Week Two Begins... Or Does It?

Speaking for myself, I can't wait for the new material, not leastwise because the Week One materials set up huge expectations... and only sorta delivered.

I've learned some valuable things about CPA I didn't know – assuming that I make a "career" (or at least a well-paying hobby) out of it. But what I haven't learned, despite all the "quick start" material is how to seriously make any money yet.

My test campaigns, following the proscribed methodology of The Arbitrage Conspiracy, have all been total busts. I haven't found any keywords/niches where I can bid 25 cents and get views, much less clicks. Frankly, I don't think such markets exist (though I could be wrong). Second, from what I understand of Google, slapping up a bunch of keywords to "test the waters" is actually not a very good strategy, because Google will slap you for this (and in my case, it probably already has). Third, some of the squeeze pages provided by the CPA networks themselves have terrible Quality Scores right out of the gate. This last is not, of course, the AC Boys' fault, but it would have been nice to get a head's up to look out for these.

And I don't know if there's a way to find out if a page will have a good/bad QS without setting up a campaign – which ends up being a HUGE waste of time.

So now it's Monday, January 12th and Week Two is supposed to begin... except that no new materials have been posted. No new materials, and no notice on what's going on. After last week's f'd up conference call, I'm beginning to wonder if these guys can find and distinguish their collective asses from miscellaneous holes in the ground.

And call me cynical, but how is it these guys (who by all appearances are amateur managers, to put it mildly) are going actually run and administer a CPA network?

Or maybe that's where their real focus is anyway, and this Arbitrage Conspiracy thing is just a nice multi-million dollar lark that allows them to pay for their new offices (or trips to the whorehouse, or coke habits, or...).

Sorry, I'm feeling really crappy today, like I got suckered by Internet Marketing slicksters once again. All I can do at this point is hope there is a real light at the end of the tunnel... because I can't see continuing to set up 2 campaigns per day that don't work for the next 12 weeks in order to quality for the 125% refund.

And who believes, at this point anyway, that they'd honor that?

I should note that Ayman and Emmanuel seem to be good guys. Seem to be. But we all know that doesn't mean squat. I suppose I'll give this a few more days to see what happens... I may do a few more test campaigns...

But unless I see some remarkable and fast improvement in the point of this two thousand dollar course – you know, actually making some money – then I think it's getting perilously close to demanding a refund.

I'm not greedy. I don't expect to make 100K per day. Hell, I'd be happy to make 100 bucks per day, which the AC Boys have said on more than one occasion that it is easy, a piece of cake. Well, it may be for them, but then that's the old Guru Syndrome at work. You know the one: it's easy for them because they've done it for a long time.

That doesn't mean it's easy for anybody else...