April Earnings Report – April Showers
Time for another monthly wrap-up. It seems like time is flying by so fast. April has come and gone and we are already well into the 2nd week in May. Summer will be here in just a few weeks, and I’m itching to take some vacation time from my full time job. But lets take things one at a time. In any case, I hope all is well with my readers and with that said, let’s get down to my... [Read more]
Giving Birth To Our 2nd Product – Our Negotiation Proces
As May moves along, I’m happy to report that the 2nd product idea that both me and my wife are working on is moving along right on schedule. We are concurrently in the business logo design and the product sourcing phase. The purpose of this blog post is to relay to my readers some interesting experiences we’ve had so far this month related to one of these phases – Product Sourcing. ... [Read more]
My First Sample Product Has Arrived!!
My Ship Came In So as you know I’ve been talking about starting my own physical product import business that involves sourcing products both domestically and abroad and selling those products via my own Amazon product listing. Well I’m one step closer to getting this business up and off to the races. Over the past month, I’ve been doing product and competitive research to identify... [Read more]
March Earnings Report – Madness!!
March Madness! The month March has come and gone. So you know its time to release my monthly highlights and month end review. The month of March was definitely a breakout month for me on quite a few fronts. As I’ve posted before, I’ve been working on both increasing my revenue through various mobile ventures while also attempting to diversify into other business realms. Well March... [Read more]
Bulk Alexa Rank Checking
Bulk Alexa Checking A couple of posts ago I was talking about how I was trying to identify sites where I could contact the webmaster directly to purchase advertising. My process consisted of pulling a Google Placement and Imobitrax report of all the sites I receive any amount of clicks on and looking up traffic stats on each site individually using Alexa and Compete.com. This process took up alot... [Read more]
Phase Two Has Begun – Developing My Own Product
Building an Amazon Business So I’m finally taking the plunge. I’m starting a new business. “New Business?”, you are asking. Yeah, so for the longest, I’ve been wanting to get to a point in my business where I have more control over my bottom line. As you’ve probably read in my many prior posts, the affiliate marketing / CPA marketing business is a great source... [Read more]
February Earnings Report – Meh…
Meh Okay lets just start off by saying the February is the shortest month in the year. It’s very difficult to increase your bottom line over a previous time period when your current time period is 3 days shorter It’s never a good thing when someone starts of a blog post with excuses right? In any case, February has come and gone and I owe you guys a summary of what happened. All and... [Read more]
My 1st Direct Site Buy – Spreading the Music
Spread The Music So last post I mentioned that I was purchasing traffic on the Google Content Network. Basically allowing Google to place my ads where ever they felt would best fit the content on of my ad copy. During this process, I was tracking the various sites on which I was being placed in hopes of contacting these sites directly and cutting Google out of the advertising deal. One day, while... [Read more]
How I Lost $942.16 Giving Away The Bible
The Bible Last month (February), I decided to run a little experiment that actually turned into this case study I’m presenting right now. As many of you may be familiar, my favorite sources of revenue online come from running cost per action (CPA) offers. Up until recently most of my offers were either mobile or lead generation related. However, last month I decided to run a campaign... [Read more]
January Earnings Statement – New Year Plans
Pushing Forward You should probably know me by now, I tend to put up my earnings statements a little more tardy than most. I’ll work on more prompt postings in 2013. In any case, my last posting was more of a review of 2012, however in this post I would like to focus more on what I’m planning for 2013. Yeah, it may be a little corny to put up your business resolutions out on my blog... [Read more]
Mobile Advertising 2012 Year End Review
2012 Year End Review 2012 is over and it was a great year! I started 2012 with a focus on mobile advertising and mobile apps. My goal for the year was to capitalize on the growing mobile trend and solidify a strong foothold in this space. I officially made the plunge into mobile advertising February 1, 2012. One thing I can say about going into a new market is that is unknown to you is... [Read more]
How Much Is Your Time Worth?
Get Anything Done For $5.00 Question for you? How much is your time really worth? Let’s get more specific, how much is an hour of your time worth. If you are like me, then you are probably trying to deduce this by taking your monthly salary and dividing it by 160+ hours or something. If you do the math you’ll probably see that your time is worth quite a lot more than what you may... [Read more]
November Mobile Business Report
Rough Month As I sit here an type this report, I’m really sadden about the progress I’ve been making lately. It seems the entire year things were working out great and I was blasting through offers (in a good way) left and right. However, this month (November) was one of my toughest moments on record in a long time. Things just seemed to have fallen apart all a sudden and all... [Read more]
Leadbolt CPI App Arbitrage – Case Study
So I recently found out that Leadbolt can facilitate cost per install (CPI) Android based campaigns in their system. Check out the info here: Leadbolt CPI. Read the last line on the page to see what I’m talking about. Not only was it CPI traffic, but it was NON-INCENT CPI traffic which means its usually a higher quality type traffic. The only barrier to entry to using this traffic was... [Read more]
October Mobile Business Report
Greetings readers. It’s time for me to level set and publish my October Business Report. October was an interesting month on a couple of fronts. 1st it was a month where I saw a lot of my mobile revenue as a portion of my overall revenue fall dramatically. As you all know I’ve been on a mobile kick all year, however, with the advent of more entrants into the mobile advertising scene... [Read more]
Adcenter Mobile In-App Ads: Waste of Time?
Many of you may know how much I’m into finding traffic sources that are not as exploited as many of the mainstream sources. Many of you out there probably mainly use Google, Yahoo, Bing, Jumptap, Leadbolt, Airpush, etc for many of your mobile campaigns. There’s nothing wrong with this as I do the exact same thing. These sources have some of the largest concentration of traffic and... [Read more]
September Mobile Business Report
September Earning Report September has come and gone and its time to post another earnings report. I know I need to get on this more frequently as I almost forgot what I was specifically working on in that month. However, given what was accomplished this month, I don’t believe this will be a problem. As always, I’ll be separating this post into highlights and final accomplishments. ... [Read more]
GetJar.com Case Study – In App Advertising
So I came across a post on the Performance Marketing Insider blog a few weeks ago that talked about how there are so many unconventional sources of traffic out there when it comes to mobile advertising. Most people are aware of the major traffic sources for mobile traffic such as Google, Adcenter, Jumptap, Leadbolt, and Airpush. But there are so many other places where you can buy premium placements... [Read more]
Stay Organized or Stay Lost
The Notebook The plugging along at this online advertising gig can get overwhelming at times. There are so many avenues you can walk down, so many uncharted paths you can explore, just so much stuff to go after. It can be very challenging not to get distracted chasing the next shiny object; the next super secret technique that’ll secure you online riches. I myself am guilty of chasing the... [Read more]
August Mobile Business Report – It’s Payday!
It's Pay Day!! It’s time again to pull back the veil and give a report on the previous month’s business ventures. Having your own business is such a great feeling! Even if you don’t want to quit your day job (I have not as I enjoy what I do during the daylight hours), its a great way to step out and find out what you are really made of pursuing things you may be interested... [Read more]