Clay Franklin Strategic Thoughts

I know everyone and his best friend is promoting Traffic Secrets by John Reese today.  I would say that the Stompernet give away is the best value unless you are already a member.  They are giving away a huge set of “get up to speed” DVDs when you buy from there link.  Also Frank Kern is giving away the precious DVDs of his original mapping out of Mass Control including all the details for 2 hours.  So I bought Traffic secrets yesterday so I could get in on some of the best tested knowledge about traffic avaiilable anywhere.

Even Mike Filsaime bought it and expects to get way more value than the $400.  It comes with a community and other cool stuff.  I figured that since I plan to accelerate my success with my purchases of home study courses, memberships, and signing up with mentors and also buying the best products on the market.  

So if you buy it we can share ideas on the inside.  Click the link below to go to the Stompernet review by Andy Jenkins and to buy Traffic Secrets on there link. Stompernet Traffic Secrets review and landing page for all  I do not get any commissions on this link.  It is my stomper link, but they don’t pay on selling other guys stuff I am sure.  I love Stompernet so if you want to get on there list and start getting over the top free stuff go here
If you just want to go to John Reese’s site you can go to trafficsecrets.com
Mike Filsaime has a good bonus too, and if you plan to buy his new super ninja software next month “traffic fusion”, you should go here here. to get a discount on trafficfusion.  I bought from Stompernet.

Hurry because the Frank Kern Bonus ends tonight at midnight tonight.

I thought I had done all my homework and set low limits on my Google adwords campaign of $15.
I got tons of hits. I used the top secret trick of incompleteness in my ad. I used up all my money in a few hours so I increased to $25 a day. The ad ran for 3 days and I never made a sale. Ugh!. $63.85 spent on ads and no takers.
Learnings and observations:
Start ad Thursday night:
Write a blog post about my first campaign (I did get 19 hits from my blog post over the weekend)
increase daily to $25
watch people click away. pay as high as $3.80 a click. still no sales.
1) One of my “facebook Friends” also writes a blog post about this hot new gas saving product using HHO fuel cell technology also called water fuel cell on his blog on Monday the 7th and sends the notice out to his facebook group, that I belong to.
2) I get an email from Chris Carpenter, a old trusted emailer from long ago, about a cool adwords product just about to come out. I watched the video and OMG it was Chris X demonstrating how he just made $42,386 in the last so many days selling the exact same product. water4gas. He had the number one spot for the last 30 days and was killing it. he had the good keywords and was getting as high as 8% conversion on some keywords. I did see his sales drop off over the 4th of July weekend to about $400 a day in sales (So I picked a lousy weekend to start).

I felt good that I used my own brain and learnings and ran a campaign. (never studyied adwords before, I just picked it up from Frank Kern Mass Control Videos)
I felt good that someone I respected copied my idea and promoted it to my friends.
I felt really good that Chris X was killing it on my idea and that I was competing with the all time top affiliate seller on clickbank.

Learnings:
1) spend more time on keywords - Chris has done testing to find the best one and used his unique tool
2) collect email addresses before sending to the affiliate link if possible. (I am not doing it just yet)
3) watch your campaign to be sure to turn it off if it is not working.
4) review sites seem to do better that one trick pony sites
5) buy ChrisX’s product to help with review site plug and play, keyword picker tool, top things to do and Not do… I suggest you buy it from me now and get the learnings and then ask for a refund before the 56 day return policy expires if you do not want to keep it. the price is very low and it is going up tomorrow or Friday so buy it now if you want it.
For anyone that buys from my link, I will send you a special report on how to search out the keywords for your campaign or offer a free 1 hour phone consultation on the topic of your choice. just email me your receipt after you buy it from me at my link here.

I have a few other really good new tips and tricks to share and they will go out on my first ever email autoresponder series. So, the only way to get it is to sign up for my newsletter.

Have you ever pushed the button to run a Google Adwords Campaign? Remember how intimidating it was the first time? Finding the affiliate product to sell, See if it is selling, Writing the copy for the ad,
Researching the keywords, figure out a “Great Domain Name”, Figure out your first Split Testing, Estimate clicks and buys, Set Target Ad Expenses and a budget. Setting up redirects and google analytics. And pushing the button. Do you remember the feeling when You saw the first dollar in your Clickbank Account? How did you feel? Write it in comments now.

I am about to push the button and launch my first ever Google Adwords campaign tonight.
Mentors like mentees to take “action”. It was Jeff Walker that kicked my gear in gear to do it “Right Now”.

Write a short story about your “first adwords campaign” below in comments. It can be a fun thread with nuggets of wisdom.

If you are into cars and saving the environment you can check out my first ever affiliate sales page and be my first Satisfied Customer here