Posts Tagged "Paid On Results"

Final Words Of 2009

Posted on 31 Dec 2009 in Miscellaneous | 0 comments

As we enter the last minute of 2009, I’d like to post a very quick entry to thank everyone for their kind words and wishes. Special thanks to the following companies who, over the past few weeks, have filled my kitchen cupboards with a host of goodies;

• Affiliate Window (Hotel Chocolat Hamper)
• BBC (Nature’s Great Events Book)
• Demon (Food Hamper)
• Existem (Food Hamper)
• Gone Digging (Bottle of wine)
• House Of Fraser (Sweet Hamper)
• Laura Ashley (Christmas Stocking)
• Linkshare (Duchy Food Hamper)
• Paid On Results (Bottle of JD)

My 2010 resolutions…

• Invest monthly in new startups
• Move a few websites over to the Wordpress platform
• Enjoy Affiliate Summit West in 2 weeks time
• Stop and buy The Big Issue from our local seller whenever I see him

Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas, is enjoying their New Years Eve… and here’s to 2010!

Was 2008 A Bumper Year?

Posted on 2 Feb 2009 in Development | 9 comments

In the past, I’ve kept track as to the amount of sales I done on behalf of merchants purely out of interest. 2008 has been a good year mainly due to the introduction and focus on new sites, especially niche and seasonal ones, helping to bump up sales throughout the year.

Sadly the huge increase in sales, isn’t reflected in the same way when it comes to commissions. Trust me, I would be jumping for joy if I could say an average 10% commission was paid for each sale, and certainly would be giving up the day job!

Even so, it goes to show that us small affiliates (the ones that do it along side fulltime jobs, in our bedrooms) can still help companies achieve growths and profits.

So why the changes? Well once again a lot of it is down to my relationships with networks. CJ, who in the past I’ve found to be a bit of a faceless company, have made contact with me. Just having a contact on MSN (thanks Hildegunn) has driven me to look at and push their merchants a little more, resulting in a 426% increase.

Another possible reason is the introduction of a bi-weekly newsletter. After collecting email addresses since I care to remember, I never did a single thing with them. Now my newsletters are sent out every 2 weeks, pushing merchants who in turn offer me and my visitors something special.

All in all a good year, but I’m not holding out much hope for this year with the credit crunch, yet think Eco Friendly stuff maybe worth a punt.

Am I Too Late For Christmas?

Posted on 30 Sep 2008 in Development | 1 comment

Last year I blogged about how important it was to plan and build new websites for different seasons such as Valentines and Christmas. Sadly I forgot to heed my own advice and have left it very late to start planning my Christmas 2008 website and am now in a hurry to get content in place ready for the Christmas rush (hopefully).

Thankfully after checking a few key phrases I am still featuring #1 in Google despite my Christmas website being orientated to 2007 until today. I am therefore hoping that the update should be relatively pain free and still earn me a few £’s here and there considering the number of visitors I am seeing increase over the past 7 days.

Due to time restraints I’ve had to change things around a little and use a different backend. Previously the backend was Affilistore which I use for a number of other websites such as my makeup website, but this year I’m once again relying on a good old Wordpress blog. A tweak here and there to a free wordpress template obtained from BlogOhBlog and an image or two downloaded from iStockPhoto and we are ready to rock and roll!

I plan to make more use of content units this year, opposed to feeds last year just to help get content up and running quickly with the minimum effort and as usual am looking for any links swaps. This year I’ll once again be making use of the BuyAGift Landing Page created by Paul last year just to drive a few additional sales in the hope to win the Affiliate Road Trip incentive they have introduced.