Property safer than banks?

Posted by: passivegirl Post date: December 19th, 2008

Welcome back!

Whichever way you turn these days you are probably being bombarded by
messages telling you how terrible everything is at the moment.

It’s true things are bad…who could have predicted at the beginning of 2008 that three UK
banks would get into trouble and have to be supported by the Goverment?

The rapid decline in house prices has also had a massive impact on the economy not only estate agents, mortgage brokers and conveyancers, but also house builders and everyone involved in supplying goods and services to new homes and to people moving house such as removal firms, central heating installers etc

So, how safe do you feel with your money in the bank?

This week I  received an email from Andy Shaw, who is a property investor in the Worthing area and author of the excellent book Money For Nothing and Your Property For Free

Now, Andy has a lot of expertise in property investing and he follows the economy closely.  He has a lot of strong opinions on these matters which make for really interesting and quite controversial reading.

I highly recommend that you get his free report where he discusses how safe your money is in the bank (and he debunks the Government’s £50,000 guarantee). You can get a free copy of the report here

But here’s a warning, if you like fluffy,bunny language don’t get it but if you can stand or even prefer straight talking (as I do) then go ahead.

Let me know what you think.

Info Product Killer – I’m making money with optimised websites

Posted by: passivegirl Post date: December 18th, 2008

Info Product Killer (IPK)
Is the other thing that I have been focussing on and that’s been taking up a lot of my time over the last month or so.  Which is a program for creating Search Engine Optimised (SEO) product websites.

This is one of the most exciting products I have come across in a long while.  That is because it shows a unique way of promoting physical products as opposed to digital products, hence the name.
It shows in detail, using videos and pdfs (portable document format files), how to get on the first page of Google with your websites and thus get free traffic.

The first part of the program has concentrated on building Christmas websites promoting Amazon products.

I managed to build eight websites and one main website around my full-time job from the middle of November to the beginning of December. Not bad going even if I say so myself.

Now it is suggested that you can initially drive traffic to the sites using Pay Per Click (PPC) – exact phrase match – so that is what I have done.  This has been successful in driving traffic and in PPC terms the Click Through Rate (CTR) has been good as has the conversions from clicks to sales once at Amazon.  However when embarking on a PPC campaign it is necessary to be aware of your figures e.g. how many clicks at the price you are paying equals the commission you will earn from the product, in other words your breakeven point.
I’ll admit I’ve made a few mistakes and at this point sales from Amazon are only just ahead of my adwords spending.  I have made a few tweaks and hopefully I will be showing a more reasonable profit by the end of this month.

However I don’t feel down hearted by these results as it has been an enjoyable learning curve and I am very optimistic about increasing my profits with the year round strategy.  This does not require PPC just well optimised websites that drive free traffic.

Support from the team behind IPK has been fantastic.  They have answered questions virtually immediately and I am hoping I can get them to look at my Christmas sites and point me in the right direction with any mistakes I made to move forward – watch this space.  I suspect the problem may have been that  I may have chosen products without enough searches and also keywords that were too generic in my PPC campaigns or maybe it is just a matter of starting earlier for the Christmas sales.

If you want to check out the product then Click Here I highly recommend it

Focus and a long overdue update

Posted by: passivegirl Post date: December 17th, 2008

One thing that most people find hard to do, especially it seems, online is focus on one thing.

I'm no different, are you?

I knew it had been a while since I had written anything here, just didn't realise quite how long!

So what have I been up to and have I earn't any money doing it?

Blogging
First of all I am still following the Blog Mastermind course, albeit loosely.  Now that is not me being slack, just that I have decided I want to enjoy the blog I have created as it is about one of my passions, motorcycling, and not feel under pressure to write or do things with it. From accountants to car mechanics to painters and decorators the world over most do not want anything to do with their JOB in their spare time, so turn that around I do not want my passion to become a job.If you're interested you can see my blog at motorbikin.com.

When I first started it I wrote something for it every single day and this certainly helped to get it higher up in the search engines. I even set it up to write a post a day on autopilot whilst I was on holiday! Now, having established that foundation, I write less often, more when the mood takes me and I feel moved to write something. I also started to Twitter what I was up to and this has brought more traffic.

I have been learning how to create videos for my blog using Animoto, which is a free and paid for service, for creating videos from photographs.  I think that's rather neat and whilst they are not always good video quality it does provide a good way to get into video and there is a facility to upload your videos to youtube and increase your traffic that way.

The eagle-eyed amongst you may notice that there are not many opportunites on that blog for making money.  Whilst this hasn't been totally deliberate on my part I prefer at this stage to concentrate on content.  Having said that I have made some small change from Google Adsense and this is growing all the while along with my traffic.

OK so I am a long way from passive income with my blog, but hey I'm enjoying the ride (no pun intended), I'm still following the Blog Mastermind course, and I'm getting to write about a subject I'm passionate about.

More tomorrow….

What would you risk for Passive Wealth?

Posted by: passivegirl Post date: August 14th, 2008

What follows is one of those amazing pieces of writing that ought to be on everyone’s desks, I won’t say more than that but I hope it affects you in the way that it affects me everytime you see it and that it stays with you and if you are stuck at all that it will help free you and move you forward, enjoy…..

Risk

To laugh is to risk looking a fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To show feelings is to risk revealing your true self
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk rejection
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure
But risks must be taken
Because one of the greatest dangers in life
Is to risk doing nothing

Those who risk nothing
Do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing
They may avoid suffering and sorrow
But they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live
Chained by their uncertainties, they are slaves
They have forfeited their freedom
Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep
To gain that which he can never lose -
Is truly free!’