The is a guest post by Patrick Meninga of http://www.thefreedomblogger.com/. He recently sold his flagship website for $200,000 dollars.
When I was stuck in a full-time day job with seemingly no end in sight, I desperately wanted to create a full-time income online so that I could purchase my freedom.
I wanted nothing more than to check my daily online income and see $100 dollars or more, each and every day.
I wanted the ability to work on my online businesses at my leisure, without being forced to work every day in a job I did not enjoy.
I finally learned how other Internet marketers were achieving significant growth online, and I vowed to follow their example and create my own success.
In order to do that, I had to watch what they were doing and not what they were saying. Subtle difference there, but it represented a huge turning point in my thinking.
Massive Action Rules The Day
So what did I learn by watching others who were succeeding online?
They were all taking massive action.
For example, one of my marketing mentors was creating massive income growth at the time, and he did it by adding one hundred articles to a website that was already earning money. Another Internet marketer was experiencing huge gains by putting up lots of new content and building links to all of it.
I started to realize that it was all just a big numbers game. Of course creating valuable content was important but the people who were bragging about big income were the ones who were working like mad.
And so I decided to do a little experiment with my website, which was just sputtering along at around $300/month in income at the time.
I added 40 new articles and threw fresh links at all of them over the course of about three weeks time.
A month or two later my income had doubled to $600/month.
And that was all it took for me. I was convinced in the power of massive action.
I could stop reading about how to make money online, and actually go DO IT instead.
The Key To High Volume Publishing
If your website shows profit potential and you see a trickle of income, do not hesitate or second guess yourself.
You know what you need: a bigger website.
If you are earning around one dollar per day and your website has thirty articles, why not publish a thousand articles and make a thousand dollars per month?
Achieving such publishing goals does not mean that you have to crank out 20 articles per day. Instead, the key is in setting a daily quota and then sticking to it without fail.
Imagine that you publish three articles each and every day–that is over a thousand in less than a year!
Some of the most successful Internet marketers I know even meet their quota before they check their email. They do not allow themselves to do anything online until their three articles have been published each day.
This is a disciplined approach that is not for the faint of heart. Cranking out three quality articles each day is not easy. Do it for over a year and you will almost surely reach your income goal.
If you want massive results, you have to take massive action.
Commit to putting in the work if you truly want to live the dream and purchase your freedom.
What To Do If Your Massive Plan Fails
This plan is foolproof and will work for anyone provided they take the following three things into account as well:
- Profit potential.
- Time – or the age of your website.
- Link juice – or your website authority.
Profit potential is a function of two things:
- The volume of people searching for your topic online.
- The cost of the products and services associated with your topic.
So if your website is about “free jokes” then you will not make any money. A quick way to check profitability is to perform a Google search and see how many ads are showing. Some topics show several pages of advertisements while other searches show little or no ads. Choosing a website topic with a heavy amount of advertising insures that your topic has profit potential.
The time factor is important because the search engines put new websites “on probation” to combat web spam. What used to take a few weeks or months to rank for may now take over a year. Allow time for your site to age and recognize that most new content will not reach its natural peak in the search results for six months to a year.
Link juice is important if you want to rank a massive amount of quality content and earn money from it. If you add lots of content to your website and see no results for several months, then your website lacks authority. Switch to link building at this point and focus on getting high quality links through guest posting. Once your new content starts to rank you may shift back over to on-site publishing in order to increase income.
Avoid Distractions And Stick To The Plan
This is a fairly simple plan but you have to avoid distractions if you are going to produce high volumes of quality content.
If you are not earning approximately $1.00/per article/per month with your website then start focusing on getting strong links rather than new on-site content.
I averaged 3 new articles per day for a few short years and achieved a monthly income of over $2,000/month. Shortly after achieving this income level I was approached by a buyer who offered me $200,000 for my website.
None of those dollar figures would have been possible without the plan of massive action that I had implemented two years prior.
If you want awesome results then you need to make a strong commitment to take daily action. Publishing just three articles per day can easily result in full time income if you know what you are doing. Consistent effort is critical.
Any questions? Please ask me in the comments!
Really a very informative article. Firstly i would like to thank you for this post. For starters, it will motivate them. Well, for a site to get success, genuine traffic and huge number of subscribers are key factord apart of unique contents, high quality links plus onsite or offsite seo engineering. And here, I wanna ask u about the monetizing methods u are using!!!
Have to agree with Kennys tips here, i think once we achieve something successful too many people try to use other techniques instead of using double or treble the amount of effort on techniques which have actually proved to be a success.
@ Stuart – Yes, we are always looking for the easy way out. But with some websites, the best advice is to put your nose to the grindstone and do the work. That is what I had to do in order to build up to 1,500+ articles on my flagship website….
The turning point occurs when you realize it’s all about work.Internet money making can be very illusionary in the begging. People join and they expect to basically do nothing and become rich.
It is a work like any other. You just work from home. But you need to WORK!
What advice is there for people with full time jobs, who find it difficult to break into the internet marketing business? I have a small website (almost 30 artilces) that I hope to make a small profit from, but I find it difficult to work full-time, maintain my website, and have a real life. I would love to hear about people who do IM as a side business in addition to full time work.
@ Eric – I worked 40 hours per week when I built my flagship website. I did not quit my job until it was making over $2,000/month.
My suggestion would be to write every single day. The goal of 3 articles per day is ideal.
Also, I would say you need to do lots of guest posting in order to build links and authority.
Anyone can do this over time, slowly, and build up real income. It takes consistent effort.
If you can publish quality articles quickly it will help a LOT. Three per day is tough. If you can sustain that, you can create a full time income online in a matter of 24 months or so, in my experience….
Good luck!
@ Cindy – Absolutely right. It is work from home, and yes, you have to work like a dog to get it going properly.
But the nice thing is that, if you do it right, you can reap the rewards for a long time to come, without having to put in long hours every week. Of course, getting to “easy street” takes quite a bit of time, and effort.
Hello Patrick,
You are truly right on your concept. I have a health blog and its making money without concentrating more on SEO but purely on article publishing. If I can just add three articles per day like what you’ve just said, I could be earning hundreds of dollars per day too.
Thanks for sharing
Internet Marketing is now a trend and one of the most useful methods to earn online. It’s not so easy as it seems. One should have some certain goals behind this method to get some profit.
I like the way you have shared the massive plans and what to do if they fail.
@ Noah – Yes, it is all about volume. Get publishing daily, and you will reap the rewards!
@ Nan – If you have a publishing goal then this will lead to profit much quicker than if you just have a “profit goal.” Good luck.