Comments on: January Statistics Report – Getting Better

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:34:03 +0000

Thanks Brandon, I’m always hoping to grow. I only look at Adsense regularly, though, until the beginning of each month, and it seems pretty steady thus far.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:35:41 +0000

Not a bad start brother, it will only get better from here. Feb. is already looking real solid for me.
Blessings,
B

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:01:37 +0000

Thanks John. Testing is what I do for my craft! lol

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:34:02 +0000

Good afternoon, Mitch.

Good luck with your presentation.

I agree; testing is the key and there are more affiliate programs now than there have ever been.

Each of us just has to find what works best for us.

Act on your dream!

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:31:35 +0000

Great stuff, John. I’m going to slowly reduce things that aren’t making me much money also, mainly because there are so many other things to try. As you saw, I got a recommendation to look at Infolinks from Matt, and I’ve heard of another company called eclickz, and there are just so many that to stay with something you don’t like doesn’t make sense. And, after all, I’m the testing guy, right?

And, with this presentation I’m giving next Friday, who knows, maybe that part of my offline business will jump. That wouldn’t depress me at all.

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:05:59 +0000

Good afternoon, Mitch.

Thank you for removing WidgetBucks. Now, I’m having no problems at all in accessing your blog. It loads first time, every time.

I’ve been sick for about a week or so and I was offline almost all of that time. While I was sitting around feeling miserable, I came to the conclusion that I’m tired of promoting anything that makes my life harder or which pays me less than $250 per year, and I prefer programs that pay me that much per month.

So, as I have the time and energy, I’ll be removing lots of affiliate programs from my marketing and from my various sites, as I rebuild them this year.

It turns out that most of the things I’ll continue to promote are the same ones that were also in my highest earners a few years ago.

The two that lead the pack are Sitesell’s 5 Pillar program (Site Build It!) and Google Adsense, followed not too far behind by sales from my CafePress store.

A few years ago, I was earning good checks from Art.com, various programs withing Commission Junction, and Amazon.com.

All of those have tanked. Where I was earning in the hundreds from Amazon.com, I’m barely making any sales at all, now. Since I like to recommend books, I’ll stay with their program and maintain my Astore, but I won’t be promoting them nearly as much as before.

I’ll be dropping Art.com and everything powered by Commission Junction. I’ve also decided that I don’t want to promote things being sold on ClickBank, partly because my income is much lower than it was at one point and partly because there is so much junk available through them.

Since September 2008, my affiliate commissions have dropped dramatically. I’m sure some of them will rebound over time.

I don’t know which program shows the double-underlined links in your posts, but I’ve clicked on a few of them and wasn’t very impressed with what came up. That’s an uninformed opinion, I’m sure, but I don’t think I would want them on my sites. For whatever that is worth.

I’m sure that my results with the products and services I recommend will differ from what you and your other readers may experience. I know people who are earning thousands of dollars every year from Amazon, but since I don’t promote electronics, games, and other high-demand products, I don’t think it’s going to work well for me in the future.

On a different topic, I had my first meetings with some local offline businesses yesterday and it looks like there is a pretty good chance that my ideas for marketing consulting and local promotions online has a good chance of being successful. I’ll be pursuing it vigorously over the next three weeks to see, for sure. If I can sign up ten new clients with monthly retainers, it will be a go.

Act on your dream!

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:05:17 +0000

You could, Matt, but it can be dicey. I have a friend who has more than 100 websites. At least half he bought “used”; I still don’t know how one goes about finding already existing sites that are pretty much dead, but he does it. Thing is, I’m not sure I want to go about maintaining over 100 sites. He does make a pretty good dollar on it, though.

By: Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:27:31 +0000

Hah yea, this is what made me wonder if you should try and expand your site roster quickly. If you get a lot of sites, that are all just costing you 10 dollars a year for the domain names, can you build up enough clicks to make EVERY domain pay itself off with a little extra cash too?

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:03:51 +0000

That’s kind of odd, Ajith. I still can’t duplicate the error with my IE 7, so I just don’t know what to do. I did some research on the subject, as it seems to be a common things, and it could be Kontera. What was recommended was moving it to another spot, just above php_footer, which I’ve done, but since it was working for me beforehand, I’ll ask you to test it for me again, just to see if that corrected things. If not, then I’ll try removing it and asking you to try it again. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Of course, the place I got this last bit of information said that everything would be fixed if everyone stopped using IE! lol

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:21:43 +0000

Mitch the problem is reproducable consistently on IE 6 and 7. On Firefox and Chrome I didn’t notice this Attaching a screen shot here. This message comes once the page is almost loaded. And if you press that OK button the screen becomes blank.

Though things work on other browsers, somewhere there’s some script error. Could it be Kontera which loads at the end??

http://www.dollarshower.com/junk/iescreenshot.jpg

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