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Just a follow up on my previous blog post on starting all over again for my health website, and using the advice from Andrew Wee, I have just completed converting one of my articles to a spinnable format so that my articles can be spin into different articles.  Now awaiting for approval from Free Traffic System (easier to refer as FTS) and see what kind of results can I expect.

I use a keyword i am targeting that is not that competitive and should be easy to rank as my experiment for FTS.

In the mean while, I just realized I have more than 15 articles in my computer that I have written in the past but never submitted to any article directory.  Stupid move but it sure allows me to have more articles to convert to make full use of the Free Traffic System platform.

By the way, to Andrew Wee, thanks for the tips in the previous blog post comments you made.  I have written down the details and executing them.

Ok.  Thats it.  I have a slow plan to produce 4 unique articles for 4 different platforms and 1 spinnable article for Free Traffic System per day and see how things worked out.  Still have to change my squeeze page too.

Regards,

andrew

Ever since I started doing videos for customers to teach them how to install software, I have became very very lazy in terms of writing articles to improve my clickbank sales.  Though I can pretty much survive just by doing videos for customers, I have to admit laziness is the middle name now.  I can enthusiastically setup software programs for people, learn new software, write my own programs but when it comes to the right things to do for clickbank, I have totally neglected my clickbank sales.

This is the current sad status of my clickbank account. And truth be told, since i had found another way to find money on the Internet, I gave up clickbank for quite a while.

But it was always a wish of mine to see the bars of clickbank being in blue and grey everyday. So as of now, I have only made $25.48 for the whole month of April 2009.

Inspired by John Yeo of www.johnyeo.name as well advice from Andrew Wee of www.whoisandrewwee.com , I felt it was time to buck on clickbank. Consistency is the game and Andrew Wee gave me a lot of advice as well. There was no point in showing empty clickbank account.  And since i have all the time in the world, it was time.

Case Study : Weight Loss Niche

On this day, I have decided to document down my steps to turning this website profitable again. When I first started this health website in May 2007, i was hoping for it to be a hit and played around with it. It went through a number of transformations.

Read the rest

I know I have barely updated my blog but this is a good thing for me.  Cause there are progress in my IM journey and that is why I seldom blog.

First up, I have been helping a friend setup DLGuard and Amember software.  What a learning process to go through.  I think i can start doing some videos and selling it.

Second, been running 3 campaigns using Yahoo Search Marketing and after failing to get any sales for my first 2 campaigns, my 3rd campaign is already seeing 2 clickbank sales.  Thanks to friends and a coach who has been giving us some great training.  His name will be revealed soon.

Thirdly, i finally started running my polls for a CPA offer again.  Though I lost money, i still consider it a step forward.  Spent $215 singapore dollars and earn $165 from my CPA network.  This was the first time i ever surpassed $100 for my efforts from the traffic in google content network.

Fourthly, subscribing to SENuke now.  Lets see how much money can this software bring my sales.

Business have started picking up.  Clickbank sales is still way below my usual mark but hopefully it starts to increase.

Thats all for now.  Time to earn more money.

Regards,

Andrew

So far, it has been a pretty bad sales month for december 2008 and january 2009.  Really learnt a lesson that I should have expanded to more niches instead of relaying on just 1 niche.  Look at the stats below.  It was going up but the moment december came, things went downhill all the way.

October  2008 $246.54
November 2008 $268.43
December 2008 $26.30
January  2008 $32.34

Time to buck up, buck up, buck up

Regards,

Andrew

I have been pretty inactive for a while since my niche is not for xmas, my clickbank sales really took a dive.  Anyway, I was enjoying myself watching so many movies and episodes online that I have to say I really enjoyed myself throughout december.

The best part of 2009 is that I found a IM coach that is coaching 12 of us to be better in our preselling of products to customers and hopefully, that works out!

The worst part of 2009, the really BIG BANG for me happened on January 2nd, 2009.  I was about to prepare for a launch of my new adwords campaign and my webhost, Bluehost, dropped me a BOMB! They banned my account because my site is listed as a phishing email site.

I was HACKED!

