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David Cavanagh Seminar 2008

ramapati — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:25:26 +0000

David Cavanagh’s seminar earlier this month was focused and informative. I learned stuff about WordPress and have started to implement some of it.

Also I bought software to put video and audio material onto my website and there is new support in the form of Quentin Brown - a gem.

I look forward to a continuing efficient interaction.

sitesell.com

ramapati — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:09:52 +0000

I spoke with 3 consultants and coders about conversion of traffic to sales. All promised to look at competitor’s sites and improve mine. They want $500 to $1000. I don’t know if I should give them the job, having been burned before. And of course there are no guarantees.

In the meanwhile a dear friend recommended to me www.sitesell.com. It is an amazing package which for newbies like myself takes you through the process of choosing keywords, narrowing down the business concept, finding ways to monetize the business and - I have just reached so far.

But it is light at the end of the tunnel! After receiving so many visitors to my sites and not getting any conversions, I had just stopped doing any work on them for 3 weeks!

Break

ramapati — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:07:14 +0000

The internet business is causing me all kinds of anxiety. I have received more than 3000 unique visitors to both www.taxhavencompany.com and www.cosmetics-hair.com but no conversions.

After feeling dejected and racking my brains for a solution I am back to finding one after a 3 week break not looking at the 2 businesses!

I dont know where to learn about conversions! Must find another internet guru. Maybe my products are not interesting?

Conversion

ramapati — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:28:05 +0000

In both my websites - www.taxhavencompany.com and www.cosmetics-hair.com I have received thousands of ‘unique’ visitors, but no sale.

Now I have removed the sales letter format opening page in taxhavencompany.com and am trying to see if conversions start!

Very pathetic. I have been focused entirely on traffic and did not look at conversions. Now I have stopped looking at traffic…

SEO work has brought this site to #9 in Google and now I need conversions!

Google AdWords

ramapati — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:50:41 +0000

Finally, after changing servers, spending money and time on collecting email ids, and sending out hundreds of thousands of emails, I got lots of traffic to www.cosmetics-hair.com and www.taxhavencompany.com. Very few conversions though.

My internet marketing gurus tell me to stop sending emails, and to start a more focused approach via articles, links, affiliates and AdWords.

So, my career as a bulk emailer who was gradually shifting to being branded a spammer, has ended and I am now delving into the intricacies of Google’s AdWords!

Email Response

ramapati — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:01 +0000

Finally I am on a dedicated server and have restarted my email campaign. Getting a lot of visitors to the websites now. And some email enquiries so I know that some people are reading the emails.

Changed the www.cosmetics-hair.com index page!

ramapati — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:02:45 +0000

Finally I have changed the index page of www.cosmetics-hair.com! Average number of pages opened by every unique visitor has gone up to 7 from 2.

The day I send the email out I check the number of unique visitors visiting the website, and waiting for sales. The average number has gone up to 140 / day.

I wonder what the normal conversion ration is?

www.cosmetics-hair.com had 398 visitors today!

ramapati — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:51:39 +0000

I listened to the advice from my hosting company and spent more money to shift to a dedicated server!

Now I can do email marketing. And it is working in terms of traffic.

Surely sales will follow!?

Changed The Server!

ramapati — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:47:10 +0000

Finally I changed my server to a dedicated server and started my marketing campaign! On the first day my number of visitors went up to 150 from 22! Isn’t that great?

Bulk Emails & Web Hosting

ramapati — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:06:41 +0000

The last 2 months I have been collecting emails at the rate of about 2000 per week. Building up a list. And sending sales pitches every week to the cumulative list! Now my email list is around 42,000 and I was sending 2 sales pitches [with all the proper links for people to unsubscribe!] to them every week for the last 4 weeks!

Yesterday to my horror one of my websites was suspended. On enquiry I discovered that I had exceeded the limit of sinding 200 emails per hour! I learnt about ‘throttling’ my email application. So at this rate I would send one message every 210 hrs. But thats not all. If the mailing list has more than a 2-3000 email Ids, only the first 200 go and then it stops!

So while I was sitting and wondering why more people were not coming to my site - it was because only 200 people were getting my email pitches.

So my hosting company recommended that I take a dedicated server and send as many emails that I want!

I signed up today for a dedicated server, but dont know how to manage it. The hosting comapny has promised to shift my websites to the new server.

Now I am excited all over again - a new light is there at the end of the tunnel!

While I am doing SEO, affiliate marketing, articles, links from forums, and a blog, email marketing is really possible now.