PPC Status as of May 19, 2008
Lets see too bad I didn’t have this blog up since I was too busy getting up my campaign and niches. Lets just say I started on the first week of MAY. I was told by a friend to start it on ASAP so I had some sparetime and why the hell not right? So I done it. First of all, I got some accounts from affiliate programs. I got approved in a few days. I already had a web site up and I had a host. I had money to burn on this campaign. Now I needed a domain for my niche. I got everything all set up. First I created a landing page. I will NOT lie. It took me about 5-6 hours to make one. I did not have sufficient knowledge to make a landing page. I researched how to do it and by the end of the day I had made my first landing page. Now I linked everything with my affiliate links and i did NOT use tracking. But wait.. shouldn’t I use tracking first?
The answer is YES and NO. The reason why I didn’t get tracking was 1) I did not know how to get tracking and 2) That was not my goal. I had a goal of “making my first few sales”. So it doesn’t matter and I just threw my eggs in the basket with no names or color. So if the eggs fell I made some $ but I didn’t know which fell. I was being skeptic and didn’t think you were able to make money in this certain amount of time. For me the goal was 1 week = 1-3 Leads. It was a small goal / step but my return would be huge. The return was not the money but the inspiration. My first Night this is what happened.
Went to sleep at 3am (5/6/2008). Landing page was up, Traffic was high bid, I added about 100-120keywords. The keywords were just random but I handpicked it and made sure I was on top of everyone. My alarm goes off around 9am. Well there goes about 5 hours of sleep. I was going to go back to sleep but instead I checked my earnings. DING DING DING. One lead. I broke even though but no profit. WHO CARES! CONGRATZ Entrips you proved to yourself you are able to make money by sleeping. I was wide awake and I was about to jump around like a maniac. The logic behind this was, if you are able to make a lead you can multiply it after and tweak things to make even more money. 1*1 = 1 , 1*2 = 2. Multiplication does not LIE. So fast forward to the next few days. This was an actual blog post I posted on my other blog
May 8, 2008 - Thursday
“Last Night I was up until 230am again. I was workin on my business. I decided to attack it late night so I get a chance to wake up with $$ in my pocket. I woke up at 10am and im like I just dreamed about my web site. (No Joke) I guess it was because I think about it too much. So 30mins I laid in my bed. I was worried that if I didn’t profit today I would not get as motivated.
I opened up my laptop looked at my ppc program. Looks like I lost a few bucks. Thats fine. I looked at my affiliate program…holy shit PROFIT!! DING DING DING!!!. Basically I got a 1:3 ratio. Which isn’t bad.
So how much did I make? I made a little more then how much the average person who works in retail makes in a day
So…who wants to jump on the bandwagon with me? Once I start earning more I probably won’t teach u guys anymore. I won’t teach nonbelievers so you guys are on your own.
Amazing isn’t it ? Basically I was broke on May 5th, 2008. Then I made profit on MAY 08th, 2008. WOW thats really fast. If you guys only knew how i felt it was crazy. So now I am busy tweaking all my campaigns and getting better landing pages and CTRs. I have a small amount of profit but when I know how to do it, it should not stop me from becoming my dreams. I have been so into my little online business that I added a goal, calendar, quotes, timesheet on my wall. Whatever it takes to focus just do it. In order to succeed you need to have short / long term goals. Some can be nearly impossible to reach but make sure you attempt to reach it.
