Recent content by Nathan

Do you have an advertising plan or are you more adhoc in your approach? Do you have a budget? Do you target mostly google adwords or are to you havea broad advertising base? Do you do it all yourself/in hourse or do you hire a 3rd party company to do it for you?

Do you have any designers you can recommend that make good logos?

Are there any courses or learning guides that you would recommend people look into when first entering the affiliate game? I know of CJU for example, what else is out there that teaches people about this? You can't say things like this forum or Jon's blog. I'm talking more traditional...

If you are like me your bookmarks in your browser are long and messy. For firefox users : Duplicate bookmark detector tells you when you are adding a bookmark that you already have. For several other bookmark organisers take a look here

When you are designing and developing a site, how many browsers do you test your site in? I use IE 6, IE 7 beta 2 sometimes, and Firefox. I used to test in Opera as well but don't worry about that anymore I mostly use FF and IE 6.

Do you find any value in turnkey sites? Are people able to make money from them? Not the people that create them and sell them, but rather say you bought a turnkey site from somewhere, have you made any money from them or are tehy seen as a bad thing by Google and friends?

Are these very big problems for you? On average what percentage of orders are charged back or cancelled on you?

Do you ever get any freebies or samples from your affiliate program merchants? What type of stuff do you get? Cash bonuses? Products? Holidays? What do the successful people get apart from fat pay packets :)

How long do you like to see cookies last for for your AM program/links?

Have you had any experiences with parasites? Any tips you can offer on avoiding them?

Who should we avoid in the AM field? I know many people are starting to avoid CJ due to their LMI prgram. Who else is on the stay away from list? Please give reasons why you think they should be avoided.

If you could go back in time and do one thing differently, what would it be?

Back in the day when created your very first web sites, what did it look like? What was it about? WHat did you use to make it? Do you still have a copy of it anywhere as memorabilia?

Remember when flash was mega popular as splash pages? You would go to hte site see a flash animation running - often it would take a really long time to load up the you would click it and get either a full flash site or a site was left a lot to be desired after teh flash intro. Do you think...

Whats your favourite photo sharing site? I've never really looked at any before. Whom do you recommend?