Worst part, bluehost couldn’t really advise me on what to do except to say I have to remedy the situation.  First time encountering such times and sadly, when you look around online, there is alot of solutions for normal email users but not much solutions for webmasters.  It is so damn frustrating.

The only thing I found out is to be careful of all php and asp files and html files are relatively safe from being used as phishing.  So it was time to do some clean up.

There was no software that I could find to detect which files my web host has that is causing the phishing or could I get bluehost to help in resolving since they say they only provide hosting and it is each person’s own responsibility to take care of what type of software we install onto their server.  Sickening but they do have it in their terms and conditions.  One thing good was that their live chat support was able to answer me immediately to let me gain access to my domain hosting so that I can rememdy the situation.  And once everything was resolved, using their live chat (which is really instant), they enabled my websites to be shown again once I explained my resolution.

So how did I solve the problem?

The best way I know how.

A- Backup all my database,

B - Backup all my web files,

C - Reinstall everything one by one.

I split my solutions into 3 categories =>

1 - websites that are purely HTML

-> Since I read that HTML files seem to be safe, all my websites that are purely HTML will be copied from my backup straight back to my web server.  Just need to make sure that the files are uploaded without problems. This solution if it is pure HTML files.

If you have any php files, Look through the php codes to see if there are any unfamiliar codes sending out some funny commands.

2 - Purely Wordpress blogs

First thing you need to do is to backup all your database tables.  Remember to take note which tables belong to which of your wordpress blogs.  This is very important.

Take note of the SQL tables below

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_terms
wp_usermeta
wp_users

You may have other tables but it most likely belongs to other wordpress plugins and not from your original wordpress SQL tables.

2a - The whole point I am trying to achieve is that I am going to backup all my wordpress blogs into my harddisk, uninstall all my wordpress blogs using bluehost web host’s fantastico function.  And if there are any remaining files left in the folder, I will delete them all.

2b - Then I will reinstall each blog one by one using the fantastico function again.

2c - Then I will upload my previous wordpress theme that was backed up into my harddisk.

2d - Once done, login to your phpMyadmin function in your web host.

2e - Find the correct database that you have backup on your harddisk and reload it back into your SQL tables.

wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_terms
wp_usermeta

For the wp_comments, the data is the people who commented on your blog so it is up to you if you want it to be loaded or not.

For wp_users, this is not necessary since you have already specified a new profile when reinstalling your wordpress blogs.

2f - Reload whatever plugins you need.

2g - Test if all the links are working.

3 - Mixture of HTML and wordpress

This type of situation is when you have normal HTML files as your main files and have a added blog.  Just combined my 2 solutions above if you are in such a situation.

3a -Backup the wordpress SQL tables.  Backup all files and folders for that domain into your harddisk.

3b - Remove all files and folders for that domain in your web host. Uninstall wordpress blog from fantastico.

3c- Add back all your html files first and ensure everything is working.

3d - Reinstall wordpress blog. Load back your previous wordpress theme as well.

3e - Load back the wordpress data that you back up previously.

3f - Test.  Load any plugins that you need.

The End Of Solution

Above is my brief way to resolve my phishing website problems.  Took me 2 full days to complete everything above.  There are many other details I missed out, especially if you are not good in technical stuff like reloading SQL data back after reinstalling wordpress.

Plugin and Applications To Note

There are many web applications and wordpress plugins you have to be careful because these programmers may code good uses of applications and plugins, but it may potentially open up your web server to be hacked as these codes may lack security measures or open loopholes that allows hackers to make your website become a phishing website like mine.

Disclaimers:

Ok, I have to put this because I have no idea if I have resolve the situation.  I do know that I have cleared almost all files that I am allowed to delete and reinstalled anything (those with php files) that is from bluehost capabilities and not from my previous backup.  Only files I reused are those HTML files.  Logically, since there are no more files left, then it means I have a clean slate in the web server.  But I am not sure so please don’t blame me if it does not work for you.  So far, no more problems on my side but keeping my fingers crossed.

Regards,

Andrew

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Been pretty out of focus these days and though the sales are coming in slowly, I have decided to go back to basics.  Meaning I have been feeling a bit of loss because I seem to miss a step whenever I launch a new campaign and even though some campaigns may bring in sales, it does not really last that long, especially if there are more and more competitors fighting for the same product sales.

