Article Marketers Do NOT Give Up!

Thanks for the post lil Orange buddy!

I've been testing article marketing since the end of April now and I got to say a few things about it...

The guy I learned it from was direct linking so that's how I started too - DL to Clickbank products. Had 3 sales from my first 5 articles. But then they stopped but I kept getting clicks.

So then the smart part of my brain kicked in and decided to see what the top article writers on Ezine Articles were doing. (In case anyone reading this doesn't know this is called "reverse engineer", which is the smartest thing a marketer can do).

The top article writer on Ezine is Sean R. Mize. If you look at any of his nearly 28,000 articles, every single one of his resource boxes links to a squeeze page.

And man most of his squeeze pages are ugly, poorly put together pages! But it works...the guy makes a killing!

So I decided to switch to this strategy in May. Since then I have 345 articles approved in Ezine (I submit them to Articles Base too) in 4 niches.

It's built me almost 1000 active subscribers in that time. My CTR on my account is nearly 28% so I get 5-10 subscribers a day on total autopilot.

What I do is redirect the subscriber from the squeeze page to a presell page for my main product. Then each day for the first week they are on my list, they get an email that answers one common objection to purchasing the product along with proof that the product works and a call to action to buy.

With your call to action, you want to create a bonus that fills in a gap of the product and offer that bonus.

This produces on average a 5% conversion rate on my lists. Then what I do is after the first seven days I send them a survey through Survey Monkey and ask them what they are looking for help with in the niche.

Using these answers, I construct another 30 day autoresponder that each message goes out every 4 days. These messages are content based where I solve part of these problems they've identified.

Then I start to hit them with more calls to action for my main product. After this 30 day period, I construct an auto responder that goes out every 5-7 days where I mix in content, CPA offers in the niche, and other Clickbank products in the niche.

It's a lot of work to get all this stuff set up, but it's worth it. When they say the money is in the list, they are truly right.

The reason for that is many niches you can cross promote products too. For example, if you have a list you built in the dating niche, not only can you sell them dating products, but you can offer weight loss.

You can also promote the high converting CPA offers to just about any list - ie Free iPad, iPods, etc.

I guess what I'm saying is, you should be doing a list building strategy now so you aren't wasting those clicks that don't take action on your CPA offer now. Then just redirect them from opt in to the CPA offer.

You'll get higher conversions by doing this anyway...

And when you move onto doing paid traffic, I would continue to do your article marketing. Just use some of your profits to outsource the writing and submission process!

Good luck dude, you'll do well!

You hit the nail on the head here

Yes, I am trying to set it up so that it funds my PPC ventures later in the future. Can't wait til we step into the winners circle.

That's an excellent plan and I will be directing my articles to a squeeze page after I get some funds from direct linking. I literally started with $5 and wanted to prove to myself that I could start up with such little funds and still be successful, it will sound much better on a sales copy once I 'make it'.

Best of Luck to all!

Do you think it makes much difference if you don't submit to hundreds of article sites? Most traffic is meant to come from ezine, is it worth submitting to any other directories?