Becky Marie

Hi, and yes I realize my blog is still ugly. I’m working on that…. It’s just not priority number uno. In the last week or so my dough making campaign hit the pooper. The offer I was running changed their landing page and it stopped most of the sales. So, in the last week my priorities have switched to working on new things that can bring in new cash! Some things have been related to SEO , which takes some time to started seeing results with. I’ve also been working on some more PPC campaigns and hoping to catch the holiday traffic. Thus, in order to do that I think I really need to have things pretty refined before BLACK FRIDAY!  Is America the only county with Black Friday?? So, ya, ugly blog in going to have to stay ugly.

What i’ve learned (and what I really should have known earlier) is that in order to make a good living at any online stuff you have to have many ball in the air at once that are all constantly making money for you. You can’t have all your eggs in one basket …

I am optimistic – because I always am… This downward trend has happened to me many times in the last year and I always ALWAYS learn from it, pick myself up, and end up coming out of it a better in the end.

Back to trudging along…

Love,

Becky

I woke this morning to a broken hot water tank and negative earnings – Happy Wednesday to you too. No hot shower and after pulling in the numbers to my excel sheet I saw:

(20.84)

Yes, I did see it coming.. Good campaigns can only last you so long, and so I am learning you need to have multiple coals on the fire. There’s nothing like the feeling have riding the roller coaster of online marketing up, but there’s also nothing like feeling it fall. blah.

Yes, I realize that negative $20.00 is nothing to panic over, and that this time last year a negative $100.00 day was common…

Yes, yes, and yes… But in this moment my lack of a hot shower and lack of the buzz that comes with earning money online I feel poopie.

Love Becky

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Love,

Becky

All in all in the world of online money making is going good… Since I have quit that horrible office job, and dedicating more time (never as much time as I would like) to my online efforts I have been averaging $115 dollars a day. That’s an average taken over 3 1/2 weeks. I have had a couple GREAT days making the most I’ve ever made in a day. I’ve also had some not so great days – making a dollar or two.  With that said, my ROI has gone up tremendously thanks to my mix of SEO and PPC techniques AND even my “bad” days are at least NOT negative numbers. An average of $115 a day is great considering where I started, but nothing I can live comfortably on. Plus, all campaigns will eventually dry up so you have always have to have a bunch of balls in the air at the sometime to give you constant income.

While this blog can fun to write, it’s essentially a 100% waste of time if no ones reading it, and if I’m making DITTO from it. And so if I am going to continue this blog I really need to put some real effort into it in order to attract more readers & at some point advertisers. Thus, I need to do a couple of things:

1. Brand Myself. I need to making myself into a brand. Something that gives you , the reader, a reason to keep you coming back. I think what distinguishes me from every other marketer out there was / is my complete lack of knowledge when I started out. As I’ve said before, I’d never ever heard of HTML before a year ago. I went from Zoologist to Internet Marketer! Two completely different worlds, and I’m succeeding! Essentially I give people just starting out that THEY TOO can do it!
2. Fix this Ugly Damn Blog! I’ve officially been saying that for a year now but honestly, this thing is U-G-L-Y. No one is going to want to advertise on a blog that looks this un-professional any more then a fortune 500 company is going to advertise on a homeless persons cardboard box!
3. And Last But NOT least : Twitter, Facebook & all the others. I need to get on the social band wagon. I’ve started with Twitter & Facebook. There will be more – but in the mean time Be My Friend! And Follow me!

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Love,

Becky

Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed some strange events transpiring in my online world.  While checking out my tracking a couple weeks ago I found someone was searching my name (First and last) , home address & sometimes phone number. Then linking to my site(s) repeated via those searches. The search would not have “weird-ed” me out if it only happened once, but it happened repeatedly over days. My suspicions is it was only by one person, and At least that one person thinks I am worth investigating. The day after the search occurred I get an email from Braden at Clickbooth stating he ran across one of my pages and wanted to “discuss  getting my [your] application fast tracked and running our offers today. “ and then sighted a particular webpage of mine. At first I thought it was a little flattering that some “Affiliate Strategist” over at clickbooth thought I was worth giving the time of day. And considering that I applied for clickbooth about 6 months ago and was DENINED because I failed a stupid test of theirs I found the offer extra flattering.

