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Start a Pop campaigns Journey with Sweeps, following the 40-day tutorial! (4)

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Hi Everyone..

As you can see from my intro, i'm an Italian guy that is trying to make affiliate marketing a full time job, in order to quit my current job and give to my family a better future.

With this goal in mind, I decided to start pop campaigns in Sweeps vertical. So, following the 40-day tutorial, I made a subscription in various network and tools...here's the current situation:

• Budget: $1200

• Tracker:

- Bemob

• Networks:

- Advidi (Approved)
- Maxbounty (Approved)
- Mobidea (Approved)

• Traffic Sources:

- PopAds
- PropellerAds

• Other tools:

- Adplexity


The Journey Begins...

As studied from the tutorial, I started my journey with sign ups to a lot of affiliate networks, and at the end, I was approved from the three listed above. Here I found greats Affiliate Managers that helped me a lot with offers, but since i was asking for good converting sweeps in Tier 3/4 GEOs, unfortunately none of them had good offer in such GEOs, so they start to advice me others good countries and I decided to run campaigns in Poland, which was the place where I got a lot of offers from Advidi.

Afterthat, i've added the offers to my spreadsheet, i've setted up the tracker correctly, and i've made a subscription to Adplexity in order to find some good landers to use for my offers.

I found 20 of them, and i've continued to follow the instruction of the tutorial to fix landers issues, set up hosting and CDN, and optimizing landing speed. At the end I had 5 completely differents landers and 5 offers to test.

Then, the last thing i had to do was the campaign set up on tracker and traffic source. I did it in this way:

1. I created a campaign on Bemob tracker rotating both all offers and landers
2. Since every offers accept both wi-fi and all carriers, i've created a campaign on Popads targeting only wi-fi, as explained in the tutorial
3. I've used a bid slightly higher than the average to ensure traffic quality.
4. I launched campaigns last Saturday at 5 p.m.

The goal of this campaign was to find an offer that reaches at least 2 conversions. At the end of the first day, after $20 in spent, the campaigns reaches the 2 conversions but from 2 different offers, so the goal wasn't achieved yet.

At this point I decided to add other $20 to this campaign to figure out if I can find a good offer or I had to start everything from scratch, and I deleted one placements that was spending 2x payout without conversions. Fortunately after only $10 in spent, one of the offer that converted the first day, made other 2 conversion during the second day, so I paused all the offers in order to keep running only the converting one with the goal to find a good landers.

Now, the process should be the same used to find the first good offer, but I have a question at this point, and it would be great to ask it to you:

- Since until this point i've used just Wi-Fi targeting, do you think it is the right moment to create a second campaign to target also carrier traffic, or it's better that I keep running only the first campaign until I find a good offer/lander combination?

If you guys have any suggestions I'd love to hear them, for now, I take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Easter!

(Sorry for my bad English )

Nino.

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@ninomt Nice follow-along! Thanks for giving the 40-day tutorial a go!

There seems to be a lack of good sweeps offers in tier 3/4 geos lately - so yes, just test other geos.

(Poland is tier3/4 geo anyways. But yes, feel free to test tier 1/2 geos also. But if you do, expect to have to do more testing. Also, try to pick smaller geos to start so you won't lose as much money while learning.)


5 landers and 5 offers sounds great!

$20 spent and 2 offers - that's still hopeful because you're testing multiple offers and landers. Just keep an eye on how much each offer has spent - if an offer has spent 10x payout without converting, it would be unlikely to be a winning offer, so I would suggest to remove it from the split-test.


Awesome!


I would definitely find a good offer+lander first. No need to spend twice the amount of money to run the same test.

The visitors from pop traffic are very general - basically just the general public. This is the same whether we target wifi or carrier. So no need to run separate split-tests for wifi and carrier.


Not necessary - your English is great!

The only Italian I know are greetings like "good day" and "thank you".

English is my second language as well. I've lived in Canada for over 30 years and STILL have an accent and make grammar mistakes.

So yeah - I wished I had your gift for languages! And talking about something complicated like affiliate campaigns isn't easy. You're doing amazingly well. I understood 100% of your post.



Amy

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Hi @vortex, thank you for your reply..i didn't expect it.

First of all i want to thank you for your thought about my english speaking

Talking about my campaigns, i kept running tests for 2 days with $20/day of spending, in order to find a good lander with the offer that made conversions in the first phase of testing.

Unfortunately, I made just 1 conversion per day on that campaign, but with so little conversions I wasn't able to reach statistical significance to stop some landers.

Yesterday (which was the last day of that campaign), i made another try adding more budget and I created a campaign to target also carrier traffic cause I thought that probably this lack of conversion was a targeting fault. Obviously, reading your reply, I've understood that it isn't the issue so I've decided to stop that campaign, update my Campaign Journal in order to not repeat the same errors, and start another adventure with another GEO

At the moment i'm preparing landers for some sweeps offers in ZA, recommended from my AM.

Do you think I took the right decision based on what I told with this posts?

Surely I will start another Follow Along when i'll launch these new campaigns.

Thanks.

Nino

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With 5 offers and 5 landers, you may need to spend a bit more money in the beginning to run enough traffic to each offer and lander to see TRULY see their performance.

It's hard to say whether $40 was too much or too little - what were the offer payouts? How much were you bidding? How much traffic did you get?


ZA is an expensive geo - but let's see what happens!

Pausing the previous campaign and asking questions here was the right move.

No need to be too afraid to make your own decisions! There are many ways to run campaigns. My job is to give you a fundamental method, but you will build on it to add your own style.


No need to start a new follow-along for each campaign! Just update this follow-along.




Amy

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