Why I failed at Internet Marketing and How to avoid my mistakes

I never woke up one morning and decided

that I wanted to start making money online.

It literally just happened. My first activity of

making money online was a result of me

doing something that I loved. My cousin and

I purchased our first investment property

together in 2005. By the start of 2007 we

owned 24 rental units. Since my cousin

traveled extensively with his day job, I had

to step up and be very hands on with

property management, rehab, tenant

selection and evictions.

As the number of our investment properties

increased people started to ask us questions

to help them get started or to provide advice.

We started being invited to speak at real

estate investor meetings. After the meetings

people would come up and say they wanted

to buy our book. The only problem was that

we didn’t have a book.

Making my First Dollar Online

So I wrote a book about investing in real

estate using creative financing methods. The

book was a compilation of different methods

that we had used to purchase some of our 24

rental units. The book is only about 130

pages long. I published it for the Kindle on

Amazon. People started buying it and that

was the first way I made money online. The

book is called “8 Ways to Purchase Real

How I Make $100 Per Day Online

-Jennifer Bland

Estate With No Money and No Credit” and

you can buy it on Amazon here.

Once I cashed my first couple of royalty

checks, I was hooked. I started looking for

other ways that I could make money online.

That is when my cousin told me about the

warriorforum.com. I was all over that

website looking at the many different ways

people were making money online.

Failing at Internet Marketing

The reason I failed at internet marketing was

that I started to purchase every single

method on how to make money online. Even

though I was spending money out to wazoo

on products I was not actually taking the

time to implement any of them. I bought my

first WSO in November 2010. Between

November 2010 and November 2012, I spent

$1,478.69. I purchased 112 WSOs in just 24

months. I was averaging buying one WSO a

week for two years.

Don't believe me? Here is exactly what I

spent and when on WSOs for this 2 year

period.

