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Former CFO now a Small Business Consultant for companies doing work for the federal government. Also, heavily into affiliate marketing and buidling a business online.
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websitetoday's comment on Stats Junky ...
Stats Junky Does The Tracking For You
This tool is for the serious PPC marketer. It provides a tremendous capability to track the performance of your paid campaigns on virtually any of the major search engines.
At a high level, the way this tool works is that it accesses your affiliate accounts (e. g. Adwords, YSM, MS Ad Center) and/or your CPA or PPC programs (e. g ClickBank, Hydra, Copeac, ClickBooth, NeverBlue, Commission Junction to name just a few) by your providing Stats Junky the username and password for each account (if you have more than one Adwords account for example, SJ can pull data for each). In turn, SJ will retrieve statistics on all campaigns you are running for the accounts selected.
You can determine the time period for which Stats Junky shows your stats and you for each account displayed, you have the ability to drill down to the specific ad group, ad or keyword to hone in on performance of your campaigns at the lowest level.
The statistics are displayed in tabular format with the specific account/campaign on the left hand side and the particular statistic across the top. The stats revealed are impressions, clicks, sales, leads, rebills and refunds which are further portrayed in columns as EPC/CPC, Conversion Ratio, Earnings, Proj. /Earnings/day. There are a multitude of other variables on these statistics available such as cost/conversion, CTR and so on. Virtually any stat you can think of can be portrayed.
You also have the ability to hide and expand columns much like you can in Excel. You can also create graphs of your data. Speaking of Excel, you can export your data to Excel for further manipulation and/or storage.
Also, to get even greater definition of your campaigns performance at the keyword level relative to specific landing pages and ad performance, SJ has a unique and proprietary keyword tracking setup wizard which pulls from your campaigns keyword destination URL and appends the url with a unique SJ code that will return specific profit/loss of a campaign at the keyword level. To use this functionality with specifically designed landing pages, may require some modification of landing page HTML. This is a little more advanced but a very slick feature nonetheless.
Support for Stats Junky is exceptional with an excellent forum and trouble ticket response system. But a really terrific feature is that the tech team puts on daily (yes I said daily) webinars where you can call in and actually speak with live technicians to get any issues or problems resolved.
As I said before, this tool is for the serious marketer who needs large volumes of information fast and has such a level of activity that he/she can really benefit from the work this tool does behind the scenes.
websitetoday's comment on SpeedPPC ...
Speed PPC Is Well Thought-Out, A Time Saver and Provides Good Support
I purchased Speed PPC about 7 months ago. The program was recommended through an affiliate marketing pay per click course that I was taking. The course represented that Speed PPC was a real time saver.
For starters, Speed PPC has a tremendous set of video tutorials explaining every nuance of the program. The tutorials get you started with using the tool at a very basic level and builds upon that knowledge with each succeeding tutorial. This made it possible to use and implement the tool very quickly.
As for the capabilities of the tool itself, it does everything advertised. The application itself has four tabs across the top of the page:
1) Keyword Setup
2) Pricing and URL
3) Ad Setup
4) Output
The Keyword tab allows you to input all of your keywords and also create what is called expansion lists of keywords so that you can combine the two to create dynamic variable ads.
The Pricing and URL tab allow you to define starter pricing for your keywords for broad, phrase and exact match.
The Ad Setup tab allows you to create up to six different ad variations and the Output tab allows you to see the result of your campaign creation prior to uploading to the search engine.
The application allows you to create dynamic keyword insertion into your ads and url's. It also provides the capability of establishing a default keyword to replace your dynamic keyword in the event one of your dynamic keywords results in your exceeding the maximum character limit per line in any allowed by the various search engines.
Speed PPC also provides a tracking capability which you can implement by virtue of its keyword and url functionality. This gives you the ability to track your campaigns and identify your good performers from your poor performers. This is a key and valuable aspect some may not be aware of when considering SpeedPPC because of it's reputation as a time-saving campaign builder.
It does all of the above using, what I would consider, a very straight-forward application which is very user friendly.
