After I
broke this story on my blog yesterday morning,
Sam Harrelson mentioned it in a podcast,
then today
Shawn Collins blogged about it and said:
Quote:
"I took a look and it’s decent entertainment for newbies that live on Fantasy Island and dream of a world where net and gross mean the same thing.
But for everybody else, it’s all sizzle and no steak.
While the gigantic check amounts are fun to see, I’d imagine that they are the result of ppc action. That being said, who cares about the raw total?
It’s all about the amount they take home. Something tells me the net income is substantially less.
But hooray for the newbies that have some commission porn."
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While I see his point, many of these guys that do PPC are still left with a pretty good net income. I doubt that guys that make 150K are paying 140K to make 10K or anything like that.
Let's say that big check they flash is for 150,000 but their PPC spend and other costs are 100,000. (For example) That's still 50K profit for the month and that isn't half bad. Most that I've read about try to at least double their money in which case they would have spent 75K to make 150K. I'm sure there are lots of natural search affiliates making 20 - 30K a month profit but not sure how many are netting 50K a month.
The thing I think about when I look at these high earning PPC affiliates is - you really need to have balls of steel to spend 100,000K on PPC. You need the money to put in to begin with, you need to know how to scale the heck out of campaigns and need to have enough trust that the network check is going to come through, after the fact, to cover your PPC outlay. Sounds exciting and scary, kinda like the rush of gambling! Not sure I could do it - at least not at that scale.