Wake me up when September ends
What a crappy month September is turning out to be. Not only have I got a year older, as I do every September, but my fledgling affiliate income stream has dried out and become a tiny trickle.
I’ve blogged before about the possible impending recession and certainly the going-ons at Northern Rock haven’t done the retail scene any good. But there seems to be more going on. People just aren’t spending.
Are they saving money now for a Christmas splurge? Or have they learnt in recent years that desperate retailers will start discounting heavily as we get closer to the big day?
Whatever it is it’s not making my life any easier facing my first Christmas as a semi-pro affiliate. It’s nigh on impossible to judge whether the work I’m putting in is worthwhile. I can’t tell whether customers are holding back their spending or if I’m just crap at building websites and attracting customers.
So what I’m doing is a scattergun approach. Throwing simple little websites together in a variety of different markets. Hoping that the SEO is good enough that they’ll rank nearer Christmas and bring in some sales for me.
Of course, there’s the danger of spreading myself too thin and making 100 crap sites instead of one or two good ones.
I think I need to be pragmatic and accept that the first Christmas as an affiliate is going to be a learning rather than an earning experience.
I’d still like to get a nice Christmas bonus for all my hard work though ….
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