Now, regarding my affiliate marketing income report for October. To say the least it was an interesting month. No Media Buying took place once so ever as I spent the entire month waiting for my September income to show up so I could get things funded. Unreal eh! I am still waiting on around 2500.00 from September to come in and once I have it - were kicking things up. I am actually in the process right now of setting up two new buys to test out. One with a partner and one alone through a contact I got with Ultimate CPA. Stay tunned on them, you know I am going to be posting once everything goes live in the next week or so.

Ok, now to the meat of this article - my October income report.

Affiliate Marketing Income Report for October  2009

Regular Earnings (SEO Sites)

• Neverblue Ads - $8265.00
• Media Trust - $480.72
• Copeac - $360.64
• Max Bounty - $92.96
• Azoogle - $114.40
• Wotogepa - $115.56
• Hydra - $175.65
• Karaktr track - $42.43
• Ultimate CPA - 69.33
• Opes Media - $369.79

Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $10648.00

Recurring Affiliate Commissions

• Inlinks - $50.02
• PPC Coach - $115.00
• Unique Article Wizard - $115.00

Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$280.02

Monthly Sub Total = $ 10,928.00

Expenses For Regular Earnings in August

• Dedicated Server - $154.00
• Unique Article Wizard - $70.00
• PPC Coach - $49.00
• Media Buys Coach - $100.00

Total Expenses = $373.00

Total Net Income For September 2009 = $10555.00

So we went up a bit from last month which was completely shocking to me. I had another 25 or so sites go dead (which is why you see nothing from Unique Leads this month. It looks like a advertiser got slapped from Miss Oprah - Again.

Now, if you will excuse me I have a network to rebuild again and Media Buying to get started on.

Stay Tuned!

Ok, as promised here is a list of websites you can use for Media Buying. Keep one thing in mind though. Some media buyers will only test there campaigns using this list. After they have seen where their top converting traffic has come from, they will try and contact the sites directly for a larger media buy. This will lower the cost of the campaign and hopefully increase the end ROI.

Right now, being a smaller media buying guy - I just work off of this list with the sites I can use and that fit my budget. I will give you what ever information I have for each media buying site.

24-7 Real Media
132 W 31st St
New York, NY 10001
212-231-7100

$10,000 min
$50,000 budget for low CPM

Ad Dynamix
1201 W 5th St
Ste T300
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-481-8444

CPM Based Buys

Ad Pepper
108 W. 39th St, Ste 1000
New York, NY 10018
212-686-1000
salesusa@adpepper.com

CPM, CPC, CPL

Ad Smart/ Adrevenue LLC
100 Park Ave, Ste 1600
New York, NY 10017
646-290-6608

CPA Based

AdBrite
731 Market St, 5th Fl
San Fransisco, CA 94103
415-995-3330

CPC Based

adconion
1322 3rd St Promenade, 2nd Level
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-382-5500

CPM,CPC,CPA Based

AdEngage
101 Continental Blvd, Ste 1050
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-640-0101
contact@adengage.com

CPM and CPC Advertising

Advertising.com
75 Rockefeller Plaza
25th Floor
New York, NY 10019
212-277-1980

CPM Based

Banner Connect
+31 (0) 46-707-4992

They Do Both PPC and CPM

Blue Lithium
104 5th Ave 9th Fl
New York, NY 10011
212-808-8273

CPM Based

Bright Roll
117 East 5th St. 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022 Tommy 6466528569
212-331-7863

High Quality Video Ads, CPM based!

Burst Network
8 New England Exec Park
Burlington, MA 01803
781-272-5544

They offer PPC ( they call it CPC), CPM, and CPA
5000 Minimum Buy

Collective Media
254 W 31st St 12th floor
New York, NY 10001
646-722-8550

CPM Based

CPX Interactive
1600 Stewart Ave, Ste 401
Westbury NY 11590
800-368-1872

They are CPX - depends on the client and offers Cost: Lowest possible CPM’s

Drivepm
110 5th Ave, 8th Fl
New York, NY 10011
917-267-3231

CPA,CPC,CTC based

enCircle Media
17752 Mitchell, Ste C
Irvine, CA 92614
949-209-4997

Both PPC and CPM

Exelate
817 Broadway, Ste. 501
New York, NY 10003
646-237-4200

CPM Based

Glam Media
646-205-7008

CPM Based - women consumers online
lifestyle, beauty, fashion, design, and cooking blogs and sites from indie publishers

Go Fish
706 Mission St, 10th Fl
San Fransisco, CA 94103
415-738-8706

CPM Based Aadvertising

Indieclick
Los Angeles
213-623-4991
sales@indieclick.com

CPM Based

Interclick
200 Park Ave S
Suite 908-909
New York, NY 10003
646-722-6260

Media Kit
comscore fastest growing
ad network 2007-2008
Transparent, 10K Min

CPM Based Ads

Intergi
1000 E. Hillsboro Blvd
Ste 201
Deerfield beach, FL 33441
954-418-0779

PPC and CPM (Gamer Crowd)

Jump Start
747 Front St, Ste 400
San Fransisco, CA 94111

Dedicated to the automotive market.

