The month of February has come and gone.  Time for an earnings report!  Things are looking up in the field of affiliate marketing for me this month.  Starting the month of Feb, my goal was to earn $8,000.00 profit.  My plan to do this was to capitalize on the fact that in month of Feb. there would be alot of people online purchasing flowers and/or looking for love on or before Valentine’s day.  I figured that if I could just figure out how to get in front of all that traffic, I could easily make a few quick bucks .  So my plan was to find a set of offers that were proven winners in the past for Valentine’s day traffic.   After talking to a few affiliate managers at Cxdigital, Hydranetwork, CPAFlash, and Azoogle, I learned that it was best to stick with the obvious offers centered around Love, Candy, and Flowers.   I was pointed in the direction of a couple of highly converting offers:  Eharmony.com and FTDFlowers.com.  My affiliate managers assured me they would be the go-to offers for this month.

Eharmony:

Starting with the Eharmony offer, Azoogle.com pays $4.40 for every person that signs up for a profile on Eharmony.  I setup a campaign via Adcenter and bid on a few dating related terms.  After optimizing my PPC costs, I was able to become profitable on the offer relatively quickly.  Overall, I was spending about $0.14 per click.  However, my ECPC (earnings cost per click) was equal to $0.46.  So if you take my spend at $0.14 per click and subtract it from my average ECPC of $0.46 I ended up earning  $0.32 per every click to my Eharmony link.

FTD Flowers:

This campaign could not get off the ground for me.  I don’t know if I just didn’t set the offer up correctly or if the offer was not tracking or what.  I could not get this offer to convert.  I bid on keywords such as flowers, valentine gifts, flower delivery, and valentine flowers.  Keywords that got me lots and lots of clicks, but 0 conversions.  After a few days of running this campaign, I gave up and decided to focus on the Eharmony campaign and 1 over secret campaign I wont reveal here just yet.

Febuary Revenue:
This month has been my best month in all of my internet marketing efforts. Not only did I surpass my goal of $8,000.00 by earning a total of $13,689.40 (surpassing my goal by $5,689.40), but I also learned alot of new lessons that I will be implementing in the month of March and beyond.  One of the things I’m planning on implementing is something called CPA pathways.  It’s basically a concept where you create your own CPA offer, but your offer is basically an opt-in form with other CPA offers on the backend.  To illustrate:  User lands on your CPA Offer Page —> submits their information (usually an opt-in form) —> forwarded to multiple backend CPA offers which someone else owns.  The theory is you get to build a list and at the same time you get paid for forwarding people to other CPA offers in your pathway.  This concept has been out there for awhile, but people are just now starting to talk about it…and I think that is where the next major push will be.  I’m in the process of brainstorming ideas that I can use for my own CPA offer.  I will blog about this in detail in the near future as I set up my own offer and pick a set of CPA networks to put the offer on.

March Goals:

Profit = $10,000 (not sure if I can repeat Feb numbers as there is no major holiday in March)
Setup 2 CPA pathway websites and test.

Find another set of profitable campaigns.

Start testing out other traffic sources:

Adperium – A network specializing in bit-torrent traffic

Mochi Media – A network specializing in in-game advertising

Ad4game – Another network specializing in in-game advertising.

 

See you guys next post…..