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Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Affiliate Stuff, C'est Moi, Monthly Round-Up

Seriously, where has January gone? As this blog started at the beginning of January, I thought I would do a monthly round up of affiliate news, my personal stuff, how my sites are going and so on throughout the year but I have work in the morning and besides, my memory is appalling. Jesse seems to have the weekly round-up wrapped up on his blog, so I’ll just throw a couple of things down.

Affiliate Blog-o-sphere

Like I say, I have an appalling memory and I don’t have enough time to go through my blogroll but the month started off with, as one would expect with a New Year, the future of affiliate marketing. It made for fairly daunting reading and set the ball rolling for a very negative month until blog title of the month popped up - ‘Accentuate the Positive - Eliminate The Negative‘ . The topic of the month was discount codes with posts here, there, everywhere and even a podcast. Oh, and a small blog was set up by a new affiliate which was met with great acclaim. Max said “I like the blog design”. That reminds me, two of my favourite blogs changed their skin. Sorry, but I did prefer the old themes. What’s with the fruits?
My affiliate stuff

All of my sites have been moved to Heart Internet and now I look forward to developing them. The Discount Blog is really rocking and rolling with daily updates and a trickle of visitors. Commission wise, the sales are starting to come in and I don’t want to reveal too much except - do people really spend that much on towels?! Google have also sent a PIN to verify my address, but I don’t live there any more. D’oh!

Next month I’ll continue designing and adding content to my biggest and most established site and hopefully launch another one or two WordPress powered sites. I purchased Price Tapestry and so far I’m just confused. I can see the support is amazing, so I’m saving it for when I’m not up all night with work the next morning…

 Personal life

I won a competition at my ‘real job’ to go see Man City vs West Ham in Manchester. Tickets included a meal in the executive lounge (we had to be suited and booted to gain entry) - I’ve never had such a posh meal in all my life! I mean - cheese and biscuits! This was the first football match I’ve ever been to so it was a great experience.

Also, I took the lass down to London for her 21st and despite spending way too much, it was amazing. We hit London Tower, the London Eye, watched Avenue Q (absolutely hilarious), stayed in a Kensington Hotel (only 5 mins walk from a Lamborghini garage!) for only £60 and had another posh meal on a Thames Cruise. Nice, but a bit exhausting.

And finally… 

I hope you all had a great - and wealthy - January 2008! Do you have highlights and lowlights, or was it just another month in the affiliate world? When I speak to you next I’ll have another month automagically appear in the sidebar. I love WordPress.