Hi everyone!
Today, as you know, is the 29th day of February. This special day occurs only once every four years, and it's a real waste not to write any post on that day and wait until 2012.
Tomorrow the month of March finally begins. This means two things: one, my birthday is very close. Two: my product is going to go online.
Yes, it's finally happening. My product is going online and everybody celebrates. Just some finishing touches and I will start to see the publisher side of ClickBank (which turned out to be somewhat good, so I unpaused my campaigns).
Also, my first article ever on EzineArticles has been published! I was so concerned about PPC problems and ClickBank so I turned organic and wrote this article. It's related to my video, but it also has a good, live link in it. SEO, here I come!
Finally, February 2008 will be remembered as my first month with profit. Yes, you read well. PROFIT!
Not much, but still something.
To a better March,
nadavs
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Pausing
Hi everyone.
Something bad happened to ClickBank. Sales have stalled for many affiliates, money flows to PPC like beer in a bar with no results. I am on pause mode.
From now on, I have no PPC campaigns running until one of the two happens: ClickBank fix their problems and I can get sales again or Safeway.com approves me on Commission Junction. Until that, Google will have to live with others' budgets.
I may try some article marketing now. I still have to get traffic, and although I get about 20 hits per day from ezinearticles.com (no idea from where), it'll still be nice to make it more formal source of traffic (and have an idea where traffic comes from).
Finally, the moment everyone's been waiting for has arrived. I finished my eBook, designed a not-so-ugly sales page, an affiliates' page, and a thank you page. The eBook is also approved by ClickBank. Now all I need is that ClickBank will go back to normal and they will get my $50.
Until the ClickBank columns return,
naddavs
Something bad happened to ClickBank. Sales have stalled for many affiliates, money flows to PPC like beer in a bar with no results. I am on pause mode.
From now on, I have no PPC campaigns running until one of the two happens: ClickBank fix their problems and I can get sales again or Safeway.com approves me on Commission Junction. Until that, Google will have to live with others' budgets.
I may try some article marketing now. I still have to get traffic, and although I get about 20 hits per day from ezinearticles.com (no idea from where), it'll still be nice to make it more formal source of traffic (and have an idea where traffic comes from).
Finally, the moment everyone's been waiting for has arrived. I finished my eBook, designed a not-so-ugly sales page, an affiliates' page, and a thank you page. The eBook is also approved by ClickBank. Now all I need is that ClickBank will go back to normal and they will get my $50.
Until the ClickBank columns return,
naddavs
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Money is in the List?
Hello everybody!
Like all other internet marketers, I heard the money is in the list. So to test this out, I set up my own list of emails with a nice opt-in form, and all I do now is wait for leads.
Every lead in my list receives a series of eight emails telling him about the wonders of what I'm promoting, including two videos I made and two others I didn't. The videos appear on my pages, so there is no danger of leaking traffic.
After two weeks the entire series is over and the prospects get the opportunity to look for the best products available for this niche. Guess who receives commissions for these proucts. After two more weeks, if there is no purchase, I kindly ask why he/she didn't buy. Nothing helps more than information from customers and non-customers.
I also started doing some social bookmarking, hoping it will bring some traffic in. So far it's fine, but it doesn't pay yet.
Here is my second video on YouTube. I already have an idea for the next one:
Until next time (or until the money comes from the list),
nadavs
Like all other internet marketers, I heard the money is in the list. So to test this out, I set up my own list of emails with a nice opt-in form, and all I do now is wait for leads.
Every lead in my list receives a series of eight emails telling him about the wonders of what I'm promoting, including two videos I made and two others I didn't. The videos appear on my pages, so there is no danger of leaking traffic.
After two weeks the entire series is over and the prospects get the opportunity to look for the best products available for this niche. Guess who receives commissions for these proucts. After two more weeks, if there is no purchase, I kindly ask why he/she didn't buy. Nothing helps more than information from customers and non-customers.
