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
Showing posts with label february. Show all posts
Showing posts with label february. Show all posts
Friday, February 29, 2008
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
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Closing January
Hello everybody.
I haven't written in a while. A big while. I know, that's a big blogging sin, and I hope the internet god will forgive me for that. That's because I have great news for him.
January 2008 will be remembered by me as the first month that allowes me to use the word profit. Finally, after two losing months, comes a month and shows me this is possible. Internet marketing does work, there is money to be made out there. If I get another sale today or AdWords doesn't go over $16 today (preferably both), I can put a little plus sign. And if AdWords takes the entire budget, well, losing $4 can be called break even.
Lately, and that's one reason I need another sale, Google gave me wonderful QS, but clicks were nowhere to be found. People just ignore my ads between 0:00-6:00 in the morning (PST). Then they come in a bulk and at the end of the day I end with 30. When my page starts converting 10%, that'll be acceptable. Now it's converting about 4% (which means about 10% of the people who go to the sales page!), so I need 40-50 clicks to make two sales. I suspected the low number of clicks was due to position preference, but now, when I turned it off, it doesn't seem to have an effect. AdWords is a weird system indeed.
And finally, like every quarter, Google is going to report its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the report for the entire year. It's going to be interesting to see how a company that keeps going against its customers (the new QS rules are harsh, but they seem to ease for me. Nine words went from OK of $0.15 to Great of $0.05) turns out a bigger profit than last year. Reports are after Wall St. closes, at about 4:00pm EST. Conference call is at 4:30 pm EST (right when Blogger is down... Weird...).
Have a great February!
nadavs
I haven't written in a while. A big while. I know, that's a big blogging sin, and I hope the internet god will forgive me for that. That's because I have great news for him.
January 2008 will be remembered by me as the first month that allowes me to use the word profit. Finally, after two losing months, comes a month and shows me this is possible. Internet marketing does work, there is money to be made out there. If I get another sale today or AdWords doesn't go over $16 today (preferably both), I can put a little plus sign. And if AdWords takes the entire budget, well, losing $4 can be called break even.
Lately, and that's one reason I need another sale, Google gave me wonderful QS, but clicks were nowhere to be found. People just ignore my ads between 0:00-6:00 in the morning (PST). Then they come in a bulk and at the end of the day I end with 30. When my page starts converting 10%, that'll be acceptable. Now it's converting about 4% (which means about 10% of the people who go to the sales page!), so I need 40-50 clicks to make two sales. I suspected the low number of clicks was due to position preference, but now, when I turned it off, it doesn't seem to have an effect. AdWords is a weird system indeed.
And finally, like every quarter, Google is going to report its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the report for the entire year. It's going to be interesting to see how a company that keeps going against its customers (the new QS rules are harsh, but they seem to ease for me. Nine words went from OK of $0.15 to Great of $0.05) turns out a bigger profit than last year. Reports are after Wall St. closes, at about 4:00pm EST. Conference call is at 4:30 pm EST (right when Blogger is down... Weird...).
Have a great February!
nadavs
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