Affiliates Win Shoes.

Just a quick note, the just for fun competition that we are running for the TotallyShoes affiliate program on PaidOnResults (click here to sign up) ends at the end of this month - just 3 days away!

Details in case you missed them:

We have a just for fun totallyshoes affiliate comp to get you going.
We have a free pair of shoes up for grabs (winners choice) in our just for fun competition. All we want to know is who is Chuck Taylor and which brand is he associated with. Send answers to brian at affiliateprogramadvice .com
(subject line competition) Make sure you send me your affiliate ID.
Winner will be chosen 30th November. Thats just 3 days away folks! Shoes dispatched first week in December 07

Plus we have a huge range of creatives available now,  just log in to see them.

November 27th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate | no comments

Free Google Adwords Voucher

Hi

Looking for newbie affiliates who want to dip their toe in PPC advertising.

I have a £30 google adwords voucher for a new affiliate who wants it.

All I ask is that they consider using it to promote one of the following affiliate programmes

Purple Parking On AF | CJ | TD | ZX

Premier Cookware On Affiliate Window

Mosaic Holidays on Affiliate Future

Voucher is for new account only (or less than 14 days old). My decision on who gets the voucher is final.

Contact me to be considered.

Thanks

September 19th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, affiliate | no comments

Is Coffee The New Fashion Accessory?

Designer coffee - with high price coffee names coming to more and more highstreets there is definitly a growing trend in quality coffee over the humble freeze dried jars.

With chains like StarBucks , Nero and Costa selling their blended coffee beans in stores it is possible to get that taste at home.

Blended quality filter coffee can be bought from a number of retailers, including most supermarkets. But what can be more satisfying (and indeed attractive to the opposite sex) than having your own coffee bean grinder, designer cafetiere and matching coffee cups

The humble cafetiere is one of premiercookware’s biggest sellers.
A simple sale of one 8 cup cafetiere with our massive 12% commission can generate commission of over £2.
Selling accessories and repeat custom for our 90 day cookie period will soon show that referring just one customer can soon build commission very quickly.

Coffee lovers should also check our new coffee grinder and coffee makers for a stylish cup of coffee.

So have you a wedding list site? Cookery portal? Gift site? Or something else?
These stylish products are also ideal for inclusion on lifestyle sites, and coffee sites (and I know that there are a few coffee powered affiliates out there).
These cafetiere’s make ideal gifts (along with our Knife Sets) with Christmas just around the corner (and a nice little free service to promote starting next month) now is the time to start looking at this wonderful and profitable niche.

September 12th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate | no comments

5 Essential Links for The Affiliate Marketeer

Just thought I would share 5 of the most useful links that I have at the moment.

I am not going to list networks (they are already listed in the navbar on the right). But I am going to list the 5 most commonly used links by myself at the moment.

1. Google.com

Ok - this is a bit of a cheat, but despite the problems that google brings and the reputation it has of a nonstop monster eating up the web, it does have a plethora of great tools. Excluding the search, adwords, adsense, there are also maps, analytics and unfortunately it is very difficult to get away from it.

2. InternetMarketingBlogs.co.uk

There are so many quality blogs out there that I read on a daily basis - it would be mad to try and list them, let alone pick a handful to fit into the top 5 links. So this service covers all of them. It is quick and easy to get a grasp of what is going on and follow up in detail on the original blog.

3. php.net

Being a fond user of PHP MYSQL this site is fantastic, THE manual to PHP programming. My brain is not big enough to fit all the functions that I use on a weekly basis.

4. AffiliateBounty

Need to find out if a company has an affiliate program? This site is fantastically easy to use, though unfortunately not definitive - yet.

5. SEOChat

Some great seo / keyword tools. If you are not already familiar with this site go and have a look, there is too much to cover here.

Other top links - The Weekly Q, Bumpzee, Facebook, Youtube, BBC News

July 10th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, affiliate, tools | one comment

It’s Just Not Cricket!!!

CricketRetail.com has launched an affiliate program with the affiliate network Profitistic

CricketRetail is offering 7% commission on its range of cricket equipment and designer Cricket Tshirts. Irrespective of volume put through our site.

If you were to equip one player, mid range bat, holdall, whites and padding it is easy to make upwards of £15. Equip your local team and you could be raking in around £200 commission!

