500 Unique Visitors - No Sales Yet

[greenhat]

I make quite a bit of money every day in adsense and affiliate commissions.

I'm not quitting, I'm just going back to the drawing board for the site and while I'm doing that I'm gonna do something that makes the site money

A considerable loss how?

And, loss or not, you're not going to learn anything of value re. visitors' responses in a mere 2 days.

[deepsand]

The fact remains that

you're not going to learn anything of value re. visitors' responses in a mere 2 days.

Expecting to switch from an MFA site to an e-commerce site that is profitable out of the gate is most unrealistic.

If the cited revenues are of such great import that they cannot be foregone without being offset by other new revenues, then you'll need to test the e-commerce site separate from and concurrent with the extant MFA one.

[chadhaajay]

To me, it seems like a promotion of BigCommerce platform, nothing else.

[keyon]

Has it completely escaped view to all but a very few that 1 day does not a trend make?

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but is the number of days a business has been open the real issue here? If we're trying to predict future success by talking about conversion rates, then it really doesn't make any difference if we're looking at visitors that come in the next five minutes -- or the next five months. A conversion rate is a conversion rate. Sure, you'll need enough visitors to provide a statistically relevant sample size. However, I think 500-1000 visitors is a pretty decent sample. I know some people use Adwords just for this purpose -- to quickly see what the conversion rate might be for a given product/market. If they can get 500 visitors in one day, the test is over.

[claybutler]

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but is the number of days a business has been open the real issue here? If we're trying to predict future success by talking about conversion rates, then it really doesn't make any difference if we're looking at visitors that come in the next five minutes -- or the next five months. A conversion rate is a conversion rate. Sure, you'll need enough visitors to provide a statistically relevant sample size. However, I think 500-1000 visitors is a pretty decent sample. I know some people use Adwords just for this purpose -- to quickly see what the conversion rate might be for a given product/market. If they can get 500 visitors in one day, the test is over.

I would generally agree with this but I think this case is somewhat different because he went from one type of site to another. Obviously the visitors that come the first day are different than the visitors that would come later. Like if I had a donut shop that had 200 customers a day and the suddenly changed to selling hotdogs my conversion rate would be close to zero. However, once hotdog lovers found out the donut place sells hotdogs that conversion rate would go way up. Not saying this is exactly what's happening here but switching format but relying on the same traffic sources could skew the results.

[keyon]

IMO there is not reason to worry as only 1 or 2 % of the total visitors are mostly converted in to sales

Since the OP is talking about 1000 visitors so far, according to your conversion figures he/she should have 10-20 sales by now. I don't think that is happening.