Made First Clickbank Sale!

12 years ago

Hi mate,
Congrats for your first sale.
And Click bank have many great products to promote and with different types of banners. we can put any one which suits to the website template, It really impacts on the sales when we choose right banner.

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Dash Evra

12 years ago

Originally Posted by powerofschool

Hi mate,
Congrats for your first sale.
And Click bank have many great products to promote and with different types of banners.

I know that. If I put up a Clickbank banner, I would have to take off one of my Adsense ad block. I didn't want to lose out on some guaranteed Adsense cash just for a Clickbank test that may or may not produce revenue.

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Cru

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dash Evra

I know that. If I put up a Clickbank banner, I would have to take off one of my Adsense ad block. I didn't want to lose out on some guaranteed Adsense cash just for a Clickbank test that may or may not produce revenue.

Just an FYI, it doesn't matter if you have one adsense block or three adsense blocks on the same page, you'll get paid the same amount. The reason you would want three (if it looks good with your layout) is that there are more chances for it to get clicked. So you can definitely have a clickbank ad taking one of your ad spots and then one adsense ad somewhere else on your page and you'll still make the "guaranteed" money that you get from views.

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powerofschool

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dash Evra

I know that. If I put up a Clickbank banner, I would have to take off one of my Adsense ad block. I didn't want to lose out on some guaranteed Adsense cash just for a Clickbank test that may or may not produce revenue.

I agree with you. But I did not said to remove the adsense ads .
I just said to choose the small banner which suits to your template with color and you can generate some extra amount like this.
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kennykjtan 12 years ago

Congratulations mate! I've never made any sales from click bank even My website is on page 1 google. Hmmmm........Either I'm running into streams of badluck or I'm hopeless....

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Cru 12 years ago

Congratulations, the first one always feels awesome
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DeanSoto 12 years ago

Wooot! Congratulations. Definitely don't give up! However, you may want to pick a product that is more relevant to your audience or niche. Either that or the product's sales page may be lacking in some area.

Keep it up!
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- Daniel Evans 12 years ago
  
  Congratuloooma! Hopefully you got it in the bag!
  
  All the best for future sales!
  
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ShawnBrown

12 years ago

Congrats! The first time you get someone to purchase anything online is a great feeling. I remember my first Clickbank sale, so I know exactly how you feel. Before you know it you will start having $100 days. Keep up the good work!

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jhuman 12 years ago

Congratulations!
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manny2513

12 years ago

Congrats!! Man I remember the feeling of making my first sale man. It was the best feeling ever. I make about 5-10 sales per day now but nothing like the feeling of that first sale bro.

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marcuslim

12 years ago

Ya, I remember my first Clickbank sale as well. Good feeling. Makes you want to take more action to scale it up, rinse and repeat.

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HazeBlazer

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dash Evra

I know the conversion rate makes it look discouraging. But, keep in mind all I did was putting an affiliate link in my sidebar. I am sure it will get better if I hire a copywriter to do some pre-sell and such.

Congrats! Am I ever so jealous, but I'll be in your shoes very soon! Also what did you mean by "I am sure it will get better if I hire a copywriter to do some pre-sell and such"? what do you mean by pre-sell? and why a copywriter? Sorry for newbie question.

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Dash Evra

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Cru

Just an FYI, it doesn't matter if you have one adsense block or three adsense blocks on the same page, you'll get paid the same amount. The reason you would want three (if it looks good with your layout) is that there are more chances for it to get clicked. So you can definitely have a clickbank ad taking one of your ad spots and then one adsense ad somewhere else on your page and you'll still make the "guaranteed" money that you get from views.

Trust me, my layout would look bad if I added in banners any other places. I like m site to look attractive to the eyes. It provides better user experience and make me look more professional.

Originally Posted by HazeBlazer

Congrats! Am I ever so jealous, but I'll be in your shoes very soon! Also what did you mean by "I am sure it will get better if I hire a copywriter to do some pre-sell and such"? what do you mean by pre-sell? and why a copywriter? Sorry for newbie question.

Pre-selling is basically an article that help convince the visitors to buy the products before they click on the affiliate link to see the sales page. It helps increase conversion rate (number of sales per click).

A copywriter is a professional (the good ones, anyaway) who specialize in writing such articles.

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vtotheyouknow

12 years ago

Dash,

Congratulations on the sale! ...But..

Jeff Walker would call what you're doing "hope marketing". You put your banner on the sidebar and hope that you make a sale. And you did, which is awesome but a 1/1000 conversion rate stinks, teenagers or no teenagers.

You must must must build a list. Now. Yesterday!

Offer an enticing opt-in incentive, write a great value-filled autoresponder sequence and promote truth about abs or whatever the product after several trust building emails. Don't be surprised if you convert more in the 5% range this way. Which, with 1000 people on your list is almost $1200.

