Affiliate Musketeer

I’m pleased to say that my new Money Making Affiliate Website made its first commission today after 3 weeks and sending 72 visitors to merchants (actually it was more like yesterday but I didn’t check stats until today). The comission came in through Affiliate Window via the John Lewis program.  Thanks, JL! Here’s to a few more thousand pounds worth of business for you…

I was starting to lose a bit of faith in the site until this commission arrived. You could probably tell from some of my earlier posts and I was getting a little downhearted by the lack of conversions from good quality traffic.  I don’t know why I was feling like that other than I was genuinely over-ambitious and unrealistic with my initial expectations.  I knew it wasn’t going to happen overnight but I think until you get that first commission, you really do find yourself asking if it was all a lost cause.  I was feeling like that so much so yesterday that I didn’t even check stats or do any work (link building, product posting etc.)  But today, alas! It’s always nice when you get that first commission from a site.  It gives you some confidence to keep on going.  The next bit of good news was that it was a whopping commission of £49.  That was a total sale for the merchant of £1060.  £1000 down, £19,000 to go…remember, that’s my monthly target of merchant revenue.  Based on a 5% commission, hitting this target every month would give me £1000 in commission per month.

Is it really good news or am I just lucky?

Alright, so let’s have a deeper look at the commission.  The conversion of visits to sales that I discussed in a post the other day is slightly better than expected but 1 sale isn’t really anything to go by so I won’t hold my breath over that one just yet.  The other thing that perhaps makes me think this isn’t all roses is that the product that drove the conversion only sells for £349…

So either the user bought 3 of these items (which is perfectly reasonable to assume given the nature of the product), or he bought something completely different but by then, my affiliate cookie was already on his system so I got the commission anyway.  This just serves to highlight the fact that if a merchant generally has good products and converts well, that just by sending them traffic, you can earn commission.