Why don't we ever see threads with that title? After all, if there is such a thing as a "normal" or average sales day, then there's are also such a thing as unusually good days and unusually bad days. For those that might claim there aren't any good sales days, how can you say bad sales days are unusual?
I feel there are normal sales days for my commissions. But it's hasn't really happened the past couple weeks. Publishers aren't feeling the lack of sales like affiliates falafelfro. That's why it's great to be a publisher like you. The more we work, the more you get paid. *I promote your gas guide btw
Patchkaa - I have bad days, average days, and good days, just like you. It's just interesting to note that there are NEVER posts about good days but only about "unusually bad" days. It's weird to usually see posts about the same unusual things. The reason I started this thread is because I think there's something going on here called "respondent bias". Here is a wikipedia article about it. If you make a post about an unusual phenomenon, the responses you will get will disproportionately be from people who are experiencing the same unusual phenomenon while people who don't experience it won't respond as often. I wonder if that's going on with some of these posts. Furthermore, you SHOULD expect to have unusually good days and unusually bad days, sometimes many days at a time. If you don't, you're not in sales!
Kingbrend: Thanks for promoting my product BTW. From my understanding (and I could be missing something here) publishers should statistically experience the same aggregate sales trends that affiliates do. If most affiliates do worse, publishers will do worse (unless they suddenly get more affiliates to counterbalance lower rates of sales). Is there something I'm missing?
Wow you did that much study on that topic!! Like Kingbrend its ok for you publishers but your fellow affiliates are suffring from lack of sales. The last thing we need is someone trying to study why affiliates make these posts. It may be fascinating to you fal but for some this is our living!!
Yeah, commission theft and crappy tracking. You still get the same sales... but the same affiliates promoting your products Don't. Think about it.
kingbrend - PM me - I'd love to chat with you via IM sometime and show you how things appear from the publisher's perspective in the clickbank admin panel. I'm also able to track all my incoming traffic and affiliate's sales to PPC compaigns and organic traffic, so (just speaking for my product) there haven't been sales by commission theft such as zango. I wonder if this spyware only attacks certain publisher's affiliates and not others.
Patchkaa - I'm trying to get to the answer of this just like you! I think all of us would benefit from getting to the truth so we can take action and fix these problems.
As you can see, some people are having bad sales today, some are having average, and some are having unusually high. Just a hunch, but I think most days will have a similar range of experiences.
I've had some unusually high days for sure. Christmas day and the day after Christmas were both far above my average day for some reason or another.
Usually most people don't talk about the most positive things in our society today. All we do is talk about the negative things and so that is why we only hear about sales being unusually low. If someone says their sales are high than all they will get is a whole bunch of questions. I say you try to sell more to the foreign people that have a better economy than us Americans.
We probably dont see that type of thread because people aren't having high sales days...I'm yet to have one. If I do I'll make sure I post it! Falafelfro every thread you post seems to get the controversy going! lol ttu all later.
I think we do see them, but most of them turn out to be fake or what do you call those threads where people say I just had my first $xxx day? Some are real though
Yeah since I've been here all I've seen is screenshots and "my XXX day" even I get caught in it but I realised its a forum and those things don;t help anyone.
Yesterday was unusually good - two sales. To balance that, no sales today (unusually bad), but I got a lead which will hopefully convert into a sale in two weeks. nadavs
This pay period has just been a blaze for me. I've made more in these past 5 days than I did the past two weeks. It's crazy - I even had my first $200 day the other day.