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Today sees the redesign and relaunch of Bingo.org.uk. I launched it first time round in July 2006 but despite some good SEO results I lost interest and the site has laid dormant for almost 2 years now.

However I’ve had a rethink of my overall strategy lately and decided to focus on just a small handful of core affiliate sites, where I think the biggest earning potential exists. First of all is ShareMyPlaylists.com which, while not strictly speaking an affiliate site, is doing really well and taking up a fair amount of my time. Second up is Bingo.org.uk which I will  follow up with a redesign and relaunch of Poker.org.uk later in the year.

The reason why I am going to focus on bingo and poker is really simple, it’s all about the domains. Because I have the most popular keyword domains for both bingo and poker in .org.uk form they rank REALLY well in Google. As per my “SEO results” post linked above, Bingo.org.uk used to rank on the first page of Google for the term “bingo” with very little SEO work. I found that as long as I updated the site with fresh content it would rank well. Given that bingo is one of the most lucrative and competitive sectors online this gives me a huge advantage over other bingo sites.

So the plan is to use the tools I have at my disposal at ContentNow.co.uk to create content and links for Bingo.org.uk. I’m hoping that after some work I can get back to the first page of Google for “bingo”. That’s the plan anyway, I’m not saying it will be easy but am certainly going to give it a good go. Eyes down!

If any bingo merchants want to be a part of the site then please don’t hesitate to contact me via info at bingo.org.uk.

What I’m listening to right now: 90’s R&B

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Bingo.org.uk - relaunch

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So, my toilet broke the other day (this post is affiliate related, honest) and given that I’m hopeless at DIY I decided to get the Yellow Pages out and look for a plumber to come and give me a quote to fix. Problem was, all the ads in the Yellow Pages wanted between £50 and £100 just to send somebody out. Pirates.

It was then that I had my lightbulb moment and remembered that a friend had recommended using RatedPeople.com which is kind of like a directory of local tradesmen but with a twist. All you do is sign up - which takes 30 seconds and is free - then simply post details of the job. I.e. “My toilet won’t stop flushing!” and then literally within the space of 10 minutes I had 3 calls from local tradesmen asking if they could come round and quote for the job. Best of all, it’s free to use as a customer (they make money from the tradesmen) and none of the tradesmen who rang wanted to charge me for coming out to quote.

So, at the end of the day I got the job done for something like £40 which included the guy making a trip to plumb centre for parts and he was done within an hour. Fantastic. BTW I’m not being paid to say this but the site was very, very easy to use and actually delivered a fantastic service. I hope more people use it and it extends it’s reach. Interestingly, the plumber who I gave the job too said that the site was by far his biggest source of new clients.

Anyway…I then noticed that they had an affiliate programme on Affiliate Window. The CPA isn’t too bad either, it’s £3 per FREE JOB submitted. If you ask me this is ripe for some local search PPC. “Cheap plumbers in Sunderland” or “Find a plumber in east herrington, sunderland” anyone? Go PPC people go!

What I’m listening to right now: Robots!

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RatedPeople.com - great service with affiliate opportunities

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While everyone is talking about this year’s Apprentice final (well done Yasmina), the winner of the show in 2006, Michelle Dewberry has just launched her latest venture Chiconomise.

Michelle, Lauren, Sarah and Sam from team Chiconomise.

Chiconomise started life as a newsletter that contains offers and promotions aimed at women looking for value for money in these current credit crunchy times. However, this week saw the launch of the full web portal to support the newsletter. Michelle and her team seek out the best discounts, deals and special offers from the fashion, beauty, living, travel, lifestyle and food sectors - aimed fairly and squarely at the chic female market.

I had a chat with Michelle today about why she launched Chiconomise and the thinking behind it and this is what she had to say:

“Chiconomise.com is a combination of a money saving and women’s lifestyle portal. I started it because I was fed up with trawling the web looking for deals on one site, sales on another and then content on a third. We have had a fantastic response to launch and I intend to grow it and for it to become the number of destination for everything to do with women’s money saving, lifestyle and finance.”

Part of the site is monetised via affiliate offers, so anyone looking to feature on Michelle’s site should drop the team a line at deals@chiconomise.com. You can also follow Chiconomise on Twitter @chiconomise.

Good luck to Michelle and the Chiconomise team!

