$600 6 minutes Slipstreaming

I think an effective way to deal with this would be to create a file with templates and associated affiliate offers, one or two for movie stars, a couple for musicians, a couple for politicians, a couple for natural disasters, a couple for general unrest like iraq, iran, Pakistan, etc. Then set up news alerts with really general terms like Hollywood, academy award, hit television show, arrested, nuclear bomb (god forbid), that way when something hits, which it will, you can just drop the names and places in and get up some PPC ads in minutes.

If you can be proactive instead of reactive you're ahead of most people.

Thanks for sharing, I hope to give it a try this week end.

now this was a great post ... great job! thanks

WOW! look like I need to go look for Project QC now.
Thanks for the ideas,
Patch

wow, gotta be quick huh?

The original thread the topic starter here is talking about was on the Warrior forum awhile back. It's nothing groundbreaking. Just another good example of thinking outside the box.

If you want to read more in-depth and other replies on the original thread check it out over there.

ad showing in adwords or ysm?

Adwords.

Update, I've been trying this slipstream method. Keeping a close eye on google trends and trying to cash in with the surge of keywords searches from users. You need to look from the top 10 downwards and get a feeling of what could be a hit.

Not surprisingly, the day after the oscars, the search term of "Oscars Worst Dressed 2008" was climbing the ranks. I searched for news regarding this term, came up with around 8 pictures of the worst dressed actors, compiled a simple webpage asking "Who was worst dressed" with my own personal critique. Had the 8 pictures laid out so voters could see and vote for their candidate and after voting, were re-directed to an I-phone giveaway promotion (e-mail for $2)

Copywrite ?
Oscars 2008 Worst Dressed
Vote for the Oscars Worst Dressed
Person and Receive and Apple Phone

53,590 impressions
740 clicks
avcp - $.07
in the space of 3 hours.
Not the best AVPC, but still not bad for that amount of time. This was actually the highest impression rate I got using adwords!

Conversions ? Miserable 7 !



All in all, lost around $40.... This could be peanuts to many people, but I like to play small. Exactly for these reasons. Had I let the campaign run without paying attention, I would of been down to my limit of $250

If people are putt off from giving away an e-mail to a really simple and very attractive Iphone add, how the hell did they fill up huge survey's to potentially win $50,000 cash and a ringtone ??? I think there are cut corners from jeremy story... (Promotion for an e-book?)

Eventually I started another campaign to try and cash in on the Obama Photo trend, but I messed up my adds when setting up, and accidentally had the Oscar's campagin re-assigned to my Obama Photo Poll for 30 minutes and next thing I know, Google slashed me with inactive keyword searches at $5 a piece.

Google is one tricky system! Now all my campaigns whatever the subject are starting off with inactive keywords at premium price... It's as if my account has beend sandboxed... And the error wasn't entirely my fault,but should of paid attention anyway...

However, I really do like these scheme for e-mail/zip/win stuff leads. Just can't get it to profit... I need to concentrate on my Niches! (Check out my weakest link post)

This idea is pretty good however I think that's impossible to make money that way.

I have a friend that uses twitter trend to create killer campaigns but it doesn't work though.