I made a Sale

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I made a sale!. I mean, I actually made a sale. This is fantastic.

December 26, 2019 at about 3 in the afternoon, somebody placed and order on my online store.

I know it is supposed to be possible here and we all expect to make sales and earn income (otherwise why join and continue to pay for WA). But, the reality is different from expectation.

I have set up a couple of websites and not really followed through with the training and while they are still active, they require work. I will get to them, they are like plants that are malnourished and cannot flower and prosper. They require more fertilizer from my brain to succeed, and we all know deep down we all have plenty of fertilizer to spread.

But I digress, this is about a sale.

This past year I have been working on an import / export business with a partner and part of that was to set up an online store. I knew it would be possible to do, based on what I learned here in WA. So I went ahead and built a store using Woocommerce. It still has a long way to go before I will be happy with it, but it is up and running. Successfully it seams.

Part of the success for the sale was local marketing, we went to a fair to promote our business and our products. This is where I believe this first sale came from and hopefully many more. Do not neglect your local marketing. Jay did a good series on Local Marketing in the October training.

I want to end on a happy note -

Just do it, you never know what will happen. Write that post, build that store. Get online one way or another. Find something you love and or that you can be passionate about, build it and keep adding to it - they will come.

My store is far from slick and impressive - it is a work in progress, but it works. Because of the things I learned here it works.

Just like Wealthy Affiliate - it works.

Now I just have to fulfill the purchase order and get on with the work involved in turning this sale into a business.

Wish me luck.

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What a great post, there truly is light at the end of the tunnel and, it would seem, intermittently throughout the journey, these little light funnels make the journey both interesting and joyous.

I love hearing success stories no matter how small, in fact the smaller the better, they seem more real and relatable.

Well done looking forward to hearing more success stories. 👍

Thank you for your kind words. This was the first success and yes it was small, but it is something I can build on.

Alex

Great JOB. I know how tough promoting an e-commerce site can be. It takes time to build out the product listings and do tweaks like getting the Schema Markups to show your products and reviews as such in the Search Engine Ranks and then you have to write all of those products expanding reviews and such to the blog to generate more top 10 rankings and drive hot buyer intent traffic.

Local Marketing is the fast track but even it requires sound SEO princil\ples so you have definitely been doing your homework. This will be the first of many sales for you, just do more of the same, scale-up, and reinvest in you and this will be the beginning of a major success story and we may be promoting your affiliate program soon.

Andy Zeus Anderson
Affiliate 3 Percent

Thanks, Andy, I appreciate the information and the congratulations. It just shows me how far I have to go. To be honest, I was not ready for the store to perform just yet, as I am still learning how to build it and make it work, but it was sure exciting to get a sale and know the mechanics are sound.

This is the beginning and I have a ton of work to get through to make it a true success. But I know it can be done and that is half the battle.

Well done. Congratulations! Always exciting to get a sale.

🙃 Stanley

Thank you. I agree it is exciting.

Great job Congratulation to you for your Sale.Wish you the very best for the holidays and in to 2020. Fitzgerald

Thank you for your kind words.
I wish you the best in 2020 also.

Alex

That's wonderful news.
Congratulations, and best of luck, Alexander :)

Valerie

Thank you. All the best to you as well.

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