What I’m listening to right now: Prince - Take Me With U

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Chiconomise launches, new venture from Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry

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Let’s be right, the new Apple iPhone 3G S is more evolutionary than revolutionary. It has a faster processor which according to Apple means apps will run twice as fast, it has a 3 megapixel camera, can shoot short videos and erm..a compass. You can now buy it as a 32GB version but other than that it’s not really a massive change to the iPhone 3G.

So you would think that given that the iPhone 3G S doesn’t give us anything that exciting or new then O2 would give existing iPhone 3G customers an incentive to upgrade wouldn’t you? Wrong.

Here in the UK, according to the official O2 Twitter feed the cost of upgrading will likely be “monthly cost x months left on your contract, but specifics may vary slightly”. So let’s say you have 6 months left on a £34.26 a month contract that’s £205.56. If you bought into an 18 month contract, which if memory serves you pretty much had to do when upgrading from the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G and have say a year left then that’s £411.12. To add insult to injury however, when you upgrade you are only given the choice of a new 18 month or 24 month (come on O2, 24 months is seriously taking the water isn’t it? There will probably be 2 new iPhones in 2 years) contract. And if you choose from the 2 lower monthly payment options - as most people will - then you have to pay an additional £274.23 for the 32GB iPhone 3G S.

Add that all up and for people on the average tariff with between 6 and 12 months remaining on the contract and it’s going to cost around £500 to upgrade to the new iPhone 3G S. Just for a compass.

To add yet more insult to injury 02 are now offering a “tethering” option. This is where you can use your iPhone 3G S as a modem for your laptop. Sounds good right? As one of the key benefits of the iPhone 3G is that you get unlimited web browsing as part of the monthly fee. Not the case for tethering though. O2 have now seen fit to charge us £14.68 a month for a lowly 3GB and a massive £29.36 a month for 10GB. I really don’t understand this pricing model one bit. It’s free to browse the web via an O2 iPhone but if you connect a laptop to it, it can be up to £29.36 a month??

Wow. O2 can you find any more ways to take your loyal existing customers eyes out? These price plans are nothing short of outrageous. I certainly won’t be upgrading and may even move to the HTC Magic on Vodafone which is free and quite possibly the better phone.

UPDATE:

What makes this even more disappointing is that when the iPhone 3G came out, existing O2 iPhone users could upgrade for free. There was no contract buy out and the 8GB iPhone 3G was available for free if customers chose a £45 or £75 a month contract. You could get a free 16GB model if you chose the £75 plan. Depending on which one of O2’s other plans customers picked, you could get a 8GB model for £99 or the 16GB model for £159 pounds.

What I’m listening to right now: DJ History Balearic Charts

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O2 let customers down with new iPhone 3G S pricing plan

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A couple of weeks ago, well, more like 6 weeks ago, I attempted to do the last post on thatMLMbeat.com before launching our new platform. Being optimistic with the programming that had to be done, I was close to a 100% certain that we would be up and running by now.

But with intense programming, pages of flowcharts and other technical jargon that I don’t want to bore you with, we unfortunately hit a road block.

I wanted to make sure that we cover each little aspect of our social network and deal with all the complications so that it will be a more user friendly system for our community.

Bare in mind, it’s not just any social network, this one has a HUGE twist that will help all network marketers from all companies and systems brand themselves to generate a plethora of leads, etc.

Trust me, it’ll be well, well worth it… muahahaha, muahahaha! (Cheesy laugh with my little finger in my mouth aka Dr. Evil in Austin Powers in the pic)

Okay, maybe that’s a sign that I’ve been stuck behind my computer for waaayy too long!

Back to thatMLMbeat…

So basically the road block means that every little bit of programming that has been done for the past 7 weeks are now worthless. That will be the bad news.

The good news is that it was quite a learning curve and after re doing all the flowcharts and about 14 screen recordings, we are back on track!

So, as from today, we are starting the project from scratch, but this time I am more than 100% sure that we have covered every aspect of our system. But…

I NEED YOUR HELP!!

In the next few days I will upload a survey to get down to the real reasons why people join a network marketing business. This survey will run over several weeks
And if you participate, we will forward you the detailed report as a gift which will help you clarify the psychology and emotional reasons why people get involved in network marketing. I will add the link to the survey on the next post.

Have a prosperous week!

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