In my previous blog post, I explained why I thought Google Adwords did not work for me. However, I was determined to crack the code on Google Adwords. I wanted to make it work, as I was quite certain there was a RIGHT way to do this. Thus, I began to search for my answers online.

One of the company that appeared frequently on my radar was Mindvalley. The name seemed to creep up whenever I ran searches on Pay Per Click and Google Adwords related terms. And it always came to this landing page that exceptionally caught my attention - “Why Almost Everyone Is Wasting Money And Getting Burnt With AdWords!”. The headline appealed to my emotion, the layout design was clean and easy to read, and credibility of the program was built on the fold itself (About the Authors section).

Of course, I read on, and again the copywriting appealed to me. I guess the fact that it was written in a convincing and credible way. This website was unlike all the one-pager sales pages I had seen in the past. This was different, and it looked like knew what they were talking about.

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In my quest to find a product to sell on the Internet, I also became attracted to the idea of utilizing Google Adwords as a way to advertise products on Clickbank.

Just like any other aspiring internet marketer, I signed up for Google Adwords and started advertising several products I found on Clickbank. The first product I promoted was a book marketing product. I would say that I was shooting in the dark at this point.

While Google Adwords was easy to use, easy to sign-up for and easy to set up, it is also easy to burn money with Google Adwords if you don’t know what you are doing. As the book marketing product didn’t sell, and there were not many clicks on my ads to begin with, I decided to promote products from other categories. I found 2 products to promote - 1) Signing for Babies 2) Cure Morning Sickness.

Again, I was unsuccessful. After spending about US$50 on Google Adwords, I started thinking - What did I do that was not right? I spent countless of hours researching through blogs and found several resources that were really useful.

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If you are new to internet marketing, Clickbank is an affiliate network, similar to many of it’s competitors such as Commission Junction or PayDotCom. It is essentially a marketplace where:

1. Affiliates seek for products to sell
2. Publishers of products, post their products to attract affiliates

With over 10,000 products to choose from it would be difficult to sieve out the winners from the losers. Clickbank allows you to run a search for products based on Categories. You can also list products according to criteria such as popularity, $ earned per sale, gravity, % referred and total $ per sale. Of course, you can find out what all these means from the Clickbank website.

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