Anatomy of a Sale
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By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - Success! Published: Thursday, 04 October 07 - 11:00 AM (GMT) Last Updated: Thursday, 04 October 07 - 12:01 PM (GMT) |
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The site was born 25 days ago
After participating in Ed Dale's 30DC and missing out by only 2 days by creating my first sale I tried to encourage my daughter to have a go. After all she is 15 and was whinging that all I was talking about was niches and blogs and blah blah blah.
So I sat her down and showed her what to do. She came up with a great niche phrase that passed the GTrends test and I set her up the blog platform to launch it on. She lasted about 5 days before the daily posting had her bored. So I bought the site from her for $10. So she made her 30DC with ease!
I took over writing the site and as a creative outlet I must say I do love it. Having been a writer-on-the-side in the past, having a bit of fun as a completely different person is quite invigorating. The issue though is people love the great writing and the subject, but they just have not opened their wallets to buy anything.
Just to explain, this site is the "window shopping" site that I was considering whether to drop it or not two weeks after I opened it up.
Some incredible figures
Yeah incredibly BAD figures but everything is a learning opportunity and I am learning a lot about this method of marketing.Age of site - 25 days
Unique Visitors - 2019
Click through to affiliate sites - 339 (16.8%)
Conversion Rate - 0.34%
But now that the dam is breached, the sky is the limit. Especially as the new newsletter from Dan Raine and The Immediate Edge is alllll about the extra goodies you can add to a site such as this one. (and err yeah I need to start putting into practice what I have read :) )
So the future plans are to increase traffic and increase the variety of affiliates.
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