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Wohoo! I made my first Clickbank sale - overnight, too, just the way I like it! Now, $18.33 is nothing to brag about, but it proves that bum marketing has worked for me - and it can work for you, if you try.

It took me less than a week to make this sale (my first article on the subject in question was published with EZA on March 28). All in all, it came a bit faster than I expected, which also shows just how badly my income is being affected by the EZA delay in upgrading me to Platinum status.

How Did I Do It?

1. I have submitted a total of 5 articles to EZA, GoArticles and ArticleDashboard. All articles were optimized for a specific long-tail keyphrase and currently rank as the first result on Google for it.
2. I used a number of tricks that I got from Andrew Hansen’s “Niche Marketing on Crack” - I did not follow his method step-by-step, but some of the hints he provided were extremely useful. On this note, let me add that “Niche Marketing on Crack” is a great manual, especially if you have never done bum marketing before (and even if you have, it still has a few good techniques you can use to optimize sales and increase conversions).
3. All keyword research was done using the free Wordtracker tool and Niche Detector (which is another great tool released by a fellow WF member).
4. The keyphrase I targeted received approximately 21 daily searches in Wordtracker, which isn’t all that much. As I said, I already have a list of other keyphrases I’m going to target, but that’s conditional upon the upgrade of my EZA account to Platinum.
5. All articles that I submitted redirected readers to a Blogspot review page of the product I was selling. With no domain hosting, this method hasn’t cost me a dime, so I literally made money out of thin air.

In short, I’m very happy and am going to follow - as well as tweak - the checklist above for optimal results. Feel free to follow along, and maybe I’ll get to $500/month residual income yet!