Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
About Monster Travel (Member of the Freedom Group)
www.monstertravel.co.uk
Monstertravel.co.uk is a new online holiday company that puts customer choice, individuality, booking and service experience at the forefront of its ethos, whether that’s online or after sale. Their usp is to offer the consumer the ultimate choice in holidays by offering traditional package holidays and tailor-made holidays using different flight, hotel and transfer providers, all at everyday low prices.
This makes Monster Travel almost unique in the travel sector versus specialist online travel agents who generally ignore traditional package holidays and tour operators who prefer to market only their own stock. Their entire product is fully online transactional.
Monster Travel provide holidays to all European, Caribbean, Far East and African destinations from all major UK departure airports. City breaks are also a big part of their portfolio offering short breaks at great prices. Monster have just launched a brand new ski site, Monstersnow.co.uk (can be accessed via main site, and tracked as part of the main programme), for all those ski and snowboarding addicts out there.
They cover all grades of accommodation and Board bases from cheap self catering breaks in a 2* apartment in Turkey up to 5* Luxury in Dubai.
Being affiliated with Co-op Travel, gives Monster Travel the buying power of the largest UK independent travel agency. Their suppliers range from the traditional charter tour operators – such as Thomas Cook, Thomson, Cosmos and First Choice (providing package holidays), through to hotel suppliers such as Hotels 4 U, Low Cost beds and You Travel, with flights on sale from low cost carriers such as Jet2 and Easyjet; scheduled airlines such as BA and Emirates; and charter airlines such as Thomson and Thomas Cook.
So why promote Monster Travel
- Widest possible range of product with great supplier relationships – Including the big names such as Thomas Cook/Thomson etc.
- Everyday low pricing – very competitive, conversion focused model
- Expertise in sales, commercial, product and service
- Real Service Ethos (during and post sale)
- 100% financial guarantee – Full ABTA and ATOL protection on every holiday sold.
- One stop shop for flights, hotels, “build your own holidays” and traditional tour operator packages.
- Above average online conversion rates – due to competitiveness of products.
- Competitive commission rates and incentives (see below)
- Willingness to work closely with affiliates
- To sum up -Monster Choice, Monster Value!
What Monster Travel can offer you as a valued affiliate?
- Flight and Hotel (Tailor made – build your own holidays); 3% commission. With an average booking value of £1100, average commission earning = £33 per booking. Dynamically packaged holidays equate to 60% of all online bookings.
- Hotel Only; 6% commission. With an average booking value of £450, average commission earning =£27. Hotel only equate to 10% of all online bookings. Their are unable to automate additional commission at this stage – therefore, if you customer books a hotel on its own, AFwill bonus your account for the additional 3%. Please note: bonus payments will be collectively calculated at the end of each month, and credited before the payment run.
- Package (Tour operator packages): 3% commission. With an average booking value of £1100, average commission earning £33. Tour operator packages equate to 30% of all online bookings.
Note: Monster Travel are paying an extra 1% on flight + hotel and package holidays until 30th April 2009 on bookings departing prior to 30th Sep 2009.
Affiliates, who go the extra mile, may be invited to join the bonus programme. If you would like to be considered for this programme, contact Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk with details of your site and proposed/current activity and Monster Travel will review your application.
Voucher Code Sites
Monster Travel offers a separate programme for voucher sites, with a closed user group discount code. Commission for this programme is lower than the standard programme, however utilising voucher codes, will increase conversion.
This programme is hidden and by invite only. If you would like information on this programme, or wish to sign up please contact Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk .
The extra 1% commission is also applicable to the voucher programme until 30th April 09.
Programme resource
- Range of banners covering a number of product areas and special offers
- Inclusion in AF travel services (available as full meta search or dynamic search form - from April 09)
- Regularly updated offers and advertising opportunities
- Regular weekly update on top selling and top converting destinations
- Over 200 destination and resort level landing pages set up and available to link to with pre-populated search fields.
- List of destinations and all possible route combinations.
