… affiliate marketing website traffic

Sure, it’s a $5 commission and it’s 1 sale for $49.99
but it’s a sale, $5 more than $0 so how much could
you make replicating the strategy tenfold?

social-media-affiliate-marketing

YES…….
…… YOU!

what do i mean?

watch this video about steppin it up with your
online marketing strategy:

how is your online marketing strategy?

i do not think you have what it takes to build a solid business on the internet or anywhere for that matter. especially if you refer to yourself with the label of “internet marketer” without opening yourself to the possibility of other marketing mediums.

as always, this is not about me, it’s about you. it is about what you can do with what you know from where you are.

will you do it?

we will see. I know you are remarkable; do you know it?

do you own it?

I am remarkable.

we can be remarkable together once you acknowledge your remarkableness.

1. Set up a blogger blog at Quit Smoking Hypnosis
2. Set up a twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/thequitsmoking
3. Added the Twitter RSS Feed to the blogger blog
4. Set up a Gmail account especially for this project at quitsmokinghypnosistips at gmail dot com
5. Created this post to document my journey to help other smart marketers just like you follow my path to success.
6. Posted the first post to the blogger blog
7. Pinged the blogger blog in Google blogsearch
8. Pinged the blogger blog in Pingoat.com
9. Added the “RSS Feed Subscription” gadget to the blogger blog
10. Linked to http://www.IMRemarkable.com on blogger blog
11. Copied and pasted the list of social bookmarking sites from socialmarker.com so I can sign up for each site to have even more distribution channels for my content

Here’s the link to the post for Day #1 with insights:
Online Marketing Strategy Day #1 (also posted pictures of other tasks accomplished)

Here’s the link to the post for Day #2 and Day #3:

Online Marketing Strategy Day #2 and Day #3 (posted videos this day so it’s easier to see the videos)

Here’s the link to the post for Next Day:

Online Marketing Strategy The Next Day (posts consists of mainly pictures)

Here’s the Link To The Day After That:

Howie Schwartz IMRemarkable The Day After That (a lot of the post is an insight and pictures of what I did)

Here’s the list of about 18 things on the next day:

1. Created Friend Feed Account
2. Posted to Twitter about it
3. joined quit smoking group in Friend Feed
4. Got social and shared
5. Shared squidoo lens with group
6. Twittered about new group
7. Started to get into market persona of someone who’s stopped smoking
8. Wrote press release and submitted to free-pre

ss-release.com
9. Bookmarked press release
10. pinged bookmarks
11. Submitted Squidoo Lens to FeedAgg
12. FeedAgg link indexed in google, squidoo lens not yet
13. Submitted press release story to stop smoking group in Friend Feed
14. Twittered about progress
15. Uploaded video to HMJ blog about progress
16. Posted new post to blogger blog
17. Pinged blogger blog
18. Twittered about progress

Today, the last day of the competition:

1. POsted new post to blogger blog
2. bookmarked blogger blog
3. pinged blogger blog
4. pinged blogger blog rss feed
5. pinged bookmarking accounts
6. pinged bookmarking account rss feed
7. twittered about progress
8. helped other IMRemarkable challengers out on twitter
9. created testimonial video
10. screen capture picture of google results (pictured below)
11. recorded ustream of my story
12. studied copywriting/conversion to build my business going forward
13. created this post
14. posted link on the IMRemarkable blog
15. feeling grateful for the journey.

Blogger Blog FINALLY indexed in Google

How I feel about the IMRemarkable journey:

At first I was overwhelmed and didn’t really know where to start so I looked at what other people were doing in the challenge. A gigantic cartoon like question mark floating overhead was what was up then. I thought

“well I could not do anything and keep hitting a brick wall with my progress, or…

“I can figure out what it’s going to take to move forward no matter what and take massive action”

… I chose the latter of the two:

Taking massive action.

I finally saw a coherent process to everything involved after learning that the IMRemarkable team set up a sample blog we could all follow along with.

While I didn’t make a bagillion dollars overnight or even in the week or so of the competition, I’m happy with my progress because I did SOMETHING, rather than sitting around doing nothing because I wasn’t 100% sure what to do.

Did I fail?

You betcha

Did it feel good to fail?

Yes it did because now I can continue to test, track, measure, and tweak my way to even better results going forward as a direct result of having gone through the IMRemarkable competition.

