Well, so much for updating this daily. My plan was to use this as an actual diary to keep my thoughts straight, but I guess I’m not just the diary type.
So after much messing about with my two Adwords campaigns, I’m changing tactics yet again. Yes, I know. You’re supposed to take one thing to completion at a time otherwise you’ll never succeed. And it’s true.
But I had the thought that, if I’m to be an “affiliate marketer,” am I not sort of back in the “dayjob” philosophy again? I’m promoting other people’s products. I’m still kinda an employee. I was always scared of having my own product, because it meant actually producing something and having to do customer service and so on.
But I’ve realized I LIKE creating. I like creating ebook covers from scratch. I like writing an instructional course and turning it into a polished PDF file. This is all fun for me. What’s not fun is writing article after article after zombie article for a website, and then even more to promote the articles I already wrote. Ug. It’s so… monotonous. Really.
So I’ve been diligently working on a sales page and a product. I’m going to become a merchant! Affiliate will be working for me! Maybe. Hopefully. It’s my first shot so we’ll see. But when I get bored with writing, I can switch to Photoshop. And when I’m bored with that, Camtasia. And so on. There seems to be so much more variety in product creation.
My ebook will be on something I know: website building. It’ll sort of be a PLR site. Sort of not. Complete packages. Guides to blogging and forums.
And for my sales page, I just stole it. Sort of. I downloaded another ebook merchant’s sales letter and wrote mine side-by-side to make sure mine hits all the same trigger points his does.
So we’ll see what happens. I’ll update again when I’m ready for launch…
