Comments on: The Power Of Price Comparisons http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/ Product Creation, Traffic, List Building, Automation = Internet Business Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Lyna http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-11624 Lyna Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:11:39 +0000 http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/#comment-11624 Hi Frank, When are you going to update your blog? How's the progress of your wife's niche site? Your readers would like to know more. :)

Hi Frank,

When are you going to update your blog?

How's the progress of your wife's niche site? Your readers would like to know more. :)

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]]> By: Frank Haywood http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-11557 Frank Haywood Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:09:41 +0000 http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/#comment-11557 <b>Amin</b>: If you've done your homework correctly she'll start to see money in 3-4 weeks, and that's a huge incentive to keep going. ;) What I did for Sue was set up a series of visible steps for each of the sites that she's been working on. #1 - Using the SeoQuake addon for Firefox, she can easily see when the sites have been indexed and how many pages. #2 - Using StatCounter.com so that she can see the traffic increasing to the sites and what keywords people are using to find her sites and where they're coming from. #3 - When traffic starts going to Amazon, she can then check the Amazon associates panel to see if anything has been ordered and what link activity has been going on by looking at the Amazon reports. Those 3 steps have really kept the excitement going for her when she's been working on sites she didn't want to. It's especially good as the site she's just made money from was one of the sites that she was finding painful to work on. But I knew the niche was a good one and I had the right keywords for her to use, and sure enough it's starting to appear in the SEs. That sale yesterday has made it all worthwhile for her, and seeing her excitement at making recurring money from effectively nothing has made it all worthwhile for me too. The site will start to rank well in time as long as we build backlinks ;) and add new content. Eventually it will have a life of its own and we won't have to spend any time on it. <b>Jason</b>: Yes, she thinks it might be less than 15 hours and I just checked and she's put 7 products on the site, so each one took roughly 2 hours. This includes the time it took her to do the research, edit the images, write some text, create the price comparison and put everything up. This is a WordPress based site using the Mandigo theme I mentioned in another post, and she's using the free WP plugin we've written to display the Price Comparisons. And you're dead right about the work only having had to be done once. I've just checked through StatCounter to see where the traffic is coming from, and we're already #1 for a pretty strong search term, and on the first page for others. Finally, that's an excellent point about the 100 sales and I hadn't thought of it in that way. It doesn't matter if it takes 12 months to make those 100 sales, the fact is eventually she *will* make those 100 sales, and her hourly rate *will* be over $100/hour for the time it took her to do the work. And that rate will only increase over time as she makes more sales of those items. Now THERE'S a future headline for a sales page. ;) Cheers, Frank

Amin:

If you've done your homework correctly she'll start to see money in 3-4 weeks, and that's a huge incentive to keep going. ;)

What I did for Sue was set up a series of visible steps for each of the sites that she's been working on.

#1 – Using the SeoQuake addon for Firefox, she can easily see when the sites have been indexed and how many pages.
#2 – Using StatCounter.com so that she can see the traffic increasing to the sites and what keywords people are using to find her sites and where they're coming from.
#3 – When traffic starts going to Amazon, she can then check the Amazon associates panel to see if anything has been ordered and what link activity has been going on by looking at the Amazon reports.

Those 3 steps have really kept the excitement going for her when she's been working on sites she didn't want to.

It's especially good as the site she's just made money from was one of the sites that she was finding painful to work on. But I knew the niche was a good one and I had the right keywords for her to use, and sure enough it's starting to appear in the SEs.

That sale yesterday has made it all worthwhile for her, and seeing her excitement at making recurring money from effectively nothing has made it all worthwhile for me too. The site will start to rank well in time as long as we build backlinks ;) and add new content. Eventually it will have a life of its own and we won't have to spend any time on it.

Jason:

Yes, she thinks it might be less than 15 hours and I just checked and she's put 7 products on the site, so each one took roughly 2 hours.

This includes the time it took her to do the research, edit the images, write some text, create the price comparison and put everything up. This is a WordPress based site using the Mandigo theme I mentioned in another post, and she's using the free WP plugin we've written to display the Price Comparisons.

And you're dead right about the work only having had to be done once. I've just checked through StatCounter to see where the traffic is coming from, and we're already #1 for a pretty strong search term, and on the first page for others.

Finally, that's an excellent point about the 100 sales and I hadn't thought of it in that way. It doesn't matter if it takes 12 months to make those 100 sales, the fact is eventually she *will* make those 100 sales, and her hourly rate *will* be over $100/hour for the time it took her to do the work.

And that rate will only increase over time as she makes more sales of those items.

Now THERE'S a future headline for a sales page. ;)

Cheers,

Frank

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]]> By: Jason Anderson http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-11552 Jason Anderson Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:09 +0000 http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/#comment-11552 Congratulations to your wife Frank. You say she spent, say, 15 hours? Well, that paid her back just over $1 per hour which may not sound that great to some readers.... but.... The fantastic part is now the work is done, every order after that increased her pay (hourly rate for work done ONCE!). The nice thing is that since it's online, it's evergreen now. It's not like it was a one time email blast. Great job. Now, all you need to do is spend a little bit of work on getting traffic. After 100 sales, you're wife's hourly rate just shot up to over $100/hour for the work she put in.

Congratulations to your wife Frank. You say she spent, say, 15 hours? Well, that paid her back just over $1 per hour which may not sound that great to some readers…. but….

The fantastic part is now the work is done, every order after that increased her pay (hourly rate for work done ONCE!). The nice thing is that since it's online, it's evergreen now. It's not like it was a one time email blast.

Great job. Now, all you need to do is spend a little bit of work on getting traffic. After 100 sales, you're wife's hourly rate just shot up to over $100/hour for the work she put in.

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]]> By: Amin http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-11550 Amin Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:10:00 +0000 http://www.frankhaywood.com/the-power-of-price-comparisons/#comment-11550 Hey Frank I just finished teaching my wife how to set up one of these sites and she finished her first one yesterday. I've started the traffic generation strategies I use and she's eagerly awaiting her first sale. She's waiting to 'see it to believe it', but if it turns out well for her she's intending to turn it into a full-time job. Well, I say, full-time, but she means 2 or 3 hours a day! Of course I already know this will work for her, but she's doing a Jerry Maguire thing: "show me the money!" Amin

Hey Frank

I just finished teaching my wife how to set up one of these sites and she finished her first one yesterday.

I've started the traffic generation strategies I use and she's eagerly awaiting her first sale. She's waiting to 'see it to believe it', but if it turns out well for her she's intending to turn it into a full-time job. Well, I say, full-time, but she means 2 or 3 hours a day!

Of course I already know this will work for her, but she's doing a Jerry Maguire thing: "show me the money!"

Amin

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