Last week I decided that I was going to work hard and make my first affiliate sale. Luckily I ended up making two!

I sold two copies of Micro Niche Finder (<-Affiliate link , one directly to a fellow blogger and one through my forum signature on Digital Point.

The sale to the fellow blogger is something I have been and will continue working on for a while. I trust Micro Niche Finder a lot and use it in my day to day. With the Affiliate Marketing lead future, that I am planning, it will play a big part. So, every time I saw a post where somebody was talking about Keyword research, I would mention that I use MNF and stand by it. I would also offer my help if more information was needed.

This eventually ended up with me writing a guest post on Brent Crouch’s great blog. Click the link here if you would like to read the post - Micro Niche Finder Review - Find Long Tail Keywords - Keyword Research.

Sadly I made no direct sales from the post but I did end up speaking to a blogger personally. I offered to provide some free keyword research from MNF. This is what sold the program.

Like I said I will continue to push this product to other bloggers in a similar fashion. My commission is only $30 and I did much more than $30 of work for the first sale but it is worthwhile as you all build stronger relationships and gain a good reputatio, laying down trust for future recommendations.

The 2nd copy was sold with no work as such. I have an account over at Digital Point Forums and decided to advertise my MNF affiliate link in my footer. I suggest whatever you are promoting that you make a quick catchy line, enticing people to click and take a look. I gave the affiliate link and a link to an older article proving my success with the package. Finally one of the clickers liked what they saw and made a purchase.

I will be updating my signature soon to point to my recent guest post. I post semi-regular on the forum, generally on easy topics but I hope to get more involved in the future as forums are an indispensable place to network.

What next?

As you can see, I have hardly hit the big time :).

The last few days has been full of conversation with other bloggers who have been helping me greatly. As usual I have been getting bits of help from the extremely busy Garry Conn. But also I have been in contact with two new blogging friends both who specialize in Marketing and have helped me learn so much, making me confident about the road ahead. I suggest you visit Mattaw’s blog, Money Bites and Bryan Clarks blog, Site Flip U and start absorbing marketing information now.

I need to start small so need to be careful about things. I don’t have the experience to jump into highly competitive niche markets so need to look for very small specific markets and plan on making money on a small scale across multiple sites.

Garry Conn is famed for making a little money with lots of sites and I would like to follow suite, using adsense to compliment any affiliate sales that I can make.

So for the next two weeks:

• I plan to perfect my theme(s) to be used across multiple sites.
• I will then start researching .info domain names (they are very cheap and rank well in Google), then aim purchases about 15 in bulk to start building my little sites.
• Then start to build the sites one at a time and aim to start getting them indexed and filled with content.

I will be posting soon about my theme building.

Any advice or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

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