The Bucks Report - From e-commerce to affiliate marketing
Well, you have to start somewhere. After spending the last 6 months of 2007 getting my feet wet in the world of affiliate marketing, cpa networks, Adsense and some, ahem, less than nobel means to generate income, this is my first post of my first “real” blog that deals with all of the above. Basically, I’m in this to make MONEY.
Just a brief history of myself for anyone who winds up reading this: I started dabbling with html and making cute little web pages for friends in the early 90’s. Sometime around late 1998 I decided to put my newfound interest in the internet and one of my hobbies together. The result was a website that became a full blown e-commerce site.
It was all hand coded html in notepad or word. It was labor intense, time consuming, unrewarding financially and I loved it. Over the next few years the site grew and in those early days of Google, I began to dominate on some very popular search terms. In fact, I was #1 on Google for 2-3 years for my most important search term.
Unfortunately, this did not lead to the riches some would think. My business did increase but the profit margins were incredibly slim. I had my own site, my own shopping cart, my own merchant account, my own UPS account and I was dealing with vendors and customers. I was also shipping out items at an increasing rate by myself from my home.
I finally started drawing some income from the business and felt I was doing good for a couple of years. Then, Google had their Jagger update and I was fucked. My listings dropped like a rock and in the end, having no money to hire an SEO team and having not been able to keep up on SEO myself, the business started to dwindle.
I still have the website although it’s been parked for a couple of months. This, to me, has been on of the biggest failures of my life and I am determined to revamp my “baby” and let her rise from the ashes like a Phoenix. I believe in 2008 that will happen. It will not be the same format but I will incorporate affiliate marketing and other monetization methods.
As I mentioned earlier, while I had more and more time on my hands, I started dabbling in buying some turnkey sites, monetizing with adsense and CPA offers. As I got deeper into this (while still not making any substantial income), I also started looking into some darker methods. Nothing spammy but just some alternative, creative ways to bring in some cash.
To be brief, I literally had an epiphany one day. I started a system that has made me anywhere between $300-$700/day on average since the middle of 2007. With that luxury, I’ve been spending more and more time in forums that help people like me and I am determined to make 2008 a fantastic earning year.
So, you’re saying, “Big fucking deal. What’s this going to do for me?”
What I hope to do is share some info here and maybe help someone else. Presently, I’m not prepared to share my “big” gig that I do because I am totally and utterly paranoid that I’ll lose it due to someone elses incompetence. Maybe one day.
In the meantime, I’ll just post. It might be shit, it might be something that leads you to earn big bucks which is why I’m calling this BucksReport.com
And hopefully I’ll learn how to optimize a wordpress blog in the meantime.
Peace to all and I hope anyone who reads this can at least grab one morsel of inspiration if nothing else.
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I can understand how you feel, and I really hope you achieve your desire to excel this year.