I am so exited, I want to cry! (9)
Where do I start?
At the end of this year I will be retrenched, that is a fact!
So my initial goal is to create an income that is equal to my current salary either through passive income or IM. My NET salary is USD 2500 per month.
That means a daily target of $85 per day.
For the past 2 months I have created a few niche sites focusing on amazon and Adsense for my monetization. As some of you know, getting page rankings is a process that takes time and is no guarantee for success. Up to this morning, I have earned a total of $3,20 from my niche sites 
Last night I found 10 low competition keywords that has a total of 300 000 monthly searches and all of them are in a similar niche (niche within Adult section).
So, how do I turn this available information into $$$? Why stop at my current salary?
Why not aim for double my salary?
Well, let's look at the possibility: 0-5000 in 4 months? Based on information available in this forum, this would be possible.
So what are the first steps?
I will
register a domain,
get hosting that is suitable for running IM campaigns,
join an affiliate program,
create SEO campaign.
I know most of you are into running ad campaigns, but in theory it would be possible to rank my website and then run ads on there? Or should I use the Keyword information available to me and run ad campaigns?
I look forward to all constructive comments.
regards
The Happy Mexican
I am unable to reply to PM as I have not reached my 10 post yet.
Hi Happy Mexican, its great to see your so excited. It is possible to rank your website through SEO and the natural search results, this will take more time for your websites to rank and you have to build the sites properly to optimize in the natural search results. SEO does give big returns though if you stick to it and keep building links and adding fresh content over time. However I would recommend you run paid traffic. These forums will help you more to run paid traffic. Pick one paid traffic source like leadimpact, facebook, google, exoclick, pof. Stick with one source until you can bulid something profitable. One source will not magically make you money you just have to stick with one of the known sources that work for other people, and stick to it and make it work for you.
It's great that you have targets and goals as well this will help you progress. Make sure you do not use traditional shared hosting and purchase a virtual private server from someone like beyondhosting.net and do not forget to get a tracker too, your going to need prosper 202 to optimize the data.
Please reference this guide: http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...TION-AND-INDEX
and also use the search box as much of your questions are already answered in the forums.
hope the advice helps, wishing you much success.
cry those man tears!
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Welcome to STM
Thanks electricbird + JasperP
Step 1 - Got hosting from Beyond Hosting
Step 2 - registered domain via BH
Step 3 - Installed Prosper 202
Installation tutorial from caurmen: "The Simple Guide To Prosper 202 Campaign Setup"
I installed prosper on sub domain of my domain, as I will be using the Domain homepage as a landing page.
Next step - apply for Ad networks and Affiliate Networks
I decided to go for an Adult campaign and will follow the tutorial from Maynzie "The Almighty "Cha Ch$ng" World of Adult"
Applications for Exoclick, Adbucks or Trafficjunky
The reason for Adult: all my keywords are focused on this niche (still with the targeted niche mindset) and I will enjoy the research without getting distracted. (too much)
Looking good so far!
This is a step by step process, so bear with me while I get sorted.
Registered on the following
Exoclick
Adbucks
Traffic Junky
still waiting for approval from AdultModa.
These should do as a start.
I guess the next step is to look at current ads in the market, select a geographical area and get creative with ads and landing pages.
As the USA is very competitive and other Anglophile countries seem to be very busy, I am looking at non english speaking countries as a starting point.
If I am missing any steps, please let me know.
ok, right now I cannot see the trees from the forest.
Taking a step back on working on caurmen's tutorial with a step by step campaign.
Now busy with Part-3-The-Affiliate-Toolkit
Applying for my affiliate network Neverblue, Adsimilis and Convert to Media and then for my traffic source POF.
I have access to
Photoshop as my graphics tool
Filezilla to transfer files onto my server
Adobe Muse for the HTML editing
Will also make use of the STM Toolkit
http://stmforum.com/forum/toolbox/
Starting on non-English speaking countries is definitely a good idea - on POF there's not a lot of volume there, but there's enough to get started.
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