How I made my first Clickbank sale in 11 days

Hello people

I've been a member of this forum for a while now and I'm always amazed at the amount of new people coming on board trying to get started, many working hard at it for months, with zero results.

So today I'm going to share a strategy I've used (and taught others with similar success) in the past to generate sales through promoting a clickbank affilate product.

So here goes...

1. Find a product in Clickbank that's actually selling. It really doesn't matter what niche, just pick one that actually sells! When I did this, I decided to target weight loss, just to see if this strategy could really work in such a huge niche (it did). Just pick one!

2. Do some keyword research (freekeywords.wordtracker.com is a good place to start). Type in your main keywords, then pick four or five of the best ones from the top.

3. Create a Wordpress blog on your own domain (preferred) or set up a squidoo lens, with a keyword in your domain name if possible (difficult in a huge niche, but not impossible). Avoid lots of "-"s in the domain name. (I will now refer to this as your "main blog").

4. Create two free blogs at wordpress.com and one blogger blog (these are your "mini blogs").

5. Stick five articles (as blog posts), each one targeting one of your keywords on your main blog. Include a link to your affiliate product in all of these posts. If using a lens, the concept is the same.

6. Set up your home page, your about page, and of course your home page, and set up links to your affiliate product.

7. Summarise each of the main blog posts on all of your mini blogs (each one will need to be unique).

8. Post one article per day to your main blog (try to maintain this for at least 30 days to really boost your changes of profiting from this strategy). Be sure that your keywords appear in your title, your first and last paragraph, and at least once in the body. Be sure to link to your affiliate product from each post.

9. Post one article per day to Ezine Articles. Be sure to link back to your main blog from your resource box - this is important! Try to maintain this for at least 30 days (more if you really want to get good results).

10. If you don't get ONE sale in less than 30 days, then there's something seriously wrong! Check your clickbank stats to see how things are going.

Targeting the weight loss niche for me was really just to see if this strategy could actually work in such a huge niche. A sale after only 11 days was proof that I could compete in any market - with consistent effort.

A client of mine took this strategy and applied it to a scrapbooking product - her first sale was made in 10 days.

All too often I read posts in here of people who have been working at this for months with zero sales and that amazes and saddens me, and I can really understand their frustration.

Any experienced internet marketer will tell you though, that to succeed online isn't difficult as such, but it does require a lot of work. If you're prepared to put in the effort (or at least pay to have somebody else do the hard stuff for you) on a consistent basis, then you have to eventually experience positive results.

If anybody tries this and experiences good results, I'd love to hear about it.