Making Money Online: How To Get That First Sale

[Panseller]

Having recently lost my job and looking to replace that income without having to go back to a 7.30 - 5.00 job with a boss from hell I started marketing eBooks on the internet.

I didn't know the first thing about it when I started but it was something I had always wanted to do.

I bought several eBooks from different "gurus" on how to go about it. I read them, evaluated them and decided which one appealed to me most. I then made the decision to follow the plan laid out for me in the eBook to the letter. No ifs, ands or buts, no adlibbing. Just follow the plan.

The plan was on a weekly "rinse and repeat" cycle. I rushed through the first one, after all I had income I needed to replace and I thought the sooner I get the stuff out there the better. And I figured that the more I had out there the more money I would get, and get it quicker.

I got to the end of the first week and then started a second project.

Every day while working on the new project I would spend alot of time looking to see if my first project had made any money. I was doing this every day and seeing nothing. No money, not much traffic either.

After 3 weeks I still had nothing from the first project but I carried on tweaking it like my plan told me to but I was fast giving up hope of ever seeing any return for all this work I was putting in. In fact I was seriously thinking my time might be better spent looking for another "proper" job instead, before the little savings I had left were all gone.

But I hung in there and followed the process outlined for me.

Late one night, 5 weeks later as I was closing down my computer for the night I thought I would just have a quick look at my clickbank account. I nearly fell off my perch. After weeks of seeing nothing but daily sales of $0.00 there was $23.45 staring back at me. I almost could not believe it. There was hope after all, maybe it would be possible to make a living at this, to make money online. Just maybe I wouldn't have to go out and find a "proper" job.

So, how did I get that first sale?

Focus. By having a plan to follow, not getting side tracked and perservering with the plan until good things happened.

I think my first sale would have been quicker though if I had just concentrated on and took more time over producing better projects each week instead of wasting so much time trying to see how the ones I had already put "out there" were doing.


My advice, for what its worth, to anyone wanting that first sale would be:

• Choose the plan you are going to follow, stick with one web guru at least until the plan starts working or, you decide to dump it because its plainly not working.
• Don't try and mix and match different guru methods or plans in the hopes of producing the greatest plan for making money since sliced bread.
• Take your time and produce the best quality campaign you are capable of producing. Don't rush.
• Persevere. Hang in there and keep working at it.
• FOCUS and you will eventually get that first sale.

[gregdolday]

Well Done - congratulations on your first sale. It feels great. I remember staring at my inbox and keeping refreshing it and checking if my email was working properly because no sales were coming in.

The good thing is now that you have made one you can duplicate it and make another. I strongly recommend becoming a marketing hawk and watching your incomings and outgoings as early on as possible so as to help you move to a profitable situation as soon as possible.

Stick with it.