If I know a lot about a niche then I will do most of the writing myself. But when I’m working with a niche that I don’t know so much about I save time by buying articles. There are two services I really the quality from, Textbroker and GetArticlesDone But in essence this is what I do…

I will decide what content I need for a website and then I decide on what articles need to be written using what keywords. Let’s do an example. Let’s say I was going to promote “Rocket Spanish” from Clickbank. I would then probably put up a niche site with 3 pages. I would write the “about page myself” then I would buy an article on learning spanish to use as front page and then another article with “tips of learning spanish” or “Tips for learning a foreign language”. I would also monetize the site a bit further using adsense and perhaps putting an amazon widget on it with books on spanish, Barcelona, etc. Now that I would have my site ready I would buy at least 1 article and have it submitted to EzineArticles and then I would buy at least 1 UAW article, have the UAW submit 30 articles pr day for the next 2-3 weeks and then I would submit unique copies of it by hand to 4-5 directories.

I never buy PLR articles (PrivatLabelRights) as I would have to rewrite them. I buy unique written articles. Many think this is expensive but if we take the example above, the cost would be: 2x 500 word articles for the site $11, one UAW 300 word aricle for $7 and one 300 word Ezine Article for $6.5 making it a total cost of only $24.5. On average, commission for Clickbank products range from $20 up so I would be in profit from 1st sale on most products. There is also another bonus to this. Many are having a hard getting Ezine to approve their articles. GetArticlesDone will not only write that Ezine article for you but they will also submit it using their Premium account if you like. Meaning that the article will be published really quick.

Hope that clarifies a bit for you

Cheers,
Tryggvi

I might be asking a question that is in the OWM training, but you mentioned it twice now, about buying articles. Do you mean that you are actually buying written content from someone else and then using it to market a product?

Am I correct in assuming you are searching for a niche, then buying an article targeting that niche and then using a submission service to blast it out to a variety of sites? Am I on the right track?

My main question is – where do you buy articles specific to what you are doing?

1) If you decide to go for CopyNProfit
I normally do not recommend newbies to start their online ventures in PPC simply because it’s so easy to lose money on it. That being said, the risk has been decreased quite a bit as Jamie and Lance have selected niches for you that convert. What you need to do before anything is to put aside $50 dollar to purchase OWM if you get burnt by PPC Then you need to decide on a PPC budget, you need at least $200-500. Searh on Google for “adwords coupon” – you should be able to signup to something for free and get a $100 AdWords coupon in return. (that’s free $100 to spend on PPC!)

Make sure that you spread your budget out for at least 14 days. Different kind of people buy on different days of the week so you want to make sure you get at least 2 shots at getting to everyone. You should start with a small daily budget, like $15-25. Then just stay focused on the cost/sales ratio. Note that google will not allow you to use hoplinks. You need to cloak them or you can buy .info domains on <a href="http://www.godaddy.com"GoDaddy.com for $1 (I can teach you how to automatically forward the traffic through a hoplink to the salespage if you need)

2) Good way to speed up your earning process.
When you are doing article marketing, building niche sites, etc, make sure that you invest your earnings back into the business at first. If you are really strapped for cash I understand if you don’t want to but at least do it as soon as you can.

The reason is this.. when you use a part of your earnings to buy articles, buy access to article submission services, buy professional graphics for your sites, etc.. things start to happen so much faster. Sure you can write 5 articles pr day.. but just imagine if you would buy 10-15 pr. day.. how much power that would give your marketing efforts. I think the phrase is “work smarter, not harder”

There is one tool that should be the first tool you invest in, it’s the target=”_blank”Micro Niche Finder. If I had to pick only one tool from arsenal to use.. it would be my #1 choice. I have a review on it on my site.

Good luck,
Tryggvi

ps. as always.. if you have any questions, just shoot!

I really want to be successful but standing at the start of a road that divides into infinite segments is a little overwhelming which is how I came to look at the CopyNProfit model. Especially since they have already selected various niche etc (again incredibly vast). I guess it’s the lazy way of doing things – provided it’s successful of course.

I understand what you say about getting distracted by the “shiney shiney”. At the moment, I am in that distracted state just trying to decide which model to apply!

Obviously I have not tried or tested all “money making” products. But out of the 20 or so I have seen and tested…. I think that OWM is the best to get for a newbie because it explains all the basics very well. And it does it without the newbie having to risk his capital. How to generte free traffic, how to get indexed on google fast, etc. Regarding returns.. well.. article marketing is a bit slow. It also unlikely that the OMW plan will make you super rich. But eventually you can kiss your job goodbye using this method and only work part of the day at home. It’s the perfect way to start but once you have mastered OWM you should move on to the next level which is building your own niche sites. For that I would recommend Worpdress Goldmine.. it’s a fantastic program!

These are the two I think are the best programs for newbies but there is also a new program coming that I think will be super great, Affiliate Classroom 2.0 – It will be launched on August 11th but I got a preview of it last weekend and I must say that I was amazed. They haven’t released the price yet so I don’t know how it will compare but I’m sure it will be a monthly membership fee. So i’m guessing it will be for the serious affiliate marketer. Well see…

I will give you another very solid advice, just because you said that the “making money online is such a vast topic”.
The reason why so few get real success is because they are “product jumpers”. Meaning that they are constantly shifting methods and programs. I know that there are so many shiny things all over but you have to resist the temptation.
What you need to do is this:
Once you have selected a program/product to work with.. stick with it for at least a few months. Master it, live it, breath it. Once you feel that you have nothing more to learn about the marketing method it uses then move on the next program/level. Note… you have not mastered a program unless you have been able to make at least 50-100 sales with 3-4 different products. (earning you at least $1.000)

Dedication and focus is the key.

ps… I have another tip on how to speed up the money making process if you are interested..

The PPC post varies a bit form one campaing/product to another but it’s usually ranging from 40-70%. On average for me it’s close to 55-60%. Don’t really use the program. Sometimes I log on to get ideas for my next niche. I prefer driving traffic to niche sites using “free” methods. I buy good quility articles that generate loads of traffic for me and I’ve calculated that it’s much more cost effective. One good article I pay maybe $7 for can get me sales worth $100-200 so the cost is only 3-7%

It’s easy to burn your walled with PPC so I recommend that if you are going into it that you make sure you are only using money you can afford to lose. One can never be to careful.

If I had to give you 1 good advice it would be this: Make sure you are going after hungry markets(customers). Always think, is the customer looking to buy or just looking for info. If you are really focused on targeting only hungry markets you are more likely to get a better sell/cost ratio.

Cheers,
Tryggvi

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