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Success, Failure, and Potential Redemption
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This is by far the most detailed, easy-to-follow journey thread I've ever seen. Hopefully you can start raking in the cash here soon! Let me know if you need any help!
Following, and good luck!
Following, and good luck!
MatteoMatt
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Whatup guys, updating again. This one might focus more on thoughts and life than Internet Marketing, but they are all so tied together.
I started officially waiting tables at Joe's Crab Shack and it seems like the best server job ive had. The menu items are semi-expensive as it is seafood, so that ends up equaling more tips. It will get busy starting next weekend (Valentines day) so it will be able to support me plus have plenty left over.
With that all being said, I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT TABLES MUCH LONGER.
Sorry guys buy I had to just throw it out there. I think I have sustained minor psycological damage due to doing the job 3 years at a chaotic place, plus years of drug addiction and recovery. I feel like Dean from Supernatural with the Mark of Cain. I am always smiling at upbeat at work on the outside, but on the inside the littlest problem sets me off. I think about walking out alot, but I know I am going to stay there as long as I need to, especially since the money is good.
It gives me more motivation to succeed at IM, because I know this is it. If I don't succeed at IM (which seems impossible since I am already sorta succeeding, and my strategies are long term.) my options are getting IT certs (1-2 years, just to get a normal job), going back to school (2-4 years) to get a decent job, I would choose a good degree path, or move up in the service industry (I will kill myself fast).
So what I am saying is that I have to succeed here, success is not an option. I have done TONs of consolidation and reorganization, but still need a bit more.
I still make an Amazon Kindle sale every 2 or 3 days, still working on new books. My websites and pages are growing, but still small trickles of traffic.
Now onto my PPC campaign. It has been paused most of the week, I estimate next weekend will mark the time when I have enough money to keep this ad running full time.
Everything ran good the few days I ran it this week EXCEPT
I didn't get no damn conversions!!!! Haha thats a bit dramatic but for a bit I was concerned.
I have been studying some Charles Ngo, and he focuses heavily on thought patterns and productivity, my two achille's heels. He promotes Zero Based thinking, essentially I consider that I am losing nothing in the end.
Basicallly this is a 50$ CPA that converts for me 1 in 130, so conversions are not that often. However, I sent roughly 600-700 clicks with no conversion, despite no change in any other variable. This did worry me, in case the offer checkout page was bugged or something, but it seemed fine. Now with CPA I know that conversions can vary, but this was very alarming because it had been consistent, then I sent a ton of traffic (at least 100$) with nothing.
However, I also knew it was too early to actually make any assumptions, I honestly will not consider much data significant until I can keep this campaign fully live, because pausing it every day seems to have a small effect.
Nevertheless, I still was able to convert a lead tonight, after a decent amount of clicks, but still at a 10$ profit. This made me happy because I know the offer is working and I just had a dry spell.
So I worked 11 hours straight today with no food, but that was almost by choice. I made 170$ in tips, so not bad. I don't factor it into my IM earnings, but you bet your ass my future tips will be invested into SEO and PPC.
The main thing is that it shows me that even though working sucks, because I got this job and did not get overconfident in my PPC campaign I now have that security, so that my IM results have no effect on my survival.
Todays total earnings:
222$ -
170$ in tips (I won't count those in earnings ever again, just wanted to show myself why I do it)
= 52$ in internet earnings - 40$ ad spend. So really in internet money I made 10$ which is better than 0 lol.
My plan: Nothing's changed, I did do a small test on a clickbank PPC with no results, but too early to see anything, so I will try it later once I have $.
I work all day tommorow, but my weekdays are mostly free. I will probably do some work tommorow, but I plan to work hard all day on my projects Monday and Tuesday.
I started officially waiting tables at Joe's Crab Shack and it seems like the best server job ive had. The menu items are semi-expensive as it is seafood, so that ends up equaling more tips. It will get busy starting next weekend (Valentines day) so it will be able to support me plus have plenty left over.
With that all being said, I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT TABLES MUCH LONGER.
Sorry guys buy I had to just throw it out there. I think I have sustained minor psycological damage due to doing the job 3 years at a chaotic place, plus years of drug addiction and recovery. I feel like Dean from Supernatural with the Mark of Cain. I am always smiling at upbeat at work on the outside, but on the inside the littlest problem sets me off. I think about walking out alot, but I know I am going to stay there as long as I need to, especially since the money is good.
It gives me more motivation to succeed at IM, because I know this is it. If I don't succeed at IM (which seems impossible since I am already sorta succeeding, and my strategies are long term.) my options are getting IT certs (1-2 years, just to get a normal job), going back to school (2-4 years) to get a decent job, I would choose a good degree path, or move up in the service industry (I will kill myself fast).
So what I am saying is that I have to succeed here, success is not an option. I have done TONs of consolidation and reorganization, but still need a bit more.
I still make an Amazon Kindle sale every 2 or 3 days, still working on new books. My websites and pages are growing, but still small trickles of traffic.
Now onto my PPC campaign. It has been paused most of the week, I estimate next weekend will mark the time when I have enough money to keep this ad running full time.
Everything ran good the few days I ran it this week EXCEPT
I didn't get no damn conversions!!!! Haha thats a bit dramatic but for a bit I was concerned.
I have been studying some Charles Ngo, and he focuses heavily on thought patterns and productivity, my two achille's heels. He promotes Zero Based thinking, essentially I consider that I am losing nothing in the end.
Basicallly this is a 50$ CPA that converts for me 1 in 130, so conversions are not that often. However, I sent roughly 600-700 clicks with no conversion, despite no change in any other variable. This did worry me, in case the offer checkout page was bugged or something, but it seemed fine. Now with CPA I know that conversions can vary, but this was very alarming because it had been consistent, then I sent a ton of traffic (at least 100$) with nothing.
However, I also knew it was too early to actually make any assumptions, I honestly will not consider much data significant until I can keep this campaign fully live, because pausing it every day seems to have a small effect.
Nevertheless, I still was able to convert a lead tonight, after a decent amount of clicks, but still at a 10$ profit. This made me happy because I know the offer is working and I just had a dry spell.
So I worked 11 hours straight today with no food, but that was almost by choice. I made 170$ in tips, so not bad. I don't factor it into my IM earnings, but you bet your ass my future tips will be invested into SEO and PPC.
The main thing is that it shows me that even though working sucks, because I got this job and did not get overconfident in my PPC campaign I now have that security, so that my IM results have no effect on my survival.
Todays total earnings:
222$ -
170$ in tips (I won't count those in earnings ever again, just wanted to show myself why I do it)
= 52$ in internet earnings - 40$ ad spend. So really in internet money I made 10$ which is better than 0 lol.
My plan: Nothing's changed, I did do a small test on a clickbank PPC with no results, but too early to see anything, so I will try it later once I have $.
I work all day tommorow, but my weekdays are mostly free. I will probably do some work tommorow, but I plan to work hard all day on my projects Monday and Tuesday.
