Inspired by Chris Frost’s post detailing total sales revenue for 2006 and 2007 I thought I’d take a financial look back at 2007 myself.

Whilst I’m not going to list the individual network totals I can tell you that I generated £1.25million worth of sales for the hundreds of merchants I promote.

Chris generated £1.8m worth of sales, which I think is a fantastic achievement for both of us. All the more remarkable as we both hold full-time jobs, as well as working hard on improving our affiliate earnings year-on-year.

I know I’ve done well last year by winning merchants incentives competitions.

But it is now getting harder to get rich. There is the increased competition from new and existing affiliates, fuelled with new targets to reach by blog posts that inspire.

There is also the ongoing battle to maintain high commissions so that we’re not just fighting over pennies.

Three networks stand out for me in 2007. They may not hold the highest turnover but they are improving more rapidly than the other networks. The basis of the improvement is improved communication.

WEBGAINS

I started working closely with these towards the end of 2006 and they provide the widest collection of Exclusive voucher codes.

AFFILIATE WINDOW

They must have had a power meeting early last year because all of a sudden all their affiliate managers were getting in touch and pushing codes my way.

LINKSHARE

New kid on the UK block and I’m gradually switching all my merchants onto this network.

The network that I’m going to force myself to do more business on is Affiliate Future. They’ve just started communicating with me by sending me a list of valid discount codes. It is the details like this, that really matter.

I want my site to improve by approximately 400% this year. That’s a sales target of £5m and roughly £250,000 commission.

Will I make it? Not currently. I’ve got five other things to sort. Oh, make that six things to sort first.