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WordPress Plugin
Jul 2, 2009 MISC Leave a comment
Trying to figure out how to write my first Wordpress plugin. I have a couple of days off and I plan to make something happen.
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Just upgraded WordPress to 2.8
Jul 2, 2009 MISC Leave a comment
Yea its been a while since I’ve been on this blog. I’m sure WordPress 2.8 has been around for awhile and I’m just getting around to it now.. Nice.
Affiliate Marketing – Dude where’s my Campaign.
Mar 24, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment
Well I’m back with another minor status update. I have to say things have been quite interesting since the last time I posted. A couple of days ago I received my first EPN check, it was incredible small but hopefully only the first to many more.
I finally jumped out of my safe zone of running email and zip campaigns and ventured off to sale kitchen appliances. I must say I think I did fairly well. On this particular appliance I was selling the payout for a conversion was $11.25. I carefully selected a hand full of keywords and setup about 4 ads to rotate between. I try to make it a habit to create my campaigns and ads the night before so that all I have to do before leaving for work is un-pause everything. Well the morning I surprisingly had conversion within the first hour of running the campaign, my spend hadn’t reached $0.35 yet, sweet! I thought hell I must have finally done something right because the day had just started. Well that was the only conversion I had that day for that appliance but my zips and email campaigns continued to sale, so overall it was a pleasant day.The second day, the exact same thing happened, I had an early morning conversion before my spend reached $0.25. What the hell, who’s behind the curtain pulling the levers.
Big smiles where on my face, I was excited and was anxious to get home so that I could try and figure out how in the heck could I increase my traffic volume? Well later on that day I received a notice that they where pulling the kitchen appliance campaign, G-Wiz!
Lesson learned, don’t get too cozy with the campaigns your running thing can change at anytime.
Well here are my numbers for March 23, 2009
MTD Revenue: $88.40
MTD Spend: $28.01
MTD Profits: $60.39
Crazy query in server log
Mar 18, 2009 Rants, Tweets Leave a comment
I was checking one of my sites server logs & found this crazy query
“?q=would you get a jail sentence if your 5 year old was missing and found by a river?” WTF
Consumer gets Screwed
Mar 15, 2009 Rants, Tweets Leave a comment
It’s like the consumer gets screwed all the time, Interesting article about blowing your credit limit without spending it.
http://tinyurl.com/aa8orr
This is surely going under the Rant category.
OMG this is tooooo funny
Mar 13, 2009 Tweets Leave a comment
OMG this is tooooo funny.
http://tinyurl.com/cnav7h
FNBO Direct – Drops Rates Again
Mar 10, 2009 Tweets Leave a comment
I just received a email from my FNBO Direct Rate saving account, Rate drops again.. I swear this happens every month.. stop the pain!
Affiliate Marketing – Catch Up
Mar 10, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment
A couple of days have gone by now. I have been pretty busy with some other projects. I’m finally getting around to finding a web designer to work on one of my websites that I have had for more than 4 years now. Needless to say I’m pretty happy about this. We haven’t talked about pricing yet so this could all take a turn for the worst. Wish me luck.
My numbers below includes the dates from the March 5th through March 8th. I basically let my campaign run none stop over the weekend to see what kind of profit I could produce. Friday was actually good Saturdays was ok, and Sunday and Monday was pretty painful. I’m not sure if that’s a standard trend for the weekend or not, it would be nice to know. A marketer could run campaigns from Tuesday through Friday if these days have been tested and proven to be good converting days.
MTD Revenue: $36.05
MTD Spend: $14.40
MTD Profits: $21.65
So according to my calculations I’m behind. If my goal is to produce $3.30 a day then by the 8th day of the month I should be up to $26.40. I’m actually behind $4.75
Affiliate Marketing – Slow Day
Mar 5, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment
I have to make this a quick post, it’s late and I spent too much time working on code for this other project I have. Today wasn’t one of my best. I don’t understand yesterday was pretty good and I ran everything exactly as I did yesterday. I think it’s about time I changed it up perhaps there’s no more juice to squeeze out of the campaign I’m running. Today wasn’t a total failure but regarding my overall goal I think my MTD Profit should be $13.20 instead of $9.32
Well here are my numbers for March 4, 2009
Today Revenue: $2.30
Today Spend: $1.22
Profit: $1.08
MTD Revenue: $18.25
MTD Spend: $8.93
MTD Profits: $9.32
Oh yea last night before I went to bed I check the status of my eBay affiliate account and saw that I made a $5.29 commission.. I thought was pretty cool. I’m not sure if I’m going to add it to this total yet. This test was really to focus on my Paid Media efforts.
Affiliate Marketing – Three is a crowd
Mar 4, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment
I thought today was a pretty fantastic day. I started my day of running with 3 campaigns. One out of the three received zero clicks, yea I said zero clicks. This was a small campaign I created to push my bottle openers. Am I mad, nope didn’t make any money but didn’t lose any either. My second campaign was that test campaign that I spoke of last night, the one in which I considered would be out of my comfort zone. I generated a fair amount of clicks but I had to set my CPC rate to $0.75 to do so. The payout was $30.00 so I figured I would let it run until my spend reached $8.00. If I reached $8.00 without getting a conversion then I would shut it down and move one. Well guess what happen, I didn’t have the balls. That’s Right I got scared and pulled out when the spend reached $3.42. I don’t know, I’m a big chicken I guess. My third campaign I think performed beautifully. I spent a total amount of $1.63 but generated $7.90. So basically if I didn’t decide to run that additional test campaign today I would have came out pretty good. At least I would have gotten a head of my daily goal of $3.30 per day.
I have to say right now this is totally fun and I feel 100% confident that I will produce $100.00 in profit by March 31st. I don’t want to sound cocky but perhaps I should have set my goals a bit higher… baby steps Joe, baby steps
Here’s my numbers for last night March 3rd 2009
Today Revenue: $7.90
Today Spend: $5.05
Profit: $2.85
MTD Revenue: $15.95
MTD Spend: $7.71
MTD Profits: $8.24
