Hey! Miles here, milesbeckler.com.
This video is month number six of my affiliate marketing website case study
where I'm starting from scratch in a brand new niche,
building a website from zero and documenting every 30 days here on YouTube.
What's the progress? So in this video you're going to learn, um,
what major accomplishments we've had this month.
We're going to look at my analytics data so you'll understand the traffic and
the impressions and all of that.
We're going to learn about my actual sales data, right? The actual profits,
how many products we're selling, it's cetera.
And first I'm excited to finally announce where I'm getting my copy from because
it's taken literally six months to solidify my process for finding the right
writers. Okay. Uh, I've tried done-for-you services,
I've tried services from the place I bought the website,
I've tried independent writers and it really took me going to the pro blogger
job board to really find the best quality writers.
And what do I mean by awesome?
One of them has actually written their dissertation on the topic of my niche,
so I'm finding absolute excellent top,
top quality people who can write, write and write.
I mean that's what a dissertation is and I'm paying 3 cents per word is the
price we found had a lot of people say, no, that's too cheap,
but I did find a few people at that price point,
so I'm excited for what I have found. Now looking back,
had I known when I started, what I know now,
month one would have been choose the niche and buy the website,
purchase a KGR keyword pack,
and then go through this exact process of hiring directly from the plural
blogger job board. Now to kind of share the full process in detail,
I have a blog post on my website. You'll find that in the description below.
The short version of it is number one,
I paid to have my job pinned to the top.
I think it costs about $140 for me to list this job on their job board.
And then I had a big long application process.
They went through Google form and they filled out an application on the Google
form and the people who I thought based on their applications who were qualified
to possibly write,
they all got a test job and this was upwards of a dozen people.
I think it was 10 or 11 people who got test jobs.
Then I read through their content and the people who had really good kind of
like core writing style, I don't expect them to be perfectly optimized.
I didn't expect greatness, but I'm looking for who just has a good style.
It's readable, it's catchy, short, punchy sentences.
It really draws me in and then I sent those people a second job and at this
point I'm looking at how quick are they to return is the second one as good as
the first one.
I ran everything through Copyscape to make sure it was 100% unique and I've got
three people on my team at this point.
Now I have for the last few months I've been working on really figuring out how
to get the machine around reviewing, choosing the right products.
And I've actually hired a reviewer and had I gone through the process in month
number one of just hiring a straight pro from the job board, I may be able,
I may have been able to skip the process of hiring on the actual reviewer.
Um, so now I have a researcher, excuse me, not reviewer.
So I have a researcher and I have the three writers.
So I'm really trying to kind of kick up my content for the next six months at
this point in time. But if you're just getting going,
I really recommend managing like the quality of content writers I found on this
website are better than anyone else. So finally, at this point in time,
um, boy, I've got my writing team dialed,
which when the entire goal of an affiliate con like affiliate based website is
keyword focused, high quality optimized content published on a blog.
So Google indexes it and drives traffic. The writing team is that integral part.
So, although I'm six months in,
I feel like I'm like just getting started at this point in time.
And also there's that, that old phrase from uh, Steve jobs, right?
You can only connect the dots looking behind you.
It doesn't make sense to connect them forward.
So I've built multiple successful websites.
I build multiple brands to $1 million and beyond.
I brought all of this skill to the table with me and it's still been a big time
process of trial and error.
And I think it's important for you if you're building an affiliate website to
honor that, that it is filled with trials. If it's your first one,
it's going to have lots of trials. Even if this is your third or fourth website,
there's still going to be challenges. I guarantee you if I do this again,
I'll be a lot faster out of the Gates this time.
But the process is still the process and I don't care how much experience you
bring to the table, whether it's zero or you've been doing this for 10 years,
I'm really trial and error is still the greatest teacher there.
So with that said, um,
month one I think I would have bought the website.
There was a two to three week build on the website.
I would have bought the KGR report for them.
There's a two week turnaround time on that report,
which is about a hundred keywords that have very, very,
very low difficulty and I would have tested these writers immediately.
So by the end of month one I literally would have had about the same processes
built that I have built now in month six but I do have about 50 posts posted.
So it has not been all for naught. It's been a lot of good around there.
So I posted 13 blog posts in this last month.
This is a new record for our team in one month's time.
