May 16, 08 by Max
Just to let you all know there’s going to be a Manchester Meet up on the 23rd of May, which is a week today.
Date: Friday 23rd May.
Time: From 1pm
Location: Manchester Rain Bar
It can be found here: M1 5JG - Google Maps
It’s at 80 Great Bridgewater Street, near Deansgate Locks and Manchester Central (formally G-Mex.)
Richard and Michelle from R.O.EYE will be attending. We’ve laid on some food for 2pm and there will be plenty of free beer for anyone who is interested!
It’s available from 1pm onwards and we suspect the majority of those attending will come for the afternoon. Can you please reply or PM me if you will be arriving after 6pm so we can get ideas on how long the area needs to be available from?
Who’s up for it? Affiliates, merchants, agencies and networks are all welcome. The more the merrier. ”
I’ll be making an appearance earlier on about 1pm. Will be good to have a few beers and chat. So if your able to get there then make sure you do. When you’re there don’t forget to come say hey to me 
May 13, 08 by Max
Google really has a massive grip on us affiliates. If google decided not to like my site it could cut my revenue massively. And recently it has been having an affect on me. One of my established sites which has been No.1 in google for a term for 3 months plus has been moving around from 1st to 3rd. I’ve put a little table showing the difference in Revenue a position or 2 does to me.
As I know people like seeing real figures and not just talk so I’ve used the real figures that i’ve recieved.
Position #1 £72.30 , £74.60 , £93.50, £57.70 , £81.42
Position #2 £63.45 , £59.40 , £49.96 , £60.30 , £55.70
Position #3 £37.50 , £31.63 , £41.65 , £44.45 , £39.98
Now these are just different days, not in any order but just from the position that google had me in, shows that it can vary from the max over last 2 weeks or so was £93.50 and the lowest was £31.63 a difference of £60 odd which if you add up over a month is £1800 which is a big difference !
Obviously this doesnt take into account general different day stats, such as week days when its lower than weekends etc, but it still shows quite a difference.
Google rules me and its scary.
May 12, 08 by Max
I’ve had many a successful ppc campaign over the 2 years i’ve been in affiliate marketing, but it’s not always the case. Often i’ve ran ppc campaigns and they haven’t been profitable. It’s not as easy as adding some keywords, making an advert and seeing the cpc turning a profit !
Recently i’ve been doing some direct PPC to some merchants to find that the CPC and conversion rate isn’t worthy of me carrying on. Direct PPC can be great but it doesn’t always work like you want it too. One of the reasons my PPC campaign didnt become profitable was as I was competiting directly with other merchants and not other affiliates thus they would make a bigger mark up on a sale than I would. So they could afford to push the price of each click up more.
When is the stop off period ? how long should I let it go before I pull the ad ? People have various ideas on this, but I generally wait till either 200 clicks have been done, 2 days of the ad, or if a limit of around £100 has been reached before I look into an ad and see if I should pull it.
The point is, if a campaign you run isn’t successful at first then maybe it won’t be overall.
May 05, 08 by Max
Bad news for me, woke up friday morning after only getting in that night at 4:30 am to find my neck was twice the size and looked a cross between a 22 stone guy and a hamster 
So i’m quite i’ll at the moment with Mumps and can’t get much work done either affiliate or revision.
Things/Blog Posts to look forward to (coming soon)
- The Uk Rich List
- Unsucessful PPC
- Up’s and Downs of Google
- Meet Ups
April 16, 08 by Max
Quick post although I haven’t been posting much on my blog recently (sorry lack of time, lots work going on affiliate wise for me not much time for posting) I have been having fun in my uni accommadation
Friend went away for a week… we climbed in through his window, emptied his room into the kitchen and set it up as it was there. Then over 4 days bought around 1200 balloons and blow most of them up and filled his room with them. It did take a very long time and we did regret not buying a electric pump to help us along, but all in all a fun time His reaction was classic
p.s Still looking for more partnerships for affiliate sites. Get in touch via the contact me page.
March 28, 08 by Max
Just a quick update, its been a while since I posted on the blog, theres no major reason why i’ve not posted but the usual one of me being busy is one of them. I’m aiming to post a lot more next week (fingers crossed).
A few things
- I’m potentially looking to do some partnerships with some other affiliates. So if your interested, maybe have an idea and want to do it in a partnership get in touch with me.
- Google Adwords new url policy comes into action next month, Not allowing direct ppc to merchants I believe
- Finally, Sunshine.co.uk are running an amazing competition to win a Apple Macbook Air … now these things are amazing. Whats more to enter all you have to do is put a link on a website for them. Only 150 entries so far so the odds are amazing, You can sign up to them through Affiliate Future.
March 06, 08 by Max
Just thought I’d direct you all to an interview with me that Kirsty did. She’s doing three interviews this week named “Meet the Real Affiliates” basically interviews with affiliates who aren’t the super affiliates that interviews normally take place with.
Today’s interview with me can be found here, and the interview with Ray can be found here.
Check out her blog it’s a great read, and has loads of useful tips. AffiliateStuff.co.uk
March 05, 08 by Max
The Sound Asleep Pillow Something that looks very interesting and could work/help me fall asleep. I do find it hard sometimes to fall asleep at night, things running through my mind, new ideas, changes I could be making.
The sound asleep pillow may be the answer, it plays music through the pillow so you don’t have to have earphones on, I was thinking it might be perfect to listen to a blog post from fraser
March 03, 08 by Max
Making money offline using the below method can be easy… but might not be good in the long term
A week ago (sunday night) I as a student went to something called Carnage. Basically claims to be biggest student bar crawl in the UK. It costs £10 and for that you get a Tshirt and entry into Manchester’s M2 Night Club. Basically it involves a bar crawl to 5 big bars then to the club at the end of the night.
Now Carnage sold around 2200+ t-shirts when the capacity of the club at the end of the night was only 1600. So basic maths £20,000 in. Now the bars I’m pretty sure will have not charged as they would love all the people coming into there bar and spending money on “normal” priced drinks not student prices which pissed a lot of us off if not everyone. The club may have charged but I’m not sure as they charged normal prices as well.
Now if each tshirt costs say £1 which in bulk they would if not cheaper, then total cost of shirts £2200, hire of bars £0 , hire of club either £0 , or couple hundred probably. Sale of tshirts/tickets £22,000. Cost of staff £0 (all were volunters who got free entry) . Estimated Profit of the Night = £20,000 +
They do this is many large cities around the UK, Not a bad money making idea, the fact that hundreds didn’t get into the club at the end, the bars charged normal prices when us students expect cheaper and the organisation was very poor means it may not be a business that lasts a long time, As although I had a really good time, a lot of people didnt.
February 28, 08 by Max
A quick post about someone I know off a forum I’m on which is related to business start ups. TimberTags is a company set up by Charlie. A 15 year old entrepreneur. He creates and sells wooden Plant Labels which can be personalised. These make perfect gifts for a keen gardener, to accompany a plant as a gift to someone, as a wedding gift and more.
The plant tags are environmentally friendly and look a lot better than plastic ones. To view the timber tags, order them and to find out more visit www.TimberTags.com today Charlie is an inspiration to many people who want to start a business and not necessarily online like I have but also offline.
So if your stuck for an idea for a gift for someone and want something a bit different, and also want to help a young entrepreneur who also donates part of profits to an eco charity then buy some wooden plant tags
It’s great to see people like this who have the ability to set it up and the idea behind it. I wish him and TimberTags the best of luck and look forward to what the future holds.
