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Starting with a budget of $1000. How should I allocate my spending & funds. (12)

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Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to AM, and looking to start with $1000 investment (total), so I want to make sure I allocate my budget to the right infrastructure, tools, campaigns etc

Trackers @ $0 - $299?
I am trying to choose between propsper202 vs. cpvlab vs. Voluum. Which one would you recommend?

I know propsper202 is free, but also not the easiest to setup / non-newbie friendly

Cpvlab, I heard great things about it a few years ago but I don't see many uses it anymore?

Voluum is probably best, as everyone seems to use it here. But It seems to be relatively expensive for a newbie.


Traffic Source / Vertical @ $250 - $500 as a start, and continue to refill balance as I go?
I am planning go start with Native Ads. Probably skin/nutra, and maybe insurance.

Probably going to join content.ad as a start, and I believe their mini. deposit is $250.


Hosting $30 per month?
I will probably go with Vultr for both my LP and Tracker (if I am using prosper202 or cpvlab)

My goal is to allocate my funds cost effectively, giving me the best chance to get a better understanding of 'how things work' , and simplify the setup process.

I dont want to cut corners just to save a few bucks, then notice the reason why it is not working is because my this and that wasn't setup properly etc.


Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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I'm a bit confused.. What are you looking for exactly? One of your recent posts states you are doing $XXXX on Facebook. What are you using for tracking now? What are you using for hosting?

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That's for Facebook and I am working with another partner for those campaign.

For native ads. I know still fairly new and I want to get on to that on my own.

Thanks in advance.

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Your budget will last for 4-5 hours.

Blocking bad placements and finding a winning source / geo / vertical / offer / creatives / lander combo will take a budget of 10-20k in a small geo, if you know what you're doing.

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I personally recommend funnelflux, they are pretty easy to use with a lot of nice tool for optimizing your funnel.

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Note: if you're using Voluum you don't need a server. S3+ Cloudfront will work fine for your lander hosting and will save you significant money.

Skin/Nutra or Insurance on Native are going to be extremely tough to do on your budget thanks to the high payouts (see http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...e-Often-Better). Even if you're massively careful with your money, you'll probably only have enough budget for 10-15 campaigns at most, which isn't really enough.

I'd strongly recommend going for something with lower payouts - sweeps on mobile would spring to mind - and working up to native once you have a larger budget.

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Thanks for the great tips.

I am wondering if sweep would work better with PPV? based on the budget I plan to allocate?

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@hangman - yes, that's a much better combination. You'll still need to be CAREFUL with your funds - $1000 is a really minimal amount to get started with - but you stand a much better chance.

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Since volumm charges by # of events, should I consider another tracker instead, based on the budget I have?

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Also, if I do want to start with natives, which vertical would i have the highest opportunity to succeed at the beginning.

I understand that loosing money at the beginning is a common thing, but I still want to recoup some of the revenue for me to continue testing etc.

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With that budget you won't be able to buy large quantities of traffic so their way of charging shouldn't be a problem.

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so with $1000 budget (as a start), which one would you guys suggest attempting? native or pops?

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