Being ¼ through the competition I am a little disappointed in my performance because I haven’t done as much as I would have liked to. To tell you the truth bar the little changes such as tweaking and swapping the offer for a few days I haven’t done anything productive with the campaign I have running. I have slowly been working on my next campaign which I plan on launching today at some point if I can finalize the keywords so that should give me a good boost in revenue to totally ruin Pauls chances of catching up with me :p .

Below are the overall stats of what’s been going on (as of the 7th September).

Richard Bonner: $840

Inspired Affiliate: $163

As you can see we are both falling short of our goals this month but I’m still pretty confident I can reach my target of $4,000 in revenue by the end of this month. Going on the past week I need to generate another $400 in the last 3 weeks of this month, to put that simple I need my new campaign to generate $17.40 a day in order to get my goal – I’m sure that’s possible!

Back to the competition, I will include some of the screenshots to show you the breakdown of my figure above.

Yahoo Search Marketing (cost)

MarketLeverage (revenue)

Azoogle (revenue)

Overall I made a profit of $233.14 for the first week which I can’t complain about, but I still need to push this to be making that each day!

I did a little experiment with the offer I was promoting which seemed great the first day but then over the weekend it died down – I’m not sure whether it was to do with the weekend. I made the mistake of swapping the offers when I should have split tested them so I could compare them both fairly.

Getting slightly worried I decided to switch back to see how yesterday went, which was a significant improvement from the day before so I’m in two minds what to do. I guess I will have to rotate them both evenly so I can get a true result of which converts better.

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I should really go back to my campaign and tweak it to the super affiliate level, I need to snap out of the being ok with the performance and push it to the max. On the good days of this campaign it can pull in anything from $60-$100 profit, at the same time it does also lose money some days but these are getting less frequent which is a good thing.

The first mistake I can make is to be ‘happy’ with the performance and leave it running, that’s the different between a full time affiliate and a super affiliate. I need to be constantly tuning and tweaking everything to get that $100 a day profit to $1,000+ profit a day, this is something I am guilty of not doing.

Aside from my main campaign which I’m relying on to pull me through this competition I need to get a few more going making a solid profit each day. If my offer was to get pulled or something was to happen I would go from making $XXX a day to $0 until I spend the time finding and changing it around, it would just be a matter of time until Paul overtakes me and takes the lead.

This is why I’m going to launch my other back up campaign today hopefully (tomorrow at the latest) so I can increase the lead and reach my goal this month. I’m a little weary of this new campaign because you may have read my other post about the keyword experiment I’m doing, I will be reporting how that does in the near future.

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