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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 24 Mar 2015 00:46 #195348

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JayBizzle wrote: Hey Chris. Awesome you are doing this. Been waiting to promote HH for awhile now, think I even emailed asking about an affiliate program several times over the past few months...

Anyways, getting down to numbers, this is what I need to know:

  • Avg. Cart Value for a new customer? (on avg how much is first order placed by a new customer)
  • Avg. Customer LIfetime Value? (on avg how much does a customer spend over their lifetime)
  • What affiliate network/software/cart are you using to track affiliate sales?
  • -- Can people be sent directly to your blog/site/forum thru my affiliate link and I get credited with the sale eventually when they buy? Or does each purchase have to be made by clicking on a buy-link with my affid on the actual buy link?
  • Each new customer is permanently assigned to their 1st referring affilaite then?

I'm aware of the 80/20 "some people order way more than others"-effect, but I just need to know averages based on all data you have up to this point.

Feel free to PM if you prefer

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1) The average first order is now $52, the newbie starter pack + shipping. But sometimes people just buy HH1 1oz, $14.

2) I have no idea.

3) We our own software - OpenCart. But are upgrading it.

4) I don't understand what you mean here... if they link your Happy Hippo Affiliate link (which takes them to Hippo), you'll get 20% of their sales for 30days. If you send them to Good Looking Loser to look at my Kratom guide (and they don't click your Happy Hippo affiliate link, you won't get the sale). That's why I encourage people to make their own Kratom guide, and put their own links it in.

5) I think so. This 'lifetime' commission isn't as easy to implement as people think. I want to give affiliates 5% on EVERY lifetime sale their referral makes, but I can't have people signing (purposely or inadvertently) signing up existing customers to a lifetime commission. So the lifetime commission won't be a "native cookie" that can be cleared from the cache. It will be permanent thing so no one and steal/add existing customers as their lifetime affiliates.


Chris, this isnt too complex a task, it would probably take 2-3 hours to code (unless opencart is hard to modify). Dont know how youre doing it at the moment but on submission of the registration page you should get the affiliate id from the cookie (if one exists) and store that in the user data in the database under a field called referrer. When crediting the affiliate you just need to check if theres a referrer for that user in the db and if so credit them. Even if the cookie has been replaced by another affiliate the correct one will be credited.

Not sure if that sounds foreign to you but show your web developer this post and he'll understand. I know this is how it works cause ive done some web development projects with referral programs multiple levels deep.
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 26 Mar 2015 00:35 #195835

Thanks for this Chris! Your advice on other topics has helped me a ton so I'm in with both feet on this one. domain and webhosting purchased via the recommendations in your guide.

I've never tried Kratom before so I'll be documenting my experiences from day 1 as a first time user.

This is really exciting stuff, trying something new both with the Kratom and creating my first ever blog. Here's to new experiences and hopefully some cash as well!
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 26 Mar 2015 01:55 #195847

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awesome dude, happy to be a help

I must say - my guide to Hippo niche sites is really good, honestly - its impossible to not make some sales if you follow it. The best content with get the google spots, but don't underestimate youtube. Rooster's Kratom video has made about $2500 in sales this month
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 26 Mar 2015 01:56 #195848

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Good Looking Loser wrote:

JayBizzle wrote: Hey Chris. Awesome you are doing this. Been waiting to promote HH for awhile now, think I even emailed asking about an affiliate program several times over the past few months...

Anyways, getting down to numbers , this is what I need to know:

  • Avg. Cart Value for a new customer? (on avg how much is first order placed by a new customer)
  • Avg. Customer LIfetime Value? (on avg how much does a customer spend over their lifetime)
  • What affiliate network/software/cart are you using to track affiliate sales?
  • -- Can people be sent directly to your blog/site/forum thru my affiliate link and I get credited with the sale eventually when they buy? Or does each purchase have to be made by clicking on a buy-link with my affid on the actual buy link?
  • Each new customer is permanently assigned to their 1st referring affilaite then?

I'm aware of the 80/20 "some people order way more than others"-effect, but I just need to know averages based on all data you have up to this point.

Feel free to PM if you prefer

huge thanks and congratulations


Hey Jay

1) The average first order is now $52, the newbie starter pack + shipping. But sometimes people just buy HH1 1oz, $14.

2) I have no idea.

3) We our own software - OpenCart. But are upgrading it.

4) I don't understand what you mean here... if they link your Happy Hippo Affiliate link (which takes them to Hippo), you'll get 20% of their sales for 30days. If you send them to Good Looking Loser to look at my Kratom guide (and they don't click your Happy Hippo affiliate link, you won't get the sale). That's why I encourage people to make their own Kratom guide, and put their own links it in.

5) I think so. This 'lifetime' commission isn't as easy to implement as people think. I want to give affiliates 5% on EVERY lifetime sale their referral makes, but I can't have people signing (purposely or inadvertently) signing up existing customers to a lifetime commission. So the lifetime commission won't be a "native cookie" that can be cleared from the cache. It will be permanent thing so no one and steal/add existing customers as their lifetime affiliates.


Chris, this isnt too complex a task, it would probably take 2-3 hours to code (unless opencart is hard to modify). Dont know how youre doing it at the moment but on submission of the registration page you should get the affiliate id from the cookie (if one exists) and store that in the user data in the database under a field called referrer. When crediting the affiliate you just need to check if theres a referrer for that user in the db and if so credit them. Even if the cookie has been replaced by another affiliate the correct one will be credited.