- Ability to create e-shots and tailored offers listings, all deep linked (contact Vicki M for details).
- Offer Landing pages
- Customer review pages
To take advantage of the programme resource available, log into your account, go to the Monster Travel programme and click to view documents.
Coming Soon
- Stand alone html creative (WC 16th March)
- Hotel level landing pages (in progress – est. completion April 09)
If you would like more details on Monster Travel, how best to promote or just want to give feedback on the site or programme – please drop a line to Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
To Sign Up to the Monster Travel programme – click here:
http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/AddProgramme.aspx?PID=CA9FD45D1FBD
Thanks and very happy promoting!
AffiliateFuture and the Monster Travel Team
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Olympic Holidays www.olympicholidays.co.uk
About Olympic Holidays
Olympic Holidays are the leading specialist tour operator to Cyprus & Greece.
In recent years Turkey, Bulgaria, Tunisia, The Red Sea Riviera, Luxor, Nile Cruises, Goa & Mexico have been added as this tour operator has grown in stature among consumers. Croatia, Montenegro, Malta & Mauritius were added to the portfolio in 2009. The traditional destinations of Spain and the Spanish islands and Portugal are now also on sale. European short breaks by Eurostar are featured by this expanding travel company. Olympic are now widely recognised as one of the best known names in leisure travel.
Flights & holidays can easily be booked on-line with an amazing range of simple 2 star properties to 5 star deluxe hotels, as well as a comprehensive programme of villas with private pools.
With over 40 year’s experience, Olympic Holidays is a name you can rely upon for the perfect escape. From the beginning, their success has been built on expertise and dedication in providing excellence in service and choice. Over the years millions of British holidaymakers have come to know they can trust Olympic Holidays to give them a quality holiday at a competitive price.
For complete peace of mind they are licensed by the CAA and they hold an ATOL license that protects you financially and is your guarantee of security. They are also members of ABTA.
Olympic Holidays make exceptional effort to convert customer referrals and offer a variety of discounts, on top of their already competitively priced holidays and flights to find consumers the best deal. You can rest assured that Olympic Holidays will do their up-most to convert your traffic.
Olympic Holidays Destination Portfolio (in order of sales):
Greece: http://www.olympicholidays.com/greece/q.s.4347.2.q.html
Cyprus: http://www.olympicholidays.com/cyprus/q.s.4348.2.q.html
Turkey: http://www.olympicholidays.com/turkey/q.s.4704.2.q.html
Egypt: http://www.olympicholidays.com/egypt/q.s.4512.2.q.html
Bulgaria: http://www.olympicholidays.com/bulgaria/q.s.4670.2.q.html
Tunisia: http://www.olympicholidays.com/tunisia/q.s.4658.2.q.html
Croatia: http://www.olympicholidays.com/croatia/q.s.4791.2.q.html
Montenegro: http://www.olympicholidays.com/montenegro/q.s.4792.2.q.html
Malta: http://www.olympicholidays.com/malta/q.s.4790.2.q.html
The Gambia: http://www.olympicholidays.com/gambia/q.s.4591.2.q.html
Goa: http://www.olympicholidays.com/goa/q.s.4513.2.q.html
Mauritius: http://www.olympicholidays.com/mauritius/q.s.4819.2.q.html
France: http://www.olympicshortbreaks.com
Belgium: http://www.olympicshortbreaks.com
Mexico: http://www.olympicholidays.com/mexico/q.s.4549.2.q.html
New – Canary Islands http://www.olympicholidays.com/canary-islands/q.s.4812.2..q.html
New – Balearic Islands http://www.olympicholidays.com/balearic-islands/q.s.4842.2..q.html
So why Promote Olympic Holidays?
Key selling points and handy hints to help your promotions
- Average selling price per person is £462, with an average booking value approx £1000. At a 3% commission rate, you could be earning £30 for every sale you deliver.
- Affiliate conversion rate is above industry standard at 1.5% (for holidays), which is increased by the ability to deep link to destination, resort and hotel level landing pages.
