Google Cash Detective: Day 4—Trying Another Product
March 16th 2009 03:12 pm
Well the product I tried yesterday was a flop. So it’s back to the drawing board.
I browsed through the Clickbank marketplace again. This time I found a sports-related webpage that guarantees to increase your vertical jump.
It was a very compelling web page. It has a video of a 5’5″ guy dunking and attributing it to this product. And the author has taught professional dunkers and Olympic athletes.
Hey, I don’t shoot hoops but I was ready to buy it! And it has a lot of content so I don’t think I’ll have the same problem I had with the product I was promoting yesterday (Google told me the landing page wasn’t relavant enough to my keywords/ads).
So I set up a campaign with lots of good keywords. Within a few minutes I had impressions and clicks. A few hours later I eagerly logged into Clickbank.
You know how many sales I had?
zero.
Well, come to think of it, Clickbank’s gravity rating on this product was only in the 30s. And again I didn’t exactly use the Google Cash Detective tool. I just went with a landing page that appealed to me.
Ok, after 2 failed attempts at finding profitable products, I’m going to use the tool. I did after all spend $1997.00 for it (well, not yet. I signed up for the installment plan).
So using the tool, I found a different product for exactly the same niche. I spyed on an affiliate who had a good profitability index (that’s the Cash Detective’s rating system) so I know he’s making money at it.
The best thing is that I can use the same keywords from yesterday’s product and just change the urls.
So I made the changes and waited. Then checked my Clickbank account.
Sales? 1!! Yippee! My first sale!
But I got $16 in commissions and I spent $25.00 on Adwords to get it.
Ok, that’s not going to let me quit my job!
Then I remembered something Chris Carpenter said in his training video. He never goes after any product that pays less than $25 in commissions for a sale.
Ok, maybe there’s something to that.
I browsed through the Clickbank marketplace again. This time I found a sports-related webpage that guarantees to increase your vertical jump.
It was a very compelling web page. It has a video of a 5’5″ guy dunking and attributing it to this product. And the author has taught professional dunkers and Olympic athletes.
Hey, I don’t shoot hoops but I was ready to buy it! And it has a lot of content so I don’t think I’ll have the same problem I had with the product I was promoting yesterday (Google told me the landing page wasn’t relavant enough to my keywords/ads).
So I set up a campaign with lots of good keywords. Within a few minutes I had impressions and clicks. A few hours later I eagerly logged into Clickbank.
You know how many sales I had?
zero.
Well, come to think of it, Clickbank’s gravity rating on this product was only in the 30s. And again I didn’t exactly use the Google Cash Detective tool. I just went with a landing page that appealed to me.
Ok, after 2 failed attempts at finding profitable products, I’m going to use the tool. I did after all spend $1997.00 for it (well, not yet. I signed up for the installment plan).
So using the tool, I found a different product for exactly the same niche. I spyed on an affiliate who had a good profitability index (that’s the Cash Detective’s rating system) so I know he’s making money at it.
The best thing is that I can use the same keywords from yesterday’s product and just change the urls.
So I made the changes and waited. Then checked my Clickbank account.
Sales? 1!! Yippee! My first sale!
But I got $16 in commissions and I spent $25.00 on Adwords to get it.
Ok, that’s not going to let me quit my job!
Then I remembered something Chris Carpenter said in his training video. He never goes after any product that pays less than $25 in commissions for a sale.
Ok, maybe there’s something to that.
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