You Always Remember Your First… Affiliate Conversion

I haven’t done much in the realm of affiliate marketing so far, the bulk of online revenue thus far has been through PPC (pay per click) and direct sales. But that changed today with my first affiliate sale! It was through the eBay Partner Network. Previously I had setup two sites, discountroombas.com and joshhamiltonmemorabilia.com, that utilized the mcjiffy script and the eBay Partner Network search feeds.

My first instinct was that somebody had won an auction via joshhamiltonmemorabilia.com since I have two PPC campaigns, via Yahoo and Microsoft. However it was actually from discountroombas.com, the site has had less than 25 total visitors, most wandering in from digitalpoint so I’m pretty surprised somebody made a purchase, but I won’t complain. This actually validates my assumption, to a purely circumstantial extent at least so far, expensive items will tend to do better on eBay affiliate sites due to the gap between the aftermarket price and the retail price. I had been putting time and money into the Josh Hamilton site on more of lark and interest in him after his home run derby performance.

So feel free to share any stories about your first affiliate conversion, which network was it, how hard was it to get that conversion, was it worth it, etc…

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