Thursday, May 31, 2007

Keeping it up

Apparently I am doing something right here. In just four days I have generated a little over $400 in affiliate income from my arbitrage experience.

I am adding three more campaigns today. I am sure that they all will not be as responsive as the one I am currently running. The good thing is I am over $400 in profit so I have some flexibility to experiment.

My ultimate goal is to have 15 campaigns going at one time and continually researching others. I have done this with basically no out of pocket money. If you remember I got $20 in free advertising from the Bidvertiser. (see button on left) I have now over spent the $20 but it is because I am in profit.

For my next three campaigns I will be dedicating $300 in advertising total. $100 for each campaign. I will post the details of each one in a later post.

Keep coming back it works...

Monday, May 28, 2007

Outstanding results so far

My PPC ad went live around 10 am this morning. If the results in 10 hours are any indication of how this campaign is going to run I will be am going to scout other similar opportunities.

So far here are the results:

Money spent on PPC advertising: $8.49

Revenue Generated : $112.00

Net profit of $103.51

I am extremely satisfied with result thus far.

This stuff is not rocket science it just requires you to pay attention and track your results.

In my next campaign I am going to try something a little different, that will allow me to capture some leads. I know this will cut down on my conversion ratios but the lead is more valuable than the conversion.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Ebooks and why not to waste your money on them

I have recently gained access to to several hundred ebooks out there. I have found that most all ebooks about making money online are a huge RIP OFF.

All the crap they package up and sell is available for free. If you search hard enough it is out there for free on the WWW. Almost every ebook I have read over the last year is the same diatribe repackaged and full of affiliate links to other bullshit.

The only benefit in an ebook that I can see is a complete moron can use it as a foundation to build upon and learn what to look for. So if you are a complete moron go out and buy all the ebooks you can find and I will promise you will be out several hundred to thousands of dollars and just be poorer for the process.

Ok sorry for the rant but I had a recent phone call with an online friend and her desperation after spending so much money on this crap and she still has not made any more money due to the process.

The first thing you need to do if you want to make money online is to "Just Do It" don't sit on your laurels and wait for the magic formula to appear.

Get off your ass and do something, anything even if it is starting a crappy blog like this one.

Tools that I am using

My advertising has not gone live yet so in the mean time I will share some of the tools that I am using..

Biverster. You will see a button on the left for them that will give you $20 in free clicks. In addition to the $20 in free clicks I have also set a daily ad budget of $10 per day. I will let this campaign run for seven days and check my results. Bidverster offers contextual advertising very similar to Adsense.

I am advertising a program affiliated with Clickbooth. I have read some recent trashing of Clickbooth so I will keep all posted on my relationship with them.

The exact affiliate program I am running is a primer for getting started with Adsense. It is a very inexpensive program that cost $1.87 that provides buyers tools and information on getting started with Adsense. Unfortunately, I do believe that there are many leaks in the program itself. As this is my first test in arbitrage I really don't care about the leaks as the bounty is $28 and that is more than I would make on a simple Adsense referral for a publisher.

The truth is that many people that try to make money with affiliate programs, arbitrage and contextual publishing usually give up before they get started. So that is why I am not really concerned with the leaks on this program.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

My first experiement with traffic arbitrage

Well I have finally taken to plunge into trying my hand at traffic arbitrage. Chances are if you have found this page you already know what traffic arbitrage is.


If not here is the .02 definition:

It is buying traffic for one price and selling it for another. I am using contextual advertising on other sites to drive traffic to an affiliate program.

From dictionary.com

ar·bi·trage [ahr-bi-trahzh for 1, 3; ahr-bi-trij for 2] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -traged, -trag·ing. –noun
1.Finance. the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices.


Here is exactly what I did:

I purchased $90 dollars in advertising to drive traffic to an affiliate program that pays $28 per sign up for a $1.87 product sale.

I will have to generate 4 sales to be in profit on this gambit.

I should generate 250 clicks and with only a 2% conversion I will be in profit.

My ad should be approved in two days. I will post a follow up after the first 24 hours it is live.