Sounds like you’re want to work on converting better on your store. Do you have a mentor who can help you with your ecommerce site? It’s very helpful if you can set up some testing to see what works. Otherwise, I’d just be guessing.
Have you looked into this for advice? http://www.sparkplugging.com/ebay-ecommerce/
Hope that helps!
Nicole
That’s so weird. I replied to your Twitter DM, but it isn’t showing up.
If the other site is related to yours (relevant, similar, complementary topic) and is one that you’d LIKE your article on, then yes, go ahead, although I’d send them a slightly different version (at least change the title). – And, of course make sure they’re linking to your blog.
Hope that helps! And, keep up the great writing.
Nicole
]]>This is very timely information for me since I have just recently setup my very first Word Press Blog. I am a relatively new affiliate marketer and struggle to stay profitable.
So I am off to read day 2,
-Red
Mary, not sure if you’re reading this but I would personally ask them if they would write up their own little piece about your blog post and then link back to that specific blog post using your keyword phrase.
]]>I have 2 Wordpress blogs that I just started over the past couple of months. I don’t really know what I’m doing but I’m learning along the way and having a great time.
I do have a question for you. The other day on my gardening blog I had a person ask me if they could copy one of my posts to their blog. I haven’t answered yet. I wanted to get your thoughts and insight on this before I gave them a yes or no. What do you think? Is this a good idea to help get traffic to my fairly new blog or a bad idea because it could hurt in the SEO part due to duplicate content?
]]>I live in Mayberry(Andy Griffith’s hometown) and I do have the traffic in my store but it is still slow, My website has had 11,000 visitors but very few sales, one here and there.
I do have vericose vanes which came from standing so long in one place. It can be dangerous.
Thanks Sonya
]]>Honestly, I don’t know what the market is like for Primitives. When you say it’s slow, it could mean a number of things…
1. Not enough traffic.
2. Not a very good conversion. (Which means the visitors that you have aren’t buying.)
So, without being able to look at your stats, I wouldn’t know what to advise you.
If you’ve got the traffic, but they’re not buying, then changes are in order, for sure.
If no traffic, then you wouldn’t know if it’ll work until you have more eyeballs looking at your site. 
Adding a mailing list can help you get in touch with potential customers, too.
As for your leg vein question, that’s interesting. I’d say to look at Day #2 and use the keyword tool that I talk about in that post to see if people are actively searching for more information about that. Is it vericose or something else? Be sure to type in a variety of terms regarding it and you’ll get a good idea pretty quickly whether it’s something that people are actively searching for help with. Also, check clickbank.com and search google to see if there are products that you’d be able to sell on a site with that topic. If so, you may have yourself a nice little niche blog. If not, then back to the drawing board!
I hope that helps!
Nicole
I already have a website and a store front that is very slow, I would like to draw more people to both. Do you think a blog for primitives would be good.
I also have a issue with leg veins, would that make a good blog. Thanks for the great info. I don’t know anything about blogging although I have set up a blog on twitter.
I would love to be able to stay home and enjoy life.
]]>Erica – Thank you!
Debra – I agree. Amazon is very easy, although it’s hard to build up a full-time income just with that one source of revenue as you know. But, it does convert well, because people know and trust amazon, which is why it’s a must for most webmasters. A mix is important to develop, and eventually incorporating your own products.
Andrea – Of course! I’ll connect with you on Twitter.
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