Live the Dream! Making Bank with Affiliate Marketing

Edits:
4/6/09 – New questions added
4/5/09 – New questions added
3/31/09 – New questions added

Hey guys,
I’ve been meaning to write this for some time but have been busy with a lot of other projects. I got a little bit of time though before my bacon burns wink

If you have not read this yet, I highly recommend it as it shows my purpose and passion for writing this, hopefully it will give you the ‘broader picture’ of why what I’m about to tell you is important if you want to “have your cake and eat it to.”

I have had a lot of questions about how I make money online, and how it all works – It’s my job to explain it to you here in the most bullshit free way that doesn’t wreak of that sleazy toaster salesman who’s hanging out with your mom. I’ll be posting an affiliate link or two, but because I am completely turned off by scarcity and secrecy, it’s completely up to you whether you want to click them or not. I’m perfectly happy just being able to help out ;]

The ultimate reason I love affiliate marketing so much is because I think it’s simply awesome that I can spend several hours a day/week on the computer managing my campaigns, at any internet-gold location, and it affords me the time and money to travel to the ends of the earth, worthy of my ENTIRE slice of delicious life pie. I am my own boss, and I don’t have to share the water cooler. Travel is one of my deepest passions, as well as working on my personality to inspire others, so these aspirations all go hand-in-hand and mesh perfectly with my mobility and complete detachment from a place or time.

Here are the most common questions I get – if you have another one, then definitely drop me a line on the contact page, and I’ll add it to this post at the bottom.

What is it?
There are a million and one ways to market a product online. The best part is, in my opinion, you don’t need your own product to make money. You don’t have to write your own book about lemons, or make your own brand of overly inspirational poster to succeed. You are basically harnessing traffic from the internet (mostly Google, MSN, and Yahoo), and you’re redirecting it to -global- markets to other people’s offers. You do this through bidding on keywords that you think people are going to be searching in google for to find the product you’re selling. You’ll be starting off in very specific niches, if you start off in competitive areas like ‘auto insurance,’ you’re going to go mental.

The customer searches, finds your ad, clicks it, puts in their info, and you get paid. That’s just one method of thousands, but a very popular one. Shipping (if there is any) and all that nonsense is taken care of by the advertiser. All you need to worry about is which market to tackle, and what keywords & landing pages you will be using (a landing page is a website that they ‘land on’ when they click your ad). Because it’s global means you can use the entire world as your market, so if for example UK is having a particularly good something or other that you want to tap into, you just set your traffic to target only those people in the UK (so US people won’t see your offer). I actually find UK market is better than the US.

How do I learn, even when I know absolutely nothing?
The best place I have ever found is PPC-Coach. This place is GOD. Unless you have help in some way or another, there are just too many variables that will turn you off to marketing before you even start.

If you spend 2-3 months of solid effort, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have already hit your first $100/day. After the first $100, it’s all downhill.. it’s fascinating. There are so many threads at that website about how they struggled for months making $20, then they hit their first $100 and they go wild, then even a week or months later they’re very quickly moving up to $300, 500, 1000 and beyond.

Basically the way PPC-Coach is set up is you pay monthly (best $40 I ever spent). There are 12 months total, and each month you stay there you get access to a new month. They are laid out in easiest to hardest difficulty, so that they basically hold your hand through the entire process to mastery. It’s not an ebook or any ‘guide’ you have to follow, but rather a private forum filled with SOLID guys that are there for the same reason. Because everyone is paying to be there and learn, each post is very helpful (unlike that hellish Mordor wickedfire or warrior forums). There are tons of tutorial guides and posts about how to go about doing what you need to do.

The best part is you also get personal help from Coach himself, as well as many of the other gurus. He will look at your campaigns and help you with what you’re doing wrong, and everyone is willing to look at your landing page or whatever problem you’re having. You’ll also get to use his tools (for setting up your campaigns) and access to the tracker for tracking keywords and adgroups.

I honestly couldn’t recommend PPC-Coach highly enough. It’s a goldmine if you’re looking for a place where you can go, not knowing anything, and come out successful with the help and support of other people who are already successful. That alone is invaluable. (think of it like that other site you visit… you know what place I mean wink). You will have -everything- you need at that one site. Also, PM me on there with your username and I’ll help you out personally as well. I plan on being a member here for a very long time (my name on there is Zesty, check out the newbie guide I made, I took the first 3 weeks of solid learning you need to do for Month 1, and put it all in the guide stickied on the month 1 forum).

