What was YOUR first success in affiliate/internet marketing

13 years ago

The first money that I made online was low pressure prospecting for contract work in forums for premium theme providers. I found a lot of people who thought it would be easy to combine a theme and a CMS, and have Website Nirvana, only to find that there were always lots of details, and they were in over their heads.

That was actually how I discovered the whole world of IM in the first place, because even though I had worked on Websites for years, it was always for more traditional businesses, so I had never really focused on this corner of the world.

After that, I did contract work almost exclusively for Internet Marketers (my best paying clients) before eventually becoming the technical end of a small IM cabal, which has been fun and rewarding.

More recently, though, I had what I consider my first independent IM success, in that I actually built a small project, mostly as an exercise, that consistently pulls a few hundred bucks a month on autopilot.

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loss1988 13 years ago

My first success was 4 or 5 years ago. no need to work hard like now, I've created some gpt website, it has lots of easy campaigns at that time, everyone likes free trial offers, it was a wonderful time with leadgains.com and InstantDollar. But that time is too short, I had to dropped everything to focus my time on study and tried to heal my health. After living and working in the offline world, I came back to IM then quick realize that everything has changed, more difficult and my years ago technique is useless now. I'm studying hard now and still waiting for my first profit CPA campaign
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LeeroyGreen

13 years ago

I first dived into micro niche sites and auto-blogs. I made, and continue to make good money from both. Each are monetized differently, Clickbank, CPA, Amazon, Adsense. But the e-mail lists are my real bread and butter.

I then had to flip some of the sites, because it was hard to manage over 500 websites. But I made a lot of money flipping, it was just hard letting go, lol.

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williamrs

13 years ago

It was when I sold my first Clickbank product using article marketing.

I didn't make much money, but the feeling of finally generating a commission after almost 2 years struggling was awesome!

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jeffrey73

13 years ago

Originally Posted by williamrs

It was when I sold my first Clickbank product using article marketing.

I didn't make much money, but the feeling of finally generating a commission after almost 2 years struggling was awesome!

W

DITTO ^^^

I also made my first sale to a CB product using article marketing.

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pacelattin

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisBa

Just curious.. it would be anything... first lead, first sale, first profitable month, etc.. what do you feel was your first success?

In affiliate marketing, biggest success was 2003 with email submits when they first came out. Biggest month I think was 2.5-3M on those on fastclick.

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ChrisBa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by pacelattin

In affiliate marketing, biggest success was 2003 with email submits when they first came out. Biggest month I think was 2.5-3M on those on fastclick.

Actually that reminds me of another story when i learned why you need to diversify

but that'll be for another day..

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pacelattin

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisBa

Actually that reminds me of another story when i learned why you need to diversify

but that'll be for another day..

Why I need to diversify, or do you mean "why one needs to?"

Diversification is key. I've since invested in real estate, stock, other companis with what I made initially in aff marketing.

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ChrisBa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by pacelattin

Why I need to diversify, or do you mean "why one needs to?"

Diversification is key. I've since invested in real estate, stock, other companis with what I made initially in aff marketing.

No no no not you, mister.. I meant why "one" needs to diversify..

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jeffrey73 13 years ago

Just to clarify, you made 3 MILLION dollars in a month with email submits??

That is INSANE.

Originally Posted by pacelattin

In affiliate marketing, biggest success was 2003 with email submits when they first came out. Biggest month I think was 2.5-3M on those on fastclick.
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- pacelattin 13 years ago
  
  Yes. I made a deal with fastclick, took 30% off the top, they ran my banners. Was all shoot the monkey, shoot the dog.. made over 2,000 different versions. You probably saw them then....
  
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  Just to clarify, you made 3 MILLION dollars in a month with email submits??
  
  That is INSANE.
  
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tmoby

13 years ago

Ad posting was my first success. It was back when I knew nothing about anything IM, so I just posted a bunch of ads on the first affiliate offer I found. Did fairly well the first month then slowly worse and worse until nothing each month. Still don't know why that happened, but that's why I decided to actually learn more about IM before I do it!

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ChadH

13 years ago

First revenue i made online was $24.95 on a clickbank dog training product.

First real profit was monetizing Rush Limbaughs weight loss.

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mtmjohn

13 years ago

It was when I had my first conversion with an email submit offer by using PPV marketing. lol

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Omid

13 years ago

It was my first conversion at MaxBounty for an email submit offer.

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dark witness

13 years ago

selling a clickbank forex product though adwords.... the good old days! I made about $800 net profit within about 2 weeks from this one product.

then I got all high on information overload and stopped making money because I was spending more time and money jumping from program to program then I did taking action.

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Mahmoud Selman

13 years ago

My first success was by receiving a phone call from Katherine Jensevics AM in maxbounty telling me that my application was approved

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Kenster

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisBa

Just curious.. it would be anything... first lead, first sale, first profitable month, etc.. what do you feel was your first success?

My first real success was my first profitable campaign.

But the first time I felt "I made it" was my first $5k net month. Doesn't sound like a lot but it was enough to live off of so to me it felt like a full time income that I made online. That feeling was great.

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Munnie

13 years ago

When I made a few changes to my first website promoting an affiliate website and they made a huge difference to my revenue.. then I realised you can make more as a vendor

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imarketstuff

13 years ago

my first sale promoting some adult site, years back.. the sensation "wow! this stuff works!"

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Kenster 13 years ago

Originally Posted by imarketstuff

my first sale promoting some adult site, years back.. the sensation "wow! this stuff works!"

It's such a great feeling when things start working. I think a lot of people get into IM and know there is money to be made but because of the hyped up sales letters, a small part of thinks its just not real.

When you earn that first $1, its like YES, THIS WORKS...I CAN DO THIS

Same when you get to $100, $1,000 $10,000 $100,000 and so on

Every level is just as exciting when you reach it.

I still say to myself...wow, this does work!
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Naveen K

13 years ago

My first success was when I got my first ever conversion for one one CPS offer which I promoted through facebook.

I was enjoying and jumping here and there for that whole day after seeing that conversion. :p

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Aviator Joe

13 years ago

an email submit based on a hot trend using facebook traffic