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		<title>Kimkins Worth $2,676.32?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenuegirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing my own Kimkins Kimmer Experiment (KE). I did some google adwords in my promotion of Kimkins. I did also advertise with MSN, and Yahoo. I just pulled up my ad spend from google, and it wasn&#8217;t pretty. I had another silly little campaign that was well under $100, non Kimkins related, so this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m doing my own Kimkins Kimmer Experiment (KE).  I did some google adwords in my promotion of Kimkins.  I did also advertise with MSN, and Yahoo.  I just pulled up my ad spend from google, and it wasn&#8217;t pretty.<span id="more-47"></span></p>
<p>I had another silly little campaign that was well under $100, non Kimkins related, so this actual figure may be a bit lower for google.  But I more than made up for it with MSN, Yahoo, and even an ebay ad I had going.</p>
<p>Was Kimkins worth $2,676.32? I thought so at the time.  That&#8217;s a lot of money to invest toward the promotion of a product.  That ad spend was the only way I knew to get on the front page of the google search.  Boy, have I paid for it.  This whole trauma has cost me much more in the long run.</p>
<p>What is the new &#8220;Kimmer Experiment?&#8221;  I will make it to the front page of the google search for the keyword &#8220;Kimkins&#8221; and there will be no ad spend this time.  My interest in doing this is not financial motivation.  My interest is purely to get the word out about how dangerous Heidi Diaz is.</p>
<p>When someone does a google search for &#8220;<strong>Kimkins</strong>&#8221; the <strong>Kimkins.com</strong> website comes to the top of the search engine results.  I don&#8217;t think this is the most important site.  I think the sites that tell the real story of Heidi Diaz, the Russian brides, the LIES and the SCAM are what people really need to see.</p>
<p>Comments, and links to this blog are appreciated.  I need the help of other affiliate marketers.  Here is one small thing you can do.  Share my story in your own promotion.  Help spread the warning of how one little diet scam affects so many other things on the internet.</p>
<p>I will be sharing my full story of my experience with the Kimkins campaign in an ebook called The Rookie&#8217;s Report.  I like the term Rookie better than Newbie.  I need more stories for this book, and I would love to hear from anyone who would like to get in on it.  You can get a little more information on the project at <a title="The Rookie's Report Information site" href="http://therookiesreport.info">therookiesreport.info .</a></p>
<p>Please ignore the submission date ( that is getting fixed.)  I thought of doing this sooner, and realized this story isn&#8217;t done yet.  I&#8217;m praying that things will wrap themselves up by summer.</p>
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		<title>Interview with Mr. Willie Crawford</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenuegirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the interview with Willie Crawford last night on Blog Talk Radio. I was honestly afraid I would run out of things to say, or get really side tracked. My friends at LCF have assured me I did okay. I have not yet listened to it, my internet connection was a bit choppy and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had the interview with Willie Crawford last night on  <a title="Blog Talk Radio" href="http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford">Blog Talk Radio</a>.</p>
<p>I was honestly afraid I would run out of things to say, or get really side tracked.  My friends at <a title="Low Carb Friends" href="http://lowcarbfriends.com" target="_blank">LCF</a> have assured me I did okay.<span id="more-9"></span></p>
<p>I have not yet listened to it, my internet connection was a bit choppy and was playing a bit garbled, but I will try again today.</p>
<p>Mr. Crawford was impressed by my conversion rate during the <a href="http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/populardietplans/a/kimkinsdiet.htm"> Kimkins </a> promotion.  My ad spend sucked out 1/3 of my commissions.  Basically, for every dollar invested I got two back.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a bad rate.  I can also tell you, my number of unique visitors (the people who found the site initially through my link) was 7,430  but my total sales were for 430. Not all of those we achieved during the price hike, but the majority were.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a scary thing joining an affiliate program run by a <a href="http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/populardietplans/a/kimkinsdiet.htm"> fake diet</a> guru.  I question those numbers, and wonder if I wasn&#8217;t skimmed.</p>
<p>I did like the affiliate tracking software used, from an affiliate&#8217;s stand point.</p>
<p><a title="Idevaffiliate" href="http://www.idevdirect.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=11725" target="_blank">IDevAffiliate</a> made it easy to view what pages from my web site were pulling in the traffic.  I will be getting in touch with them soon, to see if it&#8217;s possible for an owner/user of that software to somehow adjust the numbers.  The math of this whole thing just doesn&#8217;t add up for me.</p>
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