How does it compare to real marketing?
Well – you don’t need to wear a tie, and you can watch youtube whenever you feel like it. Hell, you can even do affiliate marketing naked – it rocks. That is the most obvious difference. You are also using technology to your advantage, that’s the huge advantage as well. Now instead of giving a perfect ‘sales pitch’ in person, you need to do it in words and images. Are you going to use an image with emotion attached, or no? What color will you make your landing page? What will your ad say, specifically?

You need to be motivated and carve out a successful mindset. Getting your first $1 will be the hardest dollar you have ever made. Then the hardest $10, but once you hit $50, 100, 1000 per day, I assure you that will be the EASIEST you’ve ever made $2000 in one day (that’s down the road though, please don’t expect this to be easy. That’s the reason online money-making gets a bad rep is because people try it, hoping to get rich quick, lose $200 and leave, talking mad smack about it on the way out). This will require MOTIVATION and PERSISTENCE – but when you get that first check I know you will be tingling with delight ;] Even when I’m failing, or not making much money, I find it utterly fascinating.

The mindset is learning how the big 3 networks work (where your traffic comes from), how bidding works, when to cut your campaigns. You’ll also need to think about keywords and the mindsets of your customers. Outside-the-box thinking is best. For example (and this example always fascinates me), why do you think it is that MSN traffic converts better (in certain situations) than Google traffic, yet there is not as much of it?

It’s because so many computer un-savvy people who buy their computer at Walmart turn on their computer, MSN is their homepage, and they don’t know much better. There are less of them, but they are more likely to fill out a popup thinking they are a winner (thank god we never approach any methods like that though).

How much work at first?h
It’s a bit daunting at first, simply because there is SO much information on that forum it’s kind of cyclical. You have to know one thing before the other, but to know that thing you need to know about this thing. It really is simple though when you make it a point that you aren’t going to stop until you understand. Hell, It took me 2 weeks of learning, setting up websites, applying to affiliate networks, and so on before I really got the swing of things. After that I made a that newbie guide so that’s there to help you out and give you a jump start.

To be making $100 a day (I use this as a generic benchmark) you probably will need to manage your campaigns 1-3 hours a day. It completely depends however on what type of marketing you are doing, that is an extremely broad generalization but the best one I can come up with. Sometimes you will need to do more (in the beginning, tweaking), and later on you won’t need to touch it. I have a campaign running for this month that I’ve made $1,800 off of without touching even for 5 minutes (I set it up 3 months ago).

How much computer experience will I need?
Heh, this is a tricky question. If you have trouble finding your start button, you’re going to have more difficulty than most (probably a lot more). It’s not that big a deal if you’re motivated, there are tons of threads on ppc-coach where pretty much any question you could ever ask is already answered, but you will still need to have some computer savvy. This is not to say it’ cannot be learned. I’ve helped 2 of my good friends out who didn’t know anything about how a webhost even worked, and within a short time they’re sailing (like I said, don’t hesitate to PM me on PPC-Coach, I’ll be glad to answer any questions).

It’s good idea to have a basic knowledge of navigating windows and the internet. You will need to edit HTML, although you don’t have to write your own at first (you will learn it as you go). This is where Coach’s tools also come in handy – there are landing site generators and tools that do the work for you. You will also need basic knowledge of editing index files for webpages, how to FTP files to a webserver, and how to edit an index.php file when it says to. You will need to know only very basic functions of PHP, but those are already written up so it’s not like you will be programming. It’s great to know about wordpress, as that’s starting to become very popular and is my lander of choice.

olio asks: So besides the 40$/month sign up fee what other costs would I be looking at before I dive into this?
It’s actually $50 a month Canadian, which is about $38-$40 US depending on the conversion rate. Aside from that monthly fee, you will need to buy a .com domain which is about $15 for 4 domains for 1 year (you will need a number of different domains), as well as hosting. If you sign up for Hostgator hosting, it will be .01 cent your first month if you use the promotion code wordpress. After that it’s $7.95 per month (choose the ‘Baby’ plan). You will need to buy your domain first before hosting, so you can put your domain in when you register at the host. Domains can be bought from GoDaddy.

