I hope you know how much I love my readers. I try to keep up with what you all are doing… sometimes when I take a peek I get a wonderful surprise. I see some of you taking some amazing, consistent and persistent action. I thought I’d start doing a little spotlight on success. 
Today’s featured internet marketing success story is Tina. Tina is part of Lynn Terry’s Elite forum and recently asked a question about her site in the forum. I went to take a look to see if I could help and couldn’t BELIEVE (well I can believe it but it was a wonderful realization) just how far she’d come and in such a short time.
I went back and took a look at her progress and her milestones.
Here’s Tina’s story:
Sept 27th of 2009
she subscribed to get The Squidoo Christmas Cash Blueprint.
Tina started putting together lenses over at Squidoo based on that blueprint. She had some that she realized were a little to “spammy” after she read the blueprint and went back in and fixed them up. It didn’t take long after following the Christmas cash plan for her to start making sales.
October 4, 2009
Tina and I had a Squidoo Coaching session for 30 minutes. I looked at some of her lenses with her, made some suggestions and we did some brainstorming around what she could do to make them better. (They were already quite good!). We also talked about linking and the blog she’d started to help these guys move up in the rankings.
On the very same day I received an email from Tina saying she’d made a sale and was excited.
She continued to make sales from her lenses following the strategies for keyword research, writing and linking in that blueprint.
October 6, 2009
At this point Tina had made enough money to invest back into her business. She bought hosting, and I’m pretty sure she at this point she was still focused on the Christmas blog she’d set up for her lenses.
However…
December 6, 2009
Tina picked up one of the keyword lists I created. This is when Tina begins to truly shine. I create the keyword lists, but sometimes I have no idea how people will make them work. The list she picked up was on Ride on Toys. I really thought someone would do lenses on them and maybe a blog, but I had no idea what Tina would turn this list into.
She kept in touch with me while she was building. Asking questions every so often. She decided to create a niche blog using the list. She hooked it up with a cute free wordpress theme and began writing and promoting the site. It looked really cute with her free theme and she was doing quite well.
January 2010
Tina and I do a week of email coaching, she’s got some questions that keep coming up as she’s working, and needed a way to get answers to those questions quickly so it didn’t hold back her progress. We went back and forth in email for the week. I think she got a better handle on the site, and sometimes it’s a boost to just have someone saying “yeah, that’s right… keep on going”, because Tina was already on the right track.
Since our email coaching session Tina and I have stayed in touch. She’s consistently continued to work on her site. She continues to write posts based on the keyword list she bought from me, and now she’s begun adding her own to the list as well when she finds them.
She’s using the lowest competition keywords first to get some traction in the search engines and give herself some traffic.
Here’s what she says she’s doing for each post as far as backlinking… and it’s working.
Articles: UAW, EZA, 3step ads, articles base, unique-article-base, more if she can find the time.
Web 2.o: Squidoo lens, Wetpaint, and a Blogger blog post.
Blog Commenting: She does as much commenting as she can using Commentluv blogs.
High PR Links: She’s using the 5000 Backlinks package as well as Paul and Angela’s monthly backlink packets as often as she can. She’s using her main keyword phrase to build links to the homepage and then her specific keywords for each post.
She’s already starting to see search engine traffic from her efforts. While she knows her main keyword is super competitive she’s seeing traffic from it once in a while and has cracked the top 100 for the keyword.
Traffic:
As far as traffic goes she’s getting anywhere from 30 to 120 unique visitors per day. At this point most of her traffic
is coming from articles and Squidoo lenses. She’s getting a fair amount of search engine traffic although most of it is from Yahoo and Bing. She’s finding Google traffic is coming in but on a smaller scale.
At this point Tina has around 60 posts on her site. She’s created a comfortable posting and linking schedule and is getting some traffic and making some sales.
March, 2010
In March Tina reinvested her earnings in the Premium Lifestyle theme. While her site was really cute using the free theme, it has taken on a whole new life with this new theme. She got some design help from Berries and Cream Designs., and the site looks fantastic.
Tina is now ready to ramp up her traffic and her visibility and become THE ride on toys site on the internet. She’s creating a plan to do some guest posting on related blogs ~ she’s gearing her efforts toward larger more established blogs.
She keeps trying things and then reevaluating to see what works. When she finds something that works, she keeps doing it. When she finds something isn’t working she stops doing it and invests her time in the things that do work.
Tina has been really consistent with this site, posting regularly, building links regularly and doing what she needs to do to create a really successful site. She’s already seeing results which makes it easier to keep moving forward. Her family sometimes thinks she’s crazy with this little “internet adventure” but if she keeps up the way she’s been going they won’t be laughing at her anymore ~ they’ll be laughing with her… all the way to the bank.
Take a look at her Ride on Toys site and see what she’s doing, how she’s doing and then remember that you can do it too! All it takes is a plan and some consistent action!
If you want to be considered for the featured internet marketing success story just shoot me an email and let me know!
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