BenWinchell.com

Yep! Thats the plan. I’m officially building a site around those lovable cardboard creations. From the looks of it, the market is fairly small and not too competitive. A perfect situation for me to start affiliate marketing. I’m working on setting up the site with Joomla, but it is going a bit slower than I’d like because of my lack of experience with the Joomla source. However, what I have come up with is pretty nice. It is true what they say about Joomla, it is very versatile. My goal is to have the site working by the end of next weekend. Hopefully that won’t be too difficult!

I’ve applied to a few affiliate programs and have been accepted to some already. I have domain name ideas for each niche and am just wondering if my hosting provider will allow multiple domains in the capacity needed. I need to do a bit more research in each of those areas before I make a final decision on what domains to buy and what programs to take part in. I’m also wondering what type of CMS I should use for each page. I’m most familiar with WordPress, but it sounds like the flexibility of Joomla is something worth considering. I’ll probably go with WordPress because of the easy to use SEO plugins it has.

Hopefully, I’ll have a couple more domains bought and at least a shell of a site by the end of the day. I also need to set up the blog for Lisa and me. This will be more about day to day activities and will give us a chance to relay wedding information to our guests. Check it out at http://www.benandlisablog.com. Also, I’ll be working on fleshing out this site. I’ll keep you posted!

I’m out.

Coming from a fairly extensive background of SEO, e-mail marketing, and CSE feed optimization, diving into affiliate marketing seems to be the next step in my personal evolution in the internet marketing space. Of the three internet marketing channels I have experience with, SEO is sure to be most helpful in the affiliate marketing space.

I signed up with Commission Junction today and began browsing potential partners to build an affiliate program around. Nothing has really jumped out at me yet, but with my day to day work in a very seasonal e-commerce niche, I’d like to work on something a little less seasonal. Obviously it has to be something I’m interested in, but I definitely don’t want to jump into an over saturated market - especially since this will be my first site based foray into aff marketing. I’ll work on this a bit tomorrow, hopefully I’ll get a better idea as to what I want to do with some sleep.

I’m outtie 5000