Affiliate Odyssey

So the first experiment’s over.
This low risk, low cost trial has taught me shedloads about AdWords and PPC and I’m raring to go on the next one.
I think I did really well with AdWords CTR which stood at 15.86% over the whole trial with 3,485 impressions and 553 clicks.
The site pushed clicks to 2 merchants [...]

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I had one of those duh moments over the weekend.
Reading the Sunday papers, a small item caught my eye.
Sales of men’s patent leather shoes have soared and it’s mostly down to the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
This was sooo… predictable and yet I missed it!
It’s really not that difficult to spot trends and niches - they’re [...]

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Following on from my last post, I wonder whether much of the angst, fear and procrastination suffered by many affiliate newbies is simply a reaction to the enormity of the task ahead.
We’re always comparing ourselves to Shoemoney, Amit, John Reese, et al and yet, would you really compare your golf game to Tiger Woods, your [...]

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Paul over at uberaffiliate.com had a great post yesterday about why affiliates fail and I thought it might be interesting to go through the points he made as they relate to me.
1. Information Overload
Paul’s spot on with this.
I spent a good 3 months researching, reading blogs, asking questions - I even joined the $1 [...]

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