I sign on to both Patric Chan and Affilioblueprint courses and see if i can breakthrough from my current stagnation and strive for higher sales.  My main aim is still to conquer clickbank sales to achieve at least $3000 per month from it.  Though I have temptations to deviate to CPA networks and such, clickbank is something that i would like to conquer.

Lets see how both courses go from here.

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Interesting statistics of my clickbank sales that I have been compiling today.  Since I have not been able to do anything these couple of weeks due to me being back training in the army, I was pleasantly surprise to see 2 sales for this week already.

clickbank_progress_nov08

Most of my sales currently come from this one clickbank product and it has been giving me sales every week for the month of october and 2 new sales in the first week of november 2008.

Total, I have already sold 17 and this is the statistics:

1 refund

9 sales generated from google adwords

7 sales generated from article marketing

Highlights of article marketing:

I have only 5 adgroups to get that 9 sales from google but the interesting part is that I have 13 articles to generate 7 sales.

If each article cost me $4 (Singapore dollars), then I have only spent $52.  And each sales I will receive USD$26.30 so the total is USD$184 (Sing is $272).

Therefore, my total profits is $272 (sing) -$52 (sing) = $220.

I have already lost count on how much i have spent on google adwords due to the constant bidding changes and deleting of useless keywords but ultimately it became slightly profitable.

So the ratio of my articles to sales will be 13 articles : 7 sales => 53.8% conversion rate.

I have around 50 articles in my harddisk that I have not submitted but let me do an experiment for the month of november to submit all 50 articles and if it works, I should roughly have another 26 sales, which will amount to Sing $1012.  Hopefully it will works.

Regards,

Andrew

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Frankly speaking, I have not been as hardworking as I should have been and progress has continued to be slow.  But the funny thing is sales for clickbank has been improving a bit.  In the sense that at least there are some sales this month. Still shy from really making a living online since the sales, when compare to any affiliate, is peanuts (hence businesspeanuts).

Clickbank progress october

I have around 60 over articles not submitted yet so progress should have been much much better i guess.  Anyway, I have to apologize if some of you are looking for some information on what i am doing.  But basically, my methods are superbly easy and straight forward. Basically I have been very lazy for this product but it seems to bring in the best results.

This is what i have roughly done so far.

The simple 7 steps to small clickbank sales.

Step 1: Find a product in clickbank with gravity between 50 to 200

Step 2: Find long tail keywords and do abit of keyword spying on the competition, gather around 30 keywords (google keyword tool and keyword elite)

Step 3: Buy a domain name (namecheap.com) similar to the product you are promoting

Step 4: For the new domain name, set a redirect to your clickbank affiliate link

Step 5: Write 13 articles and submit to ezinearticles (3 sales from here. I still have 30 articles not submitted for this product)

Step 6: Use those 30 keywords and get as targeted as you can possibly be for some of these keywords. I created around 20 adgroups and slowly eliminated and left with only 6 adgroups now. But these 6 adgroups have generated around 8 sales over these 2 months.  I only did my homework in September and I got lazy, so it has been just 6 adgroups without any change for these 1 month plus.

Step 7: Monitor your adgroups cost versus your sales. As well as monitor which of your articles seem to be bringing in the sales.

Thats it.

Simple steps to accomplish right? I tried doing my own landing pages, squidoo pages but heck, I just can’t get the right formula.  So might as well just start driving traffic and get some sales on the road, and once there is money, I will spend more time perfecting my landing page skills.

For the time being, the bulk of my money will still have to be on creating websites for clients, as well as doing some part time jobs so that I can outsource more in future.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andrew

(I will be gone for 3 weeks for my army incamp training so hopefully, my sales will not be affected when i do not have access to my computer)

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Hi Friends,

Great news if you are a bum marketer who is using article marketing for traffic.  Ezinearticles, one of the best article directory, is going to reveal the keywords that visitors use to find your articles.  The keyword search will be from august 2008 onwards.  So far, I can see my august and september search and which keywords are used to find my articles.

