Wow I Know Nothing About PPC But this Mat Be My Shot At A Real Online Income!

hey Amish,
thanks for sharing this, but I have to say, it is such a small screen and so much of that is blocked out, I am not following your videos very well. Can you work on showing a clear demonstation which is watchable? Otherwise, stick to the text, or make the audio completely explainable? We all appreciate that you are trying to show the proof, but I cannot see that proof. You keep saying "as you can see.." but no, I cannot see.
THANKS very much!

Thanks for the video… Interesting.

What I would love to hear is the profit in a campaign - i.e. the gross affiliate commissions minus the ad spend to generate those commissions.

I think that is important as affiliate commission payments may flow into bank accounts at different times than say a google adword bill and it is important from a cashflow perspective to be sure that the revenue flowing in is flowing in before one needs to make an advertising payment that there is no cash for.

Dear Amish,

I've just read the blog entry above and it looks great.

I liked what I saw but I need more information.

For example, "A weirdly profitable combination of Pay-Per-Click and Web 2.0" PPC 2.0 Training Briefs coming shortly with HexaTrack PRO …

You hinted that those tutorials will come out soon. These are training materials exclusively released to PRO members that describe the new art and science of Pay-Per-Click 2.0…

But on the other hand, without having a look at those tutorials, how would I be able to make a reasonably intelligent decision?

It's a chicken and egg issue…

How to resolve this?

Vincent Siew.

Thanks!

Opinion:
video: picture clarity less than fair
audio: good yet I would like to be able
to increase sound level just the same

Hi Amish,

nice video showing how much money you made.

But wouldn't it be better to also tell
us something about the ad costs that
resultet from the ppc campaigns?

Knowing how much the profit (revenue - costs) is,
would tell us how profitable your campaigns
were.

Regards

This video is horrible. If you want to provide a tutorial, use a step-by-step approach without hiding data. What you've done here is totally worthless because it doesn't illustrate anything. You can show your financial proof with the confidential data blacked out at the end of the video. But, if you want to have anyone sign up for your PRO version, you need to show us what to do and explain why. This video was a total waste of time. Pure junk.

Questions / Comments:

1. The video near the top of your page in IE and Avant browsers if off the page to the right of the screen. In FireFox it's off center, but at least visible. However in none of the browsers does the video actual work.

2. You mentioned you made 45k in 48 hours, but you didn't say how much ad spend you used to make those profits. What was the "net" profit and do you have details of your success rate over all using this strategy? Anyone can get lucky now and then, the real value is in consistency.

-Stephen

Hey Amish,

Let's just keep it simple.

How much did you make GROSS?
How much did you spend on ADVERTISEMENT?
How much NET profit did you make?

That's all.

Peace.

Like been mentioned in previous comment, how much ad spend did you use, and one thing that is not clear to me is that the data it gathered only from people who clicked on my ads. If it only gathered data from people who clicked on my ads only then it would take a lot longer time to gathered enough data if I'm using not so popular keyword.
I find this kind of explanation to be a crucial factor if you want to attract more people to join in Pro account.

I agree with the other comments. Show us your ad spend. We know you grossed 45K. But what was your net ROI? Pretty hypey and useless without knowing this critical piece of information.

Dave

The quality of the video was very bad. You wanted to show us proof and not waste our time. I concur to the other commenters.. what is your real profit and what is your strategy? Did you just mess around until you "got lucky"?

Thanks for sharing that technique & an example of how you applied it.

Can you tell us how much money you spent in your PPC advertising to generate that revenue?

Thanks, Steve

Guys,

Don't get carried away by these claims. I have been using similar software for long time and its not this easy. There is a whole lot of risk using this software. First as they mentioned you have to enter broad match and run until the data is collected. Welcome to adwords… running a broad match can easily blow away lot of money. After spending lot of money initially FOR NOTHING you will be able to find long tail keywords which might not be necessarily CHEAP.

The best way is to use the google bid analyser software and test for each keywords. Success in CPA and clickbank can only be achieved once you find a GEM keyword BEFORE you run adwords campaign and not the other way round.

great results, but it would be nice if we were able t o see the numbers, the image is all very unclear. Also, I would like to know the numbers for how much in total you spent for getting 45k?

Can't see the video way to small, and can't see the proof you keep talking about.

