I have been in the IT line for a long time but my focus has always been in the Enterprise Computing environment. I have been surfing the Internet for a long time since I started work but mainly for searching of information. I still remember using BB bulletin board to reach out to the Internet using those green screen!
I have also been exposed to Internet Marketing for a long time, not as a seller but as a consumer. I have bought info products on self improvement, golf instructional materials and recently forex trading products. I must say that it didn’t occur to me that I should venture into online marketing to make money all these while.
Recently I lost my job with one of the largest software company in the world when they announced a redundancy program. It is unfortunate but I can’t do much about it as it is a corporate direction and those who are affected are compensated accordingly. I think long and hard for the last few months and have decided that I will not want to worl in the corporate world anymore. I wanted to venture into forex trading and I want to make the kind of money that many people dream of. However forex trading required skills and patient and I must say I lack both. I still dabble in forex trading but not full time anymore because I think what I need now is not trading experience but accumulation of capital.
To do that I need to look for other avenue and then I found Internet Marketing and given my IT background, I quickly managed to learn how to start up a blog and started to venture further into affiliate marketing and other network marketing programs.
Because I have plenty of time and I wanted to make money from online marketing, I started to blog full time and provided as much content as possible on my blog and try to drive traffic to it. However I fail to make any sale from my blog or online businesses. The three downfalls of me are:
1. I am afraid to sell and not sure what to sell and keep on looking for the niche that sell
2. I lack the motivation and spirit to drive traffic and collect leads consistently
3. I don’t know how to make use of the traffic generation system that I subscribed to
The worse thing happened when I tried to experiment more with trying to enhance my blog to attract attention, I make a silly mistake and lost all my blog contents! Sigh.
After a night of consolation and soul searching I decided that I need to start all over again. The main different now is that I have draw up a plan before I start blogging again. I realized my previous attempt to venture into online marketing has been haphazard without any proper planning being put in place.
I have also change my approach in this venture that I want to focus on really making money. I will be actively promoting products on my blog. In my previous blog I have been very subtle in my promotion and I must say that doesn’t work at all. If I do not post up products that I want to promote I will never make a single sale online and my previous attempt prove that the case. Therefore you will see me posting more products related to blogging to make money in this blog.
Another are that I will be focusing more is to collect leads from my blog. I will be putting up opt-in box all over my blogs to entice my reader sign in. You can expect to find a gift or bonus when you opt-in into my mailing lists.
The last area that I will be focusing is driving traffics to my blog. I know there are many ways to actually drive traffic online and I will be using two methods to get my blog going.
Thank you for reading my blog and I hope to create an online community where I can update you constantly with frequent updates and products.
Cheers
Nighto Chan
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