I also started doing some social bookmarking, hoping it will bring some traffic in. So far it's fine, but it doesn't pay yet.
Here is my second video on YouTube. I already have an idea for the next one:
Until next time (or until the money comes from the list),
nadavs
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Electrolysis
Hi everybody.
Let's start with the bad news first. After enjoying four months of no refunds, the curse of annoyance has landed on the people who bought through my link, and I got two refunds in two days. That brings me back to a February loss, which is really annoying after finally having a profit.
Lately I've started using ad scheduling on my AdWords campaign. Because, seriously, there is no point in advertising during times that did not produce a single sale. Now all I need is, well, sales.
In addition to ad scheduling, I also changed my landing pages to fully implement the idea of freeway marketing. No extraordinary results so far, but the landing pages do look much, much better.
Today, my friends, I joined the club of video marketers. I finally created a video and put it on YouTube. The video is very simple, and it explains about electrolysis and HHO. Even though it's simple, I think it can do the job well.
You can watch the masterpiece here:
In one month and one day I'm going to be 18 years old, which means an international credit card, which means: new ebook published. Stay tuned for updates.
Until next time,
nadavs
Let's start with the bad news first. After enjoying four months of no refunds, the curse of annoyance has landed on the people who bought through my link, and I got two refunds in two days. That brings me back to a February loss, which is really annoying after finally having a profit.
Lately I've started using ad scheduling on my AdWords campaign. Because, seriously, there is no point in advertising during times that did not produce a single sale. Now all I need is, well, sales.
In addition to ad scheduling, I also changed my landing pages to fully implement the idea of freeway marketing. No extraordinary results so far, but the landing pages do look much, much better.
Today, my friends, I joined the club of video marketers. I finally created a video and put it on YouTube. The video is very simple, and it explains about electrolysis and HHO. Even though it's simple, I think it can do the job well.
You can watch the masterpiece here:
In one month and one day I'm going to be 18 years old, which means an international credit card, which means: new ebook published. Stay tuned for updates.
Until next time,
nadavs
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Putting the Signs on the Information Superhighway
Hello everybody.
After thinking about it for some time, I finally put my site's description on the site itself, and as you can see, at the title of this post. Catchy, right? Now I just need to redesign some of my landing pages to include the nice picture with several modifications.
Notice the picture is in a form of a freeway sign, with the intention that people driving around will recognize those signs with my site. I'll let you know if this is just hope, or sales do come from this.
My eBook is coming off very nicely, with 21 pages already (probably the longest document I've ever written). I've also created a sales page for it which I'm promoting right now (and it will be revealed here when I start publishing the eBook). Why I'm promoting it? Because when the visitors click "Get your guide now!", they reach a very ugly page - the survey. I want to see how well my page converts, if it does convert (I highly doubt it, it's very short and probably ineffective). One little conversion (page visit) on Google, that's all I want to see.
That's all for today, friends. See you next time.
Until the conversion,
nadavs
After thinking about it for some time, I finally put my site's description on the site itself, and as you can see, at the title of this post. Catchy, right? Now I just need to redesign some of my landing pages to include the nice picture with several modifications.
Notice the picture is in a form of a freeway sign, with the intention that people driving around will recognize those signs with my site. I'll let you know if this is just hope, or sales do come from this.
My eBook is coming off very nicely, with 21 pages already (probably the longest document I've ever written). I've also created a sales page for it which I'm promoting right now (and it will be revealed here when I start publishing the eBook). Why I'm promoting it? Because when the visitors click "Get your guide now!", they reach a very ugly page - the survey. I want to see how well my page converts, if it does convert (I highly doubt it, it's very short and probably ineffective). One little conversion (page visit) on Google, that's all I want to see.
That's all for today, friends. See you next time.
Until the conversion,
nadavs
Monday, February 4, 2008
Going Global
Hi everybody.
So far February makes me smile: I'm in the black. Maybe not deep in the black, but not red. All I need this is to continute, preferably with the product I'm promoting now.
