Attempting to make money via Solo Ads

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Attempting to make money via Solo Ads
Hi all,

This is my first 'proper' thread here so I'd like to say hello and introduce myself first - My name is Adam and Im from the UK.

So as the title suggests I am going to attempt to make money from Solo Ads in the Forex niche.

I have a site Introduction to Day Trading | Best-DayTradingTips.com which I will be reusing the content and hashing together a few reports to give to my list in order to build trust and confidence before hitting them with the sales.

This is going to be a month long test - as I want to send 10 free reports to the list (1 every 3 days) to stamp myself as an authority.

My squeeze page:
www.warriordailydeal.com/themes

My email ad copy:
SUBJECT: Free SECRET Report - What Professional Traders don't want you to know

Hello,

Professional traders use these 5 secrets to cash in MILLIONS of dollars of profit each year - and they have kept them secret, until now!

If you act quick, You can secure your FREE report before they manage to take the page down..

[+] http://www.warriordailydeal.com/themes

My name is Adam Smith and I've been trading professionally for years - and decided it was time I blew the lid of this secretive industry.

I have compiled a 1000 word report which is pure gold - and once you read it you CAN'T fail.

[+] http://www.warriordailydeal.com/themes

I want to see you succeed! I get enjoyment out of others success - so I have complied 10 other reports on how to think like a millionaire trader, act like a millionaire trader, and trader like a millionaire trader.

It's powerful stuff!

To your success,
Adam Smith

P.S. You get the 10 FREE reports via email after you have downloaded your secret report - so keep an eye on your email account.

[+] http://www.warriordailydeal.com/themes

I have purchased 4 Solo Ads - the first ran yesterday, the second is due to run tonight, the 3rd tomorrow and the final one which is the largest amount of clicks is due to run on the 12th.

The first email was for 250 clicks and I have managed to gain 195 subscribers. They were all send the first report this morning with so far 46% of them opening the email and 37% downloading the first report.

In the reports there is a little 2 sentences which state that I recommend a ClickBank forex product - nothing hard, just saying that I use it in my day to day trading.

So far spend:
Solo ad 1 - $150
Solo ad 2 - $80
Solo ad 3 - $80
Solo ad 4 - $300

Total: $610

Revenue so far:
1 ClickBank sale - $82.09

Profit/Loss:
$527.91 LOSS

Subscribers so far:
195

Hopefully over the next 30 days I can show how to build a free 500+ targeted list in a niche while breaking even - a profit after the 30 days would be amazing
#ads #attempting #make #money #solo
  • Profile picture of the author Ayden010
    I'm a complete newbie but I have some questions if you don't mind answering

    1) Wouldn't it be better to have your squeeze page as a subdomain on your primary site? ( http://www.best-daytradingtips.com/squeeze). I tried erasing "/theme" to access your homepage, and it showed me the page you get when you first install wordpress.

    2) I accessed "http://warriordailydeal.com/thank-you" without submitting my Email adresse by simply replacing "/themes" with "/thank-you". For the thank-you/download page, change the link to numbers or whatever.

    3) So you're trying to SELL in every report you send them ( by admitting you're using that forex product and so should they?) isn't that a very bad idea?

    4) In my own opinion, as someone who is potentially going to optin, I find that there's too much info on your squeeze page.


    Again, I'm in no place to give any advice or whatsoever as I'm very, very new to this whole IM business. Good luck with your sales and optins
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Originally Posted by Adam Smith View Post

    So far spend:
    Solo ad 1 - $150
    Solo ad 2 - $80
    Solo ad 3 - $80
    Solo ad 4 - $300

    Total: $610

    Revenue so far:
    1 ClickBank sale - $82.09

    Profit/Loss:
    $527.91 LOSS

    Subscribers so far:
    195
    Maybe you chosen the solo ads that not suitable. Try other solo ads which closer to your niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author EZlivin
    Hey, let me know how this goes. I plan on doing this as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewStark
    The forex niche is very competitive, and although you've got some branding in the advert the squeezepage is still generic - a video where you introduce yourself and explain your story would convert much better.

    Also I'm not sure how targeted the general IM leads are to these sort of products? You may need to be excellent at forex to afford the losses that your first couple of campaigns will make.
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  • Profile picture of the author Freddie Crossberg
    Hi Adam,

    The stats does not look bad at all so far. 250 clicks and 195 subs is great! Well above average. Ride out the rest of the clicks and then crunch the numbers, but it looks good so far.

    Like with any paid advertising, make sure you have a strong back end. Squeeze page to OTO to Upsell to Downsell to email sequence pointing to high converting offers and the occasional blast as well. Offers on download pages.

    Everyone has a different approach, but I start selling to a subscriber from day 1. Sometimes I mail my list up to 5 times. Yup, I get un-subs and the conversion rate for the overall list goes down, but I get more sales and I drive a lot of traffic so the list is constantly refreshed.

    My opinion is not to condition your list to only hear from you every 3 days and then with a free offer. Condition them to hear from you everyday with paid offers. The people who dont like it can find another list.

    It is hard to start selling after 7 days when they have been conditioned to expect free stuff.

    People tend to think like this

    Day 1 - Great info from this guy - I like him
    Day 2 - Nothing
    Day 3 - Useful info from that guy again
    Day 4 - Nothing
    Day 5 - Who is this guy again?
    Day 6 - Nothing
    Day 7 - Why is this jackass spamming me?

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  • Profile picture of the author nerdy88
    YIKES!!!!! WHY are you waiting 3 days to sell to them though? The faster you make the sale the better because that means you get the job done faster! You can lose a lot of money with ads and thats a fact, you need to see and evaluate the percentages to limit any loses!!!! I would suggest that you zoom in on your micro niche.....
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    • Profile picture of the author howtogurus
      Do some research on Google to find newsletters and ezines in your niche. Most run Solo Ads, and they will be far cheaper than solo ads from other marketers.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMichael1
    Hi, my name is Johnny and a newbie to IM. Struggling to find a Forex product to give as a freebie for my landing page that will convert well. An indicator perhaps? Any idea where to find one that I can give for free? A robot perhaps but maybe that's a bit risky as it will probably not work? I gave away some free e-books but although I get some clicks I don't get any opt-ins. For now I am trying a few squeeze pages promoting them via article marketing till I get at least one that converts well and start with some solo ads. Any advise please from the experts?
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