Okay, back from the main topic. I just want to share you the update of my affiliate experience for the Month of November.  As you are already aware, November 8 is when I first received my first sale in this money making opportunity.  I made $296.11 on that day and I'm really really happy on that experience.  After that day what happened next?

Alrighty, here is the quick stats of the November 2008 Affiliate earning.  This is from a not so aggressive, free marketing campaign of the product I chose from Clickbank and one free offer product from NeverBlue Ads.

November 2008 Affiliate Earning Summary (November 1 - 30 less refund / debits)

To sum it up:

Clickbank:  $1182.86

NeverBlue: $ 7.70

Total = $1,190.56

There you go, $1,190.56 profit because I didn't spend a dime in advertising.   What I did? I just choose a product to promote in clickbank, create some lens and short post and promote it via social bookmarking. I use socialposter & socialmarker to simplify this task.  For the neverblue, I just pick a campaign closes to my blog niche and lazily put their banner in my site.

Lessons Learned:

1. On that exercise I learned that in choosing a product, you have to research to the products refund rate as well not just the commission and gravity of the product.  For the clickbank product that I promote for instance,  If there is no refund I should have earned $1487.96 That is $305.1 refund which could have big impact specially if I use pay-per-click advertising or media buy.
2. Cant go further if the affilliate marketing method I will use is only by placing the banner in site.  Thats is what happened with my neverblue earning, you can check the quick stats below.  Out of 151,157 impression I only got 3 conversions amounting to whooping $7.70  Need to be a little more aggressive, maybe by using the PPC marketing.
3. Ten targeted traffic is better than tenthousand untargeted traffic. Observation #2 says it all.  Now, the next job is to find out how and where to get that highly targeted traffic for the product I like to promote.

So, I think thats it.  Now I have some idea what I will do for the coming days.  I'm planning to try out PPC to get massive and targeted traffic.  With Ivan on my side I know I can do this.   I'm going to choose a CPA offer in NeverBlue.  Aside from that I'm going to create a non-seasonal campaign from Clickbank so earning and traffic will be consistent 24/7/365

November 2008 Affiliate Earning Summary & How I did it is a post from: Zalds

I just wrote a quick post, put a blantant call to action on it like "Click Here if you want to learn more about this product..." then hit publish button.  I am not going to go in detail how I did it coz I treat this marketing strategy as experimental.  Over all the time it takes to complete the whole marketing process is around 30 minutes.

I didn't create a landing page, I didn't use PPC... earning came from free traffic source..

Fast forward - -  after 8 hours, this is my clickbank stats commission.  I have made 9 sales (1 sale from November 8 and 8 sales November 9) that gives a total commission of $296.11

Its really surprising! what amazed me is that, this earning took me only 30 minutes to prepare...

I know this is  a good sign... whether I got the commission because of pure luck it doesn't matter.  The important is there is some gold that could be uncovered in that niche and its now my job to do more research, studies and marketing activities in accordance to the proven method of affiliate marketing.

My Lucky Day in my 1st Affiliate Marketing Promotion is a post from: Zalds