What Is Your Greatest Internet Marketing Moment?

This thread is to talk about that one thing you have accomplished online that made you go gaga! It could be a feat of strength or something you were working on and then you later finished and went wow I did it!

So I am gonna kick this off. While I've have had a few of these gaga moments like when I made my first affiliate sale to when I sold my first website heck I still get excited when I sell a website .

None of this will ever come close to when I managed to crack page one for a lot seo related keywords across all google sites. I am talking seo consultant and all variants, seo expert and all variants seo consultancy, local seo expert, infact I was ranking for too many keywords I had to take my website offline. For a one man team it was terrible! I was getting phone calls literally every hour and emails were non stopping! I get emails and calls from languages other than english. I remembered a french journalist calling me and I do not speak french apart from merci.
At the time, I was offering free seo audit and that almost killed me! My gf was responsible for helping me keep my sanity as I was going to lose it and in the end I had to shut down the site. I was naive and inexperienced back then, what I should have was contact one the UK's leading SEO agency and sell off the space and leads to them (I still have my leads though lol) I am sure they have the resources to handle over 50 calls a day and they would have paid me handsomely for it

That's my greatest IM moment, what's yours?

 

Mine was when I made my first sale on ebay lol. I bought some cheap iphone accessories from china and was able to quadruple my initial investment WONGA!

 

I think it was back in 2011 when I was working for this startup BPO firm. We simply employed basic SEO strategies. From page 51, we rose to page 3 and page 2 for various keywords in around 4 months' time. We only adopted a pyramid framework and that's about it.

 

I would have to say that when i was a brand new Affiliate Marketer in Top Tier Direct Sales, the CEO pulled me out on a webinar and critiqued my blog. It was totally nerve-wracking but gave me a great sense of pride to be able to have an audience studying my work ... which was given a huge thumbs up with a couple of minor pointers.

 

OMG I would have crumbled! I am so crowd shy lol

 

Not one moment, but every time I can start a new relationship and have a conversation with my customers on Twitter that goes past the one response I feel it's a win! In one position I formed one of those relationships that led to a very large monthly contract for our business and when he was in town was even able to meet up for lunch! Whenever you can turn those online into personal, I think that's a huge accomplishment.

 

My first sale was with Clickbank, but I didn't get any of it because if you don't make any sales for a while Clickbank will reduce the money until it's at $0. I guess my first AdSense check was pretty exciting. I think it was about $150.

 

Oh sugar! I lost some money to with clickbank lol, is that still going on though? do they still deduct a percentage of your balance every month when you do not make a sale?

 

Yeah, they do. You need to have 5 sales, from 5 different forms of payment, I believe. So if 5 people bought from you using PayPal, then you won't get paid. They need to be from different payment methods, like Visa, Paypal, etc. I'm being paid regularly now, but it's a real pain for newbies.

 

I'm glad I don't push anything from clickbank anymore.

 

They're good, actually, I've been paid by them several times, it's just that the thing of having to have 5 sales from 5 different payment methods that sucks. I like the fact that they pay every two weeks, instead of every month, or even, every two months, like some of the other networks.

 

My greatest moment was when I made the first page on google for a certain keyphrase on a old site I used to promote. I've found a great company now and I will be sticking them.

 

Ha, you just reminded me of the first time that I indexed a site in Google. I was a total noob and had no idea what I was doing, I wasn't on any Internet Marketing forums, didn't know that they existed, I was just picking up bits and pieces here and there. I remember it being New Years Eve, and I was on my way out to my brother's place, I put the domain name in Google and found it for the first time.

 

I once was able to get a lot of viewers for my blog and to see it start from zero to that point really was very fulfilling to me. After a few months of just putting up articles and sharing it on my social media accounts, I finally got one that appealed to a lot of people enough that many people started visiting. Not that many stayed, though, unfortunately. but it was still very satisfying to see that cause and effect.

 

My greatest internet marketing moment was when my first video went viral. I worked my butt off for a week straight making posts on forums about my video, optimizing tags and description and I spent so long editing it that I was so amazed when it reached 400k views in a short amount of time. Today has something like 5 million views.

 

I'm thinking yet!

 

I have not had a major success with internet marketing since I have no experience marketing online in general. I do not have the resources yet to start marketing a product or service online. I think that it is hard to be a marketer online since you have to understand how SEO Marketing works. I have yet to create a website that would be appealing enough for any market. I am still trying to figure out what to do with my blog that I have to get it accepted for the Google Adsense since it got rejected.

 

My greatest moments were getting 7 referrals on my postloop account and selling my old computers for parts online.