I, for some reason, have a subscription to T3 magazine. I think I must have crumbled under the power of one of Future Publishing’s telesales reps and agreed to try a few issues for 1p, now I have a direct debit and get the magazine delivered monthly. It’s not bad though and there’s always something to read when I need a poo (sorry! it’s true though).

I was going to download and edit pictures of their fantasy Christmas presents and do my own write up but, I have been playing with Amazons widgets and came up with this.. it’s pretty clever and easy to build..

Not bad for a few minutes work, I think I can work on this some more, combining it with some decent write-ups and other value added information and it will look at home within a post and provide convenient links to the products.

I think this post still needs it’s own pictures and descriptions for the gadgets as well as the slideshow box, what do you think?

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I am an affiliate with a lottery site and have been for a few years now to great success but, I have never really entered the realm of affiliate marketing with products before. Apparently it is supposed to be an ok earner if you have enough traffic (and enough sites) to make it worthwhile.

I get between 200 and 500 uniques a day here, do you think that would be enough to monetize this blog with affiliate products?

I’m not sure, I’ve never been one to recommend stuff just to earn money off it but I have some decent reviews to write about after my new theme is here (still no word from the designer yetI heard from him and it’s probably the best theme I have ever seen!) and it would be nice to offer people that read the reviews a convenient way to purchase the product (and for a little trickle of coins to come my way if they do).

I have seen the likes of TradeDoubler and Amazon associates all over the place, if you use either or both of them I would be interested in hearing your experience of them. Did they make you any money? are they worth it?

How about successful ways that you have monetized your blog? I’m lucky enough to earn a fair amount from my TeamPlayLotto site, full time job and my own company so earning megabucks within a microsecond of blogging time is not really a high priority for me so I’d just like to experiment with some things so I can use the experience for monetizing clients’ sites, if I can get some detailed knowledge of money making website tools then I can pass that along with the clients project (along with an extra charge of course!) and then put some of that money to use for fabulous competitions! …. that would be nice, a self financing contest blog..

Any affiliate experiences you want to share?

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