PPC Mom

I just a pamphlet in the mail from Google and it talks about a link to their recession help page. I figured I would share it so that anyone new to ppc could check it out.

www.google.com/adwords/tactics2008/

Just to give you all an update, I am sticking with the content network right now and advertising a few things from Clickbank. At first it went really well, but once I started tweaking it, the first campaign went south. After a couple hundred in loses from that campaign I have started a new one. I will of course keep this blog updated, but as of right now I am spending very little every day.

Oh, and I am still a member of PPC Coach, and they just released more on the tracking script which lets you import your info from Adwords, (awesome!) and they released another method for month 4. That means in the first 6 months you get 10 campaign methods to work with.

Well I figured out what my problem was last week. I changed my daily budget on Friday at the end of the day and they couldn’t review that until Monday. Apparently they make you wait for that kind of change.

I didn’t want to wait all weekend (Im a bit impatient) so I started another campaign and started collecting clicks. So, they will let you start new campaigns and change your Maximum cpc without review.

I did increase my cpc for the original campaign once it went back live today. Of course I got a million clicks and little data, even though I only have 20 keywords in the group. Remember this is the content network, on the search network I wouldn’t put more than one keyword in an adgroup.

So, now I have a bunch of clicks, no more sales, have decreased my bids again on this original one cause everyone was clicking on it, and I want a few less clicks. We will see, as with all ppc campaigns there is a lot of tweaking to do.

I know I haven’t written much in a while, it seems like there is a good two weeks between my posts. Im going to work on that. Here is what I have been up to:

Ghostwriting- I did a wso on wf to get some instant cash flow.

PPC Help- Ive met some people who have less ppc knowledge than me, so I have been trying to help them. I figured I have a good knowledge now between all the courses Ive gone through. Im hoping to get some testimonials in case I want to do it as a service later on.

Content network- I decided I didnt have a lot of money to play around on the search network before I could see a return. So I chose a product and set up a content network campaign. This is where I could use some help. I set it up, direct linking and let it go.

Day 1- spent $12 then had to fix tracking.

Day 2- spent another $12, got 2 sales for $67 income and profit of $43, then I increased the daily budget.

Since then (yesterday) no impressions. Any ideas?

I have gotten a few instant messages from some people who read this blog and want to know how my 5 campaign spree went.

First it took me a few days to get them all ready and uploaded. Then the nail biting began. The first couple of days were more watching than anything else. I was moving pretty slowly with pretty low daily budgets because I didnt want to miss something and lose all of my budget for testing. Sometimes I have done this, where I forget that the ad destination and keyword destination can actually be different and I lose money on that.

To sum it up, my 5 campaign launch didnt go great. I still have 2 of the campaigns running, and while profitable, its very little, and I should either figure something out or stop wasting my time with them. The profit is just a couple of dollars a day.

Im not giving up though. Im still working on getting through the ppc classroom course one more time before I try another 5 campaign launch. I am also watching commission blueprint, and have gained access to another month at ppc coach.

If you are interested in getting commission blueprint let me just tell you now it is incredibly long, there are a ton of videos. While they are really good, I am not the average person and I HATE watching videos. So far I can add up the 20 or so videos on average are 17 minutes a piece. Im a multitasker so this kills me.

Sorry I didnt have great news. I will soon, stay tuned.

I have been doing Internet Marketing for about 2 years, longer if you count all of the times I tried before. And in the last 2 years I have done it pretty much full time. Well… now I am at the point, where I know how to do a lot of things.

Installing scripts
Ghostwriting
HTML & PHP Editing
Building a list
PPC - I admit I do this much better than I ever did before.

So, with the failure of the last campaign (which was 200 clicks, $100 and no conversions at all) I got a little scared. Basically what if I try again and nothing good happens? Can I afford to keep losing money by investing into my education at this point with our economy? Does anyone else feel the same way?

Today though, I had a breakthrough. I am going to be putting together 5 full campaigns and launching them all at the same time. I think this will break my “fear factor”. I know Amit says the worst thing is being a Super Scared Affiliate and I figure I just can’t be the only one.

