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!

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!!

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!

So I’ve decided Bum Marketing is going to be the idea that I run with this month. For those of you who aren’t sure what bum marketing is I suggest you take 5 minutes and look it up on Google. If, like me you are lazy and can’t be bothered I’ll give you a quick breakdown of what it is.

Essentially it’s finding a niche with low competition and a lot of long tail keywords and then writing aritcles based around those keywords which end up dominating the search engines and sending traffic towards your site.

I’ve decided to extend the term ‘bum‘ a bit further and will make it so even a ‘bum‘ off the street could afford to do this. By this I mean I won’t pay for anything, everything I do for the first week or two will only cost me time and effort, you won’t have to pay for a site, domain ,hosting or anything. If I was to do this my way I would get the articles written for me and buy a domain and make a site but I’ve decided not to do this at this stage and just concentrate on the freebie way!

Now I don’t expect to make any revenue from this method for the first couple of weeks and I’m undecided as to whether I am going to make 1, 2, 3 or 4 products/sites during the course of the month but I’d imagine at least 2.  I’m focusing on Clickbank product(s) to promote and have already signed up a brand spanking new clickbank account to use for this blog .

So at this stage I have already been to clickbank and found a product that I think I can make a buck or two off. I’ve already created my ’site’ which will be the ’selling’ page for this product and of course seeing as it has to be free I’m using a blogger blog. I have added one post to the site at this stage and made a custom header for it to give it a more professional look. I think I’m going to post to it once a day for the first week to see if I can get some organic seo traffic. Meanwhile I will be writing articles and submitting them to directories so hopefully it sends traffic back to my blogger blog.

Now, to be honest I hate writing articles and I often get articles written for me, not because it is hard but more because I’m too lazy, I can easily write an aritcle in around 10 minutes and I’m going to have to do it because of this little challange. So tonight I will be writing a few articles in addition to creating a few more ‘funnel’ sites which will send traffic (hopefully) to the blog where they will click through on my affiliate link so that I make a sale.

So that’s about it for now, I’m off to create a feeder site or write an article or two.