Lets see too bad I didn’t have this blog up since I was too busy getting up my campaign and niches. I was told by a friend to start it on ASAP so I had some sparetime and why the hell not right? So I done it. First of all, I got some accounts from affiliate programs. I got approved in a few days. I already had a web site up and I had a host. I had money to burn on this campaign. Now I needed a domain for my niche. I got everything all set up. First I created a landing page. I will NOT lie. It took me about 5-6 hours to make one. I did not have sufficient knowledge to make a landing page. I researched how to do it and by the end of the day I had made my first landing page. Now I linked everything with my affiliate links and i did NOT use tracking. But wait.. shouldn’t I use tracking first?
The answer is YES and NO. The reason why I didn’t get tracking was 1) I did not know how to get tracking and 2) That was not my goal. I had a goal of “making my first few sales”. So it doesn’t matter and I just threw my eggs in the basket with no names or color. So if the eggs fell I made some $ but I didn’t know which fell. I was being skeptic and didn’t think you were able to make money in this certain amount of time. For me the goal was 1 week = 1-3 Leads. It was a small goal / step but my return would be huge. The return was not the money but the inspiration. My first Night this is what happened.
Went to sleep at 3am (12/6/2008). Landing page was up, Traffic was high bid, I added about 100-120keywords. The keywords were just random but I handpicked it and made sure I was on top of everyone. My alarm goes off around 9am. Well there goes about 5 hours of sleep. I was going to go back to sleep but instead I checked my earnings. DING DING DING. One lead. I broke even though but no profit. WHO CARES! CONGRATZ ,You proved to yourself you are able to make money by sleeping. I was wide awake and I was about to jump around like a maniac. The logic behind this was, if you are able to make a lead you can multiply it after and tweak things to make even more money. 1*1 = 1 , 1*2 = 2. Multiplication does not LIE. So fast forward to the next few days.
Amazing isn’t it ? Basically I was broke on Dec 5th, 2008. Then I made profit on Dec 07th, 2008. WOW thats really fast. If you guys only knew how i felt it was crazy. So now I am busy tweaking all my campaigns and getting better landing pages and CTRs. I have a small amount of profit but when I know how to do it, it should not stop me from becoming my dreams. I have been so into my little online business that I added a goal, calendar, quotes, timesheet on my wall. Whatever it takes to focus just do it. In order to succeed you need to have short / long term goals. Some can be nearly impossible to reach but make sure you attempt to reach it..
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January 4th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Hey man…
you have an awesome website! keep up the good work dude.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Erm, do you mean you made profit on DECEMBER 07th, not MAY 07th?
In any case, well done, you!
January 7th, 2009 at 5:27 am
you are correct. that was my typo