Comments on: Results From My Entrecard Ad Campaign

By: Rian

Rian — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:36:20 +0000

I had the same experience when I tested Facebook. Just a few basic Amazon links for people with certain keywords in their profile. E.g. Firefly would trigger a link to an Amazon referral for the Firefly boxed set. Or Sex and the City would trigger an Amazon link to the Blu-ray boxed set.

Zero conversions. Not one. Same for non-Amazon affiliate marketing stuff.

Facebook advertising is useless. Hundreds of clicks, zero conversions. Why bother?

By: Candice @ Bidmycleaning

Candice @ Bidmycleaning — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for writing about these tests on the various ad networks and making the results available. It definitely helps businesses considering them but you have a valid point in that it is worth running your own test to see if your results might be better.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thanks Candice – i plan to try out some other programs too and will report back

By: johnk

johnk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Allen,

Have you tried advertising on linkedin? It seems like the ultimate litmus test for advertising for your cloudcontacts service.

By: impNERD

impNERD — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to read as much as possible about the new ad system, and frankly, it just doesn’t seem worth it. Just about everyone received the same kind of results you did, including the zero orders.

What I want to know is, why would anyone in their right mind spend money in this kind of system (which is barely monitored to begin with)?

I’ve never seen EC make a sale, but say they did every 300 visits. So say you make two sales with $25. TWO! Go to Google AdWords and you make a sale every 20 (which 5% is sort of low, most people see 7%-10% easily… but for this, lets use 5%). Say you spend $0.20 per click. Which would probably be around the norm. That is $4 per sale. So then, to match EC’s two sales you would spend just $8 in comparision.

So hmm…. $8 or $25…. hmmmmMMmmmmm!

Even Adgitize offers more visitors for your money. People usually see around 700-1200 visitors off of $14, and they stick around longer than EC members too. (I don’t know about sales, haven’t asked)

The system in and that of itself is spelling doom. Even if EC CUT their price in half it still wouldn’t be a deal, IMO. You can easily advertise elsewhere for cheaper and for better quality.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for posting these figures and your experiences. There are a lot of places to buy ad space and it’s incredibly hard to tell which are a good value!