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I'm Finally Back In The Game

by Mister Bryan
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Hi all,

It's been a really long, long, long while since I posted here...or since I even had anything to do with online marketing.

Having begun my online marketing ventures somewhere in 2008, I'm sad to say that up till now, I've got NOTHING to show for it. My biggest paycheck from good ole Clickbank was something like 300USD or so...and at least a good half of it was from my own purchases..you know...the next big thing syndrome...

With lots of money(by my standard) spent on web design, online services, Adwords etc etc, and NOTHING to show for it, I decided to call it quits in 2010 and froze everything related to IM.

From 2010 till date, I messed around with forex/futures and penny stocks trading. I gotta confess that while serious money can be made trading, I'm treading on thin ice everyday...yes, it's that risky. In fact, the very reason I'm back in the IM game is because I made a mess of things and blew up my 5K trading account. Game Over! Woots!

Right now, I'm a full-time Law student with the University of London and by some mysterious force, I'm being steered into the direction of IM again.

Somehow, I still believe that good and serious money can be made online, be it online lead generation, selling own infoproducts, affiliate marketing etc. I still have the hunch that I CAN and WILL eventually succeed making a full time living online.

What's my definition of a full-time living? Well, given that I'm here in Singapore, anywhere from 3k-5k USD PROFITS will fall into my definition of a full-time living income.

So...long story short...I'm BACK! Wee!

Right now, here's the plan:

I've just joined an online lead generation network based in UK and from what I've researched so far, the folks over there are making in excess of 35K per month PROFIT and there are many people in the network making my target income.

Also, I somehow managed to get a copy of George Brown's GS2. I didnt get the first one but I've heard good things about it so I might as well put it to good use and follow through.

So for a start, here's what I plan to do:

1) Sign up for the Google Adwords Certification Program to learn Adwords inside and out. The reason is because previously, I've been messing around with Adwords...the wrong way, resulting in monstrous credit card bills. I simply do not know how to do keyword research, construct good ads, split test etc etc. so i guess I'm gonna start right from scratch

2) Take time to digest and understand GS2 and implement it and make darn sure I follow through this time round instead of giving up halfway

3) Understand how the online lead generation network works and how I can get my feet wet. I secretly suspect my Google Adwords Certification Program will help me tremendously here.

4) Make real money this time!

Regards
Me
#back #finally #game
  • Profile picture of the author WhosChrisHughes
    I've gotta give you props for starting back up in IM while doing law school. You also seem to understand what you need to do to succeed, just remember that it's going to take a lot of work and you will fail quite a bit. It's all part of the game and the people who win are those who persevere!

    If there's anything I can help you out with, I'd love to see you reach your goal of $3-$5K a month Profits! Best of luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author spope91
    I'm recently back in the game myself. I liked your post, and I like your enthusiasum. I think you'll do well

    One thing I will say, is be careful with Adwords. If you're diving into it, without having much experience or knowledge on the subject, you can drain your funds very quickly. (Been there, done that!)

    Best of luck to you.

    Pope.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
      Originally Posted by spope91 View Post

      I'm recently back in the game myself. I liked your post, and I like your enthusiasum. I think you'll do well

      One thing I will say, is be careful with Adwords. If you're diving into it, without having much experience or knowledge on the subject, you can drain your funds very quickly. (Been there, done that!)

      Best of luck to you.

      Pope.
      Yep, Adwords is like a black hole. It can and will suck me in...suck me dry too...IF I do not know what I'm doing..which is why I am gonna go for the Google Adwords Certification Program to at least get some good basic knowledge. I feel that there's no point in learning all the tricks and tips to PPC if I havent even got the basic knowledge. That was what I've been doing in 2008-2010..causing a hole in my pocket.
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      • Profile picture of the author spope91
        Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

        Yep, Adwords is like a black hole. It can and will suck me in...suck me dry too...IF I do not know what I'm doing..which is why I am gonna go for the Google Adwords Certification Program to at least get some good basic knowledge. I feel that there's no point in learning all the tricks and tips to PPC if I havent even got the basic knowledge. That was what I've been doing in 2008-2010..causing a hole in my pocket.
        Sounds like a good plan pal. Good luck.

        i also suggest you check out the CPA section of the forum, as there is alot of discussion on the topic of adwords and PPC, along with various other paid marketing methods. Some of the guys over there are absolute genius's. There's alot of good info to take in.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
          Originally Posted by spope91 View Post

          Sounds like a good plan pal. Good luck.

          i also suggest you check out the CPA section of the forum, as there is alot of discussion on the topic of adwords and PPC, along with various other paid marketing methods. Some of the guys over there are absolute genius's. There's alot of good info to take in.

          I sure will dude! Thanks for the tip. However, I'll do things one step at a time this time round. Previously I used to "jump the gun" on almost every online venture I undertook. This only led to me not accomplishing anything at all.
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          • Profile picture of the author spope91
            Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

            I sure will dude! Thanks for the tip. However, I'll do things one step at a time this time round. Previously I used to "jump the gun" on almost every online venture I undertook. This only led to me not accomplishing anything at all.
            lol I can definitely relate to that. At the end of the day, persitence is the key.

