$1,000 a week budget to drive traffic what to do?

Well, now we know what you should do with the first $37: Get a War Room membership and full site functionality. :-)

And to back up what the others have said, I'm extremely scared for a newbie that has the budget before the skill. You can burn through that in no time and have not much to show for it. Spend the time learning, get the skills, then jump into the PPC game.

And while you are still learning, I'll gladly give you $.50 for every dollar in your budget. That's probably a much better return than what you would get from jumping in without finely honed skills and lots of testing. PM me for my PayPal address. ;-)

/Clark

I disagree with this post, wholeheartedly.

Free traffic methods are for people that don't have any money in their budget. Paid traffic is for people that do.

PPC traffic is FAST. It allows you to split test different landing pages, without having to wait weeks or months for results. It lets you test pricing elasticity quickly too.

My only suggestion is to allow a professional PPC management firm handle your campaigns if you do not have the experience. They will get you better click rates and be able to optimize campaigns better than a newbie would.

Free Traffic is NOT free folks...

1) so called free traffic takes your time away from other things (Time is money)

2) Look how many "Free Traffic" tools there are. You buy that and your traffic is no longer free. You spent money on the tools. And now you have to spend your time working with these tools.

Paid Traffic gets you to success faster.

TWO EXAMPLES:

Let's say you do your keyword due diligence and if you go the free way it will take months to discover if you are on the right track or not.

With paid traffic you can whittle down your keyword list and extract the winners within a week max.

With Google changing the game constantly it only makes sense to use paid traffic. However you need to know the basics so that's why I recommended Traffic Black Book.

PS. When you think a person is throwing money away because they spend money on traffic makes me think two things. 1) You have very limited thinking and do not see the bigger picture. 2) You have tried paid traffic and lost your shirt.

Either way you still need to LEARN how to buy traffic properly and objectively. It's a business after all.

Did it ever occur to you that his $1,000 a week may be the portion of his revenue he is willing to reinvest into advertising? If that is the case, then hopefully he will be scaling up as he spends it. By the end of the year, he may be spending $52,000 a week on traffic.

When I was running PPC for physical products, I would spend $1000 a day on traffic. It usually converted to about $1500 a day in net revenue. Tell me where I would have seen better returns. I'd love to know.