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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