MatteoMatt
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- Sep 28, 2016
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Update - Short and sweet
The only things to report is that my CPA ads continued to at least perform decent. Not as well as before but I still made 208$ revenue with 162$ spend over 3 days. It converted lower than before, but still at least converted and made a small profit.
I paused it again for the last time since I didn't have much money to put in, but this weekend I should be able to start running the ad full time. That will be crucial because each time I pause it for so many days it seems to reset some of the optimization, so having it running full time will give me real data about how successful the campaign is over the week.
After that I plan to expand and run more ads, and create new ones as well.
My other good piece of news is that my best FB page has grown by 500 likes this week, from around 700 to 1200. This was based on creating a original funny picture and sharing it to the right groups. Since I saw that this one was getting shared more than usual, I paid 6$ for extra FB engagement to test FB ads as well.
It worked well so far, so I plan to keep those running as well once I can, to speed my FB page growth. Other than that, I am off work today and tommorow and getting more work done updating websites. I will report back later in the week.
The only things to report is that my CPA ads continued to at least perform decent. Not as well as before but I still made 208$ revenue with 162$ spend over 3 days. It converted lower than before, but still at least converted and made a small profit.
I paused it again for the last time since I didn't have much money to put in, but this weekend I should be able to start running the ad full time. That will be crucial because each time I pause it for so many days it seems to reset some of the optimization, so having it running full time will give me real data about how successful the campaign is over the week.
After that I plan to expand and run more ads, and create new ones as well.
My other good piece of news is that my best FB page has grown by 500 likes this week, from around 700 to 1200. This was based on creating a original funny picture and sharing it to the right groups. Since I saw that this one was getting shared more than usual, I paid 6$ for extra FB engagement to test FB ads as well.
It worked well so far, so I plan to keep those running as well once I can, to speed my FB page growth. Other than that, I am off work today and tommorow and getting more work done updating websites. I will report back later in the week.
MatteoMatt
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- Sep 28, 2016
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Small update guys, sad update so sad reacts. Not that sad but.
The offer I was using for my main campaign is cancelled and expired today. Kinda sucks but I knew it was going to happen, I just hoped to milk that campaign as much as possible since it was profitable and still new to me. I probably only had it active for about 1/3 of the time due to lack of funds.
The offer was exclusive and had a landing page gimmick that worked well. I still plan to go back into this niche with more LPs.
It was a downer just because I wanted to milk this lucky break, but I knew it would be something I had to deal with in PPC. I am already working on testing new campaigns, but probably won't be able to do much with that until next week. Once I have my own campaigns, as well as having more than 1, I will feel alot more secure.
Other than that, still plugging along on my other projects. I have alot of wellness / mental issues going on, so productivity has been affected some, I get distracted easily.
However, I am working on improving my focus and cutting out distractions. So far today I am testing the new campaign on Clickbank, and finishing my book project which I have not focused on much.
The offer I was using for my main campaign is cancelled and expired today. Kinda sucks but I knew it was going to happen, I just hoped to milk that campaign as much as possible since it was profitable and still new to me. I probably only had it active for about 1/3 of the time due to lack of funds.
The offer was exclusive and had a landing page gimmick that worked well. I still plan to go back into this niche with more LPs.
It was a downer just because I wanted to milk this lucky break, but I knew it would be something I had to deal with in PPC. I am already working on testing new campaigns, but probably won't be able to do much with that until next week. Once I have my own campaigns, as well as having more than 1, I will feel alot more secure.
Other than that, still plugging along on my other projects. I have alot of wellness / mental issues going on, so productivity has been affected some, I get distracted easily.
However, I am working on improving my focus and cutting out distractions. So far today I am testing the new campaign on Clickbank, and finishing my book project which I have not focused on much.
MatteoMatt
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Update: DAY BEFORE VALENTINES DAY
Not that the date really matters, but gotta break it up somehow.
Still alot of things happening, but right now no major cash being made since my original offer got shut down. However there is still potential there, I will break up my stuff by section, based on my main priorities. I have alot of different baskets planned, hopefully within the next 2 years I will have 5 or more income streams, but I plan to focus on 1 or 2 harder than others for now. I have spent way too much time planning compared to acting, even though I do something productive at least every day.
Amazon / Kindle -
I still make occasional sales on my original 3 books, but have not released a new one in 2 months. I got back to finishing this picture type book, so need to have it done within a week or less for sure. I bought an ebook that caught my eye that reveals a Kindle niche, that definitley has potential.
It is like any Kindle / Book niche, it will either take steady legwork or good outsourcing, and of course I can do the legwork in this case. I plan to try and ramp up my e-book and paperback production once and for all, because even though the money is slower (still made only about 100$) I feel like it will be more dependable and I want some of my income to be steadier and dependable, having hopefully 50+ books.
I will be working hard to finish this current book, then starting some books in the new niche. I will still be working on the other stuff I have been doing, but I am committing to work alot harder at Kindle starting now.
PPC / Paid -
I did reactivate my original campaign a bit this weekend even though the offer is still gone. I simply linked to a similar but less targeted offer, no conversions but it was not enough spend to tell. I probably should have waited until this week to reactivate them, but I did get to test some new landing pages / offers.
They did poorly in my opinion, but the small spend was worth it to show me that I need to put more effort into the LPs before I reactivate them. I also will not bother until I have enough spend to run them a while. I should get an 800$ MB payout this week which would provide good ad spend for a while.
As far as my original, profitable campaign goes it is still alive. The offer is still on another network but it is hard to say if it is still live or being paused soon as well. After acceptance I will find out if I can run the offer on that network.
That would be the ideal situation, as it is more targeted even after I made landing page adjustments. If I can't use the offer it is ok, to be honest I am glad I got to be jarred from the campaign so early. It sucks but having to adjust already makes me much less fearful from future losses.
I will keep testing other offers, and if nothing works I can test my other campaigns. Those are my main PPC priorities, I am keeping it simple and learning how to make LPs.
SEO / Other -
Some of my FB pages continue to grow with little effort, so that is a plus. I plan to start spending 10 a day on ads for one page to grow, since it already has shown some success. My real goal is to have my 6 or 7 pages all be very large, and make some steady traffic / money to my sites. However, I realize it is very intensive so I am focusing on 1-2 right now to learn how to grow.
I still run 4 IG accounts, but have been lazily only manually growing one. I simply need a better schedule. I feel like instagram in my niches is more for the long term, since results are small with low followers. I think it is totally worth it, but I might be Massplanner even for 4-5 accounts once I have a good enough setup and stuff, simply because manual work is very time consuming using follow/unfollow and takes away from other productive things.
I still have lots of methods and traffic stuff to test, but I am still struggling with productivity. Hopefully I will get it soon, I read alot of productivity stuff.
Possible new method for me?
Also I bought a method off another forum for 30$. I rarely buy e-book methods because I am not rich, but it seemed worth it. It involves selling certain digital goods, similar to ones shared on this forum but in different ways. My listing is live, but its too early to see if it sells.
If it does. then this method could at least lead to another 50-100 a day if really implemented, but its too early to say it is successful until I actually make money. If so that would be a nice boost, I am making some at work but probably only about 300-400 a week tops right now, but still not bad.
