I’m back.

First off - thanks to all the guest posters, they were of pretty high quality I thought and I enjoyed reading them (more than my own posts, even :razz: ). Also, thanks for the birthday wishes - unfortunately, my email inbox has been jammed with emails (more than 1,000 legitimate ones over the last week - mainly because of the ’secret’ method release and various other things) so if you’ve sent me an important email and I haven’t replied - it’s because I haven’t seen it or have seen it and forgotten about it.

Although the break was good, it’s great to be back; it’s also great to see that TUK finally broke the 700 subscribers mark. Next up will be trying to aim towards 1,000 - that may be difficult, but we’ll see. Of course, the easiest way to reach the 1,000 mark is if you guys help out; so please send people over here if you like the stuff you read. :)

Today what I wanted to do is ask you guys about a question that is pretty important in blogging, especially the internet marketing niche where proof is everything. If you’re running a blog teaching people to do stuff, and you cannot do that stuff yourself - you’re not going to last long.

On most blogs you read - even this one - you rarely see failures. People will talk about their successes, most notably their big ones; however, when was the last time you saw a blogger admit he had royally screwed up?

I had a huge failure recently - considering that things have been going pretty good of late, with metrics constantly increasing - it was the launch of a new project which you will not hear about after this post.

I had an idea, as I have a lot of them - when I get ideas, I tend to believe that they are amazing and that all of them will be successes - now, of course that’s not true. Anyways, I had an idea involving social marketing and a specific CPA offer - one that I thought would make me loads of money without having to spend it.

This was a week or so ago - I worked for the best part of a day (10 hours or so) setting things up, tweaking the landing page, testing things to make sure there wouldn’t be any problems… at the time, I honestly thought I could have an early retirement just off this project.

The project grossed $1912.67 in its first 24 hours.

Isn’t that super? That’s almost $60,000 per month, right?

However…

The money I spent on the project was $1905.35

So… ten hours of setting things up, a day of promoting it… and I get a net profit of $7. You work out the hourly rate for that one and you’ll get the same reaction I did… ouch!

I’ll probably work on it a little more over the next few weeks, but for now I’m just taking a break with it… to me, that was a huge waste of time and I don’t like wasting time :razz:

However, the one thing I have learned over the last month and a half is that social networks are easy as hell to make money off. Try playing around with them, and you’ll be surprised (I’m not just talking about this projet, but others I’ve done with social networks over the last 1.5 months). You have to be creative and unique - some half assed copied rubbish won’t do well, but if you hit it right you will make money. How creative and unique you are, of course determines the amount of profit you make.

What I learned was that if I had tested things a little more, and waited for some time, I would probably have made more money - I was so sure that this was going to do well that I set it up just before I went to sleep, and by morning it was too far gone to change much.

Despite being on a break though, I did have a pretty decent success this week - making almost $3,000 for about one hour of work (related to website flipping). I will put up a post this week talking about what I did to make that money, something pretty simple that any of you guys can replicate. Stay tuned :razz:

Above, I’ve talked about one of my biggest cock ups in my internet marketing career - how about you? I asked this question a few months ago, but it’s always interesting to see what readers are up to - what is one of your recent failures, and how did you take it? :)

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