Busy busy busy. . . (To quote Kurt Vonnegut)

Since I last posted, I have joined several more affiliate networks including NeverBlueAds, Commission Junction, and clickbank.  I really can’t say enough good things about NeverBlueAds!  Clayton, my affiliate manager, called me to welcome me to the network today, and he seemed friendly and professional.   I am also greatly impressed by their interface and the quality of the art that they provide.

Commission Junction is larger and much less welcoming.  I have been frustrated by their interface, but maybe that is because I am new.  I am running the Halloween adwords campaign using their links, so we will see how they pay and how the relationship develops.

However, I am least impressed by clickbank.  I haven’t found a single thing I can use through them yet.  It all seems pretty spammy and a lot of hard-sell offers.  I will keep looking though.

I remain interested in Pepperjam Network, and will continue to promote several of their campaigns.  I haven’t put enough time into their offers yet, but I am impressed with the selection!  I am most active with CardOffers.com, and I have built out several pages and many posts with their creatives and tools.  We will see how that progresses, and I will provide links once the site is built out.

I also took my first adwords campaign live today!

After searching for a costume for my son, I quickly realized how simply many people had created a site to capitalize on Halloween as affiliates of several large, online costume sellers.  So, I quickly slapped up a site focused on Discount Halloween Costumes, and then started an adwords campaign using keyword lists (which I edited in a fun, but very long night) provided by the advertisers.  My CTR seems low right now, but that may be because of my limited test budget and low bids.  I am adding some more content tonight, and will see what I can learn from my first ad campaign after 24 hours.

So, a lot is going on and I feel like I finally have gotten into the creative fun part of this.  Still lots of hard work to go, but I am beginning to feel like my hard work will be rewarded (after a lot more hard work and optimization of my sites, SEO, creatives and ad campaign techniques).

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