Pinterest, Marketing and Blogging, oh my!

Welcome to all my Gifted ones!

I want to let you guys know what I've been up to this week. I have 6 different Pinterest accounts! Whew! I know! 3 of them, I am actively working on. One does well without me touching it for months (has over 90,000 page views per month) and 2 im not ready to work on just yet. So there's always a Pinterest tab open for me.

I mainly am using them to gain traffic to my e-commerce stores.  Now, that I have started to revamp this blog, I will start to drive traffic to it by Pinterest as well.

So with my 3 Pinterest accounts...
1) Is only for Amazon affiliate products. I strictly pin products to this page. Right now it has about 3300 average monthly views. I think that is not bad, because of the 3 accounts, this is the one I use the least.  I am only on 1 group board for this account right now.

2) Is for my travel e-commerce store. I have about 2400 average monthly views on it. I haven't done a whole lot on this Pinterest page, because I am still working on the e-commerce site adding products etc.  I have 17 group boards for this account. 189 followers.

3) Is my baby. This is my jewelry e-commerce store.  I have about 33,800 monthly views on it. 9,721 followers. I have 32 group boards for this account.

My goal for all 3 of these accounts is to join 50 group boards each. Everyday, I am requesting to join about 10 boards for each account.  After I reach 50 groups then my next goals will be 75 and 100.
I really believe in the ability of working group boards. When I calculate the aggregate of members for each group board and the potential reach of each of my pins... I get excited, lol. Don't judge me! lol

However, I wonder how much reach each pin really has for the group boards. As I continue to join more and more groups and follow more people, I still really only notice things that I have searched for in my feed. I don't really see things that people have pinned into the groups Im in... Things that make you go hmmm.

I still have not taken the time to join Tailwind or add my other boards to Board Booster. (I did the trial for board booster for the jewelry store - take a look at the results here)  However, yesterday, I did set up the 2 e-commerce stores to have their pins automatically repinned to my own boards (no group boards) using my follow-liker software.  So we will see how that does.

I also joined shopstyle but I have not posted any affiliate links for them yet.

As far as manually pinning - I've been trying to pin 2-3 times a day. So I will pin 1 or 2 items to all of my group boards for jewelry store. I have not started manually pinning to group boards for the travel store... hence the lower numbers

Blogging - I'm revamping my blog! (its still under construction) My goal is to do 2-3 blogs a week at least. I want to start earning affiliate income from my blogs. Hopefully, I will have my very first income report come December 1st.

For Marketing - check out my latest blog article regarding my affiliate marketing journey.

So what are my goals for the next week:
1) Get the jewelry store up to 50 group boards
2) Get the travel store up to 30 group boards
3) Pin at least 30 more products to my Amazon affiliate page.

What are your goals for the next week? Do you have any suggestions for me and my pinterest accounts?  Chime in below. Don't be a stranger.

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Get Rich With Me (GRWM) - Affiliate Marketing Week 2

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Hey Guys,

I am officially inviting you guys to GRWM! Get Rich With Me!

Im on a never ending quest to be RICH! So, Im going to throw some of my efforts into Affiliate Marketing.

So lets see what I did in week 1:
1) Signed up with two affiliate networks
2) Tried and failed ads
3) Watched youtube videos to get inspired
4) Tried a new source of ads - Bidvertiser

Ok, So what were the results of my week 1 efforts? I found out that Bidvertiser is a total bust! I spent $50 with them. I had to contact them to get my free $20 (should have been automatically applied, but whatevs) As you can see, I got lots of clicks: 

But then I noticed that I wasn't having ANY CONVERSIONS, despite the amount of clicks.  Some of my affiliate offers were not even requiring a purchase. They only required an email address for the conversion to count. So, I realized something fishy is going on here.  So I was running some traffic to my affiliate offers, but I was also running traffic to one of my products. So I said let me look at the Google Analytics to see whats up.

So, apparently all the traffic I received was from secure.calcch.com   I tried going to that site. Nothing.  I tried going to calcch.com....nothing.  So, how are so many people able to see this ad on this site and click on it? When I can't even get into the site? Something is definitely fishy.

So out of $70 in ad spend with bidvertisers, I had 186,388 impressions, 446 clicks, 0 conversions, $0 in sales. 

I felt defeated. So I reached out to someone I know who does affiliate marketing and he said he never heard of them. I reached out to Luke at Peerfly, and he said he did not recommend using them.  So, bidvertiser was a bum source of traffic.... for me.

Luke did refer me to his article for traffic sources.  So, after reading his entire article and comments, I decided that I would research the 4 sources he listed.  As money is tight right now, I decided to go with Bing Ads. I am familiar with them because I've used them in the past. I just didn't think to consider them now, because of my experience with Google Adwords I thought they would block affiliate links too.  But they don't!  So I ran a few ads with them, the traffic was ok. Still no conversions, but I only started off spending like $5.  So I need to go in and revamp some ads and add more budget to them.  My only downfall about Bing, is that they don't allow display banner ads. So they want you to make up text ads.  I wish I could do banner ads with them, that would be great.

