November 2008 Affiliate Earning Summary & How I did it
Tommorrow - December 9 will the 1st day of me going full time in affiliate marketing. It will also my first day in the 3 weeks leave. Yes, I filed a day-off from my 8-5:30 job and it will be effective from December 9 - January 1 2009. Lets see how far I will go within this 3 weeks of going full time in this online money making activity. I have mentioned it in my long term and short term affiliate marketing plan.
Okay, back from the main topic. I just want to share you the update of my affiliate experience for the Month of November. As you are already aware, November 8 is when I first received my first sale in this money making opportunity. I made $296.11 on that day and I'm really really happy on that experience. After that day what happened next?
Alrighty, here is the quick stats of the November 2008 Affiliate earning. This is from a not so aggressive, free marketing campaign of the product I chose from Clickbank and one free offer product from NeverBlue Ads.
November 2008 Affiliate Earning Summary (November 1 - 30 less refund / debits)
To sum it up:
Clickbank: $1182.86
NeverBlue: $ 7.70
Total = $1,190.56
There you go, $1,190.56 profit because I didn't spend a dime in advertising. What I did? I just choose a product to promote in clickbank, create some lens and short post and promote it via social bookmarking. I use socialposter & socialmarker to simplify this task. For the neverblue, I just pick a campaign closes to my blog niche and lazily put their banner in my site. 
Lessons Learned:
- On that exercise I learned that in choosing a product, you have to research to the products refund rate as well not just the commission and gravity of the product. For the clickbank product that I promote for instance, If there is no refund I should have earned $1487.96 That is $305.1 refund which could have big impact specially if I use pay-per-click advertising or media buy.
- Cant go further if the affilliate marketing method I will use is only by placing the banner in site. Thats is what happened with my neverblue earning, you can check the quick stats below. Out of 151,157 impression I only got 3 conversions amounting to whooping $7.70 Need to be a little more aggressive, maybe by using the PPC marketing.
- Ten targeted traffic is better than tenthousand untargeted traffic. Observation #2 says it all. Now, the next job is to find out how and where to get that highly targeted traffic for the product I like to promote.
So, I think thats it. Now I have some idea what I will do for the coming days. I'm planning to try out PPC to get massive and targeted traffic. With Ivan on my side I know I can do this. I'm going to choose a CPA offer in NeverBlue. Aside from that I'm going to create a non-seasonal campaign from Clickbank so earning and traffic will be consistent 24/7/365
December 9th, 2008 - 14:49
Congrats for your nice earning
December 9th, 2008 - 15:13
@Deca,
thanks much I really need it
December 9th, 2008 - 16:32
that is huge for starters! i like!! anyhoo, ill be leaving tomorrow, and hopefully be back online no later than next week. Im really impressed with your mini-report. Congrats zalds, mag iisip-isip nako habang nasa plane.. also, basahin ko ulit yung ebook ni ivan and thinking of buying the googlemoney pro? if you bought it, and highly recommend it, i think ill invest…
thanks zalds,
jayl
December 9th, 2008 - 17:21
congrads!
So You wrote some articles with affiliate link, submitted to huge amount of social bookmarking sites and that’s it?
Cause I still don’t think that social bookmarking sites can bring a lot of traffic if you don’t suggest great article
December 9th, 2008 - 17:45
@dontcare,
believe me that whats i did..
I receive around 6K clickbank hops per day using that method.
If i pay for those clicks they would cost me 6K (0.10) = $600 ad spend, assuming 0.10 per click.
couldn’t afford that amount in adspend just yet..
anyways, try googling some keywords.. observe the sites in the 1st and 2nd page.. — if there are no bookmarking sites there then you know what to do
December 9th, 2008 - 18:06
hmm…
do I understand properly? At first people find in google social bookmarking site with your link, then they go to the article, and after that they can reach your affiliate link? 
December 9th, 2008 - 18:17
thats right
December 9th, 2008 - 18:20
it’s a long long way
how many social bookmarking sites do you use?
December 9th, 2008 - 18:26
with the tool that I gave above you can bookmark to 15 sites in 30 minutes.. depends in you connection and how quick you can drag and drop.
its not all about refered traffic – bookmarks can give your site a link juice as well so i think its worth it.. just don’t overkill it as it may do you harm than good..
