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Native ads success case studies? (9)

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Hi,

Can anyone please share a link to a post(s) that shares a successful Native ads campaign from set up, process to results, if any?

I've seen a few posts here on STM even from affiliate event speakers (/forum/showthread.php?41674-🏄-Wakeboarder-Rides-Into-Native-Waters-🏄/page2), Youtube videos from someone like Colin Dijs, and a few courses but they seem to end up losing money at least in their case studies or don't share the end results.

I've seen more meaningful positive results from FB advertisers, course sellers.. Is it because Native is more difficult to make profitable for most people?
am pretty new to native ads after losing FB accounts left and right, and hoping to find some proven blue prints for native ads...

Thanks!

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I think native campaigns that are successful tend to be long, multi-year ones... so the format is less inclined towards the 'case study' model...

Also there is less traffic, so folks are probably a little more tight-lipped about their successes... and there's only a tiny fraction of the traffic facebook has, so just way smaller by comparison.

With that being said, there are definitely some follow-alongs/case studies on here to check out.

There's one by Mr Green, I think, about running Casino Apps on Taboola where he killed it, which is a great follow-along (@matuloo am I remembering that right? was it Mr Green or someone else?)

Also you can search for my thread "Testing the new Revcontent" for a diabetes vsl one that was profitable for like 4 months, but which I eventually turned off. That one has lots of info.

And then I'd certainly consider @jaybot's thread on solar to be one too, even though it was only a slight profit. Even a slight profit on your first 50k in US lead gen on native is a huge, huge victory (better than I've done!).

Also @thedudeabides has some great posts and follow-alongs on here from a couple years ago as well.

And then @platinum has a great thread on running search arb successfully on native, with screenshots of his Opitimizer rules, etc.

also @iwanttofly has posted some great native stuff too.

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Thanks for your reply. I saw your post, and less than $1000 profit for 4 months' work doesn't seem to justify the effort? also @jaybot's thread shows about 3k in profit after 4 months' hard work...unfortunately, way below the minimum wage here in the US...

Also @thedudeabides case study ended up in red even though he seemed very smart... I was hoping to see case studies with meaningful results in ecom or nutra niche which can possibly turn into an asset down the line...

So it looks like there's no native ad ninja sharing tips or follow along here on STM in ecom or nutra? anything I may have missed?

Fyi I wasn't able to find a post about native ads follow along by Mr Green.

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My friend... if you are thinking about starting natives, I'd mentally prepare to earn WAY less than minimum wage starting out You're competing against the best media buyers on the entire planet... many of whom have brands they are happy to break even on for the sake of an exit down the line... its insanely hard and 99% of people who try will fail at it... but the rewards are well worth it as its a wonderful traffic source and you can make extremely significant profits at it once you master it.

But yeah, if you want more specific info than that I would buy James Van Elswyck's courses. Even his aren't going to show the specific offer or landing page or ads though...




Edit: My mistake, it wasn't Mr Green. Search this: [Case Study] - $60k Profit on Taboola Running Casino App Installs

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I understand. Just to clarify, I was hoping to find a course or video or post or anything that shows the entire process including the final results of significant profits... like there are quite a few courses like that for FB and google ads... Even though their results were not typical, not easy to replicate especially because of the constant algo updates..

Fyi I actually watched NBN by James as well, which didn't show what most people including myself probably expected to see e.g. income proof, campaigns, dashboard, etc

Just curious how your progress, milestones with native ads after your last update about a year ago have been @jack_l ? just to get an idea how feasible it'd be to crack it for most people compared to other traffic sources...

Thanks for mentioning the case study! I'm checking it as we speak.

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There are few "courses" out there because it's nearly impossible to put anything like this into a single course because native involves a bit more than setting up campaigns. Also, it's just because the presenter had nice profits .. it doesn't mean you can replicate that person and have great profits too. It doesn't work like this.

Seeing someones profit won't help you at all.. it will probably demotivate you because of "why he has $10k profit days and I sit at -$1000" and then people will think native is a scam and quit internet marketing. It's extremely common. It takes a long time and a lot of money to get good at native and even the best have some super juicy red days from time to time.

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I'm not sure which NBN you watched.

There are a ton of campaigns shown in the most recent NBN. From Joe Burton, to Losid, that hot Russian girl, and even Elswyck's campaigns within his live Taboola dashboard.

As for income proof, you can literally see how much the spend is on some of those camps. Pretty easy to do the math.

Native camps take weeks to months to get working smoothly, and then can last for 6-12 months or more, so a case study will be more rare becuase they are usually posted after a camp stops working.

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So if you search 'Serial Entrepreneur Diving Into Everything Paid Ads' you can find my quarterly follow-along that I updated at the end of Q2.

To answer your question, its hard to say, but I'd probably break it down as follows:

-If you're currently working a j.o.b. job and desperate to quit and support yourself entrepreneurially, I would probably wait on paid traffic and do Upwork first. Much easier to make 100k on Upwork than media buying.
-If you're 100% set on making money through paid ads and mastering that skillset (which is arguably the most valuable skillset in our entire modern economy along with copywriting and high ticket sales and maybe solidity coding), then I would would break it down as follows.
a. If you have less than 40k to invest (i.e. LOSE) learning a traffic source I would start with pops or push and use Amy's guides on here.
b. If you can bare to deal with Facebook and are willing to hustle and network to find solutions to get around constant banning, I would probably do facebook. Upside is much greater than on native as Facebook has literally 100x the volume that Taboola (the largest native network) has.
c. If you want to run an agency and deal with clients, I'd probably do Google Search and learn to master that.
d. If you have at least 40k to lose and you really don't want to deal with Facebook starting out, I would do natives (or TikTok or YouTube, but again, they aren't as affiliate friendly as native is).

Really I think its 100% possible to make 6-7 figures profit on any number of traffic sources as an affiliate: native, push, facebook, TikTok, YouTube, etc.

It really just depends on your personality and inclinations.

I had a lot of money to invest and a lot of experience in lead-gen from buying motivated sellers leads in real estate, and an intense dislike for Facebook, and both Bing and YouTube kicked me off as soon as I started on them (because I had no idea what I was doing lol), which is all what lead me to native (which I'm grateful for as I absolutely love native).

I doubt there's more than 30 people/agencies making serious profits on native doing affiliate marketing in the whole world though. Its a tiny, tiny frog pond compared to facebook.

Indeed I think native is a little oversatured right now, because the foul Zuckery of fb pushed so many marketers to native over the last few years.

I'm actually in the process of getting ready to try facebook myself, just due to the insane volume available on it.

In the end though, if you're determined to do this to make a living, your just gonna have to embrace the uncertainty and dive in and give it your all without any guarantees of success. Its 100% possible you will try and fail, but you want to cultivate a mindset that doing so is the right thing to do REGARDLESS of outcome.

Again though, if you're goal is just to make 100k a year without wagecucking, I'd become a freelancer on Upwork.

Or, do push, or TikTok, or YouTube, or Facebook, or Native. Any of them are great choices

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