Welcome to my blog. I will be using this blog to document my journey (hopefully) to success with creating a business on the internet. I have found a very promising product that I am going to try and market in 2 different ways, also I am going to document the development of this blog.
The product I will be marketing is www.virtualaffiliatetrainer.com and was created by my business partner. The site will be launch in a couple of weeks and will be aimed at training site owners how to set up and run a successful affiliate program. Basically my partner is going to cover the day to day maintain of the website, sales and customer service, which leaving me the fun job of advertising the website, its an affiliate program with a twist.
I have decided to take two approaches for my advertising. Firstly I am going to create a review website and have information on a similar theme to www.virtalaffiliatetrainer.com and optimize it for the search engines. Secondly I am going to try direct affiliate marketing to the website.
For the SEO I will be using the products ‘Stomping The Search Engine 2′ from Stompernet and ‘The SEO Mindset’ by Brad Callen. The main reasons I am trying my hand at SEO is for the traffic and to create a lasting website to generate income for years to come. Also I want to see if its true that anyone can get that top search engine spot for targeted keywords, as the Gurus always say and to see how long it really takes someone starting from scratch for the first time to achieve it.
For the affiliate marketing my partner has supplied training videos on how to market his website. I will be following this training to the letter and reporting back on this blog. I will be covering such areas as blog marketing, article marketing, press releases, pay per click advertising, ezine advertising and possible some more forms of advertising which I go into at a later date, when I finished watching the training videos.
I going to tell you a little bit about my current situation, mainly so I can look back in a couple of months and see how am doing and so you can see that what I am trying doesn’t take much money and time if it works. I work 35 hours a week lessoning to people on the phone, I have just had a second son who’s a little angle, apart when he is hungry and my wife and I earn enough to be comfortable with a little spare.
I am going to aim to do 15 hours a week on this project, plus a few hours a week documenting my progress for this blog. I will be spending 2 hours a day during the week and around 5 hours on Saturday, Sundays will be family day and to recover. To set up the project I have gone through all the SEO material mentioned early, by the end of the week watch the training video supplied and have my website up and running to start the SEO part of the project.
Finally a little bit on my experience, I have been interested in creating a online business for around 2 years now and have read a lot of the material available from the so called gurus. About a year ago I became a subscription to ‘Internet Income Detective’ newsletter that open my eye to some really opportunities online and the proper ways to do them. Unfortunately for me I was in a very demanding job and didn’t get the time to start anything until around 12 weeks ago when I was laid off. So to summarize I have the know how but not the experience, this should be an interest journey.
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