Bank Statement Converter · PDF bank statement to Excel converter
Run Google search ads for a simple paid web tool
Never profitable: ~$300 sales per $1,000 spent; cut after 6 months
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What they did
Ran Google Search Ads from launch for about 6 months and spent a lot of time optimizing campaigns for profitability.
What happened
Good for initial users but never profitable: roughly $1,000 of ads brought ~$300 in sales. Cut after about 6 months.
- Stage
- launch
- Effort
- About 6 months of spend and optimization
“At first, I bought Google Search Ads. These were good for getting the initial users, but I was never able to run an ad campaign profitably, so I would spend maybe a thousand US dollars on ads and bring in about $300 in sales.”
“I spent a lot of time trying to optimize these ads, trying to get them more profitable, but never really worked out.”
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