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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Good Afternoon
Are you looking football related merchants to promote this World Cup? Then looking no further then the AffiliateFuture resource centre!
Our seasonal resource centre’s are packed with incentives, special offers and idea’s on which merchants to promote. To access the world cup centre click here and use your login details as normal.
If you have any questions please drop us a line and as always your feedback is very much appreciated.
Best regards
Nicky
Head of Retail
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
We have just sent out an email to all of our affiliates and advertisers about some changes that are going to be happening to the standard AffiliateFuture payment terms over the next month or two. Please make sure that you take a read through these as it’s quite a major change to the way in which we work.
A copy of the email to all of our affiliates can be found below. If you have any questions please either leave a comment or email us at enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk.
We are writing to inform of some important changes to the payment terms with AffiliateFuture that will be happening over the next few weeks.
As you will be aware, AffiliateFuture’s current payment terms state that we pay on the 28th of each month with the full commission generated from the previous month’s activity, regardless of if we have been paid by the merchant or not.
To bring us inline with the industry and to protect our business we shall be moving to a post-payment system, paying only when the commission from each individual merchant is paid. As part of the change we will be moving to two payment dates per month. The new payment dates will be the 1st and 15th of each month.
To give you a better understanding of how our payment system works, merchants pay in three different ways; pre-payment, direct debit or invoices ( 99% of our invoice clients have a payment date of 30 days or less).
All of our merchants will also be made aware of these changes and the importance of paying on time to ensure speedy payment to you as an affiliate.
These changes will come into effect for transactions generated from April 2010 so your last payment based on the old payment model will be later this month.
To avoid any element of doubt, the payment that would be scheduled for 28th May will no longer happen, and the new payment upcoming payment schedule will be:
- 1st June – This payment will cover all commission generated from 1st April – 14th May that has been paid by the merchant. Please note that merchants must have cleared all outstanding monies for transactions prior to April 2010.
- 15th June – This payment will cover all commission generated in May that has been paid by the merchant, plus additional payments from April that have now been resolved.
Further payments will be made on the 1st and 15th of each month, for transactions paid 15 days previously. If either of these dates lie on a weekend then the payment will roll back to the following Monday.
To offer full visibility on your payments we will be offering a number of new reports that will give you a full breakdown of each transaction and it’s payment status along with providing details stating if a merchant is up to date on their payments before you start promoting them, giving you the ability to minimise your risk.
Your payment for transactions made in March will be paid as normal on the 28th April.
We understand completely the importance of this change to your business and as always we welcome your feedback and are available to discuss it over email or by calling 020 7936 6700
If you have any questions about this then please get in touch.
Regards
Pete Dickenson
Managing Director
www.affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Good Morning
We are pleased to announce that we have brought our payment for global (non UK originated bookings) in line with our UK programme, meaning we will now pay the standard 2% commission of the GBP booking value on any booking in any territory, excluding the great introductory 3% commission for three months for all new affiliates.
This development is really important for us, as publishers can now be rewarded equally for all sales made in and outside of the UK. Bringing the remuneration process in line with our UK programme should make it easier for publishers to understand our programme and know exactly what they will be earning from the bookings they make. We are committed to our affiliate programme and to giving publishers great opportunities to maximise their earning potential and over the coming months we will be communicating more and more special offers from around the world.
The change came into play on 24 February so all transactions from this date will be paid for at the 2% rate, which is fantastic new for our publishers!
If you have any questions at all please feel free to contact me.
Nicky March
Head of retail
nicky.march@affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Hi affiliates,
AffiliateFuture’s Mother’s Day resource centre is now live in the affiliate interface! This will help you with everything you need to promote Mother’s Day 2010, which is just around the corner on Sunday 14th March.
Categories covered in this resource centre are:
* Flowers
* Chocolate
* Fragrance
* Beauty
* Experiences
* Gifts
* Jewellery
* Food & Drink
As well as giving you ideas of what to promote, we’ve also included relevant material such as Mother’s Day landing pages, banners, voucher codes and more. Merchants include Flowers Direct, Fragrance Direct, Chocolate Trading Co., Firebox, Spa Finder and Magazine Group.
If you need any further help or advice, or you would like to arrange something exclusive with one or more of our merchants, please do not hesitate to contact us directly via enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk or 0207 936 6700.
Kind regards
AffiliateFuture
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Hi all,
We’ve got a spare affiliate ticket to give away for the A4UExpo London which is being held at the ExCel center on 13th-14th October 2009.
There are a few different ways in which you can get an entry to win a ticket, all of which are listed below:
1) Ask us a question! We want to post some more answers to your questions about AffiliateFuture or Affiliate Marketing in general as part of our Ask AffiliateFuture set of blog posts. You can either reply here or ask your question via twitter – our twitter account is @AffFutureUK.
