I’m changing my domain name for this blog. You can find new posts here: http://www.copywritingdean.com
I decided Stephensblog.com wasn’t the best domain for my business. My name (Stephen) is kind of hard to spell. Many people spell it wrong. And it’s spelled differently than it sounds.
Ideally I’d move to StephenDean.com, but that domain is not available and likely not for sale. Apparently there’s a French artist with the same name as me who got it first. (I have emailed about it, but never got a response.)
So what to do…
CopywritingDean.com makes a lot of sense to me.
* It does have my last name in it “Dean.”
* It contains the keyword I’m targeting most.
* It kind of has a double meaning. Copywriting Dean, or Dean of Copywriting. You know?!
* And it better explains my site.
This site currently gets a lot of search engine traffic, and I don’t want to leave it all behind. So I’m going to keep it up for a while and see what I can do with the traffic.
Hopefully I’ll be able to build up links to http://www.copywritingdean.com quickly. If you already have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you changed the URL to copywritingdean.com.
If you don’t have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you added me 
Again, thanks for reading everyone.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hey Stephen thanks for the linkback… just like you a lot of my rapid product creation comes from watching Brausch pump out products… he was a real inspiration for both of us.
Yep, that idea came to me for two reasons:
1. Many people have no problem banging out a bunch of articles, but they get severe writer’s block when they have to create a report. So why not keep the articles private and package them into the report?
2. When creating software, there’s always a lot of work to make be feature-complete, on-time and within the budget… so the solution is to always keep it shippable so if you run out of time or the budget, ship it.
Same deal with product creation only the “budget and time” could just you’re ready to move onto the next project, or you’re not makign money because you’re spending so much time making report perfect.
p.s. I’m 24 now
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February 9th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
It is a great idea. The post title made me think the cash came from “article marketing” of some sort… which maybe is what you were using to reel people in. And you are helping people to mentally go from writing articles to creating products with a perfect reframe. Nice job.
SO tired of hearing capable people whine that they can’t create a product.
Cheers with being 24!
February 10th, 2009 at 10:46 am
As far as straight-up article marketing, one time I set aside a little bit of time every day for 1 week to write 100 articles. Then I scheduled time the following week to turn those 100 articles into PowerPoints and Camtasia’d then into 100 videos.
I loaded a bunch of article drafts in EzineArticles and scheduled 3 months of video posts in TrafficGeyser. Every day I took 30 seconds out of my daily routine to submit one article in EZA and post one article into someone else’s high traffic blog.
The result was close to $1,000 in sales from 25 hours of work. I still get a little bit of traffic and sales every day… 100 articles in EZA and 100 videos on YouTube is also a nice perk.
I’ll try another article blitz soon… this time I’m buying PLR articles, outsourcing the PowerPoint creation and then recording them into videos to submit.
But the point is there’s more to writing articles than just writing and submitting to a directory.
Will you be posting that first article today?
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February 10th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
100 articles in a week! Amazing, I can’t even imagine.
I haven’t attempted article marketing yet but it’s definitely at the top of my list. I’ve been slowly convincing myself to get started.
Do you get more traffic from the articles or the videos? Would love to hear how the PLR articles work out.
And to your point about it being more than just submitting to a directory, I found this article by Matt Bacak outlining all the processes his articles go through: http://knol.google.com/k/matt-bacak/slap-google-like-a-rag-doll/1utebk6ggpxbo/2#
February 11th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I have started article marketing as part of my promotional activities. Ezine Articles has been giving me a lot of problems - editorially - because of my niche. However, I need to write “around” my true subject. No time for that now. In the meanwhile, I have written and submitted 54 articles in Squidoo. I’ve gotten nice traffic and even made a few Squidbucks as passive income. In any case, I have another 54 article titles that I plan to write soon. After that, I will have enough material for three e-books I will self-publish. So much to do, so little time.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
“Do you get more traffic from the articles or the videos? Would love to hear how the PLR articles work out.”
Both, sort of. What I do is at the start of each day, I look at my YouTube account, grab the latest video, find the matching article in EzineArticles, and paste the article into that high traffic blog where I am a guest columnist… with the YouTube link in the first line of the article.
So people can either read or watch the YouTube. That’s what gets me the most traffic. Ironically, a lot of the visitors come from typing in the URL watermarked in the video.
Yep, Bacak and his A9 formula… he presented about that at the Austin Warrior Event last April. They churn out a pile of articles every day and submit them as videos, podcasts, press releases… it’s the coolest system ever.
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February 11th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Doesn’t Robert also still have a full-time programming job, which would make his business success even more impressive, since he has less free time than many other people?
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February 11th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
@Chris Yup, he does. That’s absolutely amazing to me, can’t even imagine.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
It sounds more impressive, but everyone I know who has quit a day job said that the time they used to devote to the day job just turned into free time. They weren’t able to add that to their business.
So I don’t think I would be any more productive in IM if I quit the day job.
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February 12th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Interesting. I’ve never had a “day job,” so I guess I wouldn’t know. Jumped in to copywriting straight from school.