Update…

I am planning on making another attempt at updating this more often. I would like to a couple times per week. I certainly have enough I would like to write about … just don’t seem to have the time.

I am planning on writing a full 2007 review in a few days, because it has been a great year. Years and years of hard work have really started to pay off.

One year ago today from the exact same place I am sitting right now, I posted my ideas for what I wanted Hill Seven to be. I have learned a lot since then though and the concept has changed quite a bit, mainly from my success with StockWeblog.com.

So GolfGameNews.com will be my big test. If I can teach everything I have learned to Grant and he can create a successful site with my techniques, then by this time next year I might have as many as a dozen people running different niche sites and making good money for themselves.

$70k/month at 17

Tom. Mark. Matt. Kevin… All well-known names in the Web 2.0 world, but now there is a new one who has an interesting story: Ashley (or “ashbo” as she’s known on MySpace).

In what would be the dream of any serious internet marketer, this 17 year old has, pretty much accidentally, produced a website over the last few years that now generates over $70,000 per month at WhateverLife.com by providing MySpace layouts and other designs. Having her designs on other people’s profiles along with strong word of mouth adverting eventually created a flood of traffic — classic viral marketing tactics.

But it’s obvious she’s not in it for the money. She’s turned down offers of over $1 million to buy the site so she wants to see how far she can take the project herself. Very respectable.

FastCompany.com Article

Ashley’s MySpace Profile

New Internet Marketing Site

Again, thanks to John Chow, I came across an interesting new site last night. The site is DealDotCom.com and apparently today is its first official day open for business. The site provides a different deal each day on some kind of internet business product and seems to have a very good affiliate program.

For people that have an internet business product, apparently you can have your product reviewed for possible listing on the site.

If you’re into affiliate marketing, you automatically become an affiliate by registering and you get 35% of all sales the site makes to people you referred, plus 15% of all sales to 2nd tier affiliates.

I think it looks very interesting and am looking forward to seeing how it does.

DealDotCom.com - Register here.

Registration Monetization Technique

Most email marketing deals with making money from sending emails to your list, but only a fraction of the people to send emails to will even look at the email much less click and buy. There is another way to advertise while listbuilding to people who you know will see it every time.

I have noticed that a lot of marketers do not put ads on the registration confirmation pages and emails. This technique alone adds a few hundred dollars a week to my sales.

With StockWeblog.com I have found that the Doubling Stocks Newsletter is the best converting product to my list. I get an average of about $1.25 for every visitor I send to them. Every time a new person registers for my StockWeblog Market Timer Newsletter the next page they see tells them that they might also be interested in the Doubling Stocks Newsletter and there is my affiliate link. When they confirm their subscription they get an email that also tells them to take a look at the Doubling Stocks Newsletter.

Whatever your list is for, there is something you can promote to the people who are registering. This is the best time to sell to them because you have their attention and they are thinking about the topic that your newsletter is about. You’re not interrupting their work or just happen to be one of a dozen emails they’re scanning through, they’re focused and ready to buy.

So go add those affiliate links to your registration areas and start testing what works best.

The Warrior Forum

Thanks to Joe Lavery, I recently found out about The Warrior Forum.

The Warrior Forum is a ridiculously popular forum that deals with internet marketing and apparently has been around since 1997. I have already read some very interesting posts and I think this will be a great resource for continuing my education in internet marketing.

Visit The Warrior Forum, click here.

Edit 09/02/07: My Warrior Forum profile can be found here.