Weird Sales Fluctuations

I understand what you are saying, but do you think sales can be affected THAT MUCH just because of certain events? (elections, holidays, etc)

I mean, it would be normal to get few blank days or a big drop in sales during those periods, but for some people (including me) it has been like that for long time....Like a week or more, after getting stable daily sales..

 

of course they can. it's common sense that when people are distracted from being online by whatever it is you are getting less traffic = less sales. most people forget that they are not only competing against other websites online, but there's also indirect competition or 'substitutes' as they call it in offline marketing. you may not think about it but, for example, a new blockbuster that comes out is a competitor for you if you are promoting movie downloads, as some of your traffic will be going to the cinema. so a huge drop in traffic for a day or two may have a genuine reason behind it, even though you might think that it should increase your traffic by people searching for this movie downloads. it will, but later. does that make sense? so, most short-term fluctuations usually have genuine reasons behind them.

but it doesn't explain how some people can go form 100s to 0 overnight and stay at 0 for weeks while maintaining SAME amount of TARGETED traffic, which most people report here.

 

Yes thats it, its normal that traffic gets less when certain events happen, and its also kind of normal that sales decrease when certain events happen.

BUT its not normal to have a product that convers at 30hops (And you sold hundreds of products at this rate) and then it gets to 1000hops per sale for just 2 weeks - and then its back to the 30hops again!

While we can "close an eye" for such events, it happen way too often lately - then you add some emails from customers complaining that cannot buy with their "perfectly valid" credit cards and you got where the damn problem is.

The payment processor of clickbank screw sometimes. It is commonly known that their payment processor rejects a lot of perfectly valid transactions - sometimes it rejects all transaction for a period of times as a security measure.

 

That's exactly what I'm talking about....And I'm one of those people who went to 0 overnight....

 

Tell us what you were selling, show us your pages, and maybe we can help find the answer.

 

Everything has remained the same during the "strange period"......So basically same product, same landing page, same traffic.....but 0 conversions....

I'm sure it has nothing to do with my stuff.

 

It happens. I had a landing page converting great for a month, then all of a sudden sales dropped almost to nothing. I looked at my analytics, tweaked it, and got it converting again. Try a completely new landing page and content.

 

Girrrrrrrrrrrr same here

 

My sales look very similar. It's remembrance day remember

 

last two days now have been a tad horrible.

 

The economy right now has really cut sales across the board.

I think things will turn around pretty quickly though.

I really believe that 2009 is going to be a record-setting year for online sales.

Keep the faith!

Regards,

Tony

 

Is it PPC or organic traffic?

 

PPC sending %50 more traffic last 3 days
Fri Nov 14 $130.52
Thu Nov 13 $582.69
Wed Nov 12 $590.49
Tue Nov 11 $584.21
Mon Nov 10 $946.36
Sun Nov 09 $1,018.44
Sat Nov 08 $1,347.64
Fri Nov 07 $1,139.35

 

Doing PPC when Clickbank's having problems is just madness.....I hope you haven't lost much.

 

How does clickbank hide the income made from stealing affiliates' income? I mean for every $1k clickbank earns, it should give away atleast $10k. Am i right? doesnt it fear that someone will analyse its earnings and come to know its cheating?

 

I was making few sales a day for many days at clickbank. But there isnt a single sale for the past 3 days. My tracking system doesnt conform that and i am getting a little more traffic actually.
Guys, Regnow is a clickbank like network dealing in digital goods and it has tons of products. Think of it when you launch a product next time. We all know about paydotcom.
The clickbank owner may have sent tens of millions of dollars of money "stolen" from you into his account at a tax haven like the Isle of MaN or cayman.

 

It gives it all to fronts like other fairy tales such as the Easter Bunny Leprechauns Santa Claus Little Bo Peep Alice in Wonderland...

Where did you come up with make 1k, give away 10K??? Sounds like a formula for bankruptcy....

Where did you come up with Clickbank steals??? Wouldn't their accounts shy away from such practices?

What does the bank tell the IRS?? Ohh Clickbank doesn't earn any money so don't mind them.....

These are tough economic times all over ....its not just people selling Clickbank products having a slow down....Guaranteed!!!!

Wrong products at the wrong time typically = no sales....

 

You didnt understand. Was there a lot of smoke while reading the post? are you smoking a lot of packs while refreshing your clickbank page?

Regarding this, I mean for a $50 sale, the affiliate gets around $34 (for 75% commission) and the publisher gets most of the rest.
Thats why clickbank gives away atleast 10 times of what it earns. Understood now?

 

No smoke here.....I thought you were speaking of Clickbanks revenues being given away.

Clickbank revenues are whats left after all affiliates and expenses are paid so giving away 10k for every 1k of revenue is not going to work lol...

But I seriously think the issue is not limited to just clickbank...sales are down all over...

take a walk in a shopping area and check out all the sales....seen nothing like it before this close to the holidays

 

Another way to think about it is that clickbank gets 10k for every 1k of sales - because of tracking problems, payment processor problems, downtime, negligence, etc ...