First Taste of Profit!

I started affiliate marketing back in September.

I've only really done PPC, because I didn't really know if this was the path for me to take. I was skeptical like anyone else, but I soon learned that internet marketing will lead me to achieve everything that I promised myself when I was 12 years old....Yes, 12!

So here is a little bit a personal history:

I started using computers when I was 3 years old. My parents owned a computer store in Oregon, and it was doing alright. The year was 1997...so, personal computers were still a relatively new concept, and the Internet was just born. My parents didn't have much success with the business, so we ended up moving to the east coast to start a new life, and find a source of income.

Why did I say that I started using computers at 3? Well to be honest, I learned many things at an accelerated pace, and I taught myself how to use a computer at the age of 3. My parents were astounded when they found out that I was able to put a password on my computer.

The password was "U". But it wasn't just a random character that my tiny fingers randomly hit on the keyboard. That was the password my dad used when he would set up computers.

Why? Well, my dad and I share a very dry sense of humor, and most of the time, our jokes are only funny to us. The username he would set up on the computers was "Me". So, Username: "Me", Password:"U". It's comical to us, and extremely.....childish? Say what you will, we won't change.

Moving on several years....I was 12, and I found out that I could make things on the computer using very special languages that only computers could use. I was highly intrigued by this notion.

My dad handed me a Borland's C++ book, and off I went. Every page was more frustrating than the last. I couldn't figure out why simple things worked the way they did...and I needed to know the "Why". One of the most embarrassing mistakes that I've made was trying to output the famous "Hello World" to the console.

Anyone that knows c++ will understand this next bit:

std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;

This bit of "nonsense" prints "Hello World!" to the screen. At the end of the line, we tell the console that it's the end of the line denoted by "std::endl". Well I couldn't get that line to compile for the life of me....I found out the reason was that the font in the book make the l look like a 1. I was furious, and closed the book never to open it again.

A few months later, I learned how to write in Java. I studied every night after school, and just wrote programs....for years. Literally. When I was 15 I put a game on the internet that I made. I acquired $200 in donations for entertaining people that downloaded my game. This is what set in motion my entire career path, hence what I am doing now.

Now lets fast-forward to current day.

I started my PPC campaign back in September, and I made a huge mistake... I started with Google Ads. Google Ads is extremely competitive, and expensive. I did make a $27 commission though. :) - That's what started my interest in affiliate marketing, and started driving me to learn as much as I could.

In October, I purchased several coursed on Udemy specifically about affiliate marketing. I didn't learn all that much, rather, they were recaps of what I already knew.

I did learn about Bing Ads, and this is were I began to see a lot of success.

Here is my campaign. It's been running for about 3 months now.

So, I've spent $148.87 on this campaign. Let's go over to Clickbank to see how much I've made. :)

Net sales: $174.49

Net Profit: $24.62

That's not a lot, but hey, it's working isn't it? :D

Thank you for reading, and I wish you all success as well!