- 85% of bookings are for package holidays – meaning higher booking value and MORE commission.
- Low deposits of just £49pp for summer 2009.
- Regular customer discounts and booking incentives. Currently offering 10% off summer 09 holidays and 5% off flight only, on top of the existing 7% online discount & £40 per person summer discount.
- “Live chat” facility, for customer support (brand new service).
- Excellent “informative” travel guide landing pages, allowing customers to research destinations before they book.
- Lowest Price Guarantee (T&Cs apply)
- FREE Redundancy cover – does exactly what it says on the tin!
- ATOL protection – book your holiday with 100% protection.
- Online brochure search and book landing pages. Allowing customers to peruse the brochure of their choice and simply click to book – sending traffic to these pages increases conversion.
Top three brochure landing pages (and products) are…
All Inclusive Holidays: http://www.olympicholidays.com/brochures/all-inclusive-holidays/180
Family Holidays: http://www.olympicholidays.com/brochures/family-holidays/181
Budget Holidays: http://www.olympicholidays.com/brochures/budget-summer-holidays-smart-choice-2009/173
Resource available for affiliates
- Inclusion in AF travel services (available as search panel or full meta search)
- Full list of destination landing pages
- Hotel list and landing pages
- Resort level landing pages
- Interactive search banners (coming soon)
Log into you account to access.
Affiliate Commission
Olympic Holidays pay the following competitive commission rates for affiliate bookings:
- 3% for Package holidays bookings
- 2% for Flight only bookings
- 7% for Hotel only bookings
If you would like any information on the Olympic Holidays programme, or wish to provide feedback, please contact Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
To sign up to the Olympic Holidays programme, please click here: http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/AddProgramme.aspx?PID=06BD84483EDD
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
About LateRooms
LateRooms.com is one of the UK’s leading online accommodation specialists, offering deals in over 20,000 properties across the UK and Europe. Accommodation ranges from budget to luxury five star hotels with regular savings of up to 70 per cent off the normal room rate for a variety of independent and branded hotels.
Available in five languages (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish) LateRooms is designed for anyone who needs to book accommodation, either over the phone or online, 12 months or 12 minutes in advance.
LateRooms’ wide range and choice of accommodation makes it the ideal site for bargain hunters, spontaneous travellers or those just looking for great value deals. Whether it’s for business travellers wanting somewhere in the city after a meeting or a couple wanting a romantic weekend away in chic luxury or a cosy B&B. LateRooms give their customers access to a huge range of hotel rooms, helping them find just the right room to suit their needs
LateRooms key selling points:
- Over 500,000 hotel deals worldwide across over 20,000 accommodations.
- LateRooms has a wide range of accommodations from small b&bs to serviced apartments to 5* hotels
- Customers can save up to 70% off normal rates and have access to unlimited number of rooms available due to the nature of late bookings.
- 5.1% of visitors to the site go on to book with LateRooms. Considering the industry average is about 1.75%, that’s pretty good and is testament to the great value LateRooms offer and how easy it is to book.
- Customers pay the hotel on arrival and are not charged cancellation fees by LateRooms if the hotel cancellation terms are adhered to.
- Thousands of genuine customer reviews to help with conversion.
- Customers can book right up to the minute of arrival
- 22% of LateRooms’ bookings on a Saturday are for the same day, and 50% of all bookings are made within 3 days of travel. So you really can book right up until the moment of your stay, great for those emergency moments.
- LateRooms has an average daily audience of over 100,000 unique visitors. Average booking lead-in time is ten days.
- 25% of bookings made on LateRooms are for branded hotels compared to 75% for independent properties.
What they can offer you:
- 5% commission on all bookings (commission is paid on stay, and will be credited to your account at the start of each month)
- Inclusion in AffiliateFuture – Travel services (live feeds, via affiliate search panel)
- Regular Incentives.
- Excellent conversion rates, due their competitively low prices.
