Following Up and Following Through

I have read loads of self-help books, as well as self-esteem books, and I know the concepts. It's easy to put yourself down when you're not earning anything on internet, or when you're taking the baby steps. Also, when you look at the competition on the net, your spirits spiral downwards, and you wonder if you are capable of competing. Your post will definitely help motivate others. Thanks

John, One great that I've been seeing of you to why you are successful... well you are just a go getter, take action type of guy.

You are the man!

Cheers,
Carlo

Have you thought that maybe Publishers have tried programs such as Kontera but have decided that using it would completely ruin and hinder the reader's experience? It's not necessarily laziness..
-Raymond

You are totally right. I've never made a dime sitting on the couch.

Quite true. It is not easy sitting before a computer and do the donkey's work needed. Compared to regular businesses, this needs application and a particular frame of mind to make money on the Internet.

Thanks John. I am totally new to blogging , so the the point about correlation between consistent action and results really resonates .

John Chief

I think that not everyone will immediatley follow through, because that is not their original intentions. It is hard to find when shopping for an affiliate / advertising solution to work out what rates are paid, what options there are and what they will get if they sign up.

I have signed up - but not used it, 1 because my blog does not have enough subscribers to make it worth while, and 2 I want to get a niche that makes your ads more appropriate than some of the other sources of advertising revenue.

If it were easier to see what you will get and also only sign up if you have a use for the product then you would see less of this apparent apathy, which may not be apathy at all.

You Wrote:
"I was talking to my Kontera rep and he tells me the hardest part of his job is actually getting the publishers to install the ad codes. To me, this kind of stuff just defies logic. They are approved, they have the ad codes, they can now make money online. Why are the codes not installed? How much work are we talking about here? If you don’t even have time to copy and paste an ad code, how will you ever find time to actually write a blog post?"

I gotta tell you John, I got more clicks with my Kontera than my google ads yet they are vastly different in the pay-off - at least for me.

Last I checked, google had 10 clicks and something $7 & change. The Kontera had 17 clicks! Only $2.12 accumulated though.

So, at least one of your readers has worked a blog (for over 5 months now), implemented as much as I can and always working on more and I post to my blog almost every day and I could move it up to 2x a day. Unfortunately, they won't automatically deploy thru blogger.com. I started there to actually get something going. Wordpress will be next. It's a lot to learn all at once and getting in the game was more important than getting into my 'analysis paralysis' routine - I'm already an expert at that.

Thanks for continuing to post. I have a long way to go before I get to your 1st month in earnings. One good sign up with a Seminar thru my site would really be a good start!

Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com

Yes very true it seems that many bloggers are all talk and know work at the end of the day.

I have implemented TTZ media network!

Absolutely Fantastic!

Check it out at
www.smallfishbigmoney.com

It is a really great affiliate program!!

Yeah blogging is tough at times because time is needed for the blog. No matter what it is, i am still going strong thanks to John Chow. Blogging is fun and easy when you see there is traffic to your site.
Thanks John Chow for all the wonderful tips as i am following up and following through at the moment! :twisted:

you are so right. nearly everyone want to make some money but if it comes to the point you have to do some work for it most of the people
just don´t what has to be done. no pain no gain ! go for your goals.

Hi John! I agree with you. It is true that we need to do some action by ourselves. If we want to earn money online, we need to follow through the steps. I am happy that you raised this topic John. Great job! Really benefits a lot of people. :)

What we need when we want to succeed in something is simple:
- have a goal
- make a plan
- follow the plan and evaluate results along the way,making adjustments, take notes

That's it

excellent advice!

"They want the quick fix, the instant gratification, and they don’t want to do any work to get it."

This applies equally to the weight loss industry. No matter how hard you try to tell them other wise, it just never really seems to sink in.

Thanks for the motivational speech. Very good.

nice post. I usually mention it as 'discipline' to those new forex trader. I suggest them to following a trading technique at their choice with high level of discipline.

Great points.

That's why only a few will ever do it. Makes it easier for the ones who do follow through, however.

I agree with you so much that I wrote a post about it a week or two ago...it's linked through my name. :!:

I’m gong to do it! I’m going to succeed!”

misspelled going.

i like this cuz it tells peeps like it is.

John you are absolutely correct. So many people think you got to this level because you know something that we don't know. I say this because I was one of those people who thought that all the answers were in an ebook or subscription. The bottom line is you must have passion, focus, and action to be very successful in any human endeavor.

Johnchow I agree with you totally, but talking about "affiliate programs" (I didn't register to TTZ network, because my blog don't suit to it) usually publishers (like me) registered - get approved - check campaigns or advertisers - Leave or stay - If stay Then make a research about x campaign/advertiser and then after a month promote it when your research is done. But yes, there are many lazy people around that they are satisfied when they got approved from a program and then they wait and see if magically they can make money without even adding the codes :idea:

With failure comes great success... it's just those who continue to try, they makes the difference and get to the next level!

Great post John and yes I have added the code to my site :) and the ads look great. One of the best I have seen yet and I can't wait to see the money roling in from them.

