Affiliate Marketing blog by James Little

Just over a year ago I had decided that I wanted to grow my hair long; i’d never really grown it before so it was a new experience to me and it turned out that as my hair grows, it curls and gets a little out of control.  Eventually I started to get to the point where I was happy with it (after a year!) but I was taking part in a wedding just over a month ago and got it all cut off.

Now it’s starting to grow again and I’m unsure what to do - my wife is pleaing with me to get it cut but on the other fence many felt it added a bit of “character”.

With that in mind, I’ve decided to start a poll to help me decide which option to go with.

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Here are a couple of photos to help you decide..

Me with Long hair in Barbados (also in the photo are Frosty, Tom and Lee).

At the wedding just after the haircut.

September is a big month for a few reasons.

1. The AffiliateFuture retail event on the 16th
2. Talk like a Pirate day on the 19th (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
3. My Eldest sons 6th (yes, 6th!) Birthday

And starting tomorrow… Tacheback.  This is a charity style challenge throughout the month - trying to raise £1m for the Everyman charity.   It’s really simple to get involved - sign up via their website, get some sponsors and grow your tache all month long;  you can also do it in teams, so if anyone would like to join me in this then let me know and we can pop along to the Finale night on the 30th September.

If I can get 5 people to join in then i’ll keep it on the for Expo in October - much to my wifes dismay!  I’ve set up a team on the Tacheback site so drop me a message below with your name / email and i’ll invite you in!

Sign up & Join in now - if your a lady then you could always sponsor me instead.

My wife has been trying to make our family much more eco friendly over the past 6 months or so and has now started up her first ever website to try and preach about it to the world!

The site is Mums Going Green and at the moment is a blog with her experience of eco living and a little bit about websites and products that she likes.

If you have an eco-friendly site and want to swap links then please leave a comment with the details below and I’ll get it sorted out for you.

The interesting test will be to see if she continues writing content of gives up after 10 minutes like I tend to do with most of my sites (well, give up after buying the domain, at least).

I’ve been playing around with the AF Voucher Framework (more on that here, here and here) over the past few nights and have put together a demo of it at my Discount Codes site.  It’s been a while since I’ve developed much so I thought I’d give a bit of a background into why..

Before getting into Affiliate Marketing I was a developer for One.Tel – an international (at one point!) Telephone & Internet provider.  When I started in development it was a case of getting the site build in dreamweaver but as I developed (I did this for about 3 years) I started building sites in PHP and some wicked stuff in pure CSS/XHTML (not a table in sight).

Unfortunately since I moved out of development I’ve become a bit lazy – I blame things like Wordpress making it easy to get a site going in minutes and selecting from some pretty decent themes. I’m sure that I am not the only one who has gone down this route and is experiencing the same issues!

However since releasing the AF Voucher Code Framework I’ve started to get some of the passion for it back again; playing around a little more with php and mysql and hopefully releasing some nice little themes and add-ons that can be used out of the box.

In terms of Discount-code.eu itself – I picked up the domain about 6-8 months ago and have been wondering what to do with it ever since!  I tried doing the standard blog site and it got a bit of traffic but I didn’t really have the time to keep it maintained.  The idea here is that i’ll get the site into a stable position and then give it to someone else to keep up-to-date or just stick it up for sale.

On a completely separate point - has anyone actually ever seen a .eu rank for anything before?

Up until today I’ve been running on a desperately old version of wordpress and not only was I missing out on some of the new features but the database was also a little screwed so I was getting a few SQL errors popping up over the place.

Tonight I finally managed to sit down for an hour or so and upgrade - I’m using version 2.7 of wordpress which is still in beta so I’m sure there will still be a few bugs but it’s better than what I had.

I’ve also upgraded the theme - I’m not sure if I’m going to keep this one but it’ll do for now - comments appreciated.