- Deep Linking ,
- Interactive search banners (due April 09).
- Full hotel/stock lists
- Full suite of creative
- Dedicated in house affiliate manager and account manager at Affiliate Future.
Details of payments
LateRooms pay on a “stay basis”, meaning that commission is attributed to each affiliate on confirmed bookings (once the customer has checked in and paid). Reports will be issued on 14th of each month, and commission credited to your account ready for the next payment date.
To sign up click here: http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/AddProgramme.aspx?PID=922757F46352
And that’s it!
If you have any questions, problems or just need help, feel free to get in touch. Contact details as follows:
Late Rooms: michelle.moors@laterooms.com
Affiliate Future: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Thanks and Happy Promoting!
AffiliateFuture and LateRooms
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
About otbeach.com www.otbeach.com
Founded in 1995 on the beach is a leading player in online travel market carrying over 500,000 passengers every year to Spain, Balearics, Canaries, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and The Caribbean (plus many more exciting destinations). The company provides customers with a huge selection of flights and over 30,000 hotels from which to choose and build their perfect beach holiday. The company is now recognised by Hit wise as one of the most popular sites in the UK, ranked #8 in the online travel agency category in terms of visits (June 2008). On the Beach is ABTA protected.
Otbeach.com do not sell “package holidays” in the traditional sense, they allow customers to book individual components of their holiday, using the wide variety of suppliers they have on offer (including all the big names). These holidays are commonly known as “build your own” or “Tailor Made” holidays.
They also have a wide offering in the “city break” world, and excel in destinations such as Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Prague and Amsterdam. Again, due to ability to “build your own trip”, customers can select hotels from the cheapest suppliers, and choose from lo-cost and charter flight operators to obtain the best deal.
So why promote otbeach.com
Well why wouldn’t you….. OTbeach.com pride themselves in great value for money holidays, to fab destinations and at a fraction of the cost you would pay on the high street. They even offer customers the opportunity to pay for their holiday bit by bit, giving them the flexibility to book and pay when it’s convenient for them (providing the departure is more than 13 weeks away). Customers “build their own” holidays allowing them the freedom to hand pick the perfect holiday for them and with such an extensive list of suppliers (from lo-cost to charter tour operators), it’s a very easy task indeed!
- With an average booking value of = £1100, at a 3% commission rate (flight and hotel) – you could be earning £33 for every sale you deliver.
- Over 75% of bookings are flight and hotel.
- Above average affiliate conversion rate of 2.5%.
- Product specific commission rates apply. Hotel only = 5%, flight and hotel = 3% and flight only = 2% (Affiliates who make that extra bit of effort may be invited to join the hidden programme).
- Inclusion into AF Travel services, for live feeds – available from April 09.
Otbeach.com have all the resource you need to help you promote effectively – including landing pages, hotel list etc – all available through the Affiliate Future interface. Log into your account to access.
To sign up to the programme – click here
If you would like more info on the programme, or would like help with your promotions, please feel free to give us a shout.
Please contact Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Thanks and Happy Promoting!
AffiliateFuture and otbeach.com
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
New Code10% off Spring Collection
Code: 28AFLFU
Start Date: Mar 23, 2009
End Date: Jun 30, 2009
Log in to the new AffiliateFuture tools to access the voucher manager and view all available codes.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Get A range of quotes from our five new insurance merchants covering specialist HGV, driving school, courier, home and motor trade insurance!!
Quote Me Today home insurance quotemetoday.co.uk are one of the UK’s leading home insurance brokers. We provide insurance cover tailored to your needs. We will beat 95% of other house insurance quotations – guaranteed. To save money on your buildings insurance and contents insurance get an online quote!
