When it comes to marketing a site online, you need to have something that is link worthy. Link worthy is when something is so cool that people will link to it just because, it’s so cool.

A lot of times well written content on an interesting subject is enough to do this. But there are times in life that the product being sold is just not that interesting. It doesn’t matter how many articles you right, people are just not going to link to them.

This calls for a different approach and it is one we are working on now with a silicone wristband site we have. We hired a couple writers however, it didn’t take long for all the articles to start looking the same and it was rare for anyone to link to the articles.

In the past I’ve run across graphic designs that were just so cool that I linked to them. This got me to thinking about the silicone wristbands as well as the fact that none of the competition had tried this approach yet.

I’ve got some graphic designers in-house I am going to use and see how things work how.

Below are the original images we have to work with, these are all silicone wristband images and are very boring however, they are mixed in with images that I found online that are not boring to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

I’ve got a client who owns a Silicone Wristbands website. We’ve been handling all his web design work for about the last 4 years and if I say so myself, we’ve done a bang up job. The site is hitting right around $200,000.00 per month and breaking records set in past years month after month.

If that’s not impressive enough you have to keep in mind that we are in the middle of a rescission. You see while some folks started laying people off and preparing for the worst we started testing conversions and working on rankings. The site is not doing as well as we’d hoped at this point but we are clearly on our way to an extremely profitable year.

The current design is less than a month old and we’ve already started working on a new design. The reason I bring all this up is because there are times in life that we have to pull our paints up spit in our hands and go to work.

If people cried less and worked more they might find that this rescission is nothing more than the government’s way of stealing more tax payer’s money. It’s an opportunity to eliminate competition and improve our own business models.

Website Designs for Affiliate Marketing

This is more or less a second part of my rant today. After I finished my rant I decided to put it to the test and made a post about silicone wristbands to show that I’d not make any sales. However, to my surprise I did, as a matter of fact I made a couple sales. But it is still not as good as my silicone wristband site.

When it comes to affiliate marketing you have to have something unique as well as the ability to stand out in that industry. A website talking about how much money you make as an affiliate marketer is not going to make you money in affiliate marketing.

At this moment I have my silicone wristband site that makes me about $1,000.00 per week.

It’s had quite a bit of drop in sales from last year and for this reason we’ve decided to start a website about fundraising events. After all there is only so much that can be said about silicone wristbands however, there is a heck of a lot that can be said about fundraising.

A website about fundraising allows me to stand out in that industry and it allows me to find people looking for silicone wristbands or rather ways to make money with fundraisings ideas.

A post about silicone wristbands on a website about making money online might make me a sale to two today but has very little chance of doing much more than that.

Silicone Wristbands

I’ve been working on and off with Donny over at wristbands with a message for about 4 years now. We’ve created several pretty cool banners for him as well as a pretty cool looking website, that all in all does over $100,000.00 per month and just a little under $200,000.00 per month.

I’m hoping to hit $200,000.00 soon as it would be something we’ve not yet done. I have to say that over the years the one thing that has impressed me the most about Donny is his customer service.

The customer service that comes from wristbands with a message is second to known and anyone in business to learn a thing or two about customer service from watching Donny and his wife and the way they’ve run wristbands with a message.

I’ll leave with you couple more banners but take a moment and checkout Donny’s site as well as his customer service by making a purchase.

Website Designs & Affiliate Marketing

For those of you that don’t know I started playing a little in affiliate marketing last year. I didn’t do anything record breaking however I did make a little over $40,000.00 for the year and really didn’t get started until around the middle of the year.

This year I’m hoping to double what we did last year, however I’ve had to do some reading and studying in order to improve my chances of doing that.
I’ve come to the conclusion most people claiming to make tons of money with affiliate marketing are full of crap. They build blogs about nothing and place ads all over them. Then from time to time will make a post about this product or that.

The blog you are currently on gets about 1,000 unique visitors per day and I could double that if I put a little effort into it.

Here’s the thing.

If I make a post about silicone wristbands, on this blog, it will not make me as much money as a post on my silicone wristband blog, about silicone wristbands. I don’t care how many readers a blog has got, most readers are just that, readers, and will never purchase anything.

You can brag about the number of readers that come to your blog everyday to read what it is that you have to say but you and I both know those people are not making purchases.

The people that are buying go to the search engines, do a search for a product and then go to the website to check out that product. If you happen to rank for that product then I agree, you stand a good chance of making the sale.

But Joe Blow that hangs out on your blog is not buying the product that you’re talking about today, nor is he clicking the banner ads on your site. Hell, he’s been seeing those same banner ads for the last couple months and has become blind to them.

And most likely he ignores the post about this product or that and is more interested in the money you claim to be making. I’d be willing to bet the only money you make is from people buying banner ads on your site and from the people paying you to post about their products. Not only are you not making money in affiliate marketing but you are misleading the people that want to make a living online.

If people would stop trying to bull shit everyone and be honest about what they are doing it might make it easier for everyone involved to figure out how to make money online.

Including the bull shiters.