December 10th, 2008 - 09:31
Hey Zalds,
Galing mo naman, pano ka nakasignup sa clickbank, diba walang Philippines dun? Or naka base ka ngayon sa ibang bansa?
Thanks!
Chino
December 10th, 2008 - 09:53
yup andito ako sa Kuwait now..
December 12th, 2008 - 12:54
Could you borrow that ebook?
December 21st, 2008 - 09:25
Good report and nice income. Congratz!
Btw, I am still not starting affiliate marketing yet. I’ve earned several bucks from my blog, but there’s no one of my income source came from affiliate.
Any suggestion for me when and how I should start affiliate marketing?!
December 21st, 2008 - 14:28
i started affiliate marketing by joining / applying to popular affiliate network. (cj.com, clickbank, neverblueads, ads4dough, share-a-sale, advaliant.. there are lots of them… )
then this is the important part: “choose a product and make hand dirty”…
there are too much articles and blog tips about affiliate marketing out there.. you’ll know only if it will work for you go out and test..
December 29th, 2008 - 16:12
Magaling para sa starter.. dapat ko rin maintindihan yan
December 30th, 2008 - 04:35
Just a question bakit kailangang 2 ang clickbank account mo ?
December 31st, 2008 - 14:28
nung time na nag try kasi ako hindi ako maka receive ng mail dito sa kuwait. kaya ayun ginamit ko ung address ng utol ko sa UK.. pero now since nakak receive na ko ng adsense check nag register na ako ng bago…. para na rin hindi maging hassle ung check receiving kasi sa UK may tax pa
January 2nd, 2009 - 19:29
Very nice profit! Now do you create landing pages for the products you are promoting?
January 2nd, 2009 - 19:33
@Rowell,
I didn’t create a landing page for these campaign. I use direct linking.
January 9th, 2009 - 17:22
Congrats on your earnings. I’m still trying to find products that haven’t been spammed all over the place and haven’t found a Clickbank product that sells well yet but I do well with Text Link Ads on my blog.
January 9th, 2009 - 17:25
@James,
glad to know that you are doing well with text link ads.. there are really lots of ways to earn money online nowadays.
we just need to dig and hunt those highly converting products… thank you for dropping by.. hope to see you here again.
January 16th, 2009 - 16:09
You’re a genius Dude! Galing mo! I subscribe here and waiting for more tips from you! Congrats!
January 16th, 2009 - 18:26
@Ambo,
thanks for subscribing.. more tips coming for sure. stay tune and have a nice day.
February 12th, 2009 - 17:20
just found your site and really like your matter of fact writing. started a blog that was similar (i am focusing on case studies) and wanted to discuss a few things if you the time (email on post is accurate)
look forward to hearing from you
–korr
February 13th, 2009 - 16:48
@korr,
nice blog you have there..
throw me an email anytime here is my email ad zaldscom[alt]gmail.com
March 30th, 2009 - 13:44
I am always impressed to see earnings from clickbank. I haven’t quite mastered that network yet!
March 30th, 2009 - 14:07
@thanks John,
I don’t know how to prmote clickbank product as well, I just tried it to see if I can use it to monetize the daily visitors of my site.
but lately i focus my energy to CPA offers – will share it here when I encounter interesting discovery..
see you around.
April 29th, 2009 - 05:57
oh. you really did a great job. Hope i also can earn well like you.
June 3rd, 2009 - 00:11
Ang galing mo talaga Zalds! Panalo! Teka, do you use PPC campaign? As in Pay Per Click, yung mga tipong 30-second ads? Gumagamit ka nun?
June 3rd, 2009 - 05:00
@millionaire,
dito sa post ko na ito di pa ako gumagamit ng PPC noon. Last month I started doinng PPC to CPA and the return is OK namna.. that’s why you will notice na mdyo di na updated ung mga blog ko.
I decided to focus on things with bigger return.:)
So yeah, ang mga affiliate campaign ko now is PPC + SEO ..
August 2nd, 2009 - 11:33
Congrats, ang galing mo!
Libre ba yung social bookmarking tools na ginamit mo?
August 2nd, 2009 - 12:48
@ridiculousblogger,
yup.. they are free. socialposter.com & socialmarker.com
February 21st, 2010 - 08:10
Congratz for the $1k monthly earning…a few more months double na iyan