Yes in your imagination this may be the case but it is far from reality as you have discovered!! Many people send a few hundred clicks to a product to determine whether it is worth promoting or not.......your $5-10 bucks is like pissing in the wind.....ill advised.... You will never know sending that paltry amount of traffic.....if you are going into PPC be prepared to spend some money!! People have already told you what you should do from here on it so it's no use whining about what you have done and the money you have lost.......if it were that easy we would all be typing from our beach front apartment sipping on Pina Coladas!
LMAO, true about the beachfront apartment (hell, in that scenario, I'd consider Toronto), but I don't drink. And I don't call it whining; I call it putting out my ill experience "pissing in the wind", as you call it. Hopefully someone else thinking about Google Adwords on a short budget will read this and decide it's a bad idea after my experience. Cyclone
I think you just have to be smart and analytical if you are entering the PPC market, I mean you could just have easily made 5 sales with your 25 clicks in which case you would have rushed out and put a down payment on that condo in Toronto thinking that this game is sooooo easy .......only to find after spending another $300 that you haven't made another sale.....(and yes it happens) There are a lot of people on these forums that spend mega money on Adwords and make a lot of money but they have been there and done that and can probably set up campaigns in their sleep now.
Breaking that into several chunks... - Yes, I agree you have to be smart. I thought I was by managing my budget except for the faux pas not knowing Google doesn't update your stats until the next day...and thus I didn't know what I actually was being charged. - Yup, I could have made five sales just as easily. - Nope, I wouldn't be heading to Toronto yet. I'm a cautious person in general, though if I can make something work that caution will change around the Poker table only. Since places in Toronto mortgage for $2 million (mebbe more) in the downtown areas, I won't be thinking about Toronto until I have a good moneymaking process in place. For now, I'm stuck here. Cyclone
In most cases, you are going to spend at least $400-$500 in adwords clicks before you can even gauge if the campaign is profitable. You can't just go with 20 clicks a day and know if your campaign will work. Trust me, I've been burned in the adwords world as well and you are just gonna have to trust me on this one.
Yes, as stated prior I'm abandoning Adwords for now until I have a better budget and can afford the thing. Cyclone
I would always recommend getting experience in article marketing befoer jumping into ppc - it is free and will give you so much more experience - experience in internet marketing generally, of keyword research, of which keywords get traffic, are buyers keywords, convert (for you personally) and after (a lot of) this you will be in a much better position to re-approach ppc. If you are brand new you will most likely fail whatever you try first, but keep doing it and you will get there, and I think its probably better to fail at something that doesnt cost you money