I just Made My First $20 from Article Marketing!

Congratulations on the sale and keep up the good work. It's a lot of fun to log into your affiliate accounts and see money in there :-)

Congratulations! Keep doing what WORKS!

Congratulation.

I am envy for you..Hehe...I still make 0 bucks after a month.

Keep doing what work for you.

Well done, it is always a great feeling to login and see some $$$$$

Keep it up,

That really inspire us. keep it up.

Congrats! That is great news. And good luck to you as that $20 becomes $80 and then it becomes $200 and more!!

Good Work Stay At Home MUM, keep it up.

Brilliant work well done..hope more keeps coming!!!

Nice Job and Congrats.

I still get excited when I make a sale, no matter how small or big it is

Just wait til you develop some momentum and you start getting commission
checks in the mail for stuff you don't even remember promoting!!!!

congradulations hope it works out for you.

Congrats! The first sale is the best.

Congratulations! It's feels great to see the money in your account. It means you're on the right track and its' slowly paying off! All the best.

That's how it's done! Now you got your first sale, your confidence is up, now go get 'em!

Congrat's on your sale!

LastWarrior

Scale and outsource - it's the repeated efforts overtime that have a compounding effect on your profits.

Congrats!

7 months wow, Congrats, now you see what works, rinse and repeat then eventually outsource your work and watch the profit rise .

CONGRATS!!! good job mate now upscale lol

Thankyou everyone for your kind words! I really appreciate them - every bit of encouragement helps.

It really motivates you when you have put something in place and it finally pays off - I love writing and from all the advice in this forum (which I only joined about a month ago) it has really helped me fine tune my articles that I write - so I will definately be continuing this until I do make $1000 a day and more (FYI BigJock) :-)

Thanks to all who have commented on my first thread :-)

CONGRATS!!! good job mate now upscale lol

That is soooo cool. I remember the first time I made a cash sale - I JUMPED out of my chair and screamed. My kids thought a spider dropped in front of me - especially since I started crying.

Keep it up!

Go Mum! Go Mum! Go Mum.... rats I just checked my CJ and still Nada.
Hey Jock... could I get a peak at those tips to jump start my affiliate sales too? How about it! Can you help a bro out, man?

Awesome!!! Congratulations, keep up the good work!

Now you have made your first sale more will be just around the corner

Congratulation Liz. Everything gets easier from here. Taking the first step is always the hardest. Good luck.

I think there is a cultural divide thing going on here.

A lot of Americans simply don't quite get the healthy cynicism towards life that many Irish and British people hold; this type of sh** or get off the pot approach is typically not malicious and is very often delivered with tongue placed firmly in cheek, but it just goes completely and utterly over the head of some of our US cousins; let`s be honest, some WFM, in their uber-positivity, can take themselves a little too seriously.

Barry`s comments and analysis were basically correct and he has offered Stay At Home lass some very generous free help to make up for his perceived abruptness; she has made a net gain here, so no harm has been done. Use the offer to your advantage. Go girl!

Cheers,
NetOpps2

Congrats, and keep up the good works. Never give up and remember persistence pays big dividends.

Liz, congrats. Keep the great work up.

Barry, good advice, but I am sure you realize you are comparing apples and oranges barring the one common factor - pay rate.

Liz is trying to sell products and her only way to market her product is articles, from what I made out. On the other hand, you do not seem to sell products at all, you write articles for others (and whether they sell products or use the articles for distribution is their headache).

These two just do not compare, if I understood both of you correctly. Period.

And if you comparing pay rates, I am sure a lot of CEOs and professionals make a huge money every day every hour. And lot of IM guys too make a few millions every year (1 million a year translates to almost $3000 per day). Again, you can not compare every apple with every orange and every banana.

Congratulations! I am going to start getting into article marketing more as well. I've made $20 so far as well.

Congratulation, I'm happy for you.

Been nearly a year with CB but still don't make $$$

W H Liz to you too

It's inspiring for the rst of us to get posts like yours.

