Today is a good day for me, after roughly 6 months of trying to make sales on Amazon today was my lucky day!  I made my first ever sale on Amazon.  My earnings for the sale are nothing to shout about, just $11, but it’s the mental achievement that I am most happy about.  6 months is a long time to go without seeing any fruits for your labour, I kept saying to myself not to give up and keep working on my site to get the targeted traffic I needed to make the sales.  In the past I may have given up but after reading many peoples threads on forums the message I got from most people who were already successful was to stick at ONE THING until you have mastered it and can replicate it.  Only after that should you move onto other sources of revenue.

Also another mental hurdle that I got over today was the fact that I now know that I can make money through amazon affiliates.  It sounds a bit stupid, you may be saying, “Well duh Paul” but after reading people claiming they make $1,000’s every month on Amazon I become a little bit of a skeptic.  After not making any sales in the first month or 2 I was even more skeptic and started to think negatively saying to myself I had wasted my money.

So I learnt a few valuable lessons today:

1. Don’t give up, instead analyse were you are going wrong and try to fix it.
2. Promote cheaper, easier-to-convert products to boost up your commission % so you get more $$ from your larger sales.
3. Get laser targeted traffic that is likely to convert, don’t try to rank for broad search terms.
4. Research and optimize your page for BUYING keywords.  For more information on this read my post here.

I now know what I was doing wrong and will post a more detailed article about what exactly I did to make the sale.  It’s something so simple I can’t believe I didn’t do it earlier.

[alert]Update – Here is the detailed post explaining what I did to get a sale. [/alert]

Oh and here’s the proof.