How about showing us the video and conversion proof so we can see before you ask someone to upgrade to your pro services.

Thanks.

You would have to assume the AD spend was pretty high due to using broad keywrds. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 20-30+% of the commissions earned. If you can stand the initial investment risk, its an impressive gain.

Well, I was worked up until I read all the comments!
Yes, the video is weak, but I am using Firefox and it was centered and ran OK.
I am undecided about upgrading to Pro version due to lack of ROI proof.
Right now I use some software to help me find niche markets and it has worked rather well!
I want to use this software in conjunction with Hexatrack to quickly dominate a niche and become an authority.

You know what? These guys (Larry and Amish) are on point. Everyone who is leaving comments here really need to look at what these two guys are doing. It seems that everyone is just bashing them for poor video quality not telling everyone how much their ad spend was.

Think about this - if they didn't make money on the 45K market, they would probably be in deep sh*t and not make a video on it. So obviously they did pretty damn good.

The video quality? Who cares?! You can still see enough and hear enough to know what they are talking about.

Lastly, this stuff is free people! FREE!!! Can you blame them for anything?

Let them do their job and help everyone out. They are not rushing us to sign up for PRO. They clearly state to use free until you get the hang of it. Then sign up for Pro.

I don't get people sometimes.

Theres my rant and my two cents.

-Johnny

Hmmm; Johnny Blue is both right and wrong. If you want to market your product, then you need to snaz it up just a bit. There was too much that was fuzzed out in the video, and I am not talking about the blocked data. That would make some sense. I am speaking about the last third of the video was blurred, meaning could see zero. You guys gotta fix that … and it ought not be that hard.

The big question is the unknown GORILLA sitting in the middle of the virtual room. ROI is really necessary. If you say your spend was X and you had Y left as returns on your investment, and the returns were greater than the spend … viola … that works. Due diligence says all the computational data must be disclosed. Don't want the operational data just the computational data. Have a wonderful day.

Hi All, Just wanted to drop in here and say that Larry and I will be addressing all your concerns on Tuesday. Watch your email and this blog!

-Amish

i say what "interested" says. he/she is completely right!

Let me just play devil's advocate here, if you guys will follow me. I would venture to guess that most of the people who are seriously interested in this video, and thinking about it, are probably newbies like me - who know very little about Adwords, CJ, clickbank, etc. at least 50%, maybe as much as 75%. In other words, we don't really know what we're doing.

Larry & Amish can easily monitor everyone's efforts on Hexatrack. It's probably not too difficult to generate a report and which campaign has potential. With this advanced intelligence data, plus their technical proficiency, they can easily take over that campaign for themselves, and dominate that niche. Unfortunately, being an affiliate does not require any special skills, just market intelligence.

Anyone can come in at any time to join the party. So even if I was an experienced affiliate, I can easily be pushed out of my niche, just by having my data available in the Hexatrack database.

Am I missing something here? Please straighten me out if I am.

Hi - my name is Sam.  I sort of agree with everyone's comments.

I mean here these guys are making videos for us, whether professional or not, they are pretty good. especially for me, someone who is not a newbie and not a guru, but in between. I don't think this video was to brag or show off.  I think they wanted to show us the POWER of hexatrack and what it can do for anyone.

As far as taking data from the HexaTrack database, of course Amish and Larry can do that.  But would they?  I mean they give us all this stuff for free and provide us with tons of information.  Not to mention that they make a ton of money as it is.  I think they are really just doing this for everyone who wants to be successful as affiliate marketers and pay per click users.

And one more thing - I agree with Johnny on the ROI thing.  If they didn't make money in the market, they would probably not make a video about it. 

I am seeing a LOT of negativity on the comments, and no one is really being positive.

I've been following these guys since last year when they launched www.thenewppc.com.  Again a TON of information for free and nothing to sell.  I actually got my business started because of the videos they created.  They seem very honest and trustworthy to me!

Okay, dinner time. 

