Social Networking for Affiliate Marketing Business Advertising

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Gary · Posted in Social Networking · Comment 

Do you run Facebook Business Page or Twitter Account to promote your Affiliate Business. If you don’t already then maybe you should consider it. I know its obvious but these social media channels are a great way to build up more interest in your business and to connect with the world for free advertising. But what if they suddenly decide they are going to start charging for this service. You will have already built up your customer base and they are networking on a daily basis to bring in a large percentage of your traffic to your website/s.

I recently watched the Social Network and found it very inspiring. One of the things that Mark Zuckerberg wanted desperately not to do was place loads of ads all over the site. So how was he going to monetise the site. This was a long term goal and one that has massively paid off.

So when you are considering running your business, bare in mind that advertising on these social networks might not always be free. Don’t rely on this as your only source in promotional methods.

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Happy New Year and Back to Affiliate Marketing

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Gary · Posted in General · Comment 

Happy New Year from the team at Affiliate Project. We hope all those Affiliates, Merchants and Networks that follow us and those that we work with every success for 2011. My New Years Resolution is to try and be more positive and try and stress less. Its going to be challenging one to say the least with still having almost 3 jobs (part time this AM mallarky and part time or should I say full time with this crappy office job, then full time dad and husband come 3:45pm when I get home). So if you hear me being negative on this blog (except the comment above about my day job) or on the A4U forum then please do let me know and remind me of my new years resolution, its one that I don’t want to break unlike the other ones, stop drinking during the week – now I have full intentions to cut back, but deep down I know this isn’t going to happen so I’m just not going to commit to that one!!

This is the first post of 2011 on this Blog, which has seen a bit of neglect over the last 6 months or so because we’ve been well busy working on our bigger sites. Our little friend Google seems to be neglecting our big sites by penalising them. They were starting to rank well and get quite a lot of uniques each month. We were seeing a nice upwards trend on our stats graphs and the sales increasing along with the traffic.

2011 will hopefully be our year to leave the day jobs. It’s almost about 2 years since we’ve started and we are a little gutted that we didn’t achieve what we wanted to by now, we’re still keen on doing Affiliate Marketing and building up our business.

We have some good projects coming up which has also been a steep learning curve but ones that will hopefully help with our future projects.

Paul managed to get his wife involved and give up her part time day job, she now runs her own sites and she seems to have got the hang of things pretty quickly. One of her sites is Maternity Belt, something quite targeted and not to big, small enough to get her teeth into things. Not long after that my wife was looking for work and struggling to find a job to fit around the children and our family time, so she also has  decided to test the waters and started her own niche site with a little bit of help from myself. Her niche is also in the Maternity clothing sector and sell Maternity Coats from all UK Maternity Shops all from one place. Both sites are data feed driven. This site is still work in progress but already had a sale on new years day :) . We already have a few Maternity Sites so the authority from our existing sites should hopefully help the new ones rank. Good luck to the wives, no doubt they will over take us lol.

So its about February time when the Affiliate Networks organize an Affiliate Meetup in London. No sign of any events yet, but we are looking out for them. If you do go to the events and want to meet up for a chat then please do let us know. We’re happy to meet others in the industry and share stories and ideas.

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