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Can I Teach This PPC-CPA Stuff? Part 2
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# p0 K) s8 z9 L+ z' WOkay, here is the continuation of the story on how I got my: [+ z. f' S9 P/ N
brother-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* T; ?* P1 F, J% r9 @. _( W
and how I was trying to fix it.6 A9 o. s1 c7 e- _
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Here is what happened when I dropped the bid on that $1.25+ [: X% |9 A, ?; z: `8 B
lead campaign from $1.00 down to about $0.25.
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1 q4 Y6 s3 a. oReady?
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Google accepted the new bid.
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9 N. y9 y' m. hWoo hoo!- M; _0 c) V4 |7 N' j& \
" l0 X* Y6 t# f4 G4 p3 ZNow Waseem can actually make money on this offer. Google
9 G1 S/ H: p# u2 ~# W, P) R, Arewarded this campaign because we had developed a good CTR3 b# u6 l- c$ s3 z7 ^
on the ads.
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6 G) \# J `9 IFrom this experience, I reminded him to develop his ad s, r5 Q! S, c7 k6 L' L* T3 m
writing skills to keep a good CTR ratio for all his ads on
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He is not a big Google fan because of all their, p7 o% u; V2 r# f# F7 v" m
rules and restrictions, but he really likes MSN and spent a# U+ E+ B3 _1 K, W
lot 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
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with the list of other *profitable* pay per click search
. R, i4 k" U" ~, j. Qengines I had given him.1 v" e4 w* M1 B2 n1 f" \
+ L; }8 d$ h* M3 g) u5 @He started making some good money, but things could have
- q) q6 v$ Y! X) I4 ?: G9 k+ b/ j2 jbeen better if not for the following:
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* [% d/ t7 K9 I k8 ?: O, ]1. Never use a broke college student who hasn』t made more
5 |( E5 H, R& r2 l: mthan $2,000 in an entire summer as a test subject. As soon
- v6 n1 U* i6 Eas Waseem started making $100 in affiliate commissions a
6 p8 f6 p6 W$ fday, he got lazy and stopped doing much.9 h) m# |& B' y! c/ [- _
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2. World Cup: Waseem is a soccer fanatic and was *easily*
8 [2 D9 j% p% K" I9 k" bdistracted by the World Cup. So distracted that he told me" B& m e+ G# `. S3 m! t
it was a *need* for him to watch almost all the matches. `4 ?1 V2 Q- g1 K0 U r
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3. He enrolled himself in a full-time course over the summer* W9 L- G% S" R$ v3 T9 |9 r
and had assignments and tests to complete. Okay, I will let
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Over the three and a half months he spent at my home, he only' K ^( c7 `# |
got around to driving traffic to 4-5 offers. I had hoped5 v" f6 }- a. z# | ^
that he would have built enough traffic to pull off a
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! c. N4 F: s& Q7 m" W) [2 AHere are the result of Waseem』s stats since mid-May by( q! V3 `# @5 e/ D k! o
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** May **
o& k& H' N2 ~6 \4 i8 tRevenue: $830.056 r7 L0 @* g/ N, L) Y. Z& ~
Cost: $616.38( X' I( ?4 F" u, e8 p
Profit: $213.67
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Q4 Q& v$ w+ s4 T% `** June **
. H0 w/ Z# S' j' mRevenue: $2,526.95
7 r7 U) `2 A* H& tCost: $2,390.28) o' |* q0 K: `) ~
Profit: $136.672 _7 @$ v/ x! n$ o! N
Net Margin: 5.4%0 T! S( o% T }: k8 R/ b z! H
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** July **2 a, a" o& j: t! |9 |6 G2 b
Revenue: $2,787.403 E, {% G, D- x- O6 [
Cost: $1,749.53
) ^6 C0 J5 @6 j" m9 dProfit: $1,037.872 ] m5 [' ^1 g* o8 ]
Net Margin: 37.2%
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** August **# }0 M' p( e5 v% }6 [; w' q
Revenue: $2,983.30
. a4 c, [, G$ c3 o+ v+ Q+ QCost: $1,945.83
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Net Margin: 34.8%* E' p* B5 C3 E
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** September **% q3 l2 f i- y" ?; W$ w
Revenue: $3,841.30
9 F: m, Q! b; c+ \& KCost: $2,662.14
4 j# Q7 i/ k( p) W" G5 u1 @) ^Profit: $1,179.16
: E5 z9 e; t. G5 Y+ ENet Margin: 30.7%% X' c, D3 R/ B6 ?) X6 f
" e! L5 p1 G, g! U1 H** October **
" {3 J6 l/ o; e+ p9 [, ^2 U! MRevenue: $3,752.30
/ |$ w* R: R9 a0 \4 eCost: $2,701.78
) g3 w5 H, q7 l1 o3 AProfit: $1,050.52) O' }* R7 ]5 @
Net Margin: 28.0%9 N: K' U. n( ?9 L. q; b3 h5 O' Q
8 }# s; X1 @6 W* c1 c) r1 l$ i6 ]: N0 U** November (forecasted) **
& H% ~; R- {; c( Z/ ZRevenue: $3,280.00
' A; j" ?8 I: WCost: $2,403.00
7 d- F& [' a1 _$ \- C# K, OProfit: $877.00
- x0 l& H' j4 ENet Margin: 26.7%' e% C T6 s$ Q0 m' |
/ j# X. d( W _+ O5 ^For some people, they may say that the above profit is not1 Y! l9 q( @: b" ?# h* S D
a lot of money. But for others, that is enough to cover5 \7 j7 K, i" v0 N1 _7 E1 N3 |
a mortgage and car payment.
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0 e* B; ^( M# d% B) ^" LFor Waseem, this was a windfall.: l# O$ G8 B/ ?; x( O# U
- D# T/ ~0 l! L2 o$ w7 e6 o9 lWaseem got lazy and gave up to soon. It still makes me mad) v6 T2 s& L4 _$ m0 \
when I think about the potential.
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In fact, it was ironic that when he went back to university9 X8 Q2 G! `# L& k2 J0 m& O( U
in September, he virtually did nothing and his affiliate$ d$ q; d {9 M$ W* U
commissions jumped to almost $4,000 in both September and2 U/ v- g5 S+ i
October.
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If he had just spent a few hours optimizing his campaigns: x& Y8 C+ ?7 y/ Q
using the *system* I showed him, he could have easily netted5 e/ f! e. [1 {/ J6 c% w
50% of these gross revenues as profit.; j( _4 H4 F3 Q
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He still isn』t doing anything with his campaigns, but is8 h' p" b6 \% \* f- c- ~
still netting an average of $1,000 in profit a month on5 A1 }( [1 Q D# m
complete auto-pilot.6 K3 p _4 F* x1 E) S9 V1 K; l G3 R
3 w# T- n9 K3 I+ g1 |& A& s, X; @I actually just recently saw him after he came up to help me
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You should have seen the look on his face *after* my two day" P/ P3 {; I' V% J6 Y! K$ }
seminar, when I spilled the beans on *everything* I do to
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I only taught him about 30% of what I knew.
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, e. V( J$ h- C2 P) _0 HHe came up to me and kept repeating 「Man, I gotta finish% R/ ~4 g5 L# Z# Q
school and start ramping my campaigns up.」 j9 c& k% O3 y. s
! r1 q# U2 m, X$ ^' E* XDon』t worry bud, only one more semester left.
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Hope this story motivates you that if a broke college
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Start building those CPA campaigns!5 J% M0 e+ |2 r
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