Posts Tagged ‘Sedo’

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 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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