Mooter Media
level 1
12 Help St
Chatswood
NSW 2067
Australia
+61-2-9325-5950
info@mootermedia.com

PPC and CPC Advertising

Neoedge Networks
215 Castro St, 2nd Fl
Mountain View, CA 94041
650-853-8143

Casual Gaming Audience
focused on video ads
CPM Basis
65% Adult Female Mkt

CPM Based

NetShelter
8500 Leslie St
Suite 520
Thornhill, ON L3T 7MB
905-764-7139

Business IT decision makers, IT professionals, technology buyers, tech enthusiasts, and dedicated gamers

Platform -A
770 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
212-652-6400

Pulse 360
680 5th Ave
New York, NY 10019
866-947-8573

CPC Based Advertising

Quigo
Adsonar for Advertisers
adsonarsales@platform-a.com

PPC Based (Sites like Fox News and People.com)

RealTech Network
75A Lake Road, Ste 150
Congers, NY 10920
877-423-7786
Support@RealTeckNetwork.com

PPC and CPM Based

Audio Science
420 Lexington Ave, Ste 2740
New York, NY 10170
646-443-2310

CPM Based Advertising

Rubicon Project
1925 S. Bundy Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-207-0272

CPM Boosting: Optimize CPM’s and fill rates by geography, audience and content!

ScanScout
33 W. 19th St. 4th Floor
New York, NY 10011
AdvertiserSupport@scanscout.com

video indexing, ad targeting, and optimization platform that can target video ads contextually, behaviorally, geographically, and demographically.

CPM Based

Snap Shots
130 W Union St
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-585-6900

CPM Based

Specific Media
4 Park Plaza Ste 1900
Irvine, CA 92614
949-861-8888

Targeting Technology
Leader in High Interest audiences across leading categories

Both CPM and PPC

Sportgenic
1 Sansome St, 15th Fl
San Fransisco, CA 94104
415-983-2300

CPM Based

Traffic Marketplace
335 Madison Ave #840
New York, NY 10017
646-307-8600

CPM and CPC

Travel Ad Network
55 Broad St, 24th Fl
New York, NY 10004
212-267-0747

CPC Based

Tremor Media
122 W 26th St 8th Fl
New York, NY 10001
646-723-5300

Advertisers
Can Target operating systems, and connections speeds
Video!

CPM Based

Tribal Fusion
2200 Powell St, Ste 600
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-250-5500

Complete break down of what sites you can advertise on.

CPM based

Turn, Inc
1600 Seaport Blvd, Ste 300
Redwood City, CA 94063
650-353-4399

CPM Based

Vibrant Media
565 5th Ave
15th Fl
New York, NY 10017
646-312-6139 (Kelly)

In Text ADS

CPC Based

YuMe
39 W 14th St. Ste 302
New York, NY 10011
212-929-7470

Specialize in broadband video ads

CPM Based.

I don’t use all of these networks, but if you are looking to get into media buying, that’s a decent list of places to buy ads from. Hope that helps you get started!

Got any questions? Fire Away!!

Media Buying took a little slow turn last month, well, to be honest, it was a complete break even venture. I did some testing and lost money on a few campaigns and made some as well. It all worked out to be even so there is really nothing to report to you guys in my income report.

Ok now lets get at it shall we!

Affiliate Marketing Income Report for September 2009

Regular Earnings

• Neverblue Ads - $4105.67
• Unique Leads - $2483.96
• Copeac - $1313.91
• CX Digital - $1171.77
• Azoogle - $413.38
• Wotogepa - $231.12
• Hydra - $175.65

Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $9895.06

Recurring Affiliate Commissions

• Inlinks - $67.02
• PPC Coach - $150.00

Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$217.02

Monthly Sub Total = $ 10,112.48

Expenses For Regular Earnings in August

• Dedicated Server - $154.00
• Unique Article Wizard - $70.00
• PPC Coach - $49.00
• Media Buys Coach - $200.00

Total Expenses = $473.00

Total Net Income For September 2009 = $9639.48 (YAYA)

Ok so now I feel a bit better. My gross hit the minimum earnings amount that I have set for myself but the net profit needs to come up.

