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Major milestones in affiliate marketing usually center around the $1,000 figure. Your first 1K month, first 1K week, first 1k day etc. Those are all definitely great achievements. But once in a while, when the planets align just right, that number can be supercharged to the $1,000 per hour level. This is an example of one of those days with 4 crazy 1k hours in a row, and what factors contributed to that flood of leads. Using Azoogle’s hourly reporting option, here are the results for the morning of Feb 14th.
So how is this even possible using only pay per click as the traffic source? Well, it has to be a “perfect storm” of factors, all equally important, and all coinciding in the perfect mix. For this example the 3 main factors were:
1. Major advance preparation
2. A major holiday.
3. Multiple offers – all dialed in.
Looking more closely at each of these:
Major preparation is the key to making money on holidays, like with any campaign on any other day. You have to be willing to put in countless hours preparing everything. This includes researching the keyword trends, choosing your offers, setting up your campaigns, building your landing pages, testing, and have everything optimized well before the holiday hits. I suggest at least a month before the holiday, everything should be running well. You should have all your A/B ad copy testing done, and be confident that everything is at peak efficiency. Finally, make sure your landing pages are on a reliable host, that’s not going to crash during the crunch time. You don’t want all your hard work to go to waste when the money is really flowing in.
The holiday is the engine that drives your traffic and earnings. In this case it was Valentines Day (the mother of all online holidays), but you can design campaigns around almost any holiday. A holiday can take a normal search term and increase it by 1,000%. Take a look at the search volume trend for the term “send flowers”.
You can see that traffic goes through the roof on Feb 14th for this term. Another nice spike that you could work to your advantage with this keyword would be on mother’s day.
Multiple offers are really important to capture all possible traffic activity during a given holiday. In this example I used flowers, which was one of the offers I was promoting. However, in the screenshot above there were about 4 offers feeding into that. Search through all the offers on your affiliate network and see which ones might be at all related to the upcoming holiday. Again, it all goes back to your advanced preparation. If your network doesn’t have a solid offer for the holiday you are trying to promote, join another network as well.
The next big holiday is Halloween, so set a reminder for yourself about mid September if you want to be ready to capitalize. Anyone can see huge returns on these days, it’s just a matter of how hard do you want to work.
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Wow, just wow dude. Thanks for the kick in the ass to start working harder!
Congrats man. I have to agree look at trends and reach for goals. as 1K an hour is awesome.. just goes to show you how insane those orders are for valentines day
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Congratulations on a terrific result! Very impressive.
Are PPC’s the only option to go with in order to get these kind of results?
That’s just craziness! thanks for the tips as well and sharing the information.
How 1 Affiliate Uses Holidays to Break the $1,000 per Hour Barrier…
Major milestones in affiliate marketing usually center around the $1,000 figure. Your first 1K month, week, day. Once in a while, when the planets align just right, that number can be supercharged to the $1,000 per hour level.
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Thanks for the inspiration and just wow. Congrats, and mark another subscriber to your blog.
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simply amazing! That’s some great motivation.
Expect some more competition next holiday.
I’m getting a lot of questions as to how the whole day went since the screenshot was only for 4 hours. The 9-12am time frame was the peak. There was another peak at 5-8pm with a couple more $900 plus hours. The rest of the day was very strong as well. Overall a great day.
Thats amazing good job, what were you selling? How many conversions?
Shoot I just noticed what you were selling, sry. Good job though again.
That’s more than a milestone: it’s a heavenly miracle!
Very good information. Halloween is coming up soon, so I’m going to try some of this info out…
Mike
Wow that is truly amazing. I will admit - I usually set myself yearly sales goals eg $1000000k (hey it sounds a lot more impressive in US$ than pounds - you get double!)
But you are doing 1000k sales an hour. On a 40 hour week that is over 2 million dollars a year. Do you do all of this on your own with no employees and just through Agloco? How much of this is profit?
You must be their top earner. I remember reading a John Chow post a couple of months ago and i think he’d made just over 800 dollars in one month. How do you do it?
Hey my eyesight is bad too. I thought you said agloco but it is azoogle. Still impressive though.
This is pure sex, so to speak! Excellent work! And I’ve been happy with $1000 days over here. You certainly gave me some encouragement, AND tools to put it to use.
Thanks. This give me tons of encouragement and inspiration.
That’s just crazy.
Now I have another milestone to reach.
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Nice work if you can get it!
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Congratulations Chad! I know you must feel great. Have you had any more $1000 hours since then? What were you averaging during Christmas? Are you linking directly to the offer or are you building landing pages for each one? Keep up the good work!
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WOW, 1k an hour , that’s some good amount of dough
hopefully some day i can hit 1000/hr too. Congratulations! I am truly in awe
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mother’s day was great..i did not hit 1000/hr but it was my first real surge in traffic in a long time..
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