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Good Times! - $3000 in August 2008
Good Times! – $3000 in August 2008
…and then Clickbank had an “Update” in September.

As a follow on to “The Eureka Moment” post I made in September I wanted to share with you this great image showing my August Earnings.  You will note that the two pay periods in August 2008 add up to £2993.97 which was phenomenal growth on July 2008 which saw just $637 added to my account.

 

Then something happened at Clickbank on the 3rd September which several people experienced, and Clickbank later confirmed.  They had an update and their credit card processor was experiencing intermittent faults.  They had to admit to this as several publishers were contacted by customers who were unable to purchase using a credit card.  These issues continued for over a week and then things improved slightly towards the end of September with one day actually recording my highest day ever. 

 

We are now half way through October and whilst the World is heading for recession and the banks are in melt down I still feel Clickbank is having problems.  You will note the regular sales in August, I don’t recall having a single day without a sale, now I am happy to go three days in a row with sales.

 

A lot of threads have been started at Digital Point and other forums with people complaining and some suggesting that we should work harder and stop blaming CB,  this annoys me as it is obvious to those making volume sales that things are not right.  I have decided to work harder and build more websites, diversifying the products I promote with the hope that it will all pay off in the end when things return to normal. 

 

Don’t get me wrong, I have been making sales, just not at the rate and as regular as in August, I look forward to the good times returning.

 

Good luck out there folks.
James

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I have been a clickbank affiliate for 2 years but meeting Clickbank’s 5 sales and different payment methods rules took a while, I was passively selling products via banners on some of my sites.

In January 2008, I stepped up a gear and created a site to specifically promote Clickbank products, this was a site with reviews of Paid Survey programs.  I made a few erratic sales and pretty much spent as much as I earned on Adwords!  I realised that the affiliate commissions per sale were not enough to cover the cost of clicks and the conversion rate.  ie.  if a product was converting 1 in 100 hops and the commission was $23.50, I would make a profit if my clicks costed less than $0.23

Then I stumbled across a new niche which, in general, pays much higher commissions and therefore there was more room for error and higher profits.  That niche was Forex.

I was able to obtain a very good keyword based domain which I could use to review Forex products in the same way that I did with Paid Surveys.  Within days I was indexed by Google and thanks to a few hundred backlinks the site was ranking top 5 for the keywords in the domain.

The Eureka Moment was on Monday 21st July 2008 when I logged into Clickbank to see this picture….

Eureka Moment
Eureka Moment

You can see the sporadic sales of Paid Surveys up to this weekend and then BANG – $210 in three days.  From organic traffic alone, no PPC at this point.

This Forex stuff really does sell and with big commissions.  From that point on I could focus on a niche which I knew would make me money, I literally had no idea how much I would make over the next six weeks.  I started to think about how to spend the money and we decided to book a holiday to Portugal next year!

The next two pay periods saw 57 sales and just short of $3000 in commission!  I will save that image for another day.  That’s enough rambling for now. Good Luck all.
James

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