Just thought I would give you a quick update on this outsourcing thing. The guy I have hired has been on board since monday now so far he has submitted 13 articles. That is 13 articles in 4 days. He has said he has been a bit dubious because he has lost some money in this sort of work in the past and he doesn’t want to lose anymore so he is not working to the best of his ability until he sees that we will pay him.

Has any of you come across this before? I mean what would you think if someone said they will not work hard until they started getting paid?

Do you think I should be suspicious? This guy is on a 4 week trial period but to be honest if this is the sort of thing he pulls I don’t think he will even last the 4 week period.

Am I over-reacting? I dunno there is a bit of trust in this outsourcing thing as you don’t know who you are dealing with. We have came to an agreement for the short term to build up a bit of trust but I am still rather wary of the way this is going.

Anyway I just thought I would post and let you all know and if any of you have done this before please chime in because I am totally new to this area of things.

Thanks

Pete

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Just thought I would post this quick update to let you all know about the outsourcing project. I have just hire a great guy that is going to start work this Monday. The Employment contracts and the non disclosure are all signed and we are good to go.

This is going to make a huge impact on my time constraints as I will have this employee basically just doing all the ground work. They will cover everything on a day to day basis from article submissions to backlinking and forum posting, blog posting yahoo answers.

He also has some experience in web development and programming. So this will be a valuable asset to have.

I will start posting updates on how this is coming along after monday and we will see how the first few days go.

Anyway just a quick update will post more once he starts and we can see how this works out.

Thanks

Pete

This is just a quick post to keep you updated with what is happening on the Clickbank Journal with the outsourcing. I have joined a site that specialises in outsourcing jobs to specialized workers. The job has been posted and I currently have a lot of CV’s that I am going through at the moment.

I am looking for the right person with the right skills that will slot into this position relatively easy with a little bit of training needed to be able to complete the tasks required. This person will be working 40 hours a week doing all the jobs I no longer have time for the likes of writing articles, submitting articles, backlinking articles,web 2.0 submissions, rss submissions, forum posting , blog posting, yahoo answers. This is going to take a lot of pressure off me and let me concentrate more on the business rather than the day to day tasks.

I will keep you all updated once a decision has been made on the eventual employee. I will then start to give you updates with the full net profit, The likes of expenses on a weekly basis with the number of sales and improvements on this journal. I am sure this will be an interesting trip and I think this could help a lot of people. It will provide information on whether outsourcing could be a vialable option for a lot of people and with a full time employee working 40 hours per week i think we will see some pretty good results from this.

Anyways until the next time. Any questions drop me a line.

Pete

Just thought I would give you a quick update on this. I have not had much time to work on this but I have 25 articles out there at the moment and sales are trickling in.

As you can see I am roughly getting a sale every 2 or 3 days. The sales are coming from the low end and mid end product. I have still to get a sale from the High end product.

I have been busy with som many other things there is just not enough time in the day. I am continuing with this journal and I am going to change things around at the moment and make this all outsourced. I already have people writing my articles for me so they are starting to build up. I already have 130 articles in the queue so I am just not getting the time to submit them. I am going to hire someone to do this work for me. I will get them to submit the articles and do all the backlinking for me as well. I will have to pay them a wage as well as the company writing the articles for me.

I will document this in the journal as I will be working off net profit now. This should give a lot of you an idea of how much you can make with other people doing the work for you. It is a route that a lot of you will end up going down when you get to a stage that it is just not possible for you to do everything all at once. I am currently looking for an outsource company to do all this work for me so I will post another update when they have been hired and give you details loke how much it costs etc.

Anyway till the next time and as always if you have any questions let me know. I am inundated with emails and comments so please be patient and I will try to answer all emails and comments.

Thanks

Pete

Ok yesterday I spent a lot of time just setting things up for this journal. The likes of landing pages, articles etc. Now I managed to get 5 articles submitted yesterday and got them pinged and bookmarked. The articles showed up within the hour.

I got my first sale of the journal today. $31 from one of the articles I wrote and all I done was ping and bookmark. Now I have a plan of action today to write 5 more articles and to heavily start backlinking the first 5 articles I wrote.

The backlinks for today are going to come from web 2.0, other article directories and also blog posting. I have done a lot of blog posting in the past and it has worked extremely well to get high quality backlinks to the articles. I am also considering using some backlink packets but I honestly do not know how effective these are and they are very time consuming.

