Affiliate Odyssey

Happy New Year everyone.
Hope you all had marvelous evening’s revelries and feel as rough as me today
Work doesn’t start for me in earnest until the 7th (lots of child care duties before then) but I’ll definitely have an eye on my big plans for this year.
One great bit of news is that my business [...]

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Post to this blog everyday for 2008 - it seemed to work for becker
Spend more than 90% of my available work time on affiliate marketing
Produce 3 rich content websites, dominating their niches by the end of the year
Achieve a purple belt in Kempo Ju Jitsu
Learn to swim

Affiliate Income Goal For 2008 is £10,000.

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Blimey!
It’s been a seriously busy two weeks work-wise and so the affiliate marketing and blogging has had to take a back seat but, yesterday, I stole an hour to set up a quick and dirty AdWords campaign to try to cash in on the Christmas rush.
There’s a fair bit of conflicting information about the potential [...]

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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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