Well I haven’t updated the blog in a while and it’s not really because I’ve been busy, it’s really because I’ve been just too damn lazy! Anyhow, I haven’t done any more promotion on the blog although it doesn’t seem to matter too much. It’s averaging between 40-60 visitors a day which isn’t a lot but it’s better than nothing so I’m not complaining. It’s currently ranking on the 3rd page of Google now for it’s keyword/phrase which isn’t very flash but as I mentioned I haven’t done any further promotion nor have I made another post on the blog so it’s really to be expected.

One good thing however is that since my last post I’ve managed to get another 2 commissions which is really cool. This makes 4 sales in total which I’m pretty happy with, hopefully by the end of the month I might end up with 6-7 sales from that blog, perhaps even more, we’ll see.

Another thing to note is that I just finished making another blog today to ‘Bum Market’ and I’ve already made a post to the blog and also made a promo video. In addition I’ve written a couple of articles and hopefully I’ll write another 3 for a total of 5 articles for this product then I might or might not write a few more.

So for the rest of this month I will have 2 blogs to bum market with and hopefully the second blog starts to produce commissions as quickly as the first blog did, it will all add up in the end!

Just a quick update as I haven’t updated in a while. Not much has been happening on the bum marketing scene this week, in fact I have done buggar all this week with regards to the site. I’ve basically just sat back to see if anything is happening with my blog.

There have been no additional sales yet which is a bit dissapointing but I think it will only be a matter of time before another sale or two pop up in the clickbank account.

The site is slowly creeping up the search engines and today I noticed that it’s just popped up on the second page of Google for my chosen keword phrase which is good. Hopefully with a bit more promotion it wil get on to the first page of Google and close to the top which will piss some webmasters off because I know they are making some decent money with this product and this keyword term.

The articles and other promotion seem to be doing their job of sending traffic the blogs way and basically everything else is on autopilot. I’ll post a screenshot from my free stats account which shows how much traffic it has recieved.

Hopefully this level of traffic will keep up or even grow which should lead to sales.

Tomorrow I plan to make another blog and choose another clickbank product to promote, it’s just a matter of finding a product to promote. I might fast track the promotion with this blog , I’m not too sure yet.

Well I actually got a bit or work today which is pretty good considering I had a big night last night at my work function but I wanted to at least submit 10 unique articles to the article directory and I managed to get that done today so I’m happy with that. At the moment there are 5 articles which are driving traffic to my blog ,in fact that’s where most of the traffic is coming from. Another thing I did was look up the keyword phrase that I’m targeting on Google and there was a question on a forum related to the product I’m promoting so I left a comment there which of course leads to my blog, this too has been a good supply of traffic.

I’m not recieving massive amounts of traffic but that’s to be expected, the blogs only 6 days old although at the time of this post the blog has recieved 51 visitors today which isn’t too bad. The really good thing today though was that there was ANOTHER COMMISSION in my account. That makes 2 sales now which is better than I thought as the product I’m promoting would have a lot of freebie seekers and I really didn’t expect to get and sales for at least 2 weeks but hey I’m not complaining.

I’m going to write a few classified ads tonight to hopefully help with traffic generation and once my most recent lot of articles are accepted I might write a few more although I am struggling to find any more keyword phrases/keywords to write about but seeing as it’s a good source of traffic I will have to try and be a bit more creative.

At this stage the blog is no where to be found on Google but hopefully within the next couple of weeks I can slowly work my way up where I can start to recieve more free traffic.

That’s it for now , back to writing and promoting like a bum!

What do bum marketing and the NBA have in common? Well, me at the moment. Yesterday was never going be a very productive day with the first game of the NBA finals on TV, plus I had a school game to coach but despite all the destractions I did manage to get some bum marketing work done. I created another blog, wrote a couple of more articles so I could use them on my other funnel sites, so I did actually manage to get some work done.

My main blog recieved around 45 visitors yesterday, the majority coming from the 5 articles that I wrote and  now I’m starting to notice traffic coming from a couple of the funnel sites. No additional sales have been made but I didn’t really expect to make any sales within the first week or two anyway, I think I must have just got lucky with that first sale.

I really want to start pushing the main blog so I can get it ranking well in the search engines as there is nothing better than targeted search engine traffic. The good thing about bum marketing is that unlike the domain method from last month, any work I do now will continue to ‘bear fruits’ , by that I mean even after this month is finished all the work that I have done during the month will continue generating traffic and sales.

Don’t expect to get much work done as I have a work function to attend but hopefully I will get a couple more articles done and maybe even a few more for the funnel sites.

So after a month I ask myself “can I make money flipping domains?” and the answer would be yes. Now take into account I’m only using the method that I got from a couple of guides and I know for a fact that there are other methods that you can make money from when flipping domains. In fact this is going to be like Mythbusters where they sometimes revisit myths that they have done. I too will be revisiting this method once I find out a bit more information (this includes buying a couple more guides that cost around $97 each) so I can put them to the test.

Now the method I used was simple and even a kid could follow along and do the same. Also keep in mind that I didn’t do this everyday, I only ran 4 groups of auctions and it really was only a part time thing. I had other commitments, family , job and other online projects so time wise I really didn’t spend a lot of time doing this which is good. This of course means that those of you who are looking just to make a bit of extra money and who are able to commit more time to it will in my opinion make a lot more money.

In total for the this project I only ended up purchasing 28 domains and I only spent $70 on my credit card for the month, the rest of the domains were paid for using profits from the first and subsequent auctions. So you don’t need a huge outlay to give this a go.