I know how good I felt getting that first check. Keep it up. Good luck.:-)

:-) Thanks again averyone for your words of encouragement.

BigJock while I understand your logic you do come across somewhat arrogant and negative - you may not mean to be but that is how you have come across.

Let me say a little about me - I have been raising my little boy as well as learning alot about IM over the last 7 months. My knowledge prior to these seven months in relation to the internet consisted of me simply checking my emails every other day. I had no understanding whatsoever about anything else to do with the internet. In the 7 months I have been IM I have been scammed (out of several hundred dollars), have learnt all about domain names, hosting, how to set up my website (which I am proud to say I have 6 at the moment and still being worked on), how to utilise blogs, how to article market (thanks to good advice from fellow warriors). and loads more.

So while you may feel $20 is nothing - let me tell you that it means a great deal to me because it demonstrates to me just how far I have come in such a short time - I am very proud of myself for where I am at the moment. For someone who chose a different product on Thursday to promote, put a landing page together and then took half an hour to write a good article and then less than 24 hours later make a sale - I still say WOO HOO!!

For people like me who are still relatively new to IM I wish you goodness - and it doesn't matter when your sale arrives (and it will!) you have every right to be pleased and happy about it.

Once again THANKS warriors - its guys like you that keep people like me motivated to keep going :-)

congratulations! that's the way to go!! and keep doing what is working for you.

Congrats! The smell of the first sale is always the most refreshing and encouraging! Continue to build up the momentum and I am confident that you will see more sales pouring in!

Congratulations Liz, you've broken the barrier and now that you know you can make money, it will become a lot easier from here - your work will feel more valuable. Well done on expanding your online real estate too

As my mother used to say to me, "you get out what you put in"

Great points by Big Jock too. Even though the presentation of points appeared abrubt, he makes some excellent points that I think most of us have noted, particularly about too many marketers getting caught in fantasy land.

Alex

Great Job and congratulations Stay home mum!

I've been on my site for a month still waiting for my first sale though! =D

Hello,

Well done!!

When you see the bar on your clickbank account extend for the first time, there is no feeling like it, especially when you have spent months learning how to do just that.

I wrote 34 articles when I first started article marketing and the sales began to trickle in. For about 3 day's work I made approx $150 in the first 2 months from these articles and counting, so that isn't too shabby. Stay at homes's article may make more money in the future so, in effect, it will be the end amount for say 30 minutes work or however long it took her to write it. The rest of the time spent can be racked up to learning for future income.

I too write articles for others over at Elance as well as for myself and think both are excellent strategies to make money.

Keep doing what you are doing and learn more about strategies in IM to further your business.

Regards

Great going! I remember my first sale. It's like..."wow! this really does work!" The first sale is by far the most important. Hope you have many more.

Lee

Congatulations to you stay @ home mum! Wishing you more and more soon! Keep up the good job...

Congratulations.. it's the best motivation in the world when you actually cross that boundry of no sale to sale...

I think no matter how much I convinced myself that I could really make money from my article, I never really thought it was possible until it actually happened , and each time I find that I can make some more, and more

Great Job, and now I'm sure you'll work differently so that you can make another 20, and another and another..because you know you can

send me a PM and I'll send you my AMI Article writer and all it's goodies as seen in the WSO.... This is cause for celebration

Way to go, it will get better from here..

Mate I was replying to your post as pasted below here I don't think we got the wires crossed because I understood your point very well

... and also inserting affiliate links into your article can also profitable, I'm just looking for one site to post here with a guy who does it so well, and has done it for years now... I've known his site since 2001 or so just forgot the URL now



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Originally Posted by edman
Once you figure out how you made $1, then it is easy to duplicate that, and keep going. eventually, she can be sleeping and earning

I take your point...but I've never seen solid evidence that this is true.

If you want to provide some...I'll take back my scepticism.

