Working hard and hardly working September 7, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal, Work , trackbackI took my name off of Pickup 101’s upcoming Seattle workshop. For what I get paid, it’s just not worth losing my entire weekend.
My understanding is that Mystery Method instructors get paid 20-30 times as much as we do for heading a workshop. Some people would be bitter about that, but I never really expected this to be a source of income for me. I’ve gotten a lot of non-monetary rewards from teaching. Hearing about pay discrepancies like that just motivates me more to get my own business going.
I’ll continue to teach in London for as long as those workshops last, but if I want to make money it’s time to do my own thing.
I’m still hammering away at the thirty day challenge. We got a little behind, but I’m finally up to Day 23 - “From traffic to conversion”. Our site’s getting about 40 hits a day but we haven’t made any sales yet.
The 30 Day Challenge guys say to expect about 1 sale for every 200 visitors, so we’re not doing too bad, and today we installed a new tracking link. We can now tell how many visitors are coming to our site, how many are clicking through to our Amazon sales page, and hopefully soon we will know how many of the people who view the sales page are actually buying.
In the meantime, we’re throwing up more content on other platforms around the web. We’re starting to realize that the phrase we’ve optimized for may not be attracting users who want to spend money. For example, you could get to the top of the google rankings for “home depot hours peoria”, but you’d have a tough time selling anything because your visitors are all looking for one very specific piece of information.
Craig and I are going to plow through the rest of the challenge regardless, though. We’re learning a ton and when we start over from scratch in a few weeks we’ll be able to do it right.
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I have to say it’s still hard work. There isn’t a magic pill.
I guess I’m glad it is tougher than it seems because it means more opportunity for those who put the time in.
Another fly by night seduction and relationship guru emerges, with the eyes firmly locked on the dollar signs …
Perhaps, you could benefit from a bit more time in the field before you start thinking of your own workshops? Not enough pay for you you say?
I recommend you hop onto one of the bittorrent seduction websites, and look through all the gazillion of recent me-too seduction products and advice. Even when it is free there is just no time to go through all that substandard stuff. What makes you think you will elevate yourself about the crowd? Your Z-list celebrity status due to the show?
Honestly, go back to your EE degree, that would be much steadier paycheck. But thinking that you can take business away from guys like Lance or Tyler of RSD, that is pretty funny !
wow. that is a really rude thing to say. why do you spend your time reading about another person’s life if you only wish to criticize his or her ambitions?
He’s not thinking of starting his own workshops anyway, you idiot. If your going to be a negative ass bitch, at least you could be an intelligent negative ass bitch.
I guess I should apologize then for injecting a healthy dose of realism, but after working with Pickup101 the guy has probably learnt what it means to be calibrated to the external reality.
And the reality is this, one cannot become an expert in anything in 1 year, and then run off to make money just like that.
From this blog the main focus appears to be on dollar signs, and nothing else. Not a good sign if you ask me …
And that is the main issue, the real transformation of the nerd within did not happen. Sure, the guy got a veneer of the social skills on top of that, but this is only as far as it went.
Hey really?,
What do you got going in your life? So we can see what you got going in your life, and slam you. See, if you got a life, you probably wouldn’t have time to be reading this and whatever other blog’s you also spent your time on, or from the prospective you take. See, we all have a journey in life to follow. Neils is moving on his and allowing us a glimse at it. We all have to start somewhere. If you have already, you would understand that and respect that, and enjoy it and probably learned a little bit from it as I have. In addition, you would support and applause him on.
Thanks Cam! Best comment I’ve read in a long time. ;)
but isn’t Niels a bit of a quirmo? I mean, I thought he was gay, how can he teach people how to pickup girls? Maybe he should be teaching workshops for homosexuals to meet other homosexuals.