-Sam

1. Greetings All!
2. Why is every and anything "FREE!" always controversial?
3. People pay hundreds of dollars for this same kind of information and most of the time, get even more confused.
4. I think Hexatrack is just too excited to freely give this out.
5. But when I study their working pattern, I also think it is in their nature to be very very very generous to a fault.
6. Well, from the depths of my own hearts…
7. Thank you for re-affirming something for me "PERSONALLY" that I needed so greatly.
8. I just talked for myself on step 7. Not for everyone because I am always grateful for something people throw at me to educate me or knock me in the heads as to what is possible.
9. Doing good, but now see that I can even do better.
10. Remain blessed and a blessing and we shall communicate again soon if God is willing.
11. Regards,
12. Olakunle Solomon Fatoye.

Is this a CPA offer? A product? And did you send peeps to directly to the CPA/product page?

I'm more interested in this… and how you did that. Does your hexatrack package contain info on this kind of stuff?

Shamir

Sam,

I don't think anyone's harping about the free video. But it leaves out a critical piece of info. that's vital to running a profitable PPC campaign…ROI. Did they spend 44K to make 45K? Or was it 20K? Would be nice to know. And that's all most people are asking. After all who has 44K to invest for a 1K return…while waiting 60 days for your check?

The tighter the ROI the less room for error you have running the campaign. As a matter of fact, with real tight margins you'll most likely have to babysit it to insure those margins remain stable.

And I also see a legitimate concern over the database info. I know, these guys would never do that but there's just something to be said about having those "golden" keywords in house, don't you think? After all, if we were all trusting I guess they wouldn't have a problem revealing their campaign either, right?

These are all legitimate concerns that deserve to be addressed.

Also, remember that they made this video to sell upgrades so it's not like it's a public service announcement. Nothing wrong with that approach but it's something to keep in mind.

Guys,

Its pretty simple logic. In this video these guys are claiming that they found a VERY LOW priced keyword using HEXATRACK.I can tell you and challenge anyone that with few low priced keywords there is NO POSSIBLE WAY on planet to make $45K in TWO DAYS using direct linking (which they are using) in Adwords,MSN or Yahoo.

This is ripp off COMPLETE RIP OFF VIDEO.

Agreed, Hexatrack is a good software but I really despise with internet marketers who try to STEAL money with FAKE information and FALSE CLAIMS

THIS IS NOT A MAGIC PILL.

Even if they tell you what is the ROI there is no way they make this kind of money just by using HEXATRACK I can guarantee with my 3+ years experience with PPC

My 2 cents:
1 - this is a sales pitch to upgrade to Pro.
2 - I like Amish and Larry, both provided good contents with their vids and they are the reasons I got started.
3 - this whole PPC 'game' hasn't worked for me at all. I'm not sure how others are doing but I don't think the masses are quiting their day jobs. Think about it for a second - if these guys and other PPC/aff marketers are really making the kind of money they say they do, why would they spend so much time blogging or creating membership sites? Not like they need the money…
4 - using long tails would diminish traffic so I don't see how you can throttle up with just long tails.

Well, they said they will address these concerns and questions today so we'll have to wait.

Why I am bothering to take 10 minis out of my busy task schedule I don't know but well, here I am. I think its because I want to 'help' some of the newbies here get some sense from all the posts and make positive decisions?

Few Points before I start:

1. This will be my one and only post. I am not here to get involved in arguments on viewpoints, or to be honest spend time talking with dumb nuts.

2. My Internet Marketing experience for what its worth, in years is far in excess of most peoples and spans the time from the first Netscape Beta! Yeh a loooong internet time.
Its built me two businesses, my home, some freedom, world travel and a second home for me and my family on a tropical Island and has been …. heaps of fun (most of the time).

My experience in terms of dollars / revenue runs in the multi millions thats includes me and the clients I have worked for and with over the years.
You take my comments and experience or leave it. Its no matter to me ok.

3. The view points and comments I will make are very specific to this Hexatrack and ppc thread.
They have come through 15 months of experiments/testing and work. PLUS around $6,000 in direct cost to arrive at.
This is excluding any PPC or internet marketing cost daily, Its $6000+ invested purely in testing and tools.
As such if you want to ignore a free $6000, saving fine do so, as again its up to you 'your in charge of your life and your thinking and hence decisions ok'

OK well now to some comments.
They will be blunt, to the point because like to be and I don't have time to wast and they may at times be … what I call above the line. (What some of you posters need to be btw) If you don't know what being above the line is then go get and pay for some personal one on one coaching from Robert Kiyosaki and I assure you, you will find out!

