Its been a while but I gather most of you have heard from me directly via email. Anyhow, been busy as usual. This time just my day job plus I have this new habit of ‘taking time off’ during weekends. But am generally enjoying these work from home programs.

Internet marketing is fun but when sales are slow it aint fun! For one reason or another my clickbank sales have taken a plunge and I still can’t figure out why. Its really frustrating to see $0.00 on my ClickBank home page. I now check this twice a day – guess am scared to face the truth! Well, that’s what this “making money online” business is all about. One minute you are making $400 a day and the other you are making $0.00 for three straight days.

Ohh…you must be wondering and saying Dennis is ‘stressed’ – you are dead right I am and to be perfectly honest I am putting it out here because I want to show you guys that this ain’t as easy as people make it seem. making money online is really like any other job. You have to put in the hours if you are to get anything out of it and sometimes you willl go through ‘dry spells’ that will test your resolve.

I have been on forums like WF and am shocked by what people claim to be making. they dont have any proof but others seem to believe every word. Am not sure about you but I am very cautious and only listen to others that are rather open with their online adventures. People like Clyton, Justin, Michelle keep me going because they openly share their experiences online.

Meaanwhile I thought something weird was going on via clickbank recently and it probably explains a general dip in sales for me and many affiliates I follow. See screenshots below:

ClickBank Madness!

If you pay close attention to the above image you will notice that there are “0″ hops. Now take a look at the items screen below.

Would you be able to trust this tracking system?

From the above image it clearly shows three hops but the total count in the previous image was “0″…..I hope you get what am saying. Well, if we are to trust clickbank, they need to improve their tracking otherwise affiliates like me seem to be loosing money unfairly. It annoys me that all affiliates would have a sudden bump in sales within a week. Across the board I noticed everyone was “crying” but on closer attention to my clickbank stats I just realised the system has some problems otherwise we would still see the “spikes” in our click bank pages.  This isn’t an attack on ClickBank but am simply saying the system can’t be trusted 100%

Otherthan that nothing new to talk about. My attempt to go after media buys didn’t really work out well. The company I wanted to advertise with turned out to have extremely high rates and unfortunately I couldn’t justify spending that much on a market that doesn’t convert well. I have only made one sale to a person in New Zealand and honestly the sums just don’t add up.

As for the partnership am into, well, we are still doing the ground work. Got a few videos made up for training our new writer who happens to come from Uganda.  We are also looking for other writers from freelancer and that should help us produce as much content as we would like. We are working one website at a time so that will keep us pretty busy for the next couple of months. I think over time this project will result into a significant amount of sales given all the newsletter series that we shall run. I am super excited about this!

Last week I offered the backlink script and well, I got about 30 signups – not bad way to start building my list. And yes, my list wont have to worry about spam emails as they will only be getting weekly insights on what I am doing. It might sound weird to many of you who have followed me for the last 28 weeks but am thinking of taking my clickbank screenshots off my weekly reports. If I do, this will only be reserved to the list. Am not sure about this but would like to hear your opinions.

Meanwhile I must admit I was unable to follow through on my promise to post regularly on this blog. It will definately happen sometime in the near future.

Scrapebox seems to be working fine. I have gotten over 200 links from it for thi website alone and am thinking of trying it on my money sites but others have warned me to only use it on my link wheel sites like blogger, squdoo, hub pages because it could hurt my sites as they might get sandboxed.

On a postive note I also received a check from ClickBank – my 8th to be precise.

Otherwise, there isn’t much to add aexcept that I probaly need to diversity and stop relying too much on ClickBank. I know this now and I hope I can work towards diversification.

This post is getting way too long.  I guess this is when I have to reveal my “dry spell”…..

Weekly Sales Snapshop - Week 28

Cheers,

Dennis