I am getting back in the swing of things here. I have several goals to achieve by the end of June which are:
Have 3,000 Friends on Facebook
Have 1,000 Friends join The Social Millionaire Group
This month I am already about half way on all of these goals and some other goals I have set for myself.
One of my other goals was to re-write the sales letter on The Social Millionaire’s Buy Keywords page to give actual proof that my system is generating visitors, sales and leads to those who have been brave enough to spend $5 to try out my advertising system.
One point I make in the new sales letter is:
I can only achieve my goal if you achieve yours!
This is extremely powerful and motivating for me! To achieve my goal of a million dollars I need to make sure all of my customers are happy and seeing a return on their investment. If they see a return in the investment they will most likely re-invest into the system.
Here is a self interview I did for MomsCashBlog.com. Surprisingly the video quality is not that great despite owning an extremely high quality webcam. I think I saved it in the wrong format which screwed up the quality. Let me know what you guys think - sorry for not shaving
Yesterday was the day of my surgery and everything went smoothly!
I can’t say I am in any real pain but my entire face is swollen and I have pretty color bruises under each eye. I would post a picture but I might scare some of you away.
Anyway I have a question I would like my readers to answer in the comments. I have been thinking about raising the price to help speed things up. I am thinking of setting the minimum price to $5 to $10 per keyword.
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments so I can make a decision in the next 24 to 48 hours.
So what happened? It was a direct result from a neutral review by John Chow. I am calling this effect the Chow Chow Train.
Initially I did not think I would even see any return on investment since it was published on a Friday night on St. Patrick’s Day Weekend.
I started the day off at a measly $200 and during the night hit just over $1,000 directly from the Chow Chow Train. John sent an unstoppable amount of traffic, hungry to purchase keywords on the next big internet project!
Within 15 days of the official launch of The Social Millionaire I have already hit $1,000 in sales. I would say that’s pretty damn good for just starting. Let me know what you think!
Well it produces about $55 in sales, 12 comments on my blog, three other blogs writing a similar blog post and and over 22 new friends.
This was the work of John Cow and his latest review of The Social Millionaire.
To be honest I am amazed at the review! It was well written and gave some ideas on how I would like future reviewers to engage their audience with their review. Although I did not see a full return on investment in terms of dollars; I did however earn it in knowledge and other metrics.
One thing I learned came from a blog post today about ‘Getting The Most Out Of Your Review’. While I did share a link on Facebook, stumbled and dugg my review I felt I should have spent more time driving traffic to his article through my existing clients. I still can and will promote traffic to his review just to get more eyeballs on his website and my website. Isn’t this social web traffic a wonderful thing?
Jonathan Volk, a friend of mine from my early internet marketing days, wrote a review about The Social Millionaire for me. I am extremely happy with the review and he helped bring the total sales up to $106.05 up from $46.05 just a few days ago.
There was one part of the review that stuck out:
“All in all, I think Pat has a pretty great idea if he can back up his purchases with actual traffic from social networks. Only time will tell if it catches on.”
At the moment I have 121 friends. These are people who have stumbled onto this website and requested we be friends on their social network of choice whether it is MySpace, Facebook, or Bebo. As this website grows so will this number! I am not sure about the psychology behind becoming friends with me but my assumption is that side of my audience wants to be apart of an internet phenomenon.
But it begs the question how will I get those friends to return to the website and become involved (engaged in the advertisements). Simple - I engage in their social network as we are friends. I recommend links, update my picture, anything that will click into that user’s mind “I wonder how The Social Millionaire is doing?”.
You may notice on the right of this blog I have added two non-profit widgets to help bring in some traffic to this website.
The widgets are Entrecard and Spottt. These two widgets were not apart of my marketing strategy but some other bloggers were mentioning the amounts of traffic they were getting. I was intrigued so I signed up! I am starting to see a surge of traffic from Entrecard. Not from Spottt yet because they need to approve this website.
Unfortunately the traffic from Entrecard is questionable. My statistics are showing very low readership and time spent on the website but that is besides the point. I am getting “free” traffic and even if any of those visitors convert it is worth it. Plus I earn credits which I can use to get an advertisements on websites like JohnChow and ProBlogger.
In preparation for the upcoming marketing push I have made the website a little more social. I used two places which you are probably familiar with; FeedBurner and AddThis.
That means you can now subscribe to the blog through Feedburner and bookmark this website across the many available social bookmarking websites. And - if you haven’t already please add me as a friend on one of your social networks!
The front page had a recent minor make over. There were a few things bothering me so I fixed them.
Now when you scroll over a keyword it will underline itself and turn a darker blue unlike before where it would uppercase and become bold. This change makes the website a lot smoother. The keywords on the main page appear in random order now. A friend of mine said he was tempted to buy a keyword and stick the letter A at the beginning just to get higher position!
The other change was for an automated system in the back end!
Today’s final count is: $36.05 (almost double from yesterday)
It is nearing - the private stage (or launch to my newsletter) is almost complete!
I have had time to gather feedback and create a better frontend and backend system. It is almost time to get my hands dirty and start with my marketing push. It will be a very interesting next couple of weeks!
Stay tuned and be sure to join our newsletter!
P.S. - I sold another $6 worth of advertisements and the total is now $19.
Yesterday was a huge day in terms of sales!
