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GROGST: Number Crunching

// Jimmy // May 21st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

Was just playing around with some numbers and realised just how low earning I need from the internets to live the same as I am now. Thanks to a budget application on my phone I’ve been keeping track of my spending.

$80/week (12/day) – pay the bills
$240/week (35/day) – pay the bills and rent
$340/week (50/day) – pay the bill, rent and food – Livable with some savings!!
$560/week (80/day) – My comfortable current living and luxuries expenses

Not including tax, so probably add at least 20% on there for le government. I reckon at the $50/day mark, given that it’s consistent earnings, I could leave and get a part time job… Hmm

GROGST: Still not rich

// Jimmy // July 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogs, Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

No, I am not rich yet.

Yes, I will be sometime in the next few years. And by rich I mean I’ll be making enough to get the hell out of the 9 to 5, and do whatever I want, whenever the hell I want to do it. Maybe I won’t be rich in the monetary sense of the word, but you can bet your ass I’ll be living it up.

Why am I so sure I won’t fail? Cause failing requires giving up.

It’s human nature to quit before you’re ahead. That way your ego doesn’t have to deal with the pain of thinking you are a failure at X or Y. I’ve spent the last year touching up that little ego bastard with a large stick, so he can’t really complain about not being rich yet.

My total earnings at the moment? About 50 cents a day. I am halfway to being able to feed an African orphan without taking any money out of my pay. Unless you’re some kind of freak or you happen to hit a gigantic piece of gold with the first swing of your pick, the start is always slow to Internet Marketing. And that’s why people quit.

Screw that. I’m here to stay bitchez.

Enough sidetracking, here’s the journey so far.

  1. Built two websites that were never going to make anything, due to my lack of knowledge at the time. You win or you learn.
  2. Built a blog site which is currently sitting at about position 7 for a keyword that gets 10000 searches a month on google. Most of my traffic comes from hundreds of different longtail keywords, however. This is the only site making anything at the moment. The money it is making is from adsense, and from the 150 odd clickthroughs I’ve had to affiliate offers, noones actually bought anything. This is the reason I’m bailing on this niche, it seems no one is willing to buy. Despite all my ideas on how to expand, the data so far says to move on.
  3. Built a niche minisite selling an ebook on a 6000 seach phrase with practically zero competition. The day it was indexed it ranked at number 5, and it’s sitting on similar levels for some other keyphrases with similar search numbers. Unlike the blog site which managed 100 click throughs out of about 1300 visitors, this one managed 100 click throughs out of 200 hits. A pretty epic click through rate, but guess what? No fuckers are buying that product either, even though it’s pretty targetted traffic. I think the main problem here is that the market mainly consists of teenagers with no money. Bugger. A little bit of promotion to be done here, then I’m leaving it to do its thing.

    Since I like to break up walls of text, and I can’t find any relevant images, here is a pair of boobs.

  4. Just bought a domain for a travel related site/blog I’m going to build. The main difference here is that travel is something I actually enjoy writing about, so writing isn’t going to be a chore. Plus travel generally pays out well.
  5. While my travel site is doing its thing, I’m going to get into PPC advertising. Means I have a chance of going into the red. Eh, anyone who lives without a bit of risk is boring. Higher risk also means higher payouts if you get it right. It also means I’ll be selling a lot of rubbish products. Google cash anyone?

J~

GROGST: More Progress!

// Jimmy // June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogs, Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

Big event number #2. My first dollar made online. It was only a dollar though, which sucks. Thanks to the crappy low affiliate rate with Amazon (mine currently at 4%), my first payout came to the whopping total of $1.04. A pretty good return for the 100 odd hours I’ve put in so far. BUT, this is how it works.

Other good news is overnight my applications to a couple of big affiliate networks were accepted, and another one over the phone about 20 minutes ago. One of the networks felt it was necessary to call me at 4am, apparently they haven’t heard of time differences.

I’m so fucking tired today.

J~

GROGST Update 2: First page of google!

// Jimmy // May 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogs, Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

Ohhhhkay, finally a small taste of something working in the internet marketing world.

A whole six days after I put my site up and began promoting it, google indexed it. Two days later, it’s on the first page, wooohooo! Bear in mind this is only if people search for exactly the keyphrase I have targeted, with no extra words. At least though, this has broken down a major success barrier in my mind. While I’m still probably a ways off getting any money out of it, it’s a freakin excellent start, methinks.

Baby steps.

J, out.

GROGST Update: I fucked up

// Jimmy // April 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogs, Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

My first update on Get Rich or Get Sad Trying is not a happy one.

Turns out the sites I’ve put in shit tons of time building are pretty much completely worthless, as I targeted keywords which have too much competition. I reckon it’s mainly because I had no idea what I was doing when I did the competition analysis. I could probably work to get these sites into the first page of google for my keywords but it’s going to be stupidly hard for a beginner such as myself. Maybe I’ll come back to them one day but for now it’s time to next.

You either win or you learn.

ps. I’ll eventually write up everything I did to get started for anyone curious

J~

Get Rich Or Get Sad Trying: An Introduction

// Jimmy // April 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogs, Get rich or get sad trying, Jimmy's Blog

I’ve realised the only way for me to achieve everything I want out of life, I need to pursue work that is not loosely based on the following formula:

Money = SomeConstant x HoursWorked + PossibleBonusIfYouAreLucky

Why? Because this is shit, and offices suck. Even when I am enjoying the work, I’m not doing the things I want to do the most. I’m afraid going wakeboarding every couple of weeks and having four measly weeks a year to hit the snow just don’t cut it. Artifical light aint my thang, yo. Plus answering to people, especially grumpy ones, is poo (Although, I’m lucky to be in engineering where most bosses are top blokes).

I’ve done pretty well to get to this point only swearing once.

Back to the original point, to ‘get what I want out of life’, I’ve decided to pursue Internet Marketing. “But Jimmy,” you may ask in a whiny voice, “doesn’t that mean you are abandoning a life from behind a computer in an office for one behind a computer in your bedroom”. I would reply “Yes it does young padawan, but where I was once dreading the drive home after a crappy nine hours indoors, I now fold up my laptop after a couple of hours work. Today I might head up the lovely snow covered mountain down the road, or jump on yet another plane to yet another destination which I can ruin with drunken debauchery.”

Catch my drift?

J~