HGV insurance ehgvquotedirect are one of the UK’s leading Commercial insurance brokers. We will obtain the most competitive quotation from a range of specialist commercial insurance providers, saving you time and money .In an industry where competitive rates, risk knowledge and customer confidence are essential, ehgvquotedirect offer these through a panel of insurers with a wealth of industry experience. Our relationship with these insurers allows us to quote competitive rates coupled with professionally tailored cover which gives us the required edge in placing your business at the right price. ehgvquotedirect will beat 95% of HGV insurance quotes GUARANTEED
emotortradequotedirect.co.uk Driving down the cost of Motor Trade Insurance! We provide policies tailored to the needs of Motor Trade customers. So whether you sell, repair, recover, or service vehicles – we will save you money on your motor trade insurance. You can also get a Quick Quote for Car insurance, Convicted Driver insurance & Van insurance.
DIA Insurance DIA Driving School Insurance Whether you are a PDI or ADI instructor, we will provide insurance tailored to your needs. Because we are specialists in Driving instructor insurance, we can provide you with professional cover at the most competitive cost. Get a quick quote with us and drive down the cost of your Driving Instructor insurance.
Courier Insurance are specialists in the Courier insurance market. In an industry where competitive rates, risk knowledge and customer confidence are essential, ecourierquotedirect offer these through a panel of insurers with a wealth of industry experience. Our relationship with these insurers allows us to quote competitive rates coupled with professionally tailored cover which gives us the required edge in placing your business at the right price. ecourierquotedirect will beat 95% of Courier insurance quotes GUARANTEED
All 5 merchants share the same policy on incentive sites and offer £4 per valid lead.
Incentive Sites
At this time, we do not wish to open our offer to incentive sites. This may change in the future but for now incentive sites should not apply to be included in the program as the application will be declined. This applies to incentive and cashback sites. Voucher code sites are not held by this restriction and are welcome to apply to the program.
Full details on all of our insurance merchants
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
We are pleased to welcome Running Bare to the AffiliateFuture network
Running Bare UK Ltd is a leading retailer of women’s activewear, footwear and swimwear. Founded in 2004, Running Bare operates three stores in London and Tunbridge Wells as well as its online store.
Running Bare is the leading online retailer of FitFlops in the UK, with a full range, and unparalleled stock levels of this highly popular product, ensuring that your visitors will be able to find exactly what they are looking for.
We offer a wide range of stylish and high performance leisure, active and foot wear aimed at women from brands including:
Footwear:
FitFlops
Asics
Activewear/Leisurewear:
Running Bare
Asics
ATLA
Helly Hanson
Ronhill
Shock Absorber
Swimwear:
SeaSpray
SunSeeker
Yoga/Pilates Accessories
Gaiam
Yoga Mad
Accessories
Nathan
Polar
Please visit http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/AddProgramme.aspx?cat=124&id=4057 for more information and to start promoting Running Bare!
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
About Sunshine.co.uk www.sunshine.co.uk
Sunshine.co.uk was born in 2007 – the brain child of affiliates, with vast experience in travel affiliate marketing.
Because of their success as a travel affiliate and knowledge gained in the industry, they designed the site, affiliate programme, products and services – completely with affiliates in mind.
Sunshine.co.uk first hit the industry headlines, when they decided to launch their new site – marketing purely through affiliates! The programme launched in February 2008 and within the first twelve months became a multi award winning travel site and programme – with their first award being Chris Clarkson’s achievement as the A4U “Affiliate Manager of the year” quickly followed by “Winner of the Best Use of Affiliate Marketing” at the IMA awards and a highly commended at the econsultancy Innovation Awards.
Sunshine continues to build on success, adapting and changing to meet both the demands of their advertisers and customers, whilst maintaining great relationships with their ever growing army of loyal affiliates.
So what do they sell?
Sunshine.co.uk specialises in low cost holidays, charter tour operator holidays, budget flights and discounted hotels, all bookable online with no hidden extras. Selling cheap holidays, hotels and flights at prices well below the market average is their thing. By keeping their prices low customers can be happy in the knowledge they are getting a great holiday deal. As a result of the dedication to their customers and ability to offer great value for money, Sunshine.co.uk is now the UK’s leading online independent travel agent!
