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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