Doug’s First Week Summary

The first week of the contest could have gone better. Unfortunately the affiliate game has not provided the opportunity to untether me from the corporate world yet so I had a lot to juggle. I was working on a large infrastructure project that I played a key role and helped work though a security incident all while providing husband and daddy support for my daughter and wife (both had pinkeye and a cold and my wife had strep and an ear infection)! Regardless to say, I had my hands full but is that really any different than most of you? Probably not.

So, what was my strategery to beat my comrade? Considering the time frame of the contest and knowing the week was going to be busy outside of my affiliate game, I planned to setup and gather traffic quickly followed by analytics. Additionally, as time allowed I planned to add additional content, utilize social marketing, mail list creation with bonuses and obtaining additional traffic.

I was able to execute on the first part of the plan by setting up quickly by becoming an affiliate for the offer I choose to push, used Blogger, with a lame mail list sign-up form (with no bonuses offered), a twitter account with a couple followers already and a advertising campaign. I used bit.ly to provide some quick analytics depending on where the link was placed. I really made use of my seed money by setting up accounts with advertisers with coupons doubling the $75 investment so far into $150 of advertising.

This was all setup in the first couple of days and this is where execution ended and life took over. I was able to provide some tweaking over the next couple of days for the advertising campaigns but that’s about it.

I was able to obtain a nice amount of traffic so far, but no sales. With over 1,400 hits across my links, I’m averaging 13 links between order page impressions which I seems good. Unfortunately 0 have converted to sales. At this point, either my pre-sales is weak or the offer I’m pushing is weak.

Well, off to crush it!