I remember my first sale: Rich Jerk I even bought the Rich Jerk e-book and started doing Adsense Arbitrage - I started sending cheap 2 cent click traffic from Searchfeed.com to my Adsense page for Debt Consolidation. I made $650 before Google terminated my Adsense account, saying I "posed a significant risk" to their advertisers. I was too naive to realize that Searchfeed was involved in click fraud, and submitted my appeal to Google - to no avail. I've grown a lot since then.
Nice to read everyone's experiences. My first sale co-incided with my first date - with a lovely lady that would go on to be my wife I remember it well - a $19 sale of an ebook on real estate auctions that I wrote myself (via CB)