About a month ago while sitting in Starbucks enjoying a delicious venti Gingerbread latte, I had another memorable moment involving math - the numbers behind how to make $1000 per month with Internet Marketing. Time will only tell if this moment will find itself in my top 10 of cherished memories.

Ok. Enough of that. Let’s talk numbers.

For this to make any sense, I’m assuming you understand the following:

• Affiliate Marketing
• Clickbank
• Conversion Rate
• Commission
• Sales Page
• Unique Page Views

For starters, let’s say our goal is to increase our income by an additional $1000 per month. Where do we begin?

Let’s begin by breaking our goal down into easier digestible numbers.

To make a $1000 per month, how much do we have to make a day (assume 30 days in a month)? Let’s go to the numbers.

$1000 / 30 days = $33.33 per day.

Ok. We know how much we need to make a day. What are we going to sell that will make us $33.33 per day?

Let’s scroll on over to Clickbank, and find an ebook that we can market and pays a commission of $10 per sale. How many sales do we need to make a day to hit our $33.33 per day target? Back to the numbers.

$33.33 / $10.00 = 3.33 sales per day.

This is where it gets fun, and the real work begins. To make 3.33 sales per day, we need to get prospective buyers to our sales page to consider our offer, and as I’m sure you know that a large percentage of visitors won’t take us up on our offer. Let’s say for example, for every 100 visitors we get 2 to buy our product. Or said another way, 2% of the visitors that see our offer BUYS.

Since we know that our sales page has a conversion rate of 2%, the last number that we need to figure out is “how many unique visitors per day we need to make 3.33 sales?”

Again, back to the numbers.

Quick Algebra refresher

if conversion rate = number of sales / number of unique visitors, then

number of unique visitors = number of sales / conversion rate

3.33 (number of sales per day) / 0.02 (conversion rate) = 166.5 (number of unique visitors per day)

So to wrap it all up, our plan to make a $1000 per month looks like this:

Drive 166.5 unique visitors per day to a sales page that converts at 2%. This will result in 3.33 sales per day of a product that pays $10 per sale for a daily total of $33.33 per day or $1000 per month.

Simple right? The numbers don’t lie. Trust me. I’m a numbers guy.

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