Follow Up And Follow Through
written by John Chow
It’s a universal desire to want the better things in life for ourselves and our family. However, very few people are willing to take the steps necessary to make that dream a reality.
I have read many books on success and attended my share of motivational style seminars. The sequences of events at these sessions are always the same. People come out all fired up and ready to make a change in their life and take on the world. A week later they’re back doing the same old same old.
I’ve talked to many people who tell me they’re going to start a site and make money on the Internet. I’m still waiting to see their sites. Then there are those have actually followed up and created a site but then stop updating it after a week because they’re not seeing the expected results. They did the follow up, but they didn’t follow through.
I was talking to my Kontera rep to get an update on how the John Chow Kontera partnership was doing. My rep told me he received nearly 400 applications. So far, he has approved about 200 of them. If you haven’t received approval yet, just hang tight, he will get to you. Of the 200 approved, only half have actually put up the tags and are generating revenue. My rep tells me this is the hardest part of his job, actually getting the publishers to implement the tags. That to me is just insane - they are approved, they have the tags, they can now make money online. Why are the tags not installed?
This all comes back to my follow up and follow through. It’s all well and good to say, “I’m gong to do it! I’m going to succeed!” However, if you don’t follow up and follow through with your words, then your words are nothing more than a big lie.
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I have had been approved, and am very happy
Exactly. Guys, Kontera’s great! It’s been slowly picking up for me and is now averaging around $6 to $7/day. It’s a great addition to my AdSense ads and isn’t obtrusive but remains very seamless with your site (which I love). Definitely do it!
- Erich
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That is so me. I guess I’m just too busy with my son to try and get anything started, but I would LOVE to.
Maybe I should check this out.
Yep couldn’t agree more. I think the ONLY thing you need to succeed in anything is persistence. Start something and commit to it 100%. If you do that you’re already ahead of 99.9999% of people.
If you take anything from my comment remember this:
ANYONE can have an idea, and everyone has dozens of ideas. The person who ends up successful is the one who IMPLEMENTS the idea, no matter how good of a job they do.
Well said Mitch!
How Many times do I have to keep saying this! They have been letting smaller bloggers in for AGES! I (on my other site) was aprooved by Kontera a long time before you started the ’special deal’ thing and the site I was accepted on is very small and would count as being unpopular!
You’ll have to keep saying it until the cows come home, or until Kontera changes the requirement levels on their website.
gaaah, I will have to keep saying it, especially because my name appeared as matt608 which has the wrong URL, so the last 10 commments or so I hvae made have been to my old blogger sites!
You loose nothing by signing up through John, so what’s the big deal? Help a fella out!
Yeah, words don’t mean anything. Actions do!
I used to have a friend who would constantly complain about his situation and life in general. Pointing out people who were generally boneheaded and rewarded for it. I would make easy and realistic suggestions on what he could do to improve his situation, but he never bothered.
Always stuck in the same rut.
I have been approved 1 day ago.
I am very happy. I am going to add the script to my blogs later on. 
Why wait. Doing that will lump you into John’s lack of follow through group.
Good luck!
don’t wait! add the code right away!
I’ve made more from Kontera this month on my blog than adsense. Of course, I have not put an Adsense block up on a post in a couple months.
It will get better.
This is the case for me on some days. For awhile I was making more with Kontera. My eCPM continues to increase as well.
Damnit chow is making money off of me again
I got approved and am loving them
I have been aproved and I put the script on my blog…can’t say I’m making money (low traffic blog), but I’m trying!!!
Well, i wanna know how John Chow can gain 900dollars in 1 month with adsense :p
Have a read of John Chows blog
He has been writing about making money online for a while now 
Simple, lots and lots of traffic
Yep, I’m approved, and Kontera is up and running on my blog. Still remains to be seen how much income my relatively low-traffic blog will generate with it, but I’m definitely curious.
I put it on my blog which is low traffic to me (about 200 - 300 visits per day). Over the last 7 days or so the income has been ok and about what I expected for the traffic I have.
John - BTW how often do your top commentators update? How does it work exactly? (sorry I know its off-topic)
Your comment count lasts for 5 or 6 days. So Every comment you make will disappear from a total just shy of a week later.
Very well said and couldn’t agree more each phase of the progression from thought to success seems to be a barrier in itself for most people, and I think most of us suffer from it in one form or another. I’m still waiting for my acceptance email
I wonder why you wouldn’t implement it? It only takes a couple of minutes (I followed John’s instructions). And I am really happy with it.
But on another note. All these motivational seminars and the like are usually a waste of time and money. The “doers” are too busy to be bothered with them (or are the ones making money by conducting these courses and writing the books). My advice is read John’s blog. He inspired me to get my act together in regards to my blog and has given me many an inspirational idea (some of those I have implemented!
I agree, motivational seminars are not the place to be!
I have mine on, but 12 clicks has only netted me 0.83 cents. If that is the average CPC, I don’t know how long I am going to be pushing Konterra.