2) Start following us on twitter – our twitter account is @AffFutureUK.
3) Tweet about this competition – make sure that you @reply to @AffFutureUK so we can make sure we get your entry.
All entries need to be in by midday on Friday 9th October and the winner will be notified on the same day – there is no cash alternative to this prize and the ticket doesn’t include hotel accommodation or travel.
Thanks & Good Luck!
The AffiliateFuture Team
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
To celebrate the launch of the new Vernons.co.uk website, we are increasing the affiliate commission for all affiliates (except cashback/incentive sites) during the month of October and have some great new creative available to help you drive more new player sign ups.
£30 Increased commission for October
All affiliates (excluding cashback/incentive sites) will receive an amazing £30 commission for every new player that signs up and deposits £10. This is an increase from the usual £20 commission, so now has never been a better time to give Vernons some extra exposure on your site.
This £30 commission level will be in place from 1st October – 31st October 2009 so make sure you are promoting Vernons today!
New Creative
We have new creative available for you to display on your site. Please make sure you pick up this new creative, which is available in a range of sizes and in the following categories:
Generic
Instant Win
Jackpots
Vernons website updates
To give you some information on what is planned on the Vernons site over the next few months:
October – 5 new Instant Win games to be launched, with the theme of Great British Games. 2 new Slots games to be added.
November – New TV games Instant Win section is launched and new 2 new Blackjack games.
If you have any questions on the Vernons affiliate program, then please do not hesitate to get in touch with us vernons@bigmouthmedia.com especially if you have ideas to help drive more new player registrations.
Sign up to our affiliate programme through AffiliateFuture today.
Many thanks
The Vernons Affiliate Team
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Hi all,
We would like to publically welcome Nicky March to the AffiliateFuture team! Nicky joined us on Monday as a Senior Account Manager on our Travel team to look after a number of our key accounts including the likes of Virgin Atlantic and Direct Holidays.
Many of you may know Nicky already as she has been working on the Affiliate industry now for around 7 years and brings a huge wealth of knowledge and experience to the team.
Contact details are as follows:
Email: Nicola .March @ affiliatefuture .co .uk (remove the spaces)
Phone: 0207 927 8120
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
A few nights ago the affiliate industry got together for the 3rd A4U Awards, this year held at the Park Lane Hilton in front of a few hundred merchants, affiliates, networks and agencies.
The AffiliateFuture team had a great time and we would like to thank the whole team at Existem for another successful event – it’s a shame the awards are only once a year!
Congratulations to everyone that was shortlisted and those who went on to win the award or be highly commended.
And now on to the Blog Competition – a caption contest for the following photo of Mark Smith (CEO of TMN) from the A4U Awards:
The winner (as picked by the AffiliateFuture team) wins a nice bottle of bubbly…. Just post a comment below but they will be moderated so please play nice!
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
We are really pleased to announce that the updates to version 2 of our interfaces went live today!
We are really excited about the improved functionality that it brings; Not only does it give affiliates more new features but it will also bring much improved performance and reliability due to some changes in the way in which the stats are generated.
Below is a summary of some of the changes that have been made:
Reports > Cancellation Report:
A new report that makes it easier to find the details of your cancelled sales; allowing reporting via date rangers and filtering per merchant.
Reports > Daily Merchant Stats:
This is one of my favourite new reports – it gives a daily breakdown per programme. Shows number of visitors, leads/sales, Sales value, Commission and EPC. Let’s select per programme via a date range (max 1 month at a time).
Reports > Tracking Reference Summary:
If you use tracking references, especially for PPC activity then this will give you a breakdown per order reference per programme on the Clicks, Leads/Sales, Commission, etc. This information is obviously still available per transaction under the Commission Analysis but now allows you to do quick summaries instead.
Reports > Export Reports:
Not really new functionality here but we’ve changed the way that the Export Reports work so it should be a lot faster and reliable than previously.
Programmes > Merchants Joined:
All the default links for programmes you are signed up to are now available on this screen – there is also quick links to Programme Details and Creative – this should make life a lot easier for affiliates who want to login quickly to grab their links.
We’re still working on a few other improvements but the new changes should make things a lot more stable and will lead to us turning off the old interfaces in the near future.
Obviously feedback is appreciated – please feel free to comment below or contact me directly.
Thanks
James Little
Head of Affiliate Development
Phone: 020 7927 6579
Email/MSN: james.little@affiliatefuture.co.uk
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Hi all,
I’m afriad we’re still having some problems with our email server so we have a temporary email address that can be used until the fix is done over the weekend.
The temporary email address is: affiliatefuture@tmnplc.com
Everything should be back to normal next week and apologies for the problems you may have had getting in touch over the past few days.
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