I finally have a quieter day although I will still be busy trying to catch up on site development work. I have managed to deal with a lot of the urgent matters by email from the different hotels I have been staying in in the evenings.
I am back in leeds and the Glastonbury posters are up and looking good and Kate and Louis go in every morning at 6am to check and do any repairs. The Mandela posters are up either side of the stage in Hyde Park and Chris and his 3 other team members are going in there tonight after the Mandela show to change everything over for Hard Rock calling before 10am which is a pretty hard stint of work but I think they should manage ok.
I am back down in London on Monday to sort out the Wireless work and get everything under way then sort out the work for Wakestock in North Wales and Wild in the Country at Knebworth which are both next weekend.
All this driving around has made my usual site development work difficult and has really impacted on my online businesses although some of them are so automated now that they seem to make good forward progress with little attention from me.
I have even managed to be part of a Joint venture Launch of a new traffic exchange during this period and done relatively well with a healthy downline under me now.
I have found an additional list building advertising site called List Auction which has helped a lot in increasing my sales.
Managing my Ebay sales has probably proved the most challenging part of being away as whenever I make a sale I have to email the customer and let them know I am away and when I'll be able to pack and post the item. Obviously this means as yesterday when I got back, rushing round finding the items packing and sending them off before attending to anything else.
I've probably bored to death any readers by now as despite my fairly hectic schedule I can't imagine the minutiae of my day to day existence is really of any interest to anyone else unless they're wanting to keep tabs on me!
I have followed the crowd with my driving style by trying to conserve fuel through a massive change in my driving habits, which has seen me tootling about at a steady 55mph unless I hit a hill when I refuse to accelelerate and have sometimes slowed to around 35mph! I actually find it quite relaxing and instead of getting 450 to 500 miles from a tank I am getting about 650 which means I'm getting 10 miles per litre instead of about 7.5 which at £1.30 per litre is about £20 per tank saving.
The positive side of the fuel increase is that I notice the roads are definitely quieter than usual as people find alternatives and that makes life a lot easier when you are doing over 40,000 miles per year!
I'm looking at a way you can run your car on water but I'm not sure I can be bothered with it although if the increases continue I may have no choice!
I must get on with other things now but will endeavour to post something a bit more interesting next time.
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Festivals get into gear with Download
My mad 3 months starts now with the Download Festival at Donington Park. I have to sort out all the posting of the internal music advertising on the fencing prior to the events then repairing all the damages each morning before the arena re-opens to the public.
We've had a nice slow build up with the opener being Radio 1 Big weekend followed by Gatecrasher but from here on its mad with loads of festivals culminating in August with 2 V festivals (Chelmsford /Stafford) at the same time and 2 Carling (Reading/Leeds).
I also in August have to act as a sort of liaison between the hundreds of promoters at Edinburgh festival and the local flyposters, endeavouring to keep all sides happy which is a pretty impossible task, but I at least stop them all coming to blows over the fact that there are probably 1000 events all wanting their posters on about 3 streets!
The festival work is very intensive for the first 2 and a half days starting off thinking you'll never get it all done but usually getting there with a couple of hours to spare, then if you're lucky you get there on show days at 5am and there's hardly any damage and its money for old rope. However if its rained or the posters are really attractive and the kids have nicked them you're at it till they throw you off site posting as fast as you can and you really know what work is then.
Doesn't help matters that all the fencing companies are now using a waxed anti posting finish for their fence panels so we have to mix the paste extra thick and tape everything along the top of the fence with extra wide gaffa so that if the fence heats up and the paste gets blown off by the heat the posters stay in place and we can just repair the next morning rather than having to totally repost.
While all this is going on I still have to do all this online stuff which probably takes me about 3 hours a day even with most of it being just about on auto pilot. I also attempt to keep up with my site development work in Birmingham Sheffield and Edinburgh but thankfully I can do a lot of this by phone and email.
Just realised I haven't mentioned a single online business yet!
I suppose it makes a nice change.
We've had a nice slow build up with the opener being Radio 1 Big weekend followed by Gatecrasher but from here on its mad with loads of festivals culminating in August with 2 V festivals (Chelmsford /Stafford) at the same time and 2 Carling (Reading/Leeds).