There are 3 things that immediately comes to mind:

1 - there are more keywords that i can use to write articles

2 - these keywords can be used in my PPC campaign

3 - I can actually know how popular each of my articles are and how good/badly each article is doing

Check out this blog post from ezinearticles:

http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/10/traffic-search-terms.html

This is another great arsenal you can use to make your own bum marketing efforts a big success.

Regards,

Andrew

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First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a “how-to” guide but was always too lazy busy.

Anyway, I wanted to segregate the active from the inactive just by looking at the list and for some strange reasons, I deleted the whole list of people.  Though the list was only consisting of 20 over people, I still couldn’t believe the mistake i made.

So sorry to anyone who sign up.  Deeply apologize. I better start writing that ebook, that was left half-done about a month ago.

Regards,

Andrew

Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is simply too boring.  Frank Kern was right, do what you like and outsource everything that you do not like.

My past and present performance below.

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First week

Income - $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses - $170.58

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Second week

Income - $120.32

Expenses - $89.35

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Third Week

Income - $170.10

Expenses - $193.71

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Buy IM Products - $121.80

Adwords - $8.41

Food - $45.00

Newspaper - $0

Taxi - $0

MRT/Bus - $0

Miscellaneous - $18.50

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Fourth Week So Far:

Income  - $252.00

Expenses - $20.27

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Adwords - $4.27

Food - $16.00

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Last week, I bought this product call Market Samurai (bought it for US$87) and the promises seems good but the performance and stability has been questionable. It can do keyword research, find all the hubpages, squidoo lens and ezinearticles that has the keyword you are trying to target.  But the problem is performance.  And sometimes, the loading just cannot seem to finish.  I am comtemplating to ask for a refund or to wait for a further release.  Anyway here is how it looks like.

Market Samurai Pics

It is offering a free trial for 30 days.  It cost US$147 for the full version but there is no full version at the moment.  Whether you are using free or paid, it is the same version as they are still trying to solve many issues and the estimated time for the whole software to be stable seems to be at the end of the year.  So if you intend to buy now, I think you should just save your money until a stable system is out.

Regards,

Andrew

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Typing this blog post at Starbucks, relaxing with a mocha frappacino. Basically, it has been a lazy 2 weeks.  First week was a transition period.  Distractions from my dogs, my baby niece as well as totally being unmotivated to do anything except eat, sleep and eat some more.  But still manage to squeeze out 1 clickbank sales from no where.

Second week was much better.  Starting writing articles (about 10 so far), made changes to my adwords campaign as well created 1 new CPA campaign as well.  Got 1 clickbank sale from my article marketing effort and also got paid $70 from a friend to guide him on using some CPA tools.

So overall:

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First week

Income - $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses - $170.58

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products - $32.78

Adwords - $16.90

Food - $43.50

Newspaper - $1.40

Taxi - $16.00

MRT/Bus - $25.00

Miscellaneous - $35.00

Actions:

Create 2 articles. Submitted to ezinearticles.

Met new friends in the IM industry.

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Second week

Income - $120.32

Expenses - $89.35

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products - $0.00

Adwords - $17.40

Food - $48.90

Newspaper - $1.40

Taxi - $0.00

MRT/Bus - $3.00

Miscellaneous - $18.65

Actions:

Wrote 7 articles but did not submit.

Wrote 2 articles and submitted to ezinearticles.

Created 2 CPA Polls.

Got paid for advice on CPA website creation.

Set target with Donald to make SGD$3000 by December 11th, 2008.

Spoke to Chee Kui for advice on what he do day to day to achieve 4-figure paycheck now.

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I am not calculating my other income that is coming in from my part time jobs so that I can track those money that has to do with online.

I have still got a long way to go but for being lazy in the first 2 weeks, it is still ok I guess.  Just need to work much harder next week.  Let’s see how things will go.

Regards,

Andrew

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Finally receive Frank Kern’s Mass Control Welcome Kit that he was giving free a while back ago.  Been waiting for it to arrive and it finally did.  From the first material, everything was better than I have already expected.  When you read his materials, it is really different from any other products that i have bought.  Simply fantastic.

