May 8th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

Ok so I’ve been having pretty much short term money making ideas, that really are likely to lead to low returns.

Well after reading Permission Marketing by Seth Godin I have realised I have had the totally wrong approach.

So once I have finished promoting Venetian Masks, and I have perhaps a little more personal knowledge, I am going to do a specialist site on sorting out pain. For years now I have had a problem with my arm, it is now at manageable levels, but for many years I had sleepless nights and a lot of discomfort at work. I still have my off days, but I’m continuing to improve on it.

My idea will be a blog encompassing everything I have learned about trying to cope with pain, reduce pain, improve your posture, dealing with depression etc. Basically the whole idea is to help people, with a secondary objective to recommend products I truly believe in – products that work for me. I suppose Money Saving Expert may be an inspiration, he tries to help people, and if he happens to make money in the process then thats great.

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May 8th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

I suddenly had a spike in visitors on this site. What concerned me is that it was from businessesforsale.com! Immediately I began to panic, thinking someone was selling a business in my name. But no, it turns out that my article £30 won’t buy you a business was found by businessesforsale.com and categorised as a news site, check it out here.

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May 8th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

So another cheque has arrived for my book, ths one was for $85.54, after all the exchange rate charges, this came to £56.78.

So add that to my current balance of £23.06 makes £79.84

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April 19th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

Well I’ve got myself a domain name :)

Thought I better bagsie it now before someone else does – £9.99 for 2 years (not bad I reckon).  So now I am down to £23.06.
At the moment I am waiting on:
- My cheques from Createspace
- Venetian masks content
I still want to do a big mail out, I’m currently reading a book on Copywriting – I’ve also ordered a book by Seth Godin on permission marketing…
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April 12th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

Well I really couldn’t be bothered, but they should be on a good subject – just waiting on Jenny to supply me with them :)  Anyways, thats another £8.40 gone…

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March 25th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

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 low and behold I have!!!  I’m also going to put AdSense on it too.
Wish me luck!
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March 24th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

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 want to rank for – has to be highly competitive in PPC – for AdSense
4. Create the site
5. Promote the site
6. Eventually get it to earn at least £85 per month
7. After 3 months of it earning £85 I’m going to sell it for £1,000 and go on to the next stage of Inventive Millionaire!
Lets see if it will work…
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March 22nd, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

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 $0.43.

Old Balance: £3.84
Amount Spent: $0.43 = £0.30
New Balance: £3.54
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March 17th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

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.
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March 14th, 2009 By David Categories: Uncategorized

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…
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