I sold my first car!
I happened Friday, Jan 24th and I made $74.40
This is huge.
My first car also makes my first $100 month!
It is still small potatoes, but I am fucking stoked!
It is very cool to be in the car business.
It is also very cool to make money selling a car I didn’t own.
It is even more cool to “automatically” sell a car I didn’t own while I was asleep.
A very exciting day!
The first exciting thing is that I started my first eBay Classified Ad campaign today! It’s for my new site: Get Your Girfriend Back
I found this idea when doing keyword research at eBay. I wanted to try something to get my feet wet and this is what popped out at me. There is no way to tell if there is a marfket out there without trying, but it seemed worth a shot. I’m sure I’m going to be trying a lot of these ads until I find something that clicks. I really want to make it in a smaller niche first. Of course I’d like to play in the big leagues, but that’s still a long way off.
The second exciting thing is that makeup-discounters is starting to rank on Google! For the month of January, I’m averaging 10 visits a day. That’s pretty good for a super small niche like Stila Makeup. I definitely need to expand that site out and I know just where it is going next. What is really great is that my visitors are averaging 2.66 pages viewed, which means I’m getting a lot of people who are actually checking it out.
This is interesting…
Here are the days I made sales and the average time on site for that day.
1/11 1:03
1/14 0:20
1/15 0:51
1/16 1:45
1/18 1:10
1/19 4:37
There was Jan 2 with an average time on site of 4:21 but no sales were made. That 4:37 yesterday was the longest time on site average.
The longest time on site by keyword was “stila madison” (madison is the name of a particular eye shadow palette) at 30:22 and she looked at 12 pages.
Someone came in on “discontinued stila makeup” and looked at 27 pages.
All very interesting and each one reveals a way for me to improve the site.
So there it is… one new business and an older one starts to finally bear some fruit.
Cool
Made major changes to my Make A Resume site.
Actually, I just decided to “sell” my free reports the same way most information products are sold. The change that took the most time was creating the pictures of the product. One of the cool things that came out of that process was that I learned how to use a function in Paint Shop Pro I’ve never used before. I stumbled on how to do it by bashing away, so that was cool.
It occurs to me that all of life is like that. You can come back to things you thought you knew and discover new depths, if you look for them.
I had planned to work on the new eBay deal this weekend, but as I was reading about how to do it, I realized that I needed to apply the same principals to my existing sites and since Make A Resume gets the most traffic, it made sense to try the changes to it first.
I also need to catch up on the Stomper Formula Five videos and apply all of that stuff to my existing sites.
I wish I could work at this stuff full time.
I remember the first time I tried to play tennis. It was awful. I had no experience at all with the racket, and I wasn’t able to hit the ball and make it go where I wanted. I couldn’t volly and what made it worse was that I knew my lack of skill was also keeping my partner from having any fun.
But that is the way a lot of things work.
In the beginning, they’re no fun, because you suck at it.
So tennis is one of those things that you have to work at for quite a while before it gets to be fun. Surfing is the same way.
Basically anything that requires skill is like that. You have to work at it until you get enough skill to have some fun.
That’s where motivation and desire come into the picture. Because if you don’t have the motivation and desire to work through the pain of being bad at something, you’ll never get the skills to be good at it.
For me it isn’t just that I’m not having fun in the beginning, it’s the shame I feel for being clueless. I’m ashamed of being a tool. Sometimes that shame is a motivator to keep trying and sometimes it is a motivator to walk away from whatever it is that’s not working.
But I’ve been keeping at this marketing thing and I’m finally at the point where it is just now starting to be fun. Not because I am making a ton of money, but because I’m starting to no longer feel like a tool.
So here’s a great new year of fun and motivation!
In the end, it’s all very Tony Robbins. The only thing keeping you from achieving anything you want is… you. It’s easy to understand that. It’s hard to do something about it.
Anyway……
I did another site today. I basically got it going in half a day. So the goal now is two new sites a week, working evenings and weekends. If I can keep that pace, then by this time next year I should have one hundred sites and I can only imagine how much that will have taught me.
Onward and upward!
