First Affiliate Sale!

by earlgray

Posted: 13 years ago 34 replies

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Woohoo! I just made my first affiliate sale from clickbank. I know that's small potatoes to some of you guys. But this is my first one and it's cause to celebrate.

So, after one month I have 3 good accomplishments I can hang my hat on:

-I took 2 sites to the first page of google. No blackhat schemes. Just good hard work.

-I've banked about $3 in adsense from those sites.

-Now, I've made my first clickbank affiliate sale on one of those sites.

This just gave me the boost I needed, as this weekend I'm launching a HUGE offline promotion. I'm going to blanket a few universities in my city with flyers and business cards promoting another affiliate. Let's hope it goes well!

Thanks for everyone giving me advice!

#affiliate #sale

MartinBuckley 13 years ago

Congrats on your first affiliate sale and I wish you much more success.

All the best,

Martin
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James.N 13 years ago

Congrats! Keep up the hard work, it will just keep improving!
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Oliver Williams 13 years ago

Awesome I remember when I made my first sale $24.95 it still excites me to this day.

You always remember the first time you make money online as it is very symbolic it is proof that what you are doing actually does work.
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- cashp0wer 13 years ago
  
  Congratulations on your first affiliate sale! I know how great that feels. I hope you continue to have even more sales in the future.
  
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luane 13 years ago

That is wonderful! Keep up the good work! Woo-hoo!
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Warrior X 13 years ago

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Randall Magwood 13 years ago

Hey dude congrats on your first sale success. It's time to get out there and start making it work even better for you now.
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Pud 13 years ago

Well done!!

Such a good feeling
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mrozlat 13 years ago

Congratulations... keep it up and you'll be earning a full tie income in no time
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13 years ago

Originally Posted by earlgray

Woohoo! I just made my first affiliate sale from clickbank. I know that's small potatoes to some of you guys. But this is my first one and it's cause to celebrate.

Good for you. It also is encouraging to know that the people on this forum have really helped you.

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JerryFrempong 13 years ago

Well done! It's such an awesome feeling! Keep it up and all the best!
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Andrew Mak 13 years ago

Great job, just rinse and repeat the same success over and over again, you are not far away from your goal.
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alexgold87 13 years ago

Congrats! Keep going!
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Matthew NY 13 years ago

By the sound of it you are definitely working hard. This grind will pay off, trust me. Hard work always gets rewarded. One way or another, you will be making a good income soon.

Best wishes!
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crosshairs 13 years ago

Nice Earl! That first one is always sweet!
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gvsridhar171 13 years ago

Congratulations ! Wishing you more success to come !

By the way, just elaborate on what you did to get your first sale. It will be helpful to newbies.
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Haluvibe 13 years ago

congrats, You are truly on your way to success!
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Haluvibe 13 years ago

Exactly how did you make your first affiliate sale?
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yasser 13 years ago

congratulations. Keep it going man.
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earlgray 13 years ago

Some have asked me how I did it:

Content-content-content! - PLR is not enough. But it is a good starting point. I usually take PLR article in word and rework it. If I start with a 2 paragraph article, it'll end up as a 4 paragraph article. Think of PLR as a protein shake. It's just there to supplement an already healthy diet.

Quality backlinks - Ezine, go articles, infobarrel, squidoo, wordpress, blogger, and so on. I'll write a fresh article for each one of those, or spin a current article I have and link to my site. Rinse and repeat 3 or 4 times.

Backlinks for my backlinks - Ping my articles on those article sites a few hundred times. I outsourced this bit. But have since learned to do it myself and can do it for you as well though my goferr gig.

Facebook/Reddit - Build a facebook page and link to my site a lot. Find the appropriate subreddit for my niche and drop a link there once a day. This also acts as a backlink, but it puts the site right in front of the people that might want to see it.

Adwords - I set up a moderate campaign. $5 a day for 5 days. I saw my traffic jump from this.

Affiliate ad placement - I found the best affiliates on clickbank for my niche. I took gravity into account, (less than 50.) But more importantly, do they have good banners. A good banner can make all the difference. If they don't have any banners, I just move on to the next. I placed my affiliate banners according to google's heat map.

Just about the time I hit 1,000 page views, boom, a sale! Not to mention a handful of adsense clicks as well, icing on the cake.

So all told, for the domain, site, advertising campaign, and outsourcing it cost about $60. My first affiliate sale earned me $20. But it's the first of what I hope is many!

Trade dimes for quarters. Takes money to make money. You've heard all that before, but it's a cliche for a reason.

Also, I don't think my strategy was anything new. It's been said here a million times. The key is commitment and follow through!
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Mickinzie 13 years ago

congratulations and many many best wishes for you.
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WittyT 13 years ago

That's the kind of feeling you quickly get addicted to
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imsirigiri 13 years ago

Aha! That moment.

Cherish it and plan to work hard to get more traffic.

Do not waste good amount of money on flyers at universities. Go slow and lay low until you make it big.
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StevenJones 13 years ago

Always nice to congratulate someone with their first sale! GOOD JOB! Congratz.
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MFrigger 13 years ago

Congrats man! You can only increase from here on out
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bmokranus 13 years ago

congratulatiojs, more will come, we all struggled to make our first sale, but after it things will be much easier.
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Tenzho 13 years ago

dam you. I am F@#king Jealous. This kind of post makes me angry!!!!!
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- Muhsin Aziz 13 years ago
  
  wow congratulations on your first affiliate sale.
  Hope mine will come soon.
  
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sbucciarel Banned 13 years ago

Nothing is small potatoes ... congrats on your sale. Keep it up.
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digialun 13 years ago

Good work. Well done.
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espresso 13 years ago

not my first earnings but got my first Clickbank sale yesterday (2 actually)
Well done my friend
I have been at this for a lot longer than you and it can be though but when you see sales and money in you realize its possible and it gives you a boost
Good luck
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twentytwo 13 years ago

Awesome!! I had mine a few weeks ago now im up to 10 sales. Feels realllllll good dosnt it! Congrats on the sales and to many more to come!!
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saladflorida 13 years ago

congratulation on the achievement, i never had any luck on clickbank as an affiliate
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