Previous record was 12 or 13 I'm going to increase in work to increase this up
to 16 posts per month is my new target to finish up the year.
That'll put me upwards of 150 keyword research optimized,
really focused great blog posts, review posts on my site at the end of year,
number one. So moving on to the Google analytics,
what's going on with all of this activity and all of these, uh,
pieces of content being published?
What's actually happening the month over month?
Organic traffic, excuse me, the month over month,
overall traffic is up 69%. Um, the month over month,
Google organic traffic is up 107% month over month.
So my traffic from Google organic is doubling month over month,
which is beautiful. And if you're thinking like, okay, mile,
so you've got a one year plan to make a three grand a month in a year,
you're at the six months, six month Mark, you should be halfway there.
You don't understand how compounding works in the world of compounding when
something's doubling, right. That penny that doubles every day.
I have a video that goes through an exercise that shows us the link will pop up
above my head,
highly recommend watching it if you're building online because it'll give you
the right mindset and the right perspective.
But if my traffic continues to double month over month,
the month before the last month is when it will be halfway there, right?
Like so if your income's doubling month over month over month and your goal is
three grand a month on month 12 that means the month before that you're at 1500
the month before that you're at seven 50 the month before that you're only at
350 and that's how calm pounding works. It's not linear.
It actually gets exponential.
So I'm comfortable with the traffic numbers that I've got right now.
Inside of search console,
my impressions are up 58% and my click through rate is up 55% my average
ranking, the, the average position on Google is also coming down, down, down,
month over month, which all of this simply means Google is picking up my site.
Google is indexing my site, Google is showing my site in search engine results.
People are clicking and the machine is working.
That's the machine to get people onto my content.
What about the machine of converting these individuals and actually earning
income? So that brings us to the Amazon data. So in the last 28 days,
I had 332 clicks to Amazon through the website.
This is up 60% month over month. Uh,
we had five ordered items and unfortunately I had three returns and
unfortunately the returns were the big expensive items. And the uh,
the ordered items, the ones that they kept were not the big expensive items,
which is just a part of the game. Previously in the previous month period,
I had four orders with zero returns. Um, so in total,
the revenue I've generated for um,
Amazon through my clicks is about $350, give or take. Um,
my commissions before the refunds were like $24. After the refunds,
my commissions are sitting at $3 and 20 cents. At this rate,
I should be able to buy a cup of coffee next month. But again,
I'm comfortable with the process. I realize this is the process.
I realized that I'm building an asset here and it might take me one year,
two years, three years to get this asset truly performing at peak performance.
And at that point it's gonna be a whole lot more cashflow than it is expenses
for me. Now let's talk about the expenses, the money that I'm putting into this.
Because my goal as an extremely busy marketer and extremely busy entrepreneur,
I've got four separate that my wife and I run outside of this brand and that's
my day job.
So my goal has been from the start to use money and not my time.
So as I go through these numbers of my expenses,
remember that if you don't have money to invest, well use your time.
That's how my wife and I built our first business.
We invested in hosting and a domain and that was it.
And we've grown that to $1 million business.
But now I'm just trying to reinvest and see if I can kind of hands off, right?
This is not passive. There's nothing passive. This is very active.
So as I'm going through the costs,
like I don't know what is your hourly rate worth? Are you a $15 an hour person?
Are you $20 an hour person? Are you $50 an hour person?
You can translate how many hours from other people I bought,
cause that's all I'm doing with my investment here.
I'm buying time from other people to invest in building this asset for me and my
family. So the cost was $878 on the research guy. Again,
I said you could probably outsource this or eliminate this position completely
and obviously you can do this yourself. So if you're $20 an hour,
that means I spent about 40 hours of time in the world of research.
What's really cool is I have this huge queue of review products ready to go for
my new team of three writers.
So this is really going to increase my pace and help me accelerate in the coming
few months with content. I spent $1,860 on writers.
That doesn't count listing the job.
So what this is is not only the initial job for like 10 or 11 people,
but the second job for the ones after that.
And now I've got my three core people working on their next jobs.
So some of that income is actually going to get published in the coming months.
Right. It wasn't like it was turned around immediately, but $1,860 from writers.