As far as actual website stuff, I have done very little updates, but one site continues to rank decent. Another site has gotten a bunch of pinterest shares, which is pretty cool.
I will invest some earnings into high quality links, but a small amount since my keywords are fairly easy.
Finally - I know it seems like alot but the only other part of my plan not covered is e-commerce. I think it is big and a great opportunity, but for the exact moment I don't have what I need to do it.
I need to accomplish some things in my other methods before I move on, but I have my eyes set on it since half of my niche accounts can be used for e-commerce.
Ultimately
selling my own shirt / merch is the goal, depending on how well I can do. For right now I am not going to spread myself over there, but in a month or 2 that could change.
I need to prioritize alot, which is my goal tommorow. I will be productive and set goals, now that I have these new methods / niches.
Not that the date really matters, but gotta break it up somehow.
Still alot of things happening, but right now no major cash being made since my original offer got shut down. However there is still potential there, I will break up my stuff by section, based on my main priorities. I have alot of different baskets planned, hopefully within the next 2 years I will have 5 or more income streams, but I plan to focus on 1 or 2 harder than others for now. I have spent way too much time planning compared to acting, even though I do something productive at least every day.
Amazon / Kindle -
I still make occasional sales on my original 3 books, but have not released a new one in 2 months. I got back to finishing this picture type book, so need to have it done within a week or less for sure. I bought an ebook that caught my eye that reveals a Kindle niche, that definitley has potential.
It is like any Kindle / Book niche, it will either take steady legwork or good outsourcing, and of course I can do the legwork in this case. I plan to try and ramp up my e-book and paperback production once and for all, because even though the money is slower (still made only about 100$) I feel like it will be more dependable and I want some of my income to be steadier and dependable, having hopefully 50+ books.
I will be working hard to finish this current book, then starting some books in the new niche. I will still be working on the other stuff I have been doing, but I am committing to work alot harder at Kindle starting now.
PPC / Paid -
I did reactivate my original campaign a bit this weekend even though the offer is still gone. I simply linked to a similar but less targeted offer, no conversions but it was not enough spend to tell. I probably should have waited until this week to reactivate them, but I did get to test some new landing pages / offers.
They did poorly in my opinion, but the small spend was worth it to show me that I need to put more effort into the LPs before I reactivate them. I also will not bother until I have enough spend to run them a while. I should get an 800$ MB payout this week which would provide good ad spend for a while.
As far as my original, profitable campaign goes it is still alive. The offer is still on another network but it is hard to say if it is still live or being paused soon as well. After acceptance I will find out if I can run the offer on that network.
That would be the ideal situation, as it is more targeted even after I made landing page adjustments. If I can't use the offer it is ok, to be honest I am glad I got to be jarred from the campaign so early. It sucks but having to adjust already makes me much less fearful from future losses.
I will keep testing other offers, and if nothing works I can test my other campaigns. Those are my main PPC priorities, I am keeping it simple and learning how to make LPs.
SEO / Other -
Some of my FB pages continue to grow with little effort, so that is a plus. I plan to start spending 10 a day on ads for one page to grow, since it already has shown some success. My real goal is to have my 6 or 7 pages all be very large, and make some steady traffic / money to my sites. However, I realize it is very intensive so I am focusing on 1-2 right now to learn how to grow.
I still run 4 IG accounts, but have been lazily only manually growing one. I simply need a better schedule. I feel like instagram in my niches is more for the long term, since results are small with low followers. I think it is totally worth it, but I might be Massplanner even for 4-5 accounts once I have a good enough setup and stuff, simply because manual work is very time consuming using follow/unfollow and takes away from other productive things.
I still have lots of methods and traffic stuff to test, but I am still struggling with productivity. Hopefully I will get it soon, I read alot of productivity stuff.
Possible new method for me?
Also I bought a method off another forum for 30$. I rarely buy e-book methods because I am not rich, but it seemed worth it. It involves selling certain digital goods, similar to ones shared on this forum but in different ways. My listing is live, but its too early to see if it sells.
If it does. then this method could at least lead to another 50-100 a day if really implemented, but its too early to say it is successful until I actually make money. If so that would be a nice boost, I am making some at work but probably only about 300-400 a week tops right now, but still not bad.
As far as actual website stuff, I have done very little updates, but one site continues to rank decent. Another site has gotten a bunch of pinterest shares, which is pretty cool.
I will invest some earnings into high quality links, but a small amount since my keywords are fairly easy.
Finally - I know it seems like alot but the only other part of my plan not covered is e-commerce. I think it is big and a great opportunity, but for the exact moment I don't have what I need to do it.
I need to accomplish some things in my other methods before I move on, but I have my eyes set on it since half of my niche accounts can be used for e-commerce.
Ultimately
selling my own shirt / merch is the goal, depending on how well I can do. For right now I am not going to spread myself over there, but in a month or 2 that could change.
I need to prioritize alot, which is my goal tommorow. I will be productive and set goals, now that I have these new methods / niches.
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MatteoMatt
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New Update - 2/20
Fuck this journey I am quitting internet marketing.
Just kidding, wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. I dont ever plan on quitting till I retire lol.
I have been busy so I think its been a week since updates. In an effort to make this easy to digest, I will use more bullet points this time.
- Still running PPC ads. I found a new one that converted 2 sales at first, but then conversions stopped. I either need to re-run it for longer, but really I need to test new landing pages before dumping more money into it. I need to setup the tracking I just purchased, which will allow me to start optimizing campaigns even if they aren't successful. I was spoiled with my first one because I didn't have to.
- Got an e-mail and my first payment from Maxbounty of 900$. I was upgraded to a more senior affiliate manager who should be able to help me grow alot faster. I also will get a t-shirt and got a personal email from adam. That was real cool because it was unexpected, I am still at a low level of earnings in my opinion but at the same time im not that surprised.
-I found out that my original successful offer is coming back, it had been paused and I had to pause the campaign without funds to test new offers. He will give me an idea of when it comes back.
- I purchased SEO services for my main site, which still ranks but barely. I payed 120$ for high quality links because it seems that is the best way to go, I plan to invest more soon as I get the funds. I will also send the links to different sites, but I will try to focus on one or two at a time.
- I reorganized a bunch of stuff, and have a better plan of action in mind. I have gotten a bit more productive but that still continues to be an area where I can grow. Work is going good, I make 300 or 400 a week so far working 25 hours, more in the busy season.
- I FINALLY uploaded my other 2 kindle books as paperback. I also had to UN-publish one of them because I had no idea what a trim size was when I first uploaded it. I sold 2 copies, which sucks because they probably look like shit but I learned a lesson. Apparently you can't change trim size after publishing, which isnt a big deal in this case. It was my first book anyways, I plan to re-release a new version.
- I am focusing harder on finishing the 2 books I partially finished, then moving on to write a bunch of books in my new niche, which is better for cranking out books. I also consolidated my domains under 1 account and have an actual budget / spending ledger written down.
