Sales and traffic are down in Jan 2012 and I wanted to get a gauge from other affiliates on how they're doing in 2012 - my site is in travel (UK plus some Europe)

Jan 2011 was great for us, a bumper month for traffic and sales. Jan 2012 not so much. I've put a lot of this down to our competitors performing better in 2012, better than us.

But what I can't really gauge is whether there's anything wider going on with consumers? How in Jan 2012 looking for you? Is there anything notable about what consumers are doing?

I'm hoping they're booking later

Our EPC is actually slightly up so the site is doing well, we just need to try crank up the traffic

thanks, D