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Finally receive my CDs of Patric Chan’s “Inside The Underground Insider Marketing Lab” course that he has been promoting recently.  This is probably one of my last Internet Marketing products that I will be buying.  I am pretty impress with his courses (I was once in his Chan Do It membership) so far and I am going to use his course to make money within 30 days.

As some of you know, I am turning to IM full time on Monday 01-September-2008.  My last day on the job is actually Friday 29th August 2008.  So I will rest 2 days during the weekends and next monday, it sounds like a good day to start my journey from ground zero.

Anyway, I will write down my experiences here starting from Day 1 to Day 30. Let’s see how i can apply Patric’s methods to boost my earnings for September 2008.

So far, my IM earnings for August is below:

Earnings from Clickbank is US$84.93

Earnings from PayPal is US$167.5

Earnings from ebay is US$5.84

Total Earnings: US$258.27

The biggest problem is I cannot withdraw money from ebay and clickbank because the amount is too low for me staying in Singapore.  So the target will be to increase my income from clickbank and paypal account to $2k each.  And starting from September to December (4 months), lets see how i can increase to such an amount.

Anyway, I have a few part time jobs so I can still have some money for expenses but ultimately, I have burn the bridge of my stable monthly income to force myself to succeed in Internet marketing.  Some people say why not wait until you get a stable IM income before you become full time, but my job as a programmer is taking up so much of my energy and time that I barely have any strength to do IM.  So it is now or not.  The journey starts 1st September 2008.

Anyway, I will be using Patric Chan’s Inside Marketing Lab as the basis point of my journey.  Track me here.

Thanks for reading.

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I was logging in to my ezinearticles account to check my statistics for my new articles when suddenly these graphs appeared. And there was monthly tracking as well. I was pretty impressed. Look below:

This was an article in March 08 and as you can see from the graph, the peak was in May 08 and after that, the traffic didn’t really pick up much. I remember that this article was bringing me one to two clickbank sales per month during those peak months.

In the past, I was recording the statistics myself to track the performance of each articles so that you will know how to improve the SEO as well as get more links to it. But with the monthly statistics and graphs, it will definitely make my life simpler as an article marketer trying to make sense of how each of my articles are performing.

Kudos to EzineArticles for including this new feature.

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Hi,

3rd clickbank sales in first 10 days of August 2008. First time in my own slow history that i got 3 sales in 10 days. Woo hoo!! Spent $5 on advertising and got back $25.92. It sure felt great!

Now, I am stuck though. I have a set of keywords using google adwords but I am not sure how to scale it bigger to increase my traffic and sales. Time to read more books and blogs to find a solution. If anyone can advise me on the next step, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

andrew

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Short post on using adwords.  2 sales in early august.  I guess it is a pretty good start for me. Though i am far off from alot of people but this is the first time i have such results.  At least it is more than $50 per week.  For August, have 2 sales hitting $53.26.  Plus i just completed a website project for a client for $48 so total income for august 08 is $101.26. Lets see if i can hit $300 this month or not.

Oh, will be starting a CPA campaign again.  Hope this works fine.

Regards,

Andrew

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Just when I was about to give up on Adwords again (this is the 4th or 5th time already), the magical feeling has happened again! This is the first time in my Adwords history that I have achieved 3 sales in just 3 days using purely Google Adwords advertising.

The last time I achieved a sale from clickbank was in last year september 2007 and so far, in my first 4 attempts at google adwords, I have already lost $400+. So for this fifth time, it feels great that my cost is still low and yet, the profits are there.

Finally … Finally…Finally..

Why the initial dejection from me? Because I have 2 campaigns, one for a CPA offer and one for this clickbank product. I was making a lost on that CPA offer but when the smell of profit is just about to come, I seem to have been slapped on that domain by Google. And the clickbank campaign was not really making money. But after these 3 days, it has been a joy!

CPA offer Campaign - Still Slapped!

Clickbank Campaign - Profits finally!

