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It feels good to make money! As I wrote last time, I had my best affiliate earnings day recently. Once I noticed the flood of traffic, I made some changes to the promotion page that resulted in a higher CTR on my affiliate links.

Based on the tracking I did before and after the changes, making the modifications resulted in about 250 more people clicking through to the CPA offers. I saw a conversion rate of about 3.3% so that translates to around 8 more conversions based on the changes. With the offer paying anywhere from $45 - 70 per signup based on the product the visitor chose that means the changes made me an extra $360 - $560.

So keep an eye on your traffic levels, if you can optimize your page for the type of traffic you’re getting you can earn more money!

Taxes are due tomorrow and everyone’s scrambling to get them finished. The tax traffic is pretty crazy tonight so I was looking for another affiliate offer to promote. I ran across one that had their toll free number plastered across the landing page in multiple places:

Why would I waste my time promoting their landing page when half the tax crazed people are going to pick up the phone to talk to a live person? I send them the traffic but it converts via phone instead of opt-in form and I don’t make any money.

Am I off base here or does anyone else think it’s not smart to promote an offer where the toll free number can steal the commission?

I’ve been keeping up on tips for preparing for Affiliate Summit West this weekend, right now listening to Andrew Wee interviewing Shawn Collins. Here are some of the things I’ve done to get ready for the conference:

• Loaded up some blogs with posts for a few days while I’m gone
• Exchanged phone numbers with people I want to meet
• Printed out the session schedule & and Affiliate Meet Market floorplan
• Bought 500 business cards
• Bought a new laptop battery

Next on the list is to refresh my memory on what conference expenses are tax deductible. I’m going to the listen to the CD again on Travel & Entertainment deductions from the “Tax Strategies for Business Professionals” series by Sandy Botkins. I’d definitely reccomend this course to anyone that has a home based business, it will pay for itself very quickly.

How much money did you make as an internet marketer over the last 8 months? What if I told you that over the next 2 months you could make double that entire amount and the following three months you could see your income grow by another 4 times?

Would you believe me? Sadly, I’m not telling my story but the tale of an UberAffiliate who used determination, testing , adaptation, & networking to do exactly what I just described.

Check out the graph he shares on his year anniversary post. What if he would have gotten discouraged and quit after that 8^th month? Thanks to Paul for sharing his journey, a great example of how persistence is key to success. My latest affiliate promotion was rather unsuccessful, Paul’s post has reminded me to learn from the discouragement and press on.

If you’re looking for a little insight to his success, he shares a lot of the resources he’s used in his affiliate marketing guide. Nice work Paul!

Ever feel like you could make more money if you just had more time! That’s how I feel every day. December was tough with the holidays and long hours at my day job but I still managed to accomplish a few things.

Business Finances – I figured out my books for the business for 2007, happy to say it was a profit! One crazy thing, I just got my annual performance increase at my day job and my business earnings for 2007 were more than three times the amount of the increase. I can’t wait to get rid of this job so I can spend all my time growing my business! I still need to pay my estimated taxes for Q4 2007, due here in a week or so.

Affiliate Relationships – One of the things that Amit recommended was to build a good relationship with your affiliate manager. So I called up my affiliate manager at Never Blue Ads and had a productive first phone call. I got some insight into which campaigns to promote in my niche. One of the things she mentioned was that the Earnings Per Click numbers you see as you’re browsing campaigns factor in all different types of marketing, Web/Email/Search. When I told her my niche and that I was going to be promoting offers with Pay Per Click she gave me EPC numbers that were just from PPC traffic.

Pay Per Click Campaign – I used the techiques I learned from Amit’s Super Affilate Accelerator course to setup, upload, and launch an Adwords campaign for one of the offers my affiliate manager pointed out. I’m monitoring its progress now and will tweak as needed.

Information Products – I completed my first information product, Easy eBay Business. I’ve been working at it off and on for a while now so it was nice to get it finished. I haven’t begun promoting it yet, I’ll probably use an Adwords campaign once I have time to build one.

I also started exploring a partnership for an information product with one of my online buddies who is a subject matter expert in the niche. He’s going to write a free report to give away, I’ll build a landing page and create an Adwords campaign and we’ll see how much demand there is.

One of my business advisors and friends recently finished an information product that should see demand sky rocket due to a new government policy. I spent some time on some content promoting their product and will likely set up an Adwords campaign there as well.

Time Management – I got my FreshBooks account back up and running again. I set it up at the beginning of the year but didn’t use it much. My only New Year’s resolution at this point is to make better use of my time since I tend to try and work on too many things at once. I’m tracking everything in FreshBooks now and every two weeks or so I’ll go over how I’m spending my time.

I tried out Mechanical Turk to outsource some basic tasks to help get content on a new site for a niche I’ve been wanting to move into for some time. I listed the same task on both Mechanical Turk and eLance and so far the bids on Mechanical Turk have been much more reasonable and in line with the scope of the job.

Next Month – Not bad I guess for a busy month at work and the with holidays. I’m going to continue to balance my multitude of project for January, then revaluate with some numbers from FreshBooks at the end of the month to see which projects to put on hold and which to pursue.