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The Profitmart ExperimentThe Profitmart ExperimentA 30 day experiment to see if I can make money with a Profitmart site.
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Banned from the forum! Again!
2007-11-16 08:34:00 Ron and Rick in their wisdom have decided to ban me from the Profitmart forum. This is the second time I’ve been banned from this forum. The first time was after I wrote a post that was similar to yesterday’s letter but not quite as constructive. My original letter also mentioned some competitive products and I figured that was the real reason I was originally banned. At that time I decided that I wasn’t going to be bitter about it and instead I tried to turn it around by spending 30 days of my own valuable time trying to prove myself wrong. I have never even mentioned until now that they had banned me from the forum for making a critical post. Do you think I went too far? Was anything I said unfair, rash or ill considered? I have gone above and beyond with my best efforts to make their system work with the tools they have provided. I checked and double checked my facts. I think my reviews of Profitmart have been honest, fair and balanced. My letter to Ron and Ri... More About: Forum , Banned
Day 30: Is Profitmart Worth It?
2007-11-16 00:00:00 It’s been a long month and it’s finally over. This has been a great experience for me but I have limited time to work on internet marketing and this has been sucking up most of it this month. I have a slew of projects that I’m itching to move forward with. What did we learn this month? Is it possible to make non-membership affiliate income with Profitmart? My campaign was not successful in turning a profit. However I did learn a ton and hopefully you did as well. I tried a lot of things that I hadn’t done before. As I’ve stated in past postings, it’s more important to try new stuff and learn from your mistakes then to succeed with every venture. From that perspective this month was very successful. But where does that leave you, the budding internet entrepeneur, hoping to make some cash with your Profitmart site? I wouldn’t count on making affiliate income through ebay, amazon and clickbank. Not that I don’t think it’s possibl... More About: Worth , Wort
Day 29: IMHO - Profitmart Site Critiques
2007-11-15 02:00:00 I’ve been looking through random Profitmart sites and I’ve found some interesting things. A lot of people haven’t even configured their site yet. I go to the site and I’m in their admin panel. A lot of people haven’t bothered to change the default title from “site title here” Most of the sites I looked at have minimal content ... More About: Site
Day 28: My Profitmart site looks like crap!
2007-11-14 02:00:00 Take a look around the internet. There’s a range of website design from slick high end professional looking sites to sites that are a scrambled illegible mess of ads, links and gaudy flashing graphics. Which sites to you prefer to look at? Which ones make you feel invited? Which sites would you trust with your credit card? Where does ... More About: Site , Crap , Looks
Day 27: The Wonders of Wordpress
2007-11-13 02:00:00 Hopefully you have heard about Wordpress . At the very least you have heard about blogging. But how many of you are doing it? I have toyed around with various blogging platforms in the past but doing this blog on Wordpress for the past 27 days has been an enlightening experience. I’m going to go over some ... More About: Wonders
Day 26: Profitmart PLR Blueprint
2007-11-12 02:00:00 Today I’m going to look at how we can apply the PLR strategy to a Profitmart site. I’m going to go over each point of the blueprint and talk about some implementation options. The end result of this effort would be to build up a mailing list for your particular niche and possibly to get some affiliate sales ... More About: Blueprint
Day 25: Possible Blueprint
