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Couldn't sleep at all last night, I just had the same old thoughts going round and round my head.

What shall I build next?

What will be a good market to get into early this year?

The same thoughts kept coming like I was on speed and they wouldn't go away.

So about 3am I went and watched a bit of TV with the dog wondering if he'd got his time clock wrong and then went back to bed about 4am and fell straight asleep.

I'm sure this sleep problem is related to having no alcohol. This year I haven't touched the stuff so I'm hoping that after this morning's Gym session I'll sleep like a baby tonight. That's after watching Liverpool progress safely to the fourth round of the FA Cup of course. Liverpool managers that lose this round of the cup have gone on to get the sack very quickly. Souness anyone?

Since giving up the pints of stella the weight has started to drop off. I'm doing a lot more walking now and the days of sitting at a computer all day and getting fatter and fatter are fading fast. That said I might dip into a bottle of the grape juice tonight whilst watching the footie. bad thoughts are circling.

When I finally surfaced this morning I trudged to work in the snow, stopping off at the gym on the way. I really hate the winter and need to make enough money so I can swan off to warmer places when I feel like it. Wouldn't that be nice! Girls in skimpy Tee's and short skirts are much better on the eye than dufflecoats and bobblehats that's for sure.

I'm not going to make the auction today so I'll have to put off getting a car until next week. Once you've done without it for a while you begin to realise how many trips you make that are really unnecessary. It seems strange not having a car on the drive and the neighbours think I'm a wacko but what the heck. When the commissions get big enough I'll splash out on something decent but until then I'll stick with the jalopys.

Speaking of which... YAY! I just got this email:

Hi Tony,

You've just made a commission from SellHealth!

It's not the biggest commission I've ever seen but you know what? This is the first from the new penis enlargement reviews site that I built about a year ago. It doesn't get much traffic at all but I'm thinking that this reviews format is definitely going to work for this market so it's time to start doing some serious link building for this site.

The first commission is always the best and the sweetest because it vindicates everything you've been working towards and gives you encouragement to work harder at it. When it comes it's a very warm feeling.

For beginners in affiliate marketing it can seem like an age until you get your first sale. I'd hazard a guess that it's usually about the six month period into building a new site that it starts to work but most affiliates usually give up way before then.

I've learnt to build a site and then leave it to settle before returning eight or nine months later and polishing it up, adding more articles and generally freshening it up because it's now ready for traffic. Trying to push everything hard, fretting about google rankings and spending ages poring over analytics will not help you. Sites need time to mature.

The best part about getting a first commission is the knowledge that there will be more to follow. How's that then?

The first one is always the hardest. Whatever market you are in or whichever niche you target, getting that first sale is what it is all about. Once you get that then you are off and running.

Once you gain the first sale, all you need to do is to ensure that you maintain the same amount of traffic to your site and the trick will repeat itself.

Once you get three or four sales then you start to get conversion ratio information, which links the sales are coming from and which products are the most popular. From then on everything becomes so much easier because you have real data to work with. It doesn't take a genius to work out that if you make one sale for $13.50 commission from 100 uniques then you need X amount of uniques to be able to work in Spain during the winter.

That's when you know it's time to stop building more sites and switch to building more traffic.

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