good rule of thumb would be "until you consistently make twice as much for a few months"
Realistic revenues for beginner after 3 months
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Fucking asshole sucker.
Seriously, what's so hard about affiliate marketing (besides the technical aspect, LOL)
you try shit that doesn't work, and you scale shit that works. What's so hard about affiliate marking? nothing at all, besides the fucking grinding.
Seriously, what's so hard about affiliate marketing (besides the technical aspect, LOL)
you try shit that doesn't work, and you scale shit that works. What's so hard about affiliate marking? nothing at all, besides the fucking grinding.
The mental aspect kills most people
It's fucking taking it's toll on me this week, nothing's fucking working!!
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I've been doing this for about 3 months. My most successful site (a shopping site) brings in $30-60 a day in affiliate revenue, so I'm expecting a bit over $1000 from it this month. I have another site that produces $100-300 a month.
That's all organic search, so those sites only cost me $50 per month or so to run, it's almost all profit. They're also all automated, so while they took me ~60 hours to write, they take absolutely zero effort to run.
So far, I am a dismal PPC failure (Last campaign: $100 ad spend = $2.50 revenue. Ouch.) But I've just started that last week, and am still optimistic... I have the advantages of having spent years as a professional software engineer, so I can automate anything I can make work, and having tens of thousands in the bank, so if I do ever come up with a profitable campaign, I'll be able to run it at a decent spend rate rather than having to do the "Oh, I have 300% ROI, too bad I'm out of cash until next month" thing. I have the disadvantage of being frugal and risk-averse and thus unwilling to spend more than a few bucks on an unsuccessful campaign, which means PPC may be a slow learning process for me.
That's all organic search, so those sites only cost me $50 per month or so to run, it's almost all profit. They're also all automated, so while they took me ~60 hours to write, they take absolutely zero effort to run.
So far, I am a dismal PPC failure (Last campaign: $100 ad spend = $2.50 revenue. Ouch.) But I've just started that last week, and am still optimistic... I have the advantages of having spent years as a professional software engineer, so I can automate anything I can make work, and having tens of thousands in the bank, so if I do ever come up with a profitable campaign, I'll be able to run it at a decent spend rate rather than having to do the "Oh, I have 300% ROI, too bad I'm out of cash until next month" thing. I have the disadvantage of being frugal and risk-averse and thus unwilling to spend more than a few bucks on an unsuccessful campaign, which means PPC may be a slow learning process for me.
well, after about 5 hours of developing a landing page, creating an adcenter account at msn and an adwords campaign, I've grossed $25 in dating commissions, but i do have about 3 years experience in SEO, so i'm not completely new to this - that being said, do cpa networks usually grant instant approval into their programs? I'm wanting to join a few to promote some quality cpa offers (because I don't really want to promote clickbank stuff), but I stop half-way through the application process because I feel like they'll reject me (after asking for a website since I don't really have one). My plan was just to develop landing pages/review pages and push traffic to them. Btw, any suggestions for networks running the google cash offer? I'd like to push that offer!
What I'd do in your situation is just tell them any website you run, even if it's not related to AM. Just mention in the notes that you're planning on building landing pages and are just starting off.
That's what got me my first AM account a couple days ago.
That's what got me my first AM account a couple days ago.
I find it hard to believe on some of these stories of people starting with $50 in a paypal account and all of a sudden having the bankroll next month to be able to put up 10k-15k for PPC. Cash flow can be a huge hurdle once you see the money coming in and most people take awhile to get their credit and cash built up to be able to make the very large profits. I would say aim small and first focus on making $20 a day then move up to $50, $100, $500, etc. If you keep chasing the million on your first month then you will always fall short and not be able to build a real profit.
Comeon. Where did anyone say that? But if you start with even 1-2k grand you can turn it over very quickly.
Lets assume 100% ROI. So you have 1k. You spend 1k and get 2k back from your network 10-12 days later. You spend 2k and get 4k back 10 days later. You spend 4k and get 8k back 10 days later. Now you have 8k at the end of month one.
Now you have enough to spend without pausing to wait for payments. You now spend 8k and get back 16k in 7 days. 16k to 32k the next week. 32k to 64k in the next week. Now you can spend almost 10k a day if you want.
Now your challenge becomes finding ways to spend your money to increase your revenues and profits.
This example I gave is very similar to my first two months in AM. It may seem far-fetched, but it is not. And while it may seem impossible to some, there are hopefully those who get inspired and go do even better.
Nah.............
My first SEO real site brought in right around $500/day after only about 2 weeks.
After my first month in AM I ranked #7 on Fortune's list of the world's richest men in the Universe.