Day 2-3 of my PPC to CPA Life
So basically, I have NOT started a PPC to CPA campaign yet. I got distracted by some Australian bodyboarder friends coming into town, one of who just finished making my new video. (teaser here) I also been working on bodyboard distribution deals and potential rider contracts for one of my brands as well as 80 other boogie board stuff. But, I read A LOT of tutorial and advice blogs and have posted affiliate banners on a few of my sites but zero conversions so far. One being bodyboarder.com. I don’t really expect too much from these sites compared to PPC to CPA but it does get pretty descent traffic and ranks # 1 for keyword Bodyboarding on all search engines.
Anyhow so I have been reading sites linked from Uber Affliates Marketing Guide which has been great
I have been super excited about the potential to make some serious cash. By serious I mean 15K minimum plus PROFIT per month (I don’t expect to make this right away at all) but then I got to Zac Johnsons blog where he does teach some good stuff about how to set up campaigns and everything we need to know as affiliate marketers. But then I saw a link to his post “$50,000 in NeverBLueAds Earnings” I was not impressed at all by this, well I was but it was not motivating because the time period was over 6+ months. I already do 50K in sales a month appx with my retail store and its various online stores. I was thinking “f&8k” this guy is tech as “f*%k” and he is only making 50K over 6 months plus he had to have some solid costs in there so maybe 30K profit at very best. I may as well just concentrate on growing my real business. Then I noticed his post on the very top “How I Made $860k PROFIT in 4 Months!” I went there. Now that is what I am talking about, this guy is a genius, but most of this was not really made with CPA. It was mostly with Yahoo Publisher network and the guy capitalized on a very good myspace resource site. I can’t make that, and it is too late anyhow to go there. Zac has done an amazing job on the net and I love the knowledge his blog has. I just started reading Zacs blog, so I will now go read his whole blog need to find out how much he is making now (I am sure it is a hell of a lot more than $50,000 in 6 months) and other successful blogs to get motivated again about PPC to CPA to learn some more. A LOT MORE
I have been able to join 3 great affiliate networks. I have seen some campaigns that interest me. But I don’t want to spend money when I do not fully understand everything yet.
The main things I need to do before starting my campaigns are
- - Learn more about A/B split testing (don’t know how yet)
- - Learn how to build sweet Landing Pages
- - Learn a lot more about tracking
After that I think I am ready to start my first campaign and learn a hell of a lot more.
I think I will have my first campaign up by Monday morning which I feel is good search time judging from order activity at my online stores.
OK I will update soon, thanks for reading if anyone has. And if I saw anything stupid it is because I am a total rookie.
Cheers
Es
