My progress

Today I have signed up for a few more affiliate programs to get a better variety of products to sell.  I have also purchased software to help me break down the more popular products.

Current status and goals

Currently I am still not the best at ppc advertising but I am doing well.  I still do suffer losses sometimes but I have been more profitable on average and on some months, very profitable.  I am slowly gaining more and more capital to earn more money, I am still working with a very limited amount of funds.  

My goals for a successful ppc advertising venture:

• Understand what products sell
• Have a reliable set of affiliate programs
• Find newer more efficient ways to advertise with new capital

These goals will take a great deal of time, I hope sooner than later.

Once I understand the trends of products that sell and the type of products that sell especially based on the seasons I will be able to earn more per click.

After a while I should have an established set of affiliate programs that I can use, reliability and consistency is always safe.

With the extra money I earn I hope to invest it in other types of advertising ventures, diversification is always necessary. 

My begining in PPC

I started getting interested in ppc advertising when everyone started talking about how well google worked for them.  My first tries were horrible, I ran into a few problems;

1. I was paying way too much to advertise
2. I was advertising unreliable affiliate programs
3. I was advertising programs that were not getting enough interested customers

There were quite a few other problems I faced as well but those were the ones that frustrated me the most.  I began joining better programs like clickbank, marketleverage, etc... and I began using their resources much wiser.  

When I first began I was spending $3.00 for every $0.35 - $0.50 I was making.  With a lot of experience I am now in profit making two to three dollars for every fifty cents that I spend.  This is not always consistent, there are highs and lows that you come across especially when trying new programs.