How to make £400?

[Moodyman]

It's the season of cutting grass and trimming hedges.

Go round to your neighbours / nearby streets offering your services. Tools are cheap to buy and you'll use their electricity.

 

[thomas]

Somebody went from my blog to ProBikeKit to look at a Deda Dog Fang costing just over £6 and ended up spending £91.78!

Someone went from my site, to buy a few hundred quid action camera...to spend about a fiver on some whale noise CD

 

[buggi]

i know of a girl who sells her used underwear to perverts at £50 a time online. If you can get knickers for, say, £3... and then cost of postage say £1... then it's a pretty good mark up!

 

[ColinJ]

Someone went from my site, to buy a few hundred quid action camera...to spend about a fiver on some whale noise CD

Ho ho - not so good that way round!

Do you just promote Amazon.com? I'd like to find a way of automatically showing ads for Amazon.com for US visitors and Amazon.co.uk for UK visitors without having to ask them which country they are from.

 

[ColinJ]

i know of a girl who sells her used underwear to perverts at £50 a time online. If you can get knickers for, say, £3... and then cost of postage say £1... then it's a pretty good mark up!

And it saves on washing powder!

 

[thomas]

Ho ho - not so good that way round!

Do you just promote Amazon.com? I'd like to find a way of automatically showing ads for Amazon.com for US visitors and Amazon.co.uk for UK visitors without having to ask them which country they are from.

I have accounts for both, but that was only because I signed up to the .com not realising it was different to the .co.uk.

I only promote the UK site, as most of my affiliate stuff is .uk domain names.

I experimented with geo targetting. You can do it quite easily from IP addresses. Check out: http://www.hostip.info/

I can't remember how it all works exactly.

This is the code I've got...but don't ask me to explain any of it as I don't use it (it's in an old archive file).

//gets cookie about what country they're from.
//$whichcountry = $_COOKIE['CountryGMA']; 
/*
$whichcountry = '';
$IP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if (!empty($IP)) {
$whichcountry = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='.$IP);
}

if ($whichcountry  == UK){
//blahblah

}
else{//other advert}

 

[ColinJ]

Thanks for that thomas - I'll check it out later.

Many of the things I want to promote get 3-4 times as many searches from the USA as from the rest of the English-speaking world put together so if I was only promoting one Amazon, it would be the .com site. What really peeves me is that insist on paying non-US citizens by posting us dollar cheques - how US-centric and old-fashioned is that! Why can't they do what ClickBank (and others) do and let you choose your currency and make direct payments to your bank account?

 

[thomas]

Thanks for that thomas - I'll check it out later.

Many of the things I want to promote get 3-4 times as many searches from the USA as from the rest of the English-speaking world put together so if I was only promoting one Amazon, it would be the .com site. What really peeves me is that insist on paying non-US citizens by posting us dollar cheques - how US-centric and old-fashioned is that! Why can't they do what ClickBank (and others) do and let you choose your currency and make direct payments to your bank account?

...because you're still going to accept it aren't you?

I remember getting adsense cheques in dollars...it was always fun to try and guess how much you would actually get after paying it in!

I do prefer it now how they all just go into your bank account (it was nice getting a load of unexpected payments when on holiday). Is amazon uk cheque or bank transfer (is that an option?).

 

[ColinJ]

...because you're still going to accept it aren't you?

Hmm, I contacted them and their reply was pretty much "This is what we do, so tough if you don't like it!" And yes, I'll take money any way they want to pay it!

How did you cash the cheques? It seems that most UK banks charge quite a lot for doing it and there is a long delay while the cheques are sent back to the USA for processing. I want to find the quickest, cheapest way of doing it.

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I remember getting adsense cheques in dollars...it was always fun to try and guess how much you would actually get after paying it in!

I've got my Adsense account set to Sterling but I haven't hit the payment threshold yet.

...
Is amazon uk cheque or bank transfer (is that an option?).

I haven't signed up for them yet but I know that there is a direct payment option for UK associates.

Payment by Direct Deposit. If you select payment by direct deposit, we will directly deposit the advertising fees you earn into the bank account you designate, but may accrue and withhold advertising fees until the total amount due to you for Qualifying Purchases occurring on the Amazon UK Site is at least least £25 or €25 for for Qualifying Purchases occurring on each of the Amazon DE Site or Amazon FR Site. If you select this method of payment, you must provide us with the name of your bank, the bank account type, the sort code, the account number or SWIFT IBAN details, and the name of the primary account holder as it appears on the account.

 

[thomas]

How did you cash the cheques? It seems that most UK banks charge quite a lot for doing it and there is a long delay while the cheques are sent back to the USA for processing. I want to find the quickest, cheapest way of doing it.

Lloyds never seemed to charge me anything.

I haven't signed up for them yet but I know that there is a direct payment option for UK associates.

That's good...I wasn't sure if I should be expecting a cheque soon or some money in the account

 

[ColinJ]

Lloyds never seemed to charge me anything.

Well, they will have done because we all know how banks like to make money! They will just have made the money through the exchange rate they used instead.

That's good...I wasn't sure if I should be expecting a cheque soon or some money in the account

It will be a cheque unless you set up the direct payment option!

That's reminded me - I must sign up with Amazon.co.uk.

 

[Over The Hill]

If you sell stuff from poundland on ebay - why bother buying it frist and taking the risk. Find a pic of it (or photograph it in the shop) and bung it on, then just go an buy as many as you have sold and post them!
=No outlay and no risk.

 

[Sam Kennedy]

If you sell stuff from poundland on ebay - why bother buying it frist and taking the risk. Find a pic of it (or photograph it in the shop) and bung it on, then just go an buy as many as you have sold and post them!
=No outlay and no risk.

What if they buy the item off ebay, you go to the shop, and the item isn't there anymore?

By the way, I was using adwords, so I was paying for each click, rather than being paid for each click. I promote clickbank products, since most of them pay 50-75% commission, which is a lot better than amazon's 2% or whatever they are paying now.

 

[Over The Hill]

What if they buy the item off ebay, you go to the shop, and the item isn't there anymore?

Better than buying it yourself and then not being able to flog it on. You need to stick with more constant items i guess but if you find the right thing there may be money in it.

Rather than £1 items I would go for £20 or £30 items from Tesco. They sell all sorts of electrical items for next to nothing - there are lots of people who do not realise that a dvd player that was £200 a couple of years ago is now £20, so may jump at it if it was £40.

 

[ColinJ]

By the way, I was using adwords, so I was paying for each click, rather than being paid for each click. I promote clickbank products, since most of them pay 50-75% commission, which is a lot better than amazon's 2% or whatever they are paying now.

Yes, but it's easier to sell someone something like a camera through Amazon than it would be to sell a "How To Make A Million Dollars Online" eBook through ClickBank (though I have sold a couple of eBooks myself).