Well if that's the case, I would have stopped a long time ago!

I posted in my last blog, that I was able to get two sales within a 7 day period.  Boy was I psyched!  I figured I was on the right track.  Well I was (and still am I guess) on the right track, but I've had no sales since then.  Bummer!

I check my CB account and am still getting some traffic to my aff. products.  139 hops in three days, so I can get the traffic part going, but just not the sales!

So what did I do?  I reached out the vendors of the products that I'm promoting and asked if I could get some additional marketing products, ie screen shots.  I also asked for some additional statistics such as hops per sale.  One of my largest campaigns which has around 40 articles and 5 squid. lenses seemed to be getting a lot of traffic.  The problem...I didn't do my homework.

In talking with the vendor, their average conversion is .03 or 1/300 hops.  OUCH!  Another problem - it's only a $16 commission!  See I saw the e-book and picked a very specific niche based on that one portion of the book.  The issue is that niche is only covered on just one page.  That sucks - to create a whole campaign on one page!  Lesson learned!  He forwarded me a copy of the e-book for free (all you really have to do is ask) and it's a garbage product.

Way to waste three weeks of your life on a crappy product Mike!

 That's ok though.  I did make a sale on that product and understood how important it is to do your homework FIRST!  So for me,

No sales DIDN'T= No motivation

Lesson learned - on to the next campaign!

Go Bears!

Joke of the Day

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."