From the Fingers of Henrik Flensborg

Can’t endorse the Underachiever Mastery system

I’m sorry, but I can’t endorse the Underachiever Mastery system.

The reason: I haven’t received my review copy yet

I can recommend that you check the sales page to see if you think it’s anything for you, but I can’t endorse it.

But I can tell you one thing: The Underachiever Mastery System is not a quick fix.

21 DVD’s is hardly something that you rush through in a few hours time. And not to mention the manuals that comes with the system as well.

Add comment January 30th, 2005

A peek a Frank Kern’s accounts

I just watched Frank Kern go through his ClickBank accounts and I must say that I’m impressed.

Oh, and before we go any further, I think it’s in order to show you some text that took center stage in ht evideo:

THESE RESULTS ARE NOT TYPICAL
YOU MIGHT NOT BE AS SUCCESSFUL
YOU MIGHT EVEN LOOSE MONEY

So with that out of the way, it’s pretty impressive to see how Frank has been doing with his micro niche sites.

The stats were from mid 2004 until now (the end of January 2005) which would make it something like 7 month wirth of income from niche market websites.

The Net income after refunds were $544,153.13 which translates into something like $77736.16/mo

This January alone Frank brought in $64,747.55 after refunds in 28 days. That’s $2,312.41/day

The cool thing about all this money is that Frank doesn’t really have alot of web sites - I think it’s a few more than 10 sites, but I’m going to stick with 10 for my next few illustrations.

That’s in the visinity of $70,000 per month in total or $7,000 per site per month.

So if one niche suddenly dies, then Frank only takes a 10% pay cut.

But it will just take him one more site to catch up again.

And when he reaches 20 sites, then 1 dead niche is only a 5% drop in income. With 30 sites he is down to %3.3 and when he reaches his goal which is 50 sites, then it’s only a 2% drop.

Oh, BTW, 50 sites each doing $7,000/mo = $350,000/mo

Add comment January 28th, 2005

Finally… a Google AdWords API

I just got words from Andreas Ramos of the Adwords User Group about this.

This has been a long time coming, but Google finally released a Google AdWords API.

Google also launched a AdWords API Blog, but there’s just an introductory post there right now.

The API is still in beta, and some of the links inside didn’t work, when I worked my way through it, but this is what you’ll find inside:

• Sample code inJava, .Net, perl, PHP & XML
• Developer’s guide, which include the API reference guide

This should be enough to point you to the important sections.

But the most interesting part is which services are actually supported by the API.

What can you extract from Google AdWords, and what can you modify in the accounts you manage.

The currently offered services are:

• Campaign Service
  The Campaign Service lets you create, list, and modify campaigns. For instance, you can change the name, set the daily budget, and define the end date. It also lets you perform actions on a campaign, such as pausing the campaign.
• AdGroup Service
  The AdGroup Service lets you create ad groups, list ad groups, associate ad groups with a campaign, and perform actions. For example, you can set the cost-per-click for all keywords in the ad group.
• Keyword Service
  The Keyword Service lets you get information about keywords. For example, you can get the keywords in an ad group, and create and modify keywords.
• Creative Service
  The Creative Service lets you create and modify creatives, and associate them with an ad group.
• Traffic Estimator Service
  The Traffic Estimator Service lets you estimate the performance of keywords, ad groups, and campaigns. You can estimate data, such as the cost-per-click, clickthrough rate, and average position of your ads.
• Report Service
  The Report Service lets you get reports on the performance of your keywords, ad groups, and campaigns. For example, you can receive the daily number of impressions, clicks, and clickthrough rate.
• Info Service
  The Info Service lets you get basic information about how much you have used the AdWords API.

The API is still in beta, and there are a few obvious limitations; the “estimateKeywordList” service for instance acts as if you are using Global Targeting, so you can’t do any geo-targeted keyword research.

But all in all it should provide for some very interesting Google AdWords management applications.

Add comment January 28th, 2005