Item Name Price Paid

Inner Circle Solo Ads $8.17

Outsourcing With Lyfe $9.83

Keyword Bonanza: Amazon Edition $10.43

UpsellAzon $4.39

3 Minute Sales Videos $26.80

SEO Cash Cow $8.20

Azon Deal Alert $13.12

The Power of Squidazon $17.40

Amazon Blog Riches $9.03

Press Release Traffic Code 2.0 $9.95

Azon Attitude Adjustment $8.20

Ninja Curation Profits $8.10

Azon Stock Checker - Multi Site

License $17.00

Quick ScreenCast Profits $9.45

Your Own Edu Blog Package 2012 $6.35

PageOne Curator $17.96

5 Bucks a Day Revisited $5.00

0 t0 1000 Subscribers in 30 Days With

Adswaps $1.00

CJ Tactics - Commission Junction

Unleashed $11.65

10 Pinterest.com PLR Articles $5.65

HOOK PIGEON LIVE $9.47

AmaSuite Software Tools OTO $21.12

AmaSuite Software Tools $21.27

WP Business Bundle V3 $9.97

WSO Pro - Single Listing $19.00

Amazon Affiliate Garden Power Tool

Chest! $7.60

WSO Auto Members Developer $24.19

Azon Affiliate Crusher $17.00

$100k In January 2012 $27.00

Middle Man Profit Plan $17.13

Mining Video Gold $12.90

Marketing Graphics Toolkit V3 $9.95

SE Analyzer Developer Upgrade $9.97

SE Analyzer Wordpress Plugin $9.97

SEO Knock Out: 22 Real Deal Case

Studies $9.97

Kindle Cover Design Kit $9.90

Amazon Goldmine IV $17.00

EXACT BluePrint to $15,434 - 500

Sold In 4 Hours!! $12.78

WSO Launch Code OTO 2 - Option C $1.00

WSO Launch Code $24.55

Amazon Goldmine III $17.00

Amazon Presell Mastery $7.20

Road To The Million Dollar Product $9.49

Amazon New Years Resolution

Bonanza OTO $7.00

Amazon New Years Resolution

Bonanza! $7.00

Amazon New Years Resolution

Bonanza!Vol2 $9.90

Amazon Commercial Style Videos $14.20

Warrior+Plus Treasure Map $9.95

WSO Pro - Single Listing $19.00

Niche Profit Course $18.80

The Amazon Goldrush $5.83

Amazon Goldmine II $17.00

Amazon PLR Video Domination $9.00

Commission Explosion Report

Dimesale $9.10

WarriorPlus Silver Membership $3.99

Commission Gold $11.90

WSO Super Affiliate $9.90

RSS Pigeon $9.95

Lifetime Membership Amz Training

Academy $27.00

Lazy Autopilot Profits OTO $16.55

Lazy Autopilot Profits $9.90

Affiliate Product Comparison Tables $6.85

Backlinks SQueezeR $9.95

Amazon Book Bomb! $19.00

FlipMe $57.00

Niche Predators + SEO Smackdown $9.90

EDU Exterminator OTO $27.00

EDU Exterminator $8.98

Backlink Takeover $10.83

Adcenter PPC Domination $27.00

Ultimate Facebook Challenge $7.00

Pingback Optimizer OTO $7.00

Pingback Optimizer $22.03

Amazon Video Profits $1.50

Get Your First Sale - Amazon

Coaching WSO $12.09

.EDU and .GOV Backlinks Goldmine $8.70

Autopilot SEO Wealth - PLATINUM $17.00

Autopilot SEO Wealth $9.95

Stealth Conversions $17.00

Amazon Siphon WSO $5.00

WSC from Shawn $9.90

\Super Simple Amazon Product

Selection $9.90

New - Your Own Edu Backlinking Site $7.00

New - Your Own Edu Backlinking Site $7.00

CLICK TWISTER Package $9.95

How To Supercharge Your Blogs

Speed $9.00

PLR Audio Clips Version 3 $6.50

PLRAudioClips Package #2 $8.27

PLR Audio Clips Package #1 $7.47

Ultimate Review Themes - Limited

PLR Offers! $37.00

FB Viral Video Amazon Shop Machine $11.95

Ultimate Review Themes $19.95

Leapfrog Review Theme $14.00

$10K/ MONTH Amazon Sites $19.00

AMAZON CONVERSION BOOSTER

PACKAGE $8.00

Colleen Slaters Amazon Treasure

Chest OTO $17.00

Colleen Slaters Amazon Treasure

Chest $9.97

Muz Azars Golden EDU Links $37.00

Ultimate Review Themes $19.95

Video Sales Firestorm $19.00

Anatomy of An Amazon Sale $7.00

Connor & Ricky Product Creation $1.00

Deadbeat Super Affiliate $27.00

StumbleUpon Revolution $13.00

Content Creation Frenzy $9.00

Iron Fist Backlinnks $9.00

Amazon Affiliate Hot List $10.00

Fan Page Tsunami $17.00

$953 in TWO DAYS! Step-by-Step

Guide $5.00

100 Subscribers Per Day $6.05

Video Traffic Blaster $27.00

$24,800/Month Running SEO

Business $26.97

Avoid Shining Object Syndrome

If you look close enough you will notice that

I even bought the same product twice! What

an idiot I was. And I never read either copy

of that product. If you want the best advice

on how to succeed with Internet Marketing it

would be "DON'T DO WHAT I DID."

Pick one method of earning money online

and implement that one strategy. Avoid the

shinning object syndrome by buying the

latest tactic that someone is selling. Pick one

method and take action.

Want to know how effective this advice truly

is? Let me give you a concrete example. In

January 2012 I signed up as an affiliate for a

company that produces a product in the

sports and fitness market. It was real easy to

go to their website and signup as an affiliate.

I created a free blogger website and wrote

several article reviews about their products. I

made my very first sale on February 29,

2012. For the month of February I made a

grand total of $5.99.

Clearly that amount is nothing to write home

about. It won't come close to allowing me to

quit my day job. Heck it wouldn't even cover

the cost of a cup of coffee at Starbucks. But

here is what I did that has paid off in

dividends for me - I kept working at it.

It has been one year that I have been an

affiliate for this company. In one year I have

written 92 product review articles on

products for this affiliate. This articles are

spread out over my original blogger website,

a free wordpress.com website, a free Weebly

website, a free Tumblr website, multiple free

Squidoo lenses and my own self-hosted

website and blog. (I setup 2 incidences of

WordPress on my website so that is why I

say website and blog). As a result, I have

anywhere from 3-4 websites ranked on page

1 of Google for about a dozen different

keywords.

