Because Empress was unhappy that I’m going to discontinue journaling on this site, I’ve set up a secondary blog called Sapphire’s Affiliate Marketing Journal. This will have my monthly earning stats posts and posts about stuff I’m trying out and so on. It has a separate feed, so be sure to sign up for it [...]

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I was reading this piece by Holly Buchanan on creating personas when I realized this is a huge stumbling block for me.
First, if you’re not familiar with the concept of personas: marketers try to imagine the sort of person who would buy their products. Then they write copy and come up with campaigns that will [...]

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I’m trying to find some new, lesser-known blogs for my reading list. This is the list I use to put together posts on ChillyCool. The big blogs are already linked everywhere - I want to offer something niche.
If you have a blog about affiliate marketing, SEO, etc., from which you think I’d find articles for [...]

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Yesterday I talked about how I was trying some new methods for pushing aff sales and seeing a good CTR, which I hoped meant conversions were around the corner? I just had my first conversion, and I’m excited.
The first change I made was to create a banner to promote one of my affiliate shops (that’s [...]

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This December was a bit disappointing with $348 in earnings.
For January, I gained some cheap text links on one of my PR Zero blogs but lost some expensive ones on this one. I’m still not sure this is related to the zeroing out - I’d have thought so, except for the new text links I’m [...]

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I set a record more than $200 above my previous all-time record this month with earnings of $645. I had some very nice affiliate commissions during the post-Thanksgiving (US) shopping weekend, and also something I’m going to be talking about in a separate post a couple of weeks from now after I’ve had time to [...]

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My earnings fell a bit in October - from $424 to 401. Not bad - the drop was caused by BlogHer, which is having a lean couple of months. Interestingly, they do this thing I can only describe as communicating with publishers in which they, like, tell us they don’t have a lot of ads [...]

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I had a record month in September - $424. The biggest chunk of that was BlogHer.
My TLA and LinkWorth earnings have stayed almost exactly the same for a couple of months now. Actual affiliate marketing sales remain, as usual, dismal but at least I had one last month. PPC type ads are bringing in around [...]

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I have a couple of domains that I was about to dump, but then I remembered Terry at SuperAff talking about parking domains with SEDO, and tried that instead. They turn it into a sort of search page and you get earnings from clicks.
My domains have very strange names - can’t imagine them being typos [...]

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I’ve been a bit quiet lately because I’ve been looking into incorporating. This year, about 60% of what I earned will go to state and federal governments, unless I make a contribution to one of my retirement funds to circumvent that. Which is fine for now - I don’t need this year’s profits right this [...]

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