Posts Tagged PPC
From Commission Blueprint to Commission Blueprint 2.0
Posted by admin in Commission Blueprint on August 31st, 2009
In April I wrote about my results of using Commission Blueprint for a few months. Now with Commission Blueprint 2.0 coming, it’s closing to a year and I’m glad to say that I’ve improved since. I wrote that I made $2.5k/month with a ~$15 daily spend. I’ve managed to up the revenue to $3k and cut the spend to $10/day. That’s only Clickbank. In addition to that I’ve had a whole bunch of campaigns in other networks and private programs, albeit those mostly had only a weekly or so life-span (still bringing up to $2.5k each). That’s very good by my standards – heck, I’ve never made that much money in my life before.
The point is, it’s all to do with Commission Blueprint. Maybe it could have been another product, or maybe I could have made it on my own from all the free information on the Internet, but it was Commission Blueprint that pushed me through.
Now looking back to my past performance, I can see two clear phases. I worked exclusively on PPC as per Commission Blueprint until March or so, then encouraged by Niche Blueprint I began working in SEO. Those are just two different traffic getting methods, but as they say, diversification is key. At the time of writing this, my revenue from PPC and SEO are about equal and have a 50/50 share in my affiliate business.
But where I’m getting at is, the first Commission Blueprint was only about PPC. There was nothing about SEO in it and I had to pick it up from other products (mostly it was Niche Blueprint from the same guys) and all information I could find on various forums, blogs, etc. And while you can do well with only PPC, you can do so much more with SEO. That’s where Commission Blueprint 2.0 comes in and covers even more than SEO (as I wrote in my previous post).
It seems to me that Steve, Tim and co. have purposely decided to release the two products a year apart. You start with Adwords, get a good hang of it, then you move to SEO and other venues in your affiliate business. A year is ought to be enough to make the transition.
Nevertheless, even if you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, Commission Blueprint 2.0 will be a good place to start too.
Commission Blueprint Review
Posted by admin in Commission Blueprint on April 8th, 2009
In October 2008 I decided to look into affiliate marketing that everyone was talking about. I’ve read a lot of free information on forums, blogs, watched many videos and gave it a spin on Adwords. I didn’t do well, made one sale but spent few times that to get it. Needless to say I wasn’t impressed and I was thinking to quit – it’s not for me, I thought.
But then in ClickBank I saw a product called Commission Blueprint, it had a big gravity (a ClickBank ranking term) which meant people are successfully selling it, so I tried to promote it too. I failed there too, but before I quit I thought I’d buy this product and see if there’s anything I’m missing that doesn’t allow me to make any profit.
I was very cautious and I literally was ready to get a refund any second. But something has changed after I saw the first video of Commission Blueprint. I don’t know if there’s something Steve said or the way he said it, I understood it’s gonna be a good video series.
And I was right. I’ve learned so much from these videos, I’ve had so many aha moments that it’s embarrassing how I didn’t know that before and what silly mistakes I made (to name one of the worst, I used to mix Search and Content Network in one campaign, d’oh!). I was pleasantly impressed with the knowledge provided and set my hopes high again. So there I was playing with my Adwords all over again.
This time I did much better, I didn’t make profit, but I didn’t lose too. I made some sales and they’ve pretty much covered my expenses. That was a good change and promising too, but… My budget isn’t limitless and I was running out of money. ClickBank takes way too long to send the checks and I’ve stumbled upon a problem that I haven’t thought about before.
At this point I’ve decided to go low budget and I also realized it’s not against Commission Blueprint. You see, by default Steve shows an example with $500 daily budget, and that’s a lot of money. But on the forums Steve confirmed himself that it’s not a must and you can run campaigns at $5/day if you want.
By the way, I’ve mentioned the Commission Blueprint forums. And you should really visit them and see what kind of community it is and look up the member Steven Clayton, who’s no-one else but Steve from the videos. Really, the support these guys provide is easily the best I have ever seen anywhere. If you have a problem or struggle with anything, you will find help there. The forums are public so you can see them even before buying.
To continue my story, I took it slow with a $20/day budget due to my financial situation and it made me extremely cautious and enforced me to pay extra attention to every detail. That is when I hit my biggest affiliate marketing success at that time. Mind you, it weren’t millions like many guys out there claim, my first successful campaign made me $20-40 a day consistently, and I spent on it just $5 a day (low traffic on these keywords didn’t even hit my $20 max budget). That’s about $750/month profit and for me that is quite significant money. It was in December.
It’s been 4 months since, and I’m still taking it slow, currently my campaigns are making me about $2,500/month and my daily spend is ~$15. I’m am by no means rich but these campaigns are running 100% on auto pilot and allow me to do other things such as SEO to eventually scale my campaigns.
So if you’re anywhere near the stage where I was back in November when I bought Commission Blueprint and you want to try affiliate marketing, I wholeheartedly recommend it. It’s the best program of this kind I’ve seen to date. And again, don’t take it from me, go to the CB forums and see what other members are doing.