Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Hi Everyone.
Just to let you all know that we have added some new creatives into your links area with our latest best selling deals. We have included the deeplinks too so that you can be sure that you will be converting the maximum traffic you can.
Here is an example deeplink:
http://www.phoneboxmobiles.co.uk/offerview.aspx?bn=601&gift=37&hn=130&nt=1
You can grab your banners/links from here:
http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/programmes/getlinks_url.aspx?p=9982&id=4007&z=13
Our simple, straightforward checkout is also easy to use, meaning more sales for you too.
PhoneboxMobiles
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Dear affiliates,
We have great news! We are now increasing the maximum payout for each sale to £6. We decided that we wanted to reward our hard working affiliates so basically the more you sell, the more you earn in commission. The new rates will start on Monday 2nd March:
1-10 orders: £4.50 per sale
11-20 orders: £5.50 per sale
21+ orders: £6.00 per sale
Top Offers
You might be interested in pushing the following titles at the moment because they are working very well on our own site:
- Arena – 12 issues for £20 PLUS FREE Body Shop set worth £36
- Elle – 6 issues ONLY £6.00
- Psychologies – 6 issues ONLY £6.00 PLUS FREE Allegra Hicks Wash & Make-up Bag set
- Grazia – 12 issues ONLY £13.00 PLUS FREE Laura Tabor original feather cuff worth £50
- Harper’s Bazaar – 12 issues for £12
- Heat – 13 issues for £19.95 PLUS FREE Pure Make up set worth £39
- House Beautiful – 12 issues for £12
- Prima – 12 issues for £12
- The Week – 6 issues free PLUS FREE copy of Short and to the Point by Jolyon Connell
- Yours – 6 issues for ONLY £7.30
As usual don’t forget to contact us if you need any banners to support any of the offers above.
Blog
To keep up to date with the latest offers, new additions to the site and any magazines that have been removed just visit our blog http://www.threepm.co.uk/magazine-subscriptions-blogs/ which is updated every Monday. There is also an RSS feed on this blog page.
PPC Reminder
Because of the nature of our business we work with over 100 publishing companies who each also run their own marketing campaigns. As a result some publishers forbid us or our partners and affiliates from bidding on their brand terms. A list of brand terms that can not be bid on is available http://www.threepm.co.uk/bid-policy.html Please remember to check this regularly as any affiliates found to be bidding on these terms will be removed from our programme.
Kind regards,
Charlene Spaine
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Hi all,
As you will know, AffiliateFuture are signed up to the IAB Voucher Code Guidelines that came into effect on 1st January 2009. Since the guidelines came into play the majority of affiliates have met these and taken them in the spirit that they were issued and only one affiliate has so far been temporarily removed from all the participating networks.
It has been necasary to make some clarifications on the guidelines – none of which should effect the Affiliates who are currently compliant.
Here are the ammended guidelines in full
The aim of the IAB’s affiliate marketing council code of best practice for voucher code sites is to ensure that traffic from affiliate sites sent to merchants is not done in a misleading or confusing way and that consumers receive a good user experience. To this end all of the undersigned networks are committed to enforcing the following guidelines:
1. Affiliates must not use a mechanism whereby users are encouraged to click to interact with content where it is unclear or confusing what the outcome will be. For example:
i) Using “click to reveal code” and opening the site when no valid code is present or an offer/deal/sale is presented instead, without this being made clear before the click.
ii) Using “click to copy code” and opening the site when no valid code is available
iii) Opening the merchant’s site without making it clear that this will occur
2. Voucher code affiliates must clearly detail the nature of the voucher or offer/deal/sale before a user clicks to interact with it (by revealing, copying, visiting the merchant site etc)
3. A valid code is defined as a code that has been legitimately issued by a merchant for your use online. This code will have an activation date and, where provided, a deactivation date. When a code has expired it must either be removed or the fact that it has expired must be clearly stated in writing, not simply by listing the expiry date.
