We finally see some green here
This has been hard, and I spent almost $200 to test campaigns and see this one profitable, but at the end I learned a lot.
I want to thank
@Luke, he has been great. (and he turned this campaign into profitable for him in 3 days aeheh)
I want to say that I didn't copy his results, we bidded differently and we had traffic from different sources, so basically we did different things, but It has been great to watch how he was acting in some contexts.
What I did is finding some good sources with a pilot campaign (3/4) and creating a new campaign only with these sources.
Now my basic campaign is stopped but i know I should have it running to discover more sources, but before that, I need to make a little profit.
As you can see the profit is tiny, and the traffic too. But i feel like a LION
Being able to pick a campaign and bring it to being profitable is something great.
I know what you think now "Ok great, anyway you lost some money and with that tiny profit you will need 1 month to recover the expenses",
you can be right, BUT
1- I will study more to try to optimize this campaign better and have a bigger daily profit.
2- This was a follow along, I spent some money to learn + (best thing) I TOOK ACTION.
You have to understand that when you have money rolling in, you are going to work more and better.
You see it took me 4 pages of thread to figure out every problem, and I had lots of problems, even if I am not a newbie in the aff field.
I had all the
trackers already setup, and I had support from the forum.
But I had to kick my ass to make it happen, time ago I would have left, as I did many times before.
I think there are some
basic rules I have learnt.
(This worked for me, not for everyone)
1- Choose the right offer. If you don't know what to choose just try to lurk around the forum or ask your
Traffic source/aff manager what is the best converting niche.
2- Test at least 5 offers. Minimum bids, 3x 5x times the payout.
3- Choose offers with a miminum payout of $1.50 ( I know that it is not easy, but I had to stop my first campaign beacuse the payout was only $0.60. There was no room for testing and needed 10 conversions to earn $6, which is the same amount I am getting with 3 conversions on this winning offer).
4- Stop the offers that don't convert as soon as possible (you could give them more chances if you are on a bigger budget but this was not my case, as you can see even with low budgets I spent almost $200 to see 1 offer profitable)
5- Start optimizing as soon as you have little data (It can be reckless but you have to follow a scheme, seasoned affiliates can spend $1000 to test an offer they rely on, but not US, mere mortals
)
6- HAVE TRACKING SETUP PERFECTLY (Otherwise please, stop everything and have the problem solved)
My bigger loss has been on a wrong setup, i burned more than $100 (half budget) because I was not tracking well and had to change
tracker.
MY FOLLOW ALONG CONTINUES....
1 of 3 CAMPAIGN PROFITABLES
Working on the next ones.
