12/24/09

With a Plan and Renewed Focus, Paula Hopes to Achieve Her Goal

While Paula is totally willing to take action to make money online, like many people, she has struggled to focus on one thing. We already know that she has tried rebuilding her past success with niche sites. And, has had meager success with content sites.

Paula has also turned her attention to other things, as well.

She’s recently fallen in love with the idea of becoming an electronic cigarette affiliate. In case you don’t know, the electronic cigarette looks and feels like the real thing, but only contains a dose of nicotine. There are no other harmful chemicals that cause irritation to the lungs.

I know, for a fact, that there are some people on the Warrior Forum promoting these new smoking products successfully, but again, they are probably focusing all their efforts on this one niche. There’s already lots of competition in this niche, and you really need to know what you’re doing to make decent money in it.

Paula has also tried her hand at offering WSOs or Warrior Special Offers. The Warrior Forum has an active marketplace where information products and services are bought and sold. Paula has had three separate WSO offers, and none of them made her a profit. Luckily, she managed to break even.

Like many people, who seek to create an online income, Paula has been jumping from one thing to another, hoping to hit the BIG KAHUNA that will produce a great stream of steady money. She’s so busy jumping around, that she hasn’t taken the time to properly prepare and promote any of these ideas.

So, when Paula saw the contest offered by Keith Boisvert, she jumped at the chance to be considered for one of the winning packages. Paula’s extremely detailed entry showed that she really has a lot on the ball, and appreciates everyone’s contributions to helping out those who really need it.

In fact, her entry got the most votes out of anyone. Way to go, Paula!

Paula won Package #4: free War Room membership, Icansoft backlinking software, 1 month of copyrighting coaching (Collette), One hour phone coaching and free bootcamp memberships (Jeremy Kelsall), one year free hosting, PLR, templates and Word Press themes, free membership at Website-Articles.net directory, 3 free products from 7dollarebookshop.com, article marketing masters ebook (Sylvia Rolfe), Conversion Kode product, a niche blog system, a custom ebook cover and minisite template, free Money Smarts report, and 30 days of free content marketing coaching (Troy Phillips).

There’s a lot going on in this package, but Paula is actually very excited about this new opportunity. In fact, she’s already started her coaching sessions with Collette. They’re working on coming up with a plan for Paula to focus on promoting just one site in one niche.

Paula wants to use her IM income to replace her teaching income so that she can stay home and spend time with Nicholas. He’ll be starting school soon and she wants to enjoy this special time with him – a time he’ll always remember fondly.

Good Luck, Paula!

Read details about Package #4 here

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School Teacher Wants to Spend More Quality Time with Her Son

Paula is a dedicated school teacher who has been working in that profession for over ten years. She and her partner, Jenny, are raising an adorable toddler named Nicholas. Nicholas came into their lives as an adopted child and Paula is determined to spend as much time with him as possible, during his formative years, before he starts school.

Paula is not new to Internet Marketing. In fact, at one time, she had a a few successful affiliate sites up that was making her about $2,000 per month. This was several years and several Google updates ago. While the sites were getting good traffic based on her selection of keywords, they eventually became a victim of a big Google update and lost most of their traffic.

Hmmm. I bet that sounds familiar to many people reading this – including me.

If I’ve learned one thing about IM it’s this: don’t put all your eggs into one online basket.

Paula watched her income drop to a meager $200 per month. This might have happened due to a combination of factors. Some niches are highly competitive, and maybe her competitors came up with better content. Or, maybe they did more to promote their sites.

Anyway, Paula decided to sell all of her sites to help raise money so that she and Jenny could adopt Nicholas. It wasn’t until recently that Paula decided to try her hand again at online marketing.

Paula doesn’t quite remember how she found her way to the Warrior Forum (WF), but once she was there, she quickly became a member. She says she loves it.

Paula has been trying various things with little success. First, she decided to try jumping back into the niches that had originally made her good money years ago. Unfortunately, this has only produced a trickle of traffic. And, as we all know, traffic equals money.

Paula has built several content sites and placed Adsense on them, but again, is struggling to bring in traffic. While she’s spent her money on articles, links and other promotion strategies, so far, it takes her several months to generate a check from Google.

I know that many people can relate to this particular struggle. While it’s relatively easy to build a content site, it still takes lots of work (plus multiple sites) to see a decent return on investment. You’ve got to figure out what niches to go into, find good keywords to put on your site and create interesting content for visitors. This process usually takes months. Many people are stuck, like Paula, with low income producing sites.

Read Paula’s Contest Entry Here

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