Out of Obscurity

I have put my efforts into article marketing in full force. It is very difficult because you want to create interest in a product, but usually you can only think of popular ones where your site won’t rank so well. Today, I created an article for a product that is for piano lessons. You can try afree piano lesson online to see if the piano is right for you. This first link goes to my squidoo page that points out the benefits of virtual lessons. Free piano lesson online will take you directly to the sales page. And that, is my latest niche. I took piano lessons for many years. I love to play off and on and I think it is great to get instructional help from online videos. You can come back and review them at any time to refresh your memory. The main downside to virtual lessons is that there is no corrective feedback. You will only sound as good as you want to sound.

I’ve started marketing a clickbank product that helps with weight loss. It is designed for wedding weight loss. Many people try losing weight for their wedding day and struggle because they don’t know what metabolism boosting foods will help. This product is designed with suggested exercises and a diet generator to help you identify the most effective foods to eat to lose weight for your wedding day. My first mistake though was the research that I did to chose the keyword. There are simply too many wedding weight loss search engine results. So, I will be going and doing some more research to find a more appropriate keyword. I have distributed some articles to article directories and I may get some results from that keyword, but I think I better create marketing campaign with a keyword that is less common, but still frequently searched.

When I find something very helpful in internet marketing, I like to blog about it. I found The Wealthy Pages to be very helpful. Not only does it explain what types of services are the most helpful, but how to select the right one for you. There are so many different types of internet marketing tools to use and you can be successful using any of them. However, it is essential to find one that works with your personality. Some people do not like writing and deciding upon article marketing for them would be absolutely wrong. They would definately be more successful with a pay per click advertising campaign because article marketing takes a love of writing, which not everyone has. The Wealthy Pages debunks the myth that you need your own website or your own product to make money online. While it is nice to have your own product and website to sell things with online, there are many ways to get around that and still have success online. For example, simply by creating a blog in blogger, you can enable adsense and be paid for anyone who clicks on a link on your blog. While this is certainly not the most lucrative way of making money online, it is one way to do it. Another way, is by promoting products that you know and love through affiliate marketing. Through affiliate marketing, you will earn a commission each time someone purchases a product through your website or recommendation. Affiliate commissions are generally higher than adsense earnings and some people make a nice living through affiliate commissions.

The seizure I had really caused some depression. I didn’t write for over a week and I stopped researching internet marketing altogether. It was definately a set-back. I wish I had drafts and things that I wanted to post written out in advance, but I’m not sure that would have solved the problem. I actually lost any and all desire to even visit my blog altogether. I didn’t like spending time online. Seizures change your brainwaves for a time and the way you think about things. I’m going to try to get back into the swing of things because I think blogging helps me stay focused on learning about internet marketing. I don’t think that this blog will be used to actually make money, but as a help in staying focused on my goal of learning internet marketing.

I decided to try making money online because I have seizures. Yesterday I suffered another one. I am bruised and depressed from it and was not in the mood to write anything or really focus on research today. I am hoping to get back into the daily grind tomorrow. There is a lot to do. I just want my bruises to heal and feel comfortable again.

Promotional opportunities abound for online marketers. But, I just feel stuck! I barely know what to promote and how to go about promoting it. I could take many different approaches and that is where I get frustrated. Give me too many options and I can’t decide. With only two options, I can just flip a coin and usually I am alright picking out the option that would work best for me. However online marketing can include free advertising, pay per click, social media, posting links to twitter and facebook, commenting on forums, writing articles and more. Not to mention that you are suppose to research the most appropriate keywords that will get you the most hits. I could create my own amazon store and drive traffic to that, but there are so many things on there to promote that I don’t know where to begin.
I took the weekend off from online marketing. I did start to write a couple articles for a clickbank product, but must admit that I did not buy the article spinner/submitter yet. It is about eighty dollars and I want to have some articles written before I make that purchase. I need to see if writing articles is something that I can stick with.

I’ve decided to invest some money in an article spinner and submitter software. It will save me tons of time. However, my biggest problem is that I’ve lost enthusiasm and drive for promoting some of the things I was excited about promoting online. It is a great thing that I can fall back on substitute teaching. I think putting the big picture together is simple when you have a chosen direction that you are certain about. I know there is already a ton of competition for general things. I need to be enthusiastic about a niche. It has to be a passion or I won’t be able to write anything about it at all. Today, I wrote about options. I know a lot about options, but haven’t really been successful at them, so I don’t think I could crank out more than three or four articles. Today, I also used socialoomph.com to post the links to my affiliate marketing articles on hubpages. I spent about half an hour doing that and about an hour editing and writing the hubpages articles. Somehow, I ended up with a lower hubpages score after writing more articles, but eventually I should get better at it. It is a work in progress and I’m learning more everyday.

I decided that I will invest in an article submitter. I posted the question to the wealthy affiliate forum and the person who responded said that he dominated the first six spots in an organic search after he started using a certain article submission and article spinner. I’m very interested in doing this because I like writing. I don’t mind typing out thoughts and ideas that occur to me. In fact, often I enjoy doing it. I struggle with quality content because I’m no expert in everything, but if you do searches on the internet, you can find the information that you need to include almost instantly, so there is no need to be an expert. I just need to know where to locate information. I did more research today to try and decide what to promote online and figure out some article writing strategies. The industries that I’m interested in promoting are so overdone. While I’m tempted to use the blueprint for Strip the Fat that Wealthy Affiliate has online, I’ve read people who say not to bother entering the weight loss article marketing arena because it is saturated. I honestly have never had a weight problem, so selling someone on a dieting solution seems a little fake to me. I may try it anyway. I need to dig a little deeper and find something that I believe in and want to promote.

For any affiliate internet marketer finding out what people want and researching the best ways to get the product to them is key to making sales. I am struggling with what I want to promote. I have written fifty articles now that are just average. I focused on getting quality content produced, but did do nearly the keyword research that I needed. I neglected it because I figured, hey, I can use expensive keywords, I’m not paying for pay per click advertising. I peppered my articles with them about 2-5% of the time. However, I don’t think that long tail keyword research ever came into play. I didn’t narrow down the field. My articles aren’t getting nearly as much exposure as I would like them to be getting. I want to branch out a little bit, but now I am in a quandry. I don’t want to jump into the make money niche so much because there is a ton of competition for it. Although there is a product that I’d like to promote. I also am not that interested in the weight loss industry, even though there is a product in that industry that I would like to promote. I guess the problem is finding something that I’m passionate about. In reality, my interests and passions change daily. So choosing one niche and sticking with it for a long time is frustrating.

Okay, I have to admit it. I hate posting advertisements. I love writing. I love the concept of article marketing. I love the idea that people will read my work. I love that I don’t have to post something everyday for it to be read or found online. I can simply post an article one day and months later it will be read. I hate reposting my links to twitter and reposting classified advertisements knowing that they will only be up for a few hours or a couple days. It stinks. I understand that twitter helps my articles get some traffic and that there are people who read classified advertisements, but I don’t like writing them. They seem worthless to me. I love article marketing where I can expound on any topic that I desire. It is so much more entertaining. It is a lot more difficult too though. I must admit that I have gotten out of the writing mode for a few days and when that happens it is nice to simply post links to my previous articles on twitter or advertisements to Craigslist. However, I will admit right here and now, I rather like writing. I am a fan of article marketing. Someday I hope to be making more than just a couple cents a day from adsense. But right now, that is what I’m pulling in – a few cents a day. I have discovered that the more prolific that you are when you are writing, the more money you tend to make.