Lastly, the support provided by Speed PPC is outstanding. Questions submitted directly through a support ticket are answered promptly as are questions posted on the well-used user forum.
While I would recommend Speed PPC very highly, it is not for the complete PPC “newbie”. It jump starts your campaign production, but if you don't have a grasp of basic PPC functionality with the various search engines, you could get overwhelmed and lost in the volume of campaign building.
Having said that, I do highly recommend this for the serious affiliate marketer using PPC advertising.
websitetoday's comment on Landing Page Generator ...
My thoughts on LPGen
I was first exposed to this program through another course I purchased called The Arbitrage Conspiracy (see my comment about that program too!)
Well, when I started this program, it took a little while to learn. For the non-programmer, it is a little challenging. But if I can learn it, anyone can. In fact, I knew little HTML and as Jonathon (The creator of LPGen) states in one of his tutorials, you must learn some HTML basics. It isn’t hard…I did it and so can you. Once you get your brain around some HTML basics you can use this program effectively.
However, as time has gone on, I think Google is starting to get savvy to some of these identical ads, and landing pages I am running now are getting a much lower QS than when I ran them months ago. I still think that this can be of value, but again you need to know some HTML.
websitetoday's comment on Ed Dale ...
Top Of The Line Course
This is one of the best programs on the market. The tutorials are well-thought out. Unlike other programs, they walk you through the baby steps so you can learn to crawl before you walk then learn to walk before you run.
The course, spread out over thirty days is extremely well organized and easy to reference. Some of the tools they promote such as Market Samurai and Traffic-Bug are super. If you join them through the program, you can get a pretty lengthy free trial.
I would recommend this program to anyone because it gives you so many basics in all walks of online marketing. This truly is one of the better programs out there to learn the trade.
websitetoday's comment on Arbitrage Conspiracy ...
My thoughts on the Arbitrage Conspiracy
I signed up for and went through the 12 week course. There is a lot of “meat” in this course. These guys (Aymen and his associates) obviously spent a huge amount of time working on the course material. I was brand spanking new to the world of affiliate marketing and CPA offers and I now consider myself, largely due to this course, much more informed.
I never achieved the level of success these guys claim that they did. Yes, I did make some money but I am still in the red considering the cost of the course, the cost of the various tools (LPGen, SpeedPPC to name a few) and the cost of Adwords and YSM campaigns. You can dig a deep hole pretty quickly if you are not careful.
I think these guys are honest and hard working. However, what I found most frustrating was the actual teaching style. These guys are not teachers—they are “do-ers” and yes they would appear to be very good at the doing part. But having been through college all the way to a Masters degree, I know the difference between someone who can teach and someone who can’t. Teaching is not these guys “forte”. They get a little impatient. I think they know their trade so well that they find it difficult to take the baby steps a newbie might require.
So a word of caution, if you sign up for this program (I think it is being re-released), be sure to join the forums and look for others on the social networking media like Facebook. I found others who joined and collectively we were able to push through the material.
One other comment—this program is not for the casual part-time online marketer. There is a lot of material covered and while you can to some extent work at your own pace because the material is recorded, it can be overwhelming to get a couple of weeks behind. I would say you need to devote a minimum of 20+ hours per week to absorb and put into action the lessons.
websitetoday's comment on Chris Farrell Membership ...
The best site and product for starting your online business
Believe me, I have a lot of experience in trying different products and promotions in this area of internet and online marketing.
There is truly only one site and program that I have found that provides you with everything you need to know to get started online.
That site is Chris Farrell’s Membership Site and the program is Create Your First Website By 3:45 This Afternoon. Chris teaches all the building blocks so your online business has a firm foundation on which to build. He leaves nothing to chance. Whether you are a “newbie” or have some experience like myself, this is the place to start.
As I have said many times before, too many “gurus” talk about how they achieved their success, but in my experience few can really teach you how to follow their program to achieve the same level of success. Chris not only has all the steps identified and spelled out, his teaching style is comfortable, honest and to the point. I highly recommend his program--it really is the best out there!