I was talking to my man Charles CZA Sweet over at 10facets.com last night and he asked about the results of Mission 1

“Didnt I post them already?” I asked

“Uhh, no. You didnt.”

Oops. So here are the overdue results from the mission, which was starting with $20 or less, to flip your money over the course of a month. The winner was Booker, from TGTMONEY.COM, and he droips some great knowledge that all of us can use, so bookmark this ish, and if you have a site, try it out.

Heres what he sent me:

Ok well as stated above the mission is to start with $20 or less, and then flip the money over the course of the month. I took a less conventional path with this which I was not even sure if it would work, but felt this would be a good time to test it out.

Being the person who likes to analyze the rules and find ways to bend them, I took a closer look at the mission stated. It says to start with “$20 or less” well I started with less alright. In fact I started with $0. I started with $0 and ended with $24.14. I did this by leveraging two things:

1. My blog
2. Clickbank

The process I used is quite lengthy so I will go into detail about the methods I used. The actual process I learned from another blog I follow so I cannot take full credit from it. To begin, I searched Clickbank and looked through the marketplace. My searches were for products by their name “i.e. xbox, abs, cell phone, etc…”. I concentrated on products within the Top 30 and that had a grav that was over 50. I compiled a list of products after viewing their pitch page and decided which ones I wanted to advertise.

After the list was compiled, I went over to Google Adwords to use their keyword tool and come up with some keywords to market with. That way I do not have to come up with keywords on my own and can get an idea of what people were actually searching for. Next I went to labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/ to see what questions were being asked around that keyword. With that information I was able to determine if it would be wise to advertise the products on my list or to find some more with a decent amount of search traffic.

With keywords in hand and questions being asked about the keywords I now had to make a blog entry answering the questions. But I did not actually have to write each blog entry nor did I have to learn about the question to post a correct answer. What I did was use wikiHow.com. I typed in the main keyword of my products and found answers to the questions I made a list of. Once I read through the answer and verified that it was a decent article, I decided to use the article on my blog. The glory with wikiHow is they have a feature where you can easily embed articles to your sites or blogs by clicking a link near the bottom of the article. They supply you with HTML code to paste in your blog and it is as easy as that.

Once the articles were on my site answering the questions, I posted Clickbank ads on those posts that had to do with the question. Example would be the question “How to fix Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death” and then I would answer the question via wikiHow and post the Clickbank product advertising an eBook explaining how to fix it. The key to the article is you want to find an answer that answers the question just enough to make it look as you know about the topic but not enough to fully send them on their way.

Also I post-dated all of these posts for a couple reasons. One I did not want these under my recent post on my site simply because these entries were solely for advertising purposes. The second reason was because I wanted to give the impression the answer was up for a decent amount of time. Not too old to not be relevant but not too young to not be time tested.
So to recap I had a question, keywords based on that question, an answer, and a product that was relevant to all of the above. All that was left was for me to drive traffic to the post on my site. I submitted the posts to Digg and other directories and answered a few questions on Yahoo Answers with links back to my page.

Out of the many articles posted, two of the products converted to sales. One product was advertising the Xbox 360 eBook and another for a cell phone membership site that brought my total income generated to $24.14.

This process takes a bit of time to get off the ground and is not a get rich over night type deal but did generate income. The better ability to drive traffic will result in more sales.

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