Week In Review – August 24-30

Ok, so I know that I didn’t even get a single post made this week on the blog. Not that I have set myself a schedule that I would follow 100%, I would at least like to get 1 post a week if not 2. But I’ve been busy working on a lot of things, so what exactly have I been up to?

FaceBook Marketing Round 2!

Ok so I know that in my last weekly review I said that I was done with FaceBook for awhile. Well, that lasted about a whole week. I started up another campaign last night trying my luck with the TriSlim offer from MarketLeverage. Why did I choose this? Because I know that the weight loss niche is huge and that there is money to be made in it.

Before with all my campaigns that I have been running in PPC I have been so hesitant on spending money. Which is stupid of me and I now realize this. I can’t be afraid to lose money anymore, well lose a lot of money. I have lost money so far in everything that I have done but I am talking about losing a lot of it. Nothing in the thousands of dollars, I can’t afford that but I have been so worried about losing $10, $20, $30. It takes money to make money these days and nothing is free without some kind of consequence.

Now I am prepared to throw up to $150 at a campaign to test it out to see the traffic potential. If it takes $150 to find out the campaign or offer is a loss, then so be it. I’ll make it back eventually, I will succeed in affiliate marketing, I have the desire and drive and that will never go away.

FaceBook is the quickest way to get impressions when it comes to PPC. Even with my small campaign that I started yesterday, I ended up with over 50,000 impressions. Don’t get too excited for me though, that particular ad only got 15 clicks so I am sitting at a paltry .03% CTR. I just need to figure out the right headline and ad text. Maybe a different image but with the TriSlim offer I think I may be stuck to showing just the bottle. FaceBook is pretty restrictive and they want any image shown to relate as much as possible to the landing page. I tried using an image of a fit woman but they denied it saying it wasn’t relevant to the product. So I just changed the ad to a bottle and my ad got approved without any issues.

I know there is money to be made in FaceBook, just need to find the right combination.

Site Flipping

I’ve never personally flipped a site or started one with the intention of selling it. I actually stumbled into the situation because of an email to a friend who got me into actually creating my first affiliate site. I emailed him asking what was up and how are things going. I got an email back with an update and he gave me an offer to team up with him on a site he is working on.

I figured what the hell, might be a good chance to make some money. So we’ve teamed up and have been working on promoting the site, hopefully we can make some good money from it. The plan is to sell it within a month and then if we think that we could work well as a team then to keep on keeping on. I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t continue, we seem to get along pretty damn well.

Back From The Dead

The first site that I started up as an affiliate site, I had stopped focusing on it about 2 months ago. I only made a few sales and of course got discouraged. So instead of dedicating myself and pushing myself, I failed. I gave up too quickly, I didn’t try hard enough and now I regret it. It’s possible that had I pushed myself I could be making a ton of money with the site right now but I could have also lost a lot of money. I would have taken either of those routes instead of doing nothing.

But now I have dedicated myself to making money with the site however long it takes. It is a review site promoting software and shows 3 products. I have been contemplating whether or not to try my luck and just take it down to one product and promote that. It would give me a chance to really target my ads and campaign because I could be writing everything for just one product for the ads making them super relevant instead of having to try to fit 3 products into the ad.

Or maybe I should just target one product in the ad anyways and leave the 3 products on there? It could work although it may end up confusing people when they visit. If you can grab somebody’s attention with the ad and get them to click through thinking they are going to be presented with a product and you give them 3 options…..well then they now have to spend more time deciding on which product they want. When it comes to making a sale, you want to provide the least path of resistance to the order page. Hmmmm, I will have to think about this one as it may be more detrimental then I think, but it could end up proving extremely successful. That is the thing, you never know and that is why you must always test everything!

The Current Endeavor

I’ve been really working on my web hosting review site these past few weeks. There is a TON of money to be made with web hosting referrals and although it is a highly competitive niche I am determined to be successful with it.

Now I am not saying that it is totally unique as there are a shitload of web hosting “review” sites out there. What’s with the quotes? Because most of these review sites are fake reviews of web hosts and you never see any negative ratings or reviews from people who actually use the host. That is what sets my site apart from most of the others out there, granted there are a few other sites out there who rate web hosts by customer reviews.

I have Google Alerts setup to alert me whenever a host is mentioned that I have listed on my site, that way if somebody makes a blog post or posts something to a web site about a host, I am instantly notified about it. I’ve used this strategy to contact some blog authors asking them to visit my site and review their web host and they were kind enough to do that for me. Unfortunately, although there are millions of sites out there, there isn’t a whole lot of people posting reviews of their current web hosting providers.

Considering real user reviews are going to be the lifeblood that drives my site I need to find more. That is the whole reason why I started the site so that people could get true information about the web hosts. So I have a few ideas as to how to go about this, I am going to start implementing them this upcoming week and will surely give you a report on my hopeful success.

So I have quite the schedule to keep up with and it will definitely be keeping me busy. But I will get at least 1 blog post up next week, I am not sure exactly what it will be on. I have a few ideas floating around in my head as I was contacted this last week by a reader. So Spencer, if you decided to stick around keep an eye out for a blog post this upcoming week.

Garry Conn Is Addictive

For some of you reading my blog, you may know who Garry Conn is. For those of you that don’t you are missing out! Garry is one bad ass blogger and when it comes down to blogging there is nobody better to get advice and help from.

He is an AdSense Master and while I could keep going on and on I won’t. If you really want some great tips on blogging, you need to check out his blog.