An internet marketing action plan ~ pulling it all together

Over the past few months I have been trying to come up with an internet marketing strategy ~ a real plan of action I can take to make more money and get organized with internet marketing.

I think some ideas and plans are finally beginning to gel.

I recently read the 5 Bucks a Day ebook, and thought it was great. I have been fighting my insane need to do different things, and my inability to just do ONE thing forever. This ebook gave me such freedom. I don’t have to do the same thing over and over again. I don’t have to choose one thing and focus on it forever.

What I do need to do is set ONE goal, and then make sure whatever I’m doing moves me in the direction of that goal.

With that said. My first goal is to make 200 dollars a day. woo hoo. That feels good.

I went online to look up some different ways to make money online and made a great list of options to choose from for my weekly endeavors. The list is pretty long, but I found one thing that feels really good to me, and it could still be something new and different on a regular basis.

I was reading Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing School blog ~ in fact, I’ve been reading it for the past few days from front to back. It’s an amazing blog with straight forward information that can really help anyone who is getting started in internet marketing.

He talks about Keyword Sniping. It sounds all high tech, but it’s not much different than what I’ve been doing for squidoo, only he has you make a whole website for the keyword. By doing this you can go for keywords that have more competition than doing it at squidoo. The keyword research is all very similar.

I got to thinking that sounds perfect. I can totally do that, it’s what I’m good and I can do it on any number of topics to keep from getting bored.

As I was thinking my way through this plan I remembered an ebook PotPieGirl had recommended, and it sounded like it was exactly this technique. So I grabbed a copy of WordPress Goldmine and gave it a read.

This was the missing link. The pieces I felt were missing from Court’s explanation of keyword sniping were all in this ebook. He details not only how to set up a wordpress blog to use as a niche site, but also how to monetize and how to promote it so you can get traffic.

It was an awesome ebook. I wish I had gotten it earlier, but I guess all the pieces had to be in place before it would all register.

Now Court mainly uses adsense to monetize his sites, WordPress Goldmine provides you with a number of other options for monetization, including actual products, and how to use clickbank products.

It then occurred to me I could use ebay products to monetize the new niche site I have in mind for my first project. I’m sure I can probably add adsense to the pages as well, but ebay will work quite nicely for this specific niche.

I am going to start off by just using the tools provided by ebay for their affiliates, but there is a plugin I plan on getting that will automatically show keyword related auctions at the bottom of your posts.

Then when I have some of my niche sites done I am planning to expand the ones that are doing well into full blown BANS (build a niche store) sites.You can get the BANS software that will allow you to build an entire ebay store around one niche or keyword.

To recap and make it all nice and tidy, here’s my new Internet Marketing Strategy

• Based on 5 Bucks a Day I’m going to work on one project exclusively for a week.
• Find a great keyword with high search volume and relatively low competition.
• Build a wordpress site optimized for the keyword ~ 10 pages or so
• Monetize the site with any number of options ~ adsense, clickbank, ebay, actual products via CJ
• Article marketing to build backlinks and authority to the site
• Build Squidoo lens for the site
• Build hubpages for the site
• Bookmark the site ~ and other web 2.0 stuff to drive traffic and backlinks
• If the site takes off ~ build a BANS for the keyword

Now remember I’m not trying to go for the home runs ~ I’m trying to build a solid site that will bring in 5 bucks a day. Each week I will repeat this cycle, and the 5 bucks will grow to 10 and then to 15 and so on and so on.

Eventually with enough of these sites built ~ and also commissions coming in from squidoo and hubpages ~ my daily income will grow until I meet my first goal of 200 dollars a day. At that point I will of course increase my daily goal so I can continue to grow.

The other positive I see in the action plan is the big sites are MINE. I’m not putting my eggs in someone else’s basket that could be toppled over and leave me with nothing. That’s the one problem I had with only focusing on Squidoo. If I do that, I could lose everything with no way to recoup. However, using Squidoo as a piece of my overall marketing strategy is a smart thing to do ~ because squidoo rocks.

So there you have it, my internet marketing action plan. It’s very excited and now I have to stop thinking about it and DO IT! Because we all know nothing happens without taking action.

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