Comments on: Tis’ The Season for Affiliate Marketing

By: Paypal2u Bloggers

Paypal2u Bloggers — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:38:46 +0000

I will follow you… hahaha…

This idea is great and I think it can generate as much income as it can be.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:28:46 +0000

I agree..some may look at the 8 dollars as a lot…as dumb as that sounds when one sale can make you 25 like you stated. Affiliate sales are great, and getting better…especially around the holiday/winter times.

By: Ben Barden

Ben Barden — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:31:05 +0000

Have you tried Zen Cart? My wife has set up stores for a lot of websites and Zen Cart is the one we recommend.

By: JC

JC — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:32:18 +0000

I’d say it’s better to focus on content and traffic than taylor around an affiliate. You can make decent money from banners and intellitxt especially with the content rich postings you have, as opposed to brief blurbs in each post.

By: Malignition.com

Malignition.com — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:37:01 +0000

Quite an interesting idea to make some extra money during the holidays. $8 and a little elbow grease is a really insignificant investment when you factor in how much money the blog storefront could make you.

By: Deron Sizemore

Deron Sizemore — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:18:45 +0000

Yeah, the money thing is what worries me. A lot of the people I talk to talk about putting thousands into it and I just don’t have thousands to throw into something like that…my wife would kill me. ha ha.

By: Erik Karey

Erik Karey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:31:05 +0000

Haha, maybe that would work. I’ve done a little bit with PPC affiliate marketing, but I’m not sure I have the patience for it all. I wasn’t extremely successful with it, I think it takes more time and money than I could commit to it.

By: Deron Sizemore

Deron Sizemore — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:15:55 +0000

Yeah, that’s a good point. Even in your failures there are always lessons to be learned. Maybe I should go back and read my own blog post about trying and failing a did a couple weeks ago?

Do you have any experience with PPC Affiliate Marketing?

By: Erik Karey

Erik Karey — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:30:40 +0000

Hey Deron, you’re right that there is time invested in it, but the way I look at it is I’m learning a lot of things while I go. There is more than just monetary gain here and if the store doesn’t hit it off right away I can always hold onto it for the long term investment.

By: Deron Sizemore

Deron Sizemore — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:51:14 +0000

Good ideas there Erik. I know a ton of people make serious cash around the Christmas time.

That said, I just got into doing some Affiliate Marketing myself. So far I’ve just been promotting offers through PPC but haven’t had much luck yet. That’s no one fault but my own there because I’ve really not given it the tender loving care that it needs to be successful.

I agree with all of your points except for the “win” no matter what. I don’t know for sure but I assume it takes at the very minimum a couple hours to get the site up and going, a couple hours to write some content with the affiliate links, a couple hours to do some social networking and get the site out there, and maybe a couple hours to do some odds and ends stuff. If that’s true you’d have spend minimum of eight hours working on the site and to get $25 back (if the site fails)? That works out to be a little over three bucks an hour…

Like I said though…never done it myself, maybe I’m wrong on the time it takes?

Good write up Erik