Getting The Results You Want From Your Website?

Getting The Results You Want

Posted by: passivegirl Post date: October 17th, 2009

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It’s been rather quiet on the passive wealth blog for a while, you may have noticed.

Mainly because I have been focussing on other things.

That’s good in some ways because focus brings results, not so good for keeping this blog updated with my progress.

I have mainly been focussing on my motorbikin.com blog which as you will see gets updated 2-3 times per week and from this has developed my bikersfriend.co.uk site. Now if you are not in the least bit interested in all things motorcycle and motorcycling then these two sites will not be for you, but hopefully they will inspire you to get a site going around your interest or hobby, because you never know where it might lead.

So what about the money?

Well neither site is earning much at the moment, but they are giving me opportunites for experiences that weren’t previously open to me like trade tickets and press passes to events, plus a couple of weeks ago I met a chap who intends to break the motorcycle land speed record at Bonneville next year, who just happens to be a wealth coach, and it looks like that relationship is set to blossom. This is to name but a few opportunities that have opened up as a result.

So sometimes readers, just writing about your passion, can bring untold rewards not just financial ones and I am confident that the financial ones will follow.

On the Money Gym Google Group – which is a kind of members only forum, where you receive messages members post into your email inbox – there has been a lot of talk recently about what it takes to be successful online.

There are a couple of members who have been working solidly at their businesses for around about two years. Both are reasonably successful, with one just about to launch a book and the other one having already launched and developed a membership site. However, despite their successes they have both been questioning how long it takes to get to that tipping point where the financial freedom they dream of is visible on the horizon.

This is where a reality check comes in.

Nicola Cairncross, one of the partners of the Money Gym, will happily provide that reality check, as she knows how long it can take to build a business from literally nothing, 11 years ago she would have been homeless with her two kids if it hadn’t been for her sister taking them in.

She says there are likely to be three reasons why your website is not producing the results you want:
1) Not enough traffic
2) You are not converting enough traffic to subscribers
3) Your offer is not compelling enough to convert traffic to subscribers

You will only know this stuff by monitoring your webstats, boring but true I’m afraid.

Also another reality is that seven years is a more realistic timeframe for things to start happening so I don’t need to be bothered about the 1+ year my motorbikin.com website has been online, not that I am of course.

Forget the ‘make money whilst you sleep’ brigade, in my experience that stuff mostly leads to an empty wallet and a large credit card bill, but not much else!

Let me have your comments below.