Next Braden said, “We should jump on a call so I can get a little more information about your traffic and set you up with some of our top offers, when would be a good time? “ and then gave me a link to the application.

I don’t like to just randomly give people out my phone number in my online world until I am defiantly sure of there motives. My #1 pet peeve is pushy people attempting to get me to do things. So, I didn’t send him my phone number, nor did I fill out the application. I already belong to a large number of networks and , at the moment I don’t see the need to sign up for anymore.

So, all week I’ve been getting emails from this guy… Which put an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach. Does he have alteeror motives? What’s he trying to sell me? Maybe nothing, but I don’t like the high pressure techniques. 

This along with a couple other instances has lead me to believe that there are two types of people in the online world:

#1. Those trying to sell you something.

#2. Those you can trust & can call your Online friends & Buddies.

I have had a couple people who have acted as friends and then within the 3rd or 4th online conversation have pulled the, “Hey – Do I have a great product for you – It’s called ‘Make $1500 while you sleep’ , it only cost $429.99 please western union me the money today at it’ll only cost YOU $129.99”

I have met a handful of WONDERFUL people in the last year , Brendan (20yearbillionaire) , Tyler (Tyler Cruz), just to name a few. None of these people have EVER offered to sell me anything – ever.

So, maybe the clickbooth guy really thinks I would be a good addition to clickbooth & he wasn’t selling me anything at all. BUT – something in my gut said "STAY AWAY”.  One of the biggest things I have learned in the last year and one of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to anyone starting off  is to listen to your gut.

Thanks Friends for NOT being creepy sales people. : )

Becky

Well , I did it. I quit the part-time job and despite the fact that I have this super nasty head cold right now and feel like a pile of cow manure, I feel good about quitting. I gave my 2 weeks last Thursday, and this week is only 3 day work week. So, I only have 8 more days at the office job.

My reasons for quitting:

One is that I believe that great things come of distressed situations. While at the time I needed the job to pick myself up out of a hole I created, I don’t need that extra $180 a week right now. The reason being is the pet business is picking up, and over the last year I have learned so much about internet marketing that that’s going good too. I’m sure your thinking that if I don’t “need” the extra $180 a week the smart thing to would be to stay and stash the cash away. Well, for an extra conservative person that would be “smart” thing to do. BUT living smart doesn’t allow you the freedom to do great things. No one does great things when there being conservative. A little stress (or a lot)  is my biggest motivation. I mean that’s how I got started in this online work – I need money BADLY – I put my nose to the grid stone to solve the problem and I did.

Another reason for quitting is for my sanity. I was coming home tired and grumpy every night. This was because my boss was a jerk & my days were insanely long. Life is to short to do something you hate.  PERIOD.

And Lastly: I believe that TIME is MONEY. Period. If I invest the time that I spent in that office, into the internet then I will more then surpass the dollar amount I was making.

So that’s IT – I AM DONE! Internet watch out – I am back full time with vengeance. : )

Becky

As I promised in my last blog entry : VACTION PICTURES. Just a few : ) Please enjoy….

This is My Mr. Albert on Forked Lake. He’s so cute sometimes I can’t stand it.

This is the  view from my Camp site. I Want to go back!

All of us on top of Wrights Peak. My first Height Peak.

Meet Rupert, he’s our new dog.  I love him. 

My Best Friend and I in Lake Placid.

Our Nightly View.

And That’s it!!!!

Love ,

Becky

I just got back from vacation and it was the first vacation I wasn’t worried about money. Last year when I went away I unknowingly over drafted in both my checking accounts (business, and personal). I remember last year sitting in the woods and getting cell phone service for a 1/2 a minute. It was just enough time for my blackberry to connect with my bank account alerts. In came lots of alerts reading “Your bank account balance is under $5.00” ; “Your bank account balance is under $2.00” ; “Your bank account balance is under $0.00”. What a horrible feeling to be sitting in the woods, knowing you can do nothing, imagining the over draft fees piling up. Need less to say it wasn’t;t exactly relaxing.

