A Newbie's Journey - $3000 in 120 days

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Hello all,

My goal in this 120 day journey is to make $3000 net profit from affiliate marketing.

A little background - I started on the internet with absolutely nothing to my name, I clicked Paid-to-Read advertisement emails for 0.001 - 0.005 cent until I had about $500 (took a very long time). Then one day, I deposited $12 (relatively large sum of money to me) into an online poker site, lost it in about an hour. Feeling pissed, I decided to improve my game, and found a great forum and an informed poker community. Through hard work, I turned my next $20 deposit into over $17,000 over a period of 150,000+ hands and 6 months. I'm getting bored of poker though, and am ready to tackle a new adventure in affiliate marketing. I've been lurking Wickedfire for a bit, and I can tell I'm at the right place for success. :)

Here's what I've done so far:
1) Set up accounts with Adwords, MSN adCenter, and Yahoo Search Marketing.
2) Have three domains (one I used to toy with arbi), and two general use ones.
3) Registered with a magazine affiliate.

What I want to achieve in the next few days (Deadline: April 28, 2007)
1) Set up seperate adgroups and write ads for 10 different magazines.
2) Create a generic landing page for each magazine, although I want to ultimately go PPC direct to merchant.
3) Spend about 30 minutes everyday reading PHP tutorials.

Anyway, I cannot promise to update everyday - but I will certainly write of my progress whenever I can.

P.S. - Mods, if this is not in the right section, feel free to move it.
 


I think its a reasonable goal though, unlike some people who post in here..who I wont name but pretty much just brag about "making" 10,000 in a month in an "experiment" that doesn't disclose anything=) Go for it!
 
It's definitely possible, but a word of caution, you need very thick skin to do one of these in public. You'll get retards asking for your urls, keywords lists, campaign details, passwords, bank account information, keys to your house, keys to your car and then they'll want you to put them as the beneficiary of your life insurance.

Why?

Because they think you owe them something even though you've never met/spoke to or thought about them in your life. They feel like being a keyboard warrior is a much better route then adding anything of value to a thread.

So, I say go for it, but if you're going to do it, follow through no matter what the results are. There's nothing worse then starting something and not finishing it and you've got just understand that there are some people who HATE seeing others succeed, so they will try to bring you down. Don't be suckered into their moronic statements... :)
 
Sigh..not another one of these threadswhy not go to warrior forum and post this?
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Seriously dude, did you just sign up here to criticize every fucking thread you see?

I'm really getting sick of seeing your bitchy ass posts. Here's an idea, if you're not adding anything of value to the discussion, just shut the fuck up.

OP, Good luck man. Keep us posted.
 
scottspfd82 said:
Seriously dude, did you just sign up here to criticize every fucking thread you see?

I'm really getting sick of seeing your bitchy ass posts. Here's an idea, if you're not adding anything of value to the discussion, just shut the fuck up.

OP, Good luck man. Keep us posted.
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Don't worry if they keep doing it they'll be banned, I keep an eye on how much their doing it and if they turn into another AppleB then I'll talk to a mod, report them, and then they'll be banned.

beejeebers in my own opinion is correct on this just ignore the dumb people who might say your out of your mind or who get pissed off because you won't release the prime secret of your campaign.

Other then that I think this is a resonable goal for a newbie and you could pull it off if you can work hard.

EDIT: TakeYourMeds has been reported.....I seen his other posts on other threads.
 
bfffft Its called a forum. People are entitled to their opinions, aquitas. Your not even a moderator so why dont you let the mods to the moderating ok? There is nothing wrong with setting goals and blogging about it but there are too many "$xxxx in y months" type threads and they get boring and repetitive after awhile. I see a lot of those threads on digitalpoint, warrior forum, and sitepoint and we don't want Wickedfire to turn into one of those noob forums.
 
TakeYourMeds said:
bfffft Its called a forum. People are entitled to their opinions, aquitas. Your not even a moderator so why dont you let the mods to the moderating ok? There is nothing wrong with setting goals and blogging about it but there are too many "$xxxx in y months" type threads and they get boring and repetitive after awhile. I see a lot of those threads on digitalpoint, warrior forum, and sitepoint and we don't want Wickedfire to turn into one of those noob forums.
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Nobody is going to take you seriously if all you contribute is smart ass one liners. This is probably you longest and most informative post. So far all you've shown to be is a troll.
 
