5 Bucks a Day

I wrote in 5 Bucks a Day about my first successful campaign that I was using to test out the strategy. I give details about exactly what I did back then (mid November 2005 through late December 2006) to clear $38,000 profit in around 6 weeks.

Neat as that was, I did better than that last holiday season.

And in both years I could have done much, much better if I had been a bit brighter about it. This year, hopefully I’ll take my own hint, but being a perpetual procrastinator makes it tough.

You see, the last 2 years, I’ve identified niches that were tailor made for profits, niches that I would have a hard time losing with, and bought traffic from Google AdWords.

If I would have identified those niches about 6 to 8 weeks earlier, then I could have done things to get to the top of the search engines for important keywords, and gotten free traffic in addition to the traffic I paid for. By doing so, I could have probably at least tripled my profits.

It would have been extra work, but doesn’t it seem like it would be worth it? Even to pay a SEO expert to do the work for me (it would have to be someone I really trust, though, because in that kind of do or die atmosphere, if the “expert” would fail, or worse yet, if he would steal my niche ideas by blabbing to friends, it would have been a disaster).

Anyway, now is about the time (maybe even a week or two past the time) when you need to identify those holiday niches, put up your pages, and find ways to get traffic coming to them. If you can get free traffic early you can determine how much each visitor to your site is worth, and thereby determine how much you can afford to pay to buy more visitors. Or you can just take the free traffic.

Personally, I keep saying, and I’ll say it once more, I’m not greedy. If I can get $10 bills for free, that’s cool. But if I can buy them for $6 each, I have no problem doing that as well.

Don’t procrastinate any longer, get your holiday sites ready NOW.

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