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Status Post for End of Month: September
By JJ Galvez | October 1, 2008
Photo by Steve Woods
The goal for September ($100) was met and exceeded. In fact, it went well beyond what I had expected, considering the minimal amount of work I actually put into it this month; I’d estimate around 10 hours of work in total.
Income for September totals: $392.04
Expenditures for September totals: $39.56
That’s makes the ROI just over: 991%! Not bad at all, now I just need to increase these numbers! How to go about that is the question on my mind, here is what I’m currently thinking:
- I need to find a way to increase traffic to my various landing pages, without increasing overall cost too much. I’m willing to sacrifice the currently high ROI by a couple hundred percent if it means greater volume of sign ups, as that would increase the monthly bottom line.
- I need to expand the current programs I am marketing. I’m considering expanding the web hosts I am promoting. If I can analyze the payouts and conversions of various hosts I’ll know which I should be promoting. Of course any positive ROI is good, but I want to try and be frugal with advertising at the moment and build up the amount of programs which will end up giving me a positive income each month.
- Although hosting seems to be a great field to work with right now I do recognize the difficulty in it, I need to find a product with higher conversion rates and decent payouts. Anyone have any suggestions?
Problems This Month
It looks like I’m going to have to create some new content for GoDaddy, my comissions on that end seem to have dried up at the close of this month. It’s been about 14 days without a single comission on their end. I’d actually like to concentrate on their hosting instead of the SSL certs from which I’ve been collecting comissions for many months now.
Further Notes
I spent a few hours researching cost for PPC advertising on common hosting keywords. Cost can be a real killer and so far I’ve found that it is best to advertise on the longtail keywords (more about this in a post soon), in order to save money and increase ROI. Attempting to be an affiliate on a budget means I am avoiding many major keywords and, I imagine that careless use of those keywords would drop my current ROI percentage very close to nil or worse.
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