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Update on My Progress

  • Written by Richard 9 Comments
    Last Updated: September 29, 2009

    It’s been a while since I let you all know what’s happening with the 2 recent campaigns I launched. First off I have actually paused them both over the weekend so I can check out where they were heading and make the necessary changes before I spend any more money on them.

    I’ve not had a great deal of time dedicated to working lately so they have been pretty much going on auto pilot. Anyway here are the results from the 2 campaigns to date.

    CPA Campaign #1 (running 10 days)

    Spend: $599.35
    Rev: $416
    Profit: -$183.35
    ROI: -30.59%

    Although it lost money overall in the last 4 days I didn’t have any sales for some reason and spent ~$160 which would have brought the overall loss down a fair bit.

    I’m sure with some tweaking of the landing page and bids I can get that campaign profitable in the long run.

    Clickbank Campaign #1 (running 7 days)

    Spend: $270.39
    Rev: $0
    Profit: -$270.39
    ROI: -100%

    As you can see that one didn’t do very well off the bat, perhaps the clickbank offer isn’t very good or it could be any of the other 101 reasons on my behalf. I will be looking into that one in the future to see if there is a point reviving it because although the spend is fairly low (half my agreed budget per campaign) the return is shocking so far.

    Conclusion

    My initial thought was right in the fact being clickbank is a tough one, the offer doesn’t convert half as good as CPA offers so with this in mind I will be trying to boost income quicker by concentrating on my first 5 CPA before I try clickbank again.

  1. Good to hear about these campaigns Richard,

    CB seems to be far behind in terms of revenue… If the CB product commission is around 27$ – you’ve spent 10x as much – sure sign of a dud.

    CPA seems to be promising, I think you can turn it into black ink soon.

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  2. Richard, what programs to you recommend for CPA?

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  3. Sorry to see such low returns. One thing I don’t like about clickbank is that they take money for every month that you are inactive. This is why I am going to be trying CPA offers from now on. By the way I have been following you for a while now. Thanks for the great articles!

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  4. #4 DarkNight says:
    September 29, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    This is why I gave up on CLICKBANK years ago (CJ aint must better) and I am VERY suspicious of the GURU’s that promote CB the way to go. I ONLY started being profitable AFTER I started promoting CPA that have high public interests AND an offer that the FTC doesnt want to kill. Have you tried SINGLESNET or FLING in the UK ? or Teeth Whitening (and no that’s not a slam on brits…) Look at GOOGLE INSIGHTS for traffic and trend :) UK has the TOPS! for that.
    and REMEBER:
    ITS NOT THE KEYWORD that just gets them their.
    ITS NOT THE AD that just get them in.
    ITS YOUR OFFER AND AUDIENCE!!! thats what they are last seeing before they pull out the card.

    If they are looking for it (search volume)and have money (demographics) and not buying (0 conv).
    YOU ARE NOT SHOWING THEM WHAT THEY REALLY WANT !!!
    Try something else until you find what they want and then build upon it.

    Peace to All
    DN
    p.s. if you already know this. sorry. if you dont. well…

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  5. #5 DarkNight says:
    September 29, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    sorry for the typos. I just bested my best month and had too many mochas to celibrate ( and that was after 3 google slaps, 2 Yahoos and 2 MSN ) Weeeeee I love the volatile nature of IM :)

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  6. Richard – thanks for the synopsis of what’s been happening with both of your campaigns. I’ve also read that CB isn’t the best to convert through pay-per-sale and it’s best to market to CB through the use of lists.

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  7. @ Anton – I believe the payout is in the $35-40 mark but yeah it’s still nothing to get exciting about. I will review the CPA one though because some days were actually profitable.

    @ Roman – Hmm there are hundreds out there and I personally think the affiliate manager has a big part. Some you just click with and it seems to work out much better in the end.

    @ Cedrick Reese – What you mean they take money for every month your inactive? If you dont work with them for 2 months it will cost you money :S

    @ Darknight – Good comment, 100% agree

    @ mo – I haven’t worked with email lists to be honest but it might be better, can’t exactly say without testing etc. But so far in my opinion I would suggest CPA being at least the easier to convert.

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  8. Is this being done through adwords/the search engines?

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  9. @ BigJC – Yeah this is soley through adwords at the moment.

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