I’m about half way through my challenge. With just less than 3 months to go before i need to hit my target income I have been getting a bit negative and hopeless on occasion.
However, the good thing is I recognise this feeling from previous attempts at building an affiliate business and it stems from not getting any results after 3 months.
Previously I’ve given up.
Not this time. Im continuing to build links and build my mailing list.
I’m also working on getting my PPC campaign to be profitable. My totals so far are:
Spend = $853
Sales = $397
Profit = -$456
Following my first week, I expanded my campaign to include non-product related keywords. So instead of just having “jamorama review” or “guitar superstars” I added things like “learn guitar fast”.
My traffic increased significantly as you can see from my Google analytics graph. And so did my bill. It seems to me that the clicks were just too expensive.
http://www.keithdouglas.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/traffic-jan-2010.png
I still think they are a bit expensive even just for product names. I’m paying around 60-90p (british pence) for product name keywords which means I’m not breaking even.
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Hey Keith,
Good job for sticking with it this long. I know what you mean about giving up on things in the past. I think there’s something magical about the 4-6 month mark though. I’ve felt pretty hopeless and desperate from time to time myself, and nearly every success story I’ve seen shows things starting to heat up around 4-6 months in. Keep going, you’re almost there!
Thanks Clayton. I’m sticking at it this time, there’s no way back!