So, all in all I was happier then I was in August, but with driving harder into the media buying realm - we should start to see a bigger increase for October. I have set my goal to $15,000 net. We’ll see how close I can get.

Will, the creator of the famous PPC Coaching program called PPC Coach has teamed up with a very successful full time Media Buyer to bring the first ever resource center and training program for people looking to learn the ropes in Media Buying.

Why is this a good thing?

Well, if any of you have been doing any type of following up with Media Buying after reading my blog posts to learn more you would have seen there is very little information out there on the topic at all and that is for a few reasons.

1- Media Buyers are not bloggers

2- Media Buyers do not want the competition.

What is nice to see is that there will be a full list of resources of where to buy media traffic from so regardless of the size of your budget, you will find a way to make more money and at a  faster rate then regular PPC.

Remember my first week in Media Buying, My first campaign hit a 350% ROI after only 4 days being live off of a &50.00 per day spend! Does that tell you what type of money can be made???

Unlike Google, there is tons of room for more Media Buyers, and the fact is - Media Websites and Media Buying Firms such as Adsonar that offer media buying in a PPC or CPM model are begging for more affiliates to get into this space as there is just tons of traffic that can be hit, daily!

I know first hand what kind of program Will from PPC Coach puts together and look forward to learning more myself in this industry. Honestly - it’s where the money is at right now and for many more years to come.

“Join Media Buys Coach Today”

Media Buying:

Media Buying is where you can buy ad space (Banner Ads) or place a text link ad (Like Adsense) onto very popular websites such as People.Com, MSNBC, Fox New, Nascar.Com and hundreds if not thousands of more sites.

What’s The Traffic Like On These Sites?

People.com has anywhere from 10million to 50 million hits per day. That is a lot of traffic you can target with a wide range of different types of ads and offers.

Sites like MSNBC and Fox News have just as much traffic as People .com but you are able to target niches more accurately. If your running a health related offer you can hit the traffic that reads the health section of the news sites.

The reason why this is such a good form of advertising is due to the fact this is where Internet traffic hangs out all day - on the popular sites, makes sense right! Don’t confuse Facebook with these other sites either, Facebook is a social networking site, not a media site.

There are two basic forms of Media Buying you can do - a CPC type (Cost Per Click) and a CPM type (Cost Per Impressions). When you start out Media Buying and if you have a smaller budget, it is best to start off in the CPC area as you can test your ads out better and get better data before committing your funds to a bigger media buy. Also, the CPM area is really for Media Buyers who have a big budget to play with and they usually end up buying media traffic directly from the website. CPC purchases are handled buy third party companies like Pulse 360 and Adsonar.

Depending on which company you decide to start buying media traffic from, you can expect to pay anywhere from .50 per click to $5.00 per click. In a later post I will list out all the companies you can buy Media Traffic from so make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed Here to keep updated.

Can You Start Media Buying On A $50.00 A Day Budget?

Dame straight you can! I have wasted so much money on Google Adwords because of only having a small budget and the costs per click are so expensive on Google, if I would of got into Media Buying 6 months ago - my financial situation would be a lot different right now - that’s for sure! Plus, there are a lot less restrictions on advertising on media sites then like on Google. All ads are manually approved so the chances of getting your account banned are slim. “There Is NO GOOGLE SLAPS to deal with at ALL!!!

Problems with Media Buying:

There are a few problems with-in the media buying space that I have found. One is that the big media buyers don’t care about there ROI’S as much as the little guys do so they end up over bidding to try and capitalize on the traffic from a certain site and make it harder for smaller people to get into Media Buying. To me, this is dumb and very stupid to do because if they worked on getting higher conversions instead of the most traffic - they would create much more room for new people (there still is a ton of room right now)  to break into Media Buying plus they would ultimately make more money with spending less. “More Money Then Brains - Type Of Thing”

The second problem is with-in the Affiliate Network space. Affiliate Managers are way to protective of the affiliates they have doing Media Buying and do not release nearly enough information to any affiliate looking to break into this market.

Funny thing is - Most affiliates will leave a network for only .10 cents more per lead, so why do networks show so much loyalty to these affiliates when they can and will be left hanging in a heart beat! The Networks have the information you need to get into Media Buying, if they won’t give it to you - find a new network.

Also, still with the network issues. If a network does not have a top converting offer - most will not tell you which offers are converting high on Media Traffic on other networks (and they know cause affiliates tell them) if there’s sucks so you are going to have to do a few things to find out on your own. Spy on your competition and see what there running then use Offer Vault (Free Service) to find out who has the offer, sign up with that network and go from there.

