The truth about affiliate marketing for review based sites:
I have embarked on this area for quite some time and have set sites up in various niches, following best practices and sound research prior to buying domain names and setting out on the plainly dull task of creating a number of sites that you possibly do not give a flying shit about.
Here is my process and findings about doing this for a living, and more importantly, what it means to me to do this for a living, and perhaps you?
A sucker born every minute!
[carry on reading from this point…]
Oh the joys of working from home and setting your own agenda.
I wish that this was true but I offer both some advice and also some words of warning if you are looking to do the work from home lifestyle.
I started working from home in around 2006/7 and did this purely as I could not afford offices, I started a small media company up doing various things related to marketing, design and promotion. [carry on reading from this point…]
OK, so this post is not about frame rates in video (which does relate to persistence of vision and is really quite fascinating)
This post is however very much about how the eye and mind works:
When I started out designing many moons ago, the thing that caught me was that the largest brands on the planet had relatively simple logo’s, the reason behind such a simplified approach became clear later when I realised that a confusing message had negative connotations on how a communication actually gets across to people on mass. [carry on reading from this point…]
So you have decided you want a website to get a communication desire out, lets say for sake of example you are looking to sell some sexy thongs.
A niche industry with the following being a covering umbrella:
Clothing, underwear, knickers, sexy.
So your thinking…..mmmm…..lets get a catchy name that people will remember when they come like…..whorepresents.com.
Yeh nice and catchy, we represent baby!
Two things that seriously reek about this type of domain name:
1) The obvious, I just had to get that lovely Freudian slip in there, others include:
Expertsexchange.com
and my favourite:
Therapistfinder.com [carry on reading from this point…]