Eddie asks: So basically, you create blog/website with links and hope people click the link and order a product? What is most important to be successful at this…copywritng skills, getting traffic, etc.
That is generally what you do with SEO, not PPC. SEO is getting natural traffic from google organically and slowly over time. You make a page that Google ‘likes’ and after a while you will start to get people searching for information that is on your blog or website. Eventually you will get a trickle of money coming in each month. Make a bunch of these and you have a solid stream of cash coming in. With PPC however, it’s a lot more active and you can make a lot more money.. it’s just that campaigns require work rather than passively letting them run. Instead of 5k a month, you might that in one day with PPC. Pay Per Click involves taking affiliate offers (from affiliate networks) and marketing them with a landing page or direct linking. Acai Berry offers used to be really popular and made people a killing to begin with, but now they have died off. Search ‘acai berry’ in google for a super-saturated market of what you will be doing. You of course wouldn’t pick such a general competitive market, and may focus more on specific niches, say ‘disc golf’ or a certain brand of mountain climbing gear.

The thing I also like about PPC is you don’t need to write your own content (as with SEO blogs). You can use scripts that take content, convert it through babelfish and you end up with ‘new’ unique content. Caffeinated Content is a good example of this. You also won’t really need to write tons of sales copy as you would if you were selling eBooks.You will have to write ads, but that’s cake. The main part is learning BIDDING STRATEGIES. You will have to learn how the search network works for Google, and how you will need to manage your campaigns. PPC (to me) is basically all about traffic and keywords, SEO is more about making content and landing pages that Google likes. PPC is more active, and SEO is more passive, although as a result SEO allows you to make money without touching your campaigns, you just need to make a shitton of them.

Gallo asks About how long will I have to work before I’m consistently pulling in $100/day?
If you really put effort into reading and doing your work, there’s no reason you won’t be making that much (on average) in 2-3 months. The first dollar is the hardest dollar you will ever make, but once you start to achieve the mindset going from 100-200 is a lot easier than going from 1 to 100. Keep in mind that’s only month 1. In later months, all that needs to be learned is how to use the search network and how to make proper keyword lists.. to me these things are fun so it’s not like when I’m learning I’m not enjoying it.

Cheers guys, Imma go cop some eats ;]

If you have any questions, send them in the contact form and I’ll add them here.

-Travis

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64 Responses to “Live the Dream! Making Bank with Affiliate Marketing”

  1. jay says:

    Solid info, thanks for the post.

  2. Magnoooobie says:

    Wow man, great article man. Full of content and value

  3. Climax says:

    Thanks bro you’re awesome

  4. Aaron (Suspect) says:

    Thanks for taking the time to write this up.

  5. Eddie Glump says:

    I have a few questions

    So basically, you create blog/website with links and hope people click the link and order a product?

    What is most important to be successful at this…copywritng skills, getting traffic/ etc

  6. jay says:

    how much money should we start with to be able to run the ppc campaigns.

  7. Travis says:

    $300 I’d say should get you above the learning curve and earn you your first profit.

    If you make a lot of mistakes though, it could easily be more.

  8. Fred says:

    Are there other resources without having to pay a monthly fee. I’m just starting out and really have no $300 bucks to start in this online thing

  9. Travis says:

    You really need a bit of start up capital, but if you don’t you can try SEO.

    That basically involves signing up for a domain at godaddy.com, then signing up for a host: http://skindzier.com/signup/host-gator

    Now you make wordpress blogs that get natural traffic. You can use caffeinated content to fill your blog, and plugins like wordbay to sell ebay products. Each SEO site may only make 100 bucks a month, but make 10 of those and thats $1000

  10. Dick Gallo says:

    Damn, yo.

    This shit looks tight.

    About how long will I have to work before I’m consistently dropping $100/month.

  11. Dick Gallo says:

    About how long will I have to work before I’m consistently pulling in $100/day?

  12. Matt says:

    Thanks man, very helpful.

  13. Jack says:

    Hey man thanks a lot for the tutorial.

    Quick question though- I know you’ve laid out how much each thing will cost, but really to start everything up, get a couple websites, do everything you need to start making passive income, how much money do you think you’ll need to drop TOTAL originally?

    Thanks again

  14. Faisal says:

    Hey Travis,

    Thanks a lot for your value.

    I wanted to ask you how long it took you to get to 2000 dollars a month.

    Faisal.

  15. Travis says:

    Faisal: A few months (2-4?)