I would also like to try out two others of his recommendations... Tonic but they have a minimum deposit of $100 and Content.Ad but they have a $250 minimum deposit.  So, I can't start this venture off completely bleeding, so I will have to wait until I make a profit to reinvest.

So what else did I do this week? (I'll write separate blogs about it for those not interested).  I dabbled some more with Pinterest, I am revamping this blog (still under construction as of 11.5.17) and I signed up for shopstyle collective along with joining a couple of FB groups regarding Pinterest / affiliate marketing.

So, what are my goals for next week:

1) Restart Bing ads with some new affiliate offers

2) Meet with my Affiliate friend to pick his brain. He's doing massive numbers (ok massive to me at this point) October 2017 he made $19,654.25 and spent less than $500 to get that!  He said he's really good at getting organic traffic. So I will see what he recommends to me.

3) write 1-2 blogs this week and finish blog revamp

4) really focus on Pinterest

This is officially November, people are in the buying mood. I just have to get the right offers in front of them!

lets get it!

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Get Rich With Me (GRWM) - Affiliate Marketing Week 1

This page contains affiliate links meaning I earn a commission if you use those links. I only recommend brands I use and trust.

Hey Guys,

I am officially inviting you guys to GRWM! Get Rich With Me!

Im on a never ending quest to be RICH! So, Im going to throw some of my efforts into Affiliate Marketing.

So lets see what I did in week 1:
1) Signed up with two affiliate networks
2) Tried and failed ads
3) Watched youtube videos to get inspired
4) Trying a new source of ads

1) Signed up with two affiliate networks.
I need affiliate offers.  So I needed to sign up with an affiliate network. I was referred to MaxBounty and PeerFly.

So I signed up with both of those. Max Bounty was accepted and active within 24 hours. PeerFly was a little bit longer of an application waiting process. But im officially active with them both now.

I started perusing the offers available and decided I would go with "safe" offers and/or offers I think would be easy to convert.

2) Tried and failed ads
Because I have a few e-commerce stores, im familiar with some forms of online advertising. I know that Facebook is really peculiar about ads that have a lot of words, plus they can be a money drain if not properly targeted.  I know that google adwords doesn't allow you to use an url that re-directs. So, I figured I would start off advertising on group boards in Pinterest and Reddit ads.

I added the image to Pinterest. I went back to edit the source url....and I got blocked... I tried this a few times. doh! So, I realized that Pinterest doesn't allow you to add urls that re-direct either.  So the way affiliate marketing would work for Pinterest would be to write a blog article. Post the blog and then hope someone signs up/buys from your blog post.  I didn't want to write blog posts for each of these affiliate offers I was going to work on. I want a quick fast win. I need to KNOW that this works. And that it can work for me.

So, I said ok. I've had success in the past with Reddit Ads for my e-commerce stores. Let me try there. Denied again. They also do not do url redirects.

Ok, I need a traffic source.

3) Watched YouTube videos to get inspired
Am I going about this the wrong way? Will this not work for me? I need some reassurance. I watched a couple of outdated youtube videos from ClickBank Success.  Particularly the one indicating that you can do affiliate marketing without a website.  I knew it had to be possible! I just needed to figure out how.  Do you ever watch a video, and then at the end feel SUPER STUPID... like. the basic gist of this is send traffic to targeted people that are likely to purchase or sign up for an offer. Im trying to make this overly complex.

The video showed how he sent people directly to the affiliate offer (using a redirect url) for PPC (pay per click) ads.  Thats what I want to do!  Yes, I understand the power of niches. I understand the power of building an email list. etc... but I need to know this works first. Before I put the cart in front of the horse. Lets just make some money first.

Ok, so I need a place that I can put banner ads or search ads that will allow my referral link. I came across this article huge list of traffic sources for advertising.  Its an older article, so not all of the companies listed are still in business.

So I needed to research... which of the ones are still active, and which ones have a low minimum deposit for me to get started with.

4) Trying a new source of ads
So, I decided to try out bidvertiser.  They have an offer that I will receive $20 when I initially sign up with them and make a deposit of $50 to get ads started.  If you click on that link, you can get the same deal.

So I've deposited my money and im waiting for my deposit and ads to be verified to get this party started. (Today's Sunday)

So in full transparency, here are the ads i'm working on this week:

I figure I should be able to get some good conversions from these 3 offers (1 other as well).  We will see.

This week:

I am / will

1) wait on approval from Bidvertiser. Make any adjustments to ads as needed.

2) Look into some other ad traffic sources. 

Wish me luck guys! I hope that you will follow along with me on this journey and GRWM so we can be rich together! Tell me in the comments what you are doing / have done in your first week of Affiliate marketing. 

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