Monday Grind and a Big Push of Marketing

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Posted on April 30, 2007 in Working Online

Well I had a Great weekend, money wise and fun wise as i went to Astros Game Saturday night and of course i feel my presence brought them out of a slump to win that game (they lost the last 6 prior). No I am on the Monday Grind… for whatever reason my mondays always start of slow. Usually i “take off” on monday’s due to this cause as i look at my stats and it drives me nuts… the crazy part is by the end of day everything is back to normal… maybe it’s all the people actually doing work on monday mornings…. and not surfing the internet. With that said I am going to make a big push in marketing over the next few weeks.

I am making the push mainly just because i can. I have been testing some campaigns making tweaks to landing pages, keywords, trying different methods of promotion etc… All this test and tweaking is proving worth while so now I am getting ready to make my push… why do i call it a big push well because i am not holding back i am going full force and driving strong as for past two weeks i have had things in coasting mode mainly because i needed a break from staring at spreadsheets and pie charts of my results.

Thats it for today….

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Posted on April 26, 2007 in Elite Retreat

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You are having success with a CPA offer now what?

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Posted on April 24, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, PPC

So you are having success with a CPA offer, now what? I received this question via my contact form so i decided to answer it.
Here are a few questions that go thru my mind when i have success with a CPA offer:

1. Am I reaching all of the audience i can (Meaning advertising on other advertising networks, sites etc)
2. A. Should I create a landing page If i am sending it directly to the offer page (will it increase conversions?)
B. Can i improve My landing page/site?
3. Should I bid more to capture more clicks? or Should i bid less and see if my conversions hold? (I usually test both)
4. If I am not already setup to promote via Natural Search Engine rankings, is the offer going to last and make it worth it to target natural rankings?
5. Is there a similar offer that i can promote the same ways?
6. Can i target another audience with this offer?
7. Try different Ad copy to see if i can get better click thru ratio.
8. Have I researched enough Keywords?

So there are a few questions and thoughts to get you going and moving on to making more with CPA offers.