I FINALLY left behind the opportunity seeker mindset

after going through this challenge, experiencing firsthand, and relearning something I learned back in high school when I was on the track and field team…

It takes strategy, a desired outcome, a coach, a team of supportive action takers, a burning desire to succeed, and massive action to win.

Thank you Howie and team for kicking my butt into gear onto building a business, leaving the hobbyist opportunity mindset behind.

Let us start with what else was accomplished between the last post and this post:

1. Created Friend Feed Account
2. Posted to Twitter about it
3. joined quit smoking group in Friend Feed
4. Got social and shared
5. Shared squidoo lens with group
6. Twittered about new group
7. Started to get into market persona of someone who’s stopped smoking
8. Wrote press release and submitted to free-press-release.com
9. Bookmarked press release
10. pinged bookmarks
11. Submitted Squidoo Lens to FeedAgg
12. FeedAgg link indexed in google, squidoo lens not yet
13. Submitted press release story to stop smoking group in Friend Feed
14. Twittered about progress
15. Uploaded video to HMJ blog about progress
16. Posted new post to blogger blog
17. Pinged blogger blog
18. Twittered about progress

Still no results with indexing of Squidoo Lens or the Blogger Blog. What’s weird is the FeedAgg and Press Release submission containing links to the lens and blog respectively were indexed though.

Here’s the picture of the indexed press release:

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Learning a lot finally putting this knowledge into action, proving keeping the knowledge locked away in your head does you absolutely no good. Putting what you know into action and getting results, which give you feedback to let you know whether or not what you’re doing is working is the only way you’re going to get anywhere.

I will tell you more about the personal marketing journey I have been on in a video coming later this evening.

Until then, take inspired action on a massive scale!

I went back today to take screen shots of the ppc competition that I didn’t cover in the very first post about market research. Check out this post using online marketing strategy with the update about viable market research (hint: click the “online marketing strategy” underlined link about 16 words ago)

So, today, I fired up Market Samurai to check out the SEO competition and to look for sources of content so I don’t have the blank page blues.

Here’s a digital camera picture of my computer screen since Screen Grab For Firefox only does browser shots:

We see a lot of green (You Tube has only been around 4 years? seems like longer, though 4 years online is probably like 40 years offline) though we also see a lot of yellow as well. You can watch the Market Samurai Training videos to find out what that means because they’re the experts at their own software.

We see absolutely NO web 2.0 properties listed for the term “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” in either Google or Market Samurai other than the videos and ezine article. I did notice of both videos, both have ZERO back links to the page so could that be an opportunity?

So maybe a press release pointing back to the video, which directs viewers to my web 2.0 network of sites could be a winning strategy…

WE DON’T KNOW UNTIL WE TEST

If I had more time, I might contact the video owners to negotiate their You Tube account but I only have 5 more days so I’m leveraging what I have from where I am.

Sidenote: I thought about quitting this market due to what seems like a lot of resistance and lack of ranking web 2.0 properties like Squidoo and so forth. $#*#^ that though because I’m seeing this project through to the end and finishing it, and that’s that.

Successful people finish projects, learn from what didn’t work, throw the rest away, and put the lesson in their pocket to use later.

… ONWARD

After performing a search in Market Samurai for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” under the Find Content & Find Backlinks tabs, I see few web two properties listed at all under the specific keyword “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” so maybe this keyword market isn’t hip to this style of marketing OR this market recently got smacked for being overly spammy.

Huh, so I did the same search for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” and Quit Smoking Hypnosis and noticed the search results change dramatically from when I did the search even a day ago. Interesting…

So here’s what I did today:

1. Google search for “Quit Smoking Forum” to find the most common questions people are asking about quitting smoking so I can use those in editorial/news style articles for the web two properties I’m building

2. Ezine Articles search for articles answering those common questions, which I will rewrite in my own words.

3. Rewrote one article for Squidoo Lens: http://www.Squidoo.com/quitsmokinghypnosistips

4. Posted article and a picture to Squidoo Lens

5. Searched You Tube for a video related to quit smoking hypnosis to take the place for now of the video I’ll create tomorrow

6. Added Squidoo Lens Feed to feedagg.com

7. Went through Squidoo Health Checker module and added additional keywords to the lens (only part suffering other than no traffic, which is normal for a new lens)

8. Pinged squidoo lens

9. Went back and added a text module to the Squidoo lens under the video module containing a picture of two arrows with a link to the blogger blog directly underneath the arrows.