Huge Bonuses With Media Buying:

There is a lot more pluses to Media Buying that out way the negatives ten fold. One is, more traffic then most people can handle. The traffic is insane actually. Yesterday I fired up a campaign on People.com and was paying $1.51 per click and blew a $100.00 budget in ten minuets. God I love seeing that!! I did have a slight profit after that ten minuets too. (Now its time to optimize that campaign) which we will cover at another time, but a little hint here. It has to do more with how I price my ads then changing the site around.

The biggest feature I love with Media buying is the 3 to 500% ROI that you can get with this traffic source. Don’t let anyone tell you different - ROI’S that high are common. I had one affiliate manager tell me his affiliates were doing 20 to 30% ROI. I told him, his affiliates suck! LOL

Another huge plus is there is not a lot of competition right now in Media Buying because of how fast you can blow a budget and also there is very little information on it for people to learn. Also, many people think you need to have 5k a day to test out a campaign. That’s only true on certain sites “The Big Sites” and like I said above, you can start off with a small budget too.

Here is a video from Media Trust’s Jivan Manhas who runs through how to get into Media Buying and where you should start off from if you have a smaller budget.

I hope this clears up some issues some of you had understanding what Media Buying is and if there is something that don’t make sense - just ask me.

The last week of August I did notice and increase in traffic, so it looks like things are going to get back to normal this month, or very close to it.

Affiliate Marketing Income for August 2009

Regular Earnings

• Neverblue Ads - $1702.28
• Media Trust - $1177.70
• Unique Leads - $1196.06
• Azoogle Ads - $603.33
• Pepperjam Network - $64.71
• Lead Expose - $46.22
• Karaktr Media - $48.53
• Hydra Network -$43.91

Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $4882.74

Recurring Affiliate Commissions

• Inlinks - $67.02
• PPC Coach - $150.00

Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$217.02

Monthly Sub Total = $5099.74

Expenses For Regular Earnings in August

• Dedicated Server - $154.00
• Unique Article Wizard - $70.00
• PPC Coach - $49.00

Total Expenses = $273.00

Media Buying Affiliate Income

• Media Trust -$584.73

Media Buying Costs - $200.00

Total Media Buying Profit = $384.73

Total Monthly Net Income = $5211.43

As you can see, there was one hell of a drop from the month before. Here are a few things I can contribute to my decrease in earnings that was and is completely out of my control. (nature of the beast type of thing)

1. Holiday season in full effect = less traffic
2. One of my major advertisers did a complete re-brand of all his offers which meant I had to redo all of my biggest earning sites.
3. Oprah Law Suit regarding health offers and people using her name and Dr. Oz’s name - that really shook things up this past few weeks.

So with that said, I am pushing for a way better month this month and should have no problem (I Hope) getting back to where I was. The nice thing is, once you do something once, it’s easy to do it a second time!

How was your month for earnings in August?

Before I get to my media buying stats I wanted to say one thing first. What I am doing to restrict myself from going nuts and wasting money on media buying by over spending which is common in PPC is that I am using a secured credit card. There is a very small amount of a security deposit on the card which helps my spending control. (Cause it’s secured - there is no debt)

There is nothing worse to me then getting excited after a good day with a campaign and then dumping a bunch a money into it with out having all the right data or knowing fully what your doing. So for me, it’s better to take baby steps, plus I am sure my son would appreciate me thinking of his well being instead of my own greed.

Ok now to the money part of my 3rd and 4th day having a media buying campaign live.

Wednesday

• Spend - $50.00
• Earnings - &90.71 ($41.71 Profit)

I never really made any big changes on Wednesday to my landing page so everything stayed the same as Tuesday as far as profit goes. That’s about a 80% ROI if your wandering.

I did make some changes to my landing page  half way through the day after a few phone call conferences with a few affiliate networks. Here are the results of those changes.

Thursday

• Spend - $50.00
• Earnings - $272.14 ($222.14 Profit - that’s about a 300% ROI)

So as you can see, talking with a few people on the phone who have lots of experience with Media Buying, kind of helped a lot.

My goal with Media Buying was to be at 100% ROI before I started to up my daily spend on a campaign or landing page. As you can see, I am a bit above my goal.

What’s my next step?

Well, as per the phone calls yesterday there is still a few things I needed to change to the landing page that I want to try out but I have reloaded my credit card to handle a $100.00 daily spend next week. If things stay the same as today or very close, I am off to the races with a whole team of horses!