Fast forward to this year and money was not on my mind while I relaxed in an inter-tube, on a beautiful Adirondack Lake, while reading Us Weekly, drinking a beer (vacation pics. to come) .  The bills were covered, and I had money left over to have fun with. Ahhh, what a great feeling. Knock on wood, but the last 2 months (as I indicated in my last blog) have been good online. I am seeing the highest numbers thus far, and I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. : ) My only on going problem is financing my marketing, which I believe I have a solution to. At the end of September / Mid- October I should have high enough affiliate checks coming in to pay OFF my business American Express card, which I can then use for my marketing.  The only bad part is that I have to wait a month. Think of all the money I am loosing during those days!

Here are my numbers lately (I left out the most of the days where I ran out of money… ):

The Dilemma – Advice Needed…..

As you can see things are going great as long as there is a cash flow going in to my campaigns. Also, besides crunching numbers day to day and 10 minute basic daily maintenance I’m not doing much with these this campaign, or on new ones. This is all  because of time restraints. Remember, I have a stupid , god awful, torturous office part – time office job? It only pays $11 dollars an hour, my paycheck for this week for doing 20 hours of work was just under $200.00 (I practically made that on 9/2 doing 10 minutes of work!) So, basically the job pulls in about an “extra” $800 a month, but SUCKS up 80 hours of my time! The boss is an jerk. The job makes me want to stab my toes with a butter knife… So, the job is guaranteed cash. Affiliate Marketing isn’t.  On the flip side, if I invested that 80 hours a month into my marketing endeavors I feel like I’d be doing even better then I am now. Another thing is my debt… I’d like to pay it off! I have $6000 in credit card debt….

So, what do you think? Keep to stupid job that allows me virtually no time to invest in online stuff but is a guaranteed source of money? Quit the job?

An Aside : Let’s also remember I have the cash source to my other business doing Animal behavioral Consults. This business is doing fine finically. In the future I would like to do this business casually, and marketing mainly.  

Becky

Hi! This is me typing on my blackberry. It maybe the only way I get around to typing up a post these days. Lately my days go as followed: Wake up & affiliate market, do pet business stuff , go to stupid office job , do pet stuff , get home & affiliate market –> SLEEP! Do it all again the next day. From time to time its wears on me, but I know that the hard work will pay off at some point.

Google officially hates me… No matter what kind of page I set up it give me the same crap “ad rarely shows due to low quality score”. When I click to see the reason for this it states the my landing page is POOR. Which is ridiculous! Everything is just the way it should be. The content is good, the keywords are all in a good place, the lay outs are appealing, privacy polices.. The hole 9 yards, and yet, a POOR quality score! So, I have turned to yahoo and MSN. It’s just hard to let go of google because I know how many clicks I COULD be getting and, in turn, how many sales.

Speaking of sales… I have decided in order to really be able to make a living at affiliate marketing I need to change a few things. For one I need to get good at higher payout offers. The second thing is I need a good combination of clicks from both the organic search and the paid search. This is something I have been able to achieve with some zip offers, but not with higher payout offers. One of the things I am a bit of a difficulty with in my organic search is finding a keyword (or words) that has a high search volume, but it’s not flooded. But really, don’t we all have this problem? Niche, niche , niche, the perfect undiscovered niche is what we are all looking for. Just like the search for gold out West…

Another thing that I have discovered with fooling about with non-zip submit offers is the extreme rate of copy cats out their! Apparently the big thing right now with biz opps is to make a fake online newspaper. Last week it was the blog, this week the newspaper. I have found it very interesting to watch the trends with all the high pay out offers on google, yahoo and MSN. If you check the big 3 on a regular basis for obvious keywords pertaining to high payout offers you’ll soon start to see copy cats pop up, trends, who’s getting scrubbed, who gave up and so forth. The pages that do long time I watch for subtle changes to see how they are optimizing there pages.

Anyways, playing with the big boys is a new adventure for me. I will keep you posted. If I can make $100 a day with zip / email submits I should be able to use those skills to triple my daily income with higher payout offers!

Watch out! Here I come big payout!
Becky