That's right, I finally did it. Made my first sale. It took me a month and a half, but I did it. Although I have to say it's some kind of twisted irony that I ended up making it by going on hiatus last week to learn more about CPA and PPC, and this week (Tuesday, to be specific) setting up a not-too-shabby PPC campaign at $5 per day. I made the sale today, and spent about $10 in total, so I got a net profit of around $20. Not too shabby at all. Especially if it keeps trending even close to this. Heck, I'd be happy to get a sale for every $20 and just see a $10 profit.What did I learn? Being a cheap bastard can cost you more than not being a cheap bastard. Of course, I'm still not the one paying for Adwords (that's me mummy ;) )and if you count the cash we spent for our last (miserable failure of a) campaign, then we're only up by about $4. Assuming I ever get enough sales to cash out.
Other than drooling over my Clickbank account, I also set up my own self hosted site for the same product yesterday and gave it some social bookmarks and set up an (awful) Youtube Vid for it. I targeted the niche because it kind of spoke to me, but honestly, I was going to drop it after I failed at PPC. Since I didn't fail at PPC (well, I wouldn't call it a failure yet) I think I'll keep working with the product.
As for today itself, well, I did four more articles for the product, and set up two side sites for other promotions FAR further down the road. My goal is to build my own network of sites for link trades and juice- by the end of this year I'm shooting to have 300 well backlinked sites across free web properties (I.E. Blogger, Wordpress). Anyway, I tossed out three today; I would've done more but it took me hours to figure out how to program correctly. C++ is crazy hard...
Well, that's it. I'll keep my PPC campaign running for another 4 days, unless it makes another sale, in which case I'll keep it up longer (until I'm over profit, basically). I might keep it up longer anyway and just tweak it a little to see if I can get better results. But who knows. Alright, good luck everybody and hope you're making money online!
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what kind of things are you doing on the web that require c++. Not your typical web programming language if you get my drift?
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm not doing C++ for the web, but for my actual career. Well, if I ever get that far with Game programming. Did I not mention I was going to school for video game programming? I'll have to add an "about me" section and mention it somewhere...
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by!