Getting from 1st to 2nd sale?

That happens to a lot of people. The real key is that you need to focus on where your traffic is coming from and weed out bad traffic. Also, see if you can optimize your site so that you can lead people to sales as quickly as possible. Buy Now buttons vastly improve conversions so try to install those.

A suggestion, read "Yes: 50 scientific ways to be more persuasive" It has a lot of good info on quick things to do to convince people.

I am experiencing the same on my site. Will definately read through the 50 scientific ways to be more persuasive'. Will keep the forum posted on the outcome!

A fluke? Nope, that thinking happens to everyone. You got that 1st sale, you'll get the 2nd.

About how many visitors did it take to that sale?

Are you collecting emails/subscribers?

definitely need more visitors and subscribers. Your visitor to sale ratio will even out once you've gotten roughly about 500 visitors or so to your site.

I know that the first sale can be exhilirating, and from personal experience, and what I've gathered from other people, is that the first sale you make tricks you into thinking that you have done enough work to start making money. This is not the case!

Again, I speak from personal experience with this: I stopped writing as many articles as I did before I started getting leads in my CPA marketing campaign. I became more obsessed with seeing if my 30 impressions a day were turning into conversions. And, before I knew it, not was my traffic decreasing, but I started to see less and less conversions. Eventually dwindling down to zero within a month.

You need to stay on top of your work. A lot of success in affiliate marketing has to do with your persistence in keeping the traffic flowing and building a bigger and bigger empire. This way, you don't have to depend on just 2-3 income sources, but several from all across the board. Some days you will have one website that you own give you 3 conversions, and that site one week later isn't even getting traffic anymore! Why? There's tons of factors as to why, but that isn't what you should be worrying about.

Continue building your websites and working on getting more traffic.

Create multiple outlets for income.

Don't stop until you hit your goal.

I agree the consistency and staying on top of the work are some of the keys to success with online marketing but so are test, test and test. I don't like to spend a lot of time on things that are not working for me because time is money.

Nice affiliate link -_-

For me, it's hard to define "testing." How long do I stick with a website (which once they're set up are meant to be left alone) or affiliate or whatever before I decide to test another product? I feel like with testing people think too short term (like I get stuck doing sometimes) and randomly want to change things around every X number of days they don't make a sale.