My Second Affiliate Marketing Sale

In my last post I told you about how I had made my first affiliate sale - after setting up my blog in a popular niche category.  I selected one product from ClickBank to promote, found keywords, designed landing pages and set up a Google AdWords campaign.  I sold my first affiliate product (an info product) for a profit of $38.  Spent to acquire that sale – well over $100.

Knowing that was unsustainable – I would never make any  money in affiliate marketing if I kept that up, I buckled down.  I added more keywords and more landing pages.  I dramatically lowered my max cost per click price. I still got traffic, but not as much, and no sales.

I decided to encourage people to sign up to my email list, and then try to make my affiliate sale after they signed up.  This worked better – instead of getting no sales and spending money, I was getting sign ups but not many.

Then I changed my opt in box to be one of those pop up ones – in exchange for an email address, I send a free report about the topic of interest.  My conversion rate is now between 35-50% and I am still spending way less than a dollar on each sign up.

And – I made my second affiliate sale.  And on that day I spent just $17 in Pay per click (PPC) advertising, so my profit was greater than 100%.  Yay.  Of course, not time to quit the day job, but the second step in success.

By the way, I am so impressed with the efficacy of the pop up opt in box, I am going to be adding it to my GirlMogul mom site shortly.

Keep reading for more as I chronicle my true journey on making money as an affiliate.

Oh – any I was on vacation when I made that sale.  booy -yah…