Yesterday I mentioned that I was starting to drive traffic again using traffic networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got my first two campaigns up yesterday, and requested for them to be validated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What came back:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
REJECTED<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s a virus scam on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hmmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I contacted the affiliate network and they said that’s not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I created a campaign which was directing traffic to one of my own websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It went in for verification and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
REJECTED: There’s a virus scam on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I forgot to mention, along with each of these was a warning that if this happeed twice, my account for the traffic network would be banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this situation, most new affiliates would stop trying, or they’d start getting worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And quite reasonably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yes\u2026 I got a little bit concerned as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the only thing that linked both campaigns was the tracking software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I contacted the traffic network and asked them if they were sure this flag wasn’t the tracking software?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes. Sorry. We’ve validated your campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a lot of hassle over nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although I am now considering changing the tracking software I’m using before I put them live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m currently using BeMob, primarily because it’s free for the first 100,000 events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I’ll probably go back to using Voluum, which is by far the best tracker out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyhoo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today we want to focus on how to know our audience inside out, even if we don’t know anything about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It can be done quickly and easily using a marketing persona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You want to create at least two personas, one male and one female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 12 steps to marketing personas are inside this evening’s Online Hustle members newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n