After profiting very nicely in one niche, I decided to leave. Not because of the profits, but because of the competition. It just became too intense. I can't handle too much foolish competition without Google's monthly maintenance. There are just too many one dollar domains that do nothing but redirection, a prohibited act on AdWords. I hope Google catches those fools soon and puts them in the $5/click jail.
The niche I'm promoting now is another topic I'm interested in (hint: goal zero). Since usually my campaign for this niche gives ten clicks per day, I decided to go global: on the country list I picked "All Countries and Territories", so if you look for my campaign in Antarctica, you'll probably find it. You can't find it on only one country, guess which one it is (hint: starts with Isra and ends with el).
And finally, I've made some big progress towards my own eBook: I created an account that allows me to build forms! Yes, that's not a big deal, but with my procrastinating attitude this is something big. The next steps are: creating a form, creating a page for this form, creating a campaign for this form, receiving feedback, actually writing the eBook, writing a sales page, putting it on ClickBank. One step at a time to financial freedom.
Until the first sale for the new niche (or before),
nadavs
So far February makes me smile: I'm in the black. Maybe not deep in the black, but not red. All I need this is to continute, preferably with the product I'm promoting now.
After profiting very nicely in one niche, I decided to leave. Not because of the profits, but because of the competition. It just became too intense. I can't handle too much foolish competition without Google's monthly maintenance. There are just too many one dollar domains that do nothing but redirection, a prohibited act on AdWords. I hope Google catches those fools soon and puts them in the $5/click jail.
The niche I'm promoting now is another topic I'm interested in (hint: goal zero). Since usually my campaign for this niche gives ten clicks per day, I decided to go global: on the country list I picked "All Countries and Territories", so if you look for my campaign in Antarctica, you'll probably find it. You can't find it on only one country, guess which one it is (hint: starts with Isra and ends with el).
And finally, I've made some big progress towards my own eBook: I created an account that allows me to build forms! Yes, that's not a big deal, but with my procrastinating attitude this is something big. The next steps are: creating a form, creating a page for this form, creating a campaign for this form, receiving feedback, actually writing the eBook, writing a sales page, putting it on ClickBank. One step at a time to financial freedom.
Until the first sale for the new niche (or before),
nadavs
Friday, February 1, 2008
Foolish Competition
Hello everybody.
January didn't come off with a profit, but with a little $2 loss that can be called break-even. February, on the other hand, looks very promising. As long as the foolish competition is gone.
The foolish competition are the new advertisers that now joined my niche, and appearantly they use almost every keywords I'm using. This of course creates an annoying situation which causes my CPC to rise. From past experience this situation doesn't last too long and the new advertiser goes home unhappy. But if he stays and my CPC stays like this, I'm going to start an inverse bid-war (nice technique to get rid of annoying advertisers). If that fails, I'm going to start promoting other niches. Preferably the one that will help me achieve goal number zero.
And finally, after rejecting the idea of a viral eBook for now, I'm starting to plan a paid eBook. When I break even on the business (around April) I'll start doing surveys for my eBook ideas and see what works. The winner idea will get its very own eBook.
Until next time,
nadavs
January didn't come off with a profit, but with a little $2 loss that can be called break-even. February, on the other hand, looks very promising. As long as the foolish competition is gone.
The foolish competition are the new advertisers that now joined my niche, and appearantly they use almost every keywords I'm using. This of course creates an annoying situation which causes my CPC to rise. From past experience this situation doesn't last too long and the new advertiser goes home unhappy. But if he stays and my CPC stays like this, I'm going to start an inverse bid-war (nice technique to get rid of annoying advertisers). If that fails, I'm going to start promoting other niches. Preferably the one that will help me achieve goal number zero.
And finally, after rejecting the idea of a viral eBook for now, I'm starting to plan a paid eBook. When I break even on the business (around April) I'll start doing surveys for my eBook ideas and see what works. The winner idea will get its very own eBook.
Until next time,
nadavs
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