Don't forget there is a huge different between sales fluctuations for publishers and affiliates. For publishers, 1st day = $1k, then 2nd = $500 is nothing special, but for an affiliate account that would be a problem.
I'm telling ya, something is weird. I personally don't get how I can go to a sale or two almost daily to zero sales for 9 days now. I'm sending the same amount of traffic that I always do, and it always converts. Like I said, I'm just not going to invest any time into it this week. I'm officially starting to feel like I'm investing way more time and earning nothing close to what I should be.
Get this - I literally sent them an e-mail about an hour ago to check on my account. I also told them I've already done the mumbo-jumbo stuff they would tell me to do (such as checked my links, checked to see if my aff id is on the bottom of the checkout page, etc). Now, today was completely at $0.00 BEFORE I sent this e-mail. Check out what happened nearly an after I sent this e-mail out: 2 sales came through, back to back, both at 9:36am (Clickbank time) from two different people. And they were for products that I don't even promote that often, if at all. If that doesn't raise an eyebrow, then I dunno what does...
Yes - 2 of them just popped up at the same exact time, literally. It was about an hour after sending out this e-mail. One of the sales didn't even have a hop. So, either they just added this one in, or the sale came from a previous visitor who forgot to clear their cookies.
wow..what are the chances that 2 different persons buy the same product from the same affiliate in the same second???? This is at least weird..did you ask them how is this possible?
I'm definately not doing ppc+clickbank for a while. there is just no way this is right, and it costs me money, I spent over $100 today for this! How can you go from many sales, increase traffic and exposure, and get 0 sales!? no way..
It's US election week. I think this week could be pretty bad for most of us. One of my top niches has dried up completely over the past couple days with 50% more traffic. The election is the only explanation I can think of
I think the election though is just an excuse that many of us are making up to cover for what's really going on. Unless you're out there running polls or working for the campaigns, the only other thing that takes up some times is waiting in line to vote, which most can't do until tomorrow anyway. While many people are experiencing what I am, other people are getting consistent sales. I mean, I guess it could go back to the "depending on what niche your in" reasoning too, but I don't think the election is the single cause for people to completely stop buying things. Just my 2 pennies....
I hope that's the case, but immediate sales that people get after sending complaint emails to Clickbank is something strange.
No, I think the elections are influencing it cos if they're waiting for votes they are not on the computers.
Keep in mind a lot of people might just be on the fence waiting. They know the economy is struggling, Bush had no intentions to fix it on his way out, so they might just be waiting to see who wins, and then what their course of action is. Because right now the way it stands, USA has no leader, no one telling them what the plan is. Until the election is over and the dust is settled, sales are going to be all over the place. Don't just think its the US either, people all around the world are following this as well as it affects everyone.
I have seen daily selling ebooks turn to non sellers overnight. You can never be too comfortable in this internet business.
A lot of bussinesses are freaking out and accelerating plans for selling assets etc. Because Obama will raise the capital gainsd tax if elected.
how about this, what if publishers can go in to there product setup, and change affiliate commission to 0% every now and then, you'd never know about it as when a sale takes place a transaction with a 0.00 commission is not going to show up in transaction history!!! ummm
That's a good point, the affiliate % making sales would be effected. Besides, merchants would have to have rocks in their heads to want to screw their affiliates.