- I am trying a new niche with my PPC ads, a brand new product but its too early to see if it sells.
Here is my list of things to do, I am working less the next 3 days at actual work.
- Finish 2 books.
- Start new books, try to get at least 5 in the niche by April 1 so I can see if it sells.
- Do light SEO for sites, but mainly finish creating / updating them.
- Setup tracking for new ads, start seeing which keywords convert.
- Keep growing my FB / IG page, focusing on 1 niche right now.
Fuck this journey I am quitting internet marketing.
Just kidding, wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. I dont ever plan on quitting till I retire lol.
I have been busy so I think its been a week since updates. In an effort to make this easy to digest, I will use more bullet points this time.
- Still running PPC ads. I found a new one that converted 2 sales at first, but then conversions stopped. I either need to re-run it for longer, but really I need to test new landing pages before dumping more money into it. I need to setup the tracking I just purchased, which will allow me to start optimizing campaigns even if they aren't successful. I was spoiled with my first one because I didn't have to.
- Got an e-mail and my first payment from Maxbounty of 900$. I was upgraded to a more senior affiliate manager who should be able to help me grow alot faster. I also will get a t-shirt and got a personal email from adam. That was real cool because it was unexpected, I am still at a low level of earnings in my opinion but at the same time im not that surprised.
-I found out that my original successful offer is coming back, it had been paused and I had to pause the campaign without funds to test new offers. He will give me an idea of when it comes back.
- I purchased SEO services for my main site, which still ranks but barely. I payed 120$ for high quality links because it seems that is the best way to go, I plan to invest more soon as I get the funds. I will also send the links to different sites, but I will try to focus on one or two at a time.
- I reorganized a bunch of stuff, and have a better plan of action in mind. I have gotten a bit more productive but that still continues to be an area where I can grow. Work is going good, I make 300 or 400 a week so far working 25 hours, more in the busy season.
- I FINALLY uploaded my other 2 kindle books as paperback. I also had to UN-publish one of them because I had no idea what a trim size was when I first uploaded it. I sold 2 copies, which sucks because they probably look like shit but I learned a lesson. Apparently you can't change trim size after publishing, which isnt a big deal in this case. It was my first book anyways, I plan to re-release a new version.
- I am focusing harder on finishing the 2 books I partially finished, then moving on to write a bunch of books in my new niche, which is better for cranking out books. I also consolidated my domains under 1 account and have an actual budget / spending ledger written down.
- I am trying a new niche with my PPC ads, a brand new product but its too early to see if it sells.
Here is my list of things to do, I am working less the next 3 days at actual work.
- Finish 2 books.
- Start new books, try to get at least 5 in the niche by April 1 so I can see if it sells.
- Do light SEO for sites, but mainly finish creating / updating them.
- Setup tracking for new ads, start seeing which keywords convert.
- Keep growing my FB / IG page, focusing on 1 niche right now.
MatteoMatt
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- Sep 28, 2016
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Nother updated guise. Things are going good I am sober off weed again which I feel like is already increasing my mental clarity even after 1 day. I feel more motivated than I have in a while, and I am starting to get out of my productivity pit where I was not getting shit done.
So I started a new PPC campaign, this time on Clickbank. I wasn't planning to as my stuff was paused, waiting for more funds. It was after reciving an e-mail from a previous seller talking about this new product, and it has the perfect combo for the sales page where my LP will work. So far I have probably made 70-80$ of that as profit after 3 days, which I am happy with.
It was risky because it takes money to test PPC campaigns, but since it was a brand new thing I decided not to waste time. I still need better tracking for my campaigns, haven't had time to set it up. Fortunatley it is profitable, and I already have potential ways to optimize it.
Basically all 5 sales were from UK/CA and that tells me I may be able to target only those countries for better ROI. Its too early to see, so right now it is jsut running.
I also decided to try out Adwords as opposed to just Bing. I thought my LP might get denied, or the CPC would be too high. However, Adwords has actually made me way more conversions per click. I pay alot more than Bing per click, but its working. I am super happy because I viewed Adwords as out of my range for now, but its not so bad so far.
I have finally been getting way more done on my Kindle books, but still a ways to go.
My FB pages are growing, but one in particular is now getting 50+ likes a day with no effort, which blows my mind but if it keeps growing this way it could reach 10k autopilot within months lol.
Search keywords are going up a bit, but still too early for that. I am off my real job tommorow, so I plan to get alot done and keep trying to make sales on my new offer.
So I started a new PPC campaign, this time on Clickbank. I wasn't planning to as my stuff was paused, waiting for more funds. It was after reciving an e-mail from a previous seller talking about this new product, and it has the perfect combo for the sales page where my LP will work. So far I have probably made 70-80$ of that as profit after 3 days, which I am happy with.
It was risky because it takes money to test PPC campaigns, but since it was a brand new thing I decided not to waste time. I still need better tracking for my campaigns, haven't had time to set it up. Fortunatley it is profitable, and I already have potential ways to optimize it.
Basically all 5 sales were from UK/CA and that tells me I may be able to target only those countries for better ROI. Its too early to see, so right now it is jsut running.
I also decided to try out Adwords as opposed to just Bing. I thought my LP might get denied, or the CPC would be too high. However, Adwords has actually made me way more conversions per click. I pay alot more than Bing per click, but its working. I am super happy because I viewed Adwords as out of my range for now, but its not so bad so far.
I have finally been getting way more done on my Kindle books, but still a ways to go.
My FB pages are growing, but one in particular is now getting 50+ likes a day with no effort, which blows my mind but if it keeps growing this way it could reach 10k autopilot within months lol.
Search keywords are going up a bit, but still too early for that. I am off my real job tommorow, so I plan to get alot done and keep trying to make sales on my new offer.
MatteoMatt
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Hey guys another small update just for motivation and information.
That campaign has continued to do well, today was way better than any other. The new traffic source is more expensive but simply way higher quality, and more conversions. I still don;t have tons of captial to keep the ads running forever, but might be able to for the majority of the time. I won't get a CB payment until a couple weeks I believe, but I can wait.
I spent about 120$ to make that 280$, which results in a profit of around 160$ for the day. After what happened with the last campaign I will not set my hopes too high. However, I am very happy because I did not expect to have another big winner like this so soon. I will keep it running as much as possible.
I finally started getting more work done on websites today, adding new pages to my main website. I will be working hard at totally optimizing / completing that soon, it is currently ranking for 16 keywords but still at ~10 visits a day. My other website gets 10-20 random stumbleupon hits, but high bounce rate.
I have finally written at least 10 more pages of a book I decided to complete first, which is more writing than I have done in a while.
Stay tuned for more updates as I run this campaign some more.
That campaign has continued to do well, today was way better than any other. The new traffic source is more expensive but simply way higher quality, and more conversions. I still don;t have tons of captial to keep the ads running forever, but might be able to for the majority of the time. I won't get a CB payment until a couple weeks I believe, but I can wait.