Comments:

1. Some of the posts here are such that its clear the poster does not know much about the tool or PPC Marketing.
As such readers need NOT take all the posts to heart as they could be misleading.

2. Look at the posts in any of this kind of space and try and deduce the level of 'intelligence' of the poster before you take in what the comment is and means for you.
Some posters have a high lelevel of intelligence around subjects and some have ignorance around subjects.
Try and see whats what with each post and score them based on that.

Here is a run of comment…..
When people ask or say Hey you should have given us the details of the PPC you did. That is such a stupid request it almost bears no response.
Those two guys need a hand shake for even giving it the time. They said… why would they give it away to you, and they are right.

Also if they did give it to you then WHAM within 3 hours you would be making $4.50 not $45,000.00 Because the same people who ask that kind of question would also stupidly go and work the same PPC along with the now soon to be 600 others! You want to see a rising click price then go follow a commented PPC Ad. Geeez!

Clearly from some of the comments…people are not reading fully, not looking correctly at all the information provided. They are seeing things not there and also making comments on things that in fact have been answered and or are clear in the information and videos.

So read things again if you have questions, listen well to whats said and stop your own brain chattering when your doing it. Point is: If its important to you then pay attention and give it the time and attention it deserves!

Its not possible to T/O $45,000 in Two Days of PPC!
Bullshit… yes it is possible, yes it does happen and guess what YES you can even PLAN to do it.
Do many people manage that? NO not many at all.
Is it possible for a newbie to do that…Its hardly ever going to happen but yes I suppose its possible if they have a massive budget to play with to cover the cost.

Have I? Yes
How did I do it?
I will tell you how I did it here and now for FREE.
I made a mistake!
Yep I had a campaign, I had done all my research work, checked the market, checked the buy ability, checked the clicks potential from more than 400 KW's checked the landing page competition, checked the offers across all networks and individual product owners, tested copy with some pages on friends sites, then built 15 pages of website, pinged and blogged and got my site known to google and others and THEN I did my PPC Campagn. Any mistakes yet?
Nope…Here it comes in a moment.

Set up the campaign (I knew ahead of time was probably going to do well because I had done my work)

I knew I would get a good CTR
I knew i would get good click numbers
I knew I would get good conversions
I had a reasonable idea on the profitability of the campaign.

I set it all up in place…the mistake I made was a small one indeed.Well in fact two.
What it was was was a total lapse of concentration with setting my daily budget. I got the decimal point wrong!
Plus I did it just before I was going away for a week end break.

This set my daily budget up so bloody high they served the ads like there was no tomorrow from the word go, gave it top placement and kept it there 100% and smashed it out over many many site placements.
The clicks came pouring in like machine gun bullets and I am glad to say so also did the sales. My ROI was less than the example here in the vid but thats because I was not there to make adjustments, bid changes, ads, keywords and the like.

But point is please….give us a break… when you say its not possible just look at the search numbers for some terms and keywords…you work it out if its possible or not!

Next Point they hinted the $45k was 'seasonal Related' thats another reason why you would not get any info on it.

All most good PPC men have what I call Golden Goose Campaigns. They are seasonal, they run them each year without fail and they guard the key words related to them with an iron fist! They are money in the bank when you find them and get them working for you.

You can find them, you need to do work, you need to research, you need to look at whats behind keywords not just the keywords. You need to look at keywords in relation to different search engines…no keyword works the same.
You need to look at what times of year certain words work better than others, what terminology do people use, what local dialect do people have that make them word things differently and on and on and on.

Point is the more you realize this is serious stuff the more you should be willing to test, pay out for tools and question people less. Work things out for oneself….DO NOT take to heart any other peoples comments, if it moves you away from testing for your own sake. Because if you do that…YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT YOUR MOVING AWAY FROM!

Test then decide.

Now to hexatrack as a tool.

I do not know what planet some of you come from but the price of this tool is so cheap its silly!

I have and use tools that do the same thing and they cost me up to 6 times more than Hexatrack!

And you have a money back situation GEEZ are you mad!
If your looking to get on with PPC and btw 'other' stuff then you NEED yes NEED to sue the right tools. If not your hardly ever likely to make PPC a success.

You will wast many many $$, hours and hours of time I am 100 sure of that.

