Day 65 - Mistakes to avoid when scaling

I shall post and share my worst performing campaign and my best performer today.

This is a screenshot from my Media Traffic campaigns:

Total spendings of $400 and total earnings of $28.25 = ($371.75) The best performer is a single conversion of $10.50.

Coming up next is 50 on red traffic network:

Worst performing campaign spent ($231.87). I think the main reason is because once I get a single conversion, I scale it too fast and too furious without proper fine tuning the results and adding more keywords. Mistake to avoid? Make sure that the campaign is 100% profitable before you try to scale up and do it slowly by adding ONE target at a time!

For this traffic source, I have yet to find a best performer as there isn't any profitable campaigns YET. Next traffic source that I am going to share is Trafficvance. For this traffic source, the only confucing part is bidding of the keywords and it took me almost a month to figure it out. You can find my first post on Trafficvance here.

Firstly, let me share my overall campaigns:

Total spent to date : ($901.58) Campaign which spends the most ($105.58) and generate 6 conversions of $57.40. Did a 'loans' campaign and which did not converts and spent ($85.71) which many marketeers will know that its a costly campaign for keyword bidding.What about my best performer? So far I am still testing it and using unlimited for daily and total budget. To add on to the quality of the traffic, I did an increase in frequency cap and manage to convert 1 profitable campaigns into 3 mini ones. I may or may not be topping up this traffic source as I will still be testing on other traffic sources soon.

Traffic source on my bucket list?
Adcash
7 Search
Lead Impact

Day 64 - A new milestone

I finally see some light on the campaigns that I have tested and beginning to understand deeper from the term "turning loss to profitable." When I convert my 1st profitable campaign, light bulbs suddenly lights up and I slowly convert more targets to profitable campaigns.

While Ivan had spend $5k on his first month on traffic, I am nowhere as gutsy as he is. Doing campaigns on a larger scale sure sees enormous results especially the weekends where conversions coverts like no one's business.

Even if the campaign generates $1, it is still a profit. If you do it on a larger scale, the profits are even better and much faster. I 'showed hand' on a weekend while doing max bid on all the converting keywords to find out that my conversions increased by a whopping 500%!

Today, I have crossed a new milestone of $1k in my W4 earnings after day 64. I strongly believe that it will be doubled next month as I have converted a few losses to profits. I can't wait to update my 3rd month results. As long as I don't stop I am still progressing slow and steady!

Trafficvance keyword bidding rankings

I figured out that the traffic ranking for Trafficvance may be in this manner as followed:

If my current ranking is 1.6, that means:
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1
I am in position/rank 6 on the keyword bidding system.

If my current ranking is 4.7, that means:
4.6
4.5
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.1
4
3.9
3.8
3.7
3.6
3.5
3.4
3.3
3.2
3.1
3
2.9
2.8
2.7
2.6
2.5
2.4
2.3
2.2
2.1
2
1.9
1.8
1.7
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1.5
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1.3
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I am in position/rank 38 on the keyword bidding system. For the colors:
HIGH it may means that you are on the top 100 in the system.
MEDIUM may means that you are in the middle 200 in the system.
LOW may means that you are at the bottom 300 in the system.

Refer to my screenshot for a better picture of what I mean.

Day 61 - Review of 2 months progress after CPA Marketing Course

Total money spent on traffic network:
Media Traffic x 2 = $400
50 on Red x 3 = $1500
Trafficvance = $1000
Total spent on Traffic = $2900

CPV lab stats:

Current CPVlab alexa ranking is:

http://matchua.blogspot.sg blog ranking is standing at 3044227:
Spending time on creating campaigns has been cut down tremendously due to main business.

Overall campaigns ACTIVE campaigns: <40
Overall earnings for 60 days:

+ NB $65.50

Everything on my stats almost doubled compared to 30 days ago. Without testing much campaigns and creating only on those that converts to optimized it further. My 30 days results can be found here:

Trafficvance balance: $248
50 on red account 1: $197
50 on red account 2: $28 (free credits from referral)
50 on red account 3: $18 (free credits from referral)
Total Balance: $491

So my friends, spending $2900 to get almost $1000 revenue + $491 balance = (-$1409) almost -50% ROI.
As the saying goes, keep testing and grinding.

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Day 53 - Completing my campaigns

Hasn't really been creating new campaigns as I am waiting for my old ones to be at least halfway tested or completed.

My CPVLab ID is now standing at 125 with 44 actives ones. That means I have tested about 80 campaigns which is inactive now.

Now my strategy is to finish the campaigns before I keep spending on traffic to test new ones, which does not justify my P/L which is near $2k. The more I spend, the more losses incurred for spending on traffic network.

Can You Make Money from Affiliate Marketing?

