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Back To The Drawing Board

Manu — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:23:19 +0000

Wow, I’m back to making $0/day. I had a few profitable campaigns in the past few months which lasted for a while. But they’ve all died out now. So what do I do? Well, the only option I’ve got is to get back to the long grind, and work smarter this time. Get back to the basics. Get more creative. And think long term. So here’s the list of things I’m gonna concentrate on in 2010.

SEO, link building and all that shit

I’m no SEO junkie, but I have lots of cool data from the campaigns I ran on search during the past 3-4 months. Yeah, I’ve been kicked out of Google. And YSM seems to hate my stuff more than anything else on the planet. So the smartest thing would be to SEO my landing pages for the top converting, long tail keywords. Low competition. Free traffic. I’d be a complete douche to miss out on this.

Social media = $$$

I got into Facebook just a little while ago (I don’t know what took me so long to give it a try. Fuuuuuuucck) and I broke even on my first week. Nothing too big..spent around 600 bucks and made $650. But what was evident was the VOLUME. There is so much volume out there in social media. And lots of monies to be made.

So the first quarter of 2010 is going to be all social media for me. Facebook, POF, etc.

List building, media buying, etc

As I get more comfortable with monetizing social media traffic, I’d love to expand into email marketing and media buying. If I can get there as soon as six months from now, I would be very glad.

EWA Network FTW

I love these guys. They treat me with respect. I got my first wire on just the 8th day of running with them. Hands down EWA is number 1 on my list. I’m so looking forward to growing with them. Great guys to do business with.

Number 2 would be Hydra…my AM there is good, and they’ve always paid me on time.

2010 is gonna be great

I had a really cool year in 2009. Learned so much and more importantly, took action. So I’m looking forward to take that momentum into 2010 and make more inroads. With so many projects at hand, I’d like to take one step at a time, & try and be less of the lazy ass marketer that I usually am. There are so many opportunities out there, overwhelming at times…I’m hoping to keep up with the changes in the industry and get some real work done. Comparing what I knew last year and know now, 2010 could well be the year for me.

This shit gets me excited all the time. I love this industry :)

First Real Profitable Month

Manu — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:19:12 +0000

September was my first real profitable month. I’ve had some $100-$150 months, but last month I did $987.50 in profit :) That’s almost $1k, I think its pretty cool for a beginner.

I bumped into a few problems right at the start of October, thanks to YSM, but will sort them out soon. I can’t wait to blow things up. I guess I’ll move up slowly as cashflow is still one of my major problems.

So my next goal would be to hit $1k/week in revenue and get into weekly payouts as soon as possible. Two things: I can go try other traffic sources for the few email/zips that I’m running now, OR, I can try some higher payout offers with YSM and Adwords for now and think about other traffic sources later.

I feel one with the industry now :)

September Update

Manu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:54:02 +0000

I haven’t posted here in a while as I’ve been working on a number of other projects. But I’ve decided that I should blog on a regular basis, as it could help me network with more people and also be a nice motivating factor to continue grinding all day.

I’m currently doing $30-$50/day net with an offer on Hydra, direct linking on YSM. And I’m trying to hit $1000/week in revenue so I can get into weekly wires.

I’m experimenting with a lot of things, and I’ll try and drop a post every day :)

Updates!

Manu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:40:40 +0000

I haven’t posted for a while now. So what have I been doing? Here are some updates.

Profitable Days

The campaign that gave me my first profitable day didn’t last long, but I made another one that did. Rode that one for a while and had my first profitable month! lol, made some bucks at 400% ROI.

Cheques!

Got my first check on May 6th! And another one at the end of the month! Both from Neverblue. I was pretty upbeat until I heard that the cheques wouldn’t clear until 45 days. Also, the banks are going to charge me for processing foreign cheques. So no cheques from now on. Such a waste of time and money. I hope I get to those weekly wires soon.

Google woes

I pretty much hit a brick wall when my budgets dwindled. Coach suggested I should build my sites while I waited for the cheques to clear. Google tried to charge my card (with the credit limit already over) and the payment failed. So Google just suspended my ads. Have to get around this budget thingy pretty quickly.

Lessons

I haven’t launched much during the last 60 days largely due to non existent funds, but I have been learning quite a lot. Talked with a couple of successful guys on AIM and made a few decisions about how to structure my future campaigns. Very useful. Should continue networking with a lot of people in the industry.

Nothing interesting happened, but I guess I will have my good days soon :)