My First Commission
I set up my Build A Niche Store account on January 11th. I immediately set up my first shop, staying up quite late tryint to make everything “just right”. The next day I set up two more.
For a few days, I actively checked my stats on Commission Junction several times a day to see if any of my stores had generated a sale. I only noticed one click and a number of impressions, but no sales. Not too worried since, of course, all the sites I had set up were brand new and probably not indexed yet. Naturally, most, if not all, the traffic had come from my blog readers following my links. I never expect, or encourage, conversions from friends.
A few days ago I stopped checking sales stats figuring the old “watched pot” theory may be applying. Instead, I put myself into fixing up my started affiliate sites, and starting a few new ones. But today, I decided to take a closer look at my stats.
At first I was very pleasantly surprised to see that I’d had 4 click throughs. That may not sound like much, but I believe only 2 or 3 of the shops are currently indexed, and the cookie Ebay places on the clicker’s computer lasts 30 days (meaning anything they buy through Ebay for the next 30 days will give me a kickback). And that’s not taking into account that one of my niches has an extremely high price point.
And then I remembered. While BANS is intended to earn affiliate money on Ebay sales, the company itself offers its affiliates a nice cut of their purchase price. I logged into that account and had a wonderful surprise- just over $44 was sitting in my account.
That cuts my total investment by about 1/3.
What a great start only 2 days after signing up!
