I found out a few days ago that I had made my first affiliate sale  (not including purchases that I had made myself). It puts a new twist on things. First it validates the concept. You can write an article that leads a reader to eventually click through to your product's sales page and make a purchase. So now it is a matter of doing more of what works, and getting it running at a high enough level to generate a lot more sales. At the same time, that first sale can demonstrate just how toug

...there are some things about this whole IM thing that strike me as strange. For instance, I am sure that a lot of people are making good money selling Wealthy Affiliate memberships. And, to tell the truth, I hope to do that some day too. But for now I am relatively new, and I have this thought that keeps going around in my head that goes something like this-- If the way to make money on the internet is to sell stuff that tells people how to make money on the internet, than is there really a bu

Since joining WA I have been confused and bewildered by any number of things. Thankfully though, as I dug in they tended to become clearer and now the path to making money is more evident everyday. But there are still things of momentous importance that I wonder about. Things like: My WA "popularity" rating. What's that about? My member rank. Ditto, and how have I managed to climb more than 3000 spots in two months? This blog. Who reads it? Who even knows it is here? Any light shed on

I am now into my third month of WA membership. So far the only money I have made is by buying a couple of CB products to make sure the system worked and I got the commission. Any of that sound familiar? Funny thing is, with each passing day I am more certain that I can do this. So while the online marketing bank account reads zero now, and may for a while longer, I do not feel that I am wasting my time, though I'll admit I have been long on the "learning" side of the equation, and a li