The Amazon Associates program updates its stats once a day. In the UK, that means new stats going live at 1am or shortly after. I can't remember the last night I didn't stay awake til 1am to see my stats. I have the page bookmarked on my phone and I'm seemingly unable to sleep until I checked my figures. It wouldn't be so bad but I make a paltry amount from it!

Now, I obviously have some compulsion which I need to tackle. I'm thinking of removing the Z from my keyboard since I don't useit much and at least I won't be able to access their site anymore. I always used to be happy to wait until the next morning cos I assumed the stats updated maybe about 7 am or something like that, until my friend checked by chance just after 1am and saw the new figures.

What can Amazon do to give me back my sleep?

It would be nice in this day and age if Amazon could offer live stats. Or failing that, who really needs their stats at 1am, just delay it to the start of the next working day and give weak people like me back their sleep!

[update]

Don't think it's worth starting a new post over, but I just noticed Amazon improved aStores! Previously you could select a top level category and then all you could do was enter keywords to return the products you wanted. So if I wanted to list Nintendo DS Games, I would choose computer and video games and then enter "DS" as a keyword. Only problem was that this would bring back accessories and all kinds of other stuff. Now you can choose your top level category and drill down to the right sub category, which is going to make for better aStores.

Labels: amazon, associates, sleep