This Old Dog Is Learning Some New Tricks

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I might be new to Wealthy Affiliate, but I have been around internet marketing for roughly 15 years now. I have seen lots of phases and trending changes on the internet that has slowly unfolded to the world in that time period. The biggest trend that I noticed, that was sticking around, and actually was becoming more popular in the industry was the affiliate marketingbusiness model.

Recently in the middle of May of this year, by the advice of a close friend and trusted business partner (of a service provider style website), I joined Wealthy Affiliate to learn how to build and operate a thriving affiliate marketing website. After just the first week of training I decided to stick around WA because it offered me what I was looking for, training to a new revenue stream without any substantial investment but my time. I currently run a website on my own which can be very time consuming on some days, but most days I have plenty of spare time to learn and implement practices toward another revenue string on the internet.

My First Go Around

When I first started my online business it took me thousands of dollars and well over 3 months of solid advertising to get my very first visitor to my website. The feeling of relief when I discovered I finally had a potential customer viewing the products I had for sale it was utterly overwhelming. Unfortunately, it took another three more months before I made my first sale. And it took me over three years before it finally turned a profit of any mentionable amount, fortunately today it is still doing rather well compared to some of my competitors’ websites.

After going through the first three levels of the OEC training, learning the basics for starting and building a solid foundation for an affiliate marketing website, I figured that I would be experiencing Deja view and face yet another spell of building a brand name and drawing traffic to my website. I even was discussing in the members chat less than a week ago, that I felt the training had us signing up for Google Analytics way to early, expecting three to four months before any substantial amounts of traffic would be hitting my website.

Screen shot of the last two weeks - Google Analytics

A Sale Already!

Today while scanning my Amazon Associates account I noticed something rather different to my account, at first I could not figure out what was going on. As I studied the graph, which I thought was a sample to show what it would look like when I start getting traffic to my website, but to my surprise it was letting me know that I have had traffic to my website as of June 19 (the 12th and 14th was me showing my neighbors how affiliate links work) in the first month of operating the website I already have traffic and already have made the first sell


Screen shot of last two weeks of Amazon Associates

Now I know it was only 1.28 commission off two items sold, it’s not the commission amount that impresses me it’s the fact I made a sale before the website was up and running for one month unbelievable!! The conversion rate is way off because 11 of those clicks as I said earlier, where mine, showing my neighbors how affiliate links work, so I got one sale of two items out of 5 clicks going to Amazon not too shabby in my books!! I wish I could get that good of conversation ratios on my e-commerce website I’d make four times as much money than I do now.

I was skeptical before, BUT NOW I BELIEVE!!


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Calvin, I told you that I would take time to read your posts. This one is very enjoyable. Just like you, I have spent thousands of dollars in my early years on smooth selling internet marketers. PPC was another nightmare in costs. You have made great progress here at WA. Don't get mad if I need your help with something I can't find on my own.

Hi Chuck,

I will try my best to answer any question that you or any member can think up, through my knowledge and experience that I have gained over the last 15 years of online marketing.

Always good to hear from you,

Calvin

Congratulations! I hope I do well.
Sandy

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That is really good validation that following WA training is the way to go. There is a method to the madness!
Debbie

And you helping me believe too.

There's always a need for new talent George.

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