Black Friday earnings: How did everyone do?

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by SEO4hire, Nov 27, 2010.

  1. #1
    My Black Friday was decent, but unfortunately I did not reach my goals, which was to sell at least $1000 worth of merchandise and/or make at least $100 in commission. I sold a little under $700, and made a little over $50. I was on target to get a lot more traffic (and sales) a couple of weeks ago, but Google slapped several of my sites with the thin affiliate penalty, leaving me with only 3 sites that pulled decent traffic and generated sales. Looks like I will be adding content to current and future sites from this point on...

    So...how was your Black Friday? Did you reach your goals?
     
    SEO4hire, Nov 27, 2010 IP
  2. Ntech25

    Ntech25 Active Member

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    I was very happy with my amazon stats. A lot of my new sites started making sales my blackfriday wasn't as high as I would have liked it to be but the past 2 weeks have made up for that. All my amazon sites I add a lot of content and try to add content for all categories etc.. one of my other sites I have www.watergardenparts.com this one is old domain but just recently upgraded amazon script and I have seen traffic increasing. Do you mind sharing some of your sites =) Some links I share and some of my sites i keep secret like everyone else but most important thing in making money with amazon is to get a script that gives you control of your store and make it easy to add content.
     
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  3. SEO4hire

    SEO4hire Active Member

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    Glad to hear that you made good money. Mind sharing some figures? Can't speak for everyone, but when I see how much people are making, it serves as a good motivator for me. Unfortunately, I just recently starting learning about the "thin affiliate" penalty, and Google decided to speed up my education. About a month ago I had 6 of my 10 Amazon sites in the top 10; now, I only have 3 up there, and they seem to fade in and out of the top 10.

    For the record, I recently bought the Fresh Store Builder script, and am in the process of building my first site using that product. It is far from done, but you can see it HERE. I have 10 other sites that revolve around Amazon; Like most people, I do not want to list all of them, but here is one of them that ranks well for television reviews. If you have any recommendations, feel free to throw a few out there.
     
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  4. Ntech25

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    Nice start to your fresh store builder script. I recommend add good amount of content and that fsb script has a service section I purchased my site designs and content from their site. I got my work done very fast and looks very good the work. Content is also good. I have a few other sites can't share but they are doing very well with amazon and its cause of this script. I really recommend it for anyone that wants to give amazon a try. I got link in my signature and if anyone needs any more information i think me and seo4hire can help out.

     
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    Black Friday 2010 have made new record for me, much better than the ones before. In most sites, sales were more than 160% higher than normal day.
     
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    SEO4hire Active Member

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    Good to hear. Care to share some actual figures? How much did you do in sales and commissions?
     
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    virtualwebmarket Active Member

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    Amazon have made for us $2294 in average during 2010, Black Friday have made over $3800. Neverblue makes around $11,000 monthly and in BF have made Almost $16,000 - most of the leads came from FB promotions of course. Same numbers with the new KeywordResearchTools.net service just promoted offline.

    Working to have even higher BF 2011 :)
     
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  8. SEO4hire

    SEO4hire Active Member

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    Sweet...congratulations! Let me know when your e-book goes on sale :) My first goal is to do $1000 a month, but I would love to where you are at a year from now. Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to make decent money with my Neverblue account or from FB. If you know of a good resource for making money on FB, please throw me a bone.
     
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    That $2294 are monthly or whole year ? And $3800 are one day sales for BF this year ?
     
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    Numbers are monthly, Nov ( with Black Friday inside ) shows great addition for this month, up to 3.8K
     
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  11. AllGoNShow

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    Wow some great money you are making monthly, with lots of potential by the looks of it :) Keep it up! Got any tips for us new guys?
     
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    I didn't reach my goal, but that's not too bad :D
    Some electronic products was sold through my affiliate links. I hope more on Cyber Monday
     
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    I didn't set any goals for the Black Friday, but was able to shift 3 new video games and a couple other stuff. In all, I made a fairly decent amount. I will now push a few products for Cyber Monday and see if I can hit it.
     
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    I myself in waiting on Cyber Monday earning report
    I found there are not too many traffic but i hope the visitor do multiorder :D
     
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    SEO4hire Active Member

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    Yeah...still waiting for Amazon to update reports for yesterday as well. My traffic was lower than Black Friday, so I guess we will see what happens.
     
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    I won't go in details here but my blackfriday earnings were a little over $150 (pure profit) through various means (WH+BH) :)
     
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    Yea past few days amazon has really been slacking on the update. Its 4pm almost and still not update stats for today. Usually they update 6 to 8am
     
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    Just as I posted the msg above amazon updates its stats and yay got a few sales.. The wait was worth it hah but amazon needs to step it up and maybe update stat every couple of hours.
     
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    I've only been doing affiliate marketing for a month but I did get one sale (my third so far) on black friday. I expect the next black friday to be much better ;)
     
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  20. SEO4hire

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    @Ntech25: yeah...I wish they would come up with some real time reporting like most of the other programs offer. I know it is impatient of me, but in today's world of instant gratification, I have become spoiled and want to be able to check it whenever I want.

    Sarim: Nice earnings. If you don't mind, please share some of the techniques that you use to make money. Same goes for anyone else that doesn't mind offering some tips to increase earnings...
     
    SEO4hire, Nov 30, 2010 IP