Once I am in to the full swing of this things should start to roll easier and I will lay out a foundation on which all of you can follow to make this work for you as well.

I can’t emphasise enough how important your keyword research is and you must do this very vigilently. You have to make sure that the time and effort you put into your article writing is worth it because if you are targetting the wrong keywords you will really get nowhere.

I am concentrating this first article marketing promotion on 1 high end product which makes roughly about $90 and another medium one which comes in at roughly $30

I am hoping to get it up to at least 2 sales a day per product before I move on. With that first sale at least I know the first product is converting. I am writing the next 5 articles on the high end product and then will continue to backlink all of them.

As always if you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks

Pete

Ok the journal is starting today and I am going to be using a clickbank account that I haven’t really dealt with. There is some moeny in it but we will start from today as it is the first day of the week with clickbank.

I am going to be using this account soley through article marketing with a slight twist. I am going to be incorporating a different range of tactics. I will be aiming to get articles, blogs and landing pages ranking for certain well chosen keywords. The aim of this is to dominate the first page of google with articles, blog posts, landing pages and web 2.0

I will be writing less articles and concentrating on getting more of the articles and blog posts etc found on the first page. I have a plan of action for this and there is a list of backlinking methods that I will use and will outline in this journal as we go along.

So for day 1 it is a matter of writing 5 articles and start the backlink onslaught of backlinks 5 good quality articles with a pile of backlinks should be enough to get the listings I am after.

Anyway this is just day 1 and will see how things go.

Thanks

Pete

I have been busy with a couple of products that have been launched on plimus so I have not had much time for anything else lately. However now I have decided to start back on a new Journal. This journal is going to soley concentrate on Clickbank.

My Plimus accounts are all taking care of themselves and are pretty much on track to see me through. However I have been concentrating less and less on clickbank and now I feel the time is right to get back into Clickbank with a bang.

This journal is to keep me on track with the goals that are going to be set. I will update everything here that I will be doing on clickbank. This journal will be similar to the last journal. I will choose a few clickbank products to promote and will then write articles, backlink etc until that product is giving the best return possible.

I will concentrate on 1 product at a time and then move onto the next one.The products I promote will be done via a presell landing page and then the customer will be sent to the sales page.

Now for the figures. My main target is for $75,000 just from clickbank before 01 Feb 2011. There will be a lot going on in my life after Feb 2011 and this target was set to make sure things are in place for me. I truly believe this target is achieveable after my last journal. I will have to get the figures up to about $200 a day and then keep them their for the rest of the journal.

I will probably end up using about 10 products throughout this journal that will be the basis of most of the money. As I said I will be doing one product at a time and then moving onto the next until I am getting between 1-2 sales per product per day.

This journal will only be with clickbank and my figures amounts and screenshots will be updated once per month.

I will post updates on this blog every other day to let you all know what is happening.

As always if you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks for reading.

Petehols

I just thought I would post this quickly as there has been a lot of questions asked if I am going to reveal my products that have made me the money or my pen names for my articles. I have been advised that it would be detrimental to my business that I release this information. I understand that a lot of you have been wanting this information but please put yourself in my shoes. If you had a business that was making you a serious amount of money would you release the products that would open up the doors to an unended amount of competition?

I am all for helping all of you and there is a few things I have up my sleeve that will help you all tremendously however I will not risk my income and that of my family to wipe out all I have worked for for the last 9 months.

I will give you all the information you need to get you going in internet marketing and I will show you all how to do it step by step, I will also test other methods of free internet marketing for you and post the results. At the start of this journal If I am honest I did not think that this journal would be followed as much as it has and I am glad I have been an inspiration to a lot of you. This journal was initially setup for me to be accountable to myself and that is all. It has snowballed into something I would never have dreamed about.

All that I am asking is that you don’t hound me to jeopordise the living that I have made for me and my family. I did not mean to decieve any of you as most of you know I am an upfront guy. Generally if I say I am going to do something then I will do it. I have taken a lot of flak from people that have told me I shouldn’t be giving half of the information I have away for free but I have fended them off and kept going.

I am going to keep this blog going if only for the fact that people have a place to come to find useful and relevant information without having to shell out $100 for the priviledge of outdated information. I will continue to keep all the information I have for free and I will not go back on that whatsoever.

I do hope that you can all understand my situation and I do hope you all continue in your quest to become self sufficient with internet marketing. You all have been a true inspiration to me and I believe that together we can help each other.

