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Oh the wondrous Nitrous, how happy I am that I chose to pay the additional $50 to have you during my root canal! Man, this was a great experience.

First of all, the laughing gas doesn’t make you laugh at all. What it does is make you very, very optimistic about everything that is going on. I mean, the dentist could drill, cut, inflict pain, whatnot. You just don’t care.

The pain is still there, but you are in this “bring it on” mode. So it is very recommended.

Another perk is that while high on nitrous your mind races, and all sort of ideas pop into your mind. Some are really ridiculous, but some are really great. The tough part is remembering them after it wears off.

I had this cool idea of promoting a CPA offer on Facebook in a certain way, and what do you know… took me a while to remember what on earth was it, but when I did, and implemented it, the results were good. lol… Conversions are ok, and the campaign is profitable.

Can’t tell you what it is though, sorry. Have your own nitrous enlightenment.

What I do want to tell you is the difference between running Facebook ads to Adwords.

While doing Adwords Search you can target the keyword the person is searching for and find those customers that are in the “buy mode” for your specific offer.

On Facebook, however, no one searches anything. But, you can target your adds to many parameters. Geo, Age, interests, language. marital status, etc… So, your mindset should be different.

Pick an offer that you think would fit the tightest targeting, and run it. Best bet if it is a lead, not a sale.

SO, for example, don’t get those forex or bizopp offers. Take a mobile pin offer for a trendy ringtone or a mobile trivia game. Target a certain country (if you know a foreign language and the offer accepts this traffic, great, make it local), think of the most probable age group. Think if that person would be a man or a woman (try running a Quantcast search on the url of the offer to get a whole bunch of stats), set the bid to the recommended lowest bid and go, go, go…

Don’t dismiss Facebook because people say it doesn’t work. Just try.

- Alex

Happily posting useful content at Net-Entrepreneur.com
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Facebook Ads on Nitrous

But, today I thought would be a perfect day to write a few lines because I have a root canal scheduled in two hours and I cannot start doing anything serious anyway.

This time I will talk about Google Adsense for the first time in a long long while. Adsense hasn’t been my cup of tea during my time online, but recently I found myself owning a bunch of domains that could potentially become Adsense sites.

So I slapped on some WP themes got niche-targeted content, hooked up Adsense blocks and let them simmer. Sure enough, traffic was slowly starting to trickle. Muhaahaa!

Having other, important, things to do rather than check the stats every day I let it be only to come back after two months…

Following the two months, my Adsense account stats showed I had a load of clicks (All Right!), but no earnings! (WTF!)

WTF!

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Googling for a reason I found that it usually happens when

• Public Service Ads displayed – I didn’t have those
• Someone paid for CPM (per thousand impressions, not per click). That could be, but I seriously didn’t think so.
• Invalid clicks

So nearly dismissing this issue, never to touch Adsense again, I almost by accident stumbled on another source that said that there’s an allowed sites functionality in Adsense, where you can restrict your ads to be shown only on specific urls. If you have anything in there, the ads that are displayed on other domains would not generate revenue.

Guess what! For some reason, over a year ago, I set up restrictions to this domain only. Every other domains were not generating revenue… that’s what I call a stupid mistake.

The moral of this story is that you should check stats in the beginning to see everything’s ticking, educate yourself and know the features of the services you use.

-Alex

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Current post was originally posted on:

A Stupid Adsense Mistake

Being published on John’s blog is a bit symbolic for me.

JohnChow.com is one of the first blogs I stumbled upon when, on a cold November 2007 night, I was looking for ways to make money online. True, it didn’t come up in Google, since by that time John was already known as the Evil Panda Slayer, and Google didn’t bring him up. I was referred from some other blog. But, nevertheless, it had a huge impact on me at the time, seeing the figures he was making, the posts frequency, the FeedBurner counter and all the other authority markers.

Year and a half since, I was still reluctant to guest post. I always had a feeling that the true quality content was supposed to be on my blog. How on earth was I supposed to give away a fine article to another blog, when I was struggling to keep up with the daily posting?

But, a lot has changed during this time. I’m more laid back with my posts, and I made it clear to my readers that I will be posting weekly at best because I’m busy with PPC and other projects. I thought that I would loose my readership, but RSS count was steadily rising since then.

