I thought I would write a post about questions I get asked.
Q. How much do you earn from Affiliate Marketing?
A. Erm… enough to make it worthwhile!
Q. Why don’t you post earning summaries on your blog?
A. I tend not to post about my earnings as I do not see this as relevant to my blog. I want to concentrate on what I am doing, what I have learnt and found out rather than how much money I have made.
Q. Which is your highest earning site?
A. Great Hampers followed closely by Break Away Holiday Cottages, however I am sure this will change when I start to market My Request List.
Q. Why do you do affiliate marketing?
A. Due to my current job (IT Project manager) I very rarely get my hands dirty in code, therefore I like to keep my eye in with some development work of my own. I also like the challenge of developing something new, finding a niche and exploiting it. I am not really in it for financial gain, although as and when my affiliate work becomes successful enough I will take it up full time. I guess really the simple answer is that I enjoy it. It gives me a challenge a sector of the web industry that I had previously been unaware of meaning that it was/is something new to learn. The skills learnt here can also be applied to all other aspects of the web business.
Q. You seem to have your fingers in alot of pies how do you manage to find the time to do your affiliate work?
A. Your right I do have my fingers in allot of pies, Employed full time as a Project manager, dabble in property development, still run Digitalquill my multimedia and design company, run a web hosting company Quill Internet, and as you will see from my portfolio of affiliate sites my affiliate interests are wide ranging.
Q. Which of your sites gets the highest number of unique hits?
A. SuperProxy is by far the most visited site I run, it gets around 15k uniques per week on average, but at times this is up to 30k in a week. Unfortunately due to the nature of the site I do not earn a great deal off these visitors, maybe £200 per week, but still this pays for the servers and lets be get on with other projects without worrying about having to cover any costs anywhere.
Q. Which site are you most proud of?
A. Without doubt My Request List. I am proud of the idea and how the site has come together. It still needs work as there are some bugs and then it needs marketing, but I really think that this will become my biggest and most successful site and perhaps even more than that.
