Msn, Skype and Instant messaging

A couple of weeks ago I bought a bingo site for the company from someone that didn't have the time to develop it further.

Bingo is really the poker of the moment. There is a frantic scramble to gain players and it's a very lucrative market.

I hooked it up with analytics and it's getting a small amount of traffic, but enough to produce several good conversions a month so it's worth working at.

In the past if you tried contacting affiliate managers you were wasting your time. They were pretty much affiliate managers in name only and didn't really have a clue how to get the most out of a site or show any interest in working with struggling affiliates.

That's all changing rapidly now though and the new breed of affiliate managers are rushing to form relationships with webmasters and try to claim good display spots for their products.

So it was that I came in this morning and got immediately involved with several affiliate managers trying to get me to place their products in the best display spots.

Msn and  IM tools are great for some things but as a time killer they come tops. There is nothing that can drain an affiliates time hour glass as fast as wasteful IM conversations. If it's important it's usually much quicker and more efficient to pick up the phone.

So from now on the IM is going off whilst I get my productive stuff done.

It's nice to feel wanted and working on your own day after day is not much fun I grant you, but the sooner we get to our goal the sooner we can go out and enjoy life.

Storebuilder Blog - Productivity