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It’s been a few weeks since our last Day in the Life - A few people who promised to do one haven’t delivered yet, so I’ll be out chasing them over the coming weeks.. you know who you are, and you have been warned guys!

I’m really glad that Elaine agreed to share a Day in her life with us, as she’s one of the friendliest people I’ve met in Affiliate Marketing, and a great character with fantastic northern humour (She supports Leeds United) and a love of tiaras! Here she fills us in on a typical day with the Childrens Rooms empire (The Childrens Rooms affiliate program is on Paid on Results, and pays 7.5% commission), which revolves nicely around the Television schedules (You’ve got to love Sky+)…

7.30 – arise and shine – either me or Dave gets Ollie up, fed and off to school. Dave usually makes me a cup of detox tea, quickly followed by a cup of coffee while I’m checking the previous days stats whilst watching another snoring feature on GMTV, paying particular attention to Amazon as it’s quite easy to spot trends and hidden gems, which go down well with my visitors.

8.30 – wave Dave on his way to Children’s Rooms – he works there a couple of days a week - then don my wireless head phones for 30 minutes on the treadmill accompanied by the Sopranos (I also watch this when ironing – unfortunately the cleaner interrupted me during quite a raunchy episode – I’m sure she thinks I was watching something else entirely :0), we’ve also recently invested in a Power Trainer, so 10 minutes extreme vibrating before heading for the shower.
NB – with all this exercising you would think I’d be a shadow of my former self – unfortunately not so – but I reckon I’ve got a good chance with the Ladies Shot Putting team for the 2012 Olympics.

10.00 – check emails and make sure visitor levels are stable. If pages have fallen I need to ascertain why (it’s usually something I’ve done or not done!) or if a page is proving extremely popular check that I’ve got the latest offers and nothing is out of stock. Then it’s a quick tidy round and breakfast with Phil and Fern.

11.00 – In the car and a 20 minute drive to Children’s Rooms, where I meet up with my other half and Andrew. Much to discuss today and Andrew has thankfully typed up an agenda to keep us focussed. We’re in the final throes of completing on our new premises and all the bureaurcracy that that entails, deciding on who is going to be doing what as the company grows and the ranges and products we hope to introduce over the coming year. How we’re going to juggle PPC, the Affiliate arena and other sales channels and whether to go down the Order Fulfilment Route now that we have the extra space, The meeting goes well and we’re all very keyed up and excited about the future of Children’s Rooms.

2.30 – back home and a sandwich before settling down on the computer to do some general house keeping on the website – update some pages, tweak others for SEO purposes, send some link requests, check stats, catch up with the forum, Have a natter with one of my sisters or friends – working from home doesn’t count as work!

3.40 – wonder where Ollie is, he should have been home from school by now – he saunters in ten minutes later and tries to sneak onto WOW (World of Warcraft) before changing out of his uniform. Back to the computer until either Dave comes home or it’s 4.40 and time to catch the end of Deal Or No Deal.

5.00 - discuss what we’re having for tea, check to see if we’ve got anything in and decide who’s going to cook it – me, Dave or the local gastro-pub whilst trying to ignore Ollie’s cries of MaccyDees, MaccyDees.

6.30 – shoo Ollie out of the house to go play with his mates – in 5 minutes he can be on the beach, at the park or swinging from the ‘tarzie’ in the woods yet he’d be WOWing all night if we let him - another hour on the ‘puter for me before Coronation Street commences the evenings television viewing.

7.30 – skyplus Coronation Street as eldest son and wife – ourkev and Ditzy to you – pop round to discuss the latest developments with Nursery Rooms and Kids Shopping - our drop shipping sites that are coming along nicely - which will soon showcase some lovely children’s bedroom and nursery furniture from Germany – yep we’re going international – thank heavens they speak English so well.

9.00 settle down for the Apprentice and Desperate Housewives and then head for bed.

Tomorrow’s another day and I think I’ll be wearing my Grandma hat for most of it, and keeping company with Phil, Fern, the Loose Woman and David Dickinson – oh and Baby TV – although I might get a little bit of shopping-time in

Thanks for that Elaine, and Good Luck to Leeds on Sunday!

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