Hi Liz,

Congrats on your first sale! I remember my first sale when 2 years ago, i jumped and screamed and was pumped up in excitement the whole day. The confident it gave me pushed me to try other ideas and after many failures and attempts i found what i wanted to do.

I don't like to just advise you to rinse and repeat. But at the same time, i also seen people like Tim Gormon who is working only few hours a day because he is in military, earn 6 figure income just with article marketing. I'd recommend you to follow his advice. His product named "Article marketing answers" helped me open my eyes to see what article marketing can really do for one.

After ordering the product i emailed and asked him if it was possible to make $500 a month with just articles. His answer was to write an article a day or 30 a month and keep submitting. What i'd like to add here is one powerful informative article beats the lousy written one. If you have 40 powerful articles that really even makes the sleepy person to read it, then you are on the right track to make money with articles Liz.

With that i wish you all the best and all the success in your online business.

Best,
Esh

Lovely tip Esh... and good one for anyone to follow

Quality is the only way to stand out, boost your credibility, establish yourself as an authority in your niche, build your loyal fan base and eventually make more money

Gratz. Now just make it better and duplicate is as often as possible! Then we will see you announce your first $20,000 and then $200,000 etc...

Hmmm... This thread really took off in a direction I certainly did not expect by reading the title. I have some comments:

@BigJock: You won't get any $1000 days from elance anytime soon. Having said that, I think you can get to $100 days but you will be working 8 hours/day for it. Writing each and every day can get very tiring so as a long term strategy it does not work for me. Since writing is an integral part of my business, I write the most important parts and outsource the rest.

My specialties are flipping websites and building niche Adsense sites. Adsense income can be a stable, long term income source. It allows you to do other things. Website flipping can be very lucrative if you sell sites that are making money.

@OP: I am glad you made your first money. It proves to you that it can be done. Now go and make more!

TomG.

Thanks Edman - received your PM and will get onto downloading your AMI straight away.

Thanks again - much appreciated

Liz

That site is made up of just affiliate products and has articles for the products and they are an authority site in the gift market.

EDIT BASED ON HIS EDITING BELOW: - The above is just an example, and there are many like this one, in different forms of product reviews and recommendations, I just picked this one for you to see and I'm 100% sure you were going to say its not enough... but once again.. expected... selling your articles is better


WOW Barry I'm not sure what to say ... A few posts a go, I could have sworn that you've been advicing people that it is the best course of action, and even in details... now you don't even have a passion for it?

What you are now saying is that Liz should not be a writer, that she should start a business outsourcing articles for people?...

You remind me of someone edit: my ex ... and even God couldn't win with her

If I say A bee stung me and it hurt... you will say bee stings reduce arthritis symptoms

If I say bee stings reduce arthritis symptoms... you will say bee stings hurt so its not good

ADD: why not advice liz to build an authority site, with a reputation like many dozens of authority websites, so that she can build a brand, instead of selling off her articles for change... and the day she decides to take a break, she looses all her income in a second, because she has to keep writing and writing and writing--- poor advice


I retire folks

Nice work I hope you see it grow.

wow... i am happy for you keep it on.. You can do it

I think BigJock has redeemed himself if only thru the amount of good advice he has given.

Star Riley sure said it beautifully for me.

And Liz, I do congratulate you.

There you go, now we're back on topic

TomG.

I am so happy for you. How did you go about writing your article? I ask because I want to learn how to do this myself.

Good for you! Keep it up

Congratulation. Now you made $20, maybe next time you will make $2000, just keep up the good work.

congrats on your first sale! I remember when I got my first sale and it was the BEST feeling ever!! Really experience this moment because you're gonna remember it forever

Liz, I know it feels good to
make your first sale...no matter
how long it took.

Unlike many people who give
up, you kept at it and for that
you were rewarded.

For me, I see that you didn't
give up and that's inspiring
when there are people who never
ever make one thin dime online.

The guys here have given us
some great advice on how to
maximize our business either
as affiliates or as writers...