I also in August have to act as a sort of liaison between the hundreds of promoters at Edinburgh festival and the local flyposters, endeavouring to keep all sides happy which is a pretty impossible task, but I at least stop them all coming to blows over the fact that there are probably 1000 events all wanting their posters on about 3 streets!
The festival work is very intensive for the first 2 and a half days starting off thinking you'll never get it all done but usually getting there with a couple of hours to spare, then if you're lucky you get there on show days at 5am and there's hardly any damage and its money for old rope. However if its rained or the posters are really attractive and the kids have nicked them you're at it till they throw you off site posting as fast as you can and you really know what work is then.
Doesn't help matters that all the fencing companies are now using a waxed anti posting finish for their fence panels so we have to mix the paste extra thick and tape everything along the top of the fence with extra wide gaffa so that if the fence heats up and the paste gets blown off by the heat the posters stay in place and we can just repair the next morning rather than having to totally repost.
While all this is going on I still have to do all this online stuff which probably takes me about 3 hours a day even with most of it being just about on auto pilot. I also attempt to keep up with my site development work in Birmingham Sheffield and Edinburgh but thankfully I can do a lot of this by phone and email.
Just realised I haven't mentioned a single online business yet!
I suppose it makes a nice change.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Quick Results!
I felt I had to report back on this pretty quickly as having done as I said in yesterdays post, and mailed my list about the Profitmart site last night, I have already doubled my downline to 12 which will give me a monthly income from this one site of $100 with hopefully more to sign up throughout the day!
The Race tipping service that I operate with Nick Davies is at crunch point today and will either be massively in profit by the end of the day or back to where it was at the end of February about 40 points ahead.
Fingers Crossed!
Thats it for now. Short and Sweet!
The Race tipping service that I operate with Nick Davies is at crunch point today and will either be massively in profit by the end of the day or back to where it was at the end of February about 40 points ahead.
Fingers Crossed!
Thats it for now. Short and Sweet!
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Is it really possible to make money online?
Is it really possible to make money online?
This is the question all newbies and a lot of experienced online entrepreneurs continually ask themselves as they try one opportunity after another without success.
The answer obviously is yes otherwise I would hardly be writing this article would I!
Every so called Guru tells you that their opportunity will make you more money than you’ve ever seen, but you join, spend money on adverts, traffic and solo ads and then give up when you’ve spent a couple of hundred dollars and not got anything back, so what’s different about me?
Nothing really - apart from I’m not a Guru and I will tell you straight that if you expect to join any of my recommended businesses and make instant profits you will not be a happy bunny!
I can however on the upside teach you how, with a system, planning, focus, a very small financial investment and most important of all, a regular commitment of your time, you can slowly build up a source of visitors and your own mailing list that will ultimately become a stream of cash that you can tap at will!
None of this can be done without a serious investment of time! All the promises of instant profit are playing on the natural greed of us humans even the ones that promise to send you traffic and close sales for you won’t deliver instantly.
I joined such a programme in January and despite having had over 30,000 unique visitors to my affiliate site I have only 6 people in my downline although this does mean a profit of $40 per month after my affiliate fees of $20. The reason I am sharing this with you is just to reinforce how many people you have to show your opportunity to for any kind of return (and also in the hope you’ll sign up!).
I have left this programme to its own devices till now just to see how the operators delivered on their promises and now, as I have been in profit for the last 3 months I am going to promote the programme to my mailing lists which should deliver a much better conversion rate.
Any person wanting to make money online (as in life) needs first to equip themselves with the right information and tools for the job, then apply themselves fully to the task at hand.
The old cliché ‘Fail to plan then you plan to Fail’ doesn’t mean there is any single correct answer out there, but it does mean that all the solutions have one thing in common which is a plan, that when put into practice will deliver visitors to your business in a constant stream.
You must be aware that not all visitors are equal!
