Comments on: $250 Worth of Media Buy Advice

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:18:54 +0000

Amen to bullshit Facebook policies, and PoF isn’t what it used to be either. Maybe it’s time I start doing media buys as well…

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[...] $250 Worth of Media Buy Advice Here recently I finally took part in my first media buy and I ended up losing my $250 because of the mistakes I made. I was all dreamy-eyed because it was my first media… [...]

By: Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:28 +0000

You don’t have to clone affiliate accounts. Try Hasoffers platform for perfomance based deals.

By: Dan Bucklew

Dan Bucklew — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:25:50 +0000

I did the same thing a couple months ago. I didn’t get the impressions they said they were getting. The site had a lot more international traffic, but I was targeting US traffic. Fortunately I had done a two week test so it saved me some cash, but I definitely learned a lesson.

By: Riley Pool

Riley Pool — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:10:48 +0000

Thanks John. I always try to find the positives in every situation.

On this one, I was testing out 9 (3 designs, 3 variations) creatives. I know it was a small amount to test, but I was ready to throw up a lot more if everything was showing promise initially.

By: Riley Pool

Riley Pool — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:07:17 +0000

That’s not a bad idea at all. I might have to try this sometime. Do you find the webmasters are wanting complete transparency on your end? I would probably provide this by obtaining a cloned affiliate account at the network.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:02:01 +0000

For sites that small, I’ve negotiated performance based deals paying the webmaster on a CPA basis.

By: John Kirkpatrick

John Kirkpatrick — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:29:29 +0000

You are one step ahead of the game by being able to take this much out of it so don’t consider it too big of a financial loss. Experiences like this are absolutely necessary if you want to learn a lot quickly in my opinion especially about media buying.

I’m just curious, how many creatives did you test?

By: Riley Pool

Riley Pool — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:29:04 +0000

To all, I fought and fought with the peasant owner of the domain and he wouldn’t budge. I’ll just chalk it up as a loss and provide some insight to other people hoping they don’t make the same mistake.

I thought about outing the domain, but it would pretty much out one of my favorite campaigns so I decided to keep it to myself. Sorry!

By: Mike Chiasson

Mike Chiasson — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:18:38 +0000

Thankfully it was only a small hit. Since the site is obviously trash at that price care to share what site it was?

Their CPM was almost as high as Twitters!!