Since September I have been working on my gift ideas website. I have hit a few bumps in the road but things are going well, overall. I have been trying to create useful blogs and content on my site and not just short posts promoting items that I think would make great gifts (although that is the main content). It was frustrating when Amazon ditched me but it's not as big a deal as it seemed at the time; I still have eBay! Since many of the same items are there, it hasn't been super challenging

Last week Amazon sent me an email stating that they had deactivated my account. (No, my 180 days were not up). I had made my first sale the week before. So instead of paying me, they found some lame excuse to delete my account. So now half my website is useless. Many of my posts were linked to Amazon. Hours, even days of work... down the drain. I feel pretty discouraged and quitting everything did cross my mind. But I can't quit because this is what I want to do. I want to be a successful affil

My gift ideas website is slowly taking shape and I think it's time for an update! I have become an affiliate on CJ.com and have a few companies that I'm affiliating for, including Wine Country Gift Baskets, and Deewatch. I'm also an Amazon affiliate. I haven't made any sales yet, though. Hopefully soon! Unfortunately, I was declined by Etsy, the ONE affiliate program that I was really counting on (because it's my favorite website and favorite place to find gifts for the people in my life). I ha

Last week or so, I finally began building my website after wrestling with different niches for some time. I ended up choosing a niche that I think might prove to be difficult as it's not very "narrowed down", but I am going to run with it anyway. It is a gift ideas website which will have many categories. I found it hard to narrow it down because gift ideas are for everyone... So far I have made eleven posts on my website, created some categories and placed my posts within the proper categories