Hello,
I'm back after a long break and here is my report.
It's been a month since I registered with Wealthy Affiliate and unfortunately I haven't reached my target – making $5 a day – I haven't earned a penny yet :(
I have set up my website and a proper Google campaign following instructions, but there are no sales. I have contacted Carson (one of the guys from WA), and he gave me a few hints, I have implemented them, but it didn't help. I personally think that I made a mistake in selecting a product to promote as you can get it for free as well – a different quality may be and no guarantees etc., but still free. When I was selecting a niche (a products to promote), I based my judgement on the fact that "everything sells" – and it well may be, but apparently not that well that I notice it.

I'm disappointed of course, but I'm not ready to give up. The first big lesson for the past month – people wouldn't pay if they don't have to pay – and I'll have to keep that in mind when I start my other campaign. I'm going to do a few more changes trying to improve my current campaign and then I'll start looking for a new niche. I have signed with Yahoo Search Marketing and paid another $30 getting $50 of extra credit, which is very good of course, but I might have saved this $30 as I'm not advertising too much there at the moment.

I think that's it for now. That's it for me for today. That's my affiliate link to the Wealthy Affiliate website:

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Cheers,
Mik

Hello,
Let's see how the things are unfolding for my entrepreneurship :)
My direct link campaign, which I mentioned in my previous log, didn't bring me any profits so far, which didn't surprise me (but a bit disappointed) as I set it up more for research purposes and followed one of the techniques on the Wealthy Affiliate site to scary away any non-buyers. Apparently it worked well in scaring freebie lovers, but may be too well as I didn't get any buyers either. Well it cost me a bit more than two dollars and I was pretty much busy setting up my website, which I'm going to talk next.

I think it's worth mentioning how I found these guys I finally bought my domain name from. After googling "1and1 spam", I noticed circulation of the world "namecheap". Well, I tried for "namecheap scam" of course, and to my surprise, I found that in the listed topics people were actually advising to go with namecheap and complaining about other web-service providers. That's what I did and they set up everything for one day – amazing work. By the way, I got a message from 1 and 1 next day after namecheap finished setting up my domain name (that would be six days)… I think they won't see me as their customer.

Anyway, I spent last several days setting up my website, designing my landing and home pages, studying the products I'm going to affiliate, and writing short reviews for them. The website is all setup, the design is done, just a few more reviews to finish – but there is still a big job of organizing key words and setting Google campaign itself. After some reading, I think I'll go with about ten ad groups for one campaign. It might be another day (or better say night) or two, and I'm going to talk about it next time :)

That's it for me for today. That's my affiliate link to the Wealthy Affiliate website:

Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate

Cheers,
Mik

Hello,
A new update on my adventures :)
When you do affiliate marketing, you have basically two choices: using direct linking (no web page and only for one product) or using landing pages (having a web page with one or more products linking to your merchant sites). After a little research, I found that a lot of people recommend using landing pages.

So, here we go: I need a domain name, a web hosting services, and website (a page at least). There’re a lot of sites that sell domain names, but WA suggested us using http://www.1and1.com/, so I did and here my story begins… Guys, this "1 and 1" people SUCK BIG TIME. I registered with them on Thursday night (NZ time). They claim to get everything done for 24 hours with a little exception for some special situations where they claim to do it for 48 hours. Guess what: 5 (that’s five) days later (my situation must be VERY special) I still got no domain name :( I sent them a whole bunch of emails trying to get it done, and they responded almost always very promptly, but nothing was done… They asked me to call their authorization department (which is closed on weekends) saying that their some authorization mismatching (what kind of mismatching for registering a $5.99 domain name??), they assured me that their administration is going to take care of it and contact me back. Guess what: NADA.

Luckily, I didn’t give them my credit card, but registered with my PayPal account. So, I cancelled (took me a few tries) my “merchant relationship” with them, which they set to recurring $200.00 (why would they do that for a $5.99 payment?) and now out and about looking for a new site to buy a domain name.

Well, that’s it for me. I have started by the way a direct link campaign, but about it in the next chapter ;) That's my affliate link to Wealthy Affiliate:

Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate

Cheers,
Mik