    Jack: – ppc-coach, $40/month
    – 4 domains, $25/year
    – hosting, $8/month

  16. trent says:

    Hey Travis–thanks for this post!

    You talked a lot about the some of the technical aspects of getting started, but I was hoping you would expand on how you do your niche research?

    I have a few super niches in mind, and am a former Wealthy Affiliate student. What processes do you use to determine if a niche is worth investing in? Would you consider joint ventures?

  17. Travis says:

    hey bro, i have a few certain niches that i own and just go off of those, so I couldnt help you particularly much in there. i know ive read a lot of good threads on ppc-c but i never paid much attention to them, if i see any info about it ill post back and let ya know :)

    for month 1 those can apply to any niche, for other months there are ways i know i just cant quite think of them right now

  18. Niels says:

    Hey Travis,

    I have two questions:

    1. Does PPC actually mean you have to be the middle man that buys traffic through adsense and directs it to affiliate programs?

    2. This site template, with the side-bar, where did you get it? And especially, how did you get the boxes in the side-bar to look so neat.

  19. Travis says:

    hey niels,

    1. ppc is not really related to adsense. Adsense means google pays YOU for displaying their shitty ads on your website that are usually cheap and dont pay well. adwords is whats related to ppc and means you pay google for traffic, and in return you get to post an ad in the content or search network. People click your ad at a specific CPC (cost per click) depending on how competitive the niche is. That person then goes wherever you specify, and it’s your job to turn that click into a conversion. I wouldnt necessarily call it a middle man because you can make your own webpage, with your own seo traffic, and then buy traffic to your page. On your page you will have links to offers and you help the company make conversions, it’s not that you are downgraded any by being in the ‘middle’

    2. its a heavily modified version of Quadro pro (elegant wordpress themes).

  20. greg says:

    how long will it take to make me $100? come on guys, these questions can’t be answered. there are too many variables involved, it will take as long as it takes. i just made a site http://www.windenergyhq.org with the instructions listed here, its my first site, been 3 days, not indexed on google yet, but waiting

  21. Jason says:

    Great post, got me super motivated. Just finally setup my own domain, host, and have a page with a hoplink. Took me about 10 hours of reading, then about 5-10 to set it all up and edit my webpage

  22. Jason says:

    oh yeahmines the same … it’s pretty basic right now, I plan on editing it a lot.

  23. ThatGuy says:

    So you say with about a 300 dollar initial amount that would probably suffice to start out?

    Would starting with lets say double that quantity be perhaps more beneficial since it would reduce stress and allow for more leniance? or is 300 a really fair amount for the initial getgo. Just am curious how much I should pool up before I get started. Would hate to come to an unexpected dead end of course.

    Since I have heaps of free time for the next 2-3 months I figure might as well do something eh? :P

  24. Robert says:

    Hey Travis,

    Do you need to start an own company to do this? How does taxes work when you do affiliate marketing?

    Thanks man
    /Robert

  25. Travis says:

    you gotta manage your own taxes, however you can hire an accountant to do that, or just create a spreadsheet.

    Definitely consider making a company in the long run, although it’s not necessary to right away.

    as for money to start, id say 500 is a good idea. its definitely good to have a job so that you can make wise decisions without feeling like you have to be frugal about spending, or become emotionally attached to your decisions.. like gambling.

    imagine you had 10,000 $ to spend, obviously your habits are going to be different then if you have 300. the first method is the way you WANT to get it done.. its counterintuitive but thats what works for getting data for your campaigns

  26. ruXxar says:

    Hey Travis: What do you use to build a website, and how long do you think it will take to learn from scratch?

    I’m quite computer savvy otherwise but I’ve never built a website before.

    I think that is my biggest obstacle for actually getting into this, but I’m gonna go for it anyway.

    Cheers, ruXxar.

    Impossible is nothing.

  27. Travis says:

    hey buddy,

    building a website is the fun part in all this I think. I love building websites… in fact as I’m typing this I’m right in the middle of tweaking Skindzier.com so it looks better.

    the best thing you can do is get Dreamweaver MX (I dunno how you feel about torrents… but you can download it). Either that, or try the fully-functioning demo out for 30 days to see if you want to buy it.