2007-11-11 02:00:00 I came across an interesting business model today that I think would work nicely for a Profitmart site. This particular case is using dog training so it fits in perfectly with this blog. You could use this approach for any niche you want. Here’s what I found. There is a site called http://www.niche-content-packages.com/ th at sells PLR article packs. ... More About: Blueprint
Day 24: Post Mortem - part II
2007-11-10 01:19:00 Today we’re going to continue on with the Profitmart dog training post mortem. I want to focus on what didn’t work today. It was interesting yesterday to see how much positive information came out of this project. Let’s see how the downside measures up. What didn’t go so well: Skyrocketing bid price. I was aware that the ... More About: Post , Part , Mort
Day 23: Post Mortem - part I
2007-11-09 04:21:00 I’m cashing in the chips on this dog training campaign. I took a shot at it and it didn’t work. No biggie. You have to expect to fail more than you succeed in this business. Any decent internet marketing guru will tell you to “fail fast and fail often”. You need to make sure that you put enough focused effort ... More About: Post , Part , Mort
Day 22: Secret Weapon
2007-11-08 06:58:00 I have a bit of catching up to do. You would think that 30 days is a long time for a project like this but it does take a chunk of time for each part of it. I’ve done pretty much all of the social bookmarking but there are still a number of article sites I ... More About: Secret , Weapon
Day 21: Social Bookmarking
2007-11-07 06:00:00 Today I’m going to do some social bookmarking of my Profitmart site to give it a boost in the search rankings. Social bookmarking services like digg, Blinklist, deli.cio.us, etc allow you to create virtual “bookmarks” for your favorite sites. You can access these bookmarks from any computer and other people can see them as well. Bookmarking a site will help it to show up in the search rankings and sometimes even skyrocket you to the top of the listings. Having more people bookmark a site will make it rise even faster. Usually it’s the bookmark itself that will show up high in the rankings. I use a free website at http://www.onlywire.com to speed up the bookmarking process. It’s a mass bookmarking tool that adds your bookmark to a bunch of sites at once. You need to have accounts at all the various sites but they have quick shortcuts you can use to speed up the signup process. I do the rest of the bookmarking sites manually. For a list of soc... More About: Social Bookmarking
Day 20: Hiring a Ghostwriter
2007-11-06 05:49:00 Well, I hacked out my dog training article in about an hour last night. I incorporated the info from my buddy with the dog. I also searched around for similar articles and borrowed a few ideas, being sure to rewrite them in my own words. It actually went pretty fast. That got me a first ... More About: Hiring
Day 19: Article Marketing
2007-11-05 04:37:00 Quick update on the Profitmart dog training Google campaign. I spent $9.43 yesterday for 16 clicks. That got me an average position of 7.8 with the bulk of them (dog training) being at position 6.9. I had set my budget at $20 for the day. Since I didn’t hit the budget that may indicate that I ... More About: Marketing , Article Marketing , Article
Day 18: Adwords running
2007-11-04 02:39:00 I’ve been getting lots of ad impressions but for some reason my ads are showing up past position 8 for my 49 cents. That’s keeping my CTR to rock bottom since hardly anyone sees the ad. There seems to be more competition all of the sudden. Google may have also evaluated my quality score as being ... More About: Running , Adwords
Day 17: PLR Bonuses
2007-11-03 05:47:00 I’ve decided to spruce up the Profitmart page by adding some bonus products. I didn’t really want to write them myself so I thought I’d see what kind of PLR and MRR products I could dig up. MRR books are ebooks that can be resold for as much as you want. PLR books are similar but also ...
