I have a new site that is getting about 6K uniques a month (real, not bought traffic). I am trying affiliate marketing and have a question. When do you decide that a certain program isn't converting and try another. For example: Netflix got zero clicks - lets try Blockbuster This may be too general a question now that I wrote it out and thought about it but I have a sales background. In sales an average salesperson can expect to sell 1 out of every 10 people seen. (At least in the fields I worked in) I was wondering if the same could be applied to clicks. Can you expect 1000 uniques to produce "X" amount of clicks and in turn "X" amount of conversions and then compare what is working and what isn't?
Clicks take a lot more per sale. If you have a few thousand clicks on a link you would expect atleast one sale. Some sites are hard to make sales while others seem easy. You have to try programs and drop ones that do not make any money after so many months or so much traffic. If i had program that has over 10,000 clicks and not one sale i drop it from site. That is more than enough traffic to get atleast one sale. You must make sure to have programs that are same topic for your site. If you have movies netflix and blockbuster are fine. If you have fishing site they would not make many sales. I think services like blockbuster and netflix are harder sales. Try shoping site for movie sell dvds.
Thanks for reply...just using netflixs as an example but appreciate the numbers...10,000 clicks...I was thinking a lot less so maybe I should plan on sticking it out a little longer with each one.
In my experience over a few different categories if you have good quality visitors and the affilate program relates to your site you should generate a sale every 50 - 200 clicks and a lead every 10-25 clicks.