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[swagen]

Hi All:

I just learned something today from a paid program that I am in called the Ultimate Affiliate Strategy.

As much as I would like to share a link with you, I can't because it is part of a membership site and the document is huge so I couldn't post it here anyway.

But what I am going to do is this.

I am going to keep you posted on my progress with the strategy. After I get my site all set up I'll even give you the URL. No, it's not Internet marketing so there won't be anything there for you to buy, but you'll get to see how this works.

I will also post my income after my first full month. I'll report how many hours I had to spend on doing this.

Hopefully, you will then be able to decide for yourself if this is something you want to try. If it is, you'll have to PM me for the details. I won't post any links here, even though it wouldn't be an affiliate link and ironically, I wouldn't get anything from it even if you did sign up.

Anyway, that's about it for now.

I'll keep you all posted as I go along.

[Trent Brownrigg]

Sounds good. Please keep us posted. I am always up for new ideas.

Oh and can you PM me or post the link to the membership site? I'm sure I've heard of it but I want to know for sure.

[Chants]

Hoping to hear more from you about this

[swagen]

Update - Jan 10, 2007

After 2 full days of working on my affiliate site, I have completed the following:

Main Page
About Us Page
Products Page containing 13 affiliate products for the niche

The last part was the hard part. There aren't that many really good products for this niche. My goal was to find 20 but it just wasn't in the cards.

Tomorrow I start working on the articles page.

More to come.

[Fwahmi]

Thanks Steven,sounds like great stuff.I love great stuff.Looking forward to know more about it.

[iqbalahmed_5]

Hello Swagen I too am very eager to know more about your new project. Hope this will be a boon to the newbies.

Regards
Iqbal Ahmed

[swagen]

Update - Jan 11, 2007

Today, I wrote my first 3 articles for my content site. My goal is to have 10 articles on the site before I go live with it.

Estimated time of completion is Jan 14, 2007.

After that, I upload the site and move on to the next step.

I'll keep you posted.

[Marc Meole]

Steven, are you using any of the content provided from the membership site?

[swagen]

Steven, are you using any of the content provided from the membership site?

Hi Marc:

No, I am writing all my own original content. Like Allen said, I have a goldmine at my fingertips.

At least so he says

[swagen]

Update - Jan 12, 2007

Today, I wrote 5 more articles for my content site. I am now up to 8 articles in attempting to reach my goal of 10 before I go live with the site.

Estimated time of completion is now Jan 13, 2007.

I'm really getting excited about this. This site is going to be my first really full blown non IM site since I started making a living online. It may do very well or it may totally bomb out. In a way, the unknown is kind of exciting for me.

Once you see the site, you'll understand why because if this takes off as I feel it should, it will actually bring me in a bigger income than my IM sites. Of course my expenses for this site, as far as promotion, are going to be greater too.

But you know what they say.

You can't make a lot of money without at least spending some.

Keep you posted.

[swagen]

Update - Jan 13, 2007

Today, I wrote 2 more articles for my content site. I am now up to the 10 articles that I need.

I then went through my to do list and realized that I am not even close to launching this site.

My next step is to write a short report, maybe 2 or 3 pages and put it into a PDF file.

I will then place the opt in to get this report on the main page of my site.

So I will begin working on that report tomorrow.

Estimated time to completion of this step...

Jan 15, 2007.

My goal is to have the whole site up and running on Feb 1.

I'll keep you posted.

[netjunkie]

Cool, case study in progress...exciting!

[swagen]

Update - Jan 14, 2007

Finished a 6 page PDF report to be given away.

When my site is done, you'll see how I'm doing this.

Next step is to change my autoresponder service, which I am doing Monday. That way I can get my optin materials ready for when I launch my site.

Also need to start working on my autoresponder series. This is the part that is going to be a lot of work. It's going to be a 52 week series, meaning I need to write 52 mini articles. I don't need to do them all at once, but I should get a head start on them.

I'm planning now to get my site launched Feb 1. This will give me enough time to get everything in place without knocking myself out.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

[swagen]

Update - Jan 15, 2007

Today was a very busy day for me.

I put some finishing touches on my niche site including an XML sitemap that Google prefers over a text or html one.

I then submitted the site to Google to be indexed. It will be about 2 to 7 days.

I've done this more for the purpose of PPC traffic.

Let me explain.

If a site is already indexed by Google and Google "friendly" thus the XML sitemap, they will give you better rates on your PPC campaigns than if you're NOT Google "friendly".

So I am doing preliminary leg work in order to make it so that my PPC campaigns aren't as expensive. Plus, because it is a full blown site (currently 15 pages and growing) Google won't hit me with their "penalty" for a poor web experience, as they call it.

Today, I also signed up with a new autoresponder service, Aweber and put an opt in form on the main page of my site including a promotion for my free PDF report.

Let me tell you about the functionality of Aweber.

It kicks ass, plain and simple.

I have never seen anything so powerful in my life.

Wish I'd done this from the start. Oh well, you live and learn.

Tomorrow, I am going to write some follow ups for my auto responders. I hope to get at least 5 or 6 done.

We'll see.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

[Trent Brownrigg]

Let me tell you about the functionality of Aweber.

It kicks ass, plain and simple.

I have never seen anything so powerful in my life.

Wish I'd done this from the start.

Yep, pretty sure I told you that a LONG time ago. But hey why would you listen to me?!?! HaHa just giving you crap. (but I did tell you how great aweber was a long time ago and I believe you even argued with me)