I Screwed Everything! Now Back to Zero

A few months ago I had profitable campaigns running for me. I will disclose everything as it won't damage me anymore. I had couple profitable campaigns which were bringing me 200-300% ROI. I was using MaxBounty offers for sweepstakes (free products).

I was using Snapchat story ads as they are lot cheaper compared to instagram story ads. I was getting $0.05-0.1 per click. And my payout was $1.4 but I was profitable. I relied on that campaign too much that I stopped my web development freelancing business.

I was making good money but 2 weeks ago, the snapchat banned all ads. I asked them why, they were answering same "ad is against their ad policies". I tried submitting ads from different accounts but same results.

I asked other affiliates and they were facing same problems. I submitted the same ad on instagram story ads (facebook ads) and the ad got approved but it wasn't profitable due to high CPMs on facebook. I tried few times but snap rejected ads all the time.

I spent few hundred $$$ on people who claimed to get snap ads approved but they failed. Later, this offer got paused and I was very sad. I have decided not to make this mistake again i.e. i am not going to rely on CPA alone to make money from now on. CPA is getting harder & harder as ad policies change and cost increase but payouts are same as 2010.

I will be upgrading to Jr VIP soon to offer my web development and VA services to make money in spare time. CPA was very good as I had to work only couple hours and take rest of the day off but now I learned from my mistake and I am not going to waste my time.

My 2019 goals are:
1) Learn to speak English fluently
2) Build Digital Marketing agency
3) Learn Rust & WebAssembly to build a project I have in mind

"CPA was very good as I had to work only couple hours and take rest of the day off but now I learned from my mistake and I am not going to waste my time."

Pick yourself up and get back to making money, just don't get complacent and use the rest of the day to work/learn something else mate.

Did you seriously expect to run BH stuff without getting banned/disapproved? It happens to literally everyone, you just need to find ways around it, doesnt mean its impossible.

Choose one industry, and work on it. I have had wasted a lot of time by running different methods in the past. It's good that you realized, but the fault is not about CPA. There are still thousands of other ways alive, other than ads. Explore BHW and start learning.

MisterF said:

"CPA was very good as I had to work only couple hours and take rest of the day off but now I learned from my mistake and I am not going to waste my time."

Pick yourself up and get back to making money, just don't get complacent and use the rest of the day to work/learn something else mate.

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Yes, I will from now on.

arlind- said:

Did you seriously expect to run BH stuff without getting banned/disapproved? It happens to literally everyone, you just need to find ways around it, doesnt mean its impossible.

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i have tried every possible way, the ads weren't totally blackhat because I got them approved on facebook without cloaking. Snap is just being lazy to give real answer why ads are disapproved. Anyway, i will now focus on real businesses

saud125 said:

Choose one industry, and work on it. I have had wasted a lot of time by running different methods in the past. It's good that you realized, but the fault is not about CPA. There are still thousands of other ways alive, other than ads. Explore BHW and start learning.

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Yes, but i think i will focus on other main businesses first and do CPA as side project

Running your income on another man’s platform ~ my friend calls that a dead end but sadly we all do it.

common story. feast or famine. agree with a lot of the points you make on CPA. good luck on those goals. 2019 will be a great year for all of us. your typing english is really good already.

contact brent dunn from ppcmode.com, he is a very kind guy and can give you insights on snap ads. I have bought his courses before and they are very informative and practical. I wouldn't buy his courses if I ever was in your place as of NOW since you should save your money as much as possible. But still, contact him.

Aside from that, you are also in the wrongs for relying on 1 specific type of campaign. You should be hustling to have atleast 10 different style of campaigns or verticals running and being optimized. offers get taken down, networks get strict, CPM's rise, but what can you do? you have to keep going on.

Aside from that, gather money and build a legit, REPEAT business. Use online marketing to get clients from that. That's at lesat one of the things I'm doing right now. Or you can partner up with a business and work with them on a rev share model, and drive them sales.

I have read other of your threads, I think you live in India If i'm not mistaken, CPMs are low on almost all platfroms for india. Find BUSINESSES in India to whom you think you can generate sales and leads, and work with them.

You need to try other networks; it's not like if one stopped working, you would lose everything if it was working on Snpachat I am sure it will work with other too. Try some other way around.

got to say it .

never put all eggs in one basket!

what are
snap chat story ads...

redarrow said:

got to say it .

never put all eggs in one basket!

what are
snap chat story ads...

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see https://forbusiness.snapchat.com/

czsamzzy said:

Running your income on another man’s platform ~ my friend calls that a dead end but sadly we all do it.

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we have no choice

uncutu said:

common story. feast or famine. agree with a lot of the points you make on CPA. good luck on those goals. 2019 will be a great year for all of us. your typing english is really good already.

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I hope this year will be great for all of us.

speedhawk45 said:

contact brent dunn from ppcmode.com, he is a very kind guy and can give you insights on snap ads. I have bought his courses before and they are very informative and practical. I wouldn't buy his courses if I ever was in your place as of NOW since you should save your money as much as possible. But still, contact him.

Aside from that, you are also in the wrongs for relying on 1 specific type of campaign. You should be hustling to have atleast 10 different style of campaigns or verticals running and being optimized. offers get taken down, networks get strict, CPM's rise, but what can you do? you have to keep going on.

Aside from that, gather money and build a legit, REPEAT business. Use online marketing to get clients from that. That's at lesat one of the things I'm doing right now. Or you can partner up with a business and work with them on a rev share model, and drive them sales.

I have read other of your threads, I think you live in India If i'm not mistaken, CPMs are low on almost all platfroms for india. Find BUSINESSES in India to whom you think you can generate sales and leads, and work with them.

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Yes, i contacted him after watching gus videos. Applied his tips but still getting rejected. Also my first account got banned when i submitted other ads to scale campaigns

Nut-Nights said:

You need to try other networks; it's not like if one stopped working, you would lose everything if it was working on Snpachat I am sure it will work with other too. Try some other way around.

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Yes, i am finding people to make video ads as I heard that video ads are more engaging

redarrow said:

got to say it .

never put all eggs in one basket!

what are
snap chat story ads...

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lesson learned