How I thought about making $127,060 this weekend.
That’s right, I thought about making that much money this weekend..
I said to myself, if I can just sell 2000 Bootcamp memberships and 2000 Hot Video Squeeze Template units I’ll make $127,060.
Wow, that would be great wouldn’t it?
Unfortunately, that’s how a lot of newbies think and it’s what leads them down the wrong path in Internet Marketing.
They think big, but they don’t ACT Big.
Certainly there are online marketers who are making that amount of money over a short period, but they are not newbies.
They have built up huge lists, large numbers of affiliates, massive traffic, or they are spending twice that amount of money on Adwords to generate huge returns.
Now I actually made about $400 so far this weekend selling my Bootcamp and Video Templates which is pretty decent, but I know I can do much better.
And I will keep tweaking those websites until they are consistently bringing in $100+ per day. Notice how I didn’t say $1000+ per day. I set myself simple realistic, achievable goals. $1000 a day would be great, but $100+ per day is realistic and reachable.
I’ll do this by…
- constantly tweaking my offer
- split testing to increase conversions
- attracting more affiliates
- creating adwords campaigns
- finding new traffic sources
- cross marketing with other products
- giving away trial memberships
- and more.
I’m sure a lot of you have worked hard to create a product, but creating that product and getting it live online is just the beginning.
You can have the greatest product in the world but if your salespage sucks, your pricing is wrong and if no one sees it.. You might not make a dime.
Don’t just think about making big money with your product.
Take action to make sure you’re offering the best product, at the perfect price and do everything you can to attract affiliates and traffic to the best salespage possible.
Thinking about something is not the same as taking action and making it happen.
By the way if you’re the 2000th person to my 22 Day Bootcamp this weekend, I’ll give you my Templates for FREE!.. lol. You know what.. adding this one little line at the end of this post will make me a few extra sales.. it’s the little actions you take that make all the difference.
Dan – every newbie marketer needs to print this article out and tape it to their wall.
90% of the sales letters they are exposed to make money claims only achievable by the person who already had the big list to mail.
Making $100 a day is a great goal – achievable – and begins with making $1 – then making $1 a day.
Great work on this site – you are helping a lot of people!
Rick Butts
Thanks Rick… and for the tweet as well..
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Hell of a post Dan…I almost didn’t read the email after I saw the title, but I figured I’d take a look anyway. I’m glad I did.
You’ve got some great advice here and you show some good measurables that any newbie can shoot for. You don’t need to make a million dollars overnight and those that do often fail to mention the costs involved. Work on relationships and constantly increase the efficiency of your funnel and you’ll have more success than you can imagine.
Excellent post Dan – I cannot agree more. I say that as someone who has struggled to get to a point of stability at the $100/day mark, and as a result have thrown a few “hail mary passes” in my life in an attempt to catch up to where I thought I should be.
As someone who owns your video templates and has been going through the bootcamp, I’m learning from your model. Thanks for lighting the way and thanks for the reply to my questions on twitter recently!
Hi Dan,
Great post and really good advice. The only thing I’d like to add is my strongest recommendation for your 22 Day Bootcamp. Not only is a great for the newbie, it’s good for the intermediate as well. I know this because of how much I got out it.
Trust me if you’re reading this and haven’t been through Dan’s Bootcamp you really need to sign-up now and get started. It’s one of the very best values available anywhere.
No hype here just my honest option,
Vic
Too true – thoughts are one thing, but the actions are a whole other league entirely. I love your title, btw.
Oh yes, and I thought of retiring a millionaire by 45 this week. That breaks down to thinking of making about $3,835.62 each weekend, or dreaming of just $547.95 a day. I think I can, I think I can… *grin*
Master Po…………your pearls of enlightenment outshine the sun…….
And that’s hard to do here in Arizona.
I wholeheartedly agree that the devil is in the tweaking. After years of heated conflict with Taguchi, A/B and Split, I have come to realize that the race to profits is not won by the swift, but by consistent testing.
Grasshopper
P.S. Google’s Website Optimizer and Split Testing Adwords copy now allows me to travel the earth in search of additional wisdom and not battle the evil .XLS
Do you have a favorite testing tool or website?
Totally important post. Nothing stops me dead in my track more than failure. And, if I am told that I can make thousands a day, and fail to do so, then, I lase off and stop taking action. We all need to understand the value of baby steps towards achievement. Mao’s great quote that a long march begins with one step is ever so true. More so, we as marketeers should value the process of marketing as much as the income we receive.
I’m thinking about making SOME money; ANY money this second weekend in July, 2009…which is when I first discovered this Blog, and RE-discovered Dan Nickerson, whose ideas and formidable tenacity can’t help but attract those six-figure weekends later, if not sooner.
I have to say candidly that the only actual money I’ve ever made purely off an internet enterprise was the result of being involved in what was a really superb idea whose time just wasn’t right, but it still might go somewhere, and that’s the ‘GotZip’ program, sorta kinda the precursor of the Pagellan idea.
GotZip put money in my pockets. Not Wall Street money, but heck, I didn’t have anything LIKE Wall Street kind of risk, either, so there you go.
EBay was also a good. low risk, darn-near sure-thing, where I made significant bucks in a relatively short time.
That lasted seven, eight months, but by then my closets, basement, garage and spare bedroom were pretty clean and clutter-free, to the enormous delight of my wife, whose constant support and prodding are the underpinnings of my modest success.
The lesson in all of this is: “Don’t get into an Internet Marketing enterprise with any lofty illusions, oh gentle reader. Go in armed with confidence, believing that if you are judicious, persistent, imaginative, curious, tenacious, resilient and courageous, you have the stuff it takes to BEGIN to acquire the seeds of success.”
That is to say; pay your dues, in time, study, trial and mostly error not to mention cash. Because the only way we learn to walk is by falling on our butts repeatedly. If it were easy, there’d be no point, because there’d be no reward attached to the exercise, and everybody would be spinning his cyberbits to no end of any value at all.
If this puts you off, you can thank me later. You weren’t supposed to go there anyhow. There is something else you’re supposed to accomplish, and I’ve just saved you some fruitless hours discovering that truth for yourself.
However, if that all smacks of a gauntlet hitting the turf, I say “Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war…”