From Trash to Cash: the Dribbling never ends

mambury

Sorry Nixi - I missed you news.... HUGS

nolongerindenial

nixinixi wrote: »

Dilli - can't wait to hear from you!!! Excited for me and you!! and thank you!

NLID - I am intrigued by your websites which generate you income, can you share how you do it......either on here or a pm would be fab. I would love to be able to create some affliate websites that could generate me an income...... any pointers you can give would be fab as it is over my head at the moment.

Basically they are optimised sites which each generate very little traffic at the minute, however the sole purpose of the site is to get people to click on the affiliate links and hope they make a sale. As a proof of concept I have achieved a 42% CTR (Click Through Rate) - The plan once this update is rolled out is to work on increasing the traffic revenue from the website.

One such site, I created in 2007 has gone on to make me approximately £2-3000 for about 100 hours work and still generates £20-50 a month, despite me not doing anything on it since it was 8 months old. The majority of the income was at the start when I was actively working on it, then life got in the way from me pushing it further and we decided at the turn of this year we would give it the revamp it deserved. At the same time we decided it was too much work to individually place banners on each of the sites and manually monitor the 50+ sites which are out there lacking banners in the niche and it would be best to have a central system to control the affiliates.

When the system was originally introduced, it had a number of features which made it unique, over the course of in time these have been copied by other sites.

This new system will allow me an easy to use interface to manage 1000+ websites, as well as a couple of sites to allow us to manage certain aspects such as the content creation - which as we grow will be outsourced to numerous copywriters as well as the link building aspect in a way which has been confirmed with a number of suppliers however that is information I can not put on a public forum.

moneymabel

Nixi- just heard from Journal, the readers offer thing is going in this week :-) I'll save you a copy for your folder :-) Let me know what I owe you for packaging/printing/postage whenyouve sent it hun :-)

mambury

Woohoo Mabel and Nixi!! How Exciting!!!!


Ebay strategy written...now all I need to do is implement it!! I have made a start and hopefully it should help to boost trafic and sales....

NLID.... sounds exciting.... totally over my head!! Siunds like there might be some extra pennies in there for you. Is it something that OH can help with?

nolongerindenial

Yeah she has been adding the affiliates however with our DS being a tad demanding, and my clients needing work from her rather than me (She is our copywriter / PPC expert). Unfortunately she will not be able to manage the volume of sites we will be operating within 6 months of us putting this live.

nolongerindenial

am I missing the new thread or something? over 2 1/2 hours without any dribble!

nixinixi

MABEL - all packaged up and ready to go!!!! Will post on the way to collect monsters from school!! Are you excited???????? :j :j :j

moneymabel

Cool!!! It's all happening :-) thanks hun- email me later with the amount I owe you .

Been busy potting on my runner beans and salad leaves, made a mobile thing out of old CDs to hopefully scare birds off the veg patch :-/

OH was in bad mood this morning, Misty had pooed on the carpet whilst he was eating his breakfast, he put his plate down while he cleaned it up and she ran off with his toast...snigger :-)
Have a feeling he probably wasn't watching her properly coz she hasn't pooed in here before so serves him right :-)

JoeyGrey

I put a lot of thought into my mini-move last night and there are so many things I am putting off due to time constraints and just basic fear of the unknown. So I looked through the threads on here and decided to focus on two things - my ISA and my Utilities. I went to the bank this morning to find out what interest rate I have on my ISA now and was shocked to find out it had dropped to 0.1% !! That means that I was earning about £300 in interest 3 years ago and only earned £4.99 this year! Gobsmacked was not the word!

So I've made an appointment to see someone on Friday at the Halifax to change the account, but I've also been to Lloyds TSB where I have a savings account to see what they can offer me. I know you agree that the rate is variable when you sign up to an ISA but I feel pretty bitter that the Halifax didn't bother to tell me that I should move the money to a different account until I asked about it.

So now I'm onto Utilities. Aargh! Don't know why I'm so scared of this one! Just don't understand it I suppose. I tried the comparison thing last night, but it kept asking who I was with (NPower) and then telling me that if I moved to NPower it would save me £360. Eh??? But I will prevail!

So thanks Jo for brill idea #2

JoeyGrey

Oh and I've found a copy of the South Beach Diet I got free with a magazine a few years ago. Far too strict for me, so never even tried it, but if any Dribblers fancy a go, let me know and I'll post it on.