After reading Grieve and Louey's journals, I was inspired to write one of my own. This is probably the best way to get all my newbie questions out and hopefully answered instead of starting new threads all the time (as I've been doing) whenever I have a question. Hopefully this will entertain some of you.
Just in case anyone cares, my name is Tom, I'm 22, I live in LA, I work on the critical care transport team at a hospital, and I'm a college student.
I first heard about IM a few months ago through a thread on the bodybuilding.com forums (what up miscers). In reading that, I got the gist of affiliate marketing/blogging for adsense pennies etc. That thread led me to the nickycakes guide, which led me here. At the beginning of december I read up on html, watched a few videos on wp, bought some hosting and domains and put up a site. I learned a lot by doing that.
A week ago, I started my first venture into AM. I started advertising a game guide (leveling, pvp, gold farming etc.) from clickbank for a popular game that came out right before christmas. I decided to advertise with facebook, and I've been just about breaking even. Some days I've been making a little profit. I'm going to start up a few more camaigns tomorrow.
I started with about 3 ads, all with the same creative, and slightly different titles/text, and a $20/day ad spend. I lost money the first day or two, then started breaking even. I've added some more ads, started targeting by age, and I'm now split testing about 10 ads/creatives etc and spending $50/day (and making back 40-60/day) My best day was $70 gross. I'm learning a lot about advertising. There are a shitload of little tricks that apparently work. I changed the title of one of my ads from asdasd guide to BEST asdasd guide and it started getting a hell of a lot more clicks. Also, it seems that calling it the "best-selling asdasd guide" makes people a lot more likely to click. I've found that using a pic of one of a hot girl character from the game gets me a lot more clicks as well
I've obviously got a lot to learn, and I'll be sharing my plans, mistakes, smart moves etc. and hopefully receive some feedback from all you internet ballers.
Tomorrow:
I've got my eyes on this stock investment software, and I'm gonna start that campaign. I'm kind of taking nickycakes' advice and choosing random ass things to sell until I have a little more of a feel for marketing and have an idea of what sells and what doesn't. I'll update tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Just in case anyone cares, my name is Tom, I'm 22, I live in LA, I work on the critical care transport team at a hospital, and I'm a college student.
I first heard about IM a few months ago through a thread on the bodybuilding.com forums (what up miscers). In reading that, I got the gist of affiliate marketing/blogging for adsense pennies etc. That thread led me to the nickycakes guide, which led me here. At the beginning of december I read up on html, watched a few videos on wp, bought some hosting and domains and put up a site. I learned a lot by doing that.
A week ago, I started my first venture into AM. I started advertising a game guide (leveling, pvp, gold farming etc.) from clickbank for a popular game that came out right before christmas. I decided to advertise with facebook, and I've been just about breaking even. Some days I've been making a little profit. I'm going to start up a few more camaigns tomorrow.
I started with about 3 ads, all with the same creative, and slightly different titles/text, and a $20/day ad spend. I lost money the first day or two, then started breaking even. I've added some more ads, started targeting by age, and I'm now split testing about 10 ads/creatives etc and spending $50/day (and making back 40-60/day) My best day was $70 gross. I'm learning a lot about advertising. There are a shitload of little tricks that apparently work. I changed the title of one of my ads from asdasd guide to BEST asdasd guide and it started getting a hell of a lot more clicks. Also, it seems that calling it the "best-selling asdasd guide" makes people a lot more likely to click. I've found that using a pic of one of a hot girl character from the game gets me a lot more clicks as well

I've obviously got a lot to learn, and I'll be sharing my plans, mistakes, smart moves etc. and hopefully receive some feedback from all you internet ballers.
Tomorrow:
I've got my eyes on this stock investment software, and I'm gonna start that campaign. I'm kind of taking nickycakes' advice and choosing random ass things to sell until I have a little more of a feel for marketing and have an idea of what sells and what doesn't. I'll update tomorrow. Thanks for reading.