I spent about 120$ to make that 280$, which results in a profit of around 160$ for the day. After what happened with the last campaign I will not set my hopes too high. However, I am very happy because I did not expect to have another big winner like this so soon. I will keep it running as much as possible.
I finally started getting more work done on websites today, adding new pages to my main website. I will be working hard at totally optimizing / completing that soon, it is currently ranking for 16 keywords but still at ~10 visits a day. My other website gets 10-20 random stumbleupon hits, but high bounce rate.
I have finally written at least 10 more pages of a book I decided to complete first, which is more writing than I have done in a while.
Stay tuned for more updates as I run this campaign some more.
MatteoMatt
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Update Monday - 2/27
I made about 650$ total (50$ bonus not shown) from my new PPC ads. I would say it was 200% ROI but to be honest I am not even tracking it for this week. Mostly because I still don't have the funds to actually keep a campaign running full time to get some data. Since it is profit either way it is ok, but this campaign will need some optimization.
My main recommendation is have some cash before doing PPC. It wasn't a mistake for me because I had awesome opportunities and have always made some profit, but most of my campaigns would not be profitable. I don't know if I mentioned that I put up some ads on Adwords which I was surpised they got approved.
The adwords ads costed more, but the traffic converted way higher, with a way higher CTR on the landing page as well. In addition, county conversions vary from traffic source.
I have decided to pay my 220$ adwords bill tommorow once I can, then try to resist the urge to re enable them. I basically let the ads run then pause them before payment threshold, then once I get money I pay the bill, so I am always behind.
I am working at my serving job still, in fact I worked so much this weekend and the job kind of sucks. I know I am doing the smart thing by sticking it out, because I need the money to increase my cashflow and keep ads running until clickbank paychecks start arriving. My main goal is to pay off my ad debts, and make sure I have a good few hundred to play with before re-activating adwords.
Bing is lower volume so I have it enabled, but it is easier to keep up with.
I will do the rest in bullet points since I am super tired.
- Working a bunch and feel drained physically, but its definitly better than being broke. Grinding it out here to make sure this succeeds. I plan to be working there at least a few more months, and that is only if I actually succeed here.
-Waiting on replacement offer for my original campaign which got paused. It wont be the same but should be able to work just as good. I work all day today so I may not get to test it, but if it goes live I will try to see if that campaign can come back.
-I will mostly focus on that until adwords funding is back, but I may also do my 2nd campaign some more if I can. I need to wait 3 weeks after pay period for clickbank, so I want to make sure each week I am making a few hundred at least for cash flow.
- If my other campaign comes back, I will send plenty to Maxbounty because it will reach me faster, ideally I want both to be paying me each week so I can scale fast.
- Amazon still shows promise, which has gotten me through the lazy period. I made 2 sales so far of one of my ebooks I converted to paperback, still making about 1-2$ a day on average and months from payout but not bad. I actually got stuff done this week and wrote more on my new book, when I had not done any real writing since probably December.
- One website is ranking better, 19 keywords now. It still shows only 3 RDs on semrush, but with new SEO done it should get alot more. I still have tons to do, but finally started adding pages and updating some sites. Also one of my FB pages hit 1,000 likes, basically on autopilot it gets about 50-100 likes a day. I really hope it increases because growing my other pages is a bitch.
I will finish my all day shift today, and work only a single shift the next 2 days. I will get alot more done these next 3 days.
Small lessons to learn. I was kinda sad when my first campaign was paused, but I knew it was possible. I just thought it might be my lucky break. Looking back, had I not lost that campaign I may not have discovered the other ones since then. Most have been busts, but this new clickbank one shows tons of promise. Not only that, but I may potentially get the other one back, with the safety of now having 2 potentially profitable and scalable campaigns.
I still have a long way to go, but I do feel like I truly am on my way to success. I truly feel that if I keep working on this path, I will have steady earnings and be able to do this full time again. There have been tons of work and obstacles, and tons more to go. I will definitley meet them head on.
I made about 650$ total (50$ bonus not shown) from my new PPC ads. I would say it was 200% ROI but to be honest I am not even tracking it for this week. Mostly because I still don't have the funds to actually keep a campaign running full time to get some data. Since it is profit either way it is ok, but this campaign will need some optimization.
My main recommendation is have some cash before doing PPC. It wasn't a mistake for me because I had awesome opportunities and have always made some profit, but most of my campaigns would not be profitable. I don't know if I mentioned that I put up some ads on Adwords which I was surpised they got approved.
The adwords ads costed more, but the traffic converted way higher, with a way higher CTR on the landing page as well. In addition, county conversions vary from traffic source.
I have decided to pay my 220$ adwords bill tommorow once I can, then try to resist the urge to re enable them. I basically let the ads run then pause them before payment threshold, then once I get money I pay the bill, so I am always behind.
I am working at my serving job still, in fact I worked so much this weekend and the job kind of sucks. I know I am doing the smart thing by sticking it out, because I need the money to increase my cashflow and keep ads running until clickbank paychecks start arriving. My main goal is to pay off my ad debts, and make sure I have a good few hundred to play with before re-activating adwords.
Bing is lower volume so I have it enabled, but it is easier to keep up with.
I will do the rest in bullet points since I am super tired.
- Working a bunch and feel drained physically, but its definitly better than being broke. Grinding it out here to make sure this succeeds. I plan to be working there at least a few more months, and that is only if I actually succeed here.
-Waiting on replacement offer for my original campaign which got paused. It wont be the same but should be able to work just as good. I work all day today so I may not get to test it, but if it goes live I will try to see if that campaign can come back.
-I will mostly focus on that until adwords funding is back, but I may also do my 2nd campaign some more if I can. I need to wait 3 weeks after pay period for clickbank, so I want to make sure each week I am making a few hundred at least for cash flow.
- If my other campaign comes back, I will send plenty to Maxbounty because it will reach me faster, ideally I want both to be paying me each week so I can scale fast.
- Amazon still shows promise, which has gotten me through the lazy period. I made 2 sales so far of one of my ebooks I converted to paperback, still making about 1-2$ a day on average and months from payout but not bad. I actually got stuff done this week and wrote more on my new book, when I had not done any real writing since probably December.
- One website is ranking better, 19 keywords now. It still shows only 3 RDs on semrush, but with new SEO done it should get alot more. I still have tons to do, but finally started adding pages and updating some sites. Also one of my FB pages hit 1,000 likes, basically on autopilot it gets about 50-100 likes a day. I really hope it increases because growing my other pages is a bitch.
I will finish my all day shift today, and work only a single shift the next 2 days. I will get alot more done these next 3 days.
Small lessons to learn. I was kinda sad when my first campaign was paused, but I knew it was possible. I just thought it might be my lucky break. Looking back, had I not lost that campaign I may not have discovered the other ones since then. Most have been busts, but this new clickbank one shows tons of promise. Not only that, but I may potentially get the other one back, with the safety of now having 2 potentially profitable and scalable campaigns.
I still have a long way to go, but I do feel like I truly am on my way to success. I truly feel that if I keep working on this path, I will have steady earnings and be able to do this full time again. There have been tons of work and obstacles, and tons more to go. I will definitley meet them head on.
