How Did You Earn Your First Affiliate Sale?

I made my first affiliate sale through oldschool MSN. Looking for contacts in online chat rooms asking them if they might be interested. We talked over the MSN client and I gave him only information he wanted to know. That's how I sold my first affiliate product via Clickbank.

I started out back when adwords was cool. I promoted the xbox repair guide, then BAM, slapola. From there I switched traffic source because it was too much to please them : (

My first affliate sale was from 10$ in adwords.

I have only earned a little bit of money through Amazon Affiliates on a site I have.

My first money was from selling a few clickbank ebooks on some blogger landing pages, and I got traffic from ezinearticles. After that I started making my own niche sites and monetized with adsense and CPA. As we all know, niche sites aren't doing as well as they used to, so I'm looking into some new business models that don't rely on google so much, I'm a little peeved with the big G right now!

Most SEO's are pretty rattled about all the Google updates, especially the exact-match domain update that just recently hit.

Personally, that de-indexed 4 of my clickbank sites that I had launched BEFORE the product did and I lost tons of passive commissions.

Moving forward I have decided not to rely on Google (except for video SEO) and have started driving paid traffic to my affiliate offers. It's important to find a sustainable business model before you do any amount of work...

Squidoo! It's really hard to maintain ranks, and the niche I picked is dying fast, but I made about $200 from CB!

I made my first sale through my squeeze page , there is an exit pop up , and boom it worked

I have not even been involved in affiliate marketing. You guys share journey when you made the first sale (which certainly was in the past). How do you now to get more sales?
As times and trends keep on changing recently.

Thanks dan for your suggestions. It is helpful. You are right. Sometimes we can not figure it out the exact way to deal all the things. You always think big. Which is not bad but if we concentrate on small opportunity as well then it may brings success at any time.

I made some money with Clickbank Pirate a while back.

Very first affiliate sale came from Amazon, and it was a whopping $.06 !!!

My earnings increased every month after that, but then site was penalized by google

My first foray into affiliate marketing was very lucrative. I entered into the celebrity sex scandal arena. I made a boat load of money when Paris Hilton did her thing, etc. Back then Google was a very different animal and I COULD NOT believe how easy it was to make money.

I stuck with the celebrities for awhile, until the legal threats really mounted.

Mine was a big old £2.10 through amazon affiliate! Go me! lol

Hello,

totally new to this forum and to internet marketing. I have zero cash to invest, but I have some time and I am willing to work for it...

I watched a video by John Penberthy, where he talks about youtube optimisation and doing vids for clickbank products. I get how it all works.. My problem is knowing what niche and what products to go for right now. Things seem to change daily.

I get daily product alerts from clickbank... It is all so confusing. Not really sure where to start! Any advice would be much appreciated! I am interested in health, fitness and weight loss- because I have a science and health background... However, I am acutely aware that the area is overloaded with products and overloaded with affiliates! Is it saturated or is that just me? Help please!!

Dan, how did you focus your efforts when you first started?

• Did you do lots of vids for one product?
• Did you create lots of vids for multiple products?
• Did you do it all from one channel?
• Did you keep creating new channels for each product/vid?

John Penberthy is at the top of google for a lot of his review vids- but seems to not stick with one youtube channel. He appears to have a different channel for each product- which seems a bit odd to me.. Apart from the fact that he could monetise youtube as well by building an audience on youtube...

Anyway... Enough waffle from this newbie! Any advice on any of the above queries would be very much appreciated!

Best wishes

I made my 1st sell and till date I am making using emaili marketing.... the best way....

I earn my first affiliate commission introducing a friend who needs a reliable host with cpanel installed. I introduced him bluehost through skype. That's how I make my first commission.

I made my first sale using clickbank

I started out marketing on Craigslist before it become nearly impossible to post a listing. Now I just focus on ppc and blogs.

i plan to do affiliate marketing

twas a shoe rack if I remember correctly

I though of an interesting way to solve peoples problems, wrote about it and linked to affiliate products that help answer the question.

Still getting sales from my autoblog Clickbank.

This isn't a popular way to earn affiliate commissions, but this is what I did (and what we're still doing):

=>> I cold contacted prominent system security software development corporations and presented a content development proposal to them with an innovative offer:

• I sign up as their affiliate, write the onsite content they need for their network of sites and blogs, post it with my affiliate link, get paid for my work at a fixed $X-per-word rate, promote on my own (for as long as I want to earn affiliate commissions) the onsite content I write and poste for them, earn affiliate commissions for each product sale generated by the content I write and post for them, inform them that I have a company with trained inhouse writer employees, trainors, Q/A associates, managers, supervisors and administrative staff that have experience in online content marketing, traffic generation, onsite/offsite SEO and whitehat backlink building, and tell them that our price-per-word rate for this will significantly go down with larger project-based orders or even much lower for long term contracts. So, what happened?

=>> We got long term contracts with many system security development corporations (most implemented massive offline and online marketing campaigns for their latest software products), our company grew (in less than 5 months) from 4 work at home moms and dads (my wife and I included) to more than 80 employees and more than 60 subcontractors and more than 10 subcontractor companies each with their own staff of more than 10 employees, lots of product sales for them, one product of which became the world's best selling Microsoft Windows System Registry cleaner software of all time in 2007, passive income from constant affiliate product sales generated by the content we wrote and posted for them during this time (we still write and post content for them with this system), and we still do this for most of our long-time clients and new customers (growth and expansion plans are of course constantly implemented)...

Hope this helps some warriors, especially content developers, to try out a new opportunity that can make them earn income from their content development services and passive income from affiliate product sales generated by the content materials they develop (and market on their own) for their clients...