Woke up with 80 orders.. And all need to be manually processed.. FML

by DNAWRealm Banned

Posted: 12 years ago 11 replies

So I've been selling an e-book guide.. Orders were steady, 5-8 daily at £8.99 per. All was good, easy to manage..

Last night I decided to put a YouTube video up on my main account with 12K subscribers.. Straight away I had 5-6 orders but it was 4am and I needed sleep, so I hit the sack.

Woke up with:

18 Google checkout orders
47 Paypal orders

All orders have to be manually processed because I'm sending out the e-mails with the e-book as an attachment..

In total, profits are around £550 while I slept. It took me 50minutes to send out all the e-mails..

Talk about working while sleeping. BEST DAY SO FAR!

#fml #manually #orders #processed #woke

Mark Bradley 12 years ago

That's a great result,congratulations.The money's not in the list the money is in the 'taking action'.
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svaningen 12 years ago

That's fantastic, definitely not something to feel bad about!
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- DNAWRealm Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by svaningen
  
  That's fantastic, definitely not something to feel bad about!
  
  I don't feel bad, was just a nightmare having to siphon through a good 70 orders. Some were cancelled by Google by fraud, some people had initiated paypal disputes because of non-delivery. Was a nightmare!
  
  Hopefully it'll carry on and I'll get used to it
  
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MikeFriedman 12 years ago

You need to change your sales funnel so that people receive the product automatically after placing the order.
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- Elle Holder 12 years ago
  
  What Mike said!
  
  If I buy an ebook I expect to be able to download it as soon as the transaction is complete. If not, I start to get pissed.
  
  I use eJunkie for my eBook. FYI
  
  But hey, congrats on the success!!
  
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jasontim86 12 years ago

Use clickbank for easy process. Only cost you $75 to activate the account. But yeah, great work there mate. Proud of ya!
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JSProjects 12 years ago

Why not use something like eJunkie, GetDPD, etc? I use DPD and it pretty much automates the entire process and helps keep track of everything.
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- kazute 12 years ago
  
  You can add a success page within the button creation in paypal just redirect to a download link after payment is processed, probably the easiest way to do things but can lead to sharing of the location of the download
  
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contentwriting360 Banned 12 years ago

That's one of the best things we get to experience when we do business online. The same thing happens in our content writing services. Sometimes, after taking my 60-minute break, I got $1,000-worth of an order. IM is simply amazing.
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GobBluthJD 12 years ago

#FirstWorldIMProblems
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- darrenlc 12 years ago
  
  That's the great thing about this line of work. You can work hard and get nothing. Then youyou may not work much and earn everything. I love it.
  
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