Okay, I have a story to tell!

I had set-up two affiliate advertising campaigns in Adwords last week. I kept logging in from time to time to check the statistics of those campaigns but I kept seeing 0 clicks and the costs as $0.

Then, today, before going to do my stuff, I logged into my affiliate account and I saw this:

Okay, the first two were organic sales I had made (yup, I’m starting to get some luck reward there too!) But the two for the last period, that is, $49.59 couldn’t have come from organic sales.

I logged into adwords to check the statistics. I kept saying 0, so, I wondered, what’s going on. Then, I changed the data display period for the whole month and I saw that I had actually received 152 clicks on one campaign with the total cost of $16.35 and also 48 clicks on the second campaign with the cost of $12.25. I checked out and noticed I had made one sale in the latter one to the total of about $30 while I lost money on the first one. Overall, I spent $28.5 to earn $49.59 which is a return of 74 percent.

Now, I know not that much about affiliate marketing, I did not do much tracking and my campaigns were not tweaked that well. But, from these results, I can see how I am getting to start it!

If I learn to manage the campaigns better, do better tracking and continue on organic sales, maybe in the end I can get my own product and get myself and later, affiliates to promote it for passive income! If that’s the case, I can actually manage to make a living like this!

Now, these are just baby steps and they are quite late but I am getting to get it and so this really motivates. I think I’m gonna keep on doing some more stuff from now. Wish me luck! :)

P.S. I checked the first campaign in Adwords and noticed (as I was doing placement-targeted advertising) that I was losing big on all the other sites except one where I was getting very cheap clicks. I cancelled all the other sites and left that one only. Too bad it isn’t getting so much traffic… About the second campaign, well, I can’t really do much because it’s keyword-targeted (except to search for more keywords). We’ll see.