I’ve received a few emails lately to see what’s been happening with me since I really haven’t been on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ a whole lot.
So what have I’ve been doing?
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Affiliate Marketing
The Niche Site Challenge is all but done for me.
The past few weeks I have been super busy with other projects, plus I think I just all lost interest, I think the others will say the same.
Plus at least for me, Google’s “Panda Update” killed some of my high ranking sites from before the contest and I’m working to get those back in the serps and it’s taking some time.
So I built a total of 14 sites, all datafeed sites, built on Thesis and using CSVPig. I did absolutely no link building what so ever, I did order 1 social bookmarking package on Fivver for one of the sites, which I did see a little spike for, but not conversions.
So my totals are:
Total Commissions: $174.50
Total Adsense: $17.23
So it was fun for the first couple of weeks, but as they say a things must come to an end.
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I recently read an article in Deliver Magazine that 62% off American households own a pet, of those 65% own a dog.
The estimated dollars spent in the US on pets in 2009, was a staggering 45.5 Billion! And it’s said to only to rise every year from there. Most people treat their pets as part of their family and would do almost anything for them.
Here are some stats and facts:
Top 3 Household Incomes of Pet Owners:
100K+ ———- 30%
$50K-$74K —- 20%
<$30K ---------- 19%
22.5% of Baby Boomers own pets. Just so you know, approximately 76 Million American children were born between 1946 and 1964, these are your Baby Boomers, That means 17.1 million of them own at least 1 pet.
Here’s another Baby Boomer stat:
Baby Boomers control over 80% of personal financial assets and more than 50% of discretionary spending power, they are also responsible for more than half of all consumer spending in the US.
If you’re not targeting baby boomers and pet products, you’re missing out.
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This is a follow-up to last week posts, Another AM Gone and also related to Logan Thompson’s I Don’t Read Your Newsletters
I have 4 new affiliate managers in the past 2 months and not 1 has reached out to me.
So to you, the new affiliate managers:
If you are a new affiliate manager with the company, or you have been with the company for awhile and have new affiliates because of someone leaving, reach out to your affiliates, but DON’T send me some stupid form letter. You know what offers I’ve run, you know what I’ve done in the past, don’t waste my time on telling me you have the best payouts, best converting offers, etc. (Because everyone has the best payouts and highest converting offers).
Pick up the phone, reach out to us on AIM, Skype, Twitter, our blogs, etc. If you’re going to send an email, make it personalized to us.
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This weekend I received another email from yet another CPA affiliate manager who has left. This email comes on the heels that I have had no less than 6 other affiliate mangers leave in the past few months, not years, months. This does not count those who have change positions at the same company.
I have done affiliate marketing for awhile now and I have never seen a change in affiliate mangers in all my time of doing affiliate marketing.
Some of these affiliate managers have been with the same company ever since I even started. A few have been with me from the beginning. Over the years I have built relationships with them, both personal and professional over this time.
Some of these AMs came from some very well known CPA companies.
There were a couple of AMs that left that I was glad to see go, but some I was sad and disappointed that they left, some of those have reached out to me and hopefully we’ll do business again sometime soon. But a few have left the space completely.
So is it just a fluke with all these changes? or is CPA affiliate marking in trouble? (I know people have been saying that for a little while, but…)
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