MatteoMatt
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Another update, been working hard but no major changes so hopefully this will be short.
I am pausing my current PPC ad. I made about 700$ total but it was probably only a few hundred profit.
I have learned how to optimize it, but since I am still low on funds I will pause all my ads for a bit. I need to get back to the bigger picture and start saving up a cash cushion as opposed to spending all my extra money on PPC ads. If my original CPA offer gets back I may test it.
I do plan on getting back to running these ads soon, but I have been unemployed until a month ago so I need to get back on my feet, since this is a marathon.
I did start working alot harder on my current book project, and it is almost done. I need to do alot of work on my websites, and I also started up a MERCH Shopify store. I uploaded a few designs, but not much yet. I plan to keep uploading designs over the next few months and hopefully add a new income stream.
Overall I am just working hard, and getting more productive. At the same time I am not making as much money without my PPC ads, but those need work.
I am pausing my current PPC ad. I made about 700$ total but it was probably only a few hundred profit.
I have learned how to optimize it, but since I am still low on funds I will pause all my ads for a bit. I need to get back to the bigger picture and start saving up a cash cushion as opposed to spending all my extra money on PPC ads. If my original CPA offer gets back I may test it.
I do plan on getting back to running these ads soon, but I have been unemployed until a month ago so I need to get back on my feet, since this is a marathon.
I did start working alot harder on my current book project, and it is almost done. I need to do alot of work on my websites, and I also started up a MERCH Shopify store. I uploaded a few designs, but not much yet. I plan to keep uploading designs over the next few months and hopefully add a new income stream.
Overall I am just working hard, and getting more productive. At the same time I am not making as much money without my PPC ads, but those need work.
popoloko23
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Good luck buddy!!
Its seem you make a progres! Any update?
Its seem you make a progres! Any update?
MatteoMatt
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Hey guys thanks for the replies. ill try to keep it to every few days updates since this journey could go a while.
Updates - 3-8
I am pretty sure I quit marijuana wax for now, I was wasting alot of money on it.
- My original offer has come back, updated. It was the CPA offer I made money with. The payout is higher and the lander page is similar. No conversions so far, but I would say I need a day or 2 more to see if it converts. Its too bad it has done poorly so far but its just too early to tell. If it doesnt work like to old one did I will need to change my strategy.
I said that I was pausing ads but since that offer came up I am testing some, I also have some payments coming such as 500$ from clickbank next week.
I also decided to re-enable my clickbank campaign, after making some riskier changes. I decided to direct link, which is possibly not allowed but my traffic source is not super strict. Already got a conversion again so honestly it may just convert better than my other methods.
- I need to update and work on all my websites badly, and I need to finish some more books. I need to put alot more work in.
LATE NIGHT UPDATE - Not much but wanted to say my new offer converted, it is still in the red but it is so much better looking with a conversion. Now I know it may just take optimization.
Updates - 3-8
I am pretty sure I quit marijuana wax for now, I was wasting alot of money on it.
- My original offer has come back, updated. It was the CPA offer I made money with. The payout is higher and the lander page is similar. No conversions so far, but I would say I need a day or 2 more to see if it converts. Its too bad it has done poorly so far but its just too early to tell. If it doesnt work like to old one did I will need to change my strategy.
I said that I was pausing ads but since that offer came up I am testing some, I also have some payments coming such as 500$ from clickbank next week.
I also decided to re-enable my clickbank campaign, after making some riskier changes. I decided to direct link, which is possibly not allowed but my traffic source is not super strict. Already got a conversion again so honestly it may just convert better than my other methods.
- I need to update and work on all my websites badly, and I need to finish some more books. I need to put alot more work in.
LATE NIGHT UPDATE - Not much but wanted to say my new offer converted, it is still in the red but it is so much better looking with a conversion. Now I know it may just take optimization.
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MatteoMatt
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Howdy yall, here is another update. Thanks for all who follow this. I will be doing bullet points because I am working pretty hard to typing long paragraphs is too much time.
- I am working hard enough that my hand is bruised / sore, I am being careful not to overdo it but I don't have a choice. Work at the restaurant is going alot better, some days I make good money like 200$ yesterday for example.
- I have switched my mentality toward saving up a bit of money, since I still have yet to. It is hard to resist the urge to keep my PPC ads running since they usually still make a profit.
- i decided it was worth it to test the new version of my original CPA offer. At first this one did not convert hardly at all, so I decided I probably needed to try a different landing page strategy, which I did not have the resources to test / launch.
- I also re-activated my clickbank campaign, and got a new adwords account. This campaign had done awesome on adwords, I have a 500$ clickbank payment being sent wednesday. However, this time around it strangely did not convert at all, despite many order form impressions.
- chalk it up to the game, I will still try again when I have more money. I realize that PPC really is unstable especially with high payout offers, so I really need to wait a bit and stack up a cash reserve.
- However, despite that I re-enabled my original maxbounty campaign on both traffic sources, even though my first adwords account, the website got blocked. I submitted under a new domain, but if that gets blocked for "Misleading advertising" (hehe yeah it is kinda, but not really that shady) I will not try to piss adwords off, I will leave it alone.
Today things started looking up, as I did get 2 more conversions for a 80$ profit day. However, with all other days considered, it is probably barely break even. Still it will enable some MB checks to get sent, and I may save it or re-invest.
It is just hard to truly see results without having it run a while, but I made improvements already. I will probably keep them paused until later this week, then focus on running my Maxbounty campaign as the payout rate is faster.
-I have began to focus much harder on my other methods / projects, to built up more stable income. Kindle sales are still only a couple a week, but I am very close to finishing another book. I have become much more productive lately, so this should speed up.
- My site that I bought services for is ranking much better than expected, and needs major site overhauls as well. I see good hope in the future. I will cease paid links for it for a while, but focus that on other sites.
I have returned to finally writing content for new sites, and getting lots done there. I still have a long way to go, but if I keep this pace I will finally have lots of long articles to help rank for long tail keywords, since some niches like health are really competitive.
- Finally, I have started doing FB ads from a free course shared here, with a pretty well known strategy. Paying for cheap likes from non US countries, to get a big initial fanbase. I am getting likes for .01 cents so it is working out. Overall I hope to have my website projects making money soon, to offset the instability of PPC.
My PPC ads are paused, and I will pause FB too. Once I have a few dollars, I will probably re-enable my Maxbounty campaign but at a low spend. My focus now is to save up some cash, especially with money from work. Things are going well, I am alot more focused now.
- I am working hard enough that my hand is bruised / sore, I am being careful not to overdo it but I don't have a choice. Work at the restaurant is going alot better, some days I make good money like 200$ yesterday for example.
- I have switched my mentality toward saving up a bit of money, since I still have yet to. It is hard to resist the urge to keep my PPC ads running since they usually still make a profit.
- i decided it was worth it to test the new version of my original CPA offer. At first this one did not convert hardly at all, so I decided I probably needed to try a different landing page strategy, which I did not have the resources to test / launch.
