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Native Noob Launches Weight Loss Offer - Can He Scale To $1k/Day? (7)
09-29-2020 09:00 AM
#1
samovenslovechild (Member)
Native Noob Launches Weight Loss Offer - Can He Scale To $1k/Day?
Hey guys...
Launching my first ever Native campaign today.
Follow along and see if I can actually get it convert and scale it (despite being a clueless noob)!
I've scaled offers on Facebook and YouTube before, including my own autowebinar funnels, various other funnels I've built from scratch and a few affiliate offers.
I know the copy and creative is at least "decent" because I've had successful campaigns before... been trained by some hyper successful copywriters... etc...
And I'm using the standard pre-sell news article style lander that most people run on native...
But, I've literally never touched native before and have only been looking at it for the last 2-3 weeks.
So, I have no idea:
- How to target on Native. I've set the targeting to female (as the offer is targeted at women) and added weight loss and diet interests. No idea if this will work or is common practice lol.
- How to cut placements or widgets. From reading posts etc. it sounds like this is important, but I have no idea how to do it.
- If it's going to get approved. I'm buying traffic on Outbrain and understand they can be a bit more restrictive than say revcontent or mgid. But hey, if it gets disapproved I'll just try revcontent!
- How to optimise correctly. I figured I would optimise for LP traffic as a conversion, and then move to optimising for the acquisition/sale later when there's more data.
- What sort of bidding to use. I mainly use max conversions on both FB and YT as letting the algorithm do its thing is the best strategy these days. But not sure if I should use fully automatic, semi automatic or target CPA. I've set it on fully automatic so let's see?
- Budget. I've set it on $50/day. How much is a reasonable testing budget? Product is $50 and payout is $90.
As you guys can see...
I have no idea what I'm doing!
Would love some feedback from all of you guys who are way more experienced than me.
Keen to learn as much as possible, implement your feedback and make some $ (and/or learn from my mistakes).
SOLC
09-29-2020 11:31 PM
#2
offshore (Member)

Originally Posted by
samovenslovechild
Hey guys...
Launching my first ever Native campaign today.
Follow along and see if I can actually get it convert and scale it (despite being a clueless noob)!
I've scaled offers on Facebook and YouTube before, including my own autowebinar funnels, various other funnels I've built from scratch and a few affiliate offers.
I know the copy and creative is at least "decent" because I've had successful campaigns before... been trained by some hyper successful copywriters... etc...
And I'm using the standard pre-sell news article style lander that most people run on native...
But, I've literally never touched native before and have only been looking at it for the last 2-3 weeks.
So, I have no idea:
- How to target on Native. I've set the targeting to female (as the offer is targeted at women) and added weight loss and diet interests. No idea if this will work or is common practice lol.
- How to cut placements or widgets. From reading posts etc. it sounds like this is important, but I have no idea how to do it.
- If it's going to get approved. I'm buying traffic on Outbrain and understand they can be a bit more restrictive than say revcontent or mgid. But hey, if it gets disapproved I'll just try revcontent!
- How to optimise correctly. I figured I would optimise for LP traffic as a conversion, and then move to optimising for the acquisition/sale later when there's more data.
- What sort of bidding to use. I mainly use max conversions on both FB and YT as letting the algorithm do its thing is the best strategy these days. But not sure if I should use fully automatic, semi automatic or target CPA. I've set it on fully automatic so let's see?
- Budget. I've set it on $50/day. How much is a reasonable testing budget? Product is $50 and payout is $90.
As you guys can see...
I have no idea what I'm doing!
Would love some feedback from all of you guys who are way more experienced than me.
Keen to learn as much as possible, implement your feedback and make some $ (and/or learn from my mistakes).
SOLC
Will be watching this follow along

to your first question If its targeted to women specifically then I'd imagine targeting women and weight loss is the right direction, I havent ran on outbrain through so take what I say with a grain of salt others will have more insights to this im sure. I'm running on revcontent and am personally cutting widgets that spend 1x the offer payout with no conversions. To your last question if the offer payout is $90 id try testing with a $90/day budget for 3 days and see how it does, $50 day is probably also fine you just will get data a bit slower. Best of luck!
10-02-2020 12:25 PM
#3
samovenslovechild (Member)
Awesome thanks. I got a disapproved on outbrain. Going to try out revcontent. Making some copy and creative adjustments based on feedback from my copy mentor. Will post some updates in coming week! Hopefully can get it through.
10-02-2020 11:14 PM
#4
jack_l (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by
samovenslovechild
Awesome thanks. I got a disapproved on outbrain. Going to try out revcontent. Making some copy and creative adjustments based on feedback from my copy mentor. Will post some updates in coming week! Hopefully can get it through.
Yeah Outbrain is pretty strict about weight-loss... Revcontent has gotten stricter too- I tried getting Resurge and Leptitox approved on it a few months and couldn't make their moderators happy enough...
With that said, other folks seem to be running them on there via just changing the rotation once the camp is approved, but I was too much of a goody-two-shoes to do that.
They were allowing any weight-loss offer that was purely an info product though, like the Alpha Nation ones and that Cinderella one, etc.
But yeah, no idea what you're running but certainly you will have a better shot at getting it approved on Revc vs Outbrain.
Outbrain does allow some other vsl's though, like Erase Your Back Pain... that big Tinnitus one that's near the top of Clickbank right now... etc.
Excited to see your follow-along progress

Never watched Sam Ovens much but have always been a big Alex Becker fan
10-29-2020 11:11 AM
#5
nativeq (Member)
@samovenslovechild
Really exciting that you decided to give native a shot 
1. Don't overcomplicate with too many settings when you first launch the campaign.(it will narrow the campaign too much from the start) What you can do, for example is use women in images or in copy-suggestive to the offer you're running.Especially if you're running a VSL.
2. Let the campaign run for at least a week and it will be easier to cut the fat once you have some data (run a performance whitelist, not ron-ask the rep to apply it for you-applicable for outbrain).
3.Great choice with outbrain-but you need a rep to help out with dissapprovals 100%, regardless the offer.
4.Focus on getting a good ctr on ads/competitive cpc/high ctr on presells first.
5.Do semi-automatic for outbrain
6.In order for the content to be amplified(take off), spend at least 200-250$, especially at launch.
Keep us posted with your progress 
12-06-2020 05:01 AM
#6
mcstacks (Member)
Hey @samovenslovechild - how's the campaign been going since you last updated here?
Curious to hear an update...
12-27-2020 05:45 PM
#7
markpromoaff (Member)
How did it do?
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