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It's my nature to be very conservative. For me, it would be jumping the gun to think about how to make $1k/week. I'm more comfortable with "How can I make an extra few hundred dollars?".
Once I do that, I try to build on what works. Right now that's about all I'm making. But I can do it consistently without burning out.
Simply following a numbers game would drive me mad. 100k/hits per day? Simply copying what someone else is doing rarely worked out for me either. Like Bill says, "...emulating HW's stats are well below 10%..."
I made $100 this month without submitting a single gallery ( a blog promoting fling), and another $100 submitting only about 6 or 7 galleries for virtuagirl. I've gotten feedback from other much more experienced webmasters who've never been able to convert those sponsors at all.
My point is you need to figure out what you can sell. For whatever reason, I can sell the above sponsors better than most (at least at this level). I'm trying to build on that success a little at a time.
I try not to look at this as a numbers game - xxxx number of submits, xxxx number of hits, xxxx number of sales. Although I do analyze those numbers, my purpose is to discover what is working and build on it.
People post their stats all the time, including HW and greenguyandjim. I can't build on that. Sure, it helps me set my expectations, but I've never been able to make a single sale from just knowing what they did.
I always think about how the apple ipod took over the mp3 player market. I mean, there were plenty of players out there already and doing very well. Then you have the chinese who just simply blasted out millions of cheap mp3 players - kinda like us tgp submitters.
In the end, apple did something right. I mean $300 for an mp3 player when you could buy one for $50? Somehow they built on that success and came out with the iphone. At launch - $500 for an iphone when you could get a motorola for $99? Who knew?
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