    After that you should consider getting Edit Plus 3.. a lot of times when I’m editing style sheets right in Filezilla its not efficient to open Dreamweaver every time as the default editor. You can use notepad just as easily but Edit Plus 3 will save you a lot of headache. It’s lightweight, and colors all the code for you.

    If you’re computer saavy you should be fine.. really the only thing is navigating the internet.. knowing what to do with settings, and how to fix something if you run into a problem.

    The webpage part can be picked up very easily.

    You actually inspired me to make a post on this in detail. I’ll throw that up a bit later when I’m done editing my site and doing what I need to do.

  28. Mike says:

    Yo Travis,
    What do you know now, that you would have wanted to know when you started out? what are some things that PPC-newbies tend to overlook/over- or underestimate?
    cheers,
    M

  29. Travis says:

    well, I’ve seen quite a few people fly through, and while personally I feel I never underestimated anything or overlooked anything, quite a number are thinking this is going to be easy. It’s going to require blood sweat and tears.. youre going to fail. However, with that said, the rewards are totally worth it. The initial learning curve is huge, there are scripts to set up and for a computer noob this can be daunting, however if you are driven it won’t hold you down. There are plenty of success stories of people (I’m particularly thinking of this one woman on there). She didn’t even know what FTP was when she joined. If you don’t know, it’s essentially one of the most basic computer terms you should know if you know anything about the internet. She’s now making tons of bank on there and she learned EVERYTHING. She just put a lot of effort into it and now she’s on top! THE TOOLS ARE THERE… that’s what’s in ppc-coach. There’s guides and they help you so you aren’t completely lost. They’re holding your hand all the way up to the door — it’s up to you to step through it and buckle down when it’s time for action.

    Also — It’s very very helpful if you enjoy the computer. If you’re the kind of guy that loves using the computer, its capabilities.. you keep your desktop organized and you care for this machine that’s before you on this desk. You RESPECT it. then you’re good to go. I see a lot of dudes though that don’t respect the device sitting in front of them which is capable of bringing them hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you ENJOY figuring out problems on the computer (IE, web design/programming) or you like using the internet (better yet… love), then I feel like that is what really makes a difference. It will make those 15 hours a day you spend near the beginning (when youre learning) completely AWESOME. You’ll appreciate it, because it’s your passion.
    If you don’t know anyhting about computers, don’t let that stop you. You may totally enjoy it but you don’t even know it yet cause you haven’t gotten the chance. They can be utterly frustrating at times, but youre going to be up close and personal with it for the entire time so if you ‘hate’ it, then you might find it harder to deal with. For me… I can’t get enough. You build a baby from scratch, you put your passion in it.. you gather keywords for it. you find other landing pages and put make your own. You write your own content (or outsource it) and then you start tracking data when you send hundreds or thousands of hits to it. Gathering information, tweaking, and thinking outside the box. I LOVE this…

    Something to think about.

  30. ruXxar says:

    Great words Travis. You’re giving my motivation a huge boost. As you say, all the scrips and so can be very daunting. Right now I’m in the middle of fiddling with the landing site generator and working on the web pages and I find that trying to mess around with php and html is totally unknown to me and actually a bit scary(afraid of messing up).

    I do know where i want to go though, just not the means of getting there yet, but I know from all the other experiences of my life that sticking to something and really putting your soul into it is incredibly fulfilling when you finally succeed. I’d go so far as to say its perhaps the best feeling in the world when something you work so hard on finally goes through :)

  31. Mike says:

    cool answer man!

    I can see how the same skills that make you successful in any endeavour apply here.

    Now I better look ‘FTP’ up ;)

  32. pua says:

    You always wonder with these things that say you need to pay x to learn how to make money. There is plenty of junk being sold merely for the seller to make a profit without providing any real value. I don’t doubt money is made on the internet. I currently make some through adsense. But I have done it only through understanding the principle of what’s involved content+SEO->traffic->money

    If this post is for real then surely you must have been skeptical at first. You mention torrents earlier so you know the mindset of how reluctant people are to pay for things. What motivated/inspired you to actually make the investment of $40/month? What was the switch that happened that made you actually take out your credit card and do it?

