Blog Joe Blog! » Affiliate Marketing http://www.blogjoeblog.com Online Advertising Tips, and Tools to help you Market Better Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hustle 2009 – Day 19, The wheels are spinning http://www.blogjoeblog.com/2009/01/26/hustle-2009-day-19-the-wheels-are-spinning/ http://www.blogjoeblog.com/2009/01/26/hustle-2009-day-19-the-wheels-are-spinning/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:59:23 +0000 joetinsley http://www.blogjoeblog.com/?p=252 Well it’s been a while since I have blogged about the Hustle challenge. Lately it seems like there’s not enough hours in the day to get all of the things I would like to get done completed. I’m working on a schedule to address this issue.
Well here’s what’s been happening since the last Hustle post. I was able to sale all of my items that I set out to sale on Ebay and thought the whole process was successfully. I generated $74.12 from my sales on Ebay. I mentioned in a previous post that my Ebay affiliate account made a whopping $2.50. Since then I’ve joined another affiliate program, ( NeverBlue ) but did not get anything up and running until midnight Saturday. There were lots I wanted to do to get started. I created a custom landing page and added some code to the landing page so that I could track its behavior. It’s important to me to at least have gained some knowdelge about affilate marketing after this challenge is over. The method I chose to drive traffic to the landing page was Google Adwords. So after doing some keyword research I loaded Adwords up with about 75 keywords. 4 or 5 hours within running the campaign I realized that only 5 to 10 of my keywords where really driving the traffic, so I pared my listed down. A couple of tweaks later and I was able to find what I call the sweet spot. That’s basically the perfect balance between CPC and Clicks. I hope this makes since, I’m not an expert. But what I’m trying to say is that I was able to produce clicks @ $0.14 and $0.16 per click. Oh forgot to mention the payout for a conversion was $1.25, so it was very important for me to keep the CPC low. Well to make a long story short. I ending up spending $12.69 and only made $2.70. I know what your thinking, G-wiz that sucks, but this was actually my best day ever, I learned a bunch. I don’t see it as a bust but as a learning experience and can’t wait until the morning to give it another run.  This test brought up several what if’s that I would like to try with the next test. What if I just sent traffic to the conversion page instead of my custom landing page? Currently the way I have things setup a user would have to click on a Google Ad, then my page, then the conversion page. That’s a 3 step process to make a buck 25. By removing my landing page I will have decreased a step and added another layer of confidence to the user. What if I run my ad during prime time, 8am -5 pm, instead of on a weekend at 4 am, what will my CPC, and CTR look like then? Man I’m so psyched,  If I nail this down it will open up so many doors for me. Hmmm it’s going to be interesting and I can’t wait.
until tomorrow..

Track record so for.
Goal $300.00, and only 12 days left
Ebay Sales – $74.12
Ebay Affiliate Profit – $2.50
NeverBlue Affiliate – $2.70
Sedo – $0.00
Amazon Affiliate - $0.00
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Total – $79.32

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