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First sale, what's next

by goodmast3r
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Two months ago, I build my niche blog. It's now PR 3. Last week It managed to sold a product from clickbank. $31 profit. Current average daily visitor is 20. What should I do next? My mind tells me that I can't make it better. I was thinking about selling the blog for $300 (10 months profit) and build another blog using the same technique. What do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
    I think if your goal is short term profit you should sell
    it to the highest bidder immediately.

    If your goal is long term residual income you should
    focus on driving more targeted traffic to the site.

    The only real question worth answering is.... "what's
    your goal?" Only you have the answer.

    Tsnyder
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
    Why not keep that blog and start another using your technique.

    That blog might be able to earn more soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    It will be tough to sell the site for 10 x when it is only a few months old. I would suggest scaling what you have already done. Build it up in the SERPs, article marketing, etc..
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    • Profile picture of the author sozosau
      Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

      It will be tough to sell the site for 10 x when it is only a few months old. I would suggest scaling what you have already done. Build it up in the SERPs, article marketing, etc..
      This is also my thoughts, just get link building etc. It doesn't take long for that 20 uni's a day to turn into 200 and then you might see some good profits.

      SoZoS
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  • Profile picture of the author MattSanti
    Was the sale an affiliate sale? Or was it an actual product of your own? If it's your own, I'd start shopping around for other products you can sell. Are you building a list at all with this?
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    • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
      Originally Posted by MattSanti View Post

      Was the sale an affiliate sale? Or was it an actual product of your own? If it's your own, I'd start shopping around for other products you can sell. Are you building a list at all with this?
      It's affiliate product from Clickbank
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  • Profile picture of the author Woody C
    Are you doing it solely for the money or are you in the least bit interested in the subject?

    One sale is NOTHING compared to what a lot of blogs produce these days.

    If you want to make more sales with it, it may take a couple of months to start getting a more search page views which equals more money.

    If you don't like the subject and/or want to move on, then sale it and invest that money into something that you do like and will eventually make you more money.

    Re-investing your profits is the key either way you decide to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
    I'm skeptical about building the traffic more. Getting 100 UV a day is a lot easier than having 500 UV a day. 100 UV makes 1 sale, and 500 UV makes 5 sales. From 100 UV to 500 UV does not mean 5 times work, it is often more than that maybe 10 times work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Brite
      Originally Posted by goodmast3r View Post

      I'm skeptical about building the traffic more. Getting 100 UV a day is a lot easier than having 500 UV a day. 100 UV makes 1 sale, and 500 UV makes 5 sales. From 100 UV to 500 UV does not mean 5 times work, it is often more than that maybe 10 times work.
      But you have to take approaches that will give you 500 UV over and over again for life and only require some tweaking now and again.

      You should be able to increase conversions from 1 sale to 100 visitors by changing your pre-sell page and maybe even split testing another one too.

      Maybe start with some testing and editing of your site now and try and increase those conversion rates even if only slightly and then work on getting more traffic. However the amount of traffic you can get does depend on your niche too.

      Also look at setting up an autoresponder to create a list and promote other products to them that they might be interested. Then you have potential customers for life.

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      • Profile picture of the author enterprice
        You just made your first sale - and want to sell it out?!!!!! Oh, boy!
        If you have 1 sale for 100 visits - you have 1% convention rate and this is the gold mine! many people fighting for 0.3% !
        Continue to move your blog up, increase number of products you suggesting and clone such blogs into this niche - AND YOU''LL BE BIG!
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      • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
        Originally Posted by Tom Brite View Post

        You should be able to increase conversions from 1 sale to 100 visitors by changing your pre-sell page and maybe even split testing another one too.
        You are right, I'm too focusing on the traffic and ignored the effectiveness of my blog. Thanks.
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