AffiloBlueprint Day 20: Need to Get Back On Track
May 25th 2009 01:36 pm
Well, I’ve sort of hit a wall in my homework assignments.
I was cruising right along until I got to the part about creating content. Writing has always been my least favorite thing (except in elementary school, when all my teachers said I was a great writer. Go figure!)
I had been very diligent in writing a new article every day and setting up the pages as was outlined in the Affiloblueprint videos.
I got through about eight articles that way. But they were all either product reviews that I could write based on the sales page and other review sites, or articles for beginners in the niche.
So now I’m faced with coming up with content that is neither.
Mark recommends hiring an elancer to ghost write, but I’ve been reluctant to do this because, well, I’m pretty broke.
So as a result, my adding content has ceased.
I jumped ahead to the PPC videos (skipped the homework for weeks 6, 7, 8, and 9) but he starts out that lesson by saying why he waited until the end to talk about PPC. Why it’s much better to have your site all set up first. Sigh…
Well, I guess if I’m really going to give this a fair review, I should follow the steps and do the homework in order.
So I guess I’m off to elancer for the first time.
Incidentally, elancer is probably a good place to find niches in the first place. Just look at the other jobs that people are outsourcing in the Ghost Writing category.
Later….
Well I bit the bullet and posted a job on elance.com for someone to write me 5 articles in my niche. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be; they really walk you through every step.
But after I did this, I found an easier way.
In Mark’s training video he mentioned what elancer he selected when he was looking for someone to write his articles. So even though I had already posted my job on elance, I found their website.
The website itself was good, I though. A lot of big, clear graphics and good use of white space. And their per-article price for ghost writing was probably cheaper than I’d end up paying at elancer.
But their ecommerce piece was a little poor. Instead of having their own merchant account, their Add to Cart button goes right to Paypal. So there’s nowhere to put in details of what you want to hire them for before you give them money.
Also most of their services had no price listed. The only way to see the price was to add it to the cart and see what Paypal was charging.
So I sent them an email asking them a couple of things, half expecting to never hear from them (another post I found online said that someone had been trying to email them for months, but that was written in February).
Lo and behold, the owner emailed me back within minutes.
I decided to give them a try and I paid for them to write me 5 articles. According to the owner, the turnaround should be 2 days. And their price is $12.00 per 500-word article.
I’ll post the website of the company a little later…
I’ll also mention that I decided to go with my original instincts and jump right to PPC before completing the other lessons (getting backlinks, Web 2.0, newsletter, etc.).
Why? Because of Perry Marshall’s Wright Brothers story.
But this post is already too long….
I was cruising right along until I got to the part about creating content. Writing has always been my least favorite thing (except in elementary school, when all my teachers said I was a great writer. Go figure!)
I had been very diligent in writing a new article every day and setting up the pages as was outlined in the Affiloblueprint videos.
I got through about eight articles that way. But they were all either product reviews that I could write based on the sales page and other review sites, or articles for beginners in the niche.
So now I’m faced with coming up with content that is neither.
Mark recommends hiring an elancer to ghost write, but I’ve been reluctant to do this because, well, I’m pretty broke.
So as a result, my adding content has ceased.
I jumped ahead to the PPC videos (skipped the homework for weeks 6, 7, 8, and 9) but he starts out that lesson by saying why he waited until the end to talk about PPC. Why it’s much better to have your site all set up first. Sigh…
Well, I guess if I’m really going to give this a fair review, I should follow the steps and do the homework in order.
So I guess I’m off to elancer for the first time.
Incidentally, elancer is probably a good place to find niches in the first place. Just look at the other jobs that people are outsourcing in the Ghost Writing category.
Later….
Well I bit the bullet and posted a job on elance.com for someone to write me 5 articles in my niche. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be; they really walk you through every step.
But after I did this, I found an easier way.
In Mark’s training video he mentioned what elancer he selected when he was looking for someone to write his articles. So even though I had already posted my job on elance, I found their website.
The website itself was good, I though. A lot of big, clear graphics and good use of white space. And their per-article price for ghost writing was probably cheaper than I’d end up paying at elancer.
But their ecommerce piece was a little poor. Instead of having their own merchant account, their Add to Cart button goes right to Paypal. So there’s nowhere to put in details of what you want to hire them for before you give them money.
Also most of their services had no price listed. The only way to see the price was to add it to the cart and see what Paypal was charging.
So I sent them an email asking them a couple of things, half expecting to never hear from them (another post I found online said that someone had been trying to email them for months, but that was written in February).
Lo and behold, the owner emailed me back within minutes.
I decided to give them a try and I paid for them to write me 5 articles. According to the owner, the turnaround should be 2 days. And their price is $12.00 per 500-word article.
I’ll post the website of the company a little later…
I’ll also mention that I decided to go with my original instincts and jump right to PPC before completing the other lessons (getting backlinks, Web 2.0, newsletter, etc.).
Why? Because of Perry Marshall’s Wright Brothers story.
But this post is already too long….
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