If you do have any questions regarding this blog post please either contact me via email or leave a comment here,

I thank you all for your understanding.

Pete

This post has come from a discussion on the Warrior Forum where a few people believe that it is better to post your articles to your own site rather than to the article directories and be able to achieve better listings in google. A few of the guys over their think that it is entirely possible to achieve the same listings with your own domain that it is with the article directories.

Now this has peaked my interest enough to give it a test and see what the results come up with. I do honestly hope that an article on your own blog can out do the article directories but I am yet to be convinced, hence why I am setting up this test. It would be so much better to be able to post articles on your own blog and get them listed in google just as quick and get the listing and traffic to your own domain. This would be a lot better as you can control everything then on your own. You will be able to monetize your article a lot better as you would not have any leaks in the form of google ads to distract the customer.

So here is what I am going to be doing. I will use a brand new domain name that will have a landing page just like any of my other products I promote. I will then create a subdomain and install a wordpress blog on it. I will then start writing articles for the blog and I will promote those articles just like I have done in the past with the article directories. So I will ping and bookmark the article on my blog and then submit it to other article directories with a link back to the main article on my blog. I will then start to get links from other blogs in my niche and then link them back to the main article in the blog. This is the same thing I was doing with articlesbase but changing that for my own blog.

OK the things I will be looking for in this test is the following –

1. How quickly the blog article can get listed on google. With articlesbase I can get an article listed easily within 30 minutes. Just under 10 minutes is my record. So I would like to see the exact same response from the blog article.

2. The Initial Listing of the blog article – With Articlesbase done correctly I can get an instant page 1 listing after the article is listed. Speed is of the essence here because the higher the listing you start with the immediate inflow of traffic you receive. You want the maximum exposure of the article you can get resulting in the traffic and sales/

3. The amount of time spent on 1 article – This is the deciding factor for me as I do write a lot of stuff and if I have to spend an extra hour a day or half hour a day on 1 article then this will hold me up a great deal.

4. Keyword Use – I will be using the exact same technique as I have with the article directories Keyword once in the title, 3 times in the body and once in the Resource. Also in this section I will be choosing a few different keywords. With my keyword research I will split it into 3 sections. 4 Keywords will be on the low end of the scale like very low competition and up to 1000 searches. You can generally get listings with articlesbase top 5 with these sort of keywords. Then 4 keywords with a bit more competition up to 4000 searches. Then lastly 4 keywords with more competition again round about 75,000 competing pages and anything over 4000 searches. This is the fairest way I can see to test the blog article because I know the listings I can get with articlesbase on these sort of figures and will be able to thouroughly test this out.

Ok I am going to get this started today and see what the initial test results are and I should have some figures or some sort of information to hand tomorrow.

Until then keep watching as I think this could be a very useful experiment for a lot of interested parties. If you have any questions let me know.

Thanks

Pete

I have been collating all the information about the journal. Figures for the whole year etc. here is the final update for the journal.

END DEC 31 Figures

Plimus

Sales – 320

Earnings – $8,083.20

Clickbank

Sales – 75

Earnings – $2,343.75

CPA

Conversions – 298

Earnings – $625.8

Total December – $11,052.75

Total for the journal – $55,554.75

I was so close but I am more than happy with the effort and the earnings I made in this journal.

With clickbank in december the sale slowed dramatically over the festive period which is what I expected. However plimus seemed to just go through the roof. On christmas day with plimus I broke my record and managed to get $1005.32 in sales on christmas day I was astounded.

All in all this journal has brought me great happiness and I would just like to say thanks to all of you for following and thanks for all your support throughout this journal it has really meant a lot. There has been ups and downs the whole way through this journal and it has been all of you that has kept me going.

I know I didn’t hit the target of $60,000 but I think it was close enough.

I have decided that I am going to keep this blog going and I have quite a few things up my sleeve for 2010 and there is a few things that might be able to help all of you. I will be posting about that very soon.

I think I am going to use this blog as a basic information portal now. I am going to be testing and trying different methods that all of you can try as well. I will be posting updates about how things turn out.

I am also working on a new product. This one is basically done and I am in the testing methods at the moment. The way things are looking this product will make both of us a lot of money.

I won’t say too much about this at the moment but I can say it is not an IM product. I will be sending you all an email very soon about the product what you can expect and also how you can go about promoting it.

Anyway enough of that just now. I hope you all had a great christmas and a great new year and I hope 2010 brings you all that you all desire.

Until next time.

Keep working hard.

Pete