How Long to Expect Before Your First Sale?
One of the first questions I hear asked by my coaching clients... and it's a fair question "How long can I expect before I have my first sale?"
It's an honest question that's usually followed up with a timeline inquiry like, "No seriously, am I looking at 3 Months? 6 months? 1 or 2 Years?"
The challenge is NOT the answer to this question. It's an easy answer. "I don't know"
The challenge is helping my clients understand that their question is essentially flawed.
That their idea of trading their time for money is flawed, that the standards of measurement that they've been taught to value are different with affiliate marketing businesses.
For instance, the question: How long can I expect before I have my first sale... does not take into account multiple streams of income from such areas as Google Adsense, or an Amazon Partnership. It doesn't take into account email marketing, and collecting emails with the ability to speak directly to people that you KNOW are interested in what you have to offer. AND it certainly doesn't take into account the ways that affiliate marketing broadens your perspective on what's possible and creates more opportunities.
I propose a different question. "How long before I can expect one of my multiple streams of income to start generating revenue?"
That's easy. Nearly immediately. AND before my coaching clients can ask the next question that kicks them out of the wonderful vortex of possibility, I explain: The key with affiliate marketing is to create multiple streams. Imagine ANYTHING is possible. Look at everything you see online and ask yourself, "How can I do that?" ask yourself , "How can I help promote that and generate revenue at the same time." Everything. If you buy ANYTHING online, look for ways to pay yourself commission for that purchase or write about it and look for ways to earn commission by telling people about it in a conversational genuine and authentic way. As you start earning income, look at what's working and replicate what's working to increase your revenue. It's a simple formula that builds on your small successes.
What about you?
How do you overcome your training to trade your time for money? How do you overcome your urge to fall into the old measurement for success?
Wenda
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I don't know is a good answer. I simply don't know when someone else's can achieve the first sale online but I can tell you in my experience my first sale was around three month mark.
People become too fixated on earning money and doing so fast ,and they lose sight of what they actually need to be focusing on an that is the creation of their foundation.
To build a skyscraper you need a sound foundation. Folks here she just remember that. I personally spent my first three months building that foundation.
Great post. Not easy to answer this question as not everyone is the same, each is different and some are action takers and some just tell them self-tomorrow I start.....
Great post, Wenda. I see this same question a lot, but since we are all different, we all have different approaches to this business. The tools are there to be used. If we follow the program and use the tool, good things will come our way. Unfortunately, we can't predict the date and time they will knock on the door.
Warren
A great approach to a question that is nearly always asked Wenda. Even though WA is never punted as a get-rich-quick scheme, I think the long term approach has be to continually emphasized. You do illustrate the varied facets and effectiveness of multiple income streams very well.
Les