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November 2009 Archives

25/11/09 - Win a Christmas Hamper Affiliate Competition

It's Christmas and that means loads of merchants are topping up the big earner's range of festive gifts (ahem, also known as sales based incentives). For us little folk, there are a range of competitions perfect for us as they involve more creative ways of winning a little extra this Christmas. one that caught my eye yesterday was the Virginia Hayward Hampers incentive. More

16/11/09 - Tips On Completing The Darwin Profile In Affiliate Window

I was approached a week ago by Affiliate Window who are running a section on Darwin in their forthcoming newsletter. For those not in the know, Darwin is the new Awin interface. Eventually it will be fully integrated with the existing Awin system but as it's such a mammoth task, for now it runs as its own platform and is being integrated in distinct sections.

Anyway, they liked the way in which I had written my profile and wanted to showcase it to the affiliate world as a best practise example. When I set up my profile, I just wrote what I thought merchants would want/need to read but as it turns out, I did quite a good job on it!

I thought it may help some of you who are a bit stuck on what to write to know what I wrote and why Awin seem to like it :-) More

12/11/09 - Thanks to Swarovski

I switched my Swarovski links over to Affiliate Window when the program was launched there and as part of the launch there was a competition.

Sadly I didn't win the performance based competition (probably a good thing for Swarovski!) but did manage to scoop a prize in the generate-a-sale-and-get-an-entry prize draw. More

01/11/09 - Someone Tell Them It Is Really Christmas!

You wouldn't be able to tell looking at my stats. This time last year I started to see a peak but this year it's more reminiscent of tumble weed in a desert. But that's just me and that's the very nature of the industry I choose to work in.

This time last year my freebie counter was struggling to keep up with the amount of odds and ends that flooded in over the year whereas this year is a comparative dribble.

In a nutshell, the recession is making everyone think twice about there actions when it comes to parting with their cash (as far as I can tell). Customers are holding onto theirs longer and merchants are reluctant to send out the odd gift, gadget, toy, etc. :-)

I have a few ideas on what will be big this year and which retailers will benefit. Not actual present ideas - more like buying habits. As an excuse to add a post for the month of November I've decided to share these. More