Regrouping After a Bad Month

It has been a long time since I updated this site, and for the readers that I have left…Sorry.

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Where to Start?

The long and the short of it is that I have been working hard on my Ebay sites and developing a network of sites for the past 3 months  I am building the sites within the same overall horizontal niche so that I can easily interlink them.  This allowed me to develop a following on one site and gain visitors to a new site by “Guest Blogging”.

That was going great until something on the Ebay end changed at the start of this month.  The month of April was amazing for me, I had an ROI of over 300% with no one site earning a huge majority.  I felt that was great news and I continued to plug away.  Then something happened, my ROI dropped hugely at the start of May with my earning no Ebay commissions for the first 4 days while changing nothing on the traffic generation end.  In other words something over at EPN (Ebay Partners Network) changed.  It got to the point that yesterday I turned off all of my PPC Campaigns to my EPN sites to re-group.  I was losing money in buckets and at this rate I would have lost all of the gains that I made last month.

 

Regrouping

Today I started the re-grouping.  Last week I started a WordpressMU site on a domain that I had been hanging onto for a long time.  With this I plan on starting my own little blogging network, with my own sites, that I will be able to drive traffic to using different types of offers.  At the core it will be a review site with me reviewing a different niche on every sub-domain.  I will be sure to review everything that I have an affiliate account with, and the ones that I don’t I will review only if there is not enough competition.

I have also started dabbling in ZIP offers from AzoogleAds and have been promoting them on Facebook.  I haven’t had much luck there yet since FacebookAds seem to like not approving the ads.  I have even tried re-writing ads for offers that are very similar to what I have researched as already accepted and still no luck.  The fact that they take so long to review the ads is not helping.

 

Blogging

I am also starting to do more writing and after following ProBlogger.net’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog I have a lot of good ideas.  I have already started on some of them and will be doing the entire series on this blog in the next month.

I feel that this is the site that has the most potential and I will be spending more time developing articles that will help you not make the same mistakes that I am, and hopefully there will be nuggets of information that will help you be more successful with what ever you are doing.

One of the things that am going to start doing is reviews of particular tools and Wordpress Plugins that I use when I develop a site.  Some of these cost money and some are free, but all are very useful.  I will also start updating on what Networks I am using for my PPC Campaigns and Affiliate Marketing.

About Jeff
I am an engineer by day and internet marketing tinkerer at night. I started playing around with internet marketing 5 years ago and have been making a profit for the last 4, with no more than 4 hours a week on average and usually much less. The profit is not enough to quit the day job he loves, but enough to buy the toys he wants.

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