  33. Travis says:

    quite some time ago i actually came across this ebook on ‘how to make money with adwords.’ I read through it and it seemed totally cool.. I even printed it out and put it in its own little plastic binder. Then when I sat down to do it………….. I fucking HATED IT. I hated every god damn second. It was agonizing, torture, every roadblock known to man appeared.. it was super competitive and I felt totally jipped on the ebook. after that i gave up with the same idea that many many people have, which is making money online is scammy and SLEAZY that only blackhat people or people who got in it really early can do well.

    i gave up on it for about 6 months and then my buddy mentioned ppc coach. I read the sales pitch on the website and then seriously reconsidered. I remembered my horrible experience before, so I started talking to a few people that did it. It was then that they mentioned they make several thousand dollars a DAY.. all the sudden I was like holy fuck, maybe i should reconsider.

    so i went back to the ppc coach site again and read and reread everything on there. His sales copy seemed really genuine, and he addressed the feelings i had in my first attempt about it being impossible, sleazy, draining and bloodsucking.

    I just took out my card and signed up, and I’ve never regretted it since. I’ve been a member for 8 months.

    Since then, I have learned NOT to trust so called ‘gurus’… they are doing just the exact same thing except making money off of you. If any one guy comes up with a ‘method’ im not down with it.. im down to make my own method and keep it my own secret, not try and sell it to others. ppc coach basically allows you to develop the intuition to do it yourself rather than following the one trillion and one ebooks that are out there on how to make money online. thats because it’s a forum with many dudes on there who are successful, everyone keeps each other in check, and there is tons of value from everyone. people are paying to be there so its no-fat, all lean bullshit-free value. also, theres no hype which i like.

    not to mention, ppc is always changing.. its even different from when i signed up.. those ebooks that once (possibly) worked probably dont even come close to working anymore. thanks to the forum setup of ppc coach, its an always ongoing process that youre continually learning from from the best people.

    I’ll repeat again.. it wont be easy. It definitely teaches you to deal with setbacks, but the rewards are incredible

  34. pua says:

    Thanks for your answer… I’m contemplating. If I believe the hype, it sounds like it’s much easier to make money from PPC than adsense and SEO. I notice you don’t run adsense on this site.

  35. Travis says:

    yeah i personally say fuck adsense… even on all my high-traffic phpbay sites and other seo sites i make like…. 50 dollars, big deal.

    i dont know if making money from ppc is ‘easier’ than seo.. i mean seo is pretty garaunteed if you just do it right. ppc is equally as complicated except you can definitely make tons more in my experience and its NOT so fuckin tedious (I hate seo with a passion haha).
    the risks are a lot higher but the profits you can make are a lot higher as well.
    i think that mainly comes down to making a trickle of money with seo for free (or unless youre really good you make a substantial amount, but thats beyond my knowledge). ppc you have to pay and you can fuck up easily.. but its very satisfying to me to frequently get a few thousand dollar checks

  36. Mark says:

    Travis,

    Love your writing style. What exactly are you selling? Is it your responsibility to find product, or does your Concept provide product? How technical do you have to be to do this?

  37. Travis says:

    Hey Mark, thanks :)

    Essentially you’re selling other advertiser’s products and driving traffic to their online offers. the good thing about this is that because the advertiser is in charge of everything, you don’t have to worry about even touching the product (shipping, outsourcing, customer service). all youre doing is driving traffic from search engine keywords to offers in a complex way

    The way you find out about the advertisers is via affiliate networks. If you click neverblue at the top (and motive), you can look through there and see the different offers. There are many many affiliate networks that serve as the intermediary between you and the advertiser. they take care of your payment and making sure everything runs smoothly

    You have to be pretty tech saavy but it’s not anything that can’t be learned. If you are fairly familiar with the computer you will learn as you go. The more important thing though is that you enjoy using the computer. If you have a passion and respect for the machine before you, and don’t mind using it, you’re gold.
    Basic html is required, as well as uploading files to web sites via FTP. Creating basic landing pages, and so on.

  38. JC says:

    I have a quetion man, you say $300 for starters, that counts the $40 on ppc-coach + the hosting and the domains.

    What would the rest of the money be invested in? Buying traffic and such?

    thanks
    JC

  39. dhruv sharma says:

    hi Travis,

    i am really impressed with you. you are so good. i really like it. i have send you the question after reading the article but when i read your comments you make me surprise. all the possible question has been answered in a broadway and also all the doubts has been clear. what a wisdom and what a genunity you are offering.

    i wanted to make a request that would you write an article or answer here that what a newbie should do in the initial stage or neglect in the initial stage. what points he keep in his mind while pursuing for this type of business. i mean what do and do not do in the initial stage. this helps a lot of person who are starting this business.

    thanks,

    dhruv sharma

  40. Travis says:

    Hey guys :) I appreciate the comments.

