Affiliate Marketing

That’s right boys and girls, let’s start this blog post off with a title that really grabs your attention so that maybe by some chance you’ll actually listen to what I have to say.

So over the last few months I’ve been doing A LOT of Pay Per Click Marketing via Google, MSN, Yahoo and a whole range of other engines you probably never even knew existed. But during my search for good cheap keywords that would deliver me traffic and conversions for my campaigns, I would constantly come across keywords with outrageous pricing.

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Alright, so I am doing a lot of work with the financial sector, and let’s face it, a cheap keyword over there is expensive everywhere else. But I’m talking about finding keywords like “debt consolidation” on Google and they were asking for something like $39/click. Are you fucking crazy?! A click that costs around the same amount that the entire CPA pays out at? At first I got to thinking, well maybe its worth it if it converts at 1:1, but what are the chances of that right? Well, being the gambler I am I tried it out. A few hundred bucks later, total elapsed time was maybe 2 hours max, and I burned through the daily budget and saw ONE conversion. So it wasn’t worth it at all for me. Maybe it can work for some guys, but if it ain’t workin for me, I’m dumping that silly bastard and moving.

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I’m no finance guy, hell, I suck at basic adding and math, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the US and many other world markets and economies have been on somewhat of a downward spiral type of decline. While most other industries are bracing themselves for what they think is the worst to come their way, as an Affiliate Marketer you should be embracing it. Whether the economy is up or down does in fact make an impact on your role as a marketer and your budgets too.

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The Comeback to Super Affiliate Marketing Status

Just wanted to write a quick affiliate marketing blog post here about my comeback over the last 30 days. Between three different Acai Berry campaigns and one Free Credit Report campaign, I’ve pulled in over $660,000 in profits over from utilizing traffic sources mostly from social media.

I’m completely floored by the results, its pretty unreal. A month ago I was scrounging around for information because after taking a 2 year hiatus from the industry, a lot has changed and left me feeling very newbie’ish. Total revenue, especially from the Free Credit Report offer put me at a little over the $2.2M mark. If those damn keywords weren’t so goddamn expensive to bid on, even on the content networks, my profit would have been well over the $1M mark, but I’m definitely not going to complain, because I never thought in a million years I would comeback so strong within the first 30 days alone. Two powerful niches, with great traffic sources, and even better friends around me for support and advice make me truly happy and glad I didn’t quit and just leave.

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This is so much easier than just posting regular blog posts…

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To all those curious about what seemed to be a never ending lawsuit between me, WickedFire and ClickBooth, John Lemp, we finally acted as maturely as we could and agreed to settle. No one side won more than the other that’s for sure.

Its not something I’m comfortable addressing just yet, so read about it here in a statement I posted shortly afterwards:

http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/40514-cb-wf-settlement.html

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