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Murray Hughes' Bio
Murray Hughes is a super great guy who knows
just about everything about everything.
But be warned, he is also the kind of guy
that would write his own bio, saying outlandishly great things about
himself, while pretending it was not him writing it but someone
else.
..............DOH!
OK, I'll stop pretending to be someone else.
The truth is I am such a small player on the Internet I couldn't
find someone to write about me even if I wanted to. But that doesn't
mean I'm not making money.
Here is a brief overview of what I have done
online. Keep in mind these sites represent a learning curve and
are by no means an example in marketing excellence:
| Web
Site URL |
Date
Started |
Comments |
| Some crappy MLM |
November 2002 |
Sucked in by the first Internet marketing
ad I ever saw, I ended up wasting hundreds of dollars on
a company not worth a second look. Did, however, expose
me to the potential of the Internet.
Lesson: don't presume joining any old work from home
business equals making an income. Do research or get good
advice. See my recommendations here:
The Best Work From Home Business Opportunities |
| Traffic Exchange Addiction
(good name for a website) |
December 2002 |
Have you been here? I also did safelists
and FFA's at the same time.
Lesson: complete WASTE of time and effort. Read my article
Top
10 Internet Marketing Time Wasters (one of the few
things I'm an expert on). |
|
Home-Gym-Review.com |
April 2003 |
Earns $500-$1000/mth hands free.
All traffic from search engines. Never been tested, tracked
or advertised.
Lesson: if you try you can get excellent SE rankings
even with no experience.
UPDATE (April 2005): Increased revenues to $1000-$1500/month through joint venturing direct with some manufacturers
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|
Elliptical-Trainer-Reviews.com |
June 2003 |
Earns $100/mth hands free. SEO was
never completed, including NO reciprocal links.
Lesson: if you want a project to have the best chance
at being successful then you must complete it. |
|
Muscle-Juice.com |
July 2003 |
Complete failure. Built around a
single affiliate program and the company disappeared.
Lesson: if you plan to use one affiliate program to
build a site choose carefully. This model is only feasible
if you get free search engine traffic. Otherwise send PPC
visitors straight to the affiliate site. |
|
Essential-Marketing-Tools.com |
August 2003 |
Same concept as this site but once
building began I felt I didn't really know enough to give
you good advice about Internet marketing. Now empty.
Lesson: be sure of what you are going to put in a site
before you begin building it. |
Joined SFI
(see
Favorite2ndIncome.com) |
Sept 2003 |
At time of writing commissions are
about $200/mth and growing all virtually hands free.
Lesson: if you choose a worthwhile online MLM, use a
simple but good marketing system and persevere (i.e. live
through the initial period of negative earnings) you will
make money every time. |
|
SFI-SFI-SFI.com |
Sept 2003 |
Was used as a landing page for visitors
from PPC to promote SFI (see
www.Favorite2ndIncome.com) but now idle.
Lesson: any such site should have capturing email addresses
as it's main purpose. |
| TheFreePathAgent.com |
Sept 2003 |
Failed. Not online anymore.
Lesson: a web site full of ads but with no real content
is a waste of everyone's time. |
| CoRegistration Lists |
November 2003 |
Began buying and marketing to co-registration
email lists. At time of writing earnings are $3000/mth
and growing.
Lesson: don't be fooled into believing "building
your list organically" is the only way to do it. See
CoRegistrationServices.com
UPDATE (April 2005): earnings from this type of general list have decreased a lot in recent months. Will stop buying new names and let list die out (stop replenishing unsubscribes) |
|
FindYourLoanHere.com |
February 2004 |
An experiment in email marketing.
Now idle.
Lesson: if you are promoting affiliate programs, unless
you can get free visitors from the engines it is nearly
always better to send email and PPC visitors directly to
the affiliate site unless you are capturing their email
addresses (in case of PPC).
UPDATE(February 2005) : Google no longer allows you to send visitors straight to affiliate site through PPC advertising. Instead, bring them to your site first, get them to opt-in and redirect opt-ins to the sales page. Follow-up with your own email series. |
| 007WorkFromHome.com |
May 2004 |
Very new but I plan to aggressively
build links and bring free visitors from the search engines.
Lesson: if you are going to do something do it well
and remember a content site is always about giving your
visitors value and not just making money.
UPDATE (April 2005): Completed a 1000 link campaign (outsourced) and Google PR dropped from 5 to 4 but traffic has increased. Most revenue generated from Google Adsense (the ads you see on the upper-right of the page).
UPDATE (APRIL 2005):
Noticed a surge in traffic recently, very pleased to discover this site is currently #1 on Yahoo for 'work from home' out of 469,000,000 results.
UPDATE (NOV 2005): Comepltely dropped from rankings b/c of script error on my home page I didn't know about.
I was making about $900/mth Adsense before that.
|
| Niche Marketing |
May 2004 |
Developing info products for niche
markets.
UPDATE (April 2005): I have released 4 books on different niches to date. My first book generates about $1000/month, 2rd and 3th practically nothing and 4th has just been released. I haven't given up on the non-performers and believe they can earn via JV relationships and perhaps eBay.
Lesson: When producing a product consider the following before you make anything!:
- Does a large enough audience exist?
- Do they have a history of spending money?
- Can you affordably reach them? i.e. Advertising costs
- What does the audience want to know? Don't guess, ask them.
My mistake for product 2 and 3 is I didn't research the cost of putting my message in front of potential customers and discovered its a competitive field and ad costs are high. |
You can see for yourself I'm no guru and I've had plenty of failures.
In fact, at the time of writing this article, only 6 of the 16 different
things I've tried to date produce an income and only 3 of them a
significant income. Yet despite my many failures I'm making about
$6000/mth (Nov 2005 numbers).
The one thing I would like you to take away
from my example is you do not need to be a genius, guru or super
marketer to make money from the Internet. I've come to appreciate
the truth in the statement "the person with the greatest success
is most often the person with the most failures". Keep learning
& trying and I really can't see how you couldn't succeed.
Good luck and persevere.
Written by Murray Hughes
007 Work From Home
Licensed To Make Money! - Learn FREE. Savage The Internet And Explode
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