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First post. :)

I learned about AM about... A week ago through my friend. Had never heard of it before.

So far, heres my results...
Yahoo is the only place I advertise PPC.
1st-2nd day: -25$ in the red, 180+ Clicks...

I was thinking... Wtf... How the hell did my friend make 1.8k last month at this, and how the heck do his friends make 1k+ a day... I went from "Omfg this must be easy... I gotta get into this and get richhh..." to... "Omg, this is impossible... Programming for $60+ an hour is ezier..."

3rd day: One lead for 21$! One for 1.50. Yea! Nearly puts me back in the green. Was at -25 then... Then my like ad account got disabled from 8pm onward... Sheesh... Billing confirmation...

Today: 2 Leads for 2.75.

I'm making profits of 1-2 now on a couple of my campaigns.

Including my losses the first days: $25 profit, $40 loss.

Feeling hopeful. :) Time to make like six more campaigns! Better targeting! More micromanagement! Thats what I learned so far!
 


Yep, sweet... Cut even today overall, because I am running at a 1-2.5 ratio today.

12$ Cost, 28.80$ Profit so far.


Just gotta get over these hills at the start where you lose money at first! Learning curves are different for different people.
 
Just remember, it takes money to make money, and the money you spend now is well spent if you keep up at it. It's a learning experience!
 
You're a step ahead of 99% of the people out there, just because you're not afraid to jump in and experiment.

You won't get rich overnight (most likely) but you're on the right track. Keep it up.
 
First mistake PPC noobs make is trying to and worrying about breaking even off the bat. The right way to do it is have a nice fat budget for testing, target tons of different keywords (related to your product of course) and then let it run for days or weeks and you'll start seeing patterns. Ok, these and these keywords get most of the clicks but nobody buys when they click on those. These other keywords get 20% of the clicks but almost all the conversions (buys/leads/whatever). Like barman said, the data you gather from spending a ton of money is what's gonna make that campaign successful or not after the initial testing period.
 
Just like I found out (even though low priced clicks on G and YSM) That Guitar Hero 3, no matter how you spin it, will not convert for ringtones lmao

Nice to see your profiting. As everyone keeps saying, the incubation stages are shitty... you're def gonna spend money.... probably waste some money... but in the end, your making bank :)
 
you're doing better than most do starting off. from what it sounds like, you have some programming knowledge. you can DEF. use that to your advantage.

test, track, and scale.
 
Also, you're ahead of most people in that you are already having profitable days! It can take some people months of throwing money down a hole before all the knowledge really clicks into place. You sound like you're getting off to an excellent start! Focus on tweaking your campaign to be as profitable as possible and then mimic the winning points of that one across your new campaigns.

One thing that sticks out is that even when you were unprofitable, you were making sales. Lots of times, you will be unprofitable and NOT make sales - that's a good time to run. But when you have sales coming in, but you aren't breaking even, tweak, tweak, and tweak! What you have is a campaign with great potential. Weed out the costly keywords that aren't converting. Split test everything, your keywords, your ad copy, your landing pages or squeeze pages... you'll find what works best in each department. Combining those into your final campaign will yield a winner.

Congrats and good luck!
 
Thats how I make money. I got a 1.8k check today as a final payment for my last web 2.0 application programming job. Too bad I can't spend it on AM. :(

I want to get up at least 20+ campaigns constant to figure this stuff out!

Hell, even if I do break even for a month, it sounds like its worth it!
 
Anybody have any tips for my keyword strategies? I try everything!

Strategy 1: 1-10 keywords per ad group, high priced, all super targeted, eg: "free paid surveys", "money for surveys".

Stratagy 2: 10-50 keywords, using two keywords in any combination of keywords. Eg: (Every keyword contains "paid survey."

Stratagy 3: 1000 keywords... Targeting anything with words like "survey", "free", "free cash", etc...
 
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