Hello newBum76,

To make a first sale is not hard as we heard.. We can make our first sale just in the forum. But to archive a powerful sales is hard.

I am also searching the ways to archive it. But for me the easiest way to maintain sell was by PPC, but must spend a little for it.

Regards Nasrun

My first sale came after 7 months and my first 100 dollars after a year but I now have an empire.

I am not yet rich but the difference is clear. I know many things now cos I did not think of making money initially but built a knowledge base first.

Was frustrating anf tasking but I am a better person for it.

Hello newBum76,

When I first started out, it took about 2 weeks to make a sale, but it was the best 2 weeks of my life!

Let me explain.....I held myself to a high standard when I began article marketing. I said to myself, "Michael, every day that you don't make a sale, you are going to research AND apply some aspect of article marketing that you currently do not incorporate....and then apply to all of your future articles."

I took on the persona of a "lifeong learner". There were unlimited concepts to learn so I pinpointed ones that successful article marketers employed.....I came across this forum and article marketing e-books and modelled what worked.

Many sales later, I still commit to new concepts and methods in article marketing. If you go in with the mentality of being a "lifelong learner", you will be amazed by how quickly you see results.

Just commit, have patience, and watch your results bloom!

It did not take long to make my first sale. I used at first the bum marketing method and submited a few articles to articles directories like ezine. Then one week later, I had my first sale.

Yes, I used it with clickbank at first. But a little later, I tried cpa offer with Pay per sales and it converted better. Clickbank products are sold by too many people and because of the competition, you will get less sales than with an affiliate product.

Michael... Top answer... it's always frustrating when people get on and post for the sake of posting... I love to see good quality answers like that.

NewBum76... I know this is not really answering your question, but I am curious... why article marketing? (I know it's free, but there are other free methods out there)

I took me about one week to make my first sale. I think the reason most people find it hard to start making money online is because they think they have to know how to make a website or have to be an expert in a certain type of niche. Not true at all.

I am by no means an expert in the niche that I use, although I do know *some* about it. My first sale came 2 days ago actually resulting in $62.11. Now, although I spent about 2-3 hours total writing articles in order to get traffic, it has paid off.

As long as you put your mind to it and actually LEARN what you have to do in order to start making money, it will come fast. Don't just buy something that says it will make you $2,000 in 48 hours or something, you want to actually know HOW and WHY you are making the money that you do. Good luck with your IM adventure

Oh, and thank you everyone on this forum for all the help. I hope I will get good enough with IM that I can contribute back to the community.

I actually made my first money online after about a week. That was with a blog with adsense. I received my first clicks after like a week of backlinking like crazy.

My first sale, on the other hand, just came about two weeks ago. I purchased an ebook that came highly recommend, followed the step by step process to the letter, and I made $75 within 3 hours of the campaign going live.

It didn't take me long at all once I started putting things into action. I made a sale the same day I started but that was with a PPC test. My first sale from article marketing came within a week or two because of the wait time from EZA before I had a platinum account. It definitely doesn't have to take long - you just have to keep working at it.

Lindsay Brynn: was the sale bigger than the ammount of money you put in PPC?

Mine came 2 days after I set up my first site. I tried all that article marketing stuff, for a few weeks but that didn't work for me. I decided to go a different route and build my own site, selling my own product. Within 2 days of my PPC (Adwords) campaign going live, I made a sale. So all in all, about 4 weeks.

I recently put a site together for my partner (wordpress blog) and it was online for less than 2 weeks, with only 4 articles published and it made a sale. No article marketing or any other form of marketing whatsoever.

The money really is in the choice of keywords

started internet marketing few years back, used ppc to drive traffic
to my website and sold some physical products about 1-2 months later....

My big breakthrough came about 6 months later when I made my
First $1000 In A Day. I shared my story with fellow warrior members
here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-1000-day.html

I hope this will give you guys some motivation and put in your
brain that Internet marketing is real and it's impossible not
to make money if you have the right education!

