My 3 Minutes Of Fame …. Cough

I had an email from a producer from BBC Essex the other day asking if I could go on their radio show to talk about online bingo. I thought great some free publicity and agreed.  The very same day I went to the doctors who promptly diagnosed me with Glandular fever! So the stage was well and truly set for my 3 minutes of (uncomfortable) fame!

The phone rang today (Thursday) at 10.05 A.M as discussed and I was shocked to be talking to the presenter (thinking I was on air talking in official voice!) Then Dave the presenter said you will be on air after this song - then I was put on hold!  After the song had finished it was time for the interview - I have no idea what I said! I am hoping to catch it later on listen again.  Then another song was played and the presenter assured me that ‘it’s going well’!

We then had a chat about the growth of online bingo and how you play the game with some of the features associated with it. Again I am not really sure what I said but was thanked by a kind lady and was on my way! Phew!

I am sticking with the rule that any advertising is good advertising! Even if I did sound like a blithering idiot! And I enjoyed the experience anyway. And now I can say I am famous

 Edit: I listened again and I thought the interview went quite well, it also lasted around 18 minutes! Great experience that I would love the opportunity to try again one day.

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Wow Valentines Day Can Be Tough

Picture the scene, I am late home from work on the 13th February and I have not got card, flowers or anything for my girlfriend! No problem I thought, Ill just pop into a shop and pick up some flowers and card on the way home.

When I arrived at the shop the shelves where almost bare, I had to basically run to get some roses and wrestle them off some other poor bloke only to see the £40 price tag - to save face I just picked them up and went on a hunt for a card. When I reached the shelf there were no cards either so I cunningly bought a cute generic one - the day was saved and my girlfriend is happy! So this got me thinking about affiliate sales during this lucrative day for landbased retailers.

Checking my stats from the past few days and weeks I can see a peak in sales which is great but I was expecting more! This seems to be a reflection on the forums and other blogs too. So how did you all do over the past couple of weeks?

Also a quick reminder that mothers day is around the corner so now is the time to whip down those valentines day banners or ads and start promoting mothers day. From past experience I can tell you more flowers and chocolates are sold for mothers day compared to valentines day for the simple reason that there are more mothers than WAG’s. So start promoting today and capitalize on mothers day mayhem.

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Microsoft To Buy Yahoo ? Will It Ever Happen?

Reuters (New York) have just announced that Microsoft have placed a bid for Yahoo Inc for a staggering $44.6 Billion, that’s £22.4 billion pounds! If this were to happen it would be the largest merger since Time Warner and Aol joined forces.

My question is two fold:

1. Will it ever happen?

2. Will it actually have any impact on the search engines? (e.g. google etc)

I am going to leave it at that and just see what happens. Your guess is as good as mine!

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An Affiliate Flyer Through My Postbox

I was going through my post on Saturday and was pleased to discover a leaflet from an affiliate site specialising in insurance. They had listed all the deals from the major Insurance companies which included both their URL and offline discount codes realting to their domain.

This got me thinking about offline marketing stategies and whether they could work with any affiliate site. I could definetly imagine comparison sites using this technique and I think I may well give it a try. There are so many avenues that could be used including newspapers, magazines and even radio (this one could be more difficult). Ill let you know how I progress.

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My New Years Resolutions

OK, I know this is a little late but I had to make some new year resolutions based on my affiliate marketing. I will keep it short and sweet as I realise you have probably read a bunch of these types of posts over the last week or so.

1. Make better use of my time each day and make at least one positive contribution to at least one of my affiliate sites every day. This means a contribution that will improve my commissions, however small
2. Do not get carried away with an idea before thinking it through, this should help me achieve resolution 1 too.
3. Spend more time with my nearest and dearest.  Last year was a busy one and I spent far to many days and evenings locked away on my pc away from my family, friends and girlfriend. This year must be different!
4. Make  more money than in 2007 - this is the same as everyone else I guess.

That’s about it really, Hey they say keep it simple and you are more likely to succeed. Best of luck for 2008.

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