Day 7: Drunken Rambles and Twitter Traffic…
First of all I would like to apologise for any typos in this post. I am fresh home for the clubs and have probably had to0 much to drink (I love Fireball Whisky – its a whisky with a cinnamon twist!)…
Today I will be talking you through several things, hopefully I do not get in trouble for giving too much in this post but meh, I blame the drink! I have also started using a short url service for my links as I would like to track how many people are clicking, on what and from where to help me improve the future posts in the challenge. If it is an affiliate link I will state that it is.
My Fair Affiliate Link Policy
When you click on an affiliate link I may earn a commission, this does not affect the amount you pay, or your need to pay. 99% of the services I am using in this challenge are free, some may offer a paid upgrade however that is completely at your discresion and not required for the challenge (unless specified). Occasionally it may be that I have arranged a special deal with the owner/provider of that service; in this case the only way you may get the deal is to use my affiliate link or referral code. I will always try to state if that is the case.
I am not here to make money from the challenge, I am here to get you making money from the challenge. I do spend around 6-8 hours (or more) working on every single post in the challenge, and would appreciate you using my affiliate links as this also helps me calculate how many people are actively following the challenge. And hopefully once you have started earning you may see the value in upgrading on some of the services.
The Mindset…
Tonight I’ve spent out with some good friends, however I decided that I should share with you some basics behind my mindset.
1. Believe that you deserve every $ that you earn, unless you believe you deserve it you will never earn to your full potential. You are not getting money for nothing, you are getting and deserve money because you are taking action to get it. If other people do not want to take action, they do not deserve it…
2. Respect yourself, I know how easy it is to spend money, how easy it is to just sit there working to earn that money. With money comes a good life, but if you forget your life then money will get you nothing. I came home alone tonight; this is partly because I intended to write this post, and partly because the thrill is in the chase.
3. Dedication. Even though I have stumbled home, I have done my 50 situps, and 50 pressups before I have got into bed (yes I am writting this in bed)… I know that sometimes it seems like a lot of work, but you rarely get anything for nothing… If you do not want something enough you will never get it!
Now with that out of the way… Today we are going look at how we can leverage the power of twitter.
How we can use Twitter…
Twitter is easily the second (if not the most) influential social network around, and we have out account all the way from Day 1. Now that we have our site with some decent content it is time to look at building up our traffic…
Personally though all of this can be done manually, that takes time and dedication, and I like things done for me. That is the reason I am going to introduce you to two new tools, that both are free (though a professional upgrade is avaliable).
Tool 1: Get More Followers…
There’s no point using twitter, if no one is going see our tweets. Our first step today is to learn how to get more followers. To help with this I have found some free software that will help us do this.
- Goto http://rfurl.net/tweetattacks
- Click to close the page, it will show a box offering you a special offer. Click Cancel to stop it closing and accept this offer. This is the free software that we want to use.
- Click Open as we want to install this software once it is downloaded. When it finishes downloading we want to copy the files out of the zip to our desktop.
- Open Setup and go through the process just clicking Next at each stage.
- Find the Tweet Attacks icon on your Desktop and click it to open it.
- You need to register, enter your name and email address and click activate. Wait for the email to arrive to confirm your activation (usually takes minutes…). Click the confirmation link…
- Open Tweet Attacks again, it will say an update is avaliable. Click Update Now and let it do it’s stuff…
- Goto the Manage menu, and select Twitter Accounts. Enter your twitter username, and password. Click Save and Close.
- Goto the Switch Module menu and select Account Statistics. In the left menu click Reload Accounts, and then Update Statistics.
- Goto the Switch Module menu, and click Follow/Unfollow. Select your username in the Account list, then in the Task menu select Follow from search result. In the Parameter enter a keyword related to your niche (I used football). Click Start Tasks to start following people related to your keyword, let it run a couple of minutes and then click Stop.
- This is something you need to do over the next few days…
The video is here…
Note If you know how to limit how many people are followed at one time in the free version feel free to let me know and I’ll update the post!
How to Automate Tweets…
I like being able to set a site up, and leave it to run itself whilst I do more important things. One of the best free tools you will find online for twitter allows you to schedule you tweets in advance. When you combine this with the ability to schedule posts in wordpress you have an all round winner. I don’t think any more explaination is needed here.
