They say the first sale is the sweetest and I have to confess that when I received a text message from MoreNiche last night I was absolutely thrilled, almost like a small kid that was lead to a candystore and told he could get whatever he wanted.

Now I have been making more sales on all different products from all different places and generating money with adsense and other means to make money online, but this particular sale is completely different. It is loaded with the taste of success, happiness and an unexplainable feeling, almost like a breakthrough.

If you have been reading this blog and following a bit of my path you will know that one of my biggest struggles has always been my lack of focus. I know I have a lot of capabilities between my past experiences, ability to speak several languages fluently and overall I don´t consider myself to be lacking intelligence.

But to be honest, I was jumping from one thing to the other, starting up new projects here and there, and doing the basics only long enough to come across yet another “possibility” that would get me off track.

So why is this first sale so sweet to me?

I had made a website last summer (feels like ages ago now) when I first started pursuing MoreNiche to promote a certain health product and posted several times on this blog about the progress and my thoughts about his particular affiliate program.

Now you can see that the first post about this program was in May and it actually took me all this time to finally land the first sale there. My cheeks are blushing with shame almost for having taken so darn long, and to be honest I was about to give up on promoting those products and just going back to working on other projects.

So I had set up a website in html, added a wp blog to it and for some reason I just did not like the site. It did not feel good to me, the design was off and there were a lot of things I felt I had done wrong with it and somehow I just couldn´t drag my sorry ass to start changing the things I wanted to change.

I had already promoted a bit, submitting articles and building links but that nagging feeling was just there. It didn´t rock my boat, plain and simple.

I was left with 3 options:

  • Do a total makeover which would cost me a lot of time and work to get it to the point where I would like it.
  • Leave the site and forget about promoting that product and go to “the next best thing”
  • Fully analyze the site, write down what should be different, write a “plan of attack” for a new site, keeping in mind to avoid the mistakes I had made earlier and do a better job, sticking to the outline and plan.

Obviously after pondering these three options I decided to go for option 3 and I came to that conclusion for a few reasons.

  • It is a fairly new product that has great potential in my eyes.
  • I have tested it myself with very good results, so I felt really comfortable promoting it because I am convinced it is something that can help a lot of people.
  • Honestly, I did not feel I had been promoting it the way I should have so far.
  • The things I have learned over the last half year would now give me a better shot at trying again.

So after I had made the decision to give it another shot I was looking at the MN forum which I have found very helpful so far. They say that coincidence doesn´t exist but the first post I read was by one of the program managers and it gave me an idea for a new domain that would be perfect to build another site and start promoting the product in a different way.

If you have come as far as reading this and are interested in a detailed report of all the steps I made to get this first sale and reasoning behind all of them:

You should come back on Monday!

For now, have a great weekend ya´all!

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