The 30,000 unique visitors delivered above will be as a result of pop unders or exit pop ups or some other automated traffic delivery system and that explains the poor conversion rate whereas your own list should deliver that number of sales to every 1000 visitors or so. This doesn’t mean that the automated systems are worthless but it does mean you don’t want to be paying too much money for the visitors delivered and you also have to design your capture page to make an instant impact and call to action as you probably only have fractions of a second to get your message over.
Your mailing list on the other hand should be very responsive but you have to be careful about the offers you pass on to these people as once your credibility is blown you won’t make any sales at all!
You’re probably now thinking to yourself that all this is just common sense and that you know everything I have said - and you probably do!
But do you use this information every day to build your business?
If you do that’s great and you are probably moving steadily towards whatever your financial goals are, however most people flit from one ‘Magic Pill’ to another never settling down to the daily grind of building their business which is the only sure way of succeeding on or off line.
I have a free re-brandable marketing course available for you to download at my website which will help you generate free visitors and build a responsive mailing list.
David Hall
My Links
http://www.freetrafficforu.com
http://www.guaranteedtrafficforu.com
http://www.prodigiousprofits.com
http://www.davidhallpips.com
http://www.profitmart.com
This is the question all newbies and a lot of experienced online entrepreneurs continually ask themselves as they try one opportunity after another without success.
The answer obviously is yes otherwise I would hardly be writing this article would I!
Every so called Guru tells you that their opportunity will make you more money than you’ve ever seen, but you join, spend money on adverts, traffic and solo ads and then give up when you’ve spent a couple of hundred dollars and not got anything back, so what’s different about me?
Nothing really - apart from I’m not a Guru and I will tell you straight that if you expect to join any of my recommended businesses and make instant profits you will not be a happy bunny!
I can however on the upside teach you how, with a system, planning, focus, a very small financial investment and most important of all, a regular commitment of your time, you can slowly build up a source of visitors and your own mailing list that will ultimately become a stream of cash that you can tap at will!
None of this can be done without a serious investment of time! All the promises of instant profit are playing on the natural greed of us humans even the ones that promise to send you traffic and close sales for you won’t deliver instantly.
I joined such a programme in January and despite having had over 30,000 unique visitors to my affiliate site I have only 6 people in my downline although this does mean a profit of $40 per month after my affiliate fees of $20. The reason I am sharing this with you is just to reinforce how many people you have to show your opportunity to for any kind of return (and also in the hope you’ll sign up!).
I have left this programme to its own devices till now just to see how the operators delivered on their promises and now, as I have been in profit for the last 3 months I am going to promote the programme to my mailing lists which should deliver a much better conversion rate.
Any person wanting to make money online (as in life) needs first to equip themselves with the right information and tools for the job, then apply themselves fully to the task at hand.
The old cliché ‘Fail to plan then you plan to Fail’ doesn’t mean there is any single correct answer out there, but it does mean that all the solutions have one thing in common which is a plan, that when put into practice will deliver visitors to your business in a constant stream.
You must be aware that not all visitors are equal!
The 30,000 unique visitors delivered above will be as a result of pop unders or exit pop ups or some other automated traffic delivery system and that explains the poor conversion rate whereas your own list should deliver that number of sales to every 1000 visitors or so. This doesn’t mean that the automated systems are worthless but it does mean you don’t want to be paying too much money for the visitors delivered and you also have to design your capture page to make an instant impact and call to action as you probably only have fractions of a second to get your message over.
Your mailing list on the other hand should be very responsive but you have to be careful about the offers you pass on to these people as once your credibility is blown you won’t make any sales at all!
You’re probably now thinking to yourself that all this is just common sense and that you know everything I have said - and you probably do!
But do you use this information every day to build your business?
If you do that’s great and you are probably moving steadily towards whatever your financial goals are, however most people flit from one ‘Magic Pill’ to another never settling down to the daily grind of building their business which is the only sure way of succeeding on or off line.
I have a free re-brandable marketing course available for you to download at my website which will help you generate free visitors and build a responsive mailing list.
David Hall
My Links
http://www.freetrafficforu.com
http://www.guaranteedtrafficforu.com
http://www.prodigiousprofits.com
http://www.davidhallpips.com
http://www.profitmart.com
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