I’ve watched this guy around the same time he started his blog, I noticed his big MONEY GOAL on the top right. It first started at $80,000/month when I saw it. He’s at $180,000/month as of June 2008. His new goal is $400,000/gross a month.

I will be reviewing his blog from Start to Finish. This is for my own reference and others who are interested in reading it. He’s been blogging about affiliate marketing for 15 months.

Here’s my notes!

April 2007

• Keep your Google Search & Google Content Campaigns - Separate.
• Increase your CTR to over 3.6% and you can pay 1/6th as much as when you started. But still same position.
• He personally pays himself only 10% of every check that he gets. - Very Smart!
• GoDaddy owners says it best “All figures that are watched will improve.”
• CrazyEgg.com - FREE! Creates an image map showing you where all your users are clicking most.
• 1st ClickBank Check
  Revenue: $820
  Advertising cost: $560
  Profit: $260
• His article “Great FAQs About Quality Score”
  - Quality Score = Relevant to Keyword + CTR
  - Quality Score is stickied to Ad group / domain-landing page
• 1st NeverBlueAds Check
  Gross NeverBlueAds Income from March: $901.65
  Advertising Cost: $342.45 (Yea I found some really good converting campaigns :P)
• Profit: $559

May 2007

• He has a few thousand invested in Stocks. He uses the money he doesn’t need.
• Diversifying his investments through: Roth IRA’s and CD’s, Stock, Municipal Bonds, High Interest Savings.
• He posted ShoeMoney’s Famous Ringtones Screenshot of $609,733 from AzoogleAds.com
  
• He has a great article on “Perry Marshall Ad Writing Tips”.
• 1st Azoogle Ads Check
  $1,580.30 which 50% is profit - $790.15 Profit
• He’s had success with his Arcade Gaming Websites.
• Great Month for him. Broke his Records! Best Sales in 1 Day, 1 Week, and 1 Month.
• He also owns a MMOCC Forum with 1700+ Members.
• He sets strict deadlines for his business and works like crazy till those goals are met.
• He’s shooting for 5 figures  a month by next month for total revenue.

June 2007

• You need to have sales promotions. This is part of any successful promotion in your marketing strategy.
• His checks for May 2007
  AzoogleAds - 2078.38 = $1246.80 Profit
  NeverBlueAds - 1,425.30 = $855.18 Profit
  Profit Margin - 60%

July 2007

• He made a great post on, “How To Win With Yahoo Search Marketing.”
  
• Don’t be Lazy! Always shoot for 5/5 Quality Score and ABOVE AVERAGE CTR %.
• His checks for June 2008.
  Azoogle Ads $2,828.43
  NeverBlueAds $2,700.95
• Make sure to get Gold Status Accounts with YSM.
• Ultimate List of Video Games
• He made $200 direct linking.
  Although, Pre-Selling Approach lasts a lot longer than Direct Linking.
  People catch on quickly to the direct linking.
• He searched for the postings of “Rich Jerk” found his real name and started reading his postings. Which he learned some tips from.
• The last thumbnail above, about Winning Yahoo Search Marketing.
  He fixed it, Downloaded the campaign, Deleted it, set it up again using better ad-groups, better ad-copy, and an updated landing page.
  
  During the surge, he fine tunes his campaign everyday. Over time, It increases in quality score because he tries to shoot for 4% CTR.
• Wordze - Keyword Tool
  COSTS $35/MONTH
  Part of PPC is finding the keywords to use.
  You can use tools such as: Wordze, Keyword Elite and Word Tracker.
  Try using broad search (Ex. Ringtones +cingular) instead of (Cingular Ringtones)
  In order he likes: Wordze, WordTracker, KeywordElite, GoodKeywords.

August 2007

• He’s focusing on long term investments that yield 10-15% interest a year. For more passive income.
• Switched all checks to weekly deposits, so he gets his funds sooner so he can use it on PPC.
• He’s part of a group of five (5). Who are all affiliate marketers, who help each other push sales to the next level.
• He posted a nice video about “Wiki Jacking”.
• He’s already outgrowing his own spending ability in marketing so he has been losing out in thousands of dollars.
• He has a total of 8 YSM Accounts and is only running 3.
• He’s ready to start tackling Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter.
• He’s going to register his business name today.
• Record Breaking Sales Day $875
  Total Sales: $874.94
  Total Cost: $487.09
  Total Profit: $387.85
• He plans on releasing another 2 campaigns. Which will hopefully, take his daily gross to a new level. Shooting for $1,000 a day.
• Quote “It’s hilarious how testing increases your profits and sales. Simply changing an image can have a profound effect on your sales.”
• He’s adding campaigns to MSN Adcenter. His MSN Campaign can bring in 3,500 clicks per month.
• 17 Yr Old, Ashley. With a myspace layout is making $70,000/month from her website.
  Full Story Click Here

September 2007

• more coming soon..