Signs and Portents: Affiliate Marketing Update
This weekend the wife and I sent the kid to grandma’s for the weekend. On our way back home we stopped and cashed in two Buy One, Get One Free (BOGO) pop caps along with picking up some supplies. Stumbling out of bed this morning, I grabbed a Diet Pepsi from the fridge and cracked the top. BOGO! Great way to start the day. Later, just before noon, I grabbed another Diet Pepsi from the fridge for roadtrip fuel. Another BOGO. Sometimes luck works in strange ways.
I made another sale from my AdWords campaign. That brings the grand total up to $82 this week. I added some long tail keywords to my primary campaign and started playing “Survivor” with alternate ads. I brought another campaign online late last night that is my most researched/worked one yet. 340 specific keywords, including some great long tail keywords that shouldn’t have been available to me.
Right now I’m limiting the campaign to a specific geographical region with some very motivated customers that have no problem spending a lot of money on something that they have the expectation of lasting for decades. Looking at my analytics, there are more hits to the offer than clicks listed in my Google stats. It may be wishful thinking, but I’m guessing that a couple of visitors are making repeat visits to confirm to themselves that it’s a worthwhile product. They’ve taken the bait, the hook has been set, and now it’s just time to reel them in.
I’m going to let the new campaign run for another day before I start playing Survivor with it too.
I’m in the process of building an eBay classified ad that should provide the start of a good email list. For 30 cents a day, it seems like a pretty good investment. I’ll keep you updated on its progress.
Finally, I have a campaign in the works with some pretty awesome prizes, but first I have to make sure that a couple more of the prizes are in place before I announce it. More details forthcoming.
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