Putting myself out there -- My road to not sucking

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tspesh

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I've spent the last 3 years teaching myself how to develop websites. If I were a better graphic artist and didn't hate dealing with clients I'd probably just open up a shop developing sites. I'm confident that I can build a site that does anything at this point. A friend and I have made some nice extra cash in the last 18 months doing SEO for local small business but that is frustrating (I really don't like dealing with clients. They pay you for your knowledge and don't care to listen).

I'm about to get my first $100 from Google, mostly from a blog that I write for fun and should probably dedicate more time to. I get about 2,500 - 3,000 unique visitors a month with no effort other than the 15 articles I've written. I realize that that blog will never make real money, but it's been a platform to learn everything but affiliate marketing and it's gotten me out of social work and into a position where I'm on a team of 3 running a blog that gets 2mil visitors a month and generates 50-70k a month. The transition is perfect and I'm learning a lot about advertising through that job...but I need to force the issue. Enter WickedFire...and a lot of other reading up on.

I know I will succeed at this because anytime I latch on to something I manage to figure that shit out, I don't anticipate this will be any different.

....so thanks for reading. Enjoy my ride, or laugh. It's good to get laughed at.
 


1/11/2011

Instead of dicking around reading and feeling jealousy towards people with the balls to throw money at something to learn, I figured it was time to join the game.

With no other networks other than ClickBank yet, I searched for a product in a niche that I know very well, spending 10-20 hours a week dedicated to it as a hobby. There were only a couple to chose from and the one I chose to try and market was one that I've seen banner ads for before.

The landing page was fucking stupid with no call to action until the very bottom of the page. I didn't anticipate anything especially with the budget I was willing to throw at it, but I wanted to test my ability to get people to click on a facebook ad and if someone purchased something I'd turn a profit.

-My budget was only $25 so I figured that was unlikely.

-I spent some time writing the ad and picking an image and went to town.

I'm a cheapskate, something I think that will get in the way of success, but I've also seen in several places that the "suggested bid price" on facebook is bullshit. They were suggesting $.60-$1.50, I went with $.25.

I gave it about 40 minutes of nothing before I upped it to $.55. That did the trick and I started getting impressions.

The long and the short of it, $25 gave me 80 clicks with a CTR of .105%. I felt like the CTR was pretty decent for my first stab at a facebook ad.

Then I realized, paying per click...my CTR doesn't really mean shit, especially if no one converts, which no one did. That said, I'm content with my first attempt. I was hoping to get at least .1% CTR and I accomplished that.

I came across nickycakes "newb" piece and read through it. I applied to several affiliate networks and am waiting. I'm hoping that one of these networks will have a kick ass product in this particular niche and intend on building a site up from there and eventually using PPC to push people there (in addition to getting plenty of organic traffic).

Tomorrow is another day of making money for someone else...he's a good guy though ;)
 
I should probably edit before I push post. I didn't realize there was a limit to edit time on here. We'll call that Lesson #2
 
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