How I Sold 450 Copies of My First Product

Note From the Editor: The following post was contributed by one of our long-time students and top affiliate – Joshua Zamora! If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time you’ll know that I RARELY accept guest posts. They quite literally have to be powdered with gold dust for me to publish it here on BuzzBlogger.com.

But when Joshua sent me this exclusive case study – I was smiling from ear to ear. If you’ve ever wanted a step-by-step guide to creating and selling your own product – this is a post to bookmark for future reference.

Please give Joshua a warm welcome, enjoy and share!


Hey guys! Firstly, I want to say thank you for being here taking the time to read this article. My name is Joshua Zamora and I plan on sharing with you, step-by-step, how I launched my first product which sold over 450 copies in its first 2 weeks of being live…

 

 

 

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Is Your WordPress Theme Leaving Money on the Table?

If you’ve spent any amount of time online, then you probably know that the money is in your email list.

I’ve found with my own business that 95% of my sales come from our subscriber list. With the remaining 5% coming from the blog.

So as you can imagine – your subscriber list is quite literally the lifeblood of your business.

But how do you convert your blog visitors into subscribers?

There are a number of tools to help you do so. One of my favorites is called Hybrid Connect.

But you can dramatically increase the conversion rate of your blog simply by choosing the RIGHT Wordpress theme.

In fact, there are a handful of premium Wodpress themes designed specifically to boost your email opt-ins and turn your blog into a conversion machine.

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Best Fiverr Gigs of 2012

Many online business owners make the mistake of trying to do everything themselves.

Graphic design. Wordpress setup. eCover design. Facebook Fan Page Creation. Twitter Background. Tech Support. Transcription. Video Submissions. Press Release Submissions. And sooooo much more.

You simply can NOT do it all yourself.

Not if you want to create a successful business during this century :)

Fortunately, there are sites like Fiverr where you can start outsourcing VERY affordably.

If you haven’t yet taken the leap into outsourcing, Fiverr is one of the best places to start.

They’ll do everything from article writing, link building, video submissions, press release submission, video intros and more! For the small business owner, it’s a dream come true.

And in this article I’m going to share with you my all-time favorite Fiverr gigs
for 2012.

So that you don’t have to waste your time scouring through hundreds of gigs and reviews.

We’ve compiled together the very best Fiverr gigs for the online business owner and blogger…

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Matt Cutts Announces Google Algorithm Update

Google rolled out yet another update on 9/28/2012.

Now they’re going after Exact-Match Domains.

The crack-down is supposed to target low-quality “exact-match” domains.

Here are the latest tweets from Matt Cutts discussing the update:

However, it seems that even high-quality EMD sites are getting hit.

Here are a few comments from site owners around the web…

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Cool Tip – How to Get More Retweets

We’ve been testing a cool new traffic strategy here in the Market Lab :) Use this cool little tip to instantly start getting more retweets!

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How to Create a Wildly Popular Blog


 

What does it really take to become a ROCK STAR blogger?

What are the secrets of mavens like Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Darren Rowse, Guy Kawasaki and Mari Smith?

Is it a magical Chinese cocktail? Hidden super powers? A couple genius clones
they keep locked in the basement?

Well… that would be cool – but not quite the right answer.

Although I’m sure that Chinese Cocktail might help… Or any cocktail for that matter :)

But the fact is that anyone willing to put in the hours can obtain these blogging superpowers.

Here are the 5 steps to creating a wildly popular blog…
 

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One Site or Many?

I see a lot of people online who talk about having 10-20 websites that make $20 per day – adding up to a nice little income.

Now, in theory this sounds good. In fact, when I first started online I actually bought into the idea about having multiple sites.

But what I soon realized was that what ‘sounds’ good in theory doesn’t necessarily work in the real word.

When you have multiple websites – you spread yourself thin – never creating true leverage – never creating a TRUE asset.

Many people don’t realize just how much work goes into ONE website until they really get started.

Building an authority website takes time. But it’s WELL worth it. Whenever I started focusing on serving ONE market and building my list of subscribers around ONE market that’s when my profits started multiplying. With that kind of leverage you can literally double your income from one month to the next. You’re building a long-term brand.

From an SEO standpoint, a large authority site is going to perform better as well because it has more pages, you’re able to update it more often (freshness factor), more content also naturally attracts more backlinks (as long as it’s high-quality), you have more links coming from sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc…

It’s a laser approach rather than the shotgun approach.

All of your resources start compounding.

You become deeply ingrained in the wants, needs, desires, and frustrations of your target market – allowing you to create marketing messages that fit them like a glove.
Creating emails, articles, blog posts, and sales letters that speak to their deepest need.

Personally, I’d rather create something truly ‘World Class’ VS 5-10 average sites.

But whatever you do – Focus on getting ONE website profiting first!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this as well!

1 site or 10 sites? Which do you think is better?

- Kim

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