I am still going to inch my way up the Media Buying ladder until I am very comfortable with what I am doing, but after week one going this way - I can see myself at $1000.00 per day profit buy the end of September. Man I am looking forward to that! (and when that happens there will be a trip to Toronto for me and a few good parties to be had)

Ok so last week when I was getting back to work after my extended holiday I started developing my first Media Buying site. It was a bit tricky to do as the approach I took was to review sites that I saw through current ads on the sites I want to advertise on and then put my own little spin on it. While I was building this new site I was splitting my time with my current work load to get that back on track. Was a bit of a challenge to say the least to jungle both types of affiliate marketing.

After two days now of running my first media buying campaign, here are my results so far.

Monday

• Spend - $50.00
• Earnings - $41.00 ($9.00 Loss)

Last night after I saw this in my tracker, I decided to take a look at a few other sites again and make some changes. One problem I noticed was that my bid was to high for a new site. I lowered it and go a bit more traffic today to my site which proved to be worth the move.

Tuesday

• Spend - $50.00
• Earnings - &90.71 ($41.71 Profit)

So as you can see, the changes I made, made the campaign profitable for me today. I have once again lowered my bid (how much I pay per click) to see if tomorrow I can get a bit more traffic to the site.

My goal is to double everyday what I spend - 100 in and a 100 out type of thing, and I am just about there so maybe a bit more traffic would help that out.

The problem with bidding high in media buying is that you get a pile of clicks in a very short period so testing your site or optimizing it can be a bit of a challenge. Back in February when I first looked into media buying I went with a max bid on a 100 dollar spend and to my surprise that only allowed my ad to run for 10 minuets and then it was off. You can’t test shit all with ten minuets of traffic in my opinion.

So as you can see, my first challenge is to really learn how to bid right with a smaller budget. Once I get the site doubling my spend everyday, then I am going to dump more money into the campaign and see what that does - after!

I’ll keep you guys posted on that for sure!

I was told that the heavy holiday season starts the last week of July and goes until the third week of August. If that is the case, which it appears to be - I don’t like it.

Currently with how things are looking for my earnings for the month it is looking like I might hit 1/3 of what I normally do. That is not cool, but, if this is the normal slow period then its not to bad at all cause I am still going to hit the minimum amount I need to make per month.

What Have I Been Doing In My Slow Time?

I have been studying Media Buying and researching the heck out of it. Media Buying is ultimately what I want to be doing as the rewards are just huge, the risks are huge as well but it will be worth it in the long run.

So with that, I am back to the grind stone updating sites and studying!

It has been an interesting month to say the least, with a slow period hitting due to the holidays plus the addition of a new affiliate network I started working with - it should be interesting to see the results. Just so you guys know, I add everything up that I made at the exact time I write this post. So what ever it is, I find out just before you do.

Affiliate Marketing Income for July 2009

Regular Earnings

• Neverblue Ads - $6781.92
• Media Trust - $2145.94
• Unique Leads - $805.45
• Azoogle Ads - $686.42
• Hydra Network - $286.35
• Pepperjam Network - $116.71
• Lead Expose - $87.82
• Market Leverage - $62.40
• Karaktr Track - $48.53

Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total - $11,021.54

Recurring Affiliate Commissions

• Inlinks - $68.98
• Unique Article Wizard - $32.19
• PPC Coach - $254.99

Recurring Affiliate Income Total - $356.16

Monthly Sub-Total - $11,377.70

Expenses for July 2009

• Dedicated Server - $154.00
• Unique Article Wizard - $70.00
• PPC Coach - $49.00
• Godaddy Domains - $100.00

Total Expenses - $373.00

Net Profit for July 2009 - $11,004.70

Personally I was shocked at this income for the month. Like I said in a post a few days ago, I have been very slack with working this month (and am changing that for next month) plus there has been a large decrease in traffic due to the summer holidays - I am guessing that’s the reason as my sites are all still ranked where they were a month ago.

So with July’s income being lower then normal and the first month in 7 months I have not seen a growth, looks like I am going to kick things up a bit. I have now hired a copywriter to work with me more on a few key sites I am building, so that should really help.

Last month I stated that I was going to get a Face book campaign up and running. I changed my mind on that after I saw the traffic drop, but don’t worry - I got some things in the books for August and if they all pan out, you’ll love the results.

Conclusion

In my mind I lost $1751.11 from the month before with the lower income from July, and even though it happens, I still don’t want this to become a habit or a trend.

With starting to use Unique Leads I will say that I am very impressed with the results so far. The tracking system they have seems to be top notch and very accurate and I look forward to seeing what I can do with them next month.

You are also going to receive a review of Unique Leads as well.