Campaign Revamp

How many simultaneous campaigns is the norm?

I think for the newbie it has to be one. For me, it has to be one.

Right now I have one campaign in the sub-niche of weight loss and health. It is a handful enough, and with my a.d.d., it is more than enough to keep my attention for a long time.

So with this one campaign, I have done a lot (for me).

Here's what I've done:

• Written 20 Ezine articles
• Created 3 YouTube videos
• Wrote at least 20 other articles for other article sites
• Set up a landing page with an email sign-up list, offering a free PDF (To me, the landing page is the best looking one I have done)

With all these being done, I average almost 1 new visitor per day. I have 1 subscriber on my list.

There's really only two options here: either 1.) quit or 2.) try harder

So I've chosen number two. Plus, I am doing a bit of a revamp of my actual emails that I've sent out. I'm promoting a product and I barely have tried to sell it outside of a few mentions of it in two emails.

The past two weeks have been pretty terrible in terms of my work ethic. I finished working on this campaign and set back, thinking the money was going to roll in. It didn't. Can't say I'm shocked. But now it's time to move on.

So this week I am going to complete this entire process and then move on. If I don't get it done, it will still be finished. Period.

Well, this wasn't a very funny article. Eh, can't be funny all the time.

Stuck in the Mud

I'm flat out stuck.

I was chugging along, thinking that I had bought my tickets to success-ville. I could see the 5-figure checks from Clickbank in a couple months, easy...

The problem is, shit gets tough when you are doing stuff you are not used to. Err, I mean shit gets tough when you need to start backlinking and don't know how.

Well, that or you are too scared to try. Like me.

Here's what I see backlinking to be:

*Commenting on relevant blogs

*Bookmarking yourself on Reddit or Digg or whatever

That's about it, right?

Well I'm sure any experienced IM-er is probably shouting a big “NO! YOU IDIOT! THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN THAT!” but to be honest I have yet to really search for more information to really find out how to go about doing so.

Maybe I could read an ebook, sure. But it seems to me that it will need some strategic fact-finding on the forum and maybe a bit on the old google.

It's odd to say but I have a hard time trusting stuff I find on the front page of Google. Well at least for IM. For example, let's say I search for “backlinking basics” and click on the first link backlinkingbasics.com. It is pretty much a site someone threw up there to put ads and maybe some affiliate links. This tends to be the norm, no big surprise to anybody reading this. But sorting through all that info-sludge is exhausting.

So learning takes a bit of time. Time that is very precious. I guess it might be a matter of doing a better job searching for the answers then it is to just putting in a lot of mindless action that might not work.

Ah, the learning curve. Fuck yeah!

A Tough Go of It

Start, stop.  Motivated, deflated.  Confident, lost.

This journey has been absolutely fucking crazy.  I imagine one day that I could write a book about how completely odd it is that I became a success, because my approach is so weird and off the wall and I am absolutely the opposite of the type of person who is successful at this.

I have terrible focus.  I've got like 3 million goals.  I have committment issues.  I spread myself too thin.

But yet I've learned how to get here.  I've learned to stick with it.  I have learned that you have to look stupid for a bit before you are called a pro.  I've always learned that there is nothing you can't do.  Period.

I don't care about the arguments saying that there are limits on what we're capable of, or how certain people just "have it" and I don't.  Let's stop debating.

Instead, I would like to recognize that if you really want something, you will get it.  You can achieve success at whatever thing you want, but you have to have that burning desire.

So, maybe I am having a tough go of it right now.  But I have enough desire to see it through.