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Can I Teach This PPC-CPA Stuff? Part 28 z* i" a9 S) w9 m
" f$ ^# k3 K: q+ cOkay, here is the continuation of the story on how I got my" O3 U! p% q/ T! W! b) Q( e* O3 c
brother-in-law involved with driving traffic from pay per
1 E$ R$ Z# f* Z; Zclick search engines to CPA lead offers.
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I left off on how he messed up his Google Adwords account3 [4 g+ u: Z+ l, w
and how I was trying to fix it.4 ~- X& |6 \7 c+ i
% v' h3 I1 p. Z9 N7 r- w4 q' j# wHere is what happened when I dropped the bid on that $1.256 {# i$ P! }. G& h. T; W
lead campaign from $1.00 down to about $0.25.
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6 _4 ?" q. M" y' a; I6 G$ bGoogle accepted the new bid.
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- E# f' _3 D" T2 C* b" yNow Waseem can actually make money on this offer. Google
4 v/ Y7 [, x- a! z1 P* a; I. ~rewarded this campaign because we had developed a good CTR
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: a. A- Z7 G/ T5 D. v$ v, I, ?From this experience, I reminded him to develop his ad! H2 l* o; g& Y) b) s! Q
writing skills to keep a good CTR ratio for all his ads on( x$ C+ Z7 M( [" d( b1 @; v1 G9 P
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He is not a big Google fan because of all their
9 T- }7 ~8 `7 P, brules and restrictions, but he really likes MSN and spent a
/ ?' X: T6 k: Y3 O1 ]1 Slot of time on this PPC search engine setting up campaigns.
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He only ever did learn Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter. He }3 O8 G5 y' Z. M3 _3 Z7 e
could have built a lot more traffic if he had experimented+ O5 T u7 T- B, |
with the list of other *profitable* pay per click search4 d0 ]' M$ V! S/ A/ Y: }
engines I had given him.
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He started making some good money, but things could have
7 i" N' l+ j5 C, J. sbeen better if not for the following:
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1. Never use a broke college student who hasn』t made more
$ t' L; `6 Q, d2 z9 F Vthan $2,000 in an entire summer as a test subject. As soon
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( p9 j' k1 a- cday, he got lazy and stopped doing much.' `4 o' g& q$ E5 T
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2. World Cup: Waseem is a soccer fanatic and was *easily*; @5 ~5 U& d a! \1 j& z
distracted by the World Cup. So distracted that he told me
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3. He enrolled himself in a full-time course over the summer% w; U, O! z0 a9 \' z1 U
and had assignments and tests to complete. Okay, I will let" }( H6 o7 G x$ f
this one go.
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Over the three and a half months he spent at my home, he only
! u' Z* J, r- v/ l& v5 wgot around to driving traffic to 4-5 offers. I had hoped
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$10,000/month.
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9 o; i1 ?6 }; }- B, {# pHere are the result of Waseem』s stats since mid-May by4 F. _/ r0 F6 o# s c
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" O3 {- q- [3 G) `** May **9 _" K, E5 f9 ^/ G
Revenue: $830.05$ A5 U9 y2 }1 Y" H
Cost: $616.38
; J" D' h# S H: @3 I! n, F" `Profit: $213.67$ X! Q# z4 {8 W( u( K: j' S, J& e
Net Margin: 25.7%
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Revenue: $2,526.95
* r( ?: w4 p: G& ZCost: $2,390.28
, ^* m6 g: F5 {3 y! P: hProfit: $136.673 f) L3 W2 I1 B6 Q1 Q
Net Margin: 5.4%5 M+ ?# z2 t/ {) f/ Z8 Y
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Revenue: $2,787.40# Q$ \0 \& A) ^
Cost: $1,749.53" D1 `2 Y+ q0 o- P h9 z
Profit: $1,037.87" M( x# n y: v
Net Margin: 37.2%- r7 A: U$ z* |( _$ \
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** August **
2 D, L8 i1 w6 JRevenue: $2,983.30- }9 |2 C W( T0 H/ }
Cost: $1,945.83
6 T: v+ L8 C8 J/ YProfit: $1,037.47
1 x1 F. S4 A8 a( @" b& wNet Margin: 34.8%9 C, M) h6 A1 w* ^# n2 D
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** September ** D$ p G4 _# ^; z5 u$ I
Revenue: $3,841.30
& {$ d6 U4 M9 @& M( ZCost: $2,662.14
, z% _8 }. K7 A* ?* Z4 MProfit: $1,179.16
8 c5 K8 c: @1 GNet Margin: 30.7%) r( i. @" p6 C" c! b$ ~+ U4 ^4 l
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Revenue: $3,752.30$ W1 m7 ]& P) ?' U" M/ m
Cost: $2,701.78
) [9 N# T W+ B) V1 K) K* R# ZProfit: $1,050.52
5 U( m+ C" \& YNet Margin: 28.0%
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( H' ?" p( ^8 k3 G** November (forecasted) **" v1 q& q6 o# I: C' B
Revenue: $3,280.00' J A$ O6 ~" e7 v, q$ |# n+ ]1 n
Cost: $2,403.00& R. ^! T; R$ J
Profit: $877.00* L6 f5 U' ?0 @: Y" Y
Net Margin: 26.7%2 V( e6 B1 s) ]8 E( F
2 M: y% A, c% u3 k9 u$ q" rFor some people, they may say that the above profit is not2 t J5 c' ~8 O i/ f* \' F
a lot of money. But for others, that is enough to cover
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3 |7 d' r7 ~+ w. Q ^; o, LFor Waseem, this was a windfall.8 ^! ~% t$ B+ d1 n" J* Q
0 N5 i+ L* o7 {2 o: d+ s( U3 O8 h0 y) LWaseem got lazy and gave up to soon. It still makes me mad
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+ k+ U; U( G* [1 lIn fact, it was ironic that when he went back to university% {- U, \$ v4 B5 A( Z
in September, he virtually did nothing and his affiliate
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If he had just spent a few hours optimizing his campaigns
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, B# h9 h2 m9 r8 ]$ Z) ?% h( ~50% of these gross revenues as profit.
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. w( B+ l4 w# u8 jHe still isn』t doing anything with his campaigns, but is
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I actually just recently saw him after he came up to help me
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You should have seen the look on his face *after* my two day
1 v8 J$ F- ~1 t6 @5 j; t: Z; rseminar, when I spilled the beans on *everything* I do to
; C( O0 o, u, t; a/ a' ?" h' Bselect group of 25 participants.
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I only taught him about 30% of what I knew.
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He came up to me and kept repeating 「Man, I gotta finish$ e. d3 K. B( r( y$ C3 k4 Y
school and start ramping my campaigns up.」) p8 H! b/ u# H9 \0 q
+ W/ S/ h) L7 N9 E( ~- W* bDon』t worry bud, only one more semester left.
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& X* b# N! a, n( m/ AHope this story motivates you that if a broke college$ `: E! a# r7 x C6 t. B1 U
student who didn』t have *any* Internet marketing experience5 m" W. R6 `0 N# R5 k( m
can make money using the PPC to CPA money model, so can you." b2 ]4 u/ ?; [0 ?8 ^4 r
8 \7 i, M$ O% }# l) Y% BStart building those CPA campaigns!
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