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Can I Teach This PPC-CPA Stuff? Part 2
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) C5 g; O: x+ q& n( C% R& VOkay, here is the continuation of the story on how I got my- Y6 i; N# b- \0 \3 `1 S
brother-in-law involved with driving traffic from pay per; V+ z/ k. y4 j, A
click search engines to CPA lead offers.
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/ F* N( u7 `% ?0 r4 g" iI left off on how he messed up his Google Adwords account$ Z: S# q' M; o$ a ~4 Y. Z! A
and how I was trying to fix it.
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Here is what happened when I dropped the bid on that $1.25# ?* K+ R+ _( {2 m) D* i# P
lead campaign from $1.00 down to about $0.25.- y, u1 R+ V4 F, z1 Y; j$ c
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& e" V1 V& V9 D6 m! M0 z& OGoogle accepted the new bid.
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Woo hoo!7 P/ S L) ]$ w
0 g7 F! i& I$ e$ D# V% DNow Waseem can actually make money on this offer. Google. O" }, E6 w5 [+ ]8 a
rewarded this campaign because we had developed a good CTR
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From this experience, I reminded him to develop his ad
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He is not a big Google fan because of all their6 V/ V: I5 \, i
rules and restrictions, but he really likes MSN and spent a
, s2 |8 n# q0 k8 Tlot 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! F* L" m( k1 c2 F4 k$ J/ L( \
could have built a lot more traffic if he had experimented
! r1 @+ Z' q5 d; f+ pwith the list of other *profitable* pay per click search
1 P) J- N; v9 Y, vengines I had given him.0 o9 _1 m. e: z/ G
. b9 Z6 X9 o: dHe started making some good money, but things could have
, ]% K# n8 y( T# bbeen better if not for the following:, K$ N9 M* O& T9 M! G" @
% i* c' ~& p: [8 R, F3 v' t/ g1. Never use a broke college student who hasn』t made more6 U% H* j$ O1 a
than $2,000 in an entire summer as a test subject. As soon
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day, he got lazy and stopped doing much.
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# r* O1 r4 L$ ~1 d1 b2. World Cup: Waseem is a soccer fanatic and was *easily*5 `1 X6 i* R. p- H& [/ u
distracted by the World Cup. So distracted that he told me! \2 M [* q+ j4 o" u" @
it was a *need* for him to watch almost all the matches.# ^! n- a! E( U% V. C# \8 A6 _
3 d- b6 c. D7 d3. He enrolled himself in a full-time course over the summer
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this one go.
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; x& o0 a0 \5 B" {Over the three and a half months he spent at my home, he only
4 f6 B/ d8 e. K& m; a: ^got around to driving traffic to 4-5 offers. I had hoped9 Z$ @3 b0 p }; w1 a
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! r$ q% _( x4 a1 D4 [
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** May **
8 l& N% F- c8 c6 D g) \: V- kRevenue: $830.051 Y* }8 l/ t* h# q9 g
Cost: $616.38- P$ \: h" d6 P8 F, r1 m2 a
Profit: $213.670 O, k5 w; v* F. z! i
Net Margin: 25.7%
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** June **0 q/ C- I8 o/ \5 G4 ^5 h6 n/ F
Revenue: $2,526.95% p6 Z7 M% S& P: T% z
Cost: $2,390.28
8 O8 F. b: `# bProfit: $136.678 \" b. P, t& K% a4 }# }9 J4 h
Net Margin: 5.4%
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** July **# j/ q* m, k a* k1 a8 Y; r
Revenue: $2,787.401 {$ a# w0 D/ M( R5 _
Cost: $1,749.53$ J# y. w" v* R0 H% H
Profit: $1,037.87
; A8 \0 I1 N9 _. _! v4 C% ENet Margin: 37.2%& C" X+ g5 t3 e0 M& @# A0 ~, U5 w, Z
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** August **
* H1 q, ~" \+ Y u/ o, E) {+ h: aRevenue: $2,983.30
1 j) M8 V$ ~* P7 Q* o7 LCost: $1,945.83! L" }- D8 \! J) N: g q
Profit: $1,037.47) \) O' q, {- M. x/ V9 Y6 Q# i: m
Net Margin: 34.8%0 H l J4 A# l: E
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** September **
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Cost: $2,662.146 i) q0 j8 X v4 F# |
Profit: $1,179.16
1 S/ k$ E! _% D4 x5 NNet Margin: 30.7%
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** October **
0 R/ t- F8 [3 q$ N9 DRevenue: $3,752.305 K( J# Y5 Q/ m2 F( H) q
Cost: $2,701.784 ^' N- X( U" \: n0 @& D7 ^2 t
Profit: $1,050.52
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+ M* R3 ^& I- [' x1 X, y** November (forecasted) **
6 {: H; ]1 ]/ y; ^Revenue: $3,280.00
) \" Z3 |2 n% fCost: $2,403.00$ D9 K$ D! m$ W/ t
Profit: $877.00
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$ k* k. T& b" P N$ P" ^For some people, they may say that the above profit is not
% ~8 }* [5 D( W5 U! E7 }a lot of money. But for others, that is enough to cover( Z: g7 G2 m' v/ t" N* }, H
a mortgage and car payment.. D" X2 o. y' e2 }6 H6 n4 Q
4 T/ V1 X+ P9 |: D$ XFor Waseem, this was a windfall.- G8 P( p$ F+ l% P Y# ~
0 Q1 X" d) _6 Z# u& fWaseem got lazy and gave up to soon. It still makes me mad
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In fact, it was ironic that when he went back to university
6 K3 r5 J5 K) a3 R6 h9 P* R' Bin September, he virtually did nothing and his affiliate
& G3 Q6 A8 o: T! U* Gcommissions jumped to almost $4,000 in both September and
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If he had just spent a few hours optimizing his campaigns
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50% of these gross revenues as profit.; h3 W. k9 Z7 e
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He still isn』t doing anything with his campaigns, but is
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complete auto-pilot.
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7 J* \7 q9 P! z% y. o+ {/ Y. ~I actually just recently saw him after he came up to help me
5 ~+ Z; A: a. _( x& J/ bset up my recent two day seminar in Toronto.
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$ }3 Z$ {8 W8 T3 Y' P) I6 b' AYou should have seen the look on his face *after* my two day
" ?# h! R( K% W7 e5 v% Pseminar, when I spilled the beans on *everything* I do to3 |1 {9 ^( }/ E) V7 K
select group of 25 participants.8 l9 y9 I- ?! v; ^1 T* T
2 B" Y, z6 g- bI only taught him about 30% of what I knew.
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He came up to me and kept repeating 「Man, I gotta finish8 P% ^! }" O" L/ O0 O. Y
school and start ramping my campaigns up.」
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5 g8 b6 x/ P/ W% _5 ZDon』t worry bud, only one more semester left.+ X) B; q5 |5 Z4 {
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Hope this story motivates you that if a broke college
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Start building those CPA campaigns!
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Gauher |