Not sure if that sounds foreign to you but show your web developer this post and he'll understand. I know this is how it works cause ive done some web development projects with referral programs multiple levels deep.


Thank you, ill show him, I don't understand this stuff.
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 28 Mar 2015 01:07 #196380

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Started just now, waiting currently for webhostinghub to approve my CC info.
Gonna hit this hard when I can, the whole 9 yards... Been telling myself to learn wordpress and to step towards online marketing / passive income / running my own business, kept making excuses.. Dropped the money on it, now I'm locked in.
Questions:
1. Is a theme essential? Noticed even the basic DIYtheme you linked is about 90$, would like to see *SOME* returns before I go balls deep invested into it. 90 wouldn't be killing my wallet but at the same time it's a steep price to pay when i'm primarily looking for the experience. Anyone know of some good free themes?
2. Have you heard anything about the 5% lifetime commission?
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 28 Mar 2015 02:02 #196386

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SKJ2003 wrote: Started just now, waiting currently for webhostinghub to approve my CC info.
Gonna hit this hard when I can, the whole 9 yards... Been telling myself to learn wordpress and to step towards online marketing / passive income / running my own business, kept making excuses.. Dropped the money on it, now I'm locked in.
Questions:
1. Is a theme essential? Noticed even the basic DIYtheme you linked is about 90$, would like to see *SOME* returns before I go balls deep invested into it. 90 wouldn't be killing my wallet but at the same time it's a steep price to pay when i'm primarily looking for the experience. Anyone know of some good free themes?
2. Have you heard anything about the 5% lifetime commission?


If you're going for organic traffic use the twentytwelve theme (or something like it) until your site is seeing visitors. Affiliate marketing 101 (when it comes to organic traffic) is to cover the basics (uploading content and ranking it) before shining it up with logo, nice theme, etc. Wait till your site hits page 2-3 before even considering spending dollars on making it pretty.

Also, the kratom niche is really competitive. There are 3-4 partial match domains (domains with the word kratom in them) showing up for basically every kratom related keyword and those domains are powerful. These domains are all kratom retailers with legit, authoritative backlinks and a simple site with only content will not rank anywhere close to the top 10 without any off-page SEO done to it - it won't even break top 100.

I have literally never ranked a site with only content and the keyword in the name of the domain and while it can happen it only happens in super super easy, obscure niches. This is not that kind of niche, and I probably wouldn't even go for it myself if my only means of getting traffic was organic. However, the cpc for the high volume keywords is pretty damn low and my advice for you people pursuing this is to go with ads.

(note, if you're going with ads DO make the site pretty as you'll get visitors almost instantly, and you want to convert the highest amount of visitors to make up for the cpc)
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 01 Apr 2015 02:41 #197395

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Meh, yeah maybe won't be anything I really profit from monetarily. However, wordpress and such is something i've been meaning to learn for a while and this is more of a "reason" to. I'm not necessarily at a point where I want to start my own blog or affiliate marketing venture quite yet, but when I do I don't want to crawl through it. So for me, the experience is what i'm after.

@Chris, I set up through B&D friday evening to have them do their package deal to the site -- haven't heard back yet, not even a confirmation or kickback if I did something wrong or whatnot. Any idea how long it should take?
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 01 Apr 2015 07:28 #197418

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SKJ2003 wrote: Meh, yeah maybe won't be anything I really profit from monetarily. However, wordpress and such is something i've been meaning to learn for a while and this is more of a "reason" to. I'm not necessarily at a point where I want to start my own blog or affiliate marketing venture quite yet, but when I do I don't want to crawl through it. So for me, the experience is what i'm after.

You right about the experience being valuable. I tried several web sites that didn't exactly take off but I picked up pretty good skills that helped me in other contract jobs. I was developing with Flash which has been mostly replaced by newer technologies that are easier and more powerful.

If you're looking for a good tech resource for getting started I would recommend "Nettuts" which i've been using for years.
Pretty good short and practical useful samples and articles written by many different contributors. It helps you get up and running.

Lots of the resources out there are confusing or dull dull dull.

http://code.tutsplus.com/categories/wordpress

Most of the sample articles are free. Some of them you have to pay but those are usually more advanced topics.

Here's a good sample article : ( they have well over a hundred articles on wordpress )

Guide to managing a wordpress project.
http://code.tutsplus.com/series/guide-to-managing-premium-wordpress-projects--wp-33862

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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 01 Apr 2015 19:01 #197504

From the blog post:

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.


Has anyone figured out how to get this working?
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 01 Apr 2015 20:53 #197536

theDon wrote: From the blog post:

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.


Has anyone figured out how to get this working?


You sign up here and they're pretty quick about setting it up for you.

boldanddetermined.com/free-wordpress-setup-form/
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 01 Apr 2015 21:09 #197544

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theDon wrote: From the blog post:

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.


Has anyone figured out how to get this working?


You sign up here and they're pretty quick about setting it up for you.

boldanddetermined.com/free-wordpress-setup-form/


I've signed up. I meant specifically removing the tracking codes from the links and still have it being tracked to my affiliate account. None of the 7 plugins provided seem to involve this.
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EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom 02 Apr 2015 01:44 #197607

Quick tip I found out the hard way, if there are any guys in the military that are interested in trying Kratom, although it isn't tested for in urine tests, some branches like the Air Force and Navy have started coming after guys who do. The catch is that they can come after you if they suspect that you are on it, so don't go around telling everyone about this great new thing you've started doing.

Also, a lot of the people I've talked about Kratom with now think I'm a drug addict and want nothing to do with me. Anybody else experiencing this?
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