Friday at midnight marked the end of my 30 Campaigns in 30 Days Challenge. I didn’t post an update last week because I did a total of like 3 campaigns for that week and just didn’t do much work. It’s tough getting back in the grove once you’ve achieved the goals you set out to and become complacent. The drive is coming back, slowly, but surely.

This past week I reached my goal of 7 campaigns in 7 days, but I fell just short of my 30 Campaigns in 30 Days goal. I made a total of 26 campaigns. Of those campaigns only about 3 are profitable and even those are really, really small volume. But when you don’t have anything going, you’ll take whatever comes your way.

Overall, this challenge was tough for me. I was counting unique offers as campaigns. I wasn’t counting unique campaigns where I would test different ages, countries or genders. If I counted them this way, I definitely hit my goal.

On another note… Over on PPVPlaybook, the members started a new 30 Campaigns in 30 Days Challenge themselves. I’m going to participate in this challenge, but this time I’m going to count every campaign that I create, even if its just scaling or testing different demographics for the same offer. I hope to knock this one out of the park. I’m hoping maybe I can do 60 campaigns in 30 days.

I’m a little late on this update, but as of Thursday, I had created 14 campaigns in 14 days. Most of these have been PPV campaigns that include real simple landers with very miniscule split tests. Unfortunately, not a single one of these campaigns have been profitable so I’ve been pissing money. I think my best one so far has been -50% ROI.

Having made 90% of my money the last two years from Facebook, trying to move onto other traffic sources and testing out new verticals, this has been a very trying two weeks. I was so accustomed to dating that I could turn probably 50% of my campaigns profitable within the first 24 hours. Going this long without finding a profitable campaign has been tough.

At the very least, this campaign is keeping me in check and making me create campaigns every day. I know I’ll find a campaign or two before these 30 days are up. Hopefully these campaigns show me what to do/not to do when tackling PPV traffic.

Over the last week I was only able to launch a few campaigns and I’m a little behind schedule.

I was able to launch a few international PPV campaigns, a couple dating campaigns on POF. One of the PPV campaigns was just launched yesterday, so I’m still getting data on it. Both dating campaigns had multiple angles and one offer just didn’t convert and the other offer is showing promise, so I’m sticking with it.

In total I’ve only launched 6 campaigns in 7 days. That’s more campaigns than I’ve launched last week, so hopefully the trend continues and I’ll be past halfway come the end of next week.

This meetup will be held August 6th, 2011 in  Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.  Adsimilis is an affiliate network based out of Amsterdam and they are an awesome company to work with.  I’ve also been to many conferences with these people and they know how to treat their publishers!

Meetup Agenda

On Friday night, the Adsimilis‘ team, Sean, Michael and Eleah plan on starting the weekend off right.  The plan is to do some bar hopping around Amsterdam and hit up some of the local favorites. I know what else I’m gonna be doing while we’re hitting up the local favorites.

Saturday, the official day of the meetup, they will be having sessions all day.  They’ll be starting out around 10am and going until 4pm.  The topics include, but aren’t limited to, learning new ways to run traffic and traffic sources, including Adsimilis‘ Display Network, get avice and tips on how to optimize and increase conversions from top affiliates from around the globe and an understanding of the financial implications of doing business on a worldwide scale with a Q&A session with a legal specialist.

Sunday you are free to explore the city and become a tourist.  London and Paris are both a quick 60-minute high-speed train trip away.  This is something I will be taking advantage of.

Affiliate Rewards

The two publishers with the most revenue generated,  the two publishers with the highest incremental revenue and the publisher whose referrals generate the most revenue during the period of May 1st – July 15th will be awarded an all expenses paid trip to this meetup. I wish I was one of these publishers

Please RSVP

If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP for the Amsterdam Meetup 2011.  I know I will be in attendance for this one.  I also plan on extending this trip and hitting up Paris, Rome and Athens before heading back home to Tulsa, Oklahoma.  If anybody’s game, hollar at me!

Disclosure: The Adsimilis links are my referral links.  I received nothing in return for this post, other than some attention from Eleah. <3

After analyzing my original post, I thought that taking a single offer and scaling it to another country was fair enough to consider it a second campaign.  I also reconsidered scaling a campaign to a second traffic source and decided it should count as another campaign.

Using this method I was able to successfully scale out 27 different campaigns until early Wednesday morning on February 9th.  Very few of these campaigns were profitable right off the bat, but there were a few and I was able to scale those immediately.  I was able to triple my gross revenue and double my net income in those few days.

I wish I was able to continue this challenge, but unfortunately I woke up that Wednesday afternoon to find out that all my Facebook accounts were banned, including my profile.  They wiped out everything related to my card that was on file.  This has since decimated my earnings as I was completely focused on Facebook.  So I quit keeping track of the challenge.  I do know that if I had continued to keep track, I would’ve hit my goal already because I’m already promoting a handful of other offers and using a number of other traffic sources.

I’m now working on getting my income back up to acceptable levels.  I’m working on other traffic sources and trying to test some stuff outside of dating.

I hope to attempt this type of challenge again soon because it was turning out very well for those first 9 days.