If I don’t post for a few days or even until next week, this is why. I am trying to get past the fear. Have you ever had a similar problem to what I am going through?

I guess it has been awhile since I have posted. Sorry to any and every one who reads this. The reason for my post is I am been rather inactive lately. So… let me tell you what is going on.

I joined PPC Classroom, and to tell you the truth I love it, really I do. I think there is a lot in there that is really useful information and I have even made a campaign out of the information I have learned there. The campaign went really well and I ended with an average 3% CTR. I figured that was pretty good. I didn’t however get any conversions at all.

Im not exactly sure why, but it could be that the sales page ( i was direct linking) wasnt great, or it could be I was targetting the wrong words, I only spent $70 and I got 200 or so clicks. I thought that was good enough to know it wasn’t going anywhere.

So, what am I doing NOW?

Well, the product I had chosen was one on Clickbank, so I have gone and gotten Commission Blueprint and I am going to incorporate that with my PPC Classroom learning and my PPC Coach tracking and of course Awesome forum.

The forum, by the way, is the reason I am not Extremely happy with PPC Classroom. The forum doesn’t open for another month. What the heck is that all about? And I still havent received my refund for the $297 upsell I accidentally bought. Long story…

I still think the product and the bonuses are great and if anyone wants to chat about PPC Classroom, please let me know, by leaving a comment and we can talk all about what we are learning.

I know it’s been awhile since I have updated the blog, sorry about that. But I have a great excuse. You see, PPC Classroom opened and it is more Awesome than I thought it could be. I love it.

The partner bonuses are just as good too. I only got to use a couple of them because I am on a mac, but I might be able to get my mac to run windows soon, so I will use them. Anyways, I recommend everyone get the free year of Word Butler if you can. It is great.

On top of that I have a video to make in which I am going to show you how you can still do everything Amit teaches in module 4 but even faster and without buying more tools. Digdb looks great, but why purchase it if you don’t have to, right?

I also just added a few list cleaning tools at the bottom of the tools page, you will see it is updated with 3 more tools.

Ok, will write more later, have fun at ppc classroom and get your partner bonuses before they expire.

Looks like things are a lot better today. I logged on and the videos are available under the niche part of the site and the bonuses are up. It’s a lot more put together today. I saw on their videos they hired someone to help them get the site working and back together, apparently it was a small clitch. Now they just have to go through all the refunds for the people who were double charged.

It does look like they are going to offer something else really soon. I hope it is the forum, that is the biggest thing I am interested in. I want to start talking to all the other people who are doing ppc classroom. I still have to say I definitely love the information. I am going into the keyword module today and I already have learned a few really useful tips from the first module on offer research.

I would love to chat with anyone else who is in ppc classroom, so please email or leave a comment. marygreen (at) gmail.com

Hi all. Well today was an interesting day, especially if you tried to get into ppc classroom. I had my husband get up and wait for the launch at noon and by 1 he called to say nothing was happening. Finally I got home around 2 and sometime around 2:30 I got a link off their site and signed up. I ended up being one of the people double charged.

I was so excited to get in, but… it didn’t last long. First there were the upsells of course. That’s fine, except, if you clicked yes on any of them to get more information or add to a cart or something, the order was instantly processed. And these were not cheap upsells, they were worth it, but it was a bit shocking that the site was a little misleading.

Unfortunately that’s not the only place I was less than thrilled. Once you could actually access the site, around 6pm tonight a lot of it wasn’t ready. The modules and training are, and I guess that is the most important part but I loved the monthly niche idea and the videos and the bonuses. Guess what? None of them are working. Not only that but there is no access to a forum. I thought for sure they should have had a forum up for pre launch because so many people wanted to talk about it.

So, needless to say, I did start the training, and while I suppose there isn’t a lot of need for note taking the information is fantastic and I already learned from the first module I chose to work in. So it is worth your time, I just dont like all the hassle.

What did you think?

I have had a couple of people request I post some further information on ppc coach, so I wanted to give my thoughts. First off, I joined May 28th under a friend of mine. He loved it, and I was struggling with learning ppc.

