Some intermediate level success (7)
After taking a year and a half break from IM due to lack of focus, sex, drugs, electronic music, and grad school, I got back into IM a few months ago but I found myself struggling to make things work. I probably tested every single offer out there but didn't have much success. I was all over the place. Testing ridiculous offers that had no scalability potential whatsoever, spending hours and hours scraping thousands of useless targets that got no volume. Oh man, what a torturous few months....... Anyhow, I was re-inspired by my previous success with targeting high traffic URLs, and gave it another shot. Along those lines, I also have to give a big shout out to Smaxor's posts and mindset that encourage you to think VERY BIG from the get go. This was probably the most inspirational element of my "turnaround," as well as Mr. Green's very broad country-level targeting approach. So my approach and mindset going forward was big traffic + target everyone.
A few months ago my first big success came when I thought I created the greatest ppv campaign ever. I targeted virtually EVERY PPV URL and the conversion rates were through the roof. The first day I thought I made close to $5k in profits, only to find out the next morning that the advertiser placed the conversion pixel on the wrong page 
The next week I was back at it with another campaign that I finally got optimized and was banking HARD, but I got caught by my traffic source for running something I shouldn't have been running 
Back to the drawing board.....
The I started coming up with campaigns like this:
So the main thing I learned is that with the right mindset you can make anything happen, and I hope that this example will show you what's possible. For those vultures out there who are salivating at the mouth and waiting to rip this campaign, the offer was pulled by the advertiser so I'm not running it anymore, and I'm not going to get into exact amounts and traffic sources, hence the blurring of the stats. None of that is really important if you really "get what I'm saying," but let's just say that if you're not having that much success then the raw ad spend and profit figures would be somewhat impressive for you.
So what's my best advice? Go read all of Smaxor's posts, as well as the other stickied threads on tips from high volume affiliates. This mindset alone will provide the momentum you need to create ORIGINAL campaigns that work with big/general traffic. And most importantly, drop the "give me give me" attitude and focus on your own shit. For the longest time I was also guilty of trying to use other peoples campaigns as inspiration, but it didn't really get me anywhere. Once I dropped all the useless spy tools and focused on my own angles I actually started to make a profit. Go figure......
So I still have a long way to go, but my ideas on what I consider big money are starting to change very quickly. The minimum daily profit I was desperate to make a few months ago has now been eclipsed by numbers that I've been reading about in other success stories. With that being said, I will report back with exact dollar amounts once I feel that the number is worth bragging about on this forum :P
Good stuff! Btw you do FB ads?
Originally Posted by philwilrgm
Hey congrats bro! I get a feeling you push only high payout offers on those targets. Is that true?
Thanks for the kind words liamtheterrier.
Good to see some people getting it. It is very much the mindset of things that make people successful at this.
One of the worst things I've seen happen to people starting out copy a campaign, make some money and then think for the rest of their short AM career that it's always that easy. Then they go around trying a bunch of offers and traffic sources but never really putting in the time, money and hard work required to make them successful.
This business is not EASY no matter what you think or hear. It takes a lot of work and that work can only come from having the right mindset.
P.S. You can always steal from people. That's easy. Running stacked short codes and not disclosing you're billing people. Promising people free things and not really giving them to them. This isn't marketing it's stealing. Telling people they're going to lose 20 lbs in 2 weeks and they're obviously not but your'e just lying to get sales. That's stealing as well. This doesn't take talent....
Originally Posted by ohaiguyz
Well done. Keep up the good work 
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