Reaching New Heights

This week I have reached a number of new records in my online money making ventures.

New Subscriber Record

Firstly, after the release of my newest eBook “The Three Pillars of Making Money Online” my reader count has hit a new record.

As of today my reader count is now at 1,915 subscribers via RSS and Email.  I’ve been hovering around 1,800 – 1,850 subscribers for a while now and I know a big part of that was due to the fact that my personal passion has become more focused on making money online, but until recently that wasn’t totally reflected in the theme of my blog.

I’ve evolved my topic from “how to make money doing what you love” to focus more on “mastering the mindset of making money online” as that is really my passion now.  Making that change has helped me a lot because it’s given me something more specific to focus on with this Blog.

My new eBook fits in nicely with my new theme, more so than my previous eBook “The Passion Project”.  The other thing that I also added in was a Lightbox that pops up when a person first visits this website, offering them a free copy of my eBook.

When I first saw a Lightbox like this on a couple of other sites I found it a bit annoying because on those particular sites I had already downloaded their eBooks, so when the Lightbox showed up after they first installed it I didn’t like it.

However, I didn’t think of it from the point of view of being a brand new visitor to a website, in which case I do like it when right away I’m given the option to get something for free.

I recently watched a video by John Chow where he talked about his conversion rates jumping quite drastically ever since he installed the Lightbox on his site.  So I decided to do the same thing myself and test it out.  So far I’m really happy with the results.  The numbers are still not big enough to be totally accurate, but so far the Lighbox is converting at a rate of 12.2% which is quite high compared to my numbers before.

The coolest thing is that this Lightbox functionality is built right into AWeber so I didn’t even need to install any third-party scripts or software to make it work.

New One Day Affiliate Income Record

Yesterday I had a record day for one day profits for my affiliate marketing campaigns.  Here are my stats for yesterday:

Total Revenues: $926.66
Total Costs: $379.48
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Total Profit: $547.18

This is a new record for me for one day profits.  I can’t wait to be doing numbers like that and higher every day.  If I did that much profit every day, that’s about $16.5k/month or just under $200k/year in income.  (Not a bad wage for working from home!)

Of course I know that every day isn’t going to be a record day, but the cool thing is that every time you hit a new record your belief levels grow and it becomes easier to hit those kinds of numbers or higher again in the future.  My next record goal is to hit $1,000 in profit in one day.

Twitter Followers

Although this one isn’t a huge deal compared to the numbers of followers I’ve seen from other more serious Twitter ninjas, my Twitter follower count has also hit a new record of 672.  I figured I’d take a screenshot and report it today anyways so when I look at this post a year from now I’ll know where I was at.

eBook Typo Fixes

As I’m sure anyone who’s downloaded my new eBook so far has noticed, there were quite a few typos in the eBook.  Now here’s a quick little story of what happened with that.

I’ve been working on the concept of that eBook for a while now and finally on Saturday morning I woke up and decided that I’m not going to bed until I finish and launch that eBook.  I had a whole bunch of other things to do on Saturday as well, on top of watching Zoe.  I was also supposed to go to a birthday party, but because I decided to finish the eBook I elected not to go.  There just wasn’t going to be any way I could finish the book if I went.

I had most of the book done by midnight, but I didn’t have anyone to proofread the eBook as my wife had already gone to bed.  I proofread it a few times myself, but it was starting to drive me nuts because every time I went to proofread the content, looking for spelling mistakes and typos and such, I would find myself wanting to add to the content instead.

So finally I just decided to release the book “as is”.  I went to save it as a PDF file and then I realized that none of the hyperlinks in the eBook were working.  I had to upgrade to the new Online Adobe PDF writer software and then I ran into more problems due to Adobe formatting the pages slightly differently than MS Word.

I then had to spend three hours of messing around with design and the table of contents to make it look ok once it’s converted to PDF.  Finally I had the eBook finished and ready at around 4:30am.  I put it up and went to sleep. 

This morning I received an email from “Ebele” from the UK.  Although it wasn’t her original intention, Ebele ended up proofreading and highlighting all the typos in the eBook as she read through it and sent me a PDF file with all the typo’s highlighted.  Nice!  Thanks Ebele!

So now I’ve gone ahead and fixed all the typos and I’ve uploaded a new version of the eBook so that thanks to Ebele, you guys no longer have to read all the typos.

So what’s the lesson here?  Get out of your perfection mind-frame.  So many people fail to make money online because they are afraid to release “Version 1.00” of something and then fix the typos and bugs later.  Take a lesson from Google.  Don’t be afraid to release beta versions of things.

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