    I try to strive for being genuine when I talk about it, it’s hard to do without throwing numbers around but.. I just woke up to $600. Don’t let that be a pipe dream though, it definitely requires WORK and you WILL get frustrated. I’ve seen more people now who sign up and I’m starting to see the average trend. I’d say about 2 maybe 3 months would be average now before you know the ins and outs and you don’t feel like you have any ‘noobie’ questions anymore (that’s of solid reading and experimenting). Also, for the $300 I’m not counting domains and hosting or ppc-coach. That is strictly just spending to get traffic. Hosting is like 7 bucks a month and domains are 6 bucks a year (use namecheap.com). You will need serveral domains.

    $300 spending will get your palette wet, more than likely you will lose it all however you will learn basically WHAT you’re doing. I can say right now that ‘you take traffic from google and drive it to an offer’ but what does that actually mean? Until you see 4 days of statistics sitting before you, it won’t entirely click or make sense. After you spend say $300 you start to realize what works and what doesn’t. I have other people that have spent 500 or more. It’s just a risk you should take, but I guarantee your first check in the mail will have you HOOKED.

  41. Travis says:

    Also… I should stress this.

    YOU NEED TO NETWORK.

    In fact this will be my next post.

    YOU NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ON AIM, NOT BE NEEDY AND WEIRD, AND REACH OUT TO PEOPLE

    Because I have helped so many people on ppc-coach, they have helped me back in ways I wouldn’t have dreamed.

    What you put out, you will get. You will after awhile be able to sense the people that want to pull the wool over your eyes, and the people that will GIVE you hookups, special programs, connections, larger payout bumps, logins for their secret tools and whatnot. Other times you may notice that the people are acting shady and they ‘want’ something from you yet they have the guise of being ‘helpful’. This business is full of shady people but, you WILL be able to tell who is who, just trust your judgment and feel them out.

    Networking is the foundation of this business, so keep that in mind :) It will me a WAY phatter paycheck.

  42. dhruv sharma says:

    hi Travis,

    i have read somewhere that ppc-coach has been offering the 12 months programme. in which we have to go as per the ppc-coach programme. than how can we make money in 3-4 months. because we have to complete the full course to earn some money. can you bring some insight on this.

    thanks,

    dhruv sharma

  43. Greg™ says:

    Hey Travis,

    Greg™ here. I just started coming across your info and am checking all this out. This is definitely something that interests me because I want to reap what I sow in the LONG RUN. Even if it means getting my hands dirty and getting a face full of the harsh reality of just merely STARTING.

    Right now I’m checking out all the info available on this and seeing if this is for me. If I still think I can manage this, I’ll pull the trigger and get started. Thanks for writing all this up.

    -Greg

  44. Travis says:

    Dhruv – You don’t need to go through the entire 12 months.. it’s set up that way so you learn the easiest methods first before moving on to high investment/high risk marketing methods. You can make money using the methods in month 1 or 2, however it will take you longer than 1 month each to master them. More than likely you will get to about month 4 and start to develop your own strategies.

    Hey greg.. Np bro :) I would thoroughly recommend it. Just know… it does require a lot of frustration but, now that I’m balls deep in it, I wouldn’t trade it for anything

  45. dhruv sharma says:

    and also please write an article about the networking in the ppc marketing. i am waiting from a long time eagerly.

    thanks,

    dhruv

  46. dhruv sharma says:

    hi,

    i went to the ppc-coach from your thread http://skindzier.com/signup/ppc-coach/ but find that i am unable to do it. please correct this mistake in your website. i am eager to join this site.

    moreover, you have promise us that you are soon writing an article about the networking in the ppc marketing. i am eagerly waiting for this article.

    thanks,

    dhruv sharma

  47. Travis says:

    which page was that on? I will have to fix that

    Try this one in the meantime:
    http://skindzier.com/go/ppc-coach

  48. Crap bag says:

    Hey Travis! I’ve got a mac, is that gonna cause me any problems with this?

  49. dhruv sharma says:

    hi Travis,

    i am really waiting for your article on the networking in PPC affiliated marketing.

    hope you find time to write it.

    dhruv sharma

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