Sunshine.co.uk is pretty much a one stop shop for travel, offering pre packaged tour operator holidays (from all the big names), the ability to “build your own” holiday – allowing customers to select the hotel and flight they want (from a range of low cost and charter airlines), flight only and accommodation only. Their affiliation with Hays Travel, gives them great buying power, leading to low prices and a very attractive customer offering indeed.
Sunshine’s range of destinations is second to none, ensuring a broad consumer appeal. Destinations range from the well known European countries (canaries, Spain, Balearics, Greece etc), to Africa (Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco) – even central and southern America…
They offer a variety of accommodation, from All Inclusive and Half Board, to BB and Self Catering. Sunshine particularly excels in Family holidays and last minute deals.
So why Promote Sunshine.co.uk?
- Sunshine.co.uk is run by affiliates – for affiliates. Their experience in both the travel and affiliate industry, allows them to stay one step ahead of the game!
- Competitive commission rate of 7% on ALL products (exc flight only). NB: when a customer purchases a flight and hotel (non pre-packages), commission is calculated on hotel part only.
- With an average booking value of £473, on a 7% commission rate, you could be earning £33 for every sale you deliver (based on average commissionable basket value i.e., doesn’t include flights)
- Dedicated affiliate resource – downloadable from their affiliate page and via Affiliate Future (see “resource materials” for details).
- Dedicated “award winning” in house affiliate manager.
- Regular incentives – such as sponsorship of 6 places to Barbados on the Affiliate Future trip, and have even ran their own “FAM Trip” incentive. (FAM – aka “Familiarisation trips – often used for agents to gain knowledge on the products they sell)
- Quite simply – they have excellent technology, innovative thinking and one of the best affiliate programmes in Travel!
Resource Material
- Sun press plug-in… Designed to help you build your holiday site and add XML search to your site with no XML knowledge required!
- Affiliate Future video interviews (hear from the horses mouth how best to promote Sunshine)
- Hotel lists and deep links (available as xls, csv and xml)
- Destination and resort level lists (available as xls, csv and xml)
- Java Script search boxes (increases conversion by deep linking to results)
- HTML Newsletters – create your own email.
- Copy and images - for inclusion in affiliate website editorial and emails.
- Generic and deal-specific banner ads, dynamically fed with hourly updates.
- Multiple RSS feeds (containing Sunshine’s best offers)
- Conversion tips – regularly updated spreadsheet of the most popular and highest converting links
- Chat facility linking affiliates with the Sunshine.co.uk affiliate team in real time
To access any of the above, please visit www.sunshine.co.uk/affiliates
Please note: You will need to add your AffiliateFuture tracking script to any deep links etc you take from here.
Top Tips for promoting Sunshine.co.uk
- All Inclusive holidays equate to 27% of all online bookings – For all inclusive holidays, send traffic to: http://www.sunshine.co.uk/holidays/all-inclusive/
- Family holidays (hotels with free child places or kids clubs) equate to 33% of all online sales. Send traffic here: http://www.sunshine.co.uk/holidays/family-holidays/
- 51% of bookings are for hotel and flight (build your own)
- 1% of bookings are charter tour operator (pre packaged) holidays. Tour Operator packages are new to Sunshine, therefore currently equate to small volume.
- Using SunPress, your visitors complete the availability search process on YOUR site, and land in page 1 of sunshine’s 2 page booking process. To take advantage of SunPress – go to www.sunshine.co.uk/affiliates
- Narrowing down the customer journey – increases conversion. If you are directly promoting a hotel – deep link to the hotel page, if promoting a resort – link directly to that resort and so on… See below for Sunshine’s top performing destinations and landing pages.
Resource material above is available to pick up/download from www.sunshine.co.uk/affiliates
“Sunshine” are constantly up-dating their top performing destination spreadsheets – so it’s easy to keep on top of what’s selling and what to promote.
