Archive for the ‘Affiliate Marketing’ Category

Purely Diamonds – Fantastic Affiliate Incentive

18ct White Gold Earrings WIN a fantastic pair of diamond studs worth £329! From time to time merchants offer affiliates incentives. This can be for a number of reasons – get more affiliates to sign up to the programme, increase sales or re-invigorate dormant affiliates to name but a

New WordPress Application for Affiliates

We think you should be made aware of a brilliant new application aimed at affiliate marketeers who use Wordpress to build their websites. Affiliate Theme is an application that consists of a Wordpress theme that is customisable by the site owner without the need for any technical knowledge of any

Zavvi suspend Affiliate Programme

Just received notification that the Zavvi programme on Affiliate Window is to be suspended due to problems with getting supplies of CD’s, DVD’s and games. This is happening because of the collapse of Entertainment Ltd into administration at the same time that Woolworths did last week.

Commission Increase on Games Consoles!

Since I have recently ranted on about the cut to 0% in games console commissions by ToysRUs, I feel that I must congratulate Dixons, Currys and PC World on the recent increase in some games console commissions. This move is in complete contrast to the usual ones at this time of year. So, well

Zero Commission on Games Consoles – Again!

Just recieved what I think is the first of this seasons reduction in commission levels on Games Consoles to the zero percent level. The first to so this year is ToysRUs. It isn’t that they were offering a great amount in the first place, just 1%, so that’s only £3 on a PS3 console

Stock Checker – New Affiliate Tool

We have just started to use this excellent new tool available to anyone that wants to show the stock status of a product that they are promoting. Stock Checker allows you to place a small piece of code onto your site in order to display the stock status of the product to the visitor. How many

2008 a4u Awards

This years nominations have been announced. If you are a member of a4uForum you are eligible to vote. So, don’t delay, use your vote today, entries close on 28th May. I have just cast my own vote as follows: Affiliate Manager of 2008 Chris Bishop (Hotel Chocolat) Chris has always been of

Thumbs Up For GettingPersonal

I have recently started working on a Gift Site that offers gifts that can be personalised. One of the merchants to feature on the site is GettingPersonal. I’ve had a few sales through them in the last few weeks and their handling of these sales has prompted this post.  Now, some merchants

Sunshine.co.uk Competition – Win a MacBook Air

The travel site Sunshine.co.uk are running an affiliate competition throughout March to win an impressive MacBook Air.   In order to get an entry into this competition, you need to join the programme on AffiliateFuture, post a banner or link on your site(s). Making 5 sales will also get you an

This is more like it – An incentive

Following on from my rant about being dropped from programmes because of inactivity, I have just received this email below. This is exactly the type of thing I was wanting to see and in my opinion is the right way to go. Dear ******** I would like to increase your commission levels by 10%, in