TOPIC: I Will Achieve Full Color Or Die Trying

IMO as soon as you have 100 or so unique visitors each month it's time to CRO that shit. 100 visitors, depending on your CRO, could mean 2-3 sales.

If you have that many visitors and getting no sales (email signup is a sale/conversion as well) something is wrong, and CRO is your friend.

You're doing very good guys, keep it, it's within reach now

CONGRATS ON THE SALE! You really motivate me to work hard. And, it's awesome to see your site grow.

BTW, I have this PDF bundle for CRO. This guy Jakub Linowski does CRO for a living and he took a log of his work. So, he'd do CRO for company X and then write about what he did, what went right/wrong, the results. He has many examples. I got this bundle form a friend who does web dev for a living. He told me this costed him couple hundred.

Casp10, or anyone else who is interested, I can send you the file via email.

Not sure why but goodlooking loser wasn't working for me the last few days hence my absence.

Still putting in solid hours. I haven't noticed much improvement in my google ranking at all which is annoying but I am doing awesome on bing and have a few low comp keywords hitting first page which has me fired up

Ya buddy. Keep it up dawg. I'm also doing better on Bing organic search. Very funny how that works. It is progress nonetheless.

Ray

Ya bro bing is killing it for me in places google isn't even ranking me for. I have a post 1 week old on the first page of bing with words that generally get marked by high authority government sights. Definitely progress.

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I have the day off today so the entirety of it is dedicated to blogging however my brain has been hazy the last few days and I just can't write to my standards which is pissing me off. I got 500 words into a post promoting my ebook that is coming up. I am actually quite happy with the promo I think a good percentage of targeted traffic that stumble upon this post will be intrigued enough to sign up.

I've been working on a seperate post as well and only managed to put about 700 words into it today for a total of 1300 now. I am trying to wrap it up but just struggling to finish it. I also didn't find my keyword prior so now I am struggling to plug a keyword in there. This is a mistake I have made before and I always regret.

Its 3pm right now and I've been working for about 5 hours today and just not sure how to be productive right now.

So the designer should be done with my ebook in the next 3-4 days I am assuming. I am taking this time to fix any chinks in my website and buff up some of my pillar posts. I am going to buff up and strategically upgrade my internal linking. I am also taking time to buff up my reddit account and taking this time off of all self promotion. Lots of comments only to increase my comment karma to show my account isn't just a self promoting spam artist (I don't mind helping people in my niche anyways).

When my ebook is ready and everything is set up to funnel towards capturing emails I will self promote like crazy on reddit and hopefully get 1000 viewers to my site in the first week, continue to comment and keep good karma and keep promoting. If I can get 1% of those to signup that will be 10 new emails in one week and so on. My numbers are still single digit but I am eyeing that 100 mark like a sniper. My goal was in 100 in 3 months from release of my ebook but I am bumping that down to two at most so I have some fire under my ass. 500 by 2018, 5000 by 2019? Once I hit 500 I will start selling a product.

Hey Casp10, what is your Reddit strategy? Do you plan on just answering a shit ton of questions over next couple months to promote yourself? Then creating a subreddit for your website?

This is what I was thinking about originally. I have posted like 8 links in reddit so far. I also do not want to seem like a spammer either.

Ray

I have been working out a strategy all week and this is what I have come up with.

I found 20 subreddits in my niche. I initially screened the subreddit by checking the posts and seeing if there was links to other websites. If there wasn't that thread does not allow self promotion or it gets flagged as spam easy and is not worth your time. Do this and find 20 or so that will allow links back to your site and delete all the automatic reddit subscriptions. This will leave your reddit homepage all relevant subreddits.

From here I check in at my home page about 3x/day and aim to answer 5 questions. All the posts coming up will be from my subreddits so in time I will have gained some authority in each. I screen which posts to comment on by seeing if the comments already made have been upvoted. If not the op likely won't toss you one either so it is a dud and not worth your time. Move on to someone who will appreciate your comment and increase your comment karma and authority. Today was the first day I began executing this strategy and with about half an hour of time invested my comment karma increased 24 points. Another good strategy would be to comment on posts at the top of highly active subreddits as these will be seen by a LOT of people. I have yet to try this method consistently as of yet but I imagine it will be helpful in the future.

Eventually I will likely post 1 link everyday selecting my subreddit based on return and eventually narrow my success down to 5-10 extremely effective subreddits. I will also make sure to not post in the same subreddit more than 1 or 2x/week so I don't get marked as spam and lose the subreddit I've invested in. Slow and steady wins the race.

I'm trying to get some work done today but I feel like a lazy piece of shit and can't string anything together. Fuck.

I made a decision to work with a partner to change my website look. It is in his hands so I really hope it works out well, anxious about the final result. The stress might be why I can't do anything right now.

I'm having one of those days too.. keep at it brother, we're gonna make it

Yo Casp10, you will work through it bro. Do not worry. You are just hitting a wall in terms of production. Perhaps 1-2 days rest will give you a recharge. I will chilled Sunday and Monday had a great production day today. Just my 2 cents.

By the way, I think your blog looks fine right now. I do not think you need to upgrade themes right now. I can't hurt though. I just think those resource could be better used for CRO. Again, just my 2 cents.

Otherwise, you are doing great man. Keep up the good work man.

Thanks,
Ray

When I started I was happy investing 2 hours of my day. The further I go and grow I feel uncomfortable if I am not putting 4-6 hours a day in. Part of me loves it but part of me misses being able to comfortably chill without feeling like a lazy piece of shit.