My enthusiasm is growing

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I kind of accidentally found WA, when I was searching to see if another site was a scam. I'm so glad I did!

My wife and I have a few different businesses running at the same time. We live in Hawaii and we have 6 Vacation rentals in Waikiki that we list on sites like Airbnb & HomeAway. The income is pretty good, and they book pretty well for the most part.

But we've been feeling like we are leaving money on the table. First, we have to share a booking fee with Airbnb, or whoever. Plus, we're always answering questions and providing suggestions for activities for our guests. When they purchase a tour that we suggest, we'd like to see a piece of that come back to us.

About a year ago we decided to build our own site. This way we could book our own rentals and we wouldn't need to share commissions. We still had no idea about affiliate marketing, so we were still sharing all of our good suggestions for tours and luaus, with no expectation that it will pay off (other than having a happy customer, which is still pretty good).

We choose Wix to build our site, because we found that it is pretty easy to use and you can build something pretty nice without much experience. Unfortunately, we didn't know anything about affiliate marketing or SEO and Wix support, which is fine for what it is, isn't designed for mentoring or teaching every detail of making income online...so the site just sort of stagnated.

Now, after a couple of weeks on WA, we have revived our Wix site. We're getting views and even some AdSense clicks. We have a few appropriate affiliate ads for tour companies and we're really picking up steam.

I've got the basic outline for a WA affiliate site and have an idea for another one too!

But my current task is to rebuild a version of our Wix website on SiteRubix, so that when our Wix subscription expires next month, we can move the domain to our new updated site.

Please, if you have a minute, go take a look at our site as it is today. www.tropicushome.com

Post a comment; let us know what you think we should keep and what should we improve. We really need the feedback.

WA really feeds my enthusiasm!

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You really have great writing skills JoeKeriii ... clear, organized & full of useful information ... on every blog. I can't wait to see your website!

The best success to you and your wife in 2017 & after.

As a welcome, I like to like so old post of my new friends.
Nice meeting you dear.

Great looking site, but how does it look on a mobile phone? It probably puts the side bars (where your affiliate offers are) at the very bottom of the content column.

I think K&C are working on a platform upgrade that addresses mobile viewing for our sites.

You are right. All the sidebars are at the bottom. I hope they are working on something. But I suppose I should try to figure something out myself. Another thing to add to my list.
Thanks for the heads up!

I've been concerned about this ever since a friend told me how my site looked on his cell phone. I really got concerned when I learned that mobile search now exceeds desktop and laptop viewing.

I search for a wp plugin that would create a digital toggle allowing the mobile searcher to toggle back and forth from site content column to right sidebar.

The project soon exceeded my pay grade to solve, but I was encouraged when I heard that K&C are aware of the issue (and the trend), and have added this to their platform upgrade project list.

Hopefully we'll see some movement on this matter in 2017.

morning from Canada Joeker iii ifs I make my Million Ill be visiting down there in your tropics mind you those hurricanes are kind exciting....

Congrats Joseph, for going premium and for posting your first blog within Wealthy Affiliate. Well done and to be continued.

To your success,
Desmond

Hello Joe, the site looks great, but does need some way of generating revenue on a sustainable basis. Keep up the good work.

All the best moving forward :)

Great place to be

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