Proof Taking Action Pays Off

Now that you see the amount of effort that I

have put in for this one affiliate in one year,

let me show you the fruits of my labor. One

year ago in February I made $5.99. In March

2013 I earned $3,218. As a result of taking

massive action, I can now afford as many

cups of coffee that I want at Starbucks.

I will tell you that my growth in revenue

with this affiliate has been incredible since

November 2012. Yes I can say that I doubled

my income in less than a month when you

compared February 2012 to March 2012.

That is not hard to do when you only needed

to make $13 in the month to double from the

previous month. It was around August that I

reached $1,000 in commissions in a single

month. As of today March 15th, I had earned

$1,393.55. That is an average of $92.90 per

day for every day so far in March!

I was ecstatic with my online income

earnings for January and February of 2013

because I earned more than $100 per day for

these 2 months. Now I am on the brink of

earning $100 per day from just one affiliate

program!

I just signed up for the affiliate program at

KillCliff and Rogue Fitness last month. I

have written 6 articles for Rogue Fitness in

the past month. Two days ago I earned

$10.60 in commissions already from this

affiliate. I am going to spend the next 8

months putting forth the same amount of

effort for this two affiliate programs with a

goal to grow it to over $100 per day too.

Imagine if I had 3 different affiliate

programs where I am earning $100 per day

or a grand total of $300 per day. Do you

think I could walk away from my day job if I

was earning that much online? For those of

you without a calculator, earning $300 per

day equates to $109,500 per year. I could so

easily quit my day job if that happened. Now

that I know what is the cost of making my

dream happen then I am going out and

making sure that it happens.

How Are You Doing in Making Money Online?

If you are not making money online, simply

compare the amount of effort that you have

put in for the past 12 months to the amount

of effort that I have done for this one affiliate

program. Are you putting in more or less

effort that I did? Be honest with yourself.

I have seen many people that create one

website to promote an affiliate program like

Amazon, write 5 product review articles and

then do nothing else. Then they wonder why

they are not making 6 figures a year as an

Amazon affiliate. Rome wasn't built in a day

so why do you put in a day's worth of effort

to build your online income?

The only way to succeed with earning

money online is to put in the effort required

to succeed. Once you start to succeed then

your efforts will start to snowball. It will

become more addictive than any drug legal

or otherwise. You will WANT to put in the

effort necessary to succeed. But you have to

stop spending money on buying a product

and start putting forth the effort. Until you

do that you will be stuck going to a 9-5 job

that you probably hate.

More About Me

I have a very active website where I write

about the different ways that I make money

online. Each month I share the exact amount

that I make online and the different methods

I used to make that income. My website is at

www.RatraceGrad.com.

My website contains a treasure chest of

valuable information on making money

online. Here is a list of some of the most

popular topics on my website.

HOW TO REACH 30 PERCENT MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS USING VIDEO

In this post I provide 6 step-by-step videos

that show you how to create product review

videos using Microsoft PowerPoint. Video is

a very effective way to drive traffic to your

website and to improve your ranking. I also

provide 2 PowerPoint templates and royalty

free music that you can use in creating your

own product review videos.

My Unorthodox Internet Marketing Strategy That Works

When you read my website you will be

amazed at the amount of information that I

provide compared to other internet

marketers. My strategy is to give everything

away and if you think the information is

valuable then you can chose to “Pay What

You Want” for the information. Read more

about my strategy in this post.

Internet Marketing on Steroids – How to Get Rich Faster

If you want to make money online, you can

do it all yourself. That will work but it has its

limitations. The biggest limitation is time.

You only have 24 hours in a day in which to

do it all yourself. In this post I share how

easy it is to outsource so you stop trading

your time for money and leverage other

people’s time. I even share the names of the

writers that I use for outsourcing my own

work.

My 7 Step Process for Affiliate Marketing Promotions

Once I reached earning $100/day with a

single affiliate marketing program, I wrote

down the exact steps I took. This post shows

you those exact steps so you can implement

this strategy yourself.

Monthly Income Reports

Every month I share how much I earned

online. I show you the methods that I used

and the exact dollar amount that each

method produced. You can read each of my

monthly income reports and track my

progress.