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I’m so excited to tell you that I’ve made my first ever Amazon affiliate commission. And I’m gonna tell you all about it in this video. Okay, YouTube. I’m very excited about this. So I came home from work the other day. I work quite late and I came home about 11 o’clock at night, feeling quite tired, and I just checked my emails, and checked a few things on the computer.
And I saw that I made an Amazon commission and I spent the rest of the night just going. Yes. Yes. I can’t describe that feeling. That first sale. Now I have made money online before I’ve made money through providing services. I’ve also made money from click bank, but this is just the same feeling when you make that first sale and that project that you’ve been working on for so long.
Ah, you really can’t have that feeling. It’s amazing. So I just want to give you a little bit of an update and a little bit of information about what it took to do that. Okay. First thing is I’ve been a bit worried cuz I’ve made a few of these videos. I’ve been talking about my progress in Project 24.
If you’re not aware, then I am a current student of Project 24, which is a wonderful program. I can say that was set up by Jim hammer and Ricky few Tesla over income, school.com. And it’s a way of building a passive income, which is very different to anything I’ve. The internet before is very different from the other gurus that you might have heard about.
So I’ve been following this system and I’ve been doing that for about five months now. I’ve been a bit worried, cuz yeah. I’ve been making these videos about my progress and in the back of my head, I’ve been like Phil. You haven’t made any sales yet. People are gonna think you’re just talking a big talk and nothing actually happens.
So I’m very happy because this is clear evidence that it works and not only. Make an Amazon commission. I made a commission on a product that I recommended. So clearly someone had a need, they went to Google, they found my page, they read my recommendation, they read my post and they went on and they actually bought the product that I recommended.
If that’s not proof that this works, I dunno. What else? Yeah, I’m really happy to say that for me, this is the beginning of something quite special, because don’t forget if you can make one sale, you can make a second sale. You can make that second sale. You can make a third, then a fourth and so on.
And it just builds like that. Yeah, I’m very excited and I think you should be excited as well because you could do exactly the same thing. Okay. So a little bit of detail about this. Now another funny thing about this affiliate commission is it really encompasses that idea of passive income.
So I’m filming this on the 7th of November 2019 in case you’re watching this in about a year or so. So it’s the seventh today. And that commission came through on the third. Now the 3rd of November is a Sunday. And if you’ve watched any of my videos before you know that I never work on Sundays, I’m normally doing other things.
So last weekend my wife and I went to a part of Taiwan where I’m based. It’s on the east coast, it’s called WK. And we went there to actually run in a half marathon on Saturday. My wife is obsessed with signing up to these. These runs, she loves to free gifts that you get, but she doesn’t seem to realize she has.
She pays for the free gifts anyway. So we did a half marathon on Saturday and decided to stay overnight. A very beautiful place. And on Sunday, I was literally sitting on a beach. It was a beautiful day. The weather here in Taiwan in November can be really nice and really hot. So if you’re looking for an interesting holiday destination, come to Taiwan so we’re sitting on a beach and we are looking for pebbles and stones on the beach.
We’re actually gonna use them on our wedding tables. We have a wedding coming up uh, in April and literally on a beach when some guy or girl went onto my website and bought something and I got a commission that is passive income. I dunno care who you are that is as passive as it gets.
It’s a dream. Yeah, it does work in that sense, but I will talk about the fact that it wasn’t that passive later on in the video. The other thing is that you might be thinking Phil, anyone can make an affiliate commission. All you have to do is just fill your website full of all these Amazon kinds of links and these pitches and these kinds of.
And native shopping ads and things like that. My website has none of that. Okay. I only use the text links if you go over to income, school.com. So I go over to Jim and Ricky’s website and you can see a list of their actual niche websites. Just look through them. You will not see any of those kinds of ads anywhere.
You just see. Amazon text links. That’s exactly what I use. And so it is not like I’ve built this Amazon focused website. It’s just one very small part of what I’m doing, but it seems like it worked. So another thing that I should talk about is how much I made. Drum roll, please. I made a walking, Amazon affiliate commission of.