- I also re-activated my clickbank campaign, and got a new adwords account. This campaign had done awesome on adwords, I have a 500$ clickbank payment being sent wednesday. However, this time around it strangely did not convert at all, despite many order form impressions.
- chalk it up to the game, I will still try again when I have more money. I realize that PPC really is unstable especially with high payout offers, so I really need to wait a bit and stack up a cash reserve.
- However, despite that I re-enabled my original maxbounty campaign on both traffic sources, even though my first adwords account, the website got blocked. I submitted under a new domain, but if that gets blocked for "Misleading advertising" (hehe yeah it is kinda, but not really that shady) I will not try to piss adwords off, I will leave it alone.
Today things started looking up, as I did get 2 more conversions for a 80$ profit day. However, with all other days considered, it is probably barely break even. Still it will enable some MB checks to get sent, and I may save it or re-invest.
It is just hard to truly see results without having it run a while, but I made improvements already. I will probably keep them paused until later this week, then focus on running my Maxbounty campaign as the payout rate is faster.
-I have began to focus much harder on my other methods / projects, to built up more stable income. Kindle sales are still only a couple a week, but I am very close to finishing another book. I have become much more productive lately, so this should speed up.
- My site that I bought services for is ranking much better than expected, and needs major site overhauls as well. I see good hope in the future. I will cease paid links for it for a while, but focus that on other sites.
I have returned to finally writing content for new sites, and getting lots done there. I still have a long way to go, but if I keep this pace I will finally have lots of long articles to help rank for long tail keywords, since some niches like health are really competitive.
- Finally, I have started doing FB ads from a free course shared here, with a pretty well known strategy. Paying for cheap likes from non US countries, to get a big initial fanbase. I am getting likes for .01 cents so it is working out. Overall I hope to have my website projects making money soon, to offset the instability of PPC.
My PPC ads are paused, and I will pause FB too. Once I have a few dollars, I will probably re-enable my Maxbounty campaign but at a low spend. My focus now is to save up some cash, especially with money from work. Things are going well, I am alot more focused now.
MatteoMatt
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Whatup guys another update
Still no MAJOR changes, I am still working on the same things. Still struggling with personal life / productivity, but I get stuff done every day and work my real job to make about 600 a week.
Got about 700$ worth of online payments last week, including my first 70$ Amazon Kindle sales check, from sales generated before December. Not much but I plan for Amazon books to really be the foundation of my business, where I can depend on semi-stable earnings once I have a bunch more books.
I kept running PPC ads, first running my original digestive offer with just like before but with no conversions after a few days. I also spent 40$ on an Maxbounty PPC campaign e-book, which gave me a few ideas. I decided to test one more new variable, since offers weren't converting I decided to create new landing pages.
It shows more promise than before, and I keep gaining small skills each time I try to beat an obstacle.
Instead of using thin landing pages or direct linking, I put some effort into creating some real ones. I am testing a few offers, but got the conversions finally. Still not much yet, but enough to give it some hope. If these PPC campaigns dont product anything soon I will probably agree to pause them for a few weeks and wait until I have a better budget.
However they show some hope, so I will test the winners more.
I also deposited some money in a Native Ads network, waiting on ad approval. It should be a good thing since my niches and landers work well there.
My main focus is now is
- Finishing more books, I am editing book#4.
- Finish website content, and work on it more steadily.
- Start growing / updating social media pages more often.
- Test my new PPC ads.
Overall I am doing ok, but the main area I need to improve is this. I spend too much time on these PPC ads when I still don't have a huge budget, and I need to focus more on my other projects. I need the long term ranking / traffic from my websites / books to succeed.
Still no MAJOR changes, I am still working on the same things. Still struggling with personal life / productivity, but I get stuff done every day and work my real job to make about 600 a week.
Got about 700$ worth of online payments last week, including my first 70$ Amazon Kindle sales check, from sales generated before December. Not much but I plan for Amazon books to really be the foundation of my business, where I can depend on semi-stable earnings once I have a bunch more books.
I kept running PPC ads, first running my original digestive offer with just like before but with no conversions after a few days. I also spent 40$ on an Maxbounty PPC campaign e-book, which gave me a few ideas. I decided to test one more new variable, since offers weren't converting I decided to create new landing pages.
It shows more promise than before, and I keep gaining small skills each time I try to beat an obstacle.
Instead of using thin landing pages or direct linking, I put some effort into creating some real ones. I am testing a few offers, but got the conversions finally. Still not much yet, but enough to give it some hope. If these PPC campaigns dont product anything soon I will probably agree to pause them for a few weeks and wait until I have a better budget.
However they show some hope, so I will test the winners more.
I also deposited some money in a Native Ads network, waiting on ad approval. It should be a good thing since my niches and landers work well there.
My main focus is now is
- Finishing more books, I am editing book#4.
- Finish website content, and work on it more steadily.
- Start growing / updating social media pages more often.
- Test my new PPC ads.
Overall I am doing ok, but the main area I need to improve is this. I spend too much time on these PPC ads when I still don't have a huge budget, and I need to focus more on my other projects. I need the long term ranking / traffic from my websites / books to succeed.
MatteoMatt
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Whatup guys, this will be the realest post in this entire thread.
Business wise things are going the same, not bad actually. I still make Kindle sales every few days and am a day away from finishing my latest book. It is internet marketing related, and turned out to be over 160 pages. I made a conversion off Native ads for a new offer but even with that, I need to pause them for a bit while I save money. I only kept it going cuz the money was there, but it gives me hope.
I am working alot harder on website stuff, and more productive than I usually am. I had a fucked up week and went crazy, and had alot of emotions driving me. I will sum up my personal issues in the next paragraph, because it is what is on my mind.
First of all I want to say that if it wasn't for Internet Marketing and Blackhatworld, I would honestly not be sure I would even want to be living. I am not suicidal, but this business has given me a purpose and focus that I believe has helped me get through this.
I quit MJ wax so I think that may have contributed a bit to my reaction, but my problem stems from a love related issue. I had a problem where I was in love with this girl I barely knew, and had never really even met hardly. Its been on and off for years, but totally one sided on my part.
At the same time I couldn't help it, but anyways this time a few months ago I started thinking about her randomly. I decided to try and message her friend, just to talk about it and see if I was crazy or I should even bother. In addition, I was fucked up mentally and stole my brother opiate pills in small amounts.
This is fucked up for me and a reality check because I am sober off Heroin and it was a risky idea, but I see that now. What really fucked me up was when her friend and her blocked me, without even a reply or a chance to speak.
(All I sent was, "hey I know you dont know me but i was hoping we could talk about...", nothing crazy).
Anyways long story short, I realized how crazy ive been and made up and obviously talked, my brother actually helped me alot.
The point of all this is this:
The one time this week that I felt best was while working on internet projects and writing. In fact, writing on this new book is the best I felt, so I will be doing much more of that.
It put things into perspective. I have had a crazy story but its not over yet. I have to see it through, and I have wanted nothing more than to be free and earning money. I am so close, hell I already make money just not steady or high enough to write home about.
