Greasy Palm to offer white label services

GreasyPalm.co.uk, one of the UK’s largest consumer rewards websites, announces the launch of their white label cashback services.

Intended for top tier websites and other media owners with established platforms, the white label proposition allows partners of GreasyPalm to offer their own branded cashback shopping service from which their members can earn cash rewards with over 850 participating retailers.

Neil Durrant, Marketing Director of GreasyPalm comments, “We’re very pleased to offer white label partnerships out to media owners, enabling them to generate an additional revenue stream and give added value to their audience.”

“From our experience in the marketplace as the UK’s first cashback shopping website, we have seen the massive popularity of cash rebates firsthand having reached the 750,000 member milestone ourselves with over £4.5 million in cashback awarded to our members.”

“Established media owners including newspapers, magazines and radio stations can all now tap into this popularity with ease allowing their audience to access a cashback shopping service, fully managed by the most experienced team in the UK, under their own brand.”

“We fully expect the service to be a massive success and are looking forward to creating successful and lasting partnerships throughout the media industry.”

Visit GreasyPalm’s white label cashback service for further details.

March 30th, 2007 Posted by scifind | Uncategorized | no comments

ASOS Being Talked About (Again)

This time by a minor publication called THE TELEGRAPH, found on their business section (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/03/28/ccdiary28.xml) we get to see those 3 offensive words again “grubby little people” in reference to Affiliates.

Quoted from the Times:

Robertson’s rant is like Ratner revisited

Has Nick Robertson, the chief exec of internet retailer ASOS, done a Gerald Ratner?

He’s told trade mag New Media Age that the company’s online advertising agents are “grubby little people in grubby studios growing income at our expense”.

That’s an interesting way to talk about your friends, and it’s caused an almighty stink on the net, so what’s the company got to say now?

“This was taken out of context,” smooths a spokesman.

How, exactly?

“Well, I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But Nick wasn’t saying anything about ASOS, it’s products or its customers so I don’t think you can call it a ‘Ratner’ as such.” He continues to explain that ASOS has stopped using affiliates, “but that doesn’t mean we won’t in the future”. Want to bet?

 

SO Ok ASOS when and where are you attempting to relaunch your affiliate scheme?

March 29th, 2007 Posted by scifind | affiliate marketing, affiliate | one comment

Beware Extra Fees On NOCHEX

This information might be of interest to merchants accepting Nochex as a payment option.

Nochex is a low cost payment system ideal for lower volume ecommerce vendors and ebay vendors, often used along side, or inplace of other cc processors or paypal

Nochex - sometimes talked about as the UK paypal - is starting to get complaints in the way that the ‘payement gateway’ processes credit card payments.

On Working Lunch today (BBC2) there were claims that credit card purchases using the Nochex service were treated as cash advances, and because of such they were subject to additional charges and much higher interest rates.

This can be a real pain if you are using the service for ‘micropayments’ - especially downloads, that may only cost the user £1, might cost nearly 5 times that with the addition of credit card fees.

Nochex have responded with the following warning on their payment pages.

Please be aware that a limited number of card issuers may charge you a cash advance fee for funding this transaction by credit card. This is not a charge made by Nochex.

This is accompanied with a link to a very short help article:

Cash Handling Fees
 Some Visa and MasterCard issuers (including Capital One, GM, MBNA, Mint, Sainsbury’s and Tesco) may charge you a cash handling fee when using your credit card to fund a Nochex payment.

If you are unsure whether you will be charged a cash handling fee we recommend that you either speak to your card issuer before you make the payment or choose an alternative card (such as your debit card) to make the payment from.

This fee is not charged by either the Merchant to whom you are sending this payment or by Nochex.

This is slightly worrying. I personally don’t use Nochex, but I do use PayPal alot. I am starting to wonder if there are similar issues with these other ‘Micropayment’ card payment processors?

If anyone knows the answers please post a comment!
 

March 27th, 2007 Posted by scifind | eBay, ecommerce, paypal | one comment

Someone should have read my datafeed post!

Just had an email from DDHE

 DDHE - Product feed updated with URL field

lol

Someone really should have read my post on datafeeds

DDHE is a great brand, and don’t let this little mistake put you off promoting them. They only launched the datafeed the other day - so it is thumbs up as they corrected their error in a very short time.

If you want to promote them they are on Affiliate Future

March 23rd, 2007 Posted by scifind | Uncategorized | no comments

Affiliates that make no sales within 1 week of signing up are dumped by merchant

After the ‘grubby’ comments we have all been very interested in of late, a current merchant now seems to be taking a very dim view of affiliates who don’t make any sales within 1 WEEK of signing up.

This was brought to light on an a4u forum post - http://www.a4uforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57115

 Quote from Merchant:

Unfortunately due to the fact that your website has not generated any clicks to the (edit - merchant’s) website and therefore no sales, also decreasing the program position within the AWIN index, we find ourselves in the position of suspending you from the program.

I have never seen the point of a merchant dumping affiliates on performance - the whole point of affiliate marketing is the fact that it is a PERFORMANCE related model - the merchant doesn’t pay anything extra to the network because of numbers of affiliates joined.

Even then - dumping an affiliate after 1 week is very poor, maybe 3 months, but definitly not 1 week! The affiliate has had no chance to place banners - build sites and start getting revenue from PPC campaigns. The one really bad thing is that the affiliate may have spend a whole working week doing the above, and looking to make it live the next day, result wasted time for the affiliate!!!

What is the AM world coming too.

Looking out for next weeks shock affiliate decision of the week.

March 23rd, 2007 Posted by scifind | affiliate marketing, affiliate | no comments