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This from an IPK forum that I am a member of puts a different perspective on my results (click here for previous post):
Your earnings were £151.54
Cost of PPC is £107.58
The domains which you substract in total from your first month profit should be divided over 12 months, in my opinion.
So that would mean instead of 34.86 you would calculate 3.87 as the cost of the domains for December which in turn makes it a Net Profit £40.09
That is a ROI of almost 40% which in my book is great.
She also goes on to talk about a sitebuilder that another member is developing. She says it would make it possible to make a ipk site in about an hour so if I can scale this up and not only have ppc but also organic search traffic imagine the income report next year.
Certainly with the year round strategy I would not be looking to use PPC to drive traffic but rather search engine traffic.
I have just been analysing my Info Product Killer stats up to the end of December.
You can find an outline of this program by clicking here to read my earlier post.
I built 7 sites plus the main Christmas site and the guys from IPK look them over so I know that they were set up correctly.
Amazon earnings were $219.33
Converted into sterling at todays exchange rate = £144.63
Plus Amazon UK earnings £6.91 = £151.54
Cost of PPC in £107.58
Domains cost 34.86
Net Profit £9.10
Analysis
Interestingly £85.76 ($130) of sales were of other products.
My Pay Per Click (PPC) costs were too high even within the tight KW list of less than 10 keywords some were just too generic so profit would have been higher without these keywords.
The product says that we can expect our sites to show up on page one of Google when we employ the strategies given, but as of today, none of my sites are on page one of Google.com but my Christmas site is showing on page two for a number of the keywords.
I am continuing with the PPC campaigns and so far in January I have earned £6.94 for an adwords spend of £3.68
Verdict
I am disappointed at the results given the figures being quoted on the sales page. Whilst I didn’t expect to make anything like that in the timeframe I did think they would be better. However, the year round profits campaign looks promising so I am going to forge ahead with that.
Click Here If you are interested in trying the program for yourself. I can then point you to an extremely helpful forum that will help you along the way.
As with all programs I encourage you to consider whether you can put in the necessary work to make it work for you and whether this it is something that interests you. I am a creative person so I enjoy putting together websites like this.
Whichever way you turn these days you are probably being bombarded by
messages telling you how terrible everything is at the moment.
It’s true things are bad…who could have predicted at the beginning of 2008 that three UK
banks would get into trouble and have to be supported by the Goverment?
The rapid decline in house prices has also had a massive impact on the economy not only estate agents, mortgage brokers and conveyancers, but also house builders and everyone involved in supplying goods and services to new homes and to people moving house such as removal firms, central heating installers etc
So, how safe do you feel with your money in the bank?
Now, Andy has a lot of expertise in property investing and he follows the economy closely. He has a lot of strong opinions on these matters which make for really interesting and quite controversial reading.
I highly recommend that you get his free report where he discusses how safe your money is in the bank (and he debunks the Government’s £50,000 guarantee). You can get a free copy of the report here
But here’s a warning, if you like fluffy,bunny language don’t get it but if you can stand or even prefer straight talking (as I do) then go ahead.
Info Product Killer (IPK)
Is the other thing that I have been focussing on and that’s been taking up a lot of my time over the last month or so. Which is a program for creating Search Engine Optimised (SEO) product websites.
This is one of the most exciting products I have come across in a long while. That is because it shows a unique way of promoting physical products as opposed to digital products, hence the name.
It shows in detail, using videos and pdfs (portable document format files), how to get on the first page of Google with your websites and thus get free traffic.
The first part of the program has concentrated on building Christmas websites promoting Amazon products.
I managed to build eight websites and one main website around my full-time job from the middle of November to the beginning of December. Not bad going even if I say so myself.
Now it is suggested that you can initially drive traffic to the sites using Pay Per Click (PPC) - exact phrase match - so that is what I have done. This has been successful in driving traffic and in PPC terms the Click Through Rate (CTR) has been good as has the conversions from clicks to sales once at Amazon. However when embarking on a PPC campaign it is necessary to be aware of your figures e.g. how many clicks at the price you are paying equals the commission you will earn from the product, in other words your breakeven point.
I’ll admit I’ve made a few mistakes and at this point sales from Amazon are only just ahead of my adwords spending. I have made a few tweaks and hopefully I will be showing a more reasonable profit by the end of this month.
However I don’t feel down hearted by these results as it has been an enjoyable learning curve and I am very optimistic about increasing my profits with the year round strategy. This does not require PPC just well optimised websites that drive free traffic.
Support from the team behind IPK has been fantastic. They have answered questions virtually immediately and I am hoping I can get them to look at my Christmas sites and point me in the right direction with any mistakes I made to move forward - watch this space. I suspect the problem may have been that I may have chosen products without enough searches and also keywords that were too generic in my PPC campaigns or maybe it is just a matter of starting earlier for the Christmas sales.
