Your first ever payday with affiliate marketing.

[-Matt-]

My first affiliate paycheck was from 2008 - $100, the threshold for adsense (took 3 months to get there, like a boss).

Bought some weed - I remember it being really good weed.

My first internet payday would have been a couple years before that though, when I sold my first website. It was a photo hosting website I sold for $2k. I cannot explain in words how good the weed I smoked that week was.

 

[SUP3RNOVA]

Sold a shitty web directory for $3k. Put all of it into YSM selling ringtonez.

 

[microphone head]

Earn monies? I thought the internets was about producing high quality unique content for people to use and be delivered in the best possible way!

Now I'm annoyed... :<

 

[BrandontheGreat]

Crying @ these responses to the poor OP.

 

[kryaa]

Sold a shitty web directory for $3k. Put all of it into YSM selling ringtonez.

Should have sold my shitty web directory. But then, even the guys at dp thought it sucked.

 

[davidlee]

haha back in 1998 i was waiting for my check for around $500 and got banned for spamming lol

 

[Da Capo]

First check was from Clickbank in 2008 for selling some shitty antivirus software. Took me several weeks to finally cross the threshold.

 

[Adevictus]

Pushed product serial generation software that my buddy dev'd
Did $2k in sales in the first week and got to keep $1200 of it
Was a pretty big deal because I had never had more than $250 to my name prior to that

Eventually ended up pretending to be some guru fag in the same niche and was selling 400 word ebooks for $500 a pop

 

[kumansk]

I don't remember my first payment but I do remember my first big money day. I had been running a PPC campaign for a rebill offer on Yahoo for a couple of weeks and every day I'd end up breaking even, losing a few bucks or making a few bucks. Then after yet another round of bid adjustments I think I finished the day up about $50 and thought OK, I might be making progress.

Next day I finished up over $500 and that's when I finally believed 100% that I could earn a living doing affiliate marketing. For me it never mattered if I could make a few hundred bucks spending money, I wanted to earn more than I would at a real job before I would take it seriously. $500 profit in one day showed me all I needed to see.

That's the best thing that can happen to a newbie marketer. I have a similar experience, this one day I put out my own product, went to sleep and woke up to $400. Looking back it might seem like nothing but that's the actual breakthrough moment when you realize as a marketer.. you bout that life.

 

[medway]

Made a very crap Adsense site back in 2008 but wasn't until almost 2010 that I crossed the threshold after reading some guru course on it. Around the same time was doing some CB so can't remember which one paid me first.

 

[Tomhe]

Made my first cents with adsense a year ago, and cb 33$ 2 weeks ago. Reinvested in a new site, and another new site.

So by the end of this year i should be on my way to be an IM.

I also make money offline, from my webtraffic.

But i just started with all of this, this year and have made a living so far. But nothing more.

Great link loved reading the posts

 

[BrandonSI]

My very first check was from Cash Crate where I filled out surveys for internet monies.

My second was from an actual Affiliate Network and was $300 something made during my first active week of affiliate marketing.

I was stoked, couldn't believe you could make money at home. I love that it is performance based, I dont feel like im trading hours for money; it feels more like trading work for money.