4. Sites displaying voucher codes must contain clear categorization and separation between deals/offers/sales and voucher codes.
5. Any affiliate judged by one of the participating networks to be contravening the code will be referred to the IAB’s Affiliate Marketing Council and all members will agree on a course of action. The discretion of the council will be used when determining what is judged as misleading or confusing and is not confined to the examples above.
If you have any questions about this please feel free to get in touch with us via emailing enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Dear affiliates,
Following our February Barbados Incentive which is coming to an end on the 28th, eGroup have their LAST Barbados ticket up for grabs during March.
So, if you weren’t successful last month you have one more chance! Below I have outlined the qualifying criteria for your entries:
Ticket 3 – 01/03/09 and 31/03/09
Increase your sales by 10% between 01/03/09 and 31/03/09 compared to the previous month and receive an entry to the prize draw.
To help your promotion, here are some useful facts about our insurance products:
ecarinsurance.co.uk
· Up to 4 Cars and 4 Named Drivers on 1 Policy (all drivers must be over 25)
· Inclusive European cover
· Inclusive Legal Expenses
· Inclusive Breakdown Recovery on Comprehensive Policies
ehomeinsurance.co.uk
· Buildings Only Policy available
· Contents Only Policy available
· Home Emergency & Garden Cover
· Personal Accident Cover
ebikeinsurance.co.uk
· Up to 4 Bikes and 4 Named Riders on 1 Policy
· Inclusive European cover
· Inclusive Legal Expenses
· Inclusive Breakdown Recovery on Comprehensive Policies
· Annual and pay as you go policies available
evaninsurance.co.uk
· Up to 4 Vans and 4 Named Drivers on 1 Policy
· Inclusive European cover
· Inclusive Legal Expenses
· Inclusive Breakdown Recovery on Comprehensive Policies
· Annual and pay as you go policies available
As usual, all programmes cross track so please make sure you sign up to all four to be in with the best chance of winning one of the prize tickets:
http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/search.aspx?kw=egroup
Please feel free to contact Stacey Alexander at eGroup if you need any further information on the program.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
I’m happy to say that AffiliateFuture are now on twitter, the popular social network. Start following us today via the AffiliateFuture twitter page to keep up to date with all the latest AffiliateFuture news!
Not sure what twitter is all about? View the Twitter Guide for more infomation and you’ll soon know all the ins and outs and be as addicted to it as us!
Happy tweeting
The AffiliateFuture team
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Hi all,
We’re pleased to announce some more Barbados winners for Magazine Group, UK2 and eCarInsurance.
The lucky winners will be jetting out to St Lawrence Gap in Barbados on the 19th June for a week of Sun, Fun and Rum! Experiencing cultural delights such as “The Ship” and “Harbour Lights” it’s an experience that’s not to be missed.
And the Winners are….
Magazine Group
Malcolm from Magazine Subscriptions
UK2
Adam from Vouchercodes.com
Jamie from Hosting Review
eCarInsurance
Frank from Dotnology
Remember that there are still plenty of chances to win and you should take a look at the Barbados Incentive page for a list of all the current draws – there are another 10-15 places going live this month and it’s set to be our biggest trip yet.
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Welcome to the first of our affiliate profiles – a series of blog posts that give affiliates the opportunity to provide more information about their offerings. If you’d like to be featured then please get in touch via enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Project Name: TravelPixel
Operated by: David Furlow
Contact info: info@travelpixel.net
Deals & offers: offers@travelpixel.net
IM – msn: cybaalien@hotmail.com
Promotion Methods:
Content
PPC
Email list
Voucher Codes/Offers
A brief description of TravelPixel
Travelpixel started life as a pet project of mine while working on an e-learning course at the University of Hertfordshire. Primarily a ‘true content’ site relying on offers and discounts combined with holiday reviews, we grew quickly in the fiercely competitive online travel market with a combination of clear helpful content and innovative use of affiliate tools. One example of this innovation is our UK Holiday section which uses the Hoseasons API (web service) to return live prices. Hoseason’s customers often mistake our site for theirs they love it so much! There is massive scope and potential for travel online and we hope to continue to provide relevant content for users looking for advice. We recently added our new offers and codes section, which has helped us reinforce our standing as a site that provides incremental value. Our offers are, on the whole, updated by the merchants themselves through our custom built interface. This serves two purposes: allows merchants total control over offers and codes and keeps things super fresh for visitors. We combine all offers with our reviews in a brand relevant manner which results in great coverage for any travel supplier that chooses to work proactively with us.
