Mobile Phone Insurance Website

This website was our first real venture into affiliate selling.

We signed up to to a mobile phone insurance white label website to enable us to make a bit of cash selling this insurance. There was a recommendation on the site that everyone creates their own micro site, or even just a single page, to help the sales. Basically, this way you link to your own site for the adverts, so that potential customers don't realise that every Google advert is pointing at the same merchant's affiliates....

It worked well, but we never had the courage to spend a lot on Adsense, nor the experience then to find good converting keywords. The site is still about and has now been extended to link to mobile phone affiliates, but as with many of our own sites, it needs some work as it's been left alone for too long.

Overall, the commissions in did exceed the Google payments out, but some months it was close cut due to the very low budget we were running with. If I had the time and patience to try again now I'd probably have a lot higher daily budget and loads more quality keywords, and maybe even make a good go of it.

Maybe it's on the list of work for when I've got a quiet hour or two...

Insurance Website

This little website was a strange one. It wasn't for a local customer, but by fluke he was selling the insurance services of a company that is almost right next door to me - I can see their building from my desk.

He's an insurance broker and I built the website and he got down to the work of promoting it through his normal activities. But he knew that major changes were on the way in the financial services,literally only weeks away. When they came, he pulled the website, intending to move it to a different supplier. I spoke to him a few times and the move and redevelopment was always around the corner. We still host a holding page, nearly 3 years after the site was pulled. I'll speak to him tomorrow and find out what is going on.