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For those of you interested in affiliate programs I found one called, Options University Affiliate Program. It’s your basic affiliate system, free to join, and you get paid for sales/clicks. Options University is a trading company in Florida. Smartly, they stared a second domain name to support their affiliate program.

For any affiliate program site you will almost always see, “Make Money and Hardly Work”. Most of these sites do offer real money, and pay. When they refer to work though, they mean back breaking work, not sitting at the computer working. Like all things in life, if you want to make money, you are going to have to work for it.

The claim six big reasons you will make money:

• You can earn big commissions. Generous 35% commission paid on all our products and services!
• You can profit wildly from potential competitors. That’s right: Instead of competing against others selling the same products, you can recruit other affiliates first as your sub-affiliates and then earn “overriding” 10% commissions on every sale they make!
• You’ll get proven ads that will generate very high numbers of click-throughs — including our best-converting sales copy, banners, text links, classified ads and e-mail promotions!
• You’ll get commissioned on procrastinators — even after 3 years! If you send us a visitor who doesn’t buy right away — but comes back to our site and buys within three years — you’re still fully commissioned! (They don’t even need to go through your site the second time.)
• You’ll learn how our top affiliates can make $100,000+ in a single month.* Immediately after joining, you’ll get personalized access to our private Affiliate Resource Center, where you can access the quick start training video that will show you how to get started fast!*
• You’ll even receive special perks and bonuses I can’t even tell you about here

Looking at some of their screen shots of some of their top affiliates it looks like they were making on average $100 a sale. They were averaging a 3-4% conversion rate. Pretty good, and if you could get just one sale, it would be nice. Though I was not thrilled with the layout of the site, they do appear serious about helping you make money, and offer several methods in training.

I’ve wrote a few posts about servers lately, and I thought you might like to know a really great resource for all you web hosting questions. The Web Hosting Forum.

Webmaster Forum is an extremely large and active forum. As the title indicates, its primary focus is on web hosting, but it covers several other subjects. The main forum categories are:

• Free Web Sources
• Web Hosting
• Domain Names
• Website Design
• Marketing SEO
• Advertising
• General
• Announcments

It covers several topics obviously, but if you are really interested in web hosting only, you can find tutorials, reseller information, coupons, and a lot more. With over 2,000 members, any questions you may post will get quickly answered. Almost every category had over 20 visitors reading at a given time. You can also earn points by posting, so there is an incentive to answer threads. The site also just gained one new member while I was writing this post, Camp185. I just joined, and plan on making a few posts of my own.

Created in vBulletin, the owner obviously is investing more than just time, but money as well. vBulletin, in my book, is the best forum software you can buy.

Live in the UK? Looking to buy ink for your printer? CFB Supplies sells printer ink cartridges. UK based, they offer wide range of ink jet cartridges, toner cartridges, fax ink films and high quality photo paper, as well as a selection of data storage products including blank discs and memory cards.

They carry supplies for all the major manufactures, like Canon, HP, and Epson.  Fifteen major ones are highlighted on the home page. They also offer Pro-Jet, an Epson compatible ink that costs less. You can browse by product or manufacturer, and I was able to find my ink cartridge for my printer in just a few seconds. I used the method of searching by manufacturer. I can never remember my cartridge numbers. You can choose to create an account for regular purchases or not, a feature I like, but currently do not sell outside of the UK. I live in the U.S. so I guess I will have to continue using Staples.

Overall, a pretty easy site to use. Easy to find the help section, contact information was readily available, they take MC/Visa and a few others. They also took Paypal, which I always like. Current specials they run are highlighted in the right column.