WOHOO! Made my first sale off of Internet Marketing on Clickbank

It was September if last year that I first found out about internet marketing and started reading about it, and so, joined clickbank.

It was February of this year that I found a product I wanted to promote, found a keyword and started to build my affiliate site. I finished building the site it March, and started article writing in early April, committing to write 2 articles a day, 5 days a week for 30 days.

Though I started writing in early April, I didn't submit my first article to EZA until the 3rd week in April and it didn't get approved til 4/26/10.

Well, after taking some advice I read somewhere on here, I promised myself early May that I wasn't going to check my Clickbank account for sales until June 1, that would be this morning.

Well, to my great PLEASURE, I looked and found I made my FIRST sale on May 19, of $21.24...WOOHOO!

Now, the thing was, my articles weren't that great, because I am still new. I in fact wrote them more like term papers, instead of actually trying to sell something.

Here were my dismal stats the 2nd week of May:

40 Articles
487 Article Views
14.4% Click Rate

I heard from other IMers that this was pretty low for so many articles. After writing my 40th, I had taken 2 weeks off to submit them to other article directory sites and to reassess my article writing skills.

After taking two weeks off, I started writing articles again, armed with more knowledge on how to write better articles, and I received much more views and a higher click rate (about 21%)

BUT, my sale was made BEFORE I started writing my second batch of articles.

Really I believe the reason for my first sale was just consistency and persistence. My articles, while some did get published on other sites, weren't really sales oriented, I don't think my sales site is that great, I'm on the first page on Yahoo! but on the 13th page on Google (which is strange because I was on the 4th page on google several weeks ago).

Also, because I'm new, I just focused on one aspect: article writing. I still know VERY little about other ways to make money like Adsense, etc. As I hone my article writing skills, I will eventually make an effort to learn about other ways to make money (i.e. adsense, write my own e-book, etc.) As a matter of fact, I still don't have an opt-in yet because I have no idea what to offer.

There's still A LOT more to learn, but, WOHOO, I finally feel like a "real" internet marketer. I now have joined the small minority of people who've made money with this.

Now, how does clickbank pay you? I heard it's every 15 days?