Breakdown From Clickbank

Using Adwords From 1 Clickbank Product : SIN$105.76 (USD$78.34)
Adwords Expenses 11/07/08 to 31/07/08 : SIN $34.35
Profit (Sales minus Adwords Expenses): SIN $71.41
Article Marketing To Clickbank Product: SIN$35.58 (USD$26.96)

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Total Profit(Adwords Tactic + Article): SIN$106.99
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This is the first time that i had 4 sales from clickbank and the special moment, 3 of them came from adwords. And using a tracking software, I am beginning to know my first profitable “long tail keyword”.

For The Future

I have just tendered in my resignation today and hopefully, for the month of August, since it will be my last month on the job, the game will be raised to a higher level. Both on the article marketing and adwords front. Maybe when i see more success with august, i can start sharing some strategies that i have just recently learned.

Thanks for reading!

Regard,

Andrew

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As you can see, there were no post for 10 days simply because I was having such a huge learning curve when using google adwords with CPA offers. Basically, I have already spent over SIN$106.92 over a 7 day period but my earnings are SIN$41.69. So I have not manage to recoup my advertising expenses as yet.

As you can see, there were 3 days which did not have any activity. This was because Google stopped my ads. And I deleted it because i thought i have been slapped by Google but apparently, sometimes Google will stop your ads as they will do a review of your campaign. Did not know about such things until I read this in a forum. Luckily, google adwords does not totally delete away your campaign so it was just a simple click of a button to reactivate that campaign.

Things I learn:

1 - Continue to pump out new campaigns to find more gems to earn more.

2 - keyword tracking is super important. From keyword tracking, I can even gauge which keywords are bringing in the money for me.

3 - The way Google adwords run our ads and what are the ways to lower the bids or raise the bids.

Money Sense:

Part time transcripts jobs - SIN$170

Setup webpage for customers - US$50 - SIN$63

Earnings from CPA Offers - SIN$41.69 + SIN$7.02 (money made from 2 other campaigns) - SIN$48.71

Adwords Expenses - SIN$180 (Just realized i have another 2 unsuccessful campaigns)

Clickbank -> SIN$106.65 commission - SIN$22.52 adwords expenses = SIN$84.13

Total Earned -> SIN$388.36

Total Spent -> SIN$202.52

Profits -> SIN$185.84

Latest News:

I will be handing in my resignation letter this coming week and will be concentrating full time in my IM business while doing any part time jobs to supplement my daily expenses.

Interesting Findings:

Found this blog, http://www.businessblogreview.com/, that did a blog post review on my businesspeanuts.com website at

http://www.businessblogreview.com/personal-finance/business-peanuts.html

Pretty interesting. Thanks for the review, whoever you are.

Thats all for now. Once I have manage to get my earnings to be more than my advertising cost, then i will share with you how i do these campaigns.

Regards,

Andrew

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Just last week, I started testing out another google adwords campaign using the search network for a clickbank product and this week, I just launch another campaign but this time is of a different nature. This time I am testing out using google adwords content network for Cost-Per-Action offers.

First Time Setting Up A CPA Campaign

I can tell you it is so much simplier than trying to setup a website to sell a clickbank product but the cost can easily go high up because I am using adwords content network to generate traffic.

How this works is this:

1 - Create landing page website

2 - Use adwords to generate traffic to landing page

3 - Get visitors to go to the CPA offer

4 - Visitor submits their email address and you get paid per email submits.

Each offer can range between a few cents to a few dollars.

Sounds easy?

After my first night of experimentation, it is pretty scary. I will not tell you what my landing page are but I can state the statistics of my first night.

Statistics Of My First CPA Campaign

Spent Singapore dollars $25.31 on 105 clicks from the content network.

And out of 105 who came to my landing page, 55 got to my CPA offers but only 1 submitted their email so I only got $2.025 for the whole night. So I lost around $23 dollars on the first night. But I was pretty happy as well because this was my first CPA lead. And of course i am sad cause my conversion rate was amazingly poor.

Making Changes

Anyway, I have made some changes to the sub-headers as well as change the CPA offer and things seem to look up cause my earnings as of now that i am typing this blog post is around $7.02. Currently google adwords is down for maintenance but I am sure I am still losing money but at least the losses seem better.

