I am either going to completely hate myself in the morning or I'm going to think I'm a genius. After yet another bicker between me and the lady, I decided I can't wait and have to try this now. If I don't, I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life. My Adwords is live. I'll be running one of my five campaigns on test runs each day to see how they work (only keeping one running now if it's successful). I'm starting with one that lets me take advantage of some markets (some with typos LMAO) that don't have ANY ads up in the sponsored side, so as they appear I'll be hoping for some clicks and sales. I'll let you guys know how it goes. I'm freaking out right now. Thankfully I don't think I'll hit my threshold in 30 days since I'm going $5 a day and stopping after the test runs if they all fail, so even with five campaigns I only drop $35. Not too bad. What is a typical threshold they set, however? Cyclone
That does not offer any form of support or answer my question to a typical Google Adwords threshold before they bill you, so I'm going to take the liberty of ignoring your standoffish and rude post. Anyone else have any advice or answer? Cyclone
5 dollars? so lets say average CPC is .35 that gets you 14-15 clicks. You'll never be able to test anything with that. If you are just starting out, start with BUM, find a product that converts for you. Then expand into ppc. when I first started..... lol I lost my ass on PPC. But I learned a heck of a lot, now that is not the case.
What do you mean by "threshold"? Adwords will bill you after the month for $1.25 or $1025 (whatever the total big or small), if that's what you're asking.
Wasting your time with $5 or $35 for that matter, to be successful in PPC you need to be very focused and know what you are doing and obviously (not being rude) you don't. If you are going to go into the PPC then make sure you study up on it big time and then be prepared to drop a lot more than $35 on your testing!
I will be happy to when the budget is there. Right now it's a very quick and dry test run. The somewhat good news is that I have no clicks yet. So it still hasn't cost me anything but the $10 to start. My campaigns will get more budget once I get some money in next week (I'm not referring to Clickbank either). Cyclone
I recommend free methods to get traffic..... Its no joke I tried adwords when I just started IM didnt know what I was doing so I got shoot down in flames -$300.. Not that I recommend you use more cash but everyone that has said $5 is not enough is 100% correct no offence but you need to listen to these guys because some of them really know what they doing.
Somewhat. I haven't lost any more money yet. *LOL* But yes, I want clicks. And after seeing two of my three ads go to review, and the third CLAIM to be showing but yet not a single impression has occurred, I'm already worried this isn't going to go well. Quality is 7/10; not 10.10, but still good. I must be facing better quality in these ones. I have one more method to try elsewhere. Barring that working, I'll have to go back to article marketing. While I didn't expect immediate results, not being ranked on the first page is a bit discouraging. I also don't have a huge social network, so spreading links doesn't happen very easily. That's why the free methods don't seem favourable to me; I think I'll have to pay for my results and hope they work. I'd need coaching for the free results...which I'd still have to pay for. *LOL* Cyclone
No offense, but you clearly haven't done enough research. There are plenty of totally free ways of marketing (listed in this very forum) that have made people hundreds or thousands of dollars per month. I'm easily making $x,xxx per month without spending hardly any money on advertising. You don't need to be a genius and you definitely don't need to hire a coach, you just need to spend some time reading and learning.
The safest method is to build your website with a ton of content. The traffic doesn't start coming on the first day but once it does after a couple of months of work, it doesn't go quickly either. Article marketing traffic can get you from $200 a day to ZERO in a few weeks! I'd suggest you to see the money 2 months down the road. Build a couple of nice content sites and spend your time and money on building links.
Hope you are new to adwords.I highly recommend you "Definitive guide to google adwords" by Perry Marshall before you start running your adwords campaigns.
Well, Adwords isn't the only thing I'm trying. But I've determined in my marketing attempts, my budget isn't high enough, so I'll leave it at just the $10 and come back to it to try again when I have a better budget (at least the $10 was one-time). At least I got six impressions on one campaign, despite no clicks before I got outbid. On to my next investigation...I'll report back on this in a new thread, possibly. Cyclone
You seriously need to read up on Adwords, being happy about having six impressions is really quite sad... As someone mentioned, get a hold of Perry Marshalls Adwords ebook.
Did I give the impression I was happy with six impressions and zero clicks? My other campaigns finally updated today, too. I did get unconverted clicks yesterday. So I guess either the products I promoted weren't compelling enough, or people were just shopping and just didn't get that product (yet, if ever). I've temporarily suspended everything. Cyclone
....or you need to spend more than a few dollars to properly test any product/offer/ad/keywords/landing page/etc People told you what you need to do if you want to start out with basically no money, but you didn't listen.
Yes, I know I need to spend more money, too. Even with 25 clicks, though, I was hoping at least one would buy. Not a single one. Now I'm thinking my expectations were a little unrealistic; I had hoped one sale would be a normal expectation. Which is why I'm thinking I promoted pages that just don't convert enough. I'll figure it out someday with a better budget, this was just an experiment within what I have available now. Now will you please stop your trollish posts? Everything you've said to me has contained what appears to be an insult, even if you don't mean such. Cyclone
LOL. I gave you great advice. Advice that if you actually followed, would make you reasonable money without you needing to spend a penny. No wonder you are such a failure.