Money and Mind

Although I’ve been dabbling in the web for quite a while now, I have so far steered clear of Adsense as a means of making money, but recently I put up some pages as an experiment just to see whether I could generate a few clicks and see how the whole thing worked.

That was a few days ago and to be honest, I had forgotten about them and it was only when I was editing something else that I remembered them.

So I was pleased to find when I logged into my Adsense account that I had actually earned my first money from some Adsense clickthroughs. Now I’ll be honest, it’s less than a dollar and equates to only around 10 cents a click, but the really exciting thing to me is that it cost me nothing apart from time. I built the pages for free using a little of my own existing contant and a few articles from other authors (all fully accredited) and then I linked the pages into my existing domain and just left them waiting for Google to spider them. You’ll find the pages here.

Now I have a click-through rate of 3.5% and a tiny bit of money in the bank. So what will I do next?  Learn how to really make them sing!

To do that I’ve just downloaded and I’m working through Joel Comm’s brilliant guide to Adsense Google AdSense Secrets 3.0 ebook

I’ll keep you posted here as things progress.

To our success - Andrew

I got an e-mail this morning from a guy called Jon Davies. I had never heard of him before today, but this man is a genius of viral marketing and he has made me some money already!

It was a well written e-mail offering me a free e-book.  Nothing particularly different about that, I hear you say - yes you’re right but there was something about the message that intrigued me enough to want to follow the link.

 You can always tell when a marketing message is well written when it twangs your curiosity cord and a little voice says “Hmm, I wonder what that’s about”. 

You should make a mental note to yourself to always try and waken that voice in your prospect’s heads.

Anyway, the link took me to a simple but very effective site where I could download the e-book.  The sales copy was equally well written and by this time my Curiosity cord was twanging like crazy.

I jumped.  I downloaded the e-book and did exactly what it said.  Less than one hour later, I had made a sale and since then I’ve made a bunch more.

You have to check this out!  Click Here

The guy has done it so cleverly and it’s so easy to get involved even if you don’t have a website, a product, an affiliate account or anything - you could be making sales tonight.

Try it!! Click here  and you’ll see what I mean

The more I hear the more I’m amazed by this guy’s experience.  I’ve just been watching his video on Blogging and how to get the most traffic from it.  It’s made me set up my blog in a completely new way. I can’t wait to do some more tomorrow.

I’m a great believer in continuous learning.  No matter how old or experienced you are, even if other people call you an expert - you can still learn something new.   I’m just working through an amazing online course in Traffic Building techniques that is completely opening my mind.

This guy Michael Cheney has put together an online resource that completely demystifies every possible aspect of driving traffic to your website.  Some of this stuff, I’ve never heard of before and I’ve been around for a while.  I’ll be talking more about this in future as I get more from it, but if you want to take a look now, go to:

http://www.money-and-mind.com/intro1