1 year later - now what ...?

[Laverdure]

He means that you used a process (from the book) not some one time event to make this happen. You investigated websites, figured out demographics, made banners, joined CPA networks, etc.

It is an understated complement to your actions and success.

thanks ..

yeah .. basicly .. you got to go through all these things without making any penny ..

 

[BeachBoy]

yes, I come from Mirabel (to the north of MTL)

raised in Ste-Scholastique, that's deep Mirabel On the South Shore now. Congrats on your success, you're close to iCar if you're into powerful cars!

Is your market global, US or Canadian/Quebec?

 

[Talisman]

what do you mean ?

I mean - you've succeeded, and I respect that. Not sure what else I could mean.

 

[stranger]

Nice start. My respect.

 

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[BeingChewsie]

Hi Laverdure,

Congrats!

How long of a process was this for you? Did I understand correctly from your first post that it took you 9+ months of investing your own money and sounds like countless hours to make money doing this? It is hard to tell from your posts if this took you a long time to do or if it just took a few months to go from 0 to 5- almost 6 figures/monthly profit.

Edit again to add:

Can you or someone else post a link to a "lander" that was selling someone else's products? I don't think I have ever seen what you are talking about? I have been clicking links all over the place today and they all seem to take me to the actual product site, not a site I have to click through to get to a sales page for the original site/product.

When you say you go on "trafficsource" do you mean the site that sends targeted traffic to your website? or do you mean you go find a traffic source...like this forum and study the needs/wants/habits of folks like us?

Sue

 

[Laverdure]

raised in Ste-Scholastique, that's deep Mirabel On the South Shore now. Congrats on your success, you're close to iCar if you're into powerful cars!

Is your market global, US or Canadian/Quebec?

I do as much country as I can .. euro america south africa etc ..

 

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[100k]

Sounds like you are doing media buy, it would be great if you gave up some of your tips and tricks to the newbies

https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/we...3885-online-media-buying-resource-thread.html

 

[BeingChewsie]

Yes. You buy a banner placement for a CPM price (cost per mille = per thousand impressions). So you buy 1000 views of your banner for example for $0.5. How much traffic results from this is up to you and the kind of banner you place there. The higher the clickrate, the higher the traffic you get.

Perfect. Thank you. We do this now. I wanted to make sure we were not missing out on some other buying opportunity, like maybe you could actually go and buy a specific amount of traffic and have it directed to your site somehow. I'm wondering if we need to start investing more money into buying ads, we drop most of our money into content, people need a reason to come and all that, but maybe our velocity of money would be faster if we bought more traffic. Hmmm. This has given us something new to test. Thanks.

Sue

 

[GPM]

once you know what the crowd wants, you can test different messages. until you find one that seems to get the most response.

zen******* - What exactly are you doing to "test" these messages to see if they work?

Once you find something that you think you can sell to them are you then creating the landing pages yourself and you get a cut if you succeed in your task (signups, selling...)? Have you ever heard of software called Premise or do you use anything in specific to create your landing pages?

 

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[GPM]

I do not want to steal this thread but I have one more question for zen*******.

How do you buy specific ad space for a location. Like say I am on facebook or a guitar forum and I want an ad to show up on that webpage, in the top section of the screen or something. How do you go about purchasing that space?

Please don't think that I am using you as a crutch. I am googling this stuff like crazy as well. I really appreciate your advice and help and am using you as a sort of turbo-charger for my car. I know I am going to get there, but will pro help it will be that much faster and smoother.

 

[theag]

I do not want to steal this thread but I have one more question for zen*******.

How do you buy specific ad space for a location. Like say I am on facebook or a guitar forum and I want an ad to show up on that webpage, in the top section of the screen or something. How do you go about purchasing that space?

Please don't think that I am using you as a crutch. I am googling this stuff like crazy as well. I really appreciate your advice and help and am using you as a sort of turbo-charger for my car. I know I am going to get there, but will pro help it will be that much faster and smoother.

You're googling for ways to advertise on facebook and couldn't come up with a solution? Seriously man? Thats the stupidest thing I ever heard Maybe try something else, technology might not be for you.

https://www.facebook.com/advertising

For individual websites you just contact the owner and ask him about advertising opportunites. He will either give you his prices or direct you to a network that is managing his inventory. You couldn't think of that by yourself?

