Comments on: The English Chilli Company

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:31:17 +0000

That’s a nice looking theme you’ve got there for the new blog, and congratulations on the first sale! Would be great to do a follow up in 6 months or so to see how it’s progressing.

By: KirstyM

KirstyM — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:50:21 +0000

Nice one Alex, I hope that it is the first of many. I used to manage the Greenfingers programme so I’m glad you got your first sale there!!

By: Alex (aka The English Chilli Company)

Alex (aka The English Chilli Company) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:02:46 +0000

Hello Doctors,

I thought I’d just post a quick follow up,

I have been somewhat caught up with the day job, I’m afraid, which does consist of managing the Blue Inc Clothing affiliate program – so I am picking up some useful learnings there.

However, I have set up a WordPress blog here – http://www.TheEnglishChilliCompany.co.uk and I have a good friend who is coming over today to help me polish the look & feel of the site and come up with some page templates as well – so very soon I will be adding lots more content onto it.

Also, I have neglected my other site http://www.TheEnglishChilliCompany.com – however I have just noticed that in July I got my first ever affiliate sale through Webgains – for Greenfingers – which actually came as a result of one of the Doctors recommendations – so thank you for that.

Will post again when the .co.uk version is up and running.

All the best

Alex

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:12:42 +0000

Thanks Nadeem. Glad you like it … lots more to come!

By: Nadeem Azam

Nadeem Azam — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:21:51 +0000

Tremendous indepth advice from the doctors! This is going to become a fantastic resource.

Keep up the good work.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:34:29 +0000

You’re welcome Alex

I wouldn’t think too much about it as a huge mountain to climb … just keep plugging away, add the content and enjoy it!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:00:03 +0000

Cheers Matt!

By: Caricature King

Caricature King — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:54:07 +0000

Very impressive levels of details from the Docs!! Coming together nicely Steve

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:07:35 +0000

Further to Dan’s point 3, make sure you’re consistent with how you link to your home page – you’re currently linking to “/index.html” – it would be better to link to the root folder “/” instead as Google will see “www.theenglishchillicompany.com” and “www.theenglishchillicompany.com/index.html” as two different pages and it could cause problems or hinder you later.

By: Alex (aka The English Chilli Company)

Alex (aka The English Chilli Company) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:25:52 +0000

Friends, Romans & Doctors,

Firstly I just want to say thank you for all your effort & hard work, it is all very much appreciated indeed.

I will go through all your advice line by line and take it all on board.

I think that in some instances you have moved my thinking on and in others have redoubled my conviction.

I think my plan will be:

a) move the site to WordPress (I have started http://www.theenglishchillicompany.co.uk) – this will help me get away from Homestead, their dodgy code and my equally dodgy attempts to circumnavigate it

b) become purely an affilaite

c) I have no graphic desigh capability – so I have begged some favours (that’ll be the good stuff that looks a bit out of place on my site) – I think I will find someone to do this and pay them

d) Content seems to be the way forward

This is just for starters,

I feel like a mountaineer who has, packed his bags, got to the airport, flown to India, travelled to the North and then arrived at the bottom of Everest and the full realisation of what I have to do is just sinking in!

However, I will give it a go and see where we end up,

Thanks again everyone,

Alex