I'm gonna take it and run with it!

How about you?

I remember my first sale...

It truly is exciting! Now, it's time to repeat what you did and scale it up! Today you made $20, next week make $200, then make $2,000!

It takes a lot to do well with article marketing, its hard to write something that is both informative while also a sales pitch as well. I tried it with CB with minimal success, then again, I wasn't too keen on targeting my keywords.

congrat liz :-D it so inspirational .. and I'll pray for you it will be first step to become success as an affiliate.

Hey man I am a newbie here please share the ways and strategies you have used to earn here cause I am also thinking of doing article writing and have started already.

Congratulations, I'm just starting this as well, I want to build a website with articles and submit to directories, but I'm thinking it is better for me to build a lot of content on my website first and then start to drive traffic through article directories.

I've been successful with PPC and this is how I earn my income mainly, but would like to try out articles now and combine it with social bookmarking and rss submitting.

Yes, reading emails, forum posting (only when excessive), looking up stats., all these will erode your earnings if you allow them to interfere with the business of making money. A while back, I posted a thread titled "what are you doing today to make money" or something like that which makes this point. You should ask yourself each and every day this question: "What can I do to make money today?"

TomG.

This what I'd like to do. Articles and affiliate programs is good, my PPC campaign works well, but you have to provide value and make it worth staying on your site. I generally use reviews and recommendations as well as general history and updates about the industry etc...

Now I will start using articles and social bookmarking to drive traffic to those sites as well and I think it should add value to what I'm already doing
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Originally Posted by redrossero
I would not sell my articles because I make more than $10 per article, 250 words from affiliate marketing. If I would sell it I would not make more than $5. Considering that English is not my first language guess that I would have to take lower rates. So, for me is not worth it. However, it will be worth article flipping, which I suspect you are doing and it is something to look at...

Also the OP is a stay at home mum with a small baby and from my experience is hard to work on deadlines when your baby is screaming that he needs a cuddle or try to touch everything in the house...mums know better

Good! Good! Keep it up!

oMar

Gheesh...how many times are you going to make your first $20?? I think I've read this post like 10 times in a few days already.....= ) Are you spamming or something?

Great job...keep up the great work
much success and prosperity

Wow. I can't believe it's been just over a week since I last saw this thread, and how it has grown!

Firstly, I would like to congratulate you Liz - your first sale does feel good.

Now, let me tell you what I did last week. I was reading through this thread with interest. Bigjock (Barry) had some very interesting points that intrigued me - a LOT. A thousand dollars a day??? REALLY??? Half that would be lovely!

I've been article (or BUM) marketing for quite a while now, and yes it works, but it most definitely doesn't work as well for most as one would like to think. I can teach you how to build yourself a website and make your first sale in less than 30 days (my last client did it in 10 days). That's just great. However...she only made $20 in that time too. At the time I was really excited for her, but now I know more...

I had a bit if a private chat with Barry and asked him some questions about what he was talking about and after reading his answers I asked him to mentor me.

We agreed on a price and he officially became my mentor. Woo hoo!

What has happened since last Tuesday has simply astounded me.

Being an article marketer, I knew I could write well enough to convince someone to click on my link and buy a product from me. I'm writing anyway, so why not write and get more money than I do now from it??? It just seemed like the logical way to go!

I followed his instructions, created my Elance (and others) account with absolutely no credibility whatsoever (in fact, I still have none because I am waiting for my feedback scores to go in!) and followed Barry's instructions to the letter. His instructions are really simple and step by step, telling you exactly what to do and when. Even my mother would be able to follow it!

I then started bidding for jobs, whilst following the strategies he taught me. They are so simple, but yet hardly anyone follows these strategies so while you think you have a lot of competition, you really don't.

Within a DAY I had my first client. On day 2, I had a couple more...

I now have 8 clients and another has contacted me about the possibility of creating a joint business venture which could turn out to be quite lucrative. I also had another come back to me yesterday apologising because she didn't pick me and she regretted it. She was also asking if I could write for her in the future!

