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Got fired 4 1/2 months ago, now make 3x what my boss did + $100 Giveaway Time

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Ryaaan14

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Yeah I ain't fucking with this whole 8pm contest but congrats on making a lot of money OP I'm sure that feels good.
 
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MVP

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ThatOneDude said:
I'd totally try to get in to affiliate marketing if I knew a profitable niche that I was knowledgeable in and where to go from there. I already got the website making know how and have dabbled in something similar before so that's one step done.

I'm guessing videogames isn't a profitable niche to get in. :p
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It actually is, a lot of those gaming companies pay per lead as well. I've run a few gaming campaigns and done ok with them, but ended up breaking even after a bit so stopped them. I can recall Rise of Mythos and World of Tanks being two of them. World of Tanks honestly must have an unlimited budget for affiliates, they are on a lot of networks, running offers for a bunch of countries.
 
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MVP

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I've also thought about running Gamefly ads here on NeoGAF, they pay a decent amount per sign-up, but changed my mind lol...wasn't sure about it.
 
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whatsinaname

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MVP said:
Depends on the offer and what qualifies as a "conversion". As far as a sales conversion, I'd be ecstatic to have a 5% conversion rate, but the payout is much higher. For leads the payout is lower but it's much easier to convert someone, usually they have to fill out a form or two and just sign up for something. I've never had much success with per-sale offers. I just tried one the other day because I found the direct advertiser for one of the offers I was running through a network, so wanted to cut out the middleman and see if it performs better, cost me $78ish dollars to close one sale and get $35 :(
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When you say it cost you $78 to close, what does that mean?

I am not being sceptical, I know the Amazon affiliate program works well for a friend who runs a blog. Just wondering about what the costs involved are. I had just assumed the only expense was time and effort.
 
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whatsinaname said:
When you say it cost you $78 to close, what does that mean?

I am not being sceptical, I know the Amazon affiliate program works well for a friend who runs a blog. Just wondering about what the costs involved are. I had just assumed the only expense was time and effort.
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Basically I ran traffic that cost me a total of $78 and got one sale which resulted in $35, so I lost money on that campaign, but was trying something new and didn't want to sit and collect a week's worth of data.

There are ways to also do it without buying traffic, it just takes much longer, if it ever even happens.

CarpeDeezNutz said:
Wait, what time you got now OP? I don't see it.
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Your post shows up on my screen at 3:04pm
 
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zou

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Congratulations, hardest part is getting the first campaign to work. How long have you been at this?

And there's definitely a lot of potential, just gotta stick with it.
 
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CarpeDeezNutz

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MVP said:
Basically I ran traffic that cost me a total of $78 and got one sale which resulted in $35, so I lost money on that campaign, but was trying something new and didn't want to sit and collect a week's worth of data.

There are ways to also do it without buying traffic, it just takes much longer, if it ever even happens.



Your post shows up on my screen at 3:04pm
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Ah cool thanks!
 
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whatsinaname

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MVP said:
Basically I ran traffic that cost me a total of $78 and got one sale which resulted in $35, so I lost money on that campaign, but was trying something new and didn't want to sit and collect a week's worth of data.

There are ways to also do it without buying traffic, it just takes much longer, if it ever even happens.
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Interesting. So either you spend time to create a following (e.g., blogs like awesomer or uncrate) or buy/redirect traffic through running your own ads while trying keeping that expense lower than what you earn through the affiliate program. I can imagine this gets more complicated because Google/Yahoo/Bing etc would be actively trying to reduce/scoop up the same revenue the affiliate program members are working towards.

Hope it works well for you. Good luck.
 
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Bit-Bit

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OP, you mention that you got your GF up and running. How long do you think it would take for someone to get to a point where they're making only $50 a day?

And would it be hard to maintain on a daily basis?

Basically, I would like to supplement my income but I'm not willing to work more than say 2 hours a day towards it.
 
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crisdecuba

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whatsinaname said:
Interesting. So either you spend time to create a following (e.g., blogs like awesomer or uncrate) or buy/redirect traffic through running your own ads while trying keeping that expense lower than what you earn through the affiliate program. I can imagine this gets more complicated because Google/Yahoo/Bing etc would be actively trying to reduce/scoop up the same revenue the affiliate program members are working towards.

Hope it works well for you. Good luck.
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Wait. MVP - Is this a good summary? I ask because I'm interested, and this is the most sensible summary I've found in the thread so far. :)
 
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MVP

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zou said:
Kept cropping the screenshot, in the end decided it's not worth the hassle ;)

But yeah, can be quite lucrative.
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DO EET. I love seeing the 5 figure a day screenshots.