TakeYourMeds said:
bfffft Its called a forum. People are entitled to their opinions, aquitas. Your not even a moderator so why dont you let the mods to the moderating ok? There is nothing wrong with setting goals and blogging about it but there are too many "$xxxx in y months" type threads and they get boring and repetitive after awhile. I see a lot of those threads on digitalpoint, warrior forum, and sitepoint and we don't want Wickedfire to turn into one of those noob forums.
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Holy crap you know how to type a long sentence, its the point that you yourself have went on more then one thread and used one liners to say this thread sucks and your dumb.

Wicked Fire is about helping people through a free medium, no I'm not a mod and I don't have any special powers around here but I would like to see the quality remain and with people running around saying every thread sucks they need to be taught a lesson.

As for DP, Warrior, and sitepoint, Wicked Fire will never become those types of forums, but a challenge like this for a newbie here is good, this person actually wants to work towards a goal and to share their journey, other newbs can ask questions and advice of how he achieve a certain mark in his journey or others can suggest different ideas, hence the learning begins.

Not every thread dedicated to a journey has to be for the advanced members, just as long as its not completely useless and as long as others learn from it then I don't see the harm with this thread and would like to see it advance.

Maybe you should take the time to contribute instead of automatically jumping to the conclusion that something sucks, if it does turn out to be a useless thread and if this persons only goal is to gain information out of us without learning a bit for himself then they will be flamed just like you.
 
ConfusedSoul said:
$25 a day in Arbi is pretty easy. Look into that. And there's your 3k.
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yep, I'd recommend looking into arbi also. I went from zero to over $700/day in just under 2mths with arbi. The cash flow now allows me a lot of latitude to test & run affiliate PPC campaigns. The journey has just begun...
 
Hey SandnSurf, congrats on your arbi success. Are you using autogen pages, scrapers etc. or do you do it manually?
 
SandnSurf said:
I went from zero to over $700/day in just under 2mths with arbi.
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Damn that's nice. Any advice getting there? You must get a lot of volume to do that. Were you doing adwords -> adsense?

I only do adcenter -> adsense ppc arbi and while ROI is high, traffic is slow.
 
dekalog6 said:
Hey SandnSurf, congrats on your arbi success. Are you using autogen pages, scrapers etc. or do you do it manually?
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G'day,
I do it all manually. Was using a semi-auto page builder, but then switched to building my pages in a text editor. I've setup my templates so it only takes me a few minutes to output a page.
I'm familiar with using auto-gen proggies such as RSSGM etc, but in the end I went with what worked best for me.
cheers
 
NoelKuhl said:
Damn that's nice. Any advice getting there? You must get a lot of volume to do that. Were you doing adwords -> adsense?

I only do adcenter -> adsense ppc arbi and while ROI is high, traffic is slow.
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adwords --> adsense

Was using 7Search until they pissed me off by repeatedly deleting my kw's. lol... I get an email where they'd say they'd "optimized" my keywords. When I check I find they've deleted the lot. Some optimization.

I don't get a lot of volume by arbi high flyers standards, but I do have a very good spread & good CTR on both adsense & adwords.
 
SandnSurf said:
adwords --> adsense
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Lots of people say its just downright stupid to try arbi with adwords and using adsense as your profit, I say they are the crazy ones for not.........props go out to you for pulling it off.

I'm trying out some MAJOR tests right now, well not major money wise but major in using Google against themselves for the purpose of making a profit with arbi by using adwords....I'll be writing up a thread about it if it turns out to be a success.
 
Arbi with Adwords works if you use the content network. The goal is to get cheap clicks and trade it for higher priced clicks no matter where you can get it.

Adwords is great because it can give you volume impressions. 7 Search and MSN (I have not used Yahoo for arbi) do not give you the volume per keyword so you end up having to deal with huge lists to make up the difference. The ad networks now prevent those 50,000+ keyword list campaigns with keyword caps of only a few thousand.

I hate to put all my eggs in with Google and don't want to sound like a Google fan (I'm not) but the volume plus the time saving offline keyword editor tool make it crazy NOT to use Adwords for arbi.
 
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