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I just figured out what my numbers were for this week ending 2/11/07 and I'm very happy. Not with what I did so much as what I can possibly do.

Okay, I just spent $649.81 on PPC and made $1201.50 for a profit of $551.69, that's a gain of 84.9%. Not bad. I wish I was one of the guys doing over 100%, but I'm still learning, and I figure most brick and mortars are lucky to post gains of 11% for the year.

Anyhow, I'm going to reinvest 100% of this for as long as possible. I did a projected profit sheet and figured a weekly gain of only 60%. After 10 weeks, I could be making about $30,000 profit per week! That's the power of reinvesting and consistent growth.

I'm not posting this to say "Hey look at me, I'm cool". I'm posting this because I hope it motivates people. Put your own chart together, you may be surprised at the result. Obviously, it will still require a fair amount of work, dedication and financial discipline, but I honestly believe that if I can do it, you can too. I'm NOT special, just motivated. I hope this helps get you motivated too. :D

For the excel file, just change the green numbers to reflect yours if you want to see what your 10 week projected income could be.

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Congrats Mike,

With those kinds of numbers I could definatly live a comfortable life (Heck 2K a month would be good right now), I assume that your selling affiliate products of a sort and not just making that through Adsence or some other form of Advertising Income? Or is it a mixture of both?

This little post has definatly gotten me more motivated, I've been thinking of implementing 3 new blogs to promote my affiliate products with but haven't gotten around to it, I would normally think about buying some domains and doing some targeted keyword optimization but I want to switch it up a bit and try out some new stuff.
 
Very nice profit Mike :)
I've been thinking about your affiliate success a while back and wondered how you've progressed since then. How many different offers / campaigns are you currently running?

I recently figured out a way to do arbi very profitable and now earn around $50 profit a day from each new site at 3:1 ROI :)
My only problem at the moment with arbi is that I'm too low on funds right now to
finance my ppc campaigns. So even though I have 20 sites ready to crank a total $1000 profit daily, I don't have the $$ to fork out upfront for the clicks :(
It also sucks that Adsense witholds payments up to 60 days, so the money I make now in early february - I won't see until the end of march / beginning of april... :(

I guess the turnover time for affiliate is a little easier to manage, since you always get paid at the end of the month and can quickly put earnings back into ppc.

Maybe I should go to my bank and ask them for a "ppc loan" :)
 
ImagesAndWords said:
My only problem at the moment with arbi is that I'm too low on funds right now to finance my ppc campaigns. So even though I have 20 sites ready to crank a total $1000 profit daily, I don't have the $$ to fork out upfront for the clicks :(
Maybe I should go to my bank and ask them for a "ppc loan" :)
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maybe i got it all wrong, but are you saying that you just started arbi and that you have a daily profit of around $1.000? well, i hate to be the devil's advocate, but as you also have costs on your side for the ppc campaigns you might want to keep a bit of a lower profile until google pays you the first-time. i have witnessed quite many times on forums that the hardest part was to get google to make the first payment. but whatever you do, never do it on a loan-basis. only spent what you can afford from your equity.
 
Congrats, SEO_Mike. :)

That 60% baseline margin is a good idea. Looks like you'll get to that 100%+ margin very soon.
 
Nice to see you doing good Mike, I wish you all the best and continued success! :)

Tried some of the Tax Offers? I'm getting 8-10:1 ROI's on those.
 
cyberworkspace said:
maybe i got it all wrong, but are you saying that you just started arbi and that you have a daily profit of around $1.000? well, i hate to be the devil's advocate, but as you also have costs on your side for the ppc campaigns you might want to keep a bit of a lower profile until google pays you the first-time. i have witnessed quite many times on forums that the hardest part was to get google to make the first payment. but whatever you do, never do it on a loan-basis. only spent what you can afford from your equity.
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Thanks for the input on keeping a low profile. I'm not saying my current daily profit is $1k, but it would be if I started up all my sites again with all ppc campaigns. And for now, I can't afford to pay for the traffic so keeping a low profile won't be hard :)

What I will do is probably keep only one or two of my arbi sites going for now, and rather focus the rest of my budget on affiliate marketing. When I do go back to spending on arbi, I will make sure to go one step at a time with Google.
 
Thanks for the post Mike! Now i'm even more motivated to get this running...by seeing the numbers, it makes me 10x more hype to accomplish this goal!
 
Ahh fucking nice! Really motivating! But to stay a bit realistic, it won't be as easy spending $51 604,46 on ppc and still do profit as it is with smaller spends, so it will probably take longer than 10 week. But it would be cool if you succeeded with it in 10 weeks anyway :p
 
cyberworkspace said:
maybe i got it all wrong, but are you saying that you just started arbi and that you have a daily profit of around $1.000?
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I think he wrote in another thread that if he made 18 more sites making $50/day then he would have $1000/day. So if my math is right, he's currently making $100/day. Still pretty good.

Anyway, maybe it's just me but I've found that scaling up is not nearly as easy as it may seem.
 
Glad you are doing well. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but your spreadsheet is totally unrealistic though. You can't just say you are going to double your spend every week and the traffic will magically appear. Traffic is a limited quantity every day, and there are many people buying it. Just because you want to spend 50k a week on PPC doesn't mean you can. Also, you may think 60% is a safe bet, but these markets are so volitile one day you may have 100% then next -20%.
 
SonicReducer said:
.You can't just say you are going to double your spend every week and the traffic will magically appear. Traffic is a limited quantity every day, and there are many people buying it. Just because you want to spend 50k a week on PPC doesn't mean you can.
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I don't do arbitrage (though I think it would be really interesting to try at some point), but I have talked to a lot of people who do - and do it well. It seems like their biggest gripe is that there is only so much traffic in their best niches. They would put ten times the money into that they already do if there was the search traffic to handle it.

Congrats on your success, Mike. It's always awesome when people share real numbers. I hope it continues for you. :)


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Thank guys. I agree that traffic is indeed limited and those numbers won't hold up for long, but with unlimited niches, my goal is to blow them out. If niche A runs out of traffic around the $2000 per week ad spend, then you just need to add niche's B, C, D etc. etc.

There's a lot of things that make this projection sheet a little unrealistic, but I'm a dreamer and I like to set goals wicked high to shoot for. If I'm shooting for $50,000 per week in 10 weeks, I'll be closer to $50k than if I said my goal was $2000 per week in 10 weeks. Sure, I'll probably be able to realistically hit $2000 per week by that date, but I won't be as far along as I would be with the harder goal.

"Realistic" goals allow you to get complacent and coast. I can't afford that.

Anyhow, I hope that my spreadsheet at least got you thinking about your goals and what you need to do to make them a reality.
 
Yeah as you move up the problem becomes finding opportunities to invest more money in. For a while, I was always at my budget, with plenty more to do. While I have many things to test and try, I don't have much to readily dump more spending in to get the kind of returns I am looking for... so I suspect my spending budget for February may actually be under budget for the first time.
 
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