Um, again, if you're, you know, if you're 20 bucks an hour, 1,860,
that's a 90 hours. I'm a little off. 93 hours is I think what that is. Um,
editors, I bought content back in the day from a done for you content service.
It was terrible. My editors are finally finishing up with that $483 on that.
So 20 hours if you're 20 bucks an hour, um,
$140 to actually list my job on the pro blogger job board.
And that's not just a listing.
I wanted it pinned to the top for I think seven days.
I just wanted to get the most attention possible for it in that, um,
found some great writers for the cost of 140 bucks.
Now I have a direct relationship with them.
So it's not like Upwork where Upwork's taking 20% of the actual pay that the,
the outsource we're getting right now.
It's 100% of the money I give to the writers, goes directly to the writers.
And again, 3 cents a word is what I'm paying them.
A $295 in the backlinks world.
So building my team of back linkers I'm, I've got my, my link prospector,
we've got our templates all written, we've got our Mailshake,
we got all our bits and pieces to where we're doing outreach. Uh,
getting some backlinks that way. So 295 bucks.
So if you are doing this yourself and you're worth 20 bucks an hour,
that's 15 hours in the last month went backlink work. Um,
and then finally 700 bucks to my project manager. Um,
that's kind of his salary based on managing this project we were talking today,
he thinks he is spending more than the amount of time on that. Um,
the building of processes takes a lot of time, right? And we're,
we're front-loading all of the effort because everything I've been focused on
here is really building processes.
I look at this kind of game of digital marketing content marketing,
getting traffic from Google as like a factory.
And in one side of the factory we have the ideas and then it goes station by
station, right? So it goes from the idea to the keyword research,
to the actual product research, to the writing, to the editing,
to the publishing.
And then that's the car coming out the other side of Henry Ford's factory,
if you will.
So we've been so focused on building that factory that now we've really got the
last bits and pieces in the last few places, including the backlinking team,
working on the content at the very end.
Now we're going to be able to really scale and it's going to cost a lot less to
get more results in the next six months as it did to create this system.
And again, if you're doing the work yourself,
that means you're going to get more results from the time you invest in the next
six months than you did in the first six months. Okay,
so altogether I didn't total it up. I don't even know what that number is.
1500 1800 plus four 14 I'm thinking $4,500 give or take on this.
And I'm totally cool that because again,
I'm reinvesting my business profits from my personal brands into building this
for a few reasons. Number one, I want to show you the process.
I want to be completely transparent. I don't have a course on this.
I'm not here to sell you a course.
I'm here to show you how much time and energy it ultimately takes,
whether that's your time or you're buying someone else's time. I don't care.
It takes a ton of time and energy to build a successful site.
I've probably spent 15 grand on this website at this point in time and I've made
a total of $3 and 20 cents,
but I'm not tripping on this because I realized that I'm just on a path and
everything's going to continue to compound. My traffic will compound,
my sales will compound, all my clicks to Amazon will continue to compound,
which means my income is going to go up, up, up, up, up,
and my costs will either stay the same or go lower.
Also stated the amount of time required to grow,
this is going to stay the same or it will actually decrease here in the future.
While my clicks to Amazon go up while my profits from Amazon and to continue to
go up. Um, I think I'm on pace.
I feel like I'm a little behind the ball a little bit, but to be honest,
it's a three to five year game.
I just want to see how quick I could go in one year.
If you have questions for me about building an affiliate website,
get at me in the comments below, I'm happy to help. Again,
I've got four other websites that are hyper profitable that I'm working on day
in and day out and this is my side gig to my site gigs,
side gig at this point in time. Um, but go create assets.
That's what we're doing here. Every blog post is potentially an asset for you.
The website in and of itself is absolutely an asset for me and family.
And I'm reinvesting these assets into buying more assets,
which is why you don't see a fancy Italian liability behind me that has $4,000,
uh, oil changes because I buy assets and not liabilities.
And if you don't know the difference,
that's a key differentiation you should really jump into.
I thank you very much for your time. I appreciate you.
I will catch you on the next video.
I've got some great content coming out after this one, so be sure to subscribe,
hit the bell, hit the like, thumbs up, do what you do. I appreciate you. Again,
any questions get at me in the comments.
I'll put links in the description and I'm out. Thanks again for your time.
Be well catch you on the next video. Cheers.
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