10. Twittered about the lens under TheQuitSmoking

11. Pinged the Twitter update

12. Added a link to the twitter profile straight to the Squidoo Lens

… And that’s it for now because today’s the 4th of July and after working hard, it’s time to play hard.

I may or may not do more work today depending on family members usage of the computer. That’s it for now, so be well and I’ll see you in the next post for IMRemarkable.

It’s a lot of work taking massive action for the http://www.IMRemarkable.com/blog competition….

FUN work though, so I’m keeping on keepin’ on.

… something like that

So here’s a video of some competition spying I did as an example of I don’t know everything and can always get new ideas by looking at what others are doing EVEN if it’s not in my own niche:

{{UPDATE: The person behind this site is not @gracebiz on twitter (did you get new followers from that?!

The person behind the site in this video is named Michael (pulled from his Twitter account @beachweddingz))

And here are four pictures representing how easy it is to reach out and connect with people on a SOCIAL network platform:

(Hint: All I did was ask about things I didn’t know and people responded with help)

No obstacle exists to stand in your way, ever.

Earlier today, I also:

1. Posted a second time to the blogger blog, pinged it on Google, Pingoat, and Pingomatic
2. Bookmarked the blog post
3. Pinged the bookmarks & RSS Feeds
4. A friend bookmarked the two previous blog posts on this blog, and pinged the bookmarks
5. Recorded videos to post to You Tube and through Tube Mogul either today or tomorrow
5. Posted all the videos you see on this blog to the corresponding You Tube Account
6. Pinged the RSS Feed to the You Tube Account after all videos were uploaded

7. Got tired of looking for how to grab the RSS feed to the You Tube account, so I used this service to do what I needed it to:

8. Checked out the #imremarkable hashtag on search.twitter.com and connected with other people participating in the IM Remarkable competition to be social

Tomorrow, I’m going to build out web 2.0 sites, one ring around the blogger blog and using some info I gathered from the reconnaissance mission as referenced in the video above.

I will also get involved in the bookmarking communities and bookmark other people’s quit smoking content.

Then it’ll be over to the web two communities to get even more social and connect with them on their quit smoking content. It’s not just about me, it’s about connecting with everyone, and connecting people to other people in an effort to get the word out to those who really want what we’re creating.

Also on the list of things to get R’ done is to send out a press release using a different strategy than I see most people use on the web.

Stay tuned to discover this strategy as you’ll absolutely kill it changing the game with this PR strategy.

All right, that’s it for now ladies and gents.

P.S. It looks like a lot less work than it was when reduced down to a list of what I did today.

P.S.S. Definitely continues to drill home the importance of building a team!

Yesterday, a family member was using the computer all day so by the time I had access on our home computer, I was burnt out from the day. I did manage to make it to the library to get something done, proving that absolutely NO OBSTACLES can stop you. I really didn’t feel like walking to the library to use the computer and it would have been MUCH easier to stay at home and say “oh, i’ll do that tomorrow”

Get up off your butt and take action, the rest is only an excuse!

While at the library yesterday, I created 15 social bookmarking accounts because I had an hour and it took that long to complete the registration for each account.

I highly recommend automating social bookmark account signup whenever possible as that will shave precious time you can use to do whatever your core competency is to bring in cashola for your business.

Below, you’ll find videos produced using Camtasia to document different things completed towards the IM Remarkable project. The plugin used is called “Simple Flash Video Plugin”

(sidenote: having a bit of difficulty getting this plugin to work correctly so I may simply create a new marketing youtube channel and serve the videos that way instead….

… Lesson here? There’s ALWAYS another way)

UPDATE: here’s the youtube video #1 about looking through the eyes of Google…

Here’s Video #2 for Social Bookmarking & The IMportance of Business Automation:

And here is video #3 about the importance of tracking what you do within a marketing project and business automation:

And here’s the last video for now about Twitter and why it’s important to upload a picture to your profile:

Here is a picture of the squidoo account created earlier today:

And lastly, here is a picture of the initial lens layout:

That’s it for right now, next on the list is finding content for the web 2.0 properties, and linking to all of them from the blogger blog.

