Last month was my best month yet. Unfortunately this month so far has been absolutely pathetic. Last month, I averaged over a sale per day on clickbank. This month? Nothing since jan 31. Same with ebay. I kicked ass last month. My best month ever for ebay in fact. This month my earnings are approximately 1/10th of what they were last month and my epc is the equivalent of george bush's approval rating when he left office. The only thing good, and i say good in a relative way, is that adsense has picked up a little for me. More people clicking ads. Bah. I knew the effects of the recession were coming, i just kept holding out hope that it wouldn't touch me. Anyone else starting to feel the effects of the economy, or am i just having a crappy month?
Assuming you've been doing the same amount of marketing, this probably has more to do with Clickbank than the economy.
I agree with DLM, It sounds more like something is either going on with CB, or more likely your traffic source has died somehow.
I'm a CPA so I see a lot of small business financial information... I think it's really easy to over-react to the economy. Now don't misunderstand. I think this is basically a once in a century type event. But if you look at the way these things play it, yeah, it's bad. But for businesses really in a general way. Here's a link to an article in the economist that gives you some quantification on how bad things typically get after a financial crisis... note that on average the economy shrinks by about 9%... http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12887385 Obviously, if the average is 9%, some people are below that and some above... but unless you're in homebuilding, banking or something like that, it sure seems like you should not be WAY below that.