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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.  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 1st to March 31st 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 1st 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.  to 12 midnight

Hustle 2009 – 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 didn’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 on  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

There’s an article on SEJ ab…

Feb 27, 2009 Domains, Tweets Leave a comment

There’s an article on SEJ about Adsense for domains, I haven’t had much luck myself, But was just wondering has anyone else?
http://tinyurl.com/bl68om
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.

Michael Vick’s Comeback

Feb 26, 2009 Rants, Tweets Leave a comment

Michael Vick has been approved for Home Confinement upon his release http://tinyurl.com/aselb8 I wonder if he will find his way back to the NFL.

Test driving ZumoDrive, so far…

Feb 25, 2009 Tweets Leave a comment

Test driving ZumoDrive, so far so good. Well it’s better then emailing files to myself.

Google AdSense now lets you change fo…

Feb 20, 2009 Tweets Leave a comment

Google AdSense now lets you change your fonts…. Sweeeeeeeet!

Ballad of Bernie Madoff

Feb 18, 2009 Rants, Tweets Leave a comment

Ballad of Bernie Madoff
http://tinyurl.com/ca56cv
I cant imagine how much time was put into this videos

Hustle 2009 – Day 24, Quick Jab

Jan 31, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment

It’s 5:20 A. M. Saturday the 31st.  I’m checking my different accounts to see if there where any movement on Jan 30th. And there where a few. I made an additional $0.46 with the Ebay Affiliate and I had a increase of $2.50 added to my NeverBlue account. Again nothing really big but every little bit counts towards the goal.

Track record as of Jan 30th.
Goal $300.00, and only 7 days left
Ebay Sales – $74.12
Ebay Affiliate Profit – $3.98
NeverBlue Affiliate – $9.65
Sedo Domain Sales – $0.00
Amazon Affiliate - $0.00
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Total – $87.75

Hustle 2009 – Day 23, Every Penny Counts

Jan 30, 2009 Affiliate Marketing Leave a comment

I have been on the road a lot these past couple of days so I’m looking forward to the weekend. In a  matter of fact I’m thinking about going into work early tomorrow just to get it over. I’m so looking forward to the weekend not just for the rest and relaxation but because I have a site to build and some additional tests that I would like to run.  Lately the affiliate marketing tests have been coming out on the positive end. I mean nothing to quit my job over but it’s nice to have finally not lost money for a change. Don’t laugh when you see my numbers.
Yesterday (Jan 28th) I spent a total of $0.10. Yes that is correct $0.10. Basically I turned on my Google Adwords Campaign and forgot about it because I had so much going on yesterday. It generated 2 clicks but one of those clicks happened to convert @ $0.70, so I made a profit of $0.60, yea I’m a baller now.

Today (Jan 29th) I spent a total of $0.30 and again generated 2 clicks and converted on one of them @ $1.25 for a $0.95 profit.
Here are some additional details

JAN 28, 2009

  • Clicks – 2
  • Spend -$0.10
  • Convert AMT.  - $0.70
  • Profit – $0.60
  • IMP – 98
  • CTR – 2.04%

JAN 29, 2009

  • Clicks – 2
  • Spend -$0.30
  • Convert AMT. – $1.25
  • Profit – $0.95
  • IMP – 72
  • CTR – 2.78%

I opened and started a Facebook ad manager account, and I’m going to just say that I don’t know what I’m doing quite yet because it is totally not working for me. So I think I’m going to abandon facebook in regards to advertisement until I understand what I’m doing.
To complete this post I logged into my EBay Affiliate account to pull some numbers and it looks like I happened to have made $1.02 extra on the 28th, hell that’s better than nothing.

Track record as of Jan 29th.
Goal $300.00, and only 8 days left
Ebay Sales – $74.12
Ebay Affiliate Profit – $3.52
NeverBlue Affiliate – $7.15
Sedo – $0.00
Amazon Affiliate - $0.00
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Total – $84.79

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