Luckily for me, I was getting more involved with article marketing, so releasing high quality content to other websites wasn’t as painful as it was before. And, as a weird coincidence, a buddy of mine was telling me that he thought it was impossible to guest post at John’s blog unless you were his close friend or a big-time-blogger…

So, I knew that I had to prove him wrong. John is a businessman and a pro-blogger. He must value his time and grab an opportunity when he sees one.

I proceeded to write a post intended to be published on John’s blog. The true way to make it a no-brainer for a blogger to host your post (wtf, it rhymes) is to tailor-fit it to the blog’s subject-matter. So a post about mailing lists was a good idea, since John’s marketing Aweber quite a lot.

A couple of days later, with a post about “making money with mailing lists” in my hand, I sent John a short email asking if he would be interested in hosting my post, with the .DOC file attached to the message. (saving him precious time and money)

I was prepared to give it away anyway, so no terms were set, no deadlines whatsoever. Imagine a noob sending you an email with a post and demands that it would be published in three days or else he’d go elsewhere. How rude!

So, ok, I’m not exactly a noob, but it’s always best to assume that you are in the eyes of the other. Especially since John didn’t know me personally and we never talked before.

So here we are.
Let me give you some tips to get published on another blog (when you’re not invited by the blogger, of course):

Four Tips to Successfully Pitch Your Post to Be Published on Any Blog

1. Fit your post to the host. (Rhymes again, I know)
2. Send the post itself along with the request email.
3. Make the email as short as possible:
   

   Hi,

   I’m Alex from net-entrepreneur.com, could you be interested in hosting my article about Big Red Widgets? See file attached.

   Cheers,
   Alex.

4. Don’t make terms or whatever. If the blogger doesn’t get back to you in two weeks, send it to another blogger, with the needed adjustments, publish it yourself or be free to do whatever you want with it. 14 days is more than enough to consider the offer and give a green light.

Have fun!

-Alex

Happily posting useful content at Net-Entrepreneur.com
Current post was originally posted on:

Chillin at John Chow’s: How to Pitch a Guest Post

The thing about PPC is that you have to pay money upfront, and usually will have to throw anything between $100 and $600+, depending on the niche and your experience, on testing an offer before you decide whether it is a keeper. Imagine testing several offers and you would clearly see what I’m talking about.

Now, the big question is what you do on these breaks?

• If you’re doing affiliate marketing full time and find yourself in this situation, you’re obviously out of luck. Look for ways to get money! lol.
• If you have a day job, you can just relax and wait for your next paycheck to come in to fund you with a few coins.

But if you want to become a serious affiliate marketer, and eventually quit you day job, you can’t afford to sit back and relax. You got to go out there and find ways to make money online without paying anything,

There are a lot of ways for that, and one of them is bum marketing a.k.a. article marketing. This post is not article marketing in particular, so I won’t explain you the whole theory. Besides, it is so basic and elemental that you’ve probably heard about it numerous times since your being online.

This is not just about Article Marketing…

Article marketing has seen many critics and since it works exceptionally well for some and can extraordinarily suck for others.

What many marketers (the ones that it sucks for them) don’t understand is that article marketing is a very large division of Internet Marketing. It can be done this way or that way or the third way. Or the fourth way, really, there are many different and creative ways to implement article marketing.

What is this About?

One of those ways was One Week Marketing, a cool guide that I reviewed a few posts back. One Week Marketing gives you a one week long plan for launching an elaborate marketing campaign for an offer, without spending a dime.

The thing is that not only had I reviewed it, I also started using it to supplement my PPC efforts.

I already had sales coming in for a few offers I launched, and the beauty of that is: you get to keep the commission as net profit!

No more subtracting ppc costs… Everything you make is yours – sweet.

So, I want to take this chance to offer you a $20 rebate for One Week Marketing. You can find the details in my members’ area, after you opt in and receive your password.

One Week Marketing is not expensive as is, and with my $20 rebate it is really a no-brainer. Don’t miss this opportunity.

- Alex

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Current post was originally posted on:

What Do You Do When You Run Out of Money For PPC?