mikerose23
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I make my living as a Macintosh computer consultant in Jacksonville, FL, and for fun I’m an avid ballroom dancer.
I started a Humphrey Bogart tribute site back in 1995, partly because he’s my all-time favorite actor and Casablanca is my favorite movie, and partly to teach myself how to design web sites. For the first 5+ years I was oblivious to affiliate advertising. Seriously, I actually thought that Amazon was paying webmasters to host their ads!
A friend clued me in to reality in 2001, and I added links to Bogie-related movies, poster, books, etc., at Amazon and several other vendors. Since then, I’ve made a total of about $2600 from all these vendors combined. Nice but…
Then another friend told me about CafePress, and I started selling shirts and stuff with designs related to Macintosh, Bogart, ballroom dance, and more. That was about 5 years ago, and since then I've made over $4000. Really nice but…
Early in February, I was watching a cop show on TV, and one of the characters, who had recently quit smoking, was using an electric cigarette. I’m a former smoker myself, and this got me really curious. One thing led to another and I signed up as an affiliate for Green Smoke, which appears to be the consensus favorite brand. That was just over a month ago, and all I’ve done to promote them was to put a bunch of banners into the rotation at my Bogart site and post a 10% discount code to a couple of coupon sharing sites. With that minimal effort, I’ve already racked up over $1200 in commissions!
I can’t wait to see what happens when I put some serious effort into this. There are so many things to try, and I don’t know which way to start. I’d love to hear some suggestions.
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Mike Rosenberg
I started a Humphrey Bogart tribute site back in 1995, partly because he’s my all-time favorite actor and Casablanca is my favorite movie, and partly to teach myself how to design web sites. For the first 5+ years I was oblivious to affiliate advertising. Seriously, I actually thought that Amazon was paying webmasters to host their ads!
A friend clued me in to reality in 2001, and I added links to Bogie-related movies, poster, books, etc., at Amazon and several other vendors. Since then, I’ve made a total of about $2600 from all these vendors combined. Nice but…
Then another friend told me about CafePress, and I started selling shirts and stuff with designs related to Macintosh, Bogart, ballroom dance, and more. That was about 5 years ago, and since then I've made over $4000. Really nice but…
Early in February, I was watching a cop show on TV, and one of the characters, who had recently quit smoking, was using an electric cigarette. I’m a former smoker myself, and this got me really curious. One thing led to another and I signed up as an affiliate for Green Smoke, which appears to be the consensus favorite brand. That was just over a month ago, and all I’ve done to promote them was to put a bunch of banners into the rotation at my Bogart site and post a 10% discount code to a couple of coupon sharing sites. With that minimal effort, I’ve already racked up over $1200 in commissions!
I can’t wait to see what happens when I put some serious effort into this. There are so many things to try, and I don’t know which way to start. I’d love to hear some suggestions.
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Mike Rosenberg
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