I want to thank anyone reading this, and thank blackhatworld. I am going to be fully sober again starting tommorow, I didn't fuck up that bad but I still fucked up. On the flipside my mind is much sharper after stopping Wax, but I still have alot of work to do.
Stay tuned, and see what happens. I am more motivated than I have ever been now, work is like play to me.
Business wise things are going the same, not bad actually. I still make Kindle sales every few days and am a day away from finishing my latest book. It is internet marketing related, and turned out to be over 160 pages. I made a conversion off Native ads for a new offer but even with that, I need to pause them for a bit while I save money. I only kept it going cuz the money was there, but it gives me hope.
I am working alot harder on website stuff, and more productive than I usually am. I had a fucked up week and went crazy, and had alot of emotions driving me. I will sum up my personal issues in the next paragraph, because it is what is on my mind.
First of all I want to say that if it wasn't for Internet Marketing and Blackhatworld, I would honestly not be sure I would even want to be living. I am not suicidal, but this business has given me a purpose and focus that I believe has helped me get through this.
I quit MJ wax so I think that may have contributed a bit to my reaction, but my problem stems from a love related issue. I had a problem where I was in love with this girl I barely knew, and had never really even met hardly. Its been on and off for years, but totally one sided on my part.
At the same time I couldn't help it, but anyways this time a few months ago I started thinking about her randomly. I decided to try and message her friend, just to talk about it and see if I was crazy or I should even bother. In addition, I was fucked up mentally and stole my brother opiate pills in small amounts.
This is fucked up for me and a reality check because I am sober off Heroin and it was a risky idea, but I see that now. What really fucked me up was when her friend and her blocked me, without even a reply or a chance to speak.
(All I sent was, "hey I know you dont know me but i was hoping we could talk about...", nothing crazy).
Anyways long story short, I realized how crazy ive been and made up and obviously talked, my brother actually helped me alot.
The point of all this is this:
The one time this week that I felt best was while working on internet projects and writing. In fact, writing on this new book is the best I felt, so I will be doing much more of that.
It put things into perspective. I have had a crazy story but its not over yet. I have to see it through, and I have wanted nothing more than to be free and earning money. I am so close, hell I already make money just not steady or high enough to write home about.
I want to thank anyone reading this, and thank blackhatworld. I am going to be fully sober again starting tommorow, I didn't fuck up that bad but I still fucked up. On the flipside my mind is much sharper after stopping Wax, but I still have alot of work to do.
Stay tuned, and see what happens. I am more motivated than I have ever been now, work is like play to me.
MatteoMatt
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Whats up guys, haven't updated for a bit but mostly because I see this journey thread lasting a while longer and I already covered detail about my methods alot.
Ive been getting work done, I finished my Internet Marketing related book but I still need to update the e-book version. I still am not sure how it will do because it is a different concept from what usually gets sold there but hopefully someone will benefit from it. Sold 1 book in the last week but better than 0.
I have been adding alot more pages to my websites, and hoping to start getting more rankings and traffic. I have been getting a few hits a day but from search and social media.
I am not running any PPC ads, I need to get caught up financially and save up cash. its hard to resist the urge but without some money to test new campaigns its not worth it for me.
I am just focused on mostly writing / working on new books and adding pages after pages to my websites, so they have some content.
Ive been getting work done, I finished my Internet Marketing related book but I still need to update the e-book version. I still am not sure how it will do because it is a different concept from what usually gets sold there but hopefully someone will benefit from it. Sold 1 book in the last week but better than 0.
I have been adding alot more pages to my websites, and hoping to start getting more rankings and traffic. I have been getting a few hits a day but from search and social media.
I am not running any PPC ads, I need to get caught up financially and save up cash. its hard to resist the urge but without some money to test new campaigns its not worth it for me.
I am just focused on mostly writing / working on new books and adding pages after pages to my websites, so they have some content.
letme know if you need anything!
MatteoMatt
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April 11 - Update
Damn guys its been about 11 days, sorry for not updating, but since this is a very long term journey I may update less often.
Its all good news though. Still not making much money but I forced myself to stop wasting money on PPC ads because my budget it just too low. I am working on saving alot more money from my job and not concerned with spending it here yet, I will probably wait a month or two at least before getting back to that.
However, I have been working very hard this last couple weeks. Mostly adding more pages to my websites. I technically have a total of 7 sites that all still need tons of content and redesigns, which will likely take a month or so.
I am still writing books and making occasional sales, and finishing book #5 right now. I still hope to be making at least 50$ a day off Kindle by the end of June I would say, maybe even June.
I have been clean off weed for 4 days now and it has made a huge difference in my mental capacity. It never caused huge problems but I am much more focused and clear-headed. I also am taking some OTC supplements for brain health and energy from Wal-Mart. I have cut down on porn as well which was a huge time waster, well I basically cut it all out but I still run a sexy girls site.
As far as money methods go I am shifting alot of focus to getting hits to my websites, and increasing the pageviews to prepare for CPM advertising being added soon, right now I just use CPA banner ads but the traffic is too low to see results.
I am doing a huge re-organization to figure out my next moves, but I have still kept the focus to growing social media, adding website pages, writing books, and occasionally uploading t-shirt designs. I still have my real life job as well which is going ok.
I probably recieve a total of 100 pageviews a day which is not much, but I plan to ramp up traffic alot soon.
Overall I feel like I just turned a huge corner. If I keep it up like this I can accomplish probably more in the next few months than I have in the last 7, so stay tuned for this journey!
Damn guys its been about 11 days, sorry for not updating, but since this is a very long term journey I may update less often.
Its all good news though. Still not making much money but I forced myself to stop wasting money on PPC ads because my budget it just too low. I am working on saving alot more money from my job and not concerned with spending it here yet, I will probably wait a month or two at least before getting back to that.
However, I have been working very hard this last couple weeks. Mostly adding more pages to my websites. I technically have a total of 7 sites that all still need tons of content and redesigns, which will likely take a month or so.
I am still writing books and making occasional sales, and finishing book #5 right now. I still hope to be making at least 50$ a day off Kindle by the end of June I would say, maybe even June.
I have been clean off weed for 4 days now and it has made a huge difference in my mental capacity. It never caused huge problems but I am much more focused and clear-headed. I also am taking some OTC supplements for brain health and energy from Wal-Mart. I have cut down on porn as well which was a huge time waster, well I basically cut it all out but I still run a sexy girls site.
As far as money methods go I am shifting alot of focus to getting hits to my websites, and increasing the pageviews to prepare for CPM advertising being added soon, right now I just use CPA banner ads but the traffic is too low to see results.
I am doing a huge re-organization to figure out my next moves, but I have still kept the focus to growing social media, adding website pages, writing books, and occasionally uploading t-shirt designs. I still have my real life job as well which is going ok.
I probably recieve a total of 100 pageviews a day which is not much, but I plan to ramp up traffic alot soon.
Overall I feel like I just turned a huge corner. If I keep it up like this I can accomplish probably more in the next few months than I have in the last 7, so stay tuned for this journey!