New Year New Beginning

I must admit that I have failed to reach my goal miserably. I am not so sad about it though, I plan to try again this year. I've set unrealistic goals that's why it has been so hard to reach it. $1k is oh so far from the 50k I wanted to reach by the end of December 09.

Anyway, it has been a nice experience for me, I ended up buying 16 domains along with hosting for some whilst others are on blogger. Things that I would never have thought about buying on my own, I thought those were so complicated! I got to laugh at myself now!

Let's get back to the big fat 50k challenge; I sure want to make that amount of money this year but seeing the trend things have been moving I don't see myself earning that much unless I put much more time and effort into it. Let's see it took me more than 12 months to make that $1k and I have not been writing many articles either. I broke the tasks into smaller goals. Like a whole new beginning, as if I have never made any money on clickbank but know the steps to go through. I put the goal to reach for January at $1000 which equals to 200 articles (@ $5/article) that in turn equals to 8 articles per day for the rest of January considering 5 days are already gone.

Planning for tomorrow (6th January 2010) in priority
- 8 articles for my main niche
- Setting blogs for 2 different niche
- Move 3 more domains from blogger to wordpress
- Set SEO domain

I'll keep the work I have to do realistic too, if I have more time on my hands I'll update my to-do list but I must finish everything up there first.

Also considering holidays are not over yet, we're going out almost every day so I must take some time off for "family time" too... next week will be back to work. I will need to-do lists then too and stick to my lists.

Thinking about quitting my job

I know this might not be the right decision right now since am not making enough and I do not have a consistent earning with affiliate marketing but I've been thinking a lot about this... There are days I do nothing to get my stuff moving, so if I have everyday only dedicated to affiliate; would I not be able to make much more, taking it like a full time job?
There're so many things I plan to do daily but I barely get anything completed, I am just so tired when I get back home @ almost 7pm, after shower, dinner and talking with family a bit (sometimes I don't have time to do that) I just want to sleep...

I want to try at least, I need to, I am confident about it...

Things have not gone my way

I haven't really got the time I needed to dedicate to article writing, nonetheless I have been putting new methods in place that I will use and I hope will help me to get the job done. I will start the 30 Day Countdown again, sorry about the last post; I will not delete it, I really want to keep it for myself for when I see it again in a year or two I'll be glad that I did not give up after something going wrong.

Back to the 30 day challenge, day 1 starts tomorrow

A 30 Day Challenge - Day 1

So far I've made $837.74 for the last 10 months, which is an average of $83.77/month... that's lame, at this pace I am never going to achieve my goal.
I have been listening to a lot of stuff concerning time management lately and I really hope these will help me to move much faster in my work. To achieve $50k by the end of this year seems impossible now but I need to set more short term goals and try my best to achieve them. It's true that $50k looks and sounds good but it's too big to achieve in one go. Let's break things down.

I am going to work on my first want in my wish list - a Honda Fit (I want a red one). This is one very specific goal.
Having searched for prices around I came to conclusion that it might cost me $15,000

What I will need to do to earn $15,000
My articles are worth $7 on average based on what I earned
and it takes me on average 3 articles to make a sale.

Based on that I will need to write 2200 articles for the next 150 days
Which is 440 articles/month
110 articles/week
I plan to work 6 days/week
So my daily work will be to write a minimum 18 articles/day

So, I will begin with this today itself and I must force myself to complete the work. I will update this post later today with what I have completed.

Sales are coming back

The last month has been really bad and I think the problem was with clickbank because many other affiliates had the same problem... no sales.
See for yourself: www.cb-analytics.com
Notice the super big drop in May. Must have been because of all the recent changes in clickbank, issues with accepting credit cards as I have read almost everywhere.

But things seems to be getting back to normal lately, on my main account I had 2 sales for the last 2 days. I have only 2-3 hops that converted but overall it had been more than a few hundred hop to convert (I count the days I did not make any sales since the last one)

Account 1:

Account 2:Both account combined for the last 30 days I made $116.63 for 632 hops.
I can't complain though... I haven't done much work either but anyway, following my planning from my last post, I hope I'll do much better for June (notice that I added a few stuff to my wish list so I better work harder)

Things don't seem to be moving

I am a bit frustrated these days, I am not making any sales no matter how much work I do. It's very discouraging and it seems like because of that I am working less and expecting to see sales coming.
I will try not to check my account for 10 days and focus on my work only.

If you have been following this blog, I know you might not be very impressed with what you have read so far but I am not going to give up any time soon.

I planned a new way which I hope will help me. I say say that so far I've only been learning many things and my biggest step will be to be more organized.
So here goes my work plan (I tried to be as realistic as possible):

4 hours per day (I will need to be strict with myself on that one)
I plan to sleep early and wake up early to work 2 hours in the morning, I will complete the biggest job then as in the afternoon when I get back home I am just too tired. Also seeing the tad work that I have to do I sometimes end up doing nothing...

It will be like this:
4 to 6 in the morning
7:30 to 9:30 in the evening

I will also try to make better use of my time while traveling, almost 3 hours morning and afternoon combined :O (yes that's a lot!!!) Reading articles to get ideas and brainstorming will be done during this time.

In short I will take it as if I am working part time on another job. I will also keep tract of every work I have completed at the end of the week (planned to do that on Saturdays). And finally my Sundays I will try my best not to do anything, just letting go so I can start the week fresher.

Ah, it feels better now that I have written everything down. :)

The Yahoo answers day

I've spent almost all my time on yahoo answers today, I hope I will see at least a sale from it in a few days. This is my first time trying to sell on yahoo answers. I have read some people had quite good results with it so I thought why not try. It's very time consuming though.

Hmm, since last week it feels like I have started everything all over again, I am back to the starting point where I was a few months back. I need to have shorter term challenges to better motivate myself. 50K is big and seems really far to reach for it.

I'll set my first clickbank earning goal to $1,ooo. So far I have earned $625 from clickbank, let's see how much more time I will need to reach my first thousand.