Order withdrawal

December 20th, 2007 by Kenric

It has been 51 hours and 12 minutes since my last order.  How can I go so long without an order?  What’s going on?  The streak of 22 day straight days with an order was broken on Tuesday.  But now it’s been over 2 days and I’m in a selling slump.  The traffic for the site has remained constant.  I’ve gone over 250 visitors without a conversion.

I always feel like I’ve wasted money when I don’t make a sale.  I spent $8.50 and $15.00 on Adwords on Tuesday and Wednesday.  I would like to at least break even everyday with the first sale covering my advertising costs.

I do a test daily now to make sure my site’s checkout and login process is working ok.  I charge my credit card for $1.00 and then I void it.  I’m not sure if I should be doing this daily and I wonder how the other ebusinesses test their own websites.  I can’t switch the site over to test mode during my test.  I’ll have to do some research to see how other people handle their production testing.



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