My Big Disaster in Bootcamp Week 5 & the $1/Day FB ads

This was my disaster of a Week 5 of bootcamp. However, don't miss the silver lining at the end of my post!

The $1/Day FB Post Boost

Week 5 of the Affiliate Marketing Bootcamp was last week, and it was all about boosting our FB posts using a $1/Day strategy.

Honestly, this week did not go as I planned or expected and I had to step back and think about where I was going with this.

This was the first time I had ever done any online advertising, so I had a learning curve to begin with.

Week 5 Tasks

The Week 5 tasks seemed relatively simple. Create 3 ads at $1/Day.

I did create my first ad, which was a post related to AI. I didn't realize that it would be as controversial as it turned out to be. I got a lot of bad comments. Nasty, rude, profanity, you name it.

I'm not exactly a wilting lily LOL! I've been a small business owner for my entire adult life so I've dealt with a variety of issues between customers, employees, etc. But for some reason - This. Bothered. Me.

Perhaps it bothered me because I was so completely unprepared for the fact that this could happen. I don't know.

I was so bothered, that I paused my first ad after 2 days (and it seemed to be getting some decent engagment). It was just engagement that I didn't want to deal with.

The Thing I Disliked The Most

By the end of the week, after I'd not only paused my ad, but not boosted any more posts for the week, I realized that what disturbed me the most was that I had begun to question what I was doing here.

All because a bunch of rude jackasses online that I would never see or hear from again, said some bad stuff.

That was my bad.

Back In The Saddle

It's now Wednesday of Week 6. And I'm back in the saddle.

I've gone back to the Week 5 tasks, and have boosted 3 new ads, as of today. Since these ads should have been running since last week I should have ad results by now, but of course because I did nothing after I paused that 1st ad, I'll have to wait a bit to see some results on my new ads.

Here are the results of the ad from the 2 days it ran. I guess not too bad, although I don't know much about this yet! And, I messed up on the Audience, and had a much younger demographic than I intended.

Lessons To Be Learned

Needless to say, I learned some valuable lessons here. Excited to see what the next ads will bring me.

Surprise, Surprise

Up until now, I thought I had no results from my Bootcamp efforts (in terms of WA referrals).

As I was beginning work today on Week 6 of bootcamp, however, I noticed that I had my first referral yesterday and didn't even know it.

The referral didn't actually come from an ad, but from the first review post (other than WA) that I did on my bootcamp site, although it doesn't appear that they've set up their WA account yet, so we'll see.

I don't think I got an email about the referral, so I'll have to check my email settings.

But YAY!