How Long Does It Take to Make Your First Sale?

It took me a few minutes but there's more to the story.

I was/am involved in a niche forum and had built up a thread in a sub-niche so I already had all the traffic lined up ready to go on day one when my first site went live.

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jmark19

9 years ago

With Solo ads, I received 1200 clicks and 7 leads in a few weeks ....Is that good or bad?

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Randall Magwood 9 years ago

Originally Posted by jmark19

With Solo ads, I received 1200 clicks and 7 leads in a few weeks ....Is that good or bad?

Do you mean leads, or SALES? If you mean leads... then's that's bad.
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Doan Chi Tin 9 years ago

1200 clicks for 7 leads is too bad.. What is your industry?
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webmarke 8 years ago

Originally Posted by jmark19

With Solo ads, I received 1200 clicks and 7 leads in a few weeks ....Is that good or bad?

When you say leads...Are you talking optins?

If so...Then that is very bad.
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Randall Magwood

9 years ago

It took me 3 months. I was in college at the time. Nowadays though in a brand new niche.... it takes me a matter of days. Like the 3rd day.

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sonika01 8 years ago

wow.. that's really great!! share some knowledge with us too.. we would love to hear from you..
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Alan777

9 years ago

Does Amazon count, I took me with in a week. On clickbank I think it was 2 weeks.

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dragoshs

8 years ago

A couple of days. 'Cause i am in a good niche, i provide quality content and i paid for advertising

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posinfo1

8 years ago

A common mistake of marketers is to hop from one method to another to make money. If the first does not generate quick success they try someone different. The result is that a long time can pass by without a sale. Simply because they have not continued with a method that works for long enough.

What is perhaps tricky is finding a method that is working currently. I have noted that many online "gurus" will talk about methods that they have made a huge amount of cash with. What they don't say is that it nolonger works well and that they are selling the idea to IM newbies as a way of making the final bucks from the idea.

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ksummers

8 years ago

A few weeks. I discovered a method involving short press releases about hot topics and sent the traffic direct to an affiliate offer.

That was years ago and now I focus on a more long term method. Was good while it lasted though

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Ian5

8 years ago

It depends on many factors: your market, your customers, luck etc... It can be some hours, days or months. You can't predict how long in will be.

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romon132

8 years ago

The real question here is what are you doing to build awareness of your product and your website?

You need to get viewers before you can get customers.

Read Gabriel Weinberg's excellent book, Traction, for ideas on how to build an audience for your business. Weinberg outlines 17 different marketing channels and a methodical way to identify the right channel(s) for your business.

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yukon

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Doan Chi Tin

Hey Warriors,

It take me 6 months to make my first sale online.

And how about you?

Less than a day.

What are trying to sell that takes 6 months? Houses?

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Frank Donovan 8 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What are trying to sell that takes 6 months? Houses?

2019 calendars?
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- Sid Hale 8 years ago
  
  This is a little misleading, Frank...
  
  Originally Posted by Frank Donovan
  
  2019 calendars?
  
  and that's not like you.
  
  While the OP could easily get his first sale of a 2019 calendar after 6 months, he might even get one in only 5 months.
  
  BUT...
  everyone knows that 2019 calendars won't really sell well until March/April
  
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- yukon Banned 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Frank Donovan
  
  2019 calendars?
  
  I guess OPs $17,947 PER DAY!!!! email funnel keeps him busy.
  
  So he made $3,275,327.5 in 6 months. Not bad at all.
  
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- OptedIn 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Frank Donovan
  
  2019 calendars?
  
  My plumber actually mails me a refrigerator magnet calendar every year. Who does this in 2018?
  
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  yukon Banned 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OptedIn
  
  My plumber actually mails me a refrigerator magnet calendar every year. Who does this in 2018?
  
  Plumbers?
  
  ..........
  
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  OptedIn 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Plumbers?
  
  He's been replaced. If he's still handing out calendars in 2018 I must assume that he hasn't kept up with the latest advances in the field of plumbing.
  
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  yukon Banned 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OptedIn
  
  He's been replaced. If he's still handing out calendars in 2018 I must assume that he hasn't kept up with the latest advances in the field of plumbing.
  
  My plumber does my taxes.
  
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romon132

8 years ago

Hey Warriors,

It takes me 7 months to make my first sale online.

And how about you?

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hardworker2013

8 years ago

It took me about 3 months, that was long time ago about 8 years back, it was a green card lottery CPA offer that got a lot of traffic and good conversions because of the demand for US visas. I didn't even have a website then i just used a link shortener to cloak the affiliate link. I then thought to myself "wow" this is easy money! I got hooked then to making money online and affiliate marketing.

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ryanbiddulph

8 years ago

Goodness I forget. Months though. We all move forward at a different pace.

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MartinBuckley

8 years ago

Congrats!

Well for me I made my first affiliate sale in about 1 month after learning about it and now I make affiliate sales everyday, so just stick with it and learn all you can about affiliate marketing and making sales online.

I wish you all the best!

Marty

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beasty513

8 years ago

It was 3 months from when I first started. I'm very grateful for WF.

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ChrisBa

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Doan Chi Tin

Hey Warriors,

It take me 6 months to make my first sale online.

And how about you?

It took me a few months, but in the end who cares how long it took for the first, as long as you keep at it and work on the second, third, etc..

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liam0706

8 years ago

Well it took me almost one month lol, but i kept going

Eventually i slowly started building list and now its become profit ever since

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Eric Riltz

8 years ago

With my latest project, it took about 3 weeks (the first two sales I got were yesterday).

But it really depends, for another project it took about 4 months, some others took only few days, some never work etc...

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