If you want to check out the product then Click Here I highly recommend it
One thing that most people find hard to do, especially it seems, online is focus on one thing.
I'm no different, are you?
I knew it had been a while since I had written anything here, just didn't realise quite how long!
So what have I been up to and have I earn't any money doing it?
Blogging First of all I am still following the Blog Mastermind course, albeit loosely. Now that is not me being slack, just that I have decided I want to enjoy the blog I have created as it is about one of my passions, motorcycling, and not feel under pressure to write or do things with it. From accountants to car mechanics to painters and decorators the world over most do not want anything to do with their JOB in their spare time, so turn that around I do not want my passion to become a job.If you're interested you can see my blog at motorbikin.com.
When I first started it I wrote something for it every single day and this certainly helped to get it higher up in the search engines. I even set it up to write a post a day on autopilot whilst I was on holiday! Now, having established that foundation, I write less often, more when the mood takes me and I feel moved to write something. I also started to Twitter what I was up to and this has brought more traffic.
I have been learning how to create videos for my blog using Animoto, which is a free and paid for service, for creating videos from photographs. I think that's rather neat and whilst they are not always good video quality it does provide a good way to get into video and there is a facility to upload your videos to youtube and increase your traffic that way.
The eagle-eyed amongst you may notice that there are not many opportunites on that blog for making money. Whilst this hasn't been totally deliberate on my part I prefer at this stage to concentrate on content. Having said that I have made some small change from Google Adsense and this is growing all the while along with my traffic.
OK so I am a long way from passive income with my blog, but hey I'm enjoying the ride (no pun intended), I'm still following the Blog Mastermind course, and I'm getting to write about a subject I'm passionate about.
What follows is one of those amazing pieces of writing that ought to be on everyone’s desks, I won’t say more than that but I hope it affects you in the way that it affects me everytime you see it and that it stays with you and if you are stuck at all that it will help free you and move you forward, enjoy…..
Risk
To laugh is to risk looking a fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To reach out for another is to risk involvement To show feelings is to risk revealing your true self To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss To love is to risk rejection To live is to risk dying To hope is to risk despair To try is to risk failure But risks must be taken Because one of the greatest dangers in life Is to risk doing nothing
Those who risk nothing Do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing They may avoid suffering and sorrow But they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live Chained by their uncertainties, they are slaves They have forfeited their freedom Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep To gain that which he can never lose - Is truly free!’
Over the last couple of weeks I have enrolled on a couple of
programs that so far seem to be complimenting each other pretty well, which is
an unexpected bonus.
In case you are not familiar with the Thirty Day Challenge
it is run by internet marketing expert and extremely funny Aussie bloke Ed Dale
and the aim of the challenge is to teach you, me and everybody to make at least
one dollar online over a 30day period. The best bit is that Ed and his team give all of this information freely
in the form of daily video tutorials AND in addition it needn’t cost you
anything, that is, you can complete the course and it won’t have cost you a
penny, bargain!
You would be excused for thinking well it can’t be that good
if he’s giving it away …..
I am currently reading Rich Dad’s Prophecy and although I am a fan of the Rich Dad books I don’t know why but I wasn’t expecting much of this book. That was certainly a mistake and I highly recommend this book to you.
The Rich Dad books are well worth taking the time to read especially if you want to learn sound financial principles and not work for someone else for the rest of your life. This book teaches you how to build an ark, as Robert Kiyosaki calls it, for the coming financial storm.
What I am going to talk about had a massive impact on me because it really contains a powerful lesson about what makes the difference between staying poor or getting wealthy.
Property tends to be a very emotive subject, is that because so many of us are homeowners and want to feel that our investment is safe andthat we have done the right thing in buying?
No matter, from the bloke in the pub to the newspapers everyone is talking about it. So who’s right?
I find it interesting on who we will listen to…let’s consider this for a moment:
The bloke in the pub - does he own any property apart from maybe the one he’s living in?
The newspapers - are they experienced property investors or do they want to sell newspapers?
Last week I got right out of my comfort zone and travelled down to London to meet up with some UK internet marketers at their regular London Lunch organised by Martin Avis. It was the first time I had met Martin and he is as lovely in person as he seems in his newsletter. By the way, you can sign up for his newsletter (which he sends out three times a week) at Kickstart Daily . He has an excellent course running at the moment as part of his newsletter called "The Foolproof, No-Nonsense, Kickstart Guide to Making Money Online" and you can get all the back issues as well once you sign up. I always read Martin’s newsletter from start to finish when it comes in, it really is that good!