How very true. I`ve been guilty of this in the past, not so much anymore though.

I totally agree with you John. Sometimes laziness just hit me. :) :smile: :mrgreen:

I completely agree with this post 100%. Everyone talks, but no one walks. If you want to get results in your life, you have to realize things don't just happen instantly. You're not going to wake up one day and be a millionaire.

This has been a big realization for me. Patience IS a virtue. Delayed gratification is necessary to succeed in anything in life. All of the billionaires around the world didn't know they would be billionaires one day. Bill Gates, when he first started microsoft, wasn't like "oh, I failed my first start up, might as well quit forever."

John, I agree with you. Some people make no sense.

For once i felt John chow was speaking directly to me ,..... LOL ...i feel lazy at times to fix the codes in my website ... interesting enough ... after reading this piece i went to fix mine .... procrastination is really killing some of us slowly.

It's funny. I signed up for TTZ, got the ad code and sat down ready to install it on my blog. Problem is I have no knowledge of coding (though I'm slowly picking things up each day). I struggled for about two hours trying to figure out how to place the code. Finally I got it just right (this was after crashing the blog NUMEROUS times attempting to do it). The next day, when I posted to the blog, I found some sort of flaw in the way my blog is coded (not sure what yet) that was preventing the code from appearing the way I wanted (in between posts). It appeared between all the old posts, but not the new ones. So as of now the TTZ code is not on my blog. This makes me feel like the quitters John talks about in this post, but my plan is to compile a list of all these problems I'm having (a lot of them with installing ad code) and presenting them to my coder in a week or so. See if he can solve all of them while simultaneously teaching me something.

It's tough because it's something I want to learn to do myself, but I have no one to teach it to me. Until then...the code remains off the blog. Vexing me.

John,

I couldn't agree with you more. I started my blog (www.StrategyDriven.com) on July 1 with concerns about whether or not people would like what I have to say (I blog about how managers and help bring about organizational alignment and accountability), if I could keep up with the appropriate amount of writing, and if I could master the technology. The ride has not been without its bumps but I have been extremely happy with the significant and rising volume of RSS subscribers and traffic to my site. I would echo your advise and Nike's moto that if you are want to get out there - just do it!

Nathan Ives
Founder
StrategyDriven

I installed the ad code to my site as soon as I was approved. i have since been receiving clicks and further optimizing the code.

John Wouldn't be better to put a tag on your posts on the home page, your site takes awhile to load....

I applied to TTZ and I got approved fairly quick, in fact in a few minutes. I did install the code for a couple of days on my site, but I didn't get any click on those days, my site is fairly new but compared to adsense the result was not good, so I removed the code and put adsense back. I think TTZ is a great program, better than widgetbucks and Chitika in the sense of control and ad position options. I guess it will do really good on a high traffic site. I will put it back when I improve the traffic to my site.

With Kontera I earned 7$ from from 328 clicks ( on one blogspot blog) (CTR 1.44%) .
I was off course unhappy, but I wanted to have another try for one more month but this time with mine second blog. I e-mail them 3 TIMES to approve my new site, they have never responded.

Back to the topic...
I agree with you John, I had similar situation for the last 2.5 weeks. I have finally made my first blog with private domain name. I was a bit lazy working on the same because I couldn't find proper design that will fit to my content and navigation.I can't believe that I wasn't thinking about this earlier.

Now when I have finally solved this problems, I can concentrate on promoting and better content.

I leave a trail of shattered blogs behind me...

This is my biggest fear in starting this latest blog. My other blogs have not been as successeful as they potientially could have been because I am lazy. They were all profitable niches that I just didn't follow through with. This time will be different. It has to be.

John, that is real true! Lazyness kills success and this is the main challenge in our life, we just have to beat ourselfes!

You have really hit the nail with this post John. I used to be making the same mistake when i first started, and in most of the cases I would have forgot with who I had signed up and this means I have most probably lost a real money maker.

I remember I contacted you about TTZ media few weeks ago when I was about to acquire a tech related site, after some negotiations with the sellers I managed to buy the site, but had to make major changes to raise the traffic and serps ranking in the long run, the traffic was already just of few hits, so far have managed to increase slightly the traffic but yet not at the amount of pageviews TTZ media required in order to sign up for. Even tho you made this announce that you would accept a limited number of sites on TTZ media i still didn't signed up as I believe the blog is not ready yet for TTZ media. I believe this left me aside of the 80% of those that haven't installed the code (I believe anyhow i would have used).

At this moment i use the widgetbucks widget, will see how it will go.

Thank you for another great post John.

That's all true. I realized after 3 months of having a blog, how much work there is to do. Join ad networks, socialize, comment, write articles, send e-mails, write more content, document, research, ask, answer, and many, many more.

How true! I coach Track & Field, and can you guess how many new runners join in September, or after an Olympic year, wanting to become the next Ben Johnson (aka 9.79 fame) only to see them disappear by October or November.

Funny thing is, they **all** disappear after they get their new team uniforms, sweats, jackets, etc.