Of course they'll say they don't want to buy anything in a survey. Who's going to say, "yes! I wanna spend money on XY and Z...now"

You'll be amazed at how these gangly adolescents all of a sudden have credit cards and do want to buy because you've done your job convincing them that their lives will be better when they have better bodies, and they will be (and they, in turn, convince their beleaguered folks to shell out the dough).

Good luck!

Oh, and did I mention build a list? :p

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Kal Sallam

12 years ago

Congratulations! And here is for more.

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GeoMasters 12 years ago

Agree! Build a list. Get yourself popup domination or something similar and start building your list. I recommend you buy a PLR fitness eBook and use it to get opt-ins. Hey, if it sounds good teenagers will get their parents to buy them stuff.
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- Your Brand Ebooks 12 years ago
  
  When my son was an early teenager, he'd study the WWE wrestling websites & merchandise and makes lists of things he wanted to buy. That would go on for months, then finally he made a small 10 buck purchase.
  
  He'd get mail order catalogs like "Things You Never Knew Existed" and bookmark the pages with stuff he wanted. He was always catalog shopping, but only made an actual purchase one time ever. And that involved a very unstreamlined and inconvenient method of him giving me cash and asking me to place the order for him with my Visa. I've spoke with other parents and its the same sort of thing with their kids. Teens buying stuff is far and few between.
  
  As stated in this thread, Teenagers is a HUGE market of non-buyers.
  
  Apple was one of the few companies able to crack the nut,
  with their iTunes music sales.
  
  Nowadays, other than selling iPhone/smartphone apps,
  it's still kinda a lost cause marketing to teenagers.
  
  So the takeaway for the OP here is that if your
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  your product to an iPhone app.
  
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jeresteem99

12 years ago

that is good news. I am trying to do the same in my newly lunch site, I hope I will have my first sale soon.

Congratz!

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dougb

12 years ago

Congrats, on your first sale, still working on it here

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ejoka1986

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dash Evra

I was never much into clickbank. I've been earning a fair amount of money through Adsense and was pretty satisfied. But, about 2 weeks ago, I decided to make a change.

I have a site in the fitness niche. It is averaging over 500 targeted visitors per day but the problem is, according to a survey I put up, my visitors are mainly consist of teenagers that are trying to get a six pack. They also mentioned they have no interest in buying products...Which kinda broke my heart.

On November 11, I thought "Whatever... I am going to promote a Clickbank product anyway and see how it goes. It can't hurt."

So, yea, I put a link on my site's sidebar and it's been doing poorly. Very poorly. This morning (12 days after I put the link up), I have receives over 930 hops and zero sale. I told myself if I don't make a sale after 1000 hops, I will put Clickbank behind me.

Tonight, as I was going to bed, I decided to check if I have reached 1000 hops yet. And lo and behold...

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Yup... After 987 hops (in 12 days), the site has made a sale.

I know the conversion rate makes it look discouraging. But, keep in mind all I did was putting an affiliate link in my sidebar. I am sure it will get better if I hire a copywriter to do some pre-sell and such.

Hi David,

congratulations on your first sale with clickbank.

Anyways I was impressed with what you said about making enough cash with adsense, I am interested on that, I have some blogs but they don't earn enough with adsense, how do you do it to make a decent income?

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Dash Evra

12 years ago

Originally Posted by vtotheyouknow

Dash,

Congratulations on the sale! ...But..

Jeff Walker would call what you're doing "hope marketing". You put your banner on the sidebar and hope that you make a sale. And you did, which is awesome but a 1/1000 conversion rate stinks, teenagers or no teenagers.

You must must must build a list. Now. Yesterday!

Offer an enticing opt-in incentive, write a great value-filled autoresponder sequence and promote truth about abs or whatever the product after several trust building emails. Don't be surprised if you convert more in the 5% range this way. Which, with 1000 people on your list is almost $1200.

Of course they'll say they don't want to buy anything in a survey. Who's going to say, "yes! I wanna spend money on XY and Z...now"

You'll be amazed at how these gangly adolescents all of a sudden have credit cards and do want to buy because you've done your job convincing them that their lives will be better when they have better bodies, and they will be (and they, in turn, convince their beleaguered folks to shell out the dough).

Good luck!

Oh, and did I mention build a list? :p

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, as I mentioned above, the conversion rate sucks. But, I didn't put much effort into it. I just throw my affiliate link in there to have some proof that my visitors are interested in buying before I decide whether or not I should spend money and time on a marketing strategy... Yes, I do plan on building a list.

Originally Posted by ejoka1986

Hi David,

congratulations on your first sale with clickbank.

Anyways I was impressed with what you said about making enough cash with adsense, I am interested on that, I have some blogs but they don't earn enough with adsense, how do you do it to make a decent income?

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Correction: My name is Dash... Not David

I am no Adsense expert. Sorry. All I did was placing the ads in positions that will catch my visitors' eye. It makes to sense to hide your ad block if you want people to click on them.

