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Quitting my job and become a business man in the Internet Marketing industry (15)

07-07-2015 08:00 PM #1 menoyocapital (Member)
Quitting my job and become a business man in the Internet Marketing industry

Hi guys,

I have been working for almost 4 years as a Business Consultant for the banking industry in one of the top consulting firms worldwide, tired of extremly long hours working and shitty rewards. I decided that I really want a change in my life and Internet Marketing is the best way to approach this life change.

During the last 2 years I have been running few websites in order to make money, I was doing a lot of SEO stuff, outsourcing articles, etc.. thanks to it I was able to make around 40k+ profit apart from my regular job income (Around 45k/ year gross) but most important, I gained a lot of knowledge about Wordpress, monetization, systems and process, etc.. but I want to keep growing and move to the next level which is buying traffic.

I have never ever bought online traffic so I have 0 experience at this issue. I have been reading this forum during the last 2 days in a full time basis (even at my banking job) and I think I am ready to launch my first campaign in order to learn and to improve for the future.

What are my goals for the next months?

- On July I want to launch at least 10 campaigns and try to lose as less money as possible. I want to fully understand Voluum tracking

- On August I want to launch, at least, 20 campaigns and I want to see the first gree campaing.

- On September I want to make the first xx$ on a day

- On December I want to be making at least 5xx$ in a regular basis and I will quiet my job. (I can not do it earlier as I need to support financially my family)

What are my skills?

- Some experience in the blogging industry. I have monetized many website with Adsense and CPA but only organic traffic.

- Some basic coding knowledge

- Fast learning

- Highly motivated

- Persistent

- Regular income from my job + irregular income from adsense and other ECPM networks so I have enough cash in order to invest in learning.

What are my weak points?

- Long hours at work (Usually around 10 - 12 hours per day)

- Litle knowledge of software like photoshop or building landers

- No previous experience in buying traffic

What steps did I follow by now?

- I suscribed to STM forum

- I suscribed to a video course about Media Buying

- I spent hours and hours reading the newbie area of the STM forum

- I applied for some ad networks and traffic networks

- I created a Voluum account

- I did a to do list and a goal list for the following months

- I am in the process of launching the first campaing

What steps will I follow from now?

- Fully understand how Voluum works and it's oportunities

- Decide which vertical I will focus on (Thinking about dating on Mobile Traffic)

- Launch the first campaings and spend time analysing them and improving them

- Continue reading the forum

In the next posts I will show my progress and explain in detail the actions taken.

Feel free to follow me on my way to freedom, both financial and labor. I will not fail, I never give up.

I appreciate any advice, criticism or suggestion that you want to carry out.

07-07-2015 09:04 PM #2 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Which firm are you with?

07-07-2015 09:22 PM #3 fabian (Member)

Hey man, good luck.

You are in the right place for all things Paid Traffic. Some very smart folks in here.

Quick question: having done consulting for banks myself and a few of the leading telcos of the world, I'll echo cmdeal question: which firm are you with? Not sure why he asked, but the reason I'm asking is that 45K gross is no where near were a banking consultant no matter what level , should be.

Not specially if you are at Mckinsey, Deloitte, KPMG, Europraxis, etc.

Anyway, got curious.

Cheers

07-07-2015 11:01 PM #4 menoyocapital (Member)

Originally Posted by fabian

I am in a competitor of those ones listed.

Yes, salaries have decreased a lot during the last years... but for 27 years old is not that bad salary. I have some friends in Deloitte, KPMG making 32/35K auditing and business consulting with 27....

Entry level juniors with master are making between 22K to 30k in banking nowadays....

07-07-2015 11:01 PM #5 menoyocapital (Member)

Originally Posted by fabian

07-08-2015 12:09 AM #6 thedav (Member)

what currency is your 45k gross in? seems way too low if USD for any consultant, banking or otherwise.

07-08-2015 07:23 AM #7 menoyocapital (Member)

Euros and Spain. Yes, salaries were much higher few years ago... :/

07-08-2015 07:50 AM #8 fabian (Member)

Originally Posted by menoyocapital

Euros and Spain. Yes, salaries were much higher few years ago... :/

Ah yes, makes sense now.

As someone living in Spain can confirm that is actually on the high end of general professional salaries, including junior consultants.

07-20-2015 04:31 PM #9 menoyocapital (Member)

Ok. I did my first campaign, the results are the following ones:

The first Campaign

Traffic source: Decisive
Offer: One click Submit
Offer Payout: 8€
Network: Adsimils
Geo: Spain
Type: 100% direct
Bid: 0,1 CPM

Stats

Spent : $14.94
Conversions: 3
Revenue: $27
ROI: +80%

ok so results looks good but I have a problems, I don't know why there are no info in Voluum about conversions I think I am not config some values in a correct way. Anyone could help me fixing Voluum metrics?

Thanks a lot.

07-20-2015 04:51 PM #10 buildcave (Member)

Nice job! Looks like you're in the green

So if Adsimilis uses cake (which they probably do) follow these steps to get conversion tracking between Voluum and Adsimilis:

1. get your postback url from the settings tab in Voluum.
2. Paste it into your the offer's network's cake backend (for the offer you're running) and add this to the end of the postback url: "?cid=#s2#&payout=#price#&txid=#tid#"
3. When adding your traffic source to Voluum make sure you check 'automatically append click ids' option
4. When adding an offer to Voluum make sure to append this to your offer url (only if its not already there): "&s2="

07-20-2015 05:02 PM #11 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Well that is a good start, well done!

07-20-2015 05:05 PM #12 menoyocapital (Member)

Originally Posted by buildcave

Nice job! Looks like you're in the green

So if Adsimilis uses cake (which they probably do) follow these steps to get conversion tracking between Voluum and Adsimilis:

1. get your postback url from the settings tab in Voluum.
2. Paste it into your the offer's network's cake backend (for the offer you're running) and add this to the end of the postback url: "?cid=#s2#&payout=#price#&txid=#tid#"
3. When adding your traffic source to Voluum make sure you check 'automatically append click ids' option
4. When adding an offer to Voluum make sure to append this to your offer url (only if its not already there): "&s2="

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regarding the step number 4; the look of the url of the offer in Voluum is the following one "&s1={campaign.id}&s2={os}&s3={trackingdomain}&s4= {device}&s5={clickid}" Is that right?

Thanks a lot.

07-20-2015 05:14 PM #13 buildcave (Member)

Yup that's fine, but it changes things a bit:

Put this on the end of your post back URL (instead of the original step 2):
cid=#s5#&payout=#price#&txid=#tid#"

Disregard step 4 and leave your current Voluum URL the same.

You don't need your traffic source in Voluum to auto append click Id anymore since you're doing it manually.

You're good to go!

Trevor

07-20-2015 05:17 PM #14 menoyocapital (Member)

Originally Posted by buildcave

Thank you a lot. I made the changes and I will know in the next conversion if it works right. It's a pity I can not improve my campaign due to a lack of data... I hope it will not happen anymore

07-20-2015 11:24 PM #15 buildcave (Member)

Good deal! Did it work?

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