Day 16: Regroup and Evaluate Options
2007-11-02 02:58:00 Let’s take a closer look at what kind of work will be involved if we want to move forward with PPC. We have three viable options if we want to compete in the PPC arena. Option #1: Create a review page. Compare 3 to 5 products. Buy and review the products myself. Not very likely since I don’t have a ... More About: Options
Day 14: Halloween Holiday
2007-10-31 16:10:00 I’m taking today off. Halloween is my favorite day of the year and I’ve been working my a** off! mike www.profitmuse.com :8^) More About: Holiday , Allo
Day 14: Adwords results
2007-10-31 06:03:00 Well the results are in from the initial Profitmart site campaign. Nothing scorching. In fact it’s a little “tepid”. I guess I’m just used to better campaigns. I messed up and ran the content network for a little while. Which skewed the overall Click Through Rate but only by about .01%. So what have I learned from ... More About: Results , Adwords
Day 13: Adwords Ad (part 2)
2007-10-30 06:30:00 The adwords ad is up and running for the Profitmart dog training site. I don’t have a lot to say today. If you watch the video you will basically be looking over my shoulder while I put it together. I talk about all the do’s and dont’s. Here’s the crib notes: Turn off the content network! Do multiple ... More About: Adwords , Part
Day 12: Profitmart Google Ad (part 1)
2007-10-28 21:18:00 Today I’m going to started on the Adwords campaign for “dog obedience training”. Some of you may have tried Adwords before. If you haven’t you might be hesitant because of the potential cost. It’s true that if you’re careless you could run up a large advertising bill with few results. It’s pretty easy to control the costs and ramp up ... More About: Google , Part
Day 11: Disguising the Profitmart Domain
2007-10-28 00:50:00 Before I get this Profitmart Google ad up and running I need a better domain name to send people to. I’m going to register a domain with an URL redirection service so I can work around the fact that my site is called workathomejobs4me.com. I browsed around and found a couple of these services. ... More About: Domain
Day 10: Profitmart Marketing Plan
2007-10-27 08:42:00 This tweaking has gone on long enough. I’m itching to get this Profitmart page out there. I wrote some text for the homepage last night. You can check the site at workathomejobs4me if you’d like to see it. I managed to squeeze in most of my keywords. Hopefully I didn’t use the “dog training” keyword too ... More About: Marketing , Plan
Day 9: The Profitmart Home Page
2007-10-26 05:54:00 The one thing I still need to do is fix up my main default Profitmart page. That’s the one that people will land on if they just go to the main site. At the end of the day I’m probably not going to send people directly to this page (workathomejobs4me = dog training?) but I’m ... More About: Home , Page , Home Page
Day 8: Putting in a Header Image
2007-10-25 06:17:00 I decided that to make this Profitmart site look a bit more professional I wanted to put an image into the header. The tricky part about this is that I want the image to span the entire header and I want some text to go in front of it. If I just stick an image ... More About: Image , Putting , Header
Day 7: More Clickbank Products
2007-10-24 07:25:00 The plan for today was to use standard Profitmart clickbank feed to quickly generate a listing of doggie related products. Of course there’s a catch. A few actually. I have the same problem I had with the ebay feeds. If I turn on a clickbank feed it is going to be on every page. I don’t want ... More About: Products
Day 6: Profitmart Launch Plan and Ebay page
2007-10-23 08:12:00 Since I only have 30 days to start generating some income from this Profitmart site I want to get something up and running as soon as possible. The catch is that I don’t want to put just anything up. I need a site that makes sense and looks finished. That doesn’t mean this has to be ... More About: Page , Ebay , Launch , Plan
Day 5: The Iframe Technique
2007-10-22 03:03:00 Today I want to look at a simple html technique that will allow me to put someone elses sales page onto my Profitmart site. This technique uses an html method called “iframes”. Let’s use the SitStayFetch ebook as our test case. Here’s a quick overview of the plan: create a new keyword category for “SitStayFetch”. I’m going to target the ... More About: Technique
Day 4: Landing Page Possibilities
2007-10-20 18:06:00 I was messing around with some ideas last night and I came up with some interesting techniques that might work for this project. I’ll be talking about those over the next couple of days. Today I want to take a look at the tools we have to work with on our Profitmart page and explore ... More About: Page , Landing
Day 3: Niche Exploration
2007-10-19 16:56:00 I put together a flash file last night recording my techniques and thoughts while exploring a niche for the Profitmart site. This was put together with a free tool called wink that allows you to record and annotate screen captures. This is my first project using this tool and the file might be wider than your ... More About: Niche , Exploration
Day 2: My Plan of Action
More articles from this author:2007-10-18 17:03:00 I’m going to start this project by laying out my main objectives. Find a niche to promote Create a Profitmart site around that niche Drive traffic to the site Make money! But before I get right into that I want to take a quick look at some of the technical issues that I’m going to run into. If this was ... More About: Action , Plan 1, 2 |
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