It's been some time since I updated this series on my affiliate marketing experience. I have no excuse except that I've been involved in quite a few projects. I haven't made that step to hire freelancers to do a lot of my work for my yet. It's that "chicken and the egg" saying--you know? You have to make the money first to be able to hire the freelancers, but you also need the freelancers to HELP you make the money.
With my upcoming Google check, I plan on putting that money back into my business and hiring freelancers to do a lot of my writing (not for my blogs) but for other projects. ANYWAY, back to my update on my affiliate marketing experience. If you'd like to review the past posts to catch up, you can do so by clicking the appropriate links listed below:
Sorry if my overview of what I've been up to over the past few months is redundant so stick with me here. I've been applying what I've learned in the "One Week Marketing" Plan created by "PotPie Girl" whose real name is Jennifer. Her system uses free tools such as Squidoo.com and free article sites such as Ezinearticles.com among others to write articles and promote affiliate products.
The affiliate product I decided to promote was a natural treatment to get rid of acne product called Acne No More. I thought it was a great product since it was created by a long-term acne sufferer, nutritionist, medical researcher and health consultant who invested thousands of clinical research hours on his acne system.
The person that developed this system, Mike Walden, guarantees his product works and will cure acne permanently if you follow his system. He claims that visible results can be seen within seven days, and dramatic results, if not permanent results, within two months.
According to PotPieGirl's One Week Marketing plan, I wrote numerous "lenses" on Squidoo revolving around the keywords I decided to target for this program, and promoted my "how to get rid of acne" affiliate product. In fact, I have six lenses published on Squidoo at this time. Here they are:
What Causes Acne And How To cure It Forever With The Best Natural Acne Treatment!
Best Natural Acne Treatment Found!
Finally, A Natural Treatment To Cure Acne
Diet and Acne: Could What You Eat Be Causing Your Acne?
Clear Up Acne In Your 40's With A Guaranteed Natural Acne Treatment
Getting Married? Cure Your Acne Fast Before Your Wedding Day!
The last time I updated this series, I was waiting for Ezinearticles to approve my article titled, "
Get Rid Of Acne Now Before Your Wedding Day" that was finally published on June 25. Since the article was published just two weeks ago, it has been viewed 64 times. In addition, 10 people clicked the url in my author resource box to visit the "
cure acne permanently" affiliate product I'm promoting, and 2 people clicked the url to the "
get rid of acne before your wedding day" Squidoo lens that I wrote. I'm very pleased with these numbers because this is just the beginning. Like I said in my last post in this series, I haven't done any real article marketing except this one article just published two weeks ago. Since this article was published, I received two more sales.
In addition, I came up with another affiliate product I decided to promote after purchasing it myself. It's a face painting designs ebook. Once again, I used PotPieGirl's One Week Marketing Method by creating a Squidoo lens, "
Face Painting Small Designs On Kids For Fun & Profit," mentioning this product.
I also wrote an article titled, "
Small Face Painting Designs On Kids--Fun For All," and submitted it to Ezinearticles, and I blogged about this facepainting design product here on MyMochaMoney, and on Blogger where I titled the post, "
Face Painting Small Designs On Kids--Real Home Business?".
So far, I've made one sale on this product. However, I made the sale before I was getting any traffic from Google to my lens (at this time, I hold the #3, #4 and #7 spots on Google for my chosen keywords. The #3 spot is indeed my Squidoo lens) using PotPieGirl's tactics (and one thing I discovered on my own that I will share in the near future), my lens on
small face painting designs shot to #115 in the Parenting & Kids category, and its' overall rank is #2,727 out of hundreds of thousands of Squidoo lenses (as of today). These rankings seem to improve every day.
Again, I followed the
One Week Marketing plan. However, there's more I can do like write more Squidoo lenses about face painting, link those lenses together, write more articles, and more.
I started with just the one lens, the one article, and a couple of blog posts just to see if I could get an affiliate sale. Since I did, I will most likely move forward promoting this face painting ebook. I must note that I only make $10 for each sale. I know that's not a lot and I could make so much more promoting other things (and I plan too), however, I truly believe in this product, and I enjoy face painting! It makes it that much easier to write about this product and about face painting designs in general.
I promise to continue to update this series, so if you're interested in finding out how I'm doing with my affiliate marketing efforts, go ahead and subscribe to my
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If you want to learn more about PotPieGirl's affiliate marketing methods that I personally think are brilliant and are helping me to earn money, then go to her
One Week Marketing overview page and read all about it.
