Progress update
OK, it’s been over a month since I last wrote about my progress, and I think it’s a good time for an update.
I feel I’m continuing to make good progress, although perhaps a little slower than I was hoping for. There are a number of things I am happy about, but there are certainly things I can be doing better.
I have built my mailing list to 321 people
The majority of this growth has been from giveaway sites, which I have continued to participate in. I have also put all of my free products on a page in this blog, which has generated some sign-ups, and my Twitter messages have also sent a decent amount of traffic. I have participated in one Ad Swap so far, with my fellow Alex Jeffreys student David Walker. That appears to have been a great success, as I had at least double the number of sign-ups on the day of the ad swap over the usual daily numbers.
Incidentally, the email that I sent to my list for David was to promote his ebook, Stop Slogging Start Blogging. The unintended consequence of promoting his product to my list is that I read his ebook in order to write the email copy, and I learned a few things myself! This isn’t part of any ad swap, but I highly recommend everyone check out his ebook here: http://www.stopsloggingstartblogging.com/.
I have 5,943 Twitter Followers
This is in large part thanks to the Tweet Elite Pro software that I reviewed here. I have had a great time interacting with everyone on Twitter, and there is a noticeable surge of traffic every time I tweet about a page on my blog or one of my free products. I think I’m only just getting started on Twitter, and I hope to use it a great deal more in the coming months.
I have built this blog to an average of 20 visitors/day
Again, not a particularly impressive stat, but it’s double the number of visitors I had a month ago. If I can keep up that kind of growth, I think I can get to a respectable number of visitors fairly quickly.
I finished my first product
I’m particularly proud of this one. Productivity Power Plan has been released! I’m getting tons of great feedback about the book, and I have been encouraged to expand upon it into some additional great productivity materials. I’ll have more about this in a few weeks, but I hope I can continue to provide valuable productivity advice. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, there is a link on the right-hand side of the page at the top, or under the Free Products link.
I haven’t made any money yet
I have made $51.84 this month!
I have made two sales from the One Time Offer behind my free Twitter ebook, which is for a product I have Master Resale Rights to that I’m selling for $27. After PayPal fees that works out to $25.92 per sale. Again, I’m not quite ready to retire, but considering I’ve never made a cent from Internet Marketing prior to this, I think it’s a great start!
I’m getting more comments on my blog posts
I’m assuming this is due to increased traffic, but I’m seeing a few more comments on each of my blog posts. It’s still not quite where I’d like to be, but progress is a good thing.
The thing I feel I need to improve on is the frequency of my blog posts. For the first month, I was posting just about every day. Now I’ve dropped down to once or twice a week. I’m not looking to inundate you with a ridiculous amount of blog posts, and I’d rather have a few quality posts rather than a ton of junk. I do feel I can probably post closer to three times per week and still maintain the quality.
The other area I want to increase my efforts is in my videos. I have only created two so far, one a tutorial and the other a product review. I would like to do many more of each of these. I’m going to focus mostly on the tutorials because I have received more positive feedback on them, so I think they are what you want to see. Let me know in the comments if you feel differently.
Overall, I think things are going well. It’s slow going, which can be frustrating at times, but at least I’m moving in the right direction finally!
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JR,
Go get em… Over 300 on your list… Awesome stuff.
Haven’t done a giveaway as yet, but you’re certainly making me think about getting off my butt…
just that much sooner.
Speak soon,
Rob
Did not appreciate your ‘pump-and-dump’ twitter following approach, as can be seen here http://twitter.grader.com/history/dadwithoutwires — My account was one of those you followed and then dropped. On the plus side, I ended up visiting your blog (which has nothing to do with wireless??), so it’s a boon for you anyway, I guess.
Ksenia,
I am terribly sorry that I unfollowed your account prematurely. The Twitter account you are referring to is used to test some experimental tools and methods for working with Twitter. As shown by your comment, the method I used isn’t working as I intended. I am very sorry if I have inconvenienced you in any way. I do not normally use, nor do I advise others to use, a “pump and dump” method for gaining followers.
I am also leaving your comment, and my response, active on this blog, because I want to show that while I sometimes make mistakes, I will own up to them, and hopefully learn from them as well. Thank you for your feedback and once again I am very sorry to have caused you any distress.
JR
I just want to take this opportunity to say what a wonderful blog you have going here and it is packed full of top quality information at all times from what I can see
Job Well Done
Hi JR,
Sounds like you are making great progress, even if it is slow going. I’m just getting back to focusing on my list. That’s awesome that you just finished your first ebook. I’m just now trying to figure what to create so that I can start joining some giveaways. Keep pushing!
- Heidi