At the workshop I did at ASW my friend Adam made a really great statement; he said that the majority of ‘problems' with not making progress/money in IM have a very simple solution – build more campaigns.
This reminds me of a really well known blackhat seo guy I used to be friends with and what he told me one time; Apparently tons of people would come to him for help with questions about site structure, indexing, etc, etc, etc. and he said his answer 99% of the time was just that they needed to build more links. That was it, forget everything and build more links.
Going back to Adam's advice above…I agree 100% that simply building more campaigns will make you progress faster and further than almost anything else. I'm not saying don't ask questions or anything at all, just not matter what build new campaigns every day.
So, I want to see how many of you are up for a 30 day experiment. For the next 30 days, commit to building at least 1 campaign and up to 5 campaigns each day. A new campaign could mean simply taking a campaign you already have running and moving it to a new traffic source, or doing the same campaign in a different country. It doesn't always have to mean building a totally new campaign from scratch. A campaign should not be taking you days to launch. If it is, let me know and let's talk about your approach.
Don't over complicate this…the point isn't to make perfect campaigns, just to make campaigns.
If you want to keep track of this yourself that's cool..get a calendar or something and cross out every day you build x amount of campaigns every day for the next 30 days. We started a thread in the forum where people can post each day the # of campaigns they make (myself included). It's going to be really interesting to see how many people follow through with this. I will report back on that one!
I don't know if many people will do this but it is probably the one thing I can recommend doing that would take you to the next level.
Been following this, good luck.
I’ve set up around 10 campaigns a day so far.
Interesting post thanks, although I think I’m a little late for this??
Just did my first PPV campaign over at my Geek Face blog. I got some really basic stuff wrong, embarrassingly wrong although hopefully other people may benefit from my huge cock-ups!!
I’m going to be joining your forum shortly as that sounds like a great place to learn PPV mad skills.
Awesome challenge. Not doing much PPV these days, but I’m going to get back on the ball game… and hit my mobile campaigns hard (using this very advice).