Will I continue to flip domains?

Yes, it’s easy and it’s fun. With the profits I made I was able to purchase some more marketing materials for other sites, pay for my hosting for all my sites and still have Paypal funds in my account.

So how much did I make?

After all was said and done I made about $180 profit which to some people is nothing (the ones rolling around on the floor laughing)  but I guess it really depends on your financial situation. For me it’s handy to have that extra money in my Paypal account because as I’ve mentioned I can buy some more information products, pay to have articles written for me and use it for my other online ventures. So in saying that I will be running an auction at least once a month to see how much extra cash I can make because in todays world every little penny helps. Also a good chunk of the profits is going to help pay off my camera and I have seen a lens on Ebay that I want to buy!!

So what do my monthly profits buy?

I thought I would show you what each months profits could roughly buy using things that most people are familiar with so here it goes:

Well here in New Zealand I could buy around 20 Big Mac combos!

It would also fuel my car for about 3 weeks (2.00 a litre here!)

I could take the family out for dinner!

So if your looking to make a bit of extra cash and want to have a bit of fun doing it then Domain Flipping could be for you!!

Well nothing much happened on day 4 to report about because I was too busy and spent too much time looking for a lens for my new camera on Ebay. I found the lens that I want , now I just have to make some money so I can buy it without the Mrs throwing something at me! So I didn’t actually get any ‘Bum’ work done yesterday (day 4)  and also the blog still had not recieved any visitors but I’m glad to say today that my articles got approved (5 of them) and at the time of this post (mid afternoon) that the blog has recieved 65 visitor and do you know what? I checked into my Clickbank account so I could see how many people had clicked through my blog to the affiliate product and 17 people had, so roughly that’s a 1 in 4 clickthrough rate which is pretty good……….but do you know what’s even better…………I HAD A SALE!!………..yep there was one commission payment sitting in my Clickbank account!!….that rocks!!

So after that good news I’m going to finish off the domain section then get back to work and write some more articles, make some more funnel sites and hopefully get some more commissions!!

Well the last lot of 14 domains went up for grabs and seeing as they finished around midnight my time I just couldn’t be bothered waiting up to see if I made any money or not, I was just too knackered! But after getting home this afternoon after work I was pleasantly surprised to see all of them had sold and most of them for a profit. Now it wasn’t all good news, I made a loss on 4 of the domains but luckily the combined loss was only around $3.00 so there weren’t much tears to wipe away.  The PR  3 domain that I had such high hopes for let me down, while I was hoping for a big profit on it, it never eventuated. I only made around $5.00 on it…….at least it’s a profit I guess.

So all in all it wasn’t too bad of a round, I made money I guess and that’s the most important thing. It didn’t take long to do and I had fun at the same time which is a plus. I spent around $70 for the 14 domains that were up for grabs and I ended up more than doubling my money on this round so I can’t really complain…..well I could but I won’t.

So that is it for now and that’s it for that idea, I’ll write another post with my conclusion for this month and whether or not  I think it’s worth it.

Well just a quick update, theres about 8 hours left and 11 of 12 domains that are up for grabs will definatley sell . There are another 2 domains which end in 18 hours (for a total of 14 domains) and 1 of them will definatley sell. I’m still unsure at this stage if I will make a profit on this lot of domains but usually the bidding starts to heat up in the last hour or two so I might stay up a bit later tonight (auctions end around midnight my time) to see how well the auctions do.

So here’s crossing my fingers and hoping some people with more money than sense  come along in the next few hours and make big bids on the domains!

I will post an update after the last domain sells (in 18 hours) with a round up of how things went and if I actually did manage to make money online for this month!

Not much happening really since the last post. Tuesdays are a bad day for me and I really don’t get time to do much on the computer if anything at all. So all I managed to do yesterday was submit another article to the article directories which makes 5 in total so far but it seems as if the directories are on a bit of a go slow as none of the articles have yet been approved. At this stage the blog hasn’t recieved any traffic although the feeder sites have attracted a couple of visitors.

All I can really do tonight is write a few more articles and create a few more feeder sites so that’s basically what I will do and hopefully it will create a source of traffic for the blog.

Back to writing more articles!

Well after getting the blog up yesterday I thought I had better do some work and promote the thing. Now I might have mentioned that I really don’t like article writing but for bum marketing it’s and essential piece of the equation . So in between watching T.V, eating and playing with the kids I managed to write 4 articles which I submitted to an Article Directory. Now it’s just a matter of waiting for the articles to be accepted and then hopefully I will start to see a trickle of traffic to the blog. Actually writing the articles were pretty easy and I’m by the 3rd and 4th article it was only taking me around 10 mins to do an 400 word article which isn’t too bad. I plan to have at least 10 articles submitted to the article directory this week.

Another thing I did today was to add tracking to my blog so I can actually see when and if I do eventually get any visitors. I also created a lens which means I had to basically write another article to use on it so I actually ended up writing 6 articles today which for me is pretty good as normally I would pay someone to do them for me. I also started promoting my lens because as I mentioned I’m trying to create funnels which will send traffic to the blog and hopefully this leads to sales!

I also made one new post to my blog so that’s where the 6th article came into the equation. Now if I keep this level of activity up I honestly think it will only be a matter of time before my blog starts to rise in the SE and hopefully this means I will make some money, mind you that’s if I keep that level of activity up and today was a public holiday but, I still hope to submit at least 10 articles this week and post to my blog every day this week (good to set goals!)

That’s about it for now!