Thansk for the candid expressions. I couldn’t agree with you more especially since it wasn’t long ago I was in that same state.
However I’ve come to realize that no one is going to come out of their personal circumstances to hold my hand.
As a result I hold my own and have taken the gloves off and rolled up my sleeves.
Since you were willing to kick ash, Your Success Is Deserved.

To Your Continued Success,
Fernando

“The Twilight Warrior”

Love the ebook and have read it and acted on it by building a site that has been up for around a month. (http://www.happylarryregistrycleaners.com). It has 131 good quality inbound links as I write, so the link building is going well.

One thing that no one has touched upon is the ‘Google Sandbox’ – or Google waiting to see if your site is trustworthy and has longevity before indexing your pages in the natural listings for all your key search terms. By my reckoning, it could therefore be between 3-6 months or longer before any new site built using your methods becomes properly indexed by Google.

Is this a fair assumption – or is the Google Sandbox just a mythical beast with as much relevance as a unicorn?

Thanks!

Gareth

How true.

Geez…

It reminds me of the three stooges (ok… I’m old and it’s still my favorite).

“My head hurts when I do this” (banging head against wall)

Moe: Quit doing it.

Curley: Feels much better!

The ole “try and try again” stuff ranks up there with “save your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”.

I still have my piggy bank from when I was a kid and still no dollars in there yet.

Keep up the good work.

Paul
“The Mad Webmaster”

Personally, I feel that you have to dare to EXPERIMENT, EXPERIMENT & EXPERIMENT! to succeed.

That was what I did for 1 over year before seeing things turn around. But most people give up trying pretty fast.

Even if you do not create something out of the box, at least learn proven techniques and improvise them.

In the affiliate marketing world, everyone has the potential to succeed. Never say die!

My Greetings to you,

I was guided from Ken Evoy (I Love Him) my first venture has succeeded little in 7 months and making $700 every month BUT,

As you said I am not on farrari yet, and was pretty confused about my next site,

What to do?
Which market?
loads of research?
Where is the real money?
My own products?
Affiliate marketing?
Any easy approach?

Lots of questions in my mind and huge confusions and then I got you, who has faced all this and developed this great concept of lazy marketer (loved this name, please ‘TM” it) I got all the answers of my questions, blown away all confusions.

Thanks for writing such a great book, I have developed 1st site of lazy way 3 applications and next site is under development, they will generate good revenue I KNOW IT…

Sites are still fresh and yet to rank, it will take few months.

A BIG THANKS TO CHRIS…

Cheetu

Say Chris what are some of your favourite blogs and RSS feeds you are subscribed too?

I am sure there are many others out there that will love to know what sort of resources you keep yourself up to date with etc….

Thanks a bunch for your value

Morgan

Thanks for the response. It’s a good point you’ve got – where does one balance two seemingly contradictory truths:

* Stick with one thing and perfect it

And,

* Find out what works best, then do that

Well, unfortunately there’s no easy answer. Membership sites, authority content sites, developing ebooks, software, selling on ebay, dropshipping, etc. – they’re ALL valid, and they’re ALL potentially perfect for you.

So it’s not so much the “method” – that’s a CHOICE you have to make. I suggest going with a content site at first, and then expanding your business through info-products and software to diversify your traffic streams – but that’s just one road to travel (of many).

But the most important thing here is MARKET SELECTION and deciding on what to provide for that market (you need to give it what it wants).

See “Part 1″ of my ebook for how this works exactly – and realize that registry/spyware software and so on is FAR from being the only niche. There are thousands of directions to go.

So what needs to happen here is three things:
——————————————————-

1) Choose one market that has proven itself to be hugely profitable. There will be tons of competition.

2) Choose one PROBLEM to solve in that market. Deliver content via a product or a site. Plug-in marketing tools as applicable (aff promos, list-building, etc)

3) Start off with one METHOD (content sites, small feeder product, ebay, etc) and measure your results.

From there, as you start seeing results, then it’s all about increasing visitor/client value and optimizing things for better conversion.

When that’s done, then you EXPAND your business by testing other additional methods. One method at a time.

That’s the name of the game.

Decide where to start, how to start – and then actually START.

Take care,

-Chris

I was just sitting here drinking my “frappamachaluccachino” and reading your post.

I also read that post at that forum, of which I also am a member. I agree with your assessment
for the most part.

The internet is so big, with so much potential for i.m.
How do you focus on the one thing, when there are so many ways and so much to learn?
You say don’t be afraid to try new ways (paraphrase) but the roads seem limitless.

I know where you stand, I got and enjoyed your book, it actually helped me refocus and I am following your advice. You made me believe it was possible again.
On the flip side of what your saying is, if you keep trying something new you tend to lose focus. When is the right time to give up on a particular way of doing something? You seem to be an extremely focused individual and I congratulate you on your success, more power to you!
I don’t know if it’s a phase, but “paralysis by analysis” would be an understatement for my situation. Just as in real life I like to explore as much as I can. A certain amount of fear but probably less than average,
but sometimes to the detriment of the larger picture.
I am not a writer, and I don’t know if you catch my drift.
Maybe your next book should be about the focus and how to go about it.

I’ll be the first in line!
Situations are different for different “folks” don’t you think?
This is a partial of a post I did on that other forum,
” This may be a dumb question, but man I’m tired, can’t think right now.
Same stuff probably alot of you go thru. Trying to learn all this, while balancing a full time job, a screaming kid an ex wife and as of this writing the dog is humping my leg”.

Just trying to illustrate a point.

Anyhow I enjoy your posts, keep it up
You should write another book on I.M.
Just a thought.

Peace ROADDOG