The Sunshine Of My (Affiliate) Life

I'm a big believer in fate. Whenever I trust my instincts it always pays off. I've been stuck in the consumer products affiliate arena for a while and I'm getting a bit stale with it.

Consumer products can pay big money, I certainly cleared up with the Pleo last Christmas - doing around £500 a day on them and have got myself well prepared for this year's "top toys for Christmas". I've even been working on the general Christmas stuff since March and have made myself well and truly bored of the whole FMCG sector.

So I come back from my fantastic holiday in Cuba [pics] and was thinking about setting up a site about holidays to the island. I read about the fantastic incentive to promote Sunshine.co.uk that Chris had put on the forum. Then I get a message from Chris saying they're looking to add Cuba to their list of destiniations. So away I go - I start my holidays in Cuba blog.

Now I hadn't done much travel stuff since I used to do tonnes of flights sales using dodgy doorway page rubbish a few years ago. Those were the days :-)

So I'm a bit wet behind the ears on all this travel affiliate stuff. But the good thing is that these days if you right loads of great content (I'm sure I've written this before) and monetise it well then you're on to a winner.

So hopefully I can find 2/3 affiliate progs to partner with and are willing to work together on different aspects of the site - holidays, hotels, flights, extras then I'm sure there'll be a few bob in it for all of us.

Just time to finish off my review of the Melia Cayo Coco hotel that we stayed in and do all the usual useful stuff for the visitors and then get all the link-building, tools etc done.

So does anyone have any advice as to which merchants to promote. I've obviously short-listed Sunshine and the good lad at Alpharooms, but are there anyothers to work with?

Any help, much appreciated - I'm sure I'm not working in your niche!

P.s. I couldn't resist a fat git pic of me in the pool!!

P.p.s Normall ranting posts will be resumed soon. I've got back off my jollies and am well chilled. Off to Barbados this weekend so will be well pickled and hungover so won't want to start any arguments then either - you lucky people!