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Hey Everyone
Sorry its been a while but I personally want to thank you ALL for sticking by me over the last year…
Hang on before I go on…
What do you think of my new blog header and layout eh? I’m very proud of it I love the header and I think overall the blog has a nice clean fresh look to it now. Got a little bit more work to do to my pages, but I just wanted to get a post out to you asap..
Ok back to business and this is very important to me, its time for a change of direction and I wanted to start right here at my blog.
The changes I make will effect YOU my loyal subscribers in a big way, I want to interact with you guys the way I would like to be interacted with. And give you the advice that you need to help you move forward with your business, and build a relationship with you the way it should be….
I want my blog to be a hub of great and cool internet marketing advice, and I will do my best to do that.
See I thought I was doing things right, you know I sent out a mail to you almost everyday offering you free content. But in order to receive that free content you had to subscribe to other marketers lists, and I know some of you were getting pissed with that…
Well that stops now, infact I stopped a while ago..
Instead I will be posting regular content here and sending you emails that will not require you to optin, UNLESS the content is absolute pure gold but ill be checking it out first.
You see I created this blog to share with people my journey to an income online and share any tips I pick up for FREE. I wrote my ebook newbiesjournal which has had over 5000 downloads and great feedback, and I outlined in that book what I had done so far to make multiple thousands of dollars online and that is FREE.
I always wanted to be different, I wanted new guys to follow my jouney online and relate to me.
I didnt wanna send out many promo’s to my subscribers and to date I have not sent all that many..
BUT
After all I am a marketer and from time to time you will get a promtional email from me recommending a product to you. But it will only be a product that either I have bought myself, or I personally know and trust the marketer behind the product and it suits you.
I want to make sure that all I send your way is the best possible content available to help you move forward with your business.
Take a look at other marketers and what they send you..
I bet its promotion after promotion selling the same old rehashed shit which I am sick of seeing.
Bet you are to..
I bet these other marketers or gurus will ever reply to you personally? well I always have either on my blog or via email.
See I have been successful in my first year online, and I made my money from being in the IM niche or MMO niche if you prefer. But I am moving my business away from the IM niche a little and concentrating on micro niches and niche blogging. Infact I just made my first sale from my own niche blog and you know what, its my most satisfying sale so far.
I am hoping to build a solid business here, then when I am a proper expert maybe I might hit the IM niche again with my own product but who knows thats down the line.
I hope you liked the report I sent you a few days ago on keyword research, it required no optin and thats the sort of content I wanna be sending you in the future.
I know I have a lot of loyal followers from the comments I have received in the past, I would love you to stay with me because I am going to make it and I wanna share this success with you right here over the coming months..
Guys I would love to read your feedback, let me know what you think of my blog and my change of direction..
Leave a comment below and I will reply to each and everyone.
Keep checking back coz I wanna get good content up here for you on a regular basis.
Hope the post was not to long infact I think I left loads out..
Thanks again for your support..
Speak very soon
Marcus
Hey hey people hows it going?
First things first I really must apologise for my lack of activity on my blog over the last 3 months,
Family life has been keeping me VERY busy and I also just had three weeks off my day job so decided to
have a total rest. It has been a VERY busy year what with starting my internet marketing business and bringing up a newborn on top of everything else. Quite frankly I am totally worn out and my batteries have not even partly recharged yet.
So why am I failing?
As most of you know I have had quite a successful year, including making multiple thousands of dollars in affiliate sales I also currently have a list of 8,000 subscribers and I wrote my first book newbiesjournal. I have been to workshops and seminars and met many fellow marketers in the flesh, people have been speaking highly of me and yeah I thought life is good Im actually gonna crack this Internet Marketing lark. I thought it was just gonna keep on growing.
How wrong was I.
I even went looking for a new BMW 3 series, thought about booking a family holiday to Florida and even as far as searching to rent a bigger house.
BUT
Things are going wrong BIG time and it makes me sick to the stomach, its an even worse feeling than before I made my first buck online and I was trying to make it work.
What makes it worse is I feel its my fault, its my fault I have not taken enough action, its my fault I have not taken steps to push me forward.
You see……
I have not learnt enough, I have not focused, I have not made the most of my limited time I can work on my business, and maybe I have been following the wrong programs.
But like I say it is hard to do this especially when you have a family of three and already work 48 hours a week, sometimes you just dont feel like doing anything else.
I am just plain knackered, I have to pick myself up.
The crucial part of my business has been my email list, and this is where it is failing you see I have built my list using adswaps.
At first it was great I had $2000 months back at christmas and that was with a 2000 subscriber list
I was getting almost a 10% open rate
And I could pull in some good commission on promoting someones launch.
NOW..
I have 8000 subscribers,
I have an open rate of between 2% and 4%.
On a promo I am lucky if I get one sale.
Adswaps just are not as effective anymore and there are a lot of tactics being used that I just dont like, I did see it happening but I never did anything about it. Had I been in this a year earlier I think I would of made it.
See I also had plans, I was gonna create a product to teach people how I built my list using adswaps but im not sure its an effective enough method to turn into a product.
Plus I was gonna set up a solo ad service as another income stream.
But as things stand I have to really start again.
I need to build a new list and learn how to treat this list better
I need to explore options outside of the IM Niche/Make money online Niche
Maybe just get back into plain old article marketing
Maybe build review blogs
Maybe build Micro Niche adsense sites
Create my own product in the Golf Niche, weight loss Niche or whatever and build a list in that.
But when I have a better understanding of creating many income streams online, then I can come back and create a product and teach others to do the same in the MMO Niche.
But as Winston Churchill said in 1941
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
So if anyone has any ideas to what I should be doing just give us a shout of course I will really appreciate it.
Hope you are still around would love to read some comments.
Speak soon
Marcus
PS I just created a facebook business page come be a friend check it out CLICK HERE
UPDATE
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Hey everyone
WOW WOW JUST WOW!!!!
Thanks so much for all the wonderful detailed comments you have been leaving me, it means a lot to me that people are still following my journey, and taking the time to leave me these awsome replies.
THANKYOU GUYS!!
I will be back to answer you all individually.
All the best
Marcus
