Been on the Store Coach program for about 3 months, and just had my first sale last week.  My next sale came a few days later!  All it does is get me more excited about this program, and obtaining my ultimate goal....to be in control of my own financial destiny.

I have been following the Store Coach team for a few years now, unsuccessfully attempting a career in e-commerce.  There have been many mistakes (and I'm sure there will be many more), but the honest truth is that I made those mistakes because I didn't fully commit to the process and the philosophy behind this program.

Take my advice and save yourself some time, money, and stress.  Follow this plan exactly and you will begin to make money.  I'm embarrassed that it took me 3 years but if I can help someone else accomplish this sooner it was worth it.

Thank you Store Coach and Assistants!

msiferllc,

Great news about your sales!!!

Is your store ranking in Google for your keywords?

Tim

Absolutely!

1. Niche was too big - My first store I built was not a niche store at all.  It had too many products, and was hard to maintain.  It was also difficult to rank for anything specific, since I was trying to be so broad.  Was a waste of a lot of time built I was able to sell the site for a small profit.

2. Niche had too many attributes - My second site was more specific, but had 97 different attributes for each product (NCAA sports products).  Spent more time maintaining / updating the site than building it to profitability.  Made no money, wasted a lot more time, but learned a lot.

3. Quit being "spammy" - I was really spammy with my first 2 sites in regards to backlinking.  On my current site, I have focused more on content, article writing, and building partnerships with related niches.  It has worked very well so far, I'm much farther along than I have ever been.

Hope this helps.  I am by no means an "expert", and still have a lot to learn.

Best of luck to everyone!

Amazing!! Congratulations and keep up the great work!!

msiferllc,

1) Did you hire writers or write content yourself using basics of SEO and some research on the niche product you are currently selling?
2) Did you contact related niche-site owners by email with offers, freebies -- like an article in exchange for an ad on their site?
3) What specifically do you mean "focused more on content"-- which content and how was it improved, why do you think this helped make sales--and lead to profitability?

Thanks for the feedback!!

I honestly think the bulk of Matt's success is due to having batter keyword targeted content on his website, paying especially careful attention to his meta tags combined. Then, Zulu cart, which does a superior job of having the right things in the right place, search engine-wise and Zulu blocks the things that might hurt you with the search engines.

I have no idea what their daily traffic is, or what percentage of my traffic heads to the articles.  Part of it is the fact that I'm still learning this process, but I'm not sure I would care even if I did know how to retrieve that info.  i only watch my total visits.

The articles to me are more about building rankings with google, and confidence with my potential customers.  I'm using a simple cause and effect hypothesis; I didn't use to focus on content, and I made no sales. I focus on content and quality now, and I make sales.  My rankings are higher (and honestly not that high yet) and I receive more daily traffic.  I can tell you this, I only receive slightly more traffic than other sites, but I have more conversions (obviously, before I didn't have any conversions  ).  I think there's a credibility factor in the articles, guest blogs, etc.

DM me if you want to discuss some more areas of my site further, I would love to help.  In fact, our sites are very loosely related, we may be able to help each other out.