Archive for March, 2009

Yes I have made my first purchase with my hard earned cash! (I cashed my first cheque today)

venetian-masks.net

Yup I’m hitting the venetian masks market – bit of a niche huh?  I thought I’d start with something easy to practice my SEO skills.  I didn’t think I could find an affilliate product for this – but [...]

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 19:39 0 comments

So my first cheque has arrived – woop woop!

The amount is for $72.38

I can’t really buy much with that, so I’ve decided to invest it and use my “skills” to make the investment grow.

My idea is to:
1. Choose an topic to create a website about
2. Find an affiliate product to promote
3. Research a keyword I [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 19:24 0 comments

So I created myself a Facebook ad campaign, hoping to bring in more buyers for my book.  Unfortunately it was a big disaster – my CTR was 0.17%!!!  I got one click in total, I doubted that I would get a good conversion rate so I axed the campaign.  So now my total is down [...]

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 at 09:40 0 comments

Well it turns out someone bought something from Lulu, so they sent me my money! £3.84!

I’m still waiting for a few more weeks to request my cheque from CreateSpace – as I’m being charged $8.

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 18:06 0 comments

http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/cloud

Basically its the info behind the demand on Amazon – I’m sure it could be very useful if you are trying to decide on what type of book to write…

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 23:08 0 comments

I’ve realised I have slightly cheated on this whole concept, so I’m going to explain myself and also show why I can justify it.

When writing the book I had a number of costs:

I had to pay to get my proof copy of my book printed and delivered to me in the UK – this was [...]

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 10:11 0 comments

So I tried to get accepted for that affiliate, but unfortunately I didn’t – so I’m still waiting on a new affiliate product to sell.

In the meantime I’ve sold more books, I’ve sold around 22 books now, and I’ve got $131.60 to play with.

I was speaking to a friend of mine at work, Anthony Shapely who [...]

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 10:04 0 comments

I know its not many, but its not my family or friends buying them (thank god)!

So I’ve sold 19 copies, 2 are with Lulu – which means I won’t get the money from them, the rest are with createspace, totalling $118.86 so far.  Not bad, unfortunately I get charged $8 for requiring it in a [...]

Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 21:49 0 comments

David has setup Ping.fm – now his Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogger, Hi5, Website and Flickr account can all be updated at one place!

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 23:33 0 comments

I just looked up about reputation management with Twitter and this story came up top:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/customer-service-and-reputation-management-the-twitter-way-a-case-study

It’s definitely worth a read.  I’m going to start slagging any companies that do me over!!!  NTL is one of them, but I guess that’s old news now (but I still wake up in the middle of the night in a [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 22:56 0 comments