 

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[CEBenz]

In my defense I don't actually give a F*ck about facebook and I am doing home renos while popping on and off the computer, actually advertising is the next step in my information cycle so I imagine I would eventually find that out during my next real information gathering sessions. No need to be snarky.

I think he was just trying to give you a bad time.

 

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[GPM]

Good catch theag, now go pat yourself on the back. I have not been researching how to actually buy advertising. I have been looking at things like clickbank and offervault and things on landing pages. Looking around for other advertisements to see how they are done, looking at communities online to see what sort of advertising space is there and how it is presented. Thanks for being helpful.

 

[CEBenz]

So, I'm curious. The landing page like the infusionsoft one mentioned above, would this be flagged by any of the ad services like adwords, facebook ads, etc.? I'm already banned from Google's adwords and would like to not repeat the experience with any others. Though I think I now know a way around it after some reading here today.

 

[infinitus]

What has helped me greatly has been working on my mindset, using sleep programming and self hypnosis recorded tracks. It keeps my motivation levels high, and i have subliminal images and audio playing all day. MJ's book, Wealth dynamics and mindset plus devouring everthing in my wealth profile category has turned me into a motivated beast

 

[Arrabista]

Steve Siebold: 177 Mental Toughness Secrets (or even better, the 12 CD Mental Toughness University series)

Anti guru thanks for the info on this ..I am not familiar with this writer ..by the way i gotta tell you I LOVE your avatar.. Mr Eisenberg! one of my favourite characters from one of my favourite all time tv shows.....

 

[Carny]

I may just be slow, but to be clear, you found traffic and created a banner ad to direct them to a site that someone else already has set up? Do you also create the landing pages, or the banners only?

 

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[cdmedia]

Very inspirational thanks for your story!

 

[Beccablack]

As a great business man once told me "there are 2 things in life you will never regret spending money on: your dreams and travel". Your story fits this to a T! Congratulations!

 

[Laverdure]

sorry for not being very responsive I had been away of computer for a few days!

 

[tothetop]

direct buys or through an ad network?

 

[Laverdure]

I don't wanna sound rude but what it's going to change knowing it ? nothing .. ask me real or more specific question ..

PS: both -.-

 

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[tothetop]

I don't wanna sound rude but what it's going to change knowing it ? nothing .. ask me real or more specific question ..

PS: both -.-

They are 2 different methods, its only logical that we want to know what way you went about doing it if we are interested in your success. I'd say that was a real question.

 

[swinston]

You say you were not making money for 8 months, what were some of the mistakes you were making and what kind of tweaks did you make to become profitable? Also, did you start with direct buys when you started to make money or did you start with network buys?

 

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[swinston]

You asked that other guy to ask specific questions but you don't seem to want to answer any questions at all. interesting.

 

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[swinston]

Wow, what a jerk.

 

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[craig1928]

Very inspirational OP, well done man

 

[craig1928]

When first learning about CPA and online marketing what were some of the online resources you used to educate yourself? Eskil mentioned IMGrind and Wickedfire as an example. Are there any others you would recommend?

+1, I've looked at both them resources as well, IMGrind has some great PDFs on there, WickedFire has a great thread summarizing Cashvertising but most of it seems to have little value.

I'm going to get these books, are they any good? Is there any other must haves that I should read? any good affiliate/media buy/demographic study books I could get?

• 
  The Copywriting Sourcebook: How to Write Better Copy, Faster - For Everything from Ads to Websites

• 
  Write To Sell: The Ultimate Guide to Great Copywriting

• 
  Words that Sell, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas

• 
  Cashvertising: How to Use 50 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone

 

[FiveOone]

How did you find IMGrind Craig? Is it worth the $100 per month in your eyes?

put action .. you'll learn more

I understand that taking action is infinitely more valuable than just reading information, but i didnt even understand what CPA marketing was until i read this thread and did some researching on my own. The framework that Craig mentions is what im after aswell. Without it i may aswell go and play the slots, actually i'd have a better chance of a return doing that rather than taking action on something i still really know nothing about.

A friend and i were having a few drinks the other week at the casino when he decided he wanted to try poker. I gave him a breakdown on starting hands and rough overview on table position for about 10 minutes.
He ended up losing a small amount but he sat at that table a whole lot longer than he wouldve had i have just said, jump in and see how you go.

 

[evlttwin]

My dream is to get MJ and zen******* in a room with a huge Whiteboard, a laptop, a notepad, and a 12 pack of beer.
I need more of this knowledge.