The first month was horrible. I don’t know how else to explain it. The site is less than user friendly. While the forums are set up, and you can ask anything you want it can be hard for a newbie to the forum (not a newbie to IM) to get around. Meaning, even though I have done IM for a couple of years almost now, it was hard to find the information I needed.

Coach says that he has everything mapped out for you, but I disagree a little bit. Each month for the first 3 months there are 2 strategies of making money with ppc available. There are also around 4 scripts, and lots of tools available as well. However each of the months only comes with a small summary of information on how to do the month. That can be very difficult to people who have no idea. This is where it gets sticky.

Each of the strategies has its own forum, so you are basically going to read the whole forum to know what to do. That can take some time. Along with that there are videos for the tools and scripts, but putting all the pieces together is stressful and time consuming.

However, I have been there since May 28th, so there must be a reason, correct? Well, of course there is. The first month is difficult. It can be very hard to follow the forums and coach and videos and well, Everything. But… the community is a huge help. Like I said you can ask anything and you will almost always get a response from Coach himself. That is impressive to say considering he has 500 plus students. You can send him private messages and he will get back to you, but remember he has the same 24 hours a day we all do and 500 students so it takes some time and he won’t always remember your last pm, so leave it all threaded for his sake.

On top of this, it seems that anyone who has had any success here is more than glad to give back. Instant message names are shared, emails, etc, all willingly. They all just are so helpful and you won’t get any flack for being a newbie and asking what might seem is a dumb question. In fact Coach has on the site “the only dumb question is the one not answered”.

After the first month or so, I picked things up and got moving, doing the first months’ method and getting some success for myself. I started referring people and still pm Coach or Harry (if you join you will see who this is, absolutely awesome, smart guy) and Coach v.2 when I have trouble and I do get great answers.

Another thing I really like about ppc-coach is the tracking script. Now it was the most difficult thing I have ever worked with at first because I could not understand it. But now that it is working and you can get it to work, dont worry, lots of help for this too, it is the best tool I have for ppc. I have tried Prosper and liked it, but it was way more time consuming to work with. I didnt like having to enter all of my ad stuff there and keywords, and do that all on adwords as well.

Coach’s tracker works with subids and it tracks everything down to the keyword and cost of the ads so you can figure out your ROI, and that is the most important number, correct. Not to mention this is all installed on your own site so no one will be able to see your information, pretty great huh? Oh, and you dont have to worry about installing your snippet code into the merchant thank you page either, because you will see which subid has an actual conversion and which doesnt.

These are all the things I think you have to know when you go into ppc coach. It can be hard at first so do your best to network with others and get a good team of people who will help you by answering your questions. Read and watch everything and ask questions until you get the answers.

You will learn a lot from this site, there is no doubt about that. You will learn about the glitches, slaps and oddities google throws at you. You will learn about dealing with cpa and affiliate networks and you will learn about doing your own webpages and all about landing pages and the elements needed to make google happy.

Now, why do I also want to join PPC Classroom 2.0?

Amit Mehta is one of my favorite bloggers on this whole super affiliate marketing thing. He has a great out look on just making campaigns for search and making them last, and turning each niche into a business. From everything I have seen of his work he teaches a great deal about keywords, research, landing pages, etc, for setting up campaigns and rolling with the product you have chosen. While I think you can learn a lot at ppc coach I havent picked up a great information about just choosing a product I want to create and promoting ppc style.

I really like all the strategies that coach offers on his site and like he has said before there is a method to his maddness when he gives a certain strategy each month. But I want to learn Amit’s way of doing things which will be yet another strategy to add to my toolbox. Not to mention all the tools that will be offered on ppc classroom v2 as well. So yes, I will continue my membership with coach and I recommend anyone interested in ppc go there to learn. Not because Im success, not because Im a super affiliate, because Im still learning and that is what this blog is, me learning and my journey with ppc marketing. But I think if you stick out the first month on ppc coach you will be able to find enough success to keep your own journey going.

And yes, I am joining ppc classroom v2. I love the videos and I think it will be greatly worth my time.