maybe the product price is too high?
The landing page is not doing its job?

I still have not got my own site up and running, mainly because I need that one idea to get started! I thought of a couple of ideas.
Internet Marketing for beginners to thrash about their ideas.
A review site for affiliate programs.

My other idea was to get interviews off some of the well known guys in internet marketing (yes including you Lynn)! Add some of their own affiliate products and promote them after the interview. Interviews would be conducted by a set of email questions.
I have not spent that much on Google Ads but I am getting traffic for little outlay.

Surely someone else has been in my position and turned it around?
I really keep thinking of trying something like Nichebot/Google Sniper as a last ditch attempt to move myself up a gear.
Help!
Gary

[TraciKnoppe]

Hi Gary - I think everyone can relate to your frustration. Lynn has probably dozens of articles on this topic that could help you, but if I had to pick one - it would be this one Make Money with Affiliate Marketing (http://www.clicknewz.com/1906/affiliate-marketing/)

Read that, and the other articles to links to within this one to get you going in the right direction. Do a search on the ClickNewz blog for any other topics you may need help on - Lynn usually always has the answer right there and available. :)

[Lynn Terry]

Definitely a good starting point, thanks Traci :)

Gary,

What you're doing now is trying to "make money online" and there is a big difference between that and starting an online business. You would do well to pick ANY niche outside of "internet marketing" or "online business" and I say that for two reasons: 1) until you get more personal experience with it yourself, and 2) because the market is volatile and competitive.

That's not to say you can't explore those markets later, but it's a common mistake to start there. I do niche affiliate marketing myself, and my niches range from back yard swings to bobbleheads. Most of the niches I work in have something to do with personal hobbies or interests of mine, which makes it a lot of fun.

If I had to make ONE recommendation, it would be Rosalind Gardner's guide on this - the Super Affiliate Handbook. That's where I started almost 6 years ago, and I am still using the model successfully. She even shows you some of her own niche affiliate sites which you can explore and click around on to get real live examples in front of you.

I have a complete overview of the guide here:
Super Affiliate Handbook Review (http://www.clicknewz.com/2074/super-affiliate-handbook-review/)

No one product is going to be the magic bullet. You need a guide, and a model, and stick with that. All the way from start to profit.

[WAHumor]

I suggest clearing your day's schedule first or reading really fast. There is soooo much good info there!


Dan


P.S. Got me considering a squeeze page for something already...

[Gary Ogden]

Lynn,
I picked 2 niches away from internet marketing on purpose as you may remember from my google ads screen shot, the CTR's are quite good, 6.2% but its just not converting, i am going to look at similar products away from click bank and check the landing pages more closely for the price they are charging, the two i picked were $39.95 and above and i think thats too high for my ads, the ads are being clicked on but as i said i think a bit too high for an impulse buy.
Gary

[Lynn Terry]

Did you try adding a qualifier, such as price, to your ad as a split-test?

[Misterhippo]

You have to keep pushing and keep testing. Go find and read success stories, that always keeps me motivated when things are not going as planned. Just keep pushing!