My 1st sale ever!!

well done, the only way is up!!

I still remember my first sales , it's the most important one

Congrats buddy.

I'm starting to lose a little motivation after having my sites hacked, then a hard drive crash which caused me to lose a heap of passwords and data.

I still check all my traffic on google analytics every day and then visit the amazon associates page only to see 30+ clicks and no sales.

Hopefully my first sale is just around the corner.

It's only nothing when you get to a level of confidence where it seems easy. The OP said that he was on the edge of giving up before the sale came in, and it's his first ever.

In that situation, a bigger goal might demotivate him, since it might seem as hard as flying by using his arms as wings. Maybe $1000 is just right for him; enough to get him excited, and not enough to seem totally impossible. Then, he can go for a bigger one. Sometimes the goal that seems doable is more motivating than a more lofty one.

wow $800
I don't think I'd ever spend $800 on Amazon lol

Grats on your first sale and %4 commission. Now get more sales to you can get a higher commission!!

Hi,

I am really inspired by your post! I am completely new to IM and was wondering did you just read books on selling products on amazon? What would you recommend? I appreciate that you reading this, and I appreciate any advice on what I can do. Thank you so kindly

Awesome, congratulations!

Be sure to focus on some cheaper products too in order to drive up your commission rate. E.g. selling at least 6 more items and getting to 6% commission level will earn you an extra $16 on the $800 product you already sold!

Congrats on your first sale!

Your post is very motivational, keep the good work!!

And thanks everyone for those nice posts

Well 1000$ is already a full time income here. Its just my next goal not the last one. A stable 1000$ on almost autopilot would be great and it seems pretty realistic right now. I dont believe i can make 5 or 10k per month til next year. Maybe in 2 years. Coz that would be really alot of money.

Yea i am already working on new 2 sites that have even more potential (according to google keyword tool). But will be hard to start making sales this month with them.

Yeah stil no earnings yet, which worries me a a bit. But it says that need some extra days to be shipped. So hopefully i dont lose it

Nah. But everything will go back in IM for outsourcing articles/reviews. Its my weakest point coz, its pretty hard for me to write a good review with my "not so good" english

Actualy my site was made mostly from free info that is shared in thread "Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?"

I needed about day and half to go through it and i take some notes. And i made some more research about things that i found useful.
Also most important thing you should learn is keyword research and analyzing competition. If u make this wrong probably your whole site will fail or it will take you very long to get ranked and possibly you will give up by then. I made that mistake with my 1st site that i started 20th december. I started it without knowing anything about IM. I was just following some ebook i found on internet which was just basic and didnt go enough in details. I was promoting a clickbank product. (at that time i thought that earning money online is possible only with clickbank). But of course i failed with that site because competition was much higher that i thought and i never got it ranked higher than 60th for my main keyword. So i gave up on that site. I didnt even like the niche so wasnt motivated enough to write about it so it has only 3 pages. And clickbank probably isnt for me coz i wlil never be good at copywriting with my poor english skills.
Anyway i was jumping alot from 1 method to another when i found this forum so i didnt even focus on that site so much. So just stick to 1 method that works best for you and stick to it. I dont think its possible to make money if u change your methods every week. Even if you just stick to 1 method there will be so much information that you will need months to learn it and be sucessful. You need learn keyword research, analyze competition, getting domain and hosting, build site, get good content, make on page seo, make off page seo. And every part goes in even more details. You will always be learnign new things.
Just start taking action even if you will fail at start and you wont make money with site you will stil get lots of knowledge and experience which is even more valuable. 2 months ago i didnt know what is domain and what is hosting so if i was such a noob and did it, you can do it too. But it takes lots of work, learning and patience

Great job, its good to see your plugging buyer KWs, much better conversions!