Trancemaker: I really doubt there is such a thing as a business that “runs by itself.” I think any successful enterprise requires a lot of work. Granted, once it has achieved a certain degree of success, you can afford to outsource. The more the merrier. Eventually it will almost “run by itself,” so to speak, in the sense that others are doing the work. But work it takes–yours or others’.

I bought it, loved it, many of those same or similar methods we are using to do around 800% ROI on ppc campaigns.

A set of campaigns we setup just 1 month ago did $600 profit in the first month, and this month we are already up to $800 in profit.

Its a good read, with super quality information. But as with all things, if you do nothing with it and you dont test things then it will be another wasted $77.

Having said all this we have been doing this for a while so we know how to do this, someone else starting in ppc may not be so clued on. The trick is to super focus your keywords.

Anyhow, just wanted to leave my ramblings.

Regards
Marc

Exactly the direction I’m moving as well.

I’ve had it with the “hard work” involve in running a large content site, in piddling in the small change that is Adsense, in working for someone else as an affiliate.

If I work hard, I want it to be for a product that I can then sell to people. Maybe it’ll fail, maybe I still won’t make that much, but it just seems more concrete and less “ball in high weeds” to me.

And anyway, as Charles said, how do we really KNOW those Crapbank details aren’t faked? The only thing we all KNOW for certain is that money flows out of our pockets and into the pockets of people who sell PRODUCTS!

Hmmm….

http://www.memwg.com/blog/adsense/Day-Job-Killer-Review-Part-1.html

But then I had a change of heart about the whole AdWords scene:

http://www.memwg.com/blog/adsense/Making-Money-With-AdWords-Is-Mind-Numbingly-Boring.html

I’ve had some requests to finish the review, however, and I may do so just for completeness.

Have I made any money from it? Not yet, despite some exciting Clickthrough rates (around 20% in one case). I will probably leave the ads up with modest cost per day for a little longer. I added some more today. But I noticed that there seem to be even more ads today than there were on Friday and I am thinking this is Day Job Killer fallout. I must confess I have been a total Ad/Affiliate junkie the last few work days. I find myself thinking I’ll just check a couple things while i take a break (on the day job) and one thing leads me to think “I wonder if….” and next thing I know hours have gone by where I’m doing this on DAY-JOB-TIME. Oh, my God, I may give new meaning to the term day-job-killer if I don’t get a grip and stop and go back to real work. Anyone know a good affiliate DETOX program?

Thank everyone for the picks and shovels during gold rush analogy. I am going to keep that in mind. To be honest, this is one of the few discussion threads I’ve been able to find that didn’t go along the lines of “Day Job Killer is a scam, click here and learn the real deal…. for only 49.95+special bonus for acting in next 24 hours” Speaking of that line of talk and Google Ads, what’s with the guy who has been scammed 37 times, regardless of the topic. Can he really be making any money with that ad? It’s up constantly — I think you could search on “First Baptism” and it would come up.

Well, I would be interested in hearing other ways that you have either made or lost money by trying to “make money online” (the magic words).

My own feeling is the techniques do work and probably worked great for Chris and his 12 test subjects. I’m not sure they will work for hundreds of people. I’m actually intending to wait a bit longer to decide about requesting money-back or not.

In DJK, Chris says that he was an offline direct marketer before he did online marketing. So it’s plausible that his offline experience enabled him to reach his level of success online in a year.