Affiliate Progress

Today has been a beautiful day with such clear blue skies that I thought it was time to set about some spring cleaning. So I’ve come up with a fresh new look for Affiliate Progress. Well I suppose I have to admit it, part of that is a little white lie. Although it is a lovely day today, it was actually a post on Holly Jahangiri’s blog that inspired me to have a bit of a spruce up around here. (more…)

Do you ever get those days when you just can’t seem to kick start yourself into action? All you want to do is laze about in front of the TV or at best mess about aimlessly on the internet kidding yourself you are actually working. And as for writing, the well of ideas just seems to have completely dried up and you feel as though the words will never flow again! (more…)

You can be sure that any good affiliate marketer who uses active methods such as PPC will have a keen eye on the affiliate marketing trends for 2010 and will be promoting what he or she thinks is going to be hot this year. But what about those of us who are concentrating on passive income streams? Do we pay enough attention to market trends when selecting our affiliate offers? (more…)

So far this year I’ve not entered into the seasonal spirit and posted my goals for the coming year. This is mainly because having started out in on-line earning so recently, I would expect my goals now to be pretty much the same as they were just a few months ago. That’s all well and good, but a post I read on Lis Sowerbutts’ blog where she was surprised at how vague her 2009 goals were, set me thinking about looking back at mine. (more…)

Late last year I started a mini project on Successful Squidoo Marketing in order to investigate what was required to improve the performance of my Squidoo lenses. To this end I set up a lens in a popular mainstream category – Food and Cooking – the lens is called Easy Bean Stew Recipe – and below is my first report on its progress so far and what I hope to find out from this mini study. (more…)