Bit-Bit said:
OP, you mention that you got your GF up and running. How long do you think it would take for someone to get to a point where they're making only $50 a day?

And would it be hard to maintain on a daily basis?

Basically, I would like to supplement my income but I'm not willing to work more than say 2 hours a day towards it.
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If you only have two hours a day for it I honestly wouldn't waste the time. You'll end up looking for a quick fix and go down the path of looking for get rich quick schemes.

Affiliate marketing is an actual business. There really is no scheme. Your question is in essence the same as "Can I build a business from the ground up, even though I don't want to spend more than 2 hours a day thinking about it?" Not really. Most entrepreneurs think about their startup night and day, and then dream about it.

I've heard stories about someone with like 3 jobs working two hours a day making it, but I always assume it's BS. I just don't see how it's possible unless you have a good mentor, and even then you won't be learning it, you'll just kind of be working for them, which is kind of where my girlfriend is at. I'm trying to teach her how to use her own creativity and make her own decisions for these campaigns and make one from absolute scratch without my help.
 
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MVP

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crisdecuba said:
Wait. MVP - Is this a good summary? I ask because I'm interested, and this is the most sensible summary I've found in the thread so far. :)
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Pretty good, except for the part about Google/Yahoo/Bing competing for the revenue. Not sure what he means by that, as far as I know, all the banners you see through Google Adwords, on Yahoo, Bing, etc. are from advertisers/affiliates, not from the search engines themselves.
 
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phosphor112

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MVP said:
DO EET. I love seeing the 5 figure a day screenshots.



If you only have two hours a day for it I honestly wouldn't waste the time. You'll end up looking for a quick fix and go down the path of looking for get rich quick schemes.

Affiliate marketing is an actual business. There really is no scheme. Your question is in essence the same as "Can I build a business from the ground up, even though I don't want to spend more than 2 hours a day thinking about it?" Not really. Most entrepreneurs think about their startup night and day, and then dream about it.

I've heard stories about someone with like 3 jobs working two hours a day making it, but I always assume it's BS. I just don't see how it's possible unless you have a good mentor, and even then you won't be learning it, you'll just kind of be working for them, which is kind of where my girlfriend is at. I'm trying to teach her how to use her own creativity and make her own decisions for these campaigns and make one from absolute scratch without my help.
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I have about 6-8 hours a day I can dedicate to it.
 
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twofold

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I've been a member of all 3 of those forums and am a member of PPV Playbook currently, I just didn't want to start throwing out paid resources because I was getting some heat from people thinking it's some scam or something, but yeah, there are definitely some worthy paid resources. For a complete beginner though, I'd recommend learning the ropes first, so that any paid information will be more easily absorbed.

And yeah, Ruck is a beast, he used to be a regular at WickedFire, then co-founded Convert2Media which is still going strong, now runs IMGrind, iMobiTrax (still running CPVLab but will get iMobi soon), and runs Revived Media. Don't know when he sleeps, personally.

As far as sources, I run on a few, yeah POF being one of them, also do a bit of adult through TrafficJunky, but I can't seem to get anything going there. My animated banners are sick though.
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I know who Ruck is. :p He was my AM back when I first joined C2M 4-5 years ago. He took me from $10-15 profit a day to just short of $2k daily in around a month. Awesome guy.

I'd say Finch's affiliate primer is probably the best resource for newbies - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BCQT8ZE/?tag=neogaf0e-20. Cheap and great info.

RE: banners.

Here's a tip: the uglier, the better. I've paid professional photoshop artists to design banners for me before and they nearly always perform worse than the shitty banners I make in MS Paint.
 
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twofold said:
RE: banners.

Here's a tip: the uglier, the better. I've paid professional photoshop artists to design banners for me before and they nearly always perform worse than the shitty banners I make in MS Paint.
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I keep telling my girlfriend that she's going to do great at affiliate marketing because she sucks at Photoshop and at making banners, which is a GOOD thing! She doesn't seem to understand it's about grabbing those eyeballs and getting the click, not about winning design awards.
 
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ffdgh

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Looking at the previous giveaway, so many gaffers appeared out of no where around 8:40.
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commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
OP sounds like a buddy of mine who was affiliate marketing crazy for a while. All he talked about. Then he quit and started his own business which he just sold for a few million. :( :( The working man's a sucker! GJ OP.
 
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