You would probably laugh if you saw some of my campaigns. They are ridiculously simple and easy. New members of the forum are really surprised to hear this. Most new affiliates make things way harder than they need to be. I'm not the only one having success by marketing this way, I see people all the time that are making a lot of money with nothing fancy at all.
New affiliates like to have everything lined up perfectly. They have tracking all set, very professional landing pages, meticulously researched targets, and hours of planning. While some of those things have importance, they often take so much time that campaigns never get launched.
Below is my plan for being a sloppy (yet fast and profitable) affiliate. This is based not only on what has worked for myself, but others I talk to or work with. This is for launching PPV campaigns but could be adapted for any traffic source.
Pick Offers Quick
It's best focus on one niche. Having said that, I do still have luck testing random offers. One thing I like to do is pick an offer payout I want to work with (usually in the $2-12 range) and just run every offer I can find that fits that one criteria. I've found some really good campaigns doing this actually, and some with little to no competition.
I really don't do anything more than just pick an offer in that payout range.
Grab Targets
Search Google for a couple keywords closely related to your offer and grab the URL's from all the organic and paid results (if they are relevant). This is a quick way to get 30-50 initial targets. Even if you do this by hand, it should only take 10-15 min.
Slap Together a Landing Page
I just talked about this here
1460 New Campaigns Per Year
Once you get this process down, you should be able to do a campaign in about 15 min or less. Think about this for a minute; set aside 1 hour per day to build new campaigns. 1 hour a day is nothing…even if you have a full time job it could be as simple as getting up a little early, or doing this on your lunch break.
If you can build a campaign in 15 min, then in an hour you should be able to build 4. If you built 4 campaigns every day, you would have built 120 campaigns per month. Say just 10% of those worked out and each earned a measly $200 a month (that's just $6 per campaign per day). That's and extra $2400 a month, or for an hour a day's work.
Over a year, you would have built 1460 campaigns. Applying the formula from above, you can see how this really ads up. You don't always need to have that one giant campaign to make great money.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that calculations about campaigns like this aren't always really accurate. Things happen, and individual marketers abilities come into play. My point with this wasn't to show you some surefire way to see how much you would make based on how many campaigns you built, but to show you how powerful just setting aside an hour a day to build campaigns is.
This is a lot harder than it sounds. In the forum we did a 30 day challenge where people posted their results. It was really interesting to see who finished and who didn't and why. I'm sure you can guess the results of the people that did finish. Even if they didn't have profitable campaigns they were SO much farther ahead of where they started.
So, if you are constantly searching for the latest info, technique, trick, etc. that's cool…but the people that are basically just putting one foot in front of the other every day building campaigns even when it's really boring are going to out earn you by a lot even if you know all the latest tricks.
> If you can build a campaign in 15 min, then in an hour you should be able to build 4. If you built 4 campaigns every day, you would have built 120 campaigns per month. Say just 10% of those worked out and each earned a measly $200 a month (that’s just $6 per campaign per day). That’s and extra $2400 a month, or for an hour a day’s work.
Well for a start by this model 90 percent of your campaigns fail. If each cost between $10 and $20 to test, that makes a loss of between $1080 and $2160 each month that you haven’t accounted for.
Which makes the whole $2400 thing seem kinda marginal. Just saying.
Right, which is why I said that this is just an idea to get you motivated to build more campaigns..not a hard, fast math rule.
However…it’s unlike that 90% will completely lose money. Some are going to be losers but still earn some money and some will break even so that offsets some of the loss.
The #’s I was throwing out for winning campaigns is kinda low too..I mean $6 a day? lol. All it would take is one of these campaigns taking off to quickly make up for spending even a couple $k in testing.
I can understand the idea. The law of averages will take the quantity and turn it into profit.
Would you say that spending more time on a single campaign might affect profit? Or does 15 min a day’s profit share the same as maybe 30 or 45 minutes a day’s profit for a campaign.
Yeah for sure…and really it can be tough to manage a lot of little campaigns. The trick is learning when a campaign can be scaled and shows potential. A lot of people stop working on campaigns that don’t make money. I think any campaign that shows even a few conversions has potential. You also have to strike a balance and decide if you’re going to make more money churning out new campaigns or working on one that shows promise. I wouldn’t recommend totally stopping building new campaigns, but if you run into a campaign that shows promise you might shift a lot of your attention to that one for a while. Always leave even a little time to build new campaigns though because no campaign lasts forever 🙂
Are you for serious? After the failed campaigns have ‘failed’ would you keep running them or the successful ones? Month 2 = $2400 in the bank.
You fail!
If you’re on a budget, it’s best to limit the number of campaigns you make. Because it does require an extensive amount of testing to get data you can work with. It’s discouraging though when you can’t get a campaign to work when you’ve invested so much. 😛
Totally right and again..this isn’t about some math formula that’s going to work out exactly. My ‘formula’ was to get you thinking about what’s possible when you get serious about building campaigns.
A lot of people look at stuff like this and focus on the ‘but you’ll lose all that money on the other campaigns…’. Those are the affiliates that end up failing 🙂
Yeah, good point. Another factor is how many campaigns you can comfortably manage. Some people can mange a large # of campaigns ok, but some do better focusing on a couple campaigns.
It’s best to start off kinda slow so you don’t overwhelm yourself, get frustrated, and quit.
In theory the 15 mins approach should alLow you to set up more campaigns , especially for new affiliate marketers, once the loses starts to mount, human nature kicks in and time to throw in the towel So not really sure, but on the flip side if the first few campaigns has a positive ROI, then it can be really motivational.