My budget is set at $25 and since I manage to get $7.02, at least i have reduce the losses to $17.98 for my second night. So my next target is to match my earnings to cover at least $25. Hopefully, I can do it.

Will update further next time. Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andrew

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Just receive this email from Travis who is one of the kings of bum marketing and this is a pretty good video about how to write a good bio box that attracts people to your website when you are using articles to attract traffic.

Enjoy!

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Ok. This is my fourth attempt at trying to solve the mysteries of using google adwords. I have already lost around $600 in my previous 3 attempts but I just refused to give up. Anyway, I will be using these blog entries to track my progress, whether I manage to succeed this time or not. Not sure if anyone is interested but if you can, you can always give me some advice. Anyway I have outline 2 projects that I will be doing for google adwords.

Project 1: Clickbank Product

I have just completed doing all the keyword research necessary. I skipped all the niche research thingy, find a clickbank product that has been selling well (nothing to do with IM), and created 14 adgroups with about 8 to 10 keywords per adgroup, with 2 adverts for testing conversion. Using xtremeconversion, I created 14 redirect pages to track my conversion keywords (provided the keywords do convert). Also set a $25 budget, and only do exact matches for keywords. And I will slowly expand too. Maybe I will subscribe to keyword websites like keywordcompete.com or spyfu.com to get more keyword ideas.

Project 2: CPA Offers

I just signed up for marketleverage, copeac and pepperjam and looking for CPA offers to test by doing polling experiments. To me, this is like a totally different portion of IM. The concentration will be on the content network.

Always Remember

Just need to tell myself (and anyone who is facing the same problems) these 3 points:

1 - Keep It Simple Stupid

2 - Be Consistent Daily

3 - Doing More Does Not Mean Productivity. Doing The Real Boring Stuff Is What Brings Money In.

Regards,

Andrew

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Just discovered that the google keyword tool now shows the number of keyword searches but I am still not sure the number is a period, yearly, monthly, weekly or daily search volume. Need to explore more but it is definitely great to finally see some number appearing.

Google AdWords: Keyword Tool

I believe alot of IM products will be in for some change as well.

Updates:

Took it from Google’s description about the search figures

Approximate Search Volume [Previous Month]

This column shows the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network in the previous calendar month. This number is specific to your targeted country and language as well as your selection from the Match Type drop-down menu.

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Finally, my first positive income from setting up an ebay-affiliated website. After finding the solution to my problem for my iphone niche, it has finally made a little income. Check out my stats which i extracted from the ebaypartnernetwork.com. Though the amount is just $11.70, but at least the traffic is pretty targeted. For 45 clicks, I earn $11.70 commission, which gives me an conversion rate of $0.26 per click.

There are 3 alternatives you can use to have those ebay auctions onto your site:

1 - Try out BANS which i think is $97 but BANS only allow you to build ebay stores=> Built A Niche Store (BANS)

2 - You can use this software that is currently free (partial version) call phpBay Lite Plugin for Wordpress. There is also a paid version that allows you to setup an ebay, commission junction store as well.

3- Storestacker. So far the most comprehensive software that allows you to create clickbank, ebay, amazon, overstock, regnow and hotelclub stores. And it has RSS feeds as well as youtube videos as well.

I believe if you are focus, you can definitely earn more than my meagre sum of money.

Regards,

Andrew

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This is a rant. I am not sure if I am a failure after paying for Jo Han Mok’s 60 Minutes To Freedom course but it is really disappointing! One email mention that some of the members are earning money already (even though I do not understand how with the kind of advice given).

I decided to take up this course because i have always been impressed with the marketing skills of Jo Han Mok but this course has seriously caused my impression of him to be down the drain!

The “so call” business in a box is way way way way X3 below expectations for a US$997 course. This is the 4th business-in-a-box already and all are lousy and disappointing. I did not want to mention the quality of the course here while i was waiting for someone to reply me on my refund request but seems like they just cannot be bothered. I thought with Jo Han Mok, things will be high quality with good support and no one seems to be bothered with me. I have a friend whom i showed the kind of things offered so far and it is barely anything worth the US$997.

Is there anyone else asking for refund? Can anyone advise me on what action can i take?

Regards,

Andrew

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