What is the Story of Your First Sale?

Do you remember how you made your first-time money online? What was the thing that you sold/promoted? How did you promote it? How did you feel when you first saw that sale?

I remember my first sale ever online, which was on May 19, 2008. Been more than one year now. It was a Clickbank product related to downloads. It made me feel like flying over the clouds when I checked my account and noticed that sale. I was so happy that I knew my life would never be the same again. It took about one month for me to reach that level, from zero knowledge on internet marketing to having made a Clickbank commission. Although it has been more than a year now, I am not at the point where I would like to see myself today, due to some offline factors. Nevertheless, I can say that I will not leave this path until I find myself at that point someday.

I will try to briefly explain my process from zero to first sale, below.

I don't remember how exactly I got infected by the internet marketing virus back in April 2008, however what I remember is that I found myself searching for some guide on how to make money online. I was like an internet marketing virgin and vulnerable to all the attacks by the sneaky internet marketers at that time. All the promises and fantastic offers were to good to be true, and I believed most of them. Luckily, I was not someone who could be sold easily. After some research, I decided on joining a membership site where I would find the necessary information and tools to start and follow step by step whatever they suggested.

Fortunately, I came across two of the great courses of the time. Wealthy Affiliate and Profit Lance. I did a lot of research on both programs, as what features they had, what people said about them. My final decision was the Wealthy Affiliate University, although I believed that Profit Lance would have been a good choice too.

Let me open a paragraph here about Wealthy Affiliate, because they deserve it.

I stayed as a member for three months and I was totally satisfied with what they offered; great articles, tutorials, videos, software and a priceless forum. I would continue my membership if it was not for some offline reasons. Thanks to WA, that was the first and last time I spent money on a how-to-make-money product. I learned the very basics at Wealthy Affiliate and now I figured out that I do not need any more make money reports since I know almost all the things about it, just what I need is to take more action.

Back to the story.

In a short time, I learned about affiliate marketing, digital products, promotion strategies and finally Clickbank. I signed up with Clickbank and started to explore it. At one instant, I stumbled upon a forum post by a fellow wealthy affiliate, Travis Sago. I am sure most of you have heard of him before. The post was related to Clickbank and USFreeads. Travis was illustrating in videos how he used USFreeads to promote Clickbank products. I really liked the style of Travis, he was explaining each step so detailed that I followed him immediately.

I registered at USFreeads for a premium account. I went to Clickbank Marketplace and grabbed an item -a product related to downloads- without looking for much. Then I created a really simple ad on USFreeads that described the product. I created some more ads about other products that I found in the marketplace.

The next day, when I checked my Clickbank account, bingo! I had made a sale from the first ad. I jumped out of the chair and started dancing. Words can not describe your feelings at that moment.

I made two more sales like this in the following days. It was just some plain simple ads on USFreeads without any marketing. It was the beginning for me. And I knew that it will not end soon.

So, what is the story of your first sale?

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