My Journey to beat 36K Debt/Liabilities + $2200 Monthly Bills.

[Charnell]

The good part is that I can target worldwide, which means with more volume I can afford to pay lower per click and still generate decent traffic to the landing pages.

Is that quality traffic or vanity traffic?

 

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[prady]

Is that quality traffic or vanity traffic?

That's a good question.

I am assuming that by vanity traffic, you mean visitors from non-converting countries - with the primary reason for the same being cost?

Well for this particular campaign, that shouldn't be an issue as the offer is very low cost to begin with - even after considering the paying capacity of say, developing countries in Africa or Asia.

They already have a lot of buyers from such countries.

 

[prady]

Just don't forget to also be fair with those who you owe money to.

Those debts are also your responsibility. At least negotiate the payments, I'm sure you can workout a plan with them.

Definitely. This debt situation is not new to me, I have accumulated this over past 10 years. There were financially crunch situation during those years also, but I never refused to pay back the amount due.

I have been paying the monthly EMI's & payments to these banks regularly through my salary, with only a handful of late payments about 3-4 years ago - that too due to lack of funds & not intention.

This time also I intend to pay them back all of the money owed. I appreciate the funds given to me as loans or credit card limits - even though it ended up costing me a lot more in terms money & time.

 

[prady]

So today I setup the campaign on the following additional networks:

• Bing/Microsoft Ads
• Quora Ads

 

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[jcvlds]

Nice consistency. Keep it up.

How are you structuring your campaigns and how are you sending out your marketing message?

What ways have you found to speak to a specific group of people (through your ads) so uniquely so as to differentiate your offering from others and create the desire to purchase yours?


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[prady]

How are you structuring your campaigns and how are you sending out your marketing message?

Campaigns are structured by Geo's, if that's what you were asking. In terms of match type I am using BMM, targeting keywords likely to be used by users in either shopping or buying stage.

What ways have you found to speak to a specific group of people (through your ads) so uniquely so as to differentiate your offering from others and create the desire to purchase yours?

Basically the USP's of the website that I am promoting. It got so popular due to certain differentiating features, so I am mostly just mirroring the same message through the ads and landing pages.

 

[prady]

Updates:

Bing & Quora have very low traffic for the targeting criteria being used currently.

Adwords has volume but would need some more work to nail the right balance between spend, traffic volume & ROI.

Also, I have decided now that I am not going to leave promoting this website until I make it work.

No quitting, no looking for other opportunities/business models/methods - just keep trying to find a way to deal with challenges that come with promoting this particular business model.

 

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[prady]

Just 2 Weeks to go and I still have $0 revenue this month so far.

But for some reason, I am not super stressed about it, and in fact am unusually calm. Not sure why, maybe I am used to this. Or maybe I realize that worrying won't solve anything. Maybe there is still hope of a turnaround.

Created this meme which pretty much sums up my current situation

 

[Kak]

First goal is to start generating enough revenue to pay the minimum due monthly bills. ($2200)

PROFIT pays things off... Not revenue.

You probably need a good job and right the ship before you try to go into business.

Or file bankruptcy and start over. Kind of wimpy over 36 grand... But what the hell. Clean slate.

 

[LightHouse]

Jesus..... This entire thread is all about you and what you need.


What are you providing to others and the world?

You've gotten stellar advice here, you responded that it all sounded ok and stuff, and continue down the same path with the same convictions and the same shit work ethic that focuses on what you think you deserve.

But you don't deserve to pay those bills and have life easy because you aren't yet willing to do what it takes to become that person.

Stop playing around. Get a job, work O/T until you can handle yourself like an adult.

 

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