Internet Marketing Strategies

It’s been a while since I posted content in this site. In fact even the most recent content I put in here was scrapped from a blog network. I should be ashamed of myself and I am- believe me.

So why the sudden interest to blog about internet marketing again?

Well as you might remember some time ago I blogged about why I stopped blogging. My main reason for stopping was based on my focus at the time. I needed to focus on one business model until I had mastered it well. Blogging for me, at that time, was a distraction more than anything else. I mean I had a really good Adsense model coming up and didn’t need to get distracted. In the 3 months of full time blogging I saw my Adsense deep – something that had never happened (has never happened to date even after that).

Now, it has been more than a year and I have since made millions with adsense (in revenue not profits…lol) and have seen massive growth in my business. In fact, the last time I was posted a post on this blog I was unmarried, worked in my now defunct marketing company (oh! Cry the beloved country), and lived in another city.

Today I am married and loving it, live in a new city (well I lived here when I was growing up and now and back), have an office with a staff of 5 people (soon to grow to 10…in 2010 alone), have some freelancers working for me and virtual employees. And I make $800 per day with Adsense alone soon to be $1000 in less than 5 months). I would tell you how much I make per month overall but you wouldn’t believe me. Oh! And I owe one of the banks hundreds of thousands (est. $25,000.00 my ex-partner is paying the other half) for a loan taken by my previous company and failed to pay (yeah…I have been to the school of life and paid high tuition for it). This is why you will often hear me talk about starting small and growing gradually without taking any kind of loan.

I have had my Adsense account almost terminated twice for breaking the terms of service (didn’t do it on purpose), had adsense stopped in one of my powerful sites (lost $1,500 per month) for a month or so and luckly got Google to reconsider. Had one of my sites de-indexed in Google for using offensive words (again…didn’t know Google hated those words under any circumstance).

Must I go on? No? ok just this last one….I had my bank refuse to take any of my USD cheques especially those from Google. Reason? They were too risky for them. Imagine that! After 3 years of depositing these cheques  suddenly they were risky.

That alone propelled me to where I am today. I was forced to diversify my “financial partners” and my business model. I opened a business account, opened bank accounts from two other banks and started diversifying my income from cheque based affiliate programs to those that can wire the money directly to my account.  

I bought a new car, still not my dream car but it was progress from my 1995 Golf 3 model. Now drive a Pollo 2004 model. I am in the process of incorporating a company in South Africa (bigger market and have access to crucial services for my business e.g. Paypal).

As you can see, I am not where I want to be yet but I am not where I was the last time I posted something on this blog. I’ve really had my share of ups and downs in business but I am still going strong.

I have grown so much in internet marketing it’s not funny. I now know so much and will soon be unleashing it all in this site.

So if by any chance you came across this post, don’t you dare close the page before you sign up to receive my feeds. It’s a new me – I’ve grown in so many ways and I am ready to take on the world.

Now it’s your turn to share. How much have you grown since 2 years ago. Please share your story below, I can’t wait to hear from you.