Adventures in Lifestyle Design from a Path Less Traveled
Website Building Update – Week 7
So, it’s been seven weeks since I started laying the foundation of my first site. Now, seven weeks later, I’m nearing completion of the third site.
No sales yet in October. Kind of a bummer.
But I did get a butt-load of articles approved on Ezine Articles yesterday. I’m now experiencing a slight bump in traffic, but I suspect that that will die down once the “freshness” of these articles wears off.
Overall, I’m feeling pretty good about all this right now. I have a few keywords that are about to bust into the first page of Google. I think these EZA backlinks might be the little nudge that these need to get onto page one. After that, I’m hoping traffic really picks up (followed by sales).
This whole internet marketing thing is pretty challenging. It’s forcing me to confront one of my biggest weaknesses… my impatience. It’s tough to wait weeks or MONTHS (!) for a site to start getting traffic. I’ll admit that I like instant gratification. Fortunately, my impatience is kept in check by my stubbornness. I don’t believe in astrology, but I’m a Taurus, and in typical Taurus fashion, I am very hard-headed and refuse to give up. Especially on this.
The result: a massive emotional roller coaster ride of dogmatic optimism followed by despair and self-doubt. Rinse and repeat. Kind of sucks to be completely honest with you.
I just keep reading success stories of other people who have “made it” and now make a few hundred dollars a day. If I could just make $500 a month, I’d be pretty happy. Then I could cover rent.
I know that I’ve already put in the work for the first two sites though. It’s not a matter of if they’ll succeed. It’s a matter of when.
This may seem silly, but I even photoshopped a Click Bank sales report for the end of the year showing several sales in my account. I look at that regularly and imagine how good it would feel to finally have money rolling in without me having to clock in at a desk job.
My goal is to finish five sites by the end of the year. That should get me going on the right foot.
So, looks like I’m back on the roller coster for a while. Every day I don’t make a sale is just one less day I have to go through before the inevitable day when I do start making regular sales…
Sucky...
Other Popular Posts:
Comments
Leave a Reply
Hi there Clayton,
I’ve started all the way back to the beginning of your income journey, but I must say, I truly admire your dedication!
…and having seen how much you’re earning today, I can only guess that you’re glad you stuck it out. :)
@Yolanda, Thanks for taking the time to read through all my updates and endure all my self-pity, frustrations, and small successes!
This is one of my fears also. Putting all the work into it and getting no satisfaction/fulfillment.
I have read and seen videos on the internet about people like Yaro, Adam Short, Rosalind Gardner and a host of other that have made allot of money and still are. They make it sound so easy. I have heard from Adam Short that one of his students made money from a website on the first day.
This would be a good time for a mantra.
I have to stay focused, I have to stay focused, I have to stay focused
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent or greater success.” ~ Napoleon Hill
Ty Ramjohn
Infinite Minds
http://infiniteminds.wordpress.com
http://www.facebook.com/tybird813
http://www.myspace.com/tybird813
[...] working on building these websites for a whole year now (and I’ve been documenting it since week 7). I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I’ve learned tons. I’ve gone from about $40 / [...]
Hi – Love your blog and its really interesting to see how your income has grown (since I have the benefit of hindsight), but I would really have loved a detailed breakdown of what you did your first seven weeks (or longer).
When I go to the affiliate marketing course pages, they look like such a scam, but reading your blog seems honest and not at all scam-like.
Do you have any interest in creating an e-book or something on exactly what you did to earn $2500+/month (like you do in month 12)?
@Joseph, Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. The first 3 weeks I just did the AffiloBlueprint course and made my first website. Then the next 2 weeks I made my second site, and then I started immediately on my third one. Basically I just did exactly what they tell you to do in AffiloBlueprint. Find a niche, get 30 keywords, write 30 articles, spin articles, repeat.
I might make an e-book in the future if I ever feel like I’m doing anything new that no one else is doing. But as long as 90% of what I do is AffiloBlueprint by the book, I don’t really see the need to write a book
[...] started this blog, I devoted a whole year to working on making money online (I wrote about it from week 7 through week 52). I never talked about this, but back before I even got the domain name for this [...]