Well I have not posted in a while, there have been many changes in my personal life in the last 6 months, I have got engaged to the most fantastic and beautifl Cheryl and we are now expecting our first child! So what with wedding plans (now put on hold for some time!) and getting ready for a baby time has been limited to do my affiliate work.
In all honesty in the past few months I had become disheartened with the progress I had been making, although I have managed to more than break even with my projects such as Break Away Holiday Cottages and Great Hampers, they had not set the bank managers heart racing, the amount of work I had put in was not reflected in the amount of return I was getting.
Then in November things started to pick up. I targeted Halloween with Great Hampers which increased sales greatly and then changed the focus onto Christmas. As I said earlier due to time constraints this consisted of adding more focused projects and customising my Adwords.
I was pleasantly surprised that during December there were only a handful of days in which I did not earn as much if not more than I do for my salaried position. As this was my first affiliate Christmas i did not really know what to expect, and the results I must say have been stunning.
My Interest is therefore again sparked, don’t get me wrong, I am very prepared to put in the time and effort to get the rewards, but I do have to see some of those rewards. I will continue to target my sites such as great hampers to key events, valentines day seems to be the next one on the horizon so I will see what results I get from that.
I have come up with what i think is another great little project to get my teeth into. I will post more details soon, but I want to get my head round it first.
In addition following the recent review of Google rankings, all my sites have improved or indeed been ranked for the first time, this has in turn meant a huge increase in hits on many of my sites, hopefully this will lead to increased sales and commissions.
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