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One benefit of this is that you spend less on PPC as there are less surfers in general. The bad news is that these don't tend to convert so well, so your CPA increases in quiet periods.
For my personal finance stuff, which dies at Xmas, I switch off all ads for the 2 weeks prior to the actual day (10-25 Dec) as it's just more economic than advertising to a non-buying audience. Also gives me more budget for my Xmas campaign advertising (toys, etc.).
Doesn't it have a lot to do with seasonal advertising? Right now is the time to promote Back To School type of things right? Anything related to the coming Fall season. I would think that School supplies and backpacks, Textbooks, music players, computers and other School things would do o.k. right now through Sept.
When does the Holiday shopping season start? Nov.?
What sells best during the holidays? Toys, music, dvds, gift certificates and electronics?
And his top affiliate has just made $75,000!
Guess you should know who this guru is by now. We've all been bombarded with offers to buy his traffic package for a cool $997 the last week or so.
If you think you can, you can...
That *Guru* is selling but..
Look who his *buyers* are. They are not the general consumer market that we are talking about in this thread.
There is a BIG difference in Business > Consumer products and Business > Business Products. Entirely different market.
They are the marketers who are online year round trying to market to those consumer buyers and are desperate for traffic "secrets" because there sales are so slow to the actual consumer market.
I know what guy you are talking about. Of course his Affiliate program is "closed". Only available to his circle of internet guru buddies selling the same type of "secrets" their own huge lists of desperate internet marketers.
Where did you find out exactly what he has made from it so far? He divulged these numbers himself?
I'd rather know what his numbers are on his Business > Consumer product sites. Why doesn't he divulge that?
It is amazing though. I don't see how it is a better product then anything else out there. Especially the ones 1/10th the cost. Except that he has a loyal 'following' and gets to hype of his blog for months before releasing anything.
We've kind of identified the seasonality in travel as it relates to us, and while revenues tend to suffer during this period, we don't seem to find a proportional drop in adwords expenses (click-throughs), making these tougher periods.
Where did you find out exactly what he has made from it so far? He divulged these numbers himself?
Yes, from the horse's mouth.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that nothing (well, almost) is impossible even in a so-called Summer Slump.
If you're interested in his disclosure and also some useful tips on how he did it, sticky me.
Note : I'm not an affiliate nor a friend of this guru but I think some of his ideas (I only got free ones) are pretty smart :)
And I did not buy his package.
One suggestion is there are lots of people looking for last minute deals and looking all over the place. This might explain why my adSense revenue is up.