Hopefully you read my post earlier about how Smaxor with Ads4dough helped me increase my earnings.  But this happened today and you will not believe it.

I was split testing an offer in a niche with Incentaclick and Ads4dough.  They both had offers from the same merchant but their merchant landing pages were a little different and I was testing to see which lp converts better.  Anyways, yesterday, the offer was just not converting.  I was sending a shitload of clicks and nothing was converting on either network.  Ofcourse, I was thinking that I was doing something wrong, or maybe it was just an off day.

I called Jason for some other issue, and he mentioned to me that, “Hey, we are having an issue with <name deleted> offer, but don’t worry.  Your sales are being tracked, it’s just that the merchant was having a problem with the pixel firing.”  Ok.  I have been through this song and dance before with other networks, and you literally have to beg the network to credit your account for their screw up.  I didn’t think much of it.

I also got this email from Jason -

Afternoon Roger,

There was an issue with the advertiser and firing the pixel with <name deleted>, for all networks.
All sales were tracked on the advertisers side and will be credited to
your account if you earned
them. Sorry for the inconvenience and msg me or your AM if you have any
questions.

Success,
Jason Akatiff aka Smaxor
President, Ads4Dough.com

I am yet to hear from my manager at Incentaclick regarding this issue, since it is the same merchant.

Jason asked me to switch the offer to a different merchant in the same niche, and I did so yesterday.

Today, I am checking my stats and had conversions on the offer that I had disabled yesterday!  What?  Yup.  Ads4dough had credited me for the pixel mess up the merchant had yesterday.

Incentaclick, I haven’t seen a dime.  Guess will call them up on Monday and deal with it.  But first, they have to credit me for conversions that they didn’t pay me for another offer.

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Like many, I am registered at pretty much every affiliate network out there, because you never know when you may want to run an offer that only that network offers.  Plus, I like to split test my offers with various networks.  However, I don’t know of any network that will give you a one on one advice about how to run your offers.  Oh, and that advice is not by some grad school flunkie who got into affiliate manager position because its a nice desk job.  I am talking about primo advice by a “Real Super Affiliate” who knows the game.

Here is what I am talking about.  I started a campaign and did the lazy mans game.  Threw it up on Myspace and Facebook, which most of you know its like throwing shit on the wall – you keep what sticks. Conversion rate was really shitty, but it was making little money.  I was direct linking to the offer at this time, since I figured that was the easiest way to convert and this time I don’t have to worry about no Google slaps.  To fix the situation, I call up this “Super Affiliate” and ask for advice about how to increase my conversions.  His first question – “Are you direct linking or is it an LP?”.   To which I said, “Ofcourse direct linking”.   “You always create a bridge page or a landing page.  You presell the customer before they get to the merchant page.” Eureka.

Yes.  My conversions increased with the LP.  And, since I already got off my lazy ass and had an lp made, I figured, why not just build a PPC campaign too.  You know what happened next.  I am kicking ass.

You know who this super affiliate is that you can ask for advice anytime?  You can IM him  Call him.  Email him.  His advice is true gold  He is the owner of Ads4Dough – Jason aka Smaxor.

Thanks Jason.

ps. Ads4dough is my #1 Money Maker.

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Math, cannot be learnt by reading. You have to practice math, you have to work the formulas, you have to work the equations, you have to work the problems.  Unless you are Einstein, I don’t believe that you can learn math just by reading the text book.  You have to practice it on paper.

I have learnt, that Affiliate Marketing is quite similar in that aspect.  I remember, before I really started doing affiliate marketing, I read umpteen ebooks, forums, and attended industry conventions.  Yes, I got knowlege about aff marketing, but that didn’t really teach me how to run it.  It showed me that these are different ways that you can do it, but never really showing me what to run.

When I first started, I would build campaigns, and would think, wow, I have done it by the book, and this has gotta work. Fail!  Each time I would do it by the book, and it would be too rigid for me to make changes.  However, when I built campaigns from scratch, without using someone else’s know how, I was successful.  Today, my most successful campaign is the one in which all the  keywords used to start the campaign were written using my head.  I did not use a tool to generate kws.  That made it easier for me to tweak and run the campaign in a more fluid way.  It was a bitch when I would use a keyword tool, and generate 1000s of kws, and then had to weed through them, and not really knowing if they would work or not.  This time, I put myself in the shoes of the consumer, and started with just 64 kws, and expanded on that once the campaign was running.

So, if you are reading this, trying to get into aff marketing, just go ahead and do it.  You will not know what works and what does not.  Test it yourself and use your head more than the tools.

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In Poker, you can be pot committed and have the tendency to bet, even when you know you probably have a losing hand.  However, in Affiliate Marketing, if you use the same tendency, you will end up losing over and over again.

This is what I am getting at.  There will be times that you build a campaign, spend money on landing page, domain name, articles and every thing thats needed to probably make that campaign successful. You start your campaign, tweak it, and spend some money trying to make it successful.  But no matter how much money you spend, how much you tweak it, that campaign is a “losing had”.   Have the courage to shut it down.  Not all campaigns will be successful.  Even seasoned marketers don’t have 100% success rate.

Don’t beat a dead horse.

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