I made my first sale about a month after I started article marketing. My clickbank sales seem to have tallied off, but I recently made my first Amazon sale, and my Adsense money is starting to really take off! It has taken time and will continue to take time, but you can make a sale pretty quickly if you put your mind to it.

My first sale was after probably about a month, and the method was dodgy, black hat and the sale I got was very lucky.

Yet it still kept me going, but I didn't start to see any results for another two months. It's amazing what can happen when you don't have any plan of action.

The worst thing that ever happened to me was my first sale in IM came very fast. That put me in a mindset of "this stuff is easy" and I was soon replicating processes that I should've abandoned. That one stray sale in the beginning cost me probably three months worth of time as I tried to duplicate it while using poor methods.

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It only took us a couple of days to make our first sale, but we did have a popular free site already set up which we were able to promote on heavily. Still it did feel great when that first sale came in.

Made my first sale in about 10 days or so, which did not come directly, but through one of my promotions to my tiny email list that was still in it's infancy stage. That's because I started to build my list right from the start, and this was just the beginning.

NewBum76,

Hi there.

I understand where you're coming from, and it is different for everyone.

However, as others have said, it is about learning, and choosing a method, and refining it.

I artuicle market, I build websites, I write in forums, I advertise on Adwords, pretty much, a wide gammut of things online, as they all work together.

I work out a plan, and each day, follow it, and little by little, it all adds up.

I have found that following a plan is imperatiove to your success, as is learning, on a constant basis.

Thios does not mean, just buy every course, but actually apply everything that you learn, and build slowly.

You may not see a big difference in a week or even a month.

However, given a few months, and certainly a year, you'll know much more, be more experienced and have success building under your belt.


Martin Cohn

Hostingsuccess.com/delavo

It took me two months "working" 14 hours per week. That was the most proud $17.95 I've ever earned.

It took me 10 days if I remember correctly. My first article on Ezinearticles got approved under a pen name and I made the sale!

From then, it's been a wonderful ride!

My first "Internet" sale happened an hour before I released the sales letter, thanks to someone finding my book on Clickbank, but it wouldn't be fair for me to claim that I was a beginner.

I did a big article distribution campaign (submit directly to ezines, people - it still works), and we sold a bunch of books behind that within the following week.

My first internet sale took about 3 days. Then I had no sales for about 2 weeks. Then it got better. It was uneven for sometime tough.

I'm talking about an article a week, sustained, for nearly 3 months. Pushed out to article announcement lists and submitted directly to any ezines I could find with a circulation of 10K+.

Around 450 sales from the article campaign.

Most of the sales, not surprisingly, were from the larger circulation newsletters like WebProNews, SiteProNews, Addme, etc. A few smaller lists where they had a more personal touch/relationship with subscribers did well too.

For something that was totally a spare time deal, it felt pretty good at the time.

I made my first sale 3 days after I started.. but I was doing way more than the gurus were trying to tell me, everything they told me to do I did it by 10

I remember I had made my first sale of $14 last year after 3 months into Internet Marketing.

The product was about Forex Trading and my sales page was on Hubpages.com.

Later, Hubpages.com became very strict and removed my page.

I was stupid, and it took me almost nine months to make my first affiliate sale. AdSense was covering the hosting costs over that time but not much more. It was my primary business model until I realized that it monetizes at about a dollar per 200 visits -- not page views, <i>visits</i>. Now that I've figured out that one little affiliate link monetizes at 20-50 times that amount, I'm doing slightly better. Still barely paying the bills, though, one year in. This is not an easy way to make a living, but it can be a decent, honest way to make a living if you can't find a job.

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Now I can finally contribute to this thread!

Made my first sale after about a month of taking action, a month before that was spent just reading/researching.

I could have easily condensed that work down into less than a week too if I was more focused.......working on that!

-Jon

I didn't make a sale...i made commissions . So i made a sale in one month of just reading. I just started a blog and got it ranking in 3 weeks. Pretty good for a newbie.