Tips on Becoming a Successful Affiliate Marketer

After reading all the benefits of affiliate marketing if you think you will be rich over night by selling affiliate products online then you are wrong. Affiliate marketing is definitely an excellent way to make money online but it’s highly competitive too. In order to be successful in Affiliate marketing you need to know the market needs, learn how to promote products, what works and what doesn’t. The following are a few tricks on becoming successful in affiliate marketing that I have learnt over time.

1. Only Choose a Handful of Good Products

The first mistake a lot of affiliate marketers make is that they register with too many different affiliate programs and try to promote everything. Pursuing affiliate marketing down this path can become very overwhelming and you won’t be able to promote any product properly. All you need in order to be successful is a handful of good products to promote. Try to understand the market needs and look for products that align correctly with the topic of your site.

2. Use Several Traffic Sources to Promote Products

Most affiliate marketers put up the ads only on their sites. There is nothing wrong with this approach but know that there are many other traffic sources that you can tap into and promote the products simultaneously. The more targeted traffic you can send to the sales page the more your chances are of making money.

Google Adwords can be used to drive targeted traffic to a sales page. You simply make an ad in your adwords account then use your affiliate link in the target page URL of the ad. Obviously, you will have to continuously measure the conversions and see if the campaign cost is less than the campaign profit in order to keep the campaign running but I am sure you get the idea.

3. Test, Measure and Track Your Affiliate Campaign

It is a very good idea to use different product promotion strategies so you can figure out what is working and what is not. Try to do split testing and measure the performance of each campaign then take actions accordingly. Changing a few things here and there can increase your profit dramatically. Make sure to place the banner ads on different areas of your site’s pages. Some positions will make the ads more noticeable than others.

Most affiliate programs will give you basic stats that you may need but there is nothing stopping you from using your own conversion tracking software too. There are many conversions tracking sofware out there that you can use to track your affiliate campaign.

4. Research the Demand of the Product

If you try to sell a product that is in low demand then chances are that you are not going to get many sales no matter how hard you try. So it is a good idea to spend a bit of time researching and finding out if a product that you are thinking of promoting is a product that your audience needs. If your site gets decent traffic then you can conduct an online survey and easily get input from your visitors.

5. Stay Current with New Methods and Techniques

Affiliate marketing is a very competitive field and people are always coming up with new techniques. Try to stay current with these new techniques and market trends otherwise you will fall behind.

6. Choose the Right Merchant

When you promote a product you also promote the person or the company who is behind the product so try to choose wisely. You don’t want your visitors to go and buy a product following your advice then come back unhappy. Do you think that this visitor will come back to your site and take your advice again? Most likely no; this can hurt your credibility in the long run. Usually, websites/company that offer good customer service will have better customer satisfaction so try to stick with promoting their products.

7. Use Helpful Tools

If you are serious about affiliate marketing then try to find tools that will help you be more efficient. There are many helpful tools out there. If you are using a WordPress powered site then consider getting a plugin similar to the Affiliate Link Manager.

Don’t just hope and pray that visitors will buy; setup everything correctly and make it happen! If you think that visitors will click on your affiliate links and buy just because you placed dozens of affiliate links on your website then you are wrong! You need to have a structured plan in place. Affiliate marketing is a business so you will have a much better chance of succeeding if you treat it like one.

Day 44 - A quick rundown of my earnings on 2 CPA networks

This is the total achieved in W4.

This is the total to date at NeverBlue.

Total till date? $674.30 + $65.50 = $739.80

Day 41 - A new breakthrough in my earnings

Received a pleasant surprise to find out that I have got 5 conversions from different campaigns of over a hundred bucks. Not a big amount but its significance shows that my campaigns are showing little by little results when I do it correctly!

I strongly believe if I proceed to tune and test continuously, I will get constant results and generate $100 daily to achieve $3k a month. What if I generate $1k daily consistently? Yes! $30k monthly! 100% possible, just grind through daily and CONSISTENTLY. That's the magic word.

Day 40 - My first W4 Screenshot

Have added my 3rd $500 on 50onred traffic platform today. After running almost or over 100 campaigns (lost count) my total revenue is slightly under $500.

Here's what I have spent on traffic so far:

$200 x 2 on Media Traffic = $400

$500 x 3 on 50onred = $1500

$1000 on Trafficvance

Total spent on traffic ? A whopping USD $2900 on day 40, with some balance of about $1230 on TV and 50onred. Here's my W4 account screenshot.

So, to summarize my progress so far. I have spent some $1700 to test out about 100 campaigns and found a few profitable ones. Yet to get paid from CPA network but I have to keep on testing till I can find out the recipe for success in CPA marketing.

Day 37 - Trafficvance experiment with conversion

This is my 4th day using Trafficvance traffic network and the results are as followed:

Spent about $113 spread across 12 active campaigns with a single conversion of $10.50. Have transfer those converting campaigns from 50onred.

 

The new interface seems to be laggy and still trying to figure out how to do other geographic. Will continue to test the functions and I think the downside is that you cant see your total actual spending when your campaign reaches it total budget. The cost will be refreshed once the total budget is reached.

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