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Can I Teach This PPC-CPA Stuff? Part 2* _6 r6 \: p: x- e6 g
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Okay, here is the continuation of the story on how I got my8 ], P1 N0 Q5 `6 H3 T+ g! |! Q
brother-in-law involved with driving traffic from pay per* t. L0 E# x% H" v7 Q
click search engines to CPA lead offers.
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I left off on how he messed up his Google Adwords account' d. Q+ t0 u9 W' Q1 O T" d
and how I was trying to fix it.2 \ v r5 O3 E [0 x, v$ C
4 q3 B9 v0 E/ K, G$ |3 C( cHere is what happened when I dropped the bid on that $1.25
4 o5 m! ^! o2 y9 ~8 x- T) }5 B7 ~6 i4 vlead campaign from $1.00 down to about $0.25.7 \7 h: @! F7 L! H# o& }- T
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Ready?, U0 w7 c y9 T. a+ a; [( D* w( v
: ?$ i. P1 k% f% l# @Google accepted the new bid.
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Woo hoo!2 b/ t2 i9 [) F7 E4 J; P* D' e
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Now Waseem can actually make money on this offer. Google
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on the ads.4 |# u. M; f \) k. G
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From this experience, I reminded him to develop his ad
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% ^' V- n# K/ d- J0 @He is not a big Google fan because of all their* Q3 B- I: B. y& }% m* f0 p' {1 \
rules and restrictions, but he really likes MSN and spent a
* a1 B1 f# M& k: q1 i& }0 ]9 Glot of time on this PPC search engine setting up campaigns.
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5 S' A5 I9 @, d l' @2 f! p9 GHe only ever did learn Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter. He
$ d \# f2 Q6 z) v! Y* t) c2 acould have built a lot more traffic if he had experimented
5 z e. V0 U( Kwith the list of other *profitable* pay per click search$ A* m$ g5 T' U! Y/ W8 K, G& G
engines I had given him.
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He started making some good money, but things could have; F: z. v; p# Z5 G! m
been better if not for the following:, c' [& n' Y8 C4 R
. ~1 r9 A% K/ R1. Never use a broke college student who hasn』t made more
6 {( S' C3 E( j& {2 v; W2 G3 L. p/ \than $2,000 in an entire summer as a test subject. As soon
4 S7 V, k; s. x; ^, w) Uas Waseem started making $100 in affiliate commissions a
; Z. u0 j/ h/ `$ u3 b! W, [$ g! sday, he got lazy and stopped doing much.
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2 l4 c8 P- j9 V3 Z) b+ E% \2. World Cup: Waseem is a soccer fanatic and was *easily*
' P% `" C5 m' R9 w& ~2 G& k; E" Udistracted by the World Cup. So distracted that he told me2 P- N- W- e, B& G/ c0 {
it was a *need* for him to watch almost all the matches.$ B9 z! z. {6 b
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3. He enrolled himself in a full-time course over the summer5 C- _- W: s1 j0 J! [' `
and had assignments and tests to complete. Okay, I will let
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' F# Q: l* Y- ]3 P" ]+ G B5 aOver the three and a half months he spent at my home, he only# n {" O6 q1 s5 N$ R, l. p- U
got around to driving traffic to 4-5 offers. I had hoped" O8 V/ Y$ I: u2 b7 L
that he would have built enough traffic to pull off a
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Here are the result of Waseem』s stats since mid-May by
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** May **
% G3 [* c4 a v5 sRevenue: $830.053 q e4 r, g$ Z2 N0 O' ~
Cost: $616.38
5 `' D2 F: W) V# u! W Q0 S6 GProfit: $213.67
R# J& F" I& k. j1 Z! M7 \/ WNet Margin: 25.7%
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** June **
; J2 G, D( e% b' r( z- aRevenue: $2,526.956 X8 \ P- ^8 s# @" \+ g$ m
Cost: $2,390.285 X* s: [: }3 N, h7 ?" b
Profit: $136.674 u4 ^0 `, Z# j6 t7 E6 E: v
Net Margin: 5.4%
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Revenue: $2,787.406 m( N( X7 ~8 @( I" t- g. A
Cost: $1,749.53
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Net Margin: 37.2%
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Revenue: $2,983.307 f( x. M: I2 ]$ T) v- Y
Cost: $1,945.831 u! q2 b- O" B: z% a. S6 s
Profit: $1,037.47) N$ X& p- R" [7 a' T7 I9 M' o' Y
Net Margin: 34.8%
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1 @! B' |# a1 N" A** September **! Q+ T$ s% H! g% K
Revenue: $3,841.30
" R8 R9 A- F2 G' m" g* WCost: $2,662.14/ U! y; a8 T# b n
Profit: $1,179.160 _" ?7 }7 W& K; a5 {( L b: X
Net Margin: 30.7%
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7 o# m" g) c5 U9 _% T: J tRevenue: $3,752.30
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Profit: $1,050.52
& s! r8 }5 |4 k2 u: [Net Margin: 28.0%
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3 z; r8 E, D5 v% C! e9 c3 z' ORevenue: $3,280.008 e7 c R k/ J4 o
Cost: $2,403.00& R7 O) c0 {, G2 [
Profit: $877.00
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For some people, they may say that the above profit is not- b9 q: ~; z6 x( E4 U
a lot of money. But for others, that is enough to cover
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For Waseem, this was a windfall./ o/ Y7 r, P% E1 K+ _
- K9 r0 l ~: ?9 T+ IWaseem got lazy and gave up to soon. It still makes me mad/ ^0 H1 ?! f4 Y1 @: k1 r3 D
when I think about the potential.7 V- F; `6 `; B: n8 v, s
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In fact, it was ironic that when he went back to university2 w2 X/ f$ s4 T6 d
in September, he virtually did nothing and his affiliate
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October.
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7 ` l. S1 o3 W- g. \: BIf he had just spent a few hours optimizing his campaigns
1 l# a$ y; P- L4 susing the *system* I showed him, he could have easily netted4 L9 A2 l3 z8 y. g! I
50% of these gross revenues as profit.
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# O8 m8 i& G5 R; fHe still isn』t doing anything with his campaigns, but is
( [! t& M* S; p; Mstill netting an average of $1,000 in profit a month on
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set up my recent two day seminar in Toronto.! i+ l' J- G0 R
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You should have seen the look on his face *after* my two day
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I only taught him about 30% of what I knew.- ?8 T" k+ C; d; l) U4 k7 \( ~
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He came up to me and kept repeating 「Man, I gotta finish
6 ]7 b6 h4 S2 S* {9 Q7 a! ?9 eschool and start ramping my campaigns up.」- A1 D! Q- @! N8 e C+ {* @
4 N# Z5 `1 Q( c( n% Z$ B" JDon』t worry bud, only one more semester left.0 x" I/ m$ w4 Y6 K" p# O2 _
/ [ W/ W' w* x& c' _# aHope this story motivates you that if a broke college
. l9 z: c8 v0 u7 q; a$ `& q8 L2 e7 Astudent who didn』t have *any* Internet marketing experience
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Start building those CPA campaigns!6 u) w( y; G% S' E
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