Whats even better is you can add as many twitter accounts with the same account on this website making it a one stop twitter manager.
- Goto http://rfurl.net/autotweet (or if you don’t want to use my affiliate link google SocialOomph).
- Click Register, fill in your details, do the captcha and click Register.
- Goto your email and find the confirmation email, open the confirmation link to confirm your account.
- Sign up their email list if you want to get sales emails… Or click Login and enter your username and password, and click Login.
- Goto Social Accounts on the menu, Add New Accounts, and then click Add Twitter. Login to twitter or click Authorize when asked. Click Authorize App.
- Click Save when you arrive back at the SocialOomph website to save your account.
- Goto Scheduled Updates on the menu and then click Schedule New Update.
- Enter the update you want to post, it must be shorter than 140 characters. Once you have done this you specify when you want the tweet to be posted; either by x amount of time after the last tweet, or by putting in a date and time.
- You need to schedule at least one tweet for every post you have schedule in wordpress… In addition also add some other tweets at appropiate times such as “It’s great to be home, work today was crazy!” to be posted in the evening etc…
The video showing you how to do this is here…
I have only touched on the power of SocialOomph here, if you have spare time have a look at some of the other features that you can use!!!
Making Money online DAY 9
Day 9: The Magic Money Tree…
One of the people doing the challenge has already made their first money online from the website they started as part of the crashed challenge. Now that we have some decent content, and are building traffic it is time that I talk to you about money so that you can turn that traffic into $$$. I was speaking with someone earlier and came up with the following formula…
$50,000/year = $4166.67/month = $138.89/day = $5.79/hour = $0.10/minute
Today’s going be a little long, however I think it is plenty worth it… We are signing up to different services to moneytize our site. And then looking at how we can use Simple Ads Manager to show the banners on our site. Today lacks videos at the moment, however I will add these later as I still have to edit them.
Also I’ve added a competition to win 10 articles for your site, check it out here.
Spam?
I hate to say it, but I hate spam. Now that we are listed in search engines we are going get automated tools leaving comments on our blogs to try and make the spammers sites more popular. Or even more cunning to try and sell you secret methods to increase your traffic or make your blog more popular. Now I am lazy and cannot be bother manually reviewing every comment so lets make it harder for the spammers.
The simpliest solution to stop this is to activate Akismet.
This will automatically mark suspect comments as spam, and 99.99% of the time is pretty accurate. However if you are worried about missing genuine comments it may be worth reviewing the spam list once a week.
The video is coming soon…
Affiliate CPA Marketing…
We covered what affiliate marketing was in Day 4, where we looked at getting paid a commission for each sale we make. Now however I want to introduce you to CPA (Cost Per Action) marketing, where we get paid a commission each time we get someone to do something. This may range from getting a user to enter their email address or zip code, to getting them to download and install a software program.
There are affiliate networks dedicated to this, with varying degree’s of exclusiveness. I’ve spoken to a few of my affiliate managers, and they have agreed that if you are doing the crashed challenge you will be approved by them(so long as you havn’t already been banned!).
The first network I want to introduce you to is MaxBounty…
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you use any affiliate tracking links on social networking sites you must use a short url service such as http://bit.ly - You will get banned if you just use MaxBountys own urls as they are.
Another Affiliate Network
Just like we signed up to Clickbank, there is another Affiliate Network which is similar and having access to more offers is never bad is it?
Amazon Affiliate Network
The next source of income is the Amazon Affiliate Network. Generally I find that I can find something on Amazon for every single niche possible no matter how weird it is. And the best thing is that Amazon is great for upselling people into buying addition things at the same time.
And we can’t forget the Overrated Google Adsense…
There is yet another type of affiliate marketing known as CPC (Cost Per Click) where you get paid just for people clicking on the advert on your website. The best known and biggest is Google, and applying now you have your website is easy.
Summary
This is a good list to get started with, I will introduce some new networks next week, however I am trying to avoid causing information overload…
Tommorow I will cover different ways we can use these companies to make money through our sites!