Is this s magic wand?
NO its not they have said that…its a tool and nothing else.

Can the tool help you in your PPC?
I would say it not only helps you but in fact makes the difference between success i s short time and success in a long time. More importantly it creates a situation where you can find success and then BUILD that even further. Thats a 100% far as I am concerned.

Is it the only tool of its kind on the market?
Not by a long shot…BUT I can tell you I have some of the same tool types they cost me HUNDREDS per month to use!

Am I using Hexatrack….yep took up the pro version.
Am I using some of my other tools also?
Yep one of them does what Hexatrack does it costs me over $200 a month but has one small report difference and that small bit of info is worth paying the money for. So with that tool I only use 1 of its 7 features! Is it crazy to do that?
NOP it makes me money to do that!

Is it crazy to spend $45.00 PM on a tool like Hexatrack nope its crazy NOT to use a tool like Hexatrack!

In one of my B's I have 22 coders, they could code a Hexatrack up no problem and I could have my own version of this tool to use. Why the hell would I pay all that money to get it coded when I can simply pay the guys $45pm and give them the pain in the arse to keep it up and maintain it!
You are paying $45 for something you could not even get on your own anyway…so cant you see that complaining about $45 is crazy? I would say that for your $45 a month your getting at least a $400 a month value. Thats if you use it!
and combine it well with your PPC work. Please note I said WORK there ok.

How much value do I think a tool like Hexatrack can pro can ad to my PPC work? In my case …. at least $20,000 a month and savings in hours of time. Could it be improved YEP for sure. It could have additional function and could also be used for other aspects of Internet Marketing and combined with a few strategies and approaches.

Will it? Well its already looking to change and move forward. Are you moving forward also?

OK enough of my rant….final point is this:

Listen to all the crap all you want, but Its YOU thats important, Its YOUR thinking that makes the difference and its YOUR thinking, stinking or not that makes the decision.

For me…nothing wrong with the tool at all, it gets the job done well, it provides scope for improvement of PPC for people and its at a price thats stupid in relation to its real and tangible value. (If used well)

Guys have a great day.

Thanks for this fantastic commentary.

David,

Great, great comment. You "hit the nail on the head" - $49 a month is ridiculously reasonable for a "golden hammer" to build a business that lasts. Thanks for speaking up!

- Dave

David… Well spoken. I totally agree.. it's like with ANY e-book or information product. (even the crappiest ones), if you use them right they are worth thousands a month.

It's just that people are lazy and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter…

If you own a product them my BIGGEST SUGGESTION ever is to make brandable affiliate reports they can give away with their link and YOUR affiliate link in them…

Affiliates are LAZY AS **** and they don't do much work unless they are the $100K+ guys, or they are working wrong.

So, David… Well said and everytime you can sell a "biz in a box" that's 1-2-3 to install or use it sells (no matter what it is, because if people think they can make money they will guy it).

"Butterfly marketing script", "adsense in a box" all of these sold like hotcakes for this reason… Hexatrack ISN'T fully this, but on the border… I've got "the other tools" so I don't use Hexatrack, but it's still a tool I'd use if I didn't have the other ones and I still use the free version to check it out.

- Chris

awesome post - the truth is, there are no FREE lunches

1) This question has been asked repeatedly above.

>>> How much did you spend to make the $45k?

cont…

2) Also, how many other campaigns did you invest in that didn't work until you hit this one … and what was that cost?

3) Why bother? This all seems a bit strange. If I was making $10k per day in profit why would I bother trying to sell a system for $45/mo?

4) Also, how is this any different from all the other keyword-conversion trackers out there we've seen over the past year from x-ray to xtreme conversion to a few others…?

Thanks.

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Yes, I'd also like to say thank you for a great post. I think it will help a lot of us who are still only just breaking even and often feeling discouraged. I know this post has helped me a lot.

Good on you, David!

Thanks for the cool video.

I still have no idea how to really use Hexatrack to my advantage but the software does look great. I think there is a link missing or something that I still don't get.

Good work though on the 45K. Still would be great to know the net profits and adspend to give us a better idea.

[…] There was one comment that was extremely on point, and caught my attention, as well as the attention of the Hexatrack founders. Read it here: http://www.hexatrack.com/blog/ppc/new-video-45k-in-2-days-hexatrack-pro-… […]