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Water Cooler / Re: Say hello to Baby Sousa
« on: December 26, 2011, 09:10:59 PM »
One of my grandaughters was 4 on Christmas Eve - and she's a delighful, clever, funny little soul - hope yours is the same 
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Water Cooler / Re: Plans for 2012
« on: December 26, 2011, 09:09:55 PM »
All change this year
Recruit an in-house developer to convert the main affiliate site to a retail site, and create more retail sites within the same niche.
Expand the existing retail site to include kids furniture and outdoor play.
Make more use of Odesk etc to take over the mundane day to day routines
Create more exact-match domains in the affiliate arena.
Create our own range of kids bedding for wholesale.
Shuffle existing staff to maximise strengths and take all the SEO and Social stuff in house.
Patent and ensure I've got the intellectual property rights to the designs of a new jewellery range that I need to launch(super excited about this)
Do all this by mid year so I can go back to 'playing' with affy sites and dreamweaver.
oh, and
cut down on working hours to spend more time travelling and with my grandchildren.
and not grow old
Recruit an in-house developer to convert the main affiliate site to a retail site, and create more retail sites within the same niche.
Expand the existing retail site to include kids furniture and outdoor play.
Make more use of Odesk etc to take over the mundane day to day routines
Create more exact-match domains in the affiliate arena.
Create our own range of kids bedding for wholesale.
Shuffle existing staff to maximise strengths and take all the SEO and Social stuff in house.
Patent and ensure I've got the intellectual property rights to the designs of a new jewellery range that I need to launch(super excited about this)
Do all this by mid year so I can go back to 'playing' with affy sites and dreamweaver.
oh, and
cut down on working hours to spend more time travelling and with my grandchildren.
and not grow old
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Water Cooler / Re: Secret Weapons
« on: December 21, 2011, 09:26:54 AM »
well that was far more entertaining than trudging through tons of Odesk responses - and, surprisingly enough, funnier - cheers.
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Web Development / Re: How can I improve my lil ol' site?
« on: December 14, 2011, 09:48:49 AM »
I'd change the 7 Days to something like - 7 Easy Steps - more time friendly, especially for those who are looking last minute!! and defo have a video in prime position.
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Monetization / Going from Affiliate to Retail
« on: December 12, 2011, 08:53:51 AM »
Finally throwing in the towel with the main affiliate site and transforming it into a retail site, with the emphasis on drop shipping from our own, successful, existing retail site and some of my current Affiliate partners.
The site was initially set up in such a way that adding a shopping cart, should be a natural extension and not really disrupt the functionality.
I know MyDeco are also going down this route - anyone else?
I'm expecting that removing the affiliate links and installing a shopping cart should give me a natural boost - but will it result in getting all those top positions back?
Interesting times ahead ..
The site was initially set up in such a way that adding a shopping cart, should be a natural extension and not really disrupt the functionality.
I know MyDeco are also going down this route - anyone else?
I'm expecting that removing the affiliate links and installing a shopping cart should give me a natural boost - but will it result in getting all those top positions back?
Interesting times ahead ..
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Traffic / Re: Hit by Panda? Them use multiple sub domains
« on: July 14, 2011, 10:59:02 AM »
mmm - been thinking about this myself as the site does lend itself to this - but could it have a negative effect as well? I'm always being told to 'leave the bleedin' thing alone' :0
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Marketing / Re: Most useful thing you learnt this week
« on: May 13, 2011, 03:16:56 PM »
I'm pretty certain I've aggravated the situation by compiling all these extra pages (knee jerk reaction to the US Pandemic!) and the few visitors I am getting are not clicking through to the merchants sites - bit of a bugger when you're an affiliate site!
Going back to basics.
Going back to basics.
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Marketing / Re: Most useful thing you learnt this week
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:02:25 AM »
6 things.
that visitors rarely buy the product they originally click to visit the merchant's site - but often buy something else (I, really, already knew this)
that I shouldn't have produced secondary product pages containing all the essential information - no reason to visit the merchant's site
Google sees such pages as thin, duplicate content
I don't need Pandas to screw over my site - I'm quite capable of doing that myself
I'm a certifiable, blithering idiot.
You're never too old to learn - just takes more time
that visitors rarely buy the product they originally click to visit the merchant's site - but often buy something else (I, really, already knew this)
that I shouldn't have produced secondary product pages containing all the essential information - no reason to visit the merchant's site
Google sees such pages as thin, duplicate content
I don't need Pandas to screw over my site - I'm quite capable of doing that myself
I'm a certifiable, blithering idiot.
You're never too old to learn - just takes more time
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Water Cooler / Re: Quotes that hit home
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:00:29 PM »
Man Plans - God/Fate laughs
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Water Cooler / Re: UK Meet
« on: January 21, 2011, 09:13:58 AM »
oh dear - can't make March 5th as the best conference in the fair city of Leeds is on that date - http://www.thinkvisibility.com/ - can't miss that Mr Hodgeson would be very annoyed 
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Water Cooler / Re: UK Meet
« on: January 21, 2011, 07:52:25 AM »
Doug, you do keep banging on about Vegas - you're as bad as some other folk I know 
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Water Cooler / Re: UK Meet
« on: January 20, 2011, 08:33:34 AM »
The lovely NE coast, just east of Miseryborough - Redcar, although in my defence I'm originally a true Yorkshire lass from Leeds - shame about the football last night, but, hey ho, look what happened last year when we beat Man Utd - and travels not a problem - as long as it's not down in the nether regions of Wales or the South East.
- and travels not a problem - as long as it's not down in the nether regions of Wales or the South East.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: Good reliable hosting in the UK?
« on: January 18, 2011, 09:01:07 AM »
I've recently gone with Clook and am seriously impressed with their customer service. I automatically asked about their premium servers and the nice gentleman suggested I'd be fine with one of their less expensive ones - which I have been.
Yet, our merchant business suffered serious downtime because of Rackspace, because the 'mirror' server was dead for a whole year - and we didn't find out until the main server upped and died as well - cost us a packet and totally screwed up our automatic stock control - nightmare
Yet, our merchant business suffered serious downtime because of Rackspace, because the 'mirror' server was dead for a whole year - and we didn't find out until the main server upped and died as well - cost us a packet and totally screwed up our automatic stock control - nightmare
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Water Cooler / Re: The Official Introduction Thread.
« on: January 18, 2011, 08:37:05 AM »
Name's Elaine and been around a long, long time - sufficient to say since I bought the kids a ZX81 - but only doing t'internet stuff since 2000 ish.
I'm totally fascinated and awed (is that a word?) with SEO, but glad I didn't go down that route, 'cos I've not done too bad with affiliate marketing and I'm a black belt in CCP (click, copy, paste) and knowing when to outsource the big stuff
I think I'm one of the few affiliates who've entered the on-line merchant arena (if you're an affiliate you know what sells!!) and, with the help of my 3 kids (how's that for forward planning) have quite a successful second business.
Certainly recognize a few names and have interacted with one or two and I'm looking forward to learning more stuff, being baffled and being entertained.
I'm totally fascinated and awed (is that a word?) with SEO, but glad I didn't go down that route, 'cos I've not done too bad with affiliate marketing and I'm a black belt in CCP (click, copy, paste) and knowing when to outsource the big stuff
I think I'm one of the few affiliates who've entered the on-line merchant arena (if you're an affiliate you know what sells!!) and, with the help of my 3 kids (how's that for forward planning) have quite a successful second business.
Certainly recognize a few names and have interacted with one or two and I'm looking forward to learning more stuff, being baffled and being entertained.
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