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Are Solo Ads Still Worth Purchasing?

by Christian Hughes
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Just wanted to get some feed back on solo ads and are they still worth buying?

The way I see it is like this, why would a solo ad vendor want to send his list my offer? Surely if his list was responsive they would send their own offers?

Am I just being cynical here? I'm just thinking that if I had a list that I had built up spent time building a relationship with why the hell would I send them to an offer I know little about? just to earn $50 for 100 clicks? It only makes sense to me if the lists are not that responsive hence them selling clicks rather than products.
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  • Profile picture of the author edmltw
    Milking the cash cow that's dying.

    Originally Posted by Christian Hughes View Post

    Just wanted to get some feed back on solo ads and are they still worth buying?

    The way I see it is like this, why would a solo ad vendor want to send his list my offer? Surely if his list was responsive they would send there own offers?

    Am I just being cynical here? I'm just thinking that if I had a list that I had built up spent time building a relationship with why the hell would I send them to an offer I know little about? just to earn $50 for 100 clicks? It only makes sense to me if the lists are not that responsive hence them selling clicks rather than products.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      It depends upon your Expectations.

      If you look at it like, "Okay I have $100 at Max to spend and I know I can make my Biz successful by buying 200 clicks" then NO they are not worth purchasing.

      If you have a couple of grand and want to invest 2000 clicks and then just reinvest it again and again...then Solo Ads could definitely be worth it.

      What I am trying to get at is Solo Ads for the most part are NOT quality traffic !
      Just because exactly what you said about a responsive list. Many times it ends up being a Numbers game

      And if you have the Mindset of ' throwing enough stuff on the wall until something sticks '...then yes it can work.

      For many quite successfully. But a majority usually fail


      - Robert Andrew
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      • Profile picture of the author Christian Hughes
        Originally Posted by discrat View Post

        It depends upon your Expectations.

        If you look at it like, "Okay I have $100 at Max to spend and I know I can make my Biz successful by buying 200 clicks" then NO they are not worth purchasing.

        If you have a couple of grand and want to invest 2000 clicks and then just reinvest it again and again...then Solo Ads could definitely be worth it.

        What I am trying to get at is Solo Ads for the most part are NOT quality traffic relatively speaking.
        Just because exactly what you said about a responsive list. Many times it ends up being a Numbers game

        And if you have the Mindset of ' throwing enough stuff on the wall until something will sticks '...then yes it can work.

        For many quite successfully


        - Robert Andrew
        Thanks Robert
        I think your spot on. Its all about expectations and perhaps I've set mine a little high! For example I've just spent $300 on several different solo ads. I have a squeeze page that converts at around 50% with both PPC and solo traffic. My front end offer is $7 and I have an OTO of $47. I also spent $300 on bing PPC and here are the results.

        Solo Ads Clicks 683
        Optins 328
        Front end sales 4
        OTO 0
        Profit loss -$272

        PPC Clicks 857
        Optins 441
        Front End Sales 24
        OTO Sales 4
        Profit loss +$56

        The only thing to add is the fact it took 3 times longer to get the PPC than the solo clicks but as you can see the PPC paid off much better.
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        • Profile picture of the author Isaiah Jackson
          Originally Posted by Christian Hughes View Post

          Thanks Robert
          I think your spot on. Its all about expectations and perhaps I've set mine a little high! For example I've just spent $300 on several different solo ads. I have a squeeze page that converts at around 50% with both PPC and solo traffic. My front end offer is $7 and I have an OTO of $47. I also spent $300 on bing PPC and here are the results.

          Solo Ads Clicks 683
          Optins 328
          Front end sales 4
          OTO 0
          Profit loss -$272

          PPC Clicks 857
          Optins 441
          Front End Sales 24
          OTO Sales 4
          Profit loss +$56

          The only thing to add is the fact it took 3 times longer to get the PPC than the solo clicks but as you can see the PPC paid off much better.
          Based on those stats alone, I would just turn up the heat on the PPC clicks, so that you can make a profit much much quicker.

          Since you already made a profit from it, and it clearly works.

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        • Profile picture of the author Alex Langidis
          I personally believe that there are only a few good solo ads sellers out there. But if you got good sell funnel that converts well then PPC will work better for you. So keep going with PPC and wish you best luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author jempub
    In todays current Solo Ad "market" you're going to be hard pressed
    to find a handful of "quality sellers" due to scammers being taught
    to buy cheap cpa lists, upload the same lists into 15 different responders
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason1975
    I'm pretty new to this and I've also found the lists are burnt out. I get very low open rates and CTRs on emails even when giving away freebies.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Langidis
      Originally Posted by Jason1975 View Post

      I'm pretty new to this and I've also found the lists are burnt out. I get very low open rates and CTRs on emails even when giving away freebies.
      Solo ads nowdays they give low open rates it's true also nowdays there are many scammers out there who are trying to sell you cheap fake traffic. So wacth out guys. If you want buy solo ads then buy from best sellers only. who are working as solo ad sellers and people know them about their quality. Otherwise try other saurce of traffic Free and Paid. There are 100's way to drive traffic to your offer
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  • Profile picture of the author Shooting Star
    Only if you purchase from trusted marketers.
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  • Profile picture of the author gcbmark20
    Hi,

    A lot of folks approach buying solo ads as a way to get a lot of names
    onto their lists so that they can then turn to doing just ad-swaps with
    other list owners.

    For example - 1,000+ click swaps to really get some numbers onto
    their lists.

    So initially they know that they aren't going to make a dime or indeed be
    at a loss at the beginning.

    Then after that they can just focus on ad swaps.

    NO MONEY required list building.

    You have to ask as many questions as you can prior to buying too.

    But of course waiting around for sellers to get back to you can become
    very time consuming too.

    For me networking with other marketers is by far the BEST way to get the
    best insider tips for buying traffic.

    Become a strong supportive affiliate for other people's launches.

    Get onto their leader boards.

    Let them know you're here to help them for the long haul and they will be more
    than happy to return the favor to you.

    Strategies alone won't get you where you want to be online.

    You've gotta get to know people, interact, help, share, build those
    relationships.

    Hope that gives you some food for thought.

    Gavin
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