$4 and 5 cents. Yeah. So this is why this video is not called pizza date. Pizza day is what we say in Project 24 is when your website makes $5. So I’m a little bit shy of pizza dates, but still, I think it’s something to get excited about. So I only made $4 and 5 cents. It’s not gonna break the bank.
It’s not gonna change my life. But as I said, I see that as the beginning of something quiet. How much work did it take to make that $4? So let me just go through a bit of information about my site. So I started the site back in May. I’m on day 171 today. So started that back in may.
I’ve currently got 61 articles on the website. If you’ve been watching any of my other videos in recent weeks. See that number hasn’t moved through much, but I’m also working on launching four other Projects 24 star websites. I released a video last week that spoke about that. So if you’re interested to find out why I’m doing that, check out that video.
And I’m also at the moment hiring writers to write the content for those websites. And I’m gonna release a video on that next week because I’m gonna do it in a very different way. So if you want to find out how to hire writers, Using things like Upwork or pro bloggers, things like that. Check out the video that comes out next week.
So I’ve got 61 articles on this website. I’ve also got a YouTube channel with 13 videos, but I need to fix that. It’s not working that well, I’ve only got six subscribers, so I need to put a bit more effort into that. So calculating this based on how long Jim and Ricky say each of these types of posts would.
Let me just check my notes. I’ve got 12 pillar posts, 15 staple posts and 34 response posts in my niche. It seemed that would be the right approach to take. So for each of those, plus the 13 videos I’m in for about 250 hours of work based on Project 24 sort of standards, possibly I’ve done that slightly quicker, cuz I’ve got a background in writing.
So possibly it’s less than 250, but let’s use that as a sort of a calculation of 250 hours of work. So my $4 and 5 cents commission that would give me a 0.02 cent rate. So I made a cent an hour and it’s probably about 0.9% of the money I paid in order to join the project. So not big money, but I’ve not paid any other money into this website.
I haven’t outsourced any content. I’ve made most of my own photos because I’ve been taking photos. So I haven’t poured too much money into this website. So all of that you could say it’s profitable almost. So that’s how much I’ve actually earned per hour. Let’s also talk about the actual source.
Commission. So I went through my Google analytics and I checked out the actual product, cuz I can see the product that the person bought on Amazon. So I went through and checked where I’d recommended the product in two places. And one of the posts is actually my second highest rating post at the moment.
So that post is a response post. It has about 2009 words. Posted that on the 5th of September. So if my math is right, that’s about two months ago cuz it’s the seventh from November now. So it’s been up for about two months and at the moment if I look back to the last seven days, I got 20 page views on that particular post.
So I think that’s quite good. It’s a fairly young post and it’s already bringing in commissions. So hopefully it’s gonna carry on doing that. So yeah, it’s just a bit of an update. I was quite excited about this. I thought maybe you’d be a little bit excited about it because it shows that this system does work.
It’s not just two guys and a third guy on YouTube saying, Hey, do this and you can earn loads of money overnight. It takes a long time. I’ve done a lot of the groundwork. I’ve put in a lot of hours, but from here, it’s gonna take off. I’m sure it’s gonna take off. It’s gonna take off, it’s gonna take off. If you’re on the fence about this, is it worth my time?
I would say definitely put in the effort, but be aware that although we’re talking about passive income, it’s not passive. When you start the process, you’ve gotta put in a lot of hard work. but that hard work will pay off. So if you are interested in finding out more about my progress, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel, click the notification be, and you’ll get notified about the videos that I’m gonna.
Now. I’m gonna put on a lot of videos because I’m getting really excited about this, cuz I’m seeing some progress. If you’ve got any questions, leave me a comment, what do you think you would do at this moment? Life. If you got the first commission ever in your life, how would you feel? Leave me a comment, tell me how you would feel.
And if you wanna join me, if you wanna become a Project 24 member use my link, I would really appreciate that. And you can come and contact me in the community and we can talk about any ideas that you have. So thanks very much for watching. Yeah. And I’ll see you next.