            All the best.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    As long as you keep your mistakes from your previous venture in mind, I'm sure you will do well. Your plan is solid...as long as you stick to it. The only advice I would give is not to spenn too much time learning and studying. That will do excellent for law school (which you better keep focusing on, I want ALL Warriors to be college graduates dammit!), but in IM a lot of the learning you will have to do through practice.

    Just market within your means in the beginning. The mistake that so many make is that they budget like they are already making $20k a month when they have no idea how to make $20 a month. Be smart with your finances, and realize that you will in fact have to start small and build your way up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
    Just a quick question though:

    1) Is GS2 worth it and should I give it a go to try crank out a few hundred a month from the site? I've currently got a niche market in mind, it's something I'm personally
    interested in and there's a CB product too. Problem is, stats of the product are low, though keywords (based on Google KE tool) are showing good searches but low competition.

    2) To really master Adwords and PPC, is there any other alternate solution besides the Google Adwords Certification PRogram? I mean really learn from scratch...
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  • Profile picture of the author rekerlolz
    The key in internet marketing is to stick to it buddy! You have to learn learn learn exactly what it is that is going to make you consistent cash online and as soon as you find what works for you ...you can rinse and repeat and make bank.
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  • Profile picture of the author TravellingMissie
    Welcome back!! I am in a similar situation myself - I used to flirt around with IM and made money with ebay and Clickbank on a regular basis but then I decided it was taking up too much of my time so I took a break from the scene. Now I am back and calling myself a newbie and starting again from fresh - this time I am determined to make it happen properly.

    Good luck with your endeavours and keep on reaching for your goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobCopywriter
    I'm recently back in IM and I like your enthusiasm although people tend to give up easily when it comes to online marketing and making money online. Also if you are using adwords as said above, it is a bad idea to just go straight in as you may end up spending most of your funds in a blink of an eye. Best of luck to you! Hope you make alot!
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    Good to see you back Mr. Bryan
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
    First of all, thank you to everyone here for your warm welcome back. For the past couple of hours, I've been surfing the Net online, looking at the various recently launched CB products to try and get a feel where IM has gone in the past 1-2 years I was away.

    Now that I've gotten somewhat of an idea of where to pick up from...I'm gonna gear up slowly before going full swing...I mean hey, I gotta make my first dollar again, before I can even look at 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 right?

    Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in following me as in, if i were to create some sort of a blog or weekly PDF report that kinda lay out what I'm up to (IM-related) and how I get up to speed again and finally making money... anyone for it?
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    • Profile picture of the author spope91
      Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

      First of all, thank you to everyone here for your warm welcome back. For the past couple of hours, I've been surfing the Net online, looking at the various recently launched CB products to try and get a feel where IM has gone in the past 1-2 years I was away.

      Now that I've gotten somewhat of an idea of where to pick up from...I'm gonna gear up slowly before going full swing...I mean hey, I gotta make my first dollar again, before I can even look at 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 right?

      Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in following me as in, if i were to create some sort of a blog or weekly PDF report that kinda lay out what I'm up to (IM-related) and how I get up to speed again and finally making money... anyone for it?
      I'd follow you pal, I was thinking of doing something similar myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author WhosChrisHughes
    i'd be interested in keeping track with your progress on a blog. Could be a tool where you could share what works/doesn't work and get some input
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
    anyone else?

    At the back of my head, I've got a figure 10...this means, I'll need at least 10 people to kinda "follow" me as I get up to speed and start making some real money this time.

    As a fair warning to those who might be interested, you might need to get onto my list, but no worries, I'm not gonna be bombarding you with "Buy This Guru's Stuff" emails at all. None. In fact, all I'm gonna do, is to get real personal with you guys...my "followers"... you know, where we just form a little circle and really talk via email, not those autoresponder thingy
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Miranda
    Glad to see you around. Welcome.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanzona
    Thats a lot to handle, law school, studying and building an im business. Hope you can make it happen!
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    Welcome back, Mr B.



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  • Profile picture of the author Dadelius
    Congrats Bro!

    Internet Marketing is like any other business. You first have to put a ton of time and money into it before you can start pulling out of it consistently. (there are exceptions)
    Once I stopped spending out of my PayPal account it was amazing how fast it started to fill back up again.

    Wishing all the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
    here's what I've done for today:

    1) Found a CB product that has pretty good stats i.e. gravity

    2) did some brief keyword research and found little competition but good number of
    searches monthly

    3) Now what?

    Regards
    Bryan
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    • Profile picture of the author spope91
      Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

      here's what I've done for today:

      1) Found a CB product that has pretty good stats i.e. gravity

      2) did some brief keyword research and found little competition but good number of
      searches monthly

      3) Now what?

