Posts Tagged ‘31 Day Challenge’

Hustle 2009 – Day 24, Quick Jab

Jan 31, 2009 Affiliate Marketing

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

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Hustle 2009 – Day 23, Every Penny Counts

Jan 30, 2009 Affiliate Marketing

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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Hustle 2009 – Day 8, Yesterday’s Turmoil

Jan 15, 2009 Marketing

Well yesterday my first auction expired. I ended up having 5 people bid on the video game that I had for sale. That was actually pretty cool I walked away with a $10.00 profit. I can’t lie I was worried for a second, shoot things had been going pretty slow for me until then.
And if you remember I had created a Google Adwords campaign Monday to drive traffic to the affiliate site I was pushing, but I didn’t start to run the campaign until that Tuesday. The Google Adwords campaign I was managing was  doing pretty well I was extremely happy with this, in my opinion I actually had a sweet spot.  The affiliate pays out $23.00 per conversion and I have 750 keywords where 95% of the keywords I was bidding on I was only paying $.10 per click. My CTR rate wasn’t that great but that was something I could work on. I figured If I hadn’t made a conversion by the time my spend hit $10.00 then it would be time to switch it up and move onto the next affiliate program. So to better my CTR I decided to trim my keyword list and pull out the top bad performing keywords. Well to make a long story short while I was trimming and modifying my keyword list I decided to increase the CPC rate on one of my keywords from $0.10 to $0.30. Well I must of had zigged where I was suppose to have zagged and accidently change it to $30.00 instead of $0.30. Within 5 minutes I saw my spend of $5.00 shot up to $84.00. Yea $84.00, I was pissed but I had no one to be pissed at it was my entire fault. I now had $9.00 clicks. Needless to say I shut it all down and probably won’t run this ad until next month. Everything was going well until I screwed that up. Oh well you learn right.

On another note I added two more items to EBay; they suppose to expire this Saturday, so I’m crossing my fingers for success with these sales.

Nothing from Sedo, but I’m still have faith.

Until tomorrow

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Hustle 2009 – Day 7, Grey Cloud Today

Jan 14, 2009 Marketing

Today actually started off pretty good, but took a sharp turn into hell. I’m still a little pissed at myself for making a crazy mistake so I’m going to make this short.
I’ll explain what happened today, tomorrow.
… until tomorrow

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Hustle 2009 – Day 6, Putting Adwords Into the game

Jan 13, 2009 Marketing

Well its Monday, weekend is over and I feel like I’m sucking wind. I have a couple of irons in the fire but I’m not seeing any revenue come across the desk yet. Perhaps I have not given it enough time, I admit It has only been like 6 days. But dang show me the money.

I’m currently

  • Selling on Ebay
  • Participating in Ebay’s Affiliate Program
  • Have 3 Domains up for sale on Sedo
  • A affiliate site with Click Bank, and now starting tonight I have added a Google Adwords campaign to push traffic.

I mean really, I feel like I should be having some kind of action by now.

The Ebay auction I have running expires on the 13th, I’m crossing my fingers something transpires. But if not I’ll switch it out and take another stab at it.
As far as domain sales, I think I’m going to give it until the 15th before I upgrade my Sedo advertisement efforts. Maybe a front page display will do the trick.

Yea I’m getting a little discourage but I’m sticking with it

Until tomorrow

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Hustle 2009 – Day 3, Train Still on the Track

Jan 9, 2009 Marketing

Well I have to make this a quick post today, I’m going out of town tomorrow and need to hit the rack ASAP.
No Ebay Affiliate Program Sales today, thats cool the train is still on the track :-)

I did join a message board today, Digital Point. I think they have a well of great knowledge there. I have actually been coming to their site for some time now but just got around to joining today.

I also elected to upgrade my Sedo services to include category advertisement. This is basically like the premium home page advertisement but instead of displaying your domain names(s) that you have for sale on the home page they display them on the category page, 2nd tier page if you will. I happy, I think it’s a good start.

I did a lot of reading today about domain sales and what’s the safest route to take when selling them. I take it that there are a lot of scams going on so I want to be sure that I protect myself. I’m moving a bit fast so I need to read as much as I can.

Well guys and gals I must go It’s hell trying to take a 2 hours drive after 8 hours shift.

Until next time

… Tomorrows the Ebay Selling Day…YEA!

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Hustle 2009 – Day 1, Domains for sale

Jan 7, 2009 Domains, Marketing

Tasks accomplished Today.
I listed only two of my domains for sale on Sedo. It’s hard parting with domains.

I joined Ebays affiliate program and created a script to display products on a couple of domains I own. In the past I have been sending traffic to Amazons Affiliate program, Amazon cookie duration expires after 24 hours which sucks, Ebays is much longer, this should be a successful move.

I found two items around the house that I’ll put up for sale on Ebay either Thursday or Friday. I figure things around the office would be more relaxed towards the weekend allowing me to get off from work at a reasonable time. I have never sold anything on Ebay before so I have no idea how much attention this will require.

These are the items I have chosen so far.

I think I mentioned in my previous post that I had a hard time parting with items.  I have no idea why, I just do. I have a portable DVD player that was given to me about a year ago that I have never opened but I keep it around because someday I will, that’s what I keep telling myself.

Not a bad day today,
Until Tomorrow

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Hustle 2009 – Strategy Day Today.

Jan 6, 2009 Marketing

Well there’s not much strategy to it, I have a limited amount of time to pull this off and as I mentioned before SEO efforts probably will not work.  I have decided my easiest route to producing some quick cash would be to

A.    Sale items on Ebay,
B.    Sale/Auction domains on Sedo.com,
C.    Join an affiliate program and find a product to sale.

So the tasks I have given myself  to take care of before I hit the bed tonight are

  • Setup a  Sedo account, create a list of domains that I wouldn’t mind parting with to be placed up for sale tomorrow.
  • Find a affiliate program that I could join with a quick approval process.
  • Make a list of items I have around the house to list on Ebay.

That’s about it…. until tomorrow

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Hustle 2009 – 31 Day Challenge

Jan 5, 2009 Marketing

As a personal challenge I decided to see if I can make an additional $300.00 profit within a 31 day period.
1 day to plan a strategy and 30 days to implement.
Rules

  • Only new ventures should be included, current online income should not be included/counted.
  • By any marketing efforts possible, Affiliate Marketing, Domain Sales, Google Adsense, and etc…

For some this maybe easy but for me this will be a challenge. I work a more then full time job, So I have a few hours after work and the weekends. With this minimum amount of time, SEO efforts will take little part.

For entertainment I plan to document my steps.
Should be interesting, Stay Tuned…

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