About the Cricket Tshirts at Cricketretail.com

a range of refreshing and imaginative t-shirt prints, combining quirky design with just a hint of cricket connotation to create a ‘Pavilion Chic’ look that’s as at home in the clubs as it is in the clubhouse – quite simply the hardest hitting designs you’ll see all summer.

The program will be managed by Scifind Limited - so if you have any questions and querys or would like exclusive discount codes please contact us.

CricketRetail.com has no restrictions on PPC and Scifind Limited might even provide a PPC keyword list to get some affiliates started if they ask nicely!

It is completely free to become an affiliate, and once approved, you will obtain linking code that can be run across your website(s) in return for commission.

All affiliates are paid approximately 30 days following the commission month, providing they have exceeded the minimum threshold of £25 in commission due. If your commission does not reach £25 in any given month, we allow you to build-up commission until the threshold is exceeded.

Sign Up Here

April 20th, 2007 Posted by scifind | affiliate marketing, affiliate, Networks | no comments

New affiliate tool in development.

Scifind Ltd and Keith Bond are currently developing an affiliate tool. Should be a fantastic device for monetizing domains , existing sites and using as landing sites for PPC campaigns.

This simple little script will produce an online store from a product feed in 10 minutes. Utilising SE friendly urls, caching and is extreamly easy to drop into any existing website template or site design.

Currently we are finishing the search function which is not present on the following examples.

SITE EXAMPLES:

www.mensdesignerunderwear.co.uk

www.nexdayflowers.co.uk

http://fishing.changewebsites.co.uk

We have just started the first round of external testing and we should be able to build on feedback soon.

We would like to hear from affiliates with any ideas of how we can improve this script.

We will keep you posted on progress.

April 8th, 2007 Posted by scifind | Uncategorized, affiliate marketing, affiliate, SEO, beta test, product feeds, datafeeds | 3 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

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

Moving On….

After careful consideration I am handing the affiliate management of ForbiddenPlanet back to their inhouse team. ForbiddenPlanet has a strong inhouse team dedicated to their fantastic range of products. Their program is both inhouse and on affiliatefuture if you still wish to check it out.

But do not fret I am not leaving Affiliate Marketing / Management industry already, infact I am doing quite the opposite. Aiming to strengthen my position in this fantastic industry.

Currently I am now doing consultancy work with Azam Inc, helping to support the affiliates of Mosaic Holidays (AF), Purple Parking (AF) and EasyFlirt  (International White Label Dating) and my company Scifind Ltd will have some more great affiliate management clients coming in the next few weeks.

Nadeem Azam has been a good friend for a while now and I am privaliged to be working with Azam Inc, like myself and my company Scifind Ltd, Azam Inc is dedicated in giving the best support to affiliates and working with merchants to better understand affiliate marketing.

Only receintly has Azam inc announced that Mosaic Holidays has increased it’s online booking discount to 8% and had telephone numbers removed in order to increase conversions. It is also worth poining out that Mosaic Holidays has a very competitive 5% commission rate in an industry where 2-3% now seems the norm.

You can sign up with Mosaic on AffiliateFuture Here or find more information on Azam.biz

March 21st, 2007 Posted by scifind | affiliate marketing, affiliate, ForbiddenPlanet | no comments

More on Ebay Revenue Share System

A quick update on the ebay revenue share:

As previously announced, from March 1st 2007 we’re introducing a new revenue sharing model for the eBay.co.uk Affiliates Programme. We’re excited about these changes because we think they’ll give you more opportunities to make more money.We’ll still pay you for the new ACRUs (Active Confirmed Registered Users) you send us: there’s no change there. But rather than paying a single fee for bids and Buy it Nows, we’ll be tying your earnings per bid and BIN to the revenue we get for the sold item. You’ll receive a percentage of all the revenue we earn (Listing Fees and Final Value Fees) from all winning bids & BINS made by visitors in the seven days after you send them our way.This means that when you send us quality bidders and buyers who purchase higher priced items on eBay.co.uk, will earn you more. Yes, that’s right: The higher the sale price, the higher the reward. However, be aware that this may not be the case in categories with ‘fixed fees’ such as Motors and Real Estate.

ebay.co.uk will offer 25% of revenue (under £100) up to 50% of revenue - for over £500,000

February 20th, 2007 Posted by scifind | affiliate marketing, affiliate, eBay, ecommerce | no comments