      Regards
      Bryan
      It's a popular misconception that a high gravity means a good product, or a product that's selling in high numbers. Always take into the account the market you're jumping into, is it IM? If so it's quite possible that the majority of the sales from the product are IM'ers buying the product for themselves through their own affiliate link. Always take this into account when checking gravity.

      Also, never try to sell something you don't beleive in. You should always focus on promoting products that you know are high in quality and will benefit the customer.

      Hope this helps.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
        Originally Posted by spope91 View Post

        It's a popular misconception that a high gravity means a good product, or a product that's selling in high numbers. Always take into the account the market you're jumping into, is it IM? If so it's quite possible that the majority of the sales from the product are IM'ers buying the product for themselves through their own affiliate link. Always take this into account when checking gravity.

        Also, never try to sell something you don't beleive in. You should always focus on promoting products that you know are high in quality and will benefit the customer.

        Hope this helps.
        Hmm...thanks for the tip. Well for a start, there are 2 niches that I'm looking at:

        1) Sports Betting Arbitrage
        2) Arowana ( a kind of expensive ornamental fish) keeping

        Both these 2 niches have CB products. Keywords( based on Google Keyword Tool) seem to have decent search volume per month as well as low competition.

        Both of these 2 niches are stuff I'm personally interested in, in particular, the second one, about keeping an arowana. In fact, I myself am keeping an arowana at home, so definitely if I go down Google Sniper 2 road, I won't bore myself to tears trying to come up with original and good quality content.

        Problem is, the CB product for the arowana niche market has pretty low grav...3.25 if I ain't mistaken. On the other hand, the sports betting arbitrage is currently no. 2 product in the betting category.

        I'm kinda lost and confused as to which one to pick and go ahead with.

        Regards
        Bryan
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        • Profile picture of the author spope91
          Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

          Hmm...thanks for the tip. Well for a start, there are 2 niches that I'm looking at:

          1) Sports Betting Arbitrage
          2) Arowana ( a kind of expensive ornamental fish) keeping

          Both these 2 niches have CB products. Keywords( based on Google Keyword Tool) seem to have decent search volume per month as well as low competition.

          Both of these 2 niches are stuff I'm personally interested in, in particular, the second one, about keeping an arowana. In fact, I myself am keeping an arowana at home, so definitely if I go down Google Sniper 2 road, I won't bore myself to tears trying to come up with original and good quality content.

          Problem is, the CB product for the arowana niche market has pretty low grav...3.25 if I ain't mistaken. On the other hand, the sports betting arbitrage is currently no. 2 product in the betting category.

          I'm kinda lost and confused as to which one to pick and go ahead with.

          Regards
          Bryan
          Sounds good pal. Honestly, I don't knwo what an Arowana is, but I'd definitely say that's your best bet. Focus on getting yourself a niche mini-site on the top spot of google for your keywords. it won't make you a millionaire, but it'll be great practise, and i imagine fairly easy.

          Best of luck to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
    Oh yes...I've been looking at some tools that I'm thinking of getting. As mentioned in the opening post, I'm back...but I consider myself to be a nooooooob...so all help/recommendations are welcome

    1) Aweber ( must-have)

    2) Optimize Press ( to build wordpress optin pages and salespages)

    3) Market Samurai or Spyfu for keyword research??? which is better?

    Regards
    BRyan
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    • Profile picture of the author lassy715
      Originally Posted by Mister Bryan View Post

      Oh yes...I've been looking at some tools that I'm thinking of getting. As mentioned in the opening post, I'm back...but I consider myself to be a nooooooob...so all help/recommendations are welcome

      1) Aweber ( must-have)

      2) Optimize Press ( to build wordpress optin pages and salespages)

      3) Market Samurai or Spyfu for keyword research??? which is better?

      Regards
      BRyan
      1. Aweber - yes
      2. optimize press - ? are you creating your own products right away?
      3. none - use keyword tool dominator
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      • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
        Originally Posted by lassy715 View Post

        1. Aweber - yes
        2. optimize press - ? are you creating your own products right away?
        3. none - use keyword tool dominator

        Nope, I ain't creating my products right away, but I like the optin pages Optimize Press can do...

        WHere can I download keyword tool dominator?
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  • Profile picture of the author RobCopywriter
    Congrats on getting back into IM. I know it can be hard, but I wish you the best of luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    welcome back, somehow I feel that you need to take step back to refresh and find your grounding again.

    In my minds eye, I feel you will be successful, just do more of what works for you, and less of what doesnt. Pretty simple, but most things that work are!
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    • Profile picture of the author Mister Bryan
      Originally Posted by celente View Post

      welcome back, somehow I feel that you need to take step back to refresh and find your grounding again.

      In my minds eye, I feel you will be successful, just do more of what works for you, and less of what doesnt. Pretty simple, but most things that work are!

      Lol.... thanks for the encouragement... but how accurate is your mind's eye? haha... I just bought lottery tickets for my country's 5 million bucks lotto draw tonight...could u tell me whether I stand a good chance? Lol...haha
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