How to Study Birds

I've set up yet another ebook site, "How to Study Birds", which is designed to sell an ebook of the same name, plus a free bonus ebook. There's also an affiliate program, run by PayDotCom, which pays affiliates 50% on each $14.97 sale made.

This is my third site so far this year, and my aim is to make one a week.

Valentines Day Recipes

I've set up another ebook site, "Valentines Day Recipes", which is designed to sell an ebook of the same name, plus a free bonus ebook. There's also an affiliate program, run by PayDotCom, which pays affiliates 50% on each $14.97 sale made.

"How to Grow Beautiful Roses" Update

It's a bit over a week since I launched the "How to Grow Beautiful Roses" site. Although no sales have been made yet - and I really didn't expect to have made any - here's what I've done so far.

PayDotCom: Affiliate program has been added there.
Affiliate Directories: Submitted site to directories from that list.

3 affiliates signed up so far.

Article Marketing: Made one article,"Preparing to Grow Roses, or Laying the Foundation" , using material extracted from the book. Submitted it to Article Marketer.

Link Promotion: Submitted the site to General Free list from the Vilesilencer site.

The site is already in Google. According to Google Webmaster Tools, it currently ranks at 9 for the search term how to grow beautiful roses. Not bad going in about a week.

Promotion has gone fairly well, now to see how well the site does.

PayDotCom

I've just started using PayDotCom to promote some affiliate programs. PayDotCom is in many ways very similar to ClickBank, although it does have a number of advantages.

Firstly, ClickBank requires a separate account for every different URL. In other words, you can't sell one product on http://www.firstsite.com and a second one on http://www.secondsite.com. You can sell a selection of products on one site though. Each account requires a setup fee too.

Secondly, until an account has paid out $100 three times on ClickBank, you can't request payments by direct transfer to your bank account. This is a fairly serious (expensive) disadvantage to anyone without a US$ bank account. I would need to either set up a bank account that deals with US$ with my bank, which I would need to have regular monthly cheques in order to justify the expense, or pay a substantial cost each time I banked a cheque, say $20-30. Once these costs start accumulating for every new account set up, it would get fairly expensive. PayDotCom pays directly to your PayPal account, which can often be transferred to a bank account for no extra cost.

Now, I'm sure PayDotCom has disadvantages too, I just don't know what they are yet. I've also added the PayDotCom widget to the blog which promotes popular products from both PayDotCom and ClickBank (see below for example).

How to Grow Roses

I've just set up a site called "How to Grow Beautiful Roses". This is designed to sell an ebook with the same name (plus two bonus ebooks). There is also an affiliate program, set up with PayDotCom which pays out 50% to affiliates for all sales made.