Not promoting Sunshine.co.uk? – Click here to sign up: http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefuture.co.uk/merchants/AddProgramme.aspx?PID=C645CF1FC9A3
If you would like any further info on Sunshine.co.uk, their affiliate programme and or wish to provide feedback, please contact:
Affiliate Future: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Sunshine: affiliates@sunshine.co.uk
Thanks and happy Promoting!
AffiliateFuture and Sunshine.co.uk
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
About Alpharooms.com
Alpharooms.com has become recognised as one the best online hotel and apartment booking companies on the Internet. Launched in 1998, Alpharooms.com has seen significant growth in bookings over the last few years and this trend is set to continue. The re-brand to alpharooms.com (from alpha-beds.com) was part of alpha’s growth strategy to develop a more memorable and relevant brand name. With over 35,000 discounted hotels and apartments worldwide, ranging from budget accommodation to 5* luxury, Alpharooms has something to suit everyone’s needs.
Alpharooms.com now also offer package holidays from all the leading tour operators, often at a cheaper price. Package Holidays are fully protected via the tour operators ATOL license.
Alpharooms.com is also ABTA and ATOL bonded in its own right, which basically means they have done all they can to offer customers full protection on their dynamically packaged bookings. Illustrated on the website – http://www.alpharooms.com/webpages/atol/atol.aspx
Over the past year Alpharooms have changed their product offering and image to customers to be seen as a one stop shop for all travel needs and this has really benefited affiliates. When on the alpharooms.com site users are encouraged to buy ancillary products, from car hire and airport transfers to travel insurance and ski extras. All of the products they sell pay a commission to affiliates, so a £20 commission on a hotel can quickly double once the ancillary products are factored in.
| So why Promote Alpharooms.com
Well aside from the massive product offering and the fact that they are quite literally a one stop travel shop, Alpha has one of the best affiliate programmes in the industry. Here are a few reasons why you should promote Alpha Rooms:
- - Above industry standard affiliate conversion rate. This, combined with AffiliateFuture’s ability to track without cookies, gives you an excellent return on your traffic.
- - Average Basket value of £250 – so you could be earning £18 on every sale you make.
- - Deep linking to all destinations, resorts and hotels
- - Inclusion in AF Travel services for accommodation only (package hols coming soon)
- - Dedicated in house affiliate manager and account manager at Affiliate Future
- - Interactive search banners
- - Top performing hotels and destinations
- - Closed user group vouchers available (separate programme – contact Daniel@alpharooms.com to apply for code)
Landing pages, search banners and additional resource material – available through the AF interface. Log into you account to access. |
Important info for Cash back, Incentive and Voucher sites
Voucher Code Sites
Alpharooms.com permits affiliate sites to show relevant discount codes and/or promotional offers to their visitors. These codes or offers must be visible to the user without an action that would trigger your affiliate link and create an affiliate cookie on the visitor’s machine.
Cashback and incentive websites
Websites offering an incentive to their visitors to make a purchase via alpharooms.com are asked to email Daniel@alpharooms.com once they have applied to the programme. They operate a reduced commission tier for these sites and details will be provided by email. Sites offering an incentive but failing to declare so will not be paid commission on sales generated.
To sign up to the main programme – click here
If you have any questions, problems or just need help – feel free to get in touch. Contact details as follows:
Alpha Rooms: Daniel@alpharooms.com
Affiliate Future: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Dear all,
Well it’s been a busy old month here at LateRooms – and we are only half way through it!
The reason for the post is that we have some rather exciting news for you, as well as heads up on our best offers for Easter and information on our now “extended” Barbados Incentive.
So here goes…….
