A Small Success, Some Setbacks

Okay the self-doubt is kicking in as I see the daily doom and gloom out there. However, one of my ideas has shown a little bit of success. I started posting daily guitar lessons and provide a link to a related Amazon book/DVD. I’ve started to see a bit of success as I got 2 immediate sales of those specific products yesterday. And if I get one more sale, my commission will go from 4% to 6%.

Other things Amazon offers is mp3 sales and putting links in videos. So I’ve added some product links right in my video (that talks about the guitar product) and a few cds/mp3s that are my current favorites. Some of the guitar products are bigger ticket items providing larger commissions. I will have to get a lot more traffic to get the numbers I was hoping for.

No luck on the Overnight Membership site or Continuity Blueprint although I haven’t done much to market it yet. Those bigger ticket items would provide much more revenue than the Amazon sales. But the Amazon sales have actually occurred which is a crucial point to note.

One of my members asked for a refund of his annual membership on my guitar coaching site – ouch that hurt!

I just saw on the news that because of the 2010 Winter Olympics games being held in Vancouver, BC, there are a ton of jobs there in various industries – trades, public relations, etc. So it’s not all bad news! I prefer to think of the positive – will all the layoffs, maybe some of those people will try to get an online business going!