I'm not at $1000 a day yet, but I will be and I now know that it can be done.

I have made more money in the last week than I made after several months of article marketing starting off and it is all because of what Barry has taught me - AND I'm only in week 2 of a 12 month course!! This is so unbelievable.

All of my clients have been lovely and have suggested they will use me for future work (which brings back what Baz said earlier about Elance being only a small drop in the ocean - he's right).

Oh, and I work full time and am a mother of two (one is two years old, so still high maintenance!).

Yesterday I was starting to feel completely overwhelmed because of the amount of work that was coming my way - I have had to push work out to two weeks away!

Barry assures me that what I learn in month 2 will take most of the heat off. I believe him.

I plan to concentrate on this full time from the end of next month and you will all be told when that happens!

Barry offered to coach Liz free of charge. Me personally, well I could not justify being taught this stuff for nothing - it is THAT good.

So Liz, you have been handed a truly amazing gift. It is your choice as to whether to accept it or not and I won't lie - it's been a lot of hard work, however I knew that this first month was going to be hard and that it will improve.

I suppose it all comes down to what you want, how much and how quickly you want it!

Congrats I'm still looking for my first sale. It's close, I can feel it.

Well done. You can only increase it from there.

I'm currently running one campaign with 100% article marketing and am averaging $100 a day with it - all profit. It took about 25 days to get to that and earnings are increasing everyday. I was seeing sales from day 1 and it's just built up from there. Considering I've only submitted around 25 articles in that time, I see no reason why I can't get this particular campaign to $300/day.

So have faith and keep doing what works

Hey Liz, thats great! I remember my first sale when i started off...i literally jumped out of my seat for joy. Everyone needs that first sale to give them that confidence to strive for more. Keep it up!

Hey Barry

It all comes down to the niche/product, your resource box and your keywords. I've hit on some great keywords that have brought in 1000 views in 3 days. So far one particular such article has been on Google front page for a week so Im currently building links to keep it there.

Once you see trends of which articles are doing well (in ezinearticles Reports section) you can duplicate that effort by writing more articles on those keywords, and doing some social bookmarking etc to build some links to succesful articles.

This was really an experiment for me and I may be "lucky" that the offer I chose is converting so well, so I will be attempting this on other offers - after I see success there I might report back

Congrats Liz! I remember that feeling. I almost like how Click Bank does not send email notices of sales. The surprise is such a rewarding feeling. Keep up the good work and be sure to track your sales.

Congrats.
The first online income is usually the most important for it tells you that your efforts prior to that was not in vain and the first income also counsels you that to make more money online, you have to do more of what you had been doing.

Have you written more articles?

wow congrats... but what are you aiming for? how much would you ideally like to make per day on this? your ultimate goal?

Will you post your progress as you go? it's always nice to see some progress reports going along, keeps people's spirits up these days!

Congratulations ... I am so glad to here that.. I love this business..

Congrats Liz!
And... is it going on to more or is it still 20,-

f.

congrats and keep it up

Wow, there are so many people sharing their success stories on the warrior's forum. It really is great to see! Some people worry about too many people coming into the market, but the funny thing about money is that money grows where money flows.

Shannon

Congratulations!

I've always found article marketing to be the most satisfying out of all Internet Marketing methods. The traffic doesn't come pouring in like it does with PPC at first....BUT, if you get enough articles out there you will see a steady stream of traffic for months and years to come.

So great job! Now, build up your article empire....Your wallet will thank you!

Congratulations! That's very exciting!

Congratulations I look forward to joining you with my first dollar made. I have over 400 domain names and now I am looking to make some money off of them.

Well done Stay-At-Home-Mum- it's a huge learning curve. You have put the time in learning the whole IM process and when you make that first sale it makes you realise that it is possible to make money at this!

It will give you confidence to make the next $20- and the next and so on.