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Can I Teach This PPC-CPA Stuff? Part 25 s/ G* J# J6 U$ E& H$ A \
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Okay, here is the continuation of the story on how I got my
# k$ h$ L" A$ s5 Q3 A; Pbrother-in-law involved with driving traffic from pay per
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I left off on how he messed up his Google Adwords account
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4 A5 v r1 c. VHere is what happened when I dropped the bid on that $1.253 j1 X: i; x4 G( e N ]& H
lead campaign from $1.00 down to about $0.25.$ o% _9 `$ k0 w+ J+ L8 n
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Ready?; A- `+ n# n$ B, O) |6 r
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Google accepted the new bid.) h- p$ R" T* O4 R @0 \
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Woo hoo!
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! \$ B) s' V* t8 G5 u9 XNow Waseem can actually make money on this offer. Google
0 b* n, S; m- V# d: Wrewarded this campaign because we had developed a good CTR
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From this experience, I reminded him to develop his ad, ?- w$ V1 ]4 t3 W$ I$ U* ?
writing skills to keep a good CTR ratio for all his ads on M6 r! y6 e7 ?& y
Google.7 U6 `# l6 E% M5 Y# Z! V
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He is not a big Google fan because of all their
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lot of time on this PPC search engine setting up campaigns.
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5 {2 U+ ]2 z* T( t) GHe only ever did learn Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter. He
( {) m4 F3 B& l* h6 B' {7 Tcould have built a lot more traffic if he had experimented5 `6 W1 t, t) r( L. J
with the list of other *profitable* pay per click search4 B$ U' y7 {( l; M9 h) @9 P* K
engines I had given him.
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, e" ?" j+ M. U! HHe started making some good money, but things could have
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" ]$ d$ J8 J) {( d6 {% e- v1. Never use a broke college student who hasn』t made more
8 O/ H/ z, g: _- f5 [+ `' Lthan $2,000 in an entire summer as a test subject. As soon! V( v% b# X: [/ ^* B$ k! p
as Waseem started making $100 in affiliate commissions a
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: D: W3 _. r+ j) Y5 f+ o* a8 _2. World Cup: Waseem is a soccer fanatic and was *easily*
9 _4 f$ _8 i8 @) i! Pdistracted by the World Cup. So distracted that he told me
Y) V! J! t* |5 kit was a *need* for him to watch almost all the matches.2 W& e C2 F* u3 q8 y; M9 W4 @
; `4 o" t( o3 c0 N3 p/ ^3. He enrolled himself in a full-time course over the summer
: Y1 w; u+ H6 h" {and had assignments and tests to complete. Okay, I will let5 `) z0 ]7 f9 A; H( k" v
this one go.& c: x V2 ]5 f% b! e3 M7 {7 y
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Over the three and a half months he spent at my home, he only
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( n4 G; n( {+ [( I9 b7 a$ i7 sthat he would have built enough traffic to pull off a
V3 _: Q, {+ \/ l: g$10,000/month.
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, Y$ Z* |2 b7 D- A& zHere are the result of Waseem』s stats since mid-May by
1 C0 G5 k' W! m: U4 Bmonth:
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** May **
" \+ q5 Y% N' KRevenue: $830.05
% P; s/ g Y* B! q9 p8 I+ r0 UCost: $616.38
0 Q8 C, k) h# f8 jProfit: $213.67
& f4 X$ P7 F" y0 n b. d. ^$ |Net Margin: 25.7%) T- J: z% _9 X/ Q( S
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** June **7 N% z* U; a8 F
Revenue: $2,526.959 d5 C q: h, d8 F( m
Cost: $2,390.28) H# w8 e x a l+ m
Profit: $136.67
6 ^) \8 E: ^+ x% XNet Margin: 5.4%
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** July **
: A9 b& i0 ^9 B0 }# k& D+ DRevenue: $2,787.40; i) b7 u* R; _
Cost: $1,749.53
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Net Margin: 37.2%
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6 x Y6 W# ?0 h: l9 W+ NRevenue: $2,983.30! }2 W& V$ Y/ I5 ?) A6 w/ w1 B
Cost: $1,945.83
9 o* N, `- c, M9 E3 o( J: b! XProfit: $1,037.47
, d$ w8 f* k' _! S# \( cNet Margin: 34.8%
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** September **
( K; R- H1 Z4 s" yRevenue: $3,841.308 b p0 V4 g& Z, b$ f* L
Cost: $2,662.14
0 W& [, a* c6 U! g9 S7 X& L5 AProfit: $1,179.16
6 S9 G7 j( {# W; m) sNet Margin: 30.7%7 l% e5 H( `9 G( h; L- h9 Y8 a) G
. q$ [2 Z, w1 n9 ?$ B% A5 g** October **
- m7 K3 X4 S7 _9 fRevenue: $3,752.30
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Profit: $1,050.52
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& Q. L/ C0 `9 M$ I7 X+ U1 i, ?** November (forecasted) **
& {; u( H2 M" E) H6 D/ a/ GRevenue: $3,280.002 p7 G! P- z/ A- t" j% k. H
Cost: $2,403.00
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Net Margin: 26.7%
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For some people, they may say that the above profit is not
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a mortgage and car payment. i+ K! n- I) X. a4 H
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Waseem got lazy and gave up to soon. It still makes me mad
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In fact, it was ironic that when he went back to university# D& }- U4 U$ r3 \
in September, he virtually did nothing and his affiliate
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using the *system* I showed him, he could have easily netted `7 V' a: \% W% [# J' G$ F
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He still isn』t doing anything with his campaigns, but is/ s+ ~4 ~3 v7 M4 B' a9 C" W
still netting an average of $1,000 in profit a month on
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7 A# M) ^8 U& j7 Y. pI actually just recently saw him after he came up to help me
; F6 J' i2 I; C; \$ Xset up my recent two day seminar in Toronto.- r1 A* Z7 l* X& I: d
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You should have seen the look on his face *after* my two day
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I only taught him about 30% of what I knew.! E9 A8 _8 G, K
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He came up to me and kept repeating 「Man, I gotta finish
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Don』t worry bud, only one more semester left.$ \3 F1 O9 |0 Y x; J
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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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