LateRooms now live in AffiliateFuture Travel services
We are very pleased to announce that LateRooms.com are now fully integrated into AffiliateFuture travel services, meaning that our results are present in both the search panel and full Meta search – provided by AffiliateFuture. Due to our massive data base of hotels and extremely competitive prices – conversion through these applications is forecast to be high! If you’re not utilising the search, we suggest you do. Here’s how you take advantage:
- Search Panel - If you only have a small amount of space on your site, you can take the AffiliateFuture travel services – search panel. The search panel contains ALL of our hotels and live availability. Once the search is conducted on your site, you are presented with a list of results (some ours, some other merchants), and then the customer can choose which one they want to go with and click through to book. Again – our low prices and vast array of properties, means that we are always present in the results. To gain access to the search panel, log into you account, click on “interactive tools” and select “accommodation search”. Instructions are simple to follow and you could have fully interactive search technology at the click of a button. There are several search box size formats available, and each can be colour customised to fit in with your website design.
Please note: When you add the search box to your site, all commissions generated will appear in your reports under the merchant name AF Travel Services.
For the more “technical affiliate” the above is also available as a full Meta search. Please contact AffiliateFuture for details on this.
Barbados Incentive – Extended!
As you may or may not be aware, LateRooms.com is sponsoring one very lucky affiliate, to take part in the AffiliateFuture Barbados networking trip. The incentive launched on 1st March and was due to finish at the end of March. However, we think that this is a little unfair, as we really haven’t given you enough time to get your teeth into it and with the arrival of live availability through AF, you could now be in with a higher chance of winning.
Therefore, we have decided to extend the incentive until the end of April 09.
Criteria as follows: For every sale you deliver (booking and check in date must be in March or April 09), you will be entered into the prize draw. The comp finishes on 30th April; and the winner will be drawn at random.
If you would like more information on the trip – or incentive, please contact Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk or michelle.moores@laterooms.com
Our Latest Offers
So Easters on its way… and do we have some cracking deals for our customers!
A posh Easter – 4 & 5 Hotels*:
http://www.laterooms.com/en/p5150/r1…_luxury-hotels
A bargain Easter – Rooms under £50
http://www.laterooms.com/en/p5150/r1…3_cheap-hotels
A discount Easter – Hotels with most % discount
http://www.laterooms.com/en/p5150/r1…nt-hotel-rooms
A value Easter – Hotels with the highest % discount
http://www.laterooms.com/en/p5150/r1…=4_hotel-deals
An intimate Easter – Hotels with 10 rooms or less
http://www.laterooms.com/en/p5150/r1…-family-hotels
New creative to support Easter messages are now available. Log into your account to access.
Don’t forget – you can now deep link to LateRooms – which is a proven method of improving conversion.
Not promoting LateRooms…? Here’s what we have to offer…
- Over 500,000 hotel deals worldwide across over 20,000 accommodations.
- LateRooms has a wide range of accommodations from small b&bs to serviced apartments to 5* hotels
- Customers can save up to 70% off normal rates and have access to unlimited number of rooms available due to the nature of late bookings.
- 5.1% of visitors to the site go on to book with LateRooms. Considering the industry average is about 1.75%, that’s pretty good and is testament to the great value LateRooms offer and how easy it is to book.
- Customers pay the hotel on arrival and are not charged cancellation fees by LateRooms if the hotel cancellation terms are adhered to.
- Thousands of genuine customer reviews to help with conversion.
- Customers can book right up to the minute of arrival
- 22% of LateRooms’ bookings on a Saturday are for the same day, and 50% of all bookings are made within 3 days of travel. So you really can book right up until the moment of your stay, great for those emergency moments.
- LateRooms has an average daily audience of over 100,000 unique visitors. Average booking lead-in time is ten days.
- 25 per cent of bookings made on LateRooms are for branded hotels compared to 75 per cent for independent properties.
If you are not signed up to the programme, and would like to – please click here: http://afuk.affiliate.affiliatefutur…D=922757F46352
Details of payments
LateRooms pay on stay, meaning that they credit your account once the customer has checked in a paid. All transactions track at 0.01p and the correct commission manually bonused around the 14th of each month.
Commission is paid at 5%.
Ok – that’s it for now. If you would like any further info on the details of this post, LateRooms and or their affiliate programme, please feel free to get in touch.
Late Rooms: michelle.moors@laterooms.com
Affiliate Future: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Thanks and Happy Promoting.
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