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Affiliate Marketing â€“ Dude where’s my Campaign.

joetinsley — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:30:46 +0000

Well Iâ€™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 hadnâ€™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, whoâ€™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, donâ€™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

Affiliate Marketing – Catch Up

joetinsley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:30:28 +0000

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 5^th through March 8^th. 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 8^th day of the month I should be up to $26.40. I’m actually behind $4.75

Affiliate Marketing – Slow Day

joetinsley — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:30:18 +0000

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

joetinsley — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:30:36 +0000

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

joetinsley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:30:53 +0000

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

Hustle 2009 – Day 24, Quick Jab

joetinsley — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:30:49 +0000

It’s 5:20 A. M. Saturday the 31st.Â 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 8, Yesterdayâ€™s Turmoil

joetinsley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:25:11 +0000

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 canâ€™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 didnâ€™t start to run the campaign until that Tuesday. The Google Adwords campaign I was managing wasÂ doing pretty well I was extremely happy with this, in my opinion I actually had a sweet spot.Â 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 wasnâ€™t that great but that was something I could work on. I figured If I hadnâ€™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 wonâ€™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 Iâ€™m crossing my fingers for success with these sales.

Nothing from Sedo, but Iâ€™m still have faith.

Until tomorrow

Hustle 2009 – Day 2, Aggressive Domains Seller

joetinsley — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:30:48 +0000

Tasks accomplished Today.
Well no sales where made today via the Ebay Affiliate program. I really wasn’t expecting to but if it did, it would have made my day.

I decided to be more aggressive in the selling of my domain names. Selling one would put me days ahead of my goal. So I located the contact information of a dot net owner and emailed the owner letting them know that I was in possession of the dot com and was currently thinking about putting the dot com up for sale. And asked whether they would be interested in purchasingÂ it beforeÂ I did so? I placed a time frame of 3 days on it so hopefully I will receive a response back soon.

I also decided to place another one of my domain names up for sale on Sedo. RealRapTones.com, it’s going to be interesting to see how that goes.

Sedo has a service where for a $40.00 fee they will display your domain name(s) that you have for sale on their homepage. Or course this is rotated amongst a list of others but I still think this is a good service, Iâ€™ll give it another day before I pull the trigger on that.

Well thatâ€™s all for today, not a bad day but it could have been better. I was not so motivated today. I think tomorrow I will begin to hit the message boards to see if I can spark some kind of interest with the domain sales.

Until tomorrow

Hustle 2009 – 31 Day Challenge

joetinsley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:32:27 +0000

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 etcâ€¦

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…