Also have to do some competition spying to see what others in the IMRemarkable competition are doing so if there’s anything I am missing, I can add it to my arsenal. Even though I may already know a lot of online marketing strategy, I can ALWAYS learn something from other people.

Stay tuned for the next post documenting my online marketing journey, which by the way you can use to augment your marketing, or if you don’t want to do it yourself, I’m for hire.

Take care and I’ll see you next time.

If you want to get in on the action, too, check out:

http://www.imremarkable.com/blog

but hurry up because the IMRemarkable competition only runs through July 9, 2009 at midnight. You have a chance to roll up in style to a workshop Howie is putting on all accomodations taken care of by the business builder (not a hobbyist) himself: Howie Schwartz.

We had to choose a niche out of a PDF Howie gave out containing 36 niches he has researched over time. The PDF also shows different strategies and marketing angles for various markets.

I chose the “Quit Smoking” niche because a few people close to me smoke, so it’s a topic that’s near to me. Maybe if they read the posts and/or find my content on the net’ it will help them to quit smoking, too. I used to smoke in the Marine Corps and have since quit and my lungs are definitely celebrating because it no longer feels like a midget is sitting on my chest.

I promise to post videos going forward to make it easier to see what I’m actually doing.

So what did I do so far?

1. Set up a blogger blog at Quit Smoking Hypnosis

2. Set up a twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/thequitsmoking

3. Added the Twitter RSS Feed to the blogger blog

4. Set up a Gmail account especially for this project at quitsmokinghypnosistips at gmail dot com

5. Created this post to document my journey to help other smart marketers just like you follow my path to success.

6. Posted the first post to the blogger blog

7. Pinged the blogger blog in Google blogsearch

8. Pinged the blogger blog in Pingoat.com

9. Added the “RSS Feed Subscription” gadget to the blogger blog

10. Linked to http://www.IMRemarkable.com on blogger blog

11. Copied and pasted the list of social bookmarking sites from socialmarker.com so I can sign up for each site to have even more distribution channels for my content

• Propeller.com
• Slashdot.org
• Digg.com
• Technorati.com
• Del.icio.us
• Twitter.com
• Reddit.com
• Tagza.com
• Fark.com
• Newsvine.com
• Furl.net
• swik.net
• Connotea.org
• Links Marker
• Sphinn.com
• Blinklist.com
• Faves.com
• Mister-wong.com
• Spurl.net
• Netvouz.com
• Diigo.com
• Backflip.com
• Bibsonomy.org
• Folkd.com
• Linkagogo.com
• Indianpad.com
• Plugim.com
• Myjeeves.ask.com
• Buddy Marks
• Connectedy
• MyLinkVault
• Tip’d (Financial)
• Google Bookmarks
• Jumptags.com
• Fetch
• OYAX
• A1 Webmarks
• Bookmark Tracker
• myVmarks
• Mixx.com
• Wirefan.com
• SmakNews (Women)
• Dizzed
• Symbaloo
• Ximmy
• iZeby
• Erollover
• YuppMarks
• Health Ranker
• Ka-Boom-It.com

From what I remember in Howie’s free training, he says to do a full promotion for one keyword, so I’m starting with the “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” keyword since we only have 9 days.

I chose this keyword because I am an affiliate for Wendi.com and I remember one of her products is exactly that = quit smoking with hypnosis.

I’m not overthinking this one, I’m going with it since it’s the first idea that popped into my head. Overthinking it would cause me to still be thinking about it after July 9, 2009, and missing out on even participating in the IMRemarkable competition.

That’s it for now, have more work to do, will post what I did and results gotten to date.

Thanks for joining me on this online marketing strategy journey and stay tuned for videos, articles, podcasts, showing you the possibilities of online marketing when you get your back up off the wall and into massive action.

UPDATE July 4th, 2009: since I didn’t post the screen shots for my initial google research, here they are:

This first google screenshot reflects ppc competition, of which there were multiple pages of ppc ads. We see local search by PowerHypnosisChicago.com, along with other ppc ads containing the city of Chicago, IL on the right hand side of the page.

We also see two videos ranking on the first page for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” from You Tube and Meta Cafe.

More google results with an additional keyword of  “Smoking Cessation Hypnosis” to write down in the business journal.

This is the second page of google results, and the 4th entry on page two is an article from Ezine Articles.com, which also goes in the business journal as a targeted content distribution channel.