I’ve noticed a very low eCPM as well, although the CTR isn’t so bad. I think it’s still “learning” your site, optimizing the best ads possible. I remember for the first few days, all I got served up were ads for eBay, regardless of the anchor text.
Just give Kontera some time to crawl your blog..
I’ve had pretty much an exact opposite experience. I’ve had fewer clicks but earned more money, so it may depend on the niche of your site and/or the words being selected for links.
My first day was cool. ecpm was over 7 dollars. It has since dropped. I am giving it another week and will look through their faqs to see what else can be done to optimise. I also think John did a post a week back so I will go and read that again I think.
At about $0.07 CPC yours seems quite OK.
I’ve been running Kontera for almost two weeks on my cellphone blog now and so far I hate it. I have great (at least for me) CTR, but at $0.04 CPC I earned a total of $16 and it probably already cost me at least $50 in lost AdSense and Chitika income (my CTR for those ads went down noticeably).
I’m giving Kontera another week, but if things don’t improve I’m ditching it fast.
I put the code on my BLOG, but no ads showed up. I even moved the code into a layout box. I’m going to contact them on Monday.
BTW - I agree 100%. You have to put effort into what you do or don’t do it at all.
On the other side of the coin, the affiliate manager of Kontra could be contacting the affiliates too.
I got a call from the VP of Shopzilla last week and a personal email from a program I joined yesterday.
Michael
Did you put the code right before the closing tag?
sorry, I meant closing BODY tag..
It would be interesting to know if that is the usual implementation rate (ie - half). Perhaps this is even better than normal, and usually they only have a 33% implementation rate.
I have to sign up for Kontera, but I am trying to get my blog just a little more traffic before I do decide to get involved and potentially denied from the service.
John I guess i’ve fallen into that grouping a bit. I applied with propstm.net and was approved. However I’m currently growing my new blog at http://www.fleeingthesocialscene.com which is the site which i intend to put the ads on.
I’d much rather have a solid userbase before I begin earning money. I’d much rather have my readers embrace my monetization change instead of running from a monetized site.
I’ve signed up, installed it, and just looking to increase the amount of traffic.
Thanks John for the Kontera opportunity! I would have never had the ability to use them if it wasn’t for your awesome help! GiveawayProject is definitely fully implemented, and already turning some revenue!
I’ve all to often fallen short on the follow through. I’m the master of unfinished projects. That’s why my first venture into the true web development was an article based website.
I was worried that I would lose my head of steam on a blog so I held off on that for later. The articles were all stand alone so I felt no pressure to write. I was able to put together a nice assortment of articles. Then I got on the blogging bandwagon. I’ve had my moments where I didn’t pay as much attention to it as I should have, but since last November it’s been quite lively.
Now I find myself in a position where I’m a bit out of gas. A recently failed marketing strategy that I was excited about was a little deflating. I’m now trying to find the energy to push forward knowing it will pay off later. This article couldn’t have come at a better time to remind me of the things I already know. Thanks John
Don’t give up!
Oh I haven’t and I won’t
got my approval email today. The code was on the site within minutes. Have to wait till midnight to be active i believe it said.
Yes, I cant understand how people would not install the tags. I mean this is an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often (at least i havent seen it). To be able to bypass those high requirements is a gift.
For me it was pretty difficult to get initially motivated and for a bit i did neglect my blog. Then I just started working on a bunch of projects and finally started seeing results. Now all i want to do is work on my websites. It takes allot to get the ball rolling, but once you have got momentum it becomes easier when it comes to blogging and such.
“I’ve talked to many people who tell me they’re going to start a site and make money on the Internet. I’m still waiting to see their sites. Then there are those have actually followed up and created a site but then stop updating it after a week because they’re not seeing the expected results. They did the follow up, but they didn’t follow through.”
This statement is true beyond belief
Its surprising that there were that many “tire-kickers”. My blog just got approved for Kontera over the weekend and I didn’t waste any time installing the script. It probably took me all of 20 seconds start to finish.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what results Kontera yields in the coming months.
I’m surprised as well. I’m not interested in it so I didn’t sign up in the first place. Why would so many people sign up and then not use it?
i’m still debating if i want to subject my viewers to that type of ad. it’s a little “too” much.
I took advantage of the offer and had the code installed minutes after I received the approval notice. Now I am just waiting on feedback for adding the code to my other site as I want to monetize that with Kontera as well.
If you’ve applied for kontera been accepted, it should be on your site.
It takes next to no time to install, so instead of spending time thinking up and excuse why you haven’t had time to do it, just do it!
If you have time to read John’s blog, then you have time to install the Kontera code!
I took the invitation and was quickly approved to use the ads on my weblog. However, after implementing them, I was disappointed in the results and choose to take them down.
The ads that were delivered (and the way they were delivered) just didn’t seem to work on a political weblog - I still wanted to try to see what the results would be, but in the end I decided that it wasn’t the right advertising method for my blog.
So in this case, I followed through, but I wasn’t sold on the ad format.