Everything is going really well and super busy. I've been having pretty good success with posting links on Adwords, especially in the past week and a half as I experimented with super targeted keywords and ad phrases. For the past 6 days now my Clickbank commissions have been between $180.00 and $220.00 on a daily and consistent basis. This has been all from 1 campaign and 2 text ads for the most part and with a commission earning of $29.00. Also, most importantly, my CPC has dropped, and keeps dropping, no more google slaps either, my CTR is way up some keywords some in double digits and my average position on page 1 for any of my main keywords is up also between 2 and 5. My conversions have been pretty amazing, for example; Today I earned so far $116.00 as of 12 noon, and my cost total is $37.00 , so I'm pretty excited to see if I make more this afternoon. Clickbank is awesome and I got my first cheque from them a couple weeks ago for 1145.00. That's total profit after ppc costs, a few refunds and taxes of course. That amount was based on 4 campaigns, 2 were successful, the third was a dud and fourth was about break even. Also, my costs for clicks was 757.00. Most of that cost was the first week and a half until i learned to optimize my keywords and test the ads. So I think I did pretty good with that considering the enormous learning curve with adwords. Now I'm going to scale those two campaigns to milk them as much as possible and I have a couple more products I'm researching now. I should mention too that for these campaigns I did a lot of article submission marketing for each product and I found a couple of really effective and cheap places to advertise links. They seem to be working and they're the same places I noticed where a lot of the more known online marketers have their ads.
As for my photoshop blog, I haven't really touched it lately only because I've started something similar with some people I work with that's taking off pretty fast. 3 guys I work with came to me with this idea they had. They ride motorbikes and they actually came up with a really great niche with these bikes called supermoto's. So I looked at it and proposed a joint venture project with them. I built a simple landing page, added the wordpress blog to it and a forums discussion page. Now they do all the content writing and managing the forum and I just instruct them on the social networking part of it like you showed me and how to get traffic. It's a little bit tougher to find blogs on this niche because the sport is relatively new in North America but I've got them promoting with facebook, myspace, and I think youtube as well. One of them this week actually is working out a deal with a parts distributor in the U.S. so that seems to be a real positive thing. Here's the link to check it out: http://www.supermoto-canada.com I've been pushing them to stick to the editorial calendar i gave them so they can keep everything updated weekly on the blog. Project #3 Another friend from work started his own business locally so I worked out a deal with him where I build his website and maintain it and I get to use the landing page and link page space for some cyber real estate keeping 100% profits on whatever revenue I make on the ads I put up. I'll update you when I get going on that and let you know in a couple of weeks how or if that's working. Anyways, so far so good. I've been using every technique from the online lessons at prospering and also the strategies you showed me and I'm a million miles farther ahead today than I was a year ago. Thanks for emailing me, I will be sure to contact you when I need help. Darren H.Burlington, ON http://www.prospering.com
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