Animated Marketing

AnimatedMarketing Launches

January 7, 2010

Today, I launch the first, official post from AnimatedMarketing.com. Let me give you a quick background.

I launched my first website in early 2003. I bought the site on eBay for $68. It was a cheezy, little self defense products site that was setup so I could drop ship products directly from the distributor. I had no idea what to do with this site. So I went to Google and started asking all kinds of questions.

I optimized it for the search engines, started a reciprocal linking campaign, etc. and within 6 months I got my first order. Not so good. But I continued working the site in my spare time. By January 2004, my site ranked #1 in Google and Yahoo for its main keywords. For those who don’t remember, Google and Yahoo results used to be one in the same.

I continued working that little site and by 2006, I decided to sell it. I was on pace for $250k/yr in sales in 2006, but I figured this site had to be worth some money, and I was ready to try something new anyway. So I sold it on my own for a nice profit. What’s funny is that the guy who bought the site…turned around and sold it a year later through a broker for more than twice what he paid me. If only I knew.

Anyway, since then I have continued to learn more and more in the eCommerce world and am still drop shipping products today on several sites. I still do an occasional site flip as well.

The reason I started AnimatedMarketing.com is that I am always talking about things I have done or know how to do…to my friends and family. I never run out of stuff to talk about. So what better place to channel that information than on a Blog?

I will be talking about a whole range of things related to eCommerce, drop shipping, marketing, seo, keyword research, how to know what product to sell, etc.

Note: For anyone who wants to get deeper into these subjects and pick my brain on a specific project you are working on, I am available as an online consultant as well. Just contact me and give me some ideas on what you would like to do. I will send you a customized quote for my services.

In today’s economic state, there are so many people who could benefit from learning to run a business online. The problem is that there are so many ‘get rich quick’ schemes out there, and many of them are camouflaged behind a great presentation. I hate to see people get steered in so many directions when the whole process really is not that hard. It’s just learning the right steps and doing it.

Just as a final note…in every industry there are many experts. I am extremely knowledgeable in many areas, but not a certifiable expert in any one area. So if you can contribute to this blog with your knowledge about anything we will discuss, it will truly help the reader experience.

I look forward to meeting many great people through AnimatedMarketing.com.

Bryan Robinson, Owner