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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 31^st. 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 3^rd 2009

Today Revenue: $7.90
Today Spend: $5.05
Profit: $2.85

MTD Revenue: $15.95
MTD Spend: $7.71
MTD Profits: $8.24

Affiliate Marketing – FaceBook

Mar 3, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment

Fell a little short on the second day; believe it or not it’s not that easy to spend money. Well spend money responsibility that is, I could always go in and set my CPC rate to match Google recommendations.Â But that wouldn’t be too smart.
Today I opened a Microsoft AdCenter account and placed a ad on Facebook. Both didn’t go well for me simply because I technically don’t know what I’m doing. The Facebook Ad initially got shot down because I had an extra space between two words. AdCenter, I just don’t get right now, I basically went at it cowboy style without reading any documentation and I probably wont get to read any until this weekend.
Last night before I went to bed I realized a flaw with the goals I have been setting for myself. I think it puts me into a position that makes me scared to lose money. And that’s actually a big flaw. You become successful in this game by testing different techniques and campaigns and with testing you’re going to lose money. So heads up, tomorrow I’m going to lose money. I’m not going to purposely try to lose money but I am going to step out of my comfort zone. What’s my comfort zone well it’s a CPC rate of $0.06 and below, their great but the traffic and conversions for me are very slow. So stay tuned in for tomorrow and wish me luck.

Today Revenue: $3.45
Today Spend: $1.64
Profit: $1.81

MTD Revenue: $8.05
MTD Spend: $2.66
MTD Profits: $5.39

Affiliate Marketing – Baby Steps

Mar 2, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment

From March 1^st to March 31^st I’m going to see how much money I can make with affiliate marketing. I figure If I set a minimum daily goal of $3.30 I could consider myself successful since that would guarantee me a $100.00 payout. Of course I would one day want to make $100.00 per day but I figure I need to take baby steps before I aim to become a super affiliate.
So for March 1^st 2009 here are my numbers.

Today Revenue: $4.60
Today Spend: $1.02
Profit: $3.58

MTD Revenue: $4.60
MTD Spend: $1.02
MTD Profits: $3.58

Campaigns will run from 09:00 A.M.Â to 12 midnight

Hustle 2009 â€“ Final Cap.

Mar 2, 2009 Affiliate Marketing, Marketing Leave a comment

Well the Hustle 2009 challenge has been over for some while now and I didnâ€™t quite make it to my goal.
It was a good run and I did learn a few things in regards to where I should place most of my focus.
There are a few programs that as you can see totally did not work out for me. Amazon Affiliate, Sedo, and even though I made a profit with Ebay’s Affiliate program I didn’t think it was a program I should spend a lot of time with.

Moving forward I plan to stick close to selling items on Ebay, selling my Push-N-Pop bottle openers onÂ Google Base and pushing products via Never Blue’s affiliate program.

Here are the final numbers from my Hustle Challenge

Goal $300.00, Final Numbers
Ebay Sales – $74.12
Ebay Affiliate Profit – $5.91
NeverBlue Affiliate – $12.35
Sedo Domain Sales – $0.00
Amazon Affiliate – $0.00
Push-N-Pop Bottle Opener – $10.00
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Total – $102.38

Thereâ€™s an article on SEJ ab…

Feb 27, 2009 Domains, Tweets Leave a comment

Thereâ€™s an article on SEJ about Adsense for domains, I havenâ€™t had much luck myself, But was just wondering has anyone else?
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For example I have 1 domain set up on this program underground-rap-music.com and in the month of February I generated 157 impressions and made $0.53. I think I would be better off building out some pages for this domain. So in my opinion I don’t think Adsense for domains is a go.