Your Questions Answered!

I posted a few days ago inviting questions on anything affiliate based to my life based and below are the questions with the answers :)

First Hannah’s Questions
1) What comes first Uni or Aff stuff? Bit of mixture really. Ideally should be uni but tends to be aff stuff
2) How do you decide which sites/merchants to push? depends on the area, commission, which network they are on, if they offer something good to the user etc
3) What do your uni lecturers think of having a successful Affiliate in class? They don’t know :P
4) What is your top time management tip for students/full time workers who are Aff’s too? hmm im not best for giving tips as i mix it up, but my general rule is … socialising(drinking) ahead of aff or uni work.
5) Ever posted pissed??? on a4uforum yes once slightly tipsy

These from Diane

6)How are students dealing with the credit crunch? Has it affected students at all? Are they exempt from normal economic issues? Students are just really feeling it in food shopping, generally just buying more own brand food items, general student stuff, buying in bulk etc. Students are not excempt i’d say but they are feeling it

These from Phil

7) How much time do you spend on affy marketing and how long has it taken you to get to this point? I’d say 10-30mins a a day, more checking forum tho. 8) If a student were to start now, what advice would you give them? Keep it as a hobby to do in your spare time at first, then see how it goes
9) What do you envisage yourself doing after you finish uni, and do you think it’s important to complete your degree considering the success you’re having already? Yes i want to complete my degree as its a waste of money otherwise, also after Uni ideally want to keep doing, maybe full time, and/or open my own offline business

These from Mike
10) How do you plan your day? Do you have a team of people working on various things or is it a one man band show? Do you design and develop your websites or get it done from someone else? Day is unplanned really, just see what needs doing and get it done, if I was full time I think it’d be different. I normally either outsource design or use a template and wordpress.

and these from Rob

11) Have you any travel websites? Yes only one though, www.DiscountHotels.org.uk small site really
12) Is there already / do you think there will ever be some academic courses on affiliate marketing, e.g. a Batchelors Degree? Im not sure there is at the moment, maybe some kind of e-marketing degree, im not sure a whole degree in it will become available any time soon to be honest.

Thanks for all your questions, some nice questions. Anymore i will answer in the comments below

My Actual Commission Figures! – January Compared To December

Okay, someone asked me on msn earlier if december was a big month for me, and I told them no i’m doing a lot better this month, they asked how much better… Something I like and I know others like is seeing actual commission figures, not necessarily profits and in depth income reports ;) but some figures be them small or large. I’ve put at the bottom of this post some examples of posts I’ve enjoyed reading with actual figures in them ;) .

Okay, so most people rave on about how december is the best month for them, they make 3,4 or 5 times as much as other months etc, but for me december has always been a disappointment, my sites although varied have never seemed to have done very well in december.

December Affiliate Commission
December Affiliate Commission

January Affiliate Commisssion    

 
January Affiliate Commisssion

Above is a screenshot of my december overall commission using Affmeter (a cracking tool that collects all data from nearly all networks in one easy click of the mouse) for the dates 12th to the 16th compared to january’s 12th to the 16th, you’ll see a big increase…this is due to a couple of things…a few new ppc campaigns and a few new sites as well as older sites recovering a bit from downtime due to hosting. But for me I emphasise with anyone that affiliate marketing isn’t consistent and if your earning £5,000 for example a month this doesn’t necessarily mean you will be the next, thus making if you want to quit your day job a big decision.

Note: This isn’t profit figures. Also note that you can see a massive variance in my figures…which isn’t good and my aim of 2009 is to keep this months average going!

Here are a few examples of posts with actual figures in you may find interesting to read: http://www.webaffiliate.co.uk/blog/networks/half-yearly-results-announced.html

and http://www.entrepreneur.co.uk/2008/12/09/guess-how-much-i-earned-from-affiliate-marketing-in-november.html


 

Max Wants Your Questions !!!

Okay, so i’m opening up the blog to questions from anyone, newbies to experts, affiliate’s to merchants. Ask me whatever you want about me, affiliate marketing, uni, life…whatever you want. I will answer them (within reason depending on the questions).

Ideally the questions will be centered around affiliate marketing :) .

Either reply/leave a comment on this post or drop me an email or msn me :)

5 Random Facts About Me (Affiliate Based)

Okay, I’d thought I’d post 5 random affiliate related facts about me! Not sure why you would find these interesting but what the heck, got to get my blog restarted ;)

  1. I still edit pages/websites in Frontpage (although moving more to just pure html/php editting)
  2. Even though I do #1 above…one site I did in frontpage which took about 2 hours managed to bring over £10,000 in with only a couple of updates in a year.
  3. I own over 100 domain names
  4. The most i’ve ever paid for a domain name is around £400
  5. I took the Google Adwords Exam and passed it last year

Next to come 5 random facts about me….non affiliate based

I'm Back ! But where have I been ?

Well I know quite a few people used to read my blog and I got quite a few people contact me when my blog went down sometime last year and so i’ll explain a little of what happened.

  • My hosting went down … I thought maybe its just for an hour … maybe just a day … nope, it was fully down and with many request and investigating I found the company had gone out of business and the backups they said they had done hadnt been done!
  • This led to me loosing all data on my blog as I stupidly hadnt backed it!
  • This also led to all my other websites going down! This meant a huge loss in revenue, and a little loss in PPC as didnt realise the sites were down and so lost around £120.

So what did this mean apart from lost revenue till I transfered hosting ?

As my sites were down for quite a while, due to thinking that the hosting would come back on but it didn’t, the end result… quite a few sites lost rankings and a few dropped out of Google completely… bad times!

So what have I done since then ?

That will all be posted in due time ;)

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