Following the ‘destruction’ of my blog, I have taken the plunge to join Wealthy Affiliate University. Need to start somewhere and was considering between Chris Farrell membership site, Stone Evan’s Plug In Profit Site, and the Wealthy Affiliate University. As I strongly believe in starting my success as an affiliate, I’ve decided to go for WA.

First lesson was pretty basic. Introduces what is Internet Marketing. What interests me is the Wealthy Affiliate Step-By-Step Action Plan that allows me to follow its systematic approach to Affiliate Marketing. What’s more, in order for its members to fully understand what they learn instead of skipping all over the place, they have a ‘timing’ system to make sure that you stay focused on the lesson before moving on to the next.

I have also seen many success stories inside Wealthy Affiliate University. And I am sure I can be one of them, as long as I follow the plan and take action.

I am also taking up Photoshop lessons so that I can do my own web graphics. Have attended 2 lessons so far and I think I am in love with Photoshop. Ha ha…

Anyway, I have up to end of this year to succeed in Internet Marketing so there is not much time left. Really putting in my best to stay focused and achieve results.

Damn!!!

One of my project’s blog is GONE! GONE! GONE!!!

Happened when I changed my primary domain. All posts have disappeared and there is no way of recovering. Devastated!!!

Maybe this is a sign – for me to get things moving. Blog not attracting enough traffic anyway. Too competitive.

Am going to start on new project…

Wish me luck…

Some updates:

Having been actively working on my projects for the last week. Realized that I have still so much to learn and improve. No further sales were made even though subscribers are still slowly increasing. Strange cos I’ve stopped my PPC campaign. Must be some organic results. This is also an area I have to work on to learn more about.

Testing autoblogging for my projects. Also joined Warrior Forum paid membership to access their private area. Lots of information for more learning. Perhaps too much and kind of needs some searching as it is overwhelming. Still, never a bad thing to have too much. Learnt a few tricks about Youtube. Pretty excited about it.

Last thing to update – I have not been committing myself to this business and seems like I am taking it easy. Have to shift my mindset fast. I promise I will dedicate 1hr every day minimum to this business regardless of learning or implementing.

Just came back from holidays in Maldives… Refreshing! Had a loving time with my wife… Cleared my mind on work too.

EzineArticles has allowed me to reinstate my account. Guess I have to be real careful with the articles I submit.

Also thought about where I am headed online. I need to really start making online instead of trying to make money online. Trip made me realize there are so many things I want to achieve for myself and my family.

Anyway, back to work. Signing up for Chris Farrell’s membership this week.

Bad News!

EzineArticles just emailed me that one of my articles is having problem. Seems like the content is similar to one article posted on a website. To be honest, I wrote the article some time back and I did some research from both the Internet and books. Maybe when I rewrote the article I extracted content from that website unknowingly. I have replied them and apologized for my actions. Hope they don’t ban my account because of this. I will be more careful…

Meanwhile my list is still growing but I am not converting them into sales yet. Think ultimately I need to have my own product.

I will be going for a short trip with my wife and I am excited about it. Pray hard that my ezine account is fine when I return.

Today I have my first sale online. This is so exciting. Looks like my perseverance has paid off finally. I have 8 more sign ups over the past 2 days. It is slowing down though as keywords seem to be more and more expensive. Did some tweaking to my campaign to slow down my costs.

Continued learning from Chris Farrell and Eric Holmlund. Great lessons.

Think I may sign up for Chris Farrell’s membership soon. What he taught really works… Also will need to work on free traffic generation methods. Adwords seems costly for now.

So excited…

6 sign ups today. Checked it’s due to my Adwords keywords cost went up. Guess competitors increased their bids. Checked on spyfu.com keyword is about $0.47 per click. Checked Ad no longer appearing on page 1. Considering if I want to increase my bid.

Anyway, I went through Chris Farrell‘s first lesson on Affiliate Marketing. Great information. Think I will complete that before I sign up for his membership.

I also started preparing for my ebook. It’s an introduction to beginners for making money on the Internet. Hope I can do a good job. I also signed up for a course on Photoshop basics. Will be starting on 24th May. It’s a part-time course that spreads over 8 weeks. Figured out it is better to know some design stuff than to outsource it.

This business is not going to be cheap. But I’m learning… all over again.

Quite excited about today. My Adwords campaign is getting me 127 clicks (based on $10 budget). No sales for yet but I have about 20 sign-ups for my list (11 confirmed).

Quite an exciting result since this is my first attempt at building a list. I’m offering a 5 day course for my niche and may need to think of more content.

Anyway, I also spent $37 today to purchase an autoblogging software to add to my blog (not this one). Will monitor how well the software can help me.

I’ve just completed one of my sites and will be testing adwords again. I have previously tested Adwords but I pointed to the affiliate page direct and did not result in any positive result. Hopefully this time round I can get better results from affiliate marketing.

Been working on my new site and about ready to test Adwords again. It’s an affiliate site anyway so hopefully can generate some sales. Am thinking of giving out some free lessons for hope of sign-ups.

I know that to make it online, I need to have my own product and stuff. Still figuring out how I should really pursue my online business. Been going through Chris Farrell’s blog. Very inspirational. Pondering on whether I should join his membership site.

Let me work on my new site first… Hope I can start my Adwords campaign by Wednesday.