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ejoka1986

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dash Evra

Correction: My name is Dash... Not David

I am no Adsense expert. Sorry. All I did was placing the ads in positions that will catch my visitors' eye. It makes to sense to hide your ad block if you want people to click on them.

Ooops, sorry I meant to write Dash, just that I was chatting with a friend of mine called David, must have mixed the names!
Okay thanks for the reply!!!

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edhoyz

12 years ago

Congratulations for your first sale!

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12 years ago

Congrats on your 1st clickbank sale.

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winsenken

12 years ago

This is the beauty of internet marketing. You hardly predict what is going to happen next. Congratulation to you by the way!!! Hahaha!!!

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steven sanderson

12 years ago

Congratulations mate
i always love to hear about success stories so very well done to you, i remember our first click bank cheque, all you need to do is tweek it now and look forward to a cheque every month, well done.

All the best
Steven.

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nadal619

12 years ago

Congratulations man , keep up the good work.

I am just wondering , what type of traffic tactic do you use or depend on ??

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RyanRegios

12 years ago

Nice Dash
Congratulations man , i`m new in this kind of things and i don`t know where to start some advice ?

good look man and congrats again .

Thank you for post this.

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realnetworker

12 years ago

Whoopee! Thank you Dash Evra! You just made me go look at my Clickbank account, which I had not checked for a while, since I got tired of seeing all those zeros!

And, amazingly, I also made my first sale! (a bit over $20.00)

It was from a product in the piano/music lesson niche, that I was promoting on a website that is 7 months old, and is getting over 3,000 visitors a month now, and just got promoted to a PR2 in the last Google Pagerank update.

It is the best site of all my sites so far, I have been doing IM for almost a year now, and this is my first real sale on any of my sites. I have also just recently starting making consistent money from Google Adsense, so I am excited that my efforts are starting to pay off!

Thanks again to the OP for getting me excited enough to check my own Clickbank account

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FreshMedia

12 years ago

Congratulations. It really is a good feeling to make that first sale from selling affiliate products. I hope there are other products in your niche you can promote with better conversions. Keep testing to increase those conversions/earnings.

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12 years ago

Super congrats on your sale!

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12 years ago

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hzwill

12 years ago

Great,,,I am still learning about CB...Hope to make some money on it/

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John Romaine

12 years ago

Prepare yourself for a refund request. Seems to be the growing trend with CB products.

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Dash Evra

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nadal619

Congratulations man , keep up the good work.

I am just wondering , what type of traffic tactic do you use or depend on ??

Thank you

I am not using any of the traditional method like article marketing, SEO etc... The fitness niche is way too competitive for that. The best advice I can give you (without giving away exactly what I am doing) is to think outside the box. Rather that competing against other sites, try to work with them instead. Ask to do guest blogging for many different sites in your niche. Much easier to get free traffic that way IMO for competitive niches

Originally Posted by RyanRegios

Nice Dash
Congratulations man , i`m new in this kind of things and i don`t know where to start some advice ?

good look man and congrats again .

Thank you for post this.

To go Google and search for: Ed Dale The Challenge. It is a 30 days, FREE, high quality, internet marketing training. It is very newbie friendly. That's where I started at in 2009.

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Prepare yourself for a refund request. Seems to be the growing trend with CB products.

Thanks for raining on my parade

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GoodnightSweetRatRace 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Prepare yourself for a refund request. Seems to be the growing trend with CB products.

He should be fine, seeing as he's not in the false promise "MMO" niche.

Congrats buddy.
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greenowl123

12 years ago

Congrats on your first CB sale ! I hope you have many more !

And build your list !

Good luck

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Jarvis Edwards 12 years ago

Congratulations on that first sale! I know it was a good feeling knowing
that your efforts paid off. Now I'm sure you have even more drive to make even more!
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Melvin San Miguel

12 years ago

You've made a SALE.. your first clickbank sale! Many congrats!

As Jim Rohn would say... a ratio has began, you now know u need around 1000 hops to make a sale...

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todawg_not

12 years ago

Congratulations buddy, I remember my first CB sale I was so excited.

I think vtotheyyouknow is right. Hope marketing works for awhile till you get
discouraged.

Building a list works.

Nigel

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Marhelper

12 years ago

I remember the first time I saw that green bar .... awesome feeling. Congrats!

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Osman_M

12 years ago

Congrats man on the first one. Those bars speak louder then the amounts that follow in clickbank. I remember when mine finally decided to show up and it was awesome.

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leespitzer

12 years ago

How does regnow Digital River compare with clickbank? Isn't Digital River the largest affiliate?

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Elluminati

12 years ago

Congrats. I'm still trying to mess with it, lol.

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12 years ago

Congrats on the first sale hopefully there are much more to come!

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MikeMarin

12 years ago

Congrats on the sale!

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shireen

12 years ago

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Good for you, keep it up!