Ambitions for 2009:
To continue to expand our visitor base with helpful information and offers aswell as forging new long term relationships with quality travel suppliers. Also to take more holidays and be easier on new affiliate managers!
Best thing about affiliate marketing:
The ability to move quickly into new business relationships with hundreds of high profile advertisers. The ability to mould a fresh program into a highly organised one with real input on tactics and how to help the advertiser convert better. The fact that a savvy operator can take on some of the more established websites in various aspects is a great motivator for us.
Worst thing about affiliate marketing
The blanket approach to rewarding affiliates through the last man in model. I believe content affiliates that provide pre-sell on behalf of the advertiser to the customer through content should receive a higher % on a sale. This would go some way to encouraging ‘quality sites’ and discouraging the rise in low value add sites such as voucher directories. It would also reinforce the CPA model rather than the CPC model which is becoming increasingly attractive in our opinion.
In a perfect affiliate world:
- Affiliate managers would understand leakage (esp phone numbers on travel sites!)
- Networks would act quickly on rule breakers.
- Communication via MSN and phone would be mandatory, as would face to face meetings.
- Travel merchants would all offer holidays as incentives!
- Vouchers and offers would all have expiry dates on.
Best moment while running Travelpixel
Definitely catching a massive PPC travel fraudster with the help of one of the best affiliate managers, it was pure online detective drama!
Favourite saying(s):
- The cream ALWAYS rises to the top
- What goes around comes around!
Outside of work
Music production and DJing has always been a passion, provides a great creative output for me. That and traveling, which provides the intrinsic motivation for running a travel website.
Get in contact!
Feel free to contact me via the details above. I would be delighted to discuss any mutually beneficial relationships we can forge online via PPC or through Travelpixel.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
As a merchant or an affiliate with us you will notice in some of your reports a field called “Lapse Time”. For the unaware this is the time delay between the last click and the sale taking place.
As there has been a lot of discussion over the past few weeks about the value of different types of affiliates I thought it would be useful to run this report for a couple of our campaigns to see what kind of results we get.
Here is what we found:-
Mobile Phone Client:
- Content Affiliates: 532 minutes
- Voucher Affiliates: 125 minutes
- Incentive Affiliates: 15 minutes
Medium/Large Retail Client:
- Content Affiliates: 25 minutes
- Voucher Affiliates: 23 minutes
- Incentive Affiliates: 10 minutes
Both of the above are based on transactions over a historical period so take at least 500 transactions each into account.
It would be foolish to draw conclusions from two merchants as every merchant will have very different results (as you can clearly see above) but it’s a very useful report to run when you want to analyse your affiliate programme.
For merchants there are two ways of getting to this information – either via the Check Transactions report or by Exporting a transaction report; if you need any help or advice on this please feel free to contact us via enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
New Code12% off our top selling R4 Nintendo DS/Lite Adapter plus 2GB Micro SD Memory Card bundle
Code: r412
Start Date: Feb 09, 2009
Log in to the new AffiliateFuture tools to access the voucher manager and view all available codes.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
New Code12% off our top selling R4 Nintendo DS/Lite Adapter plus 2GB Micro SD Memory Card bundle
Code: r412
Start Date: Feb 09, 2009
Log in to the new AffiliateFuture tools to access the voucher manager and view all available codes.
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