I know it sounds like a dumb thing to do, but those cat and dog videos and memes get tons of traffic.
The thing about bulk random traffic is that there are always people in there who are your target market.
We keep forgetting that.
Sure, 1, 000 targeted visitors might be what you want, but there is probably 1,000 or more in every 100,000 random groups.
Getting the bulk random traffic is much easier because no marketer is trying for those, they’re all going for the same keywords and the competition is fierce.
Get the unwanted traffic in bulk and flip them to what you want.
It can, but you’ll need to be strategic about this.
Do you think that you have the skill set required to make a one or two page website that will generate $7 average daily?
Can’t be too hard now can it?
Almost any sub-niche with traffic from FB, Instagram, Pinterest et al can do that, even if it’s only with Adsense.
The old school training was all about only having one link for the visitor to click, and that was their affiliate link.
Today I’m suggesting that is an incredibly short-sighted concept.
Provide a page with good and useful content.
On that page you have various links to your affiliate bridge page (that’s the second page) in the body of the text, but you also have ad blocks with adsense or banners on the page.
You also have an exit pop for your affiliate bridge page, or an alternative.
We know that most sales pages convert at less than 10%, you might as well tempt the other 90% to click something else that can make you money.
Once you’ve got one of these dialled in it’s pretty simple to repeat the process with another simple site.
Some of these will make more or less than $7 daily, but when you have multiples of them ticking away the riches begin to look real.
That reminds me of a farmer I knew who was on a pretty poor bit of land.
He invented a machine that bent bits of wire into clips for a particular type of fence.
The machines ran 24/7 and he told me that he had retired from farming because he found he preferred to stand in his shed watching the machines make him $1,000 a day.
One way is to start writing faster as if you’re in a rush to get the ideas down before you lose them in the constant stream of consciousness that we all have.
The other is to do something physical to get the blood pumping because enthusiasm is usually associated with an increased heart rate.
When you have an idea or product to share it always works better when you get excited about the possibilities for the person reading your work.
You’re sharing something valuable after all, you should be enthusiastic and excited to share because you know that this could be life-changing for them.
You will remember, from my last email that I was going to share with you the revelation (epiphany?) I had recently about sotware development.
My software goal has always been write once, deploy anywhere.
Despite the promises there are very few tools that can do that.
While many of the languages can run on any computer, they have to be compiled (made into apps) on the target operating system or they don’t work.
You know that the software market is massive, in the region of $750B last year and growing at 11% per annum.
You probably don’t need a billion dollar idea to make a great living supplying useful tools to people.
It’s the goal of being cross-platform that drives the SaaS market and development, but there are many people reluctant to rely on someone else’s computer to store their data.
Those people will be the ones who will buy an app to do things for them on their computer.
This could be as boring as bat excrement for many of you, but you might find something exciting here as well.
For years I’ve been a mostly self-taught programmer.
Most of what I’ve written has been for my benefit with no intention of selling what I’ve made.
Some of what I’ve written was superseded by developments in the WordPress world because much of my work has been to more easily manage all the my websites.
You know there are constant updates to themes, plugins, and the core.
When you have hundreds of sites that gets tedious in the extreme.
Now WordPress updates itself so what I created over 10 years is pointless.
Except, the reason people migrate to WordPress is that it’s so much easier to create a website with that free CMS than it is to build a multi-page website in HTML or PHP.
Unfortunately, the hackers love WordPress because there are always more security holes to find and use to infiltrate your site.
The most secure website is the one that lives on your local server and isn’t connected to the Internet, not overly practical.
However, with the advent of AI it is now possible to build a 50, 80, 200 page website using only HTML, or PHP, with Javascript and CSS (don’t panic if you don’t know what they are) in days without knowing any more than how to copy paste text.
Attempting to take some short cuts will prevent you reaching the goal.
That’s the problem with those no-work shiny objects that get promoted by all and sundry when they are only after a sale and not trying to help you make money.
There are only two paths to success in an online business no matter the niche.
Can you find a lot of traffic?
Can you convert that traffic to income?
This will take some work to find the traffic and then find how you can convert that traffic to income.
Then there is the work to get that traffic to the conversion page.
It’s not hard work when you use AI to help, but it’s still work that has to be done.
The ability to place the tools on your website from your desktop without going through the pain of navigating the Cpanel.
Now the Cpanel of any website is pretty simple once you’ve done it a few times, but can be a bit of a scary thing the first time.
And it is a PITA to have to navigate it every time you want to update or add a web page if you’re building an HTML website.
But HTML websites load faster and have almost no security issues if there are no forms on them, and the ones that do exist are easily thwarted.
Unlike WordPress or other CMS platforms where there is so much third-party software in use that there will be holes to the hackers to exploit even though there are constant updates to plug them.
All that to explain why these emails seem a little terse lately.
Could do better – just like many of my school reports.
In all industries, professions, businesses, it’s true that 98% of people do not reach their dreams.
They don’t even reach their potential.
It’s true that some people still do very nicely thank you, but they have still failed to reach what they wanted from life.
That has always puzzled me.
What is it that causes people to not get where they want in the vast majority of cases?
The answer seems to be that they stop believing in their potential.
They simply give up before they’ve got to the goal.
Sometimes they give up because they realise the path they were taking won’t get them there, so they become resigned to mediocrity instead of changing their path.
Sometimes they give up because they’ve had a setback that has caused their goal to seem further out of reach.
Sometimes they give up because it all seems too hard.
Sometimes they give up because the people around them keep telling them it won’t work.
Here are 10 people who didn’t become successful until late in life.
Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) – Began painting professionally at 78, becoming a renowned American folk artist
Colonel Sanders (Harland David Sanders) – Founded Kentucky Fried Chicken at 65 after receiving his first Social Security check
Julia Child – Released her first cookbook at 61 and began her television career afterward
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Published the first “Little House on the Prairie” book at 65
Takichiro Mori – Left academia at 55 and became Japan’s richest man through real estate by his 60s
Frank McCourt – Published his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “Angela’s Ashes” at 66
Arianna Huffington – Founded The Huffington Post at 61, transforming it into a major media outlet
Kathryn Joosten – Began acting at 56, winning Emmy Awards for her roles in “The West Wing” and “Desperate Housewives”
Anna Sewell – Published her only novel, “Black Beauty,” at 57, just months before her death
Alan Rickman – While successful in theater earlier, didn’t land his first film role until 42 and became truly internationally famous in his 60s with roles like Severus Snape
Those are not the only ones who didn’t stop working towards their potential, sometimes changing tack to get where they wanted to go.
