Introducing: The Financial Tracker

I completely re-vamped my Financial Spreadsheet sales page. Actually, it is now called Financial Tracker. The old sales page looked very amateurish and indeed I was an amateur when I first made it. The new one still needs a bit of work, but I think it looks SOOOOO much better. It will be interesting to see if it affects my sales. I'm still getting search engine hits due to my Ezine article. Now I plan to start posting at some financial forums again - with good quality posts and just a link in my signature. I think this is key because if people think you're spamming them then there's no way they'll click on your link and you would probably get banned from the site. I might be able to find the time to write another article, but I am moving in a week and a half so I will be lucky if I find time to post on the forums. I'll keep you updated.

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Shut My Mouth!

My reader left. Next time I'll shut my big fat mouth. I promise! LOL

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I have a reader!

Hey! I just noticed that I have my first reader. You can see him or her over on the left hand side under the subscribe button. "Hello reader. How are you?" What do I say? What do I do?... I feel like I'm on a first date or something. Last time this happened I got excited but the person left the next day. I gotta play it cool... Yeah... cool... "So,.. reader, Wazzup?" Oh crap. I can't believe I just said Wazzup to my new reader. This is supposed to be a semi-serious business site and I just said Wazzup! This isn't going well. Don't scare off the reader... must be interesting. That's the key... gotta keep it interesting. "So, reader, what do you think of the weather?" Ok, now go in for the kill! "Soooo..... wanna buy a financial spreadsheet?" Oh crap! I think I was too forward. Don't leave Reader... Don't Leave me! I worked so hard to find you! NOOOOoooooo.......!!! THE HUMANITY!

Ok, sorry - I'm in a wierd mood today. Whoever the mystery reader is - Thanks! You made my day. It actually makes me feel like I should post more since someone is at least interested enough to click the subscribe button.

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Competitive Advantage!

I have a competitive advantage. Apparently my house builder has a referral plan where if you refer someone to them and they buy a house, both parties get $500 cash. It's really $500 off the house you bought, so it is not treated like income. I referred a work mate of mine who is building a house with the same builder so come May 2008, the Double Challenge should be getting a nice fat cheque for $500! Now that's what I call doubling! This is such a windfall at my current level that I have taken out Google adwords ads trying to find other people I can refer. My ad sends them to a page where I recommend my builder and asks that if my webpage was a factor in thier purchase to please list me as thier reference. At $0.06 per click, only one in $8,333 people who click my ad need to take me up on it for me to break even. I think those are good odds. I've already received one click, so I have reduced my stake by 6 cents. Anyone want to build a house in Ottawa?

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Lots of visitors, but no sales

I have been getting a lot of success as far as people seeing my financial spreadsheet sales page. For a while, it was mostly due to links I had been leaving on some financial advice sites with my spreadsheet link in my signature. That actually worked better than I thought it would. But lately I have not had as much time to do this, but I am still getting 1-4 people per day. I figured out that these are mostly from search engines. I'm pretty sure this traffic is all from that one article I wrote using the Bum Marketing Method. I am somewhat impressed how well this has worked for me after only one attempt. The down side is that I still havn't sold a spreadsheet in over 6 months. I think my sales page needs a lot of work but I am having a hard time getting to it with moving and all on the horizon. Still, half the battle is getting people to your site, so I am very happy I seem to have acheived that with a modest amount of success.

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Free VCR

I picked up a free VCR that someone was giving away at work today. Hopefully I can sell it for some cash. Seems to work just fine. I'm moving in a month, so my focus is going to be packing instead of the Double Challenge for the next few weeks.

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