Latest Affiliate Program Offers

Here are the latest affiliate program offers to hit my inbox.

Cath Kidston

As you will imagine, the next 6 weeks are some of the busiest in the year for Cath Kidston and they would like to encourage you to make the most of them with a Christmas Countdown incentive.

So for the next 4 weeks they will keep an eye on the orders affiliates generate for the programme and each order will earn an entry to a prize draw that could win you a £50 cash bonus.

They will be counting orders from Mondays to Sundays with the first draw taking place Monday 21^st November and the last one Monday 12^th December.

You can join the Cath Kidston affiliate program here.

UK Office Direct

UK Office Direct have announced that they will be offering a cash bonus to all affiliates during November. UK Office Direct will give you an extra £30 cash bonus for every 15 confirmed orders placed between 15th and 30th November 2011.

You can join the UK Office Direct affiliate program here.

Education City

Home subscribers to EducationCity.com will now be able to access a brand new feature called Play Live Maths which is hugely popular to their 15,300 school subscribers.

Play Live Maths (available and suitable to children from Year 1 to Year 7) is an exciting addition to EducationCity.com encouraging children to practice their maths skills by taking part in an engaging multiplayer online game.

Players have 60 seconds to answer as many Maths questions (appropriate to their age level) as they can by playing against the clock and against other users. It’s an interactive mental math challenge where your children take on the world. They’ve got 60 seconds to prove they’ve got what it takes, working against the clock to beat their opponents. It’s all in the speed, but they’ll need to be careful too. Make a mistake, and they’ll lose one of their three precious lives. Lose all three and they’ll be knocked out of the race altogether!

EducationCity.com has recently been shortlisted for 3 British Education and Training Technology (BETT) awards making it an ideal digital stocking filler for Christmas shoppers that want to give their children a fun present with real educational benefit.

EducationCity also currently have a Christmas voucher code “perfectpresent” which saves £5 off per family at checkout.

You can join the Education City affiliate program here.

BareNecessities

Need a little holiday cheer? Enjoy FREE Shipping on any order at BareNecessities.com! Shop for holiday gifts like cozy pajamas, soft slippers and m ore! With great finds from bras to shapewear, shoppers can't go wrong. This sale ends Monday, November 21st, so hurry and promote this offer today!

You can join the BareNecessities affiliate program here.

Currys, Dixons & PC World Short Term Offers

Good news! Currys have issued new codes and have also extended a selection as well:
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NEW CODES:

Buy an iPod and get 20% Off All Headphones
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Expiry: 9th November 23:59

10% Off All Printers and Scanners Over £40
Code: PSCAN10
Expiry: 9th November 23:59


EXTENDED CODES:

10% Off All Microsoft Office Software
Code: MSOFFICE10
Expiry: 9th November 23:59

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10% Off All Built-In Ovens
Code: BUILTINOVEN10
Expiry: 9th November 23:59

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10% Off All Laundry, Dishwashers, Refrigeration and Freezers over £300
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Expiry: 9th November 23:59


20% Off All Beats By DR DRE Headphones
Code: BEATS20
Expiry: 9th November 23:59
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20% Off All Printer Ink and Toner
Code: INK20
Expiry: 9th November 23:59

I received this letter.

"Hi George,

My name’s Karen and I’m contacting you with regards to the UK2.Net affiliate program on Tradedoubler. I wanted to get in touch to see if I can do anything to help you generate more commissions, as I can see you are currently generating clicks but no sales.

I would be pleased to hear about any ways that we can increase exposure on your website - for example, is it possible to trial one of our banners on your homepage? Or perhaps you have a newsletter/blog where you could feature some of our latest web hosting offers? We have two new voucher codes which you may wish to promote:

Code: FEBRESELLER
Offer: £20 OFF Reseller packages
Valid from: 1st February 2011
Valid to: 10th March 2011

Code: FEBHOST5
Offer: 5% OFF webhosting
Valid from: 1st February 2011
Valid to: 10th March 2011

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require any further information about our services, our latest offers, or our affiliate program.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to hearing from you!

Kind regards

Karen"

Since Karen asked nicely I thought I'd blog the codes for UK2's offers. I know I haven't blogged much recently but that's not cause I've been lazy; it's because I've been busy.

I was without a phone for 19 days over Christmas and the New year and now have a new phone provider and ISP. That didn't help.

I've been thinking maybe the site is overdue for a re-design but this time I was thinking of something major.

How would people feel if the site stopped being a directory and became a wiki? Let me know.

George

Christmas Cards and Christmas Landing Pages

When you don't know what to promote at Christmas, because you may not know what this year's latest next big thing is going to be, you can always stick with the one thing that sells in the millions every year.

That's right, Christmas Cards or Holiday Cards if you prefer, or even Hannukah Cards are always a big seller at this time of year.

Minted.com are running a great incentive. The first 10 Minted partners to reach $5,000 in sales in November and December will receive a $250 bonus.
Minted also like to reward early shoppers with the most attractive discounts of the season. Right now, you can offer Free Shipping on Holiday Cards with code AFSHIP09.

The Currys Christmas landing page is now live here. Currys always do well over Christmas, and so can you.

Dixons alos have a new landing page; this one is for Christmas TV offers. You can see it here - so let's start selling those TV's in time for people to watch the Christmas films in HD and on widescreen.

George

Even More Christmas Marketing Offers

Hi everyone,

Well the Christmas shopping rush is definitely on. Here's a summary of the best offers to come out today.

Maplin will be increasing commissions across the board as of 9am November 13th until December 24th 2009.

The default commission of 4% will be increased to 5.5%. This is quite a significant increase therefore don’t miss out on earning even more commission!

Also as part of the Christmas Incentive Maplin are making 6 prizes available in their Prize Give Away.

6 prizes to be announced are up for grabs these are for as follows:-
Most improved like for like (LFL) sales (£’s) percentage increase between 13/11/09 – 24/12/09: open to all affiliates who lodged sales in the same period last year

Most improved LFL sales (transactions)percentage increase between 13/11/09 –24/12/09 open to all affiliates who lodged sales in the same period last year

Most improved average order value (£’s) percentage increase between 13/11/09 –24/12/09: open to all affiliates who lodged sales in the same period last year

Highest £’s sale lodged between 13/11/09 –24/12/09: open to all affiliates joined the programme in 2009

Highest transaction count (sales) lodged between 13/11/09 –24/12/09: open to all affiliates joined the programme in 2009

Highest value sale on Free Delivery weekends in between 13/11/09 –24/12/09: open to all affiliates.

Goldsmiths have just launched their new promotions in the lead up to Christmas. They have supplied creative advertising Goldsmiths as the largest stockist of TAG Heuer & Omega watches, and displaying Diamond gift sets.

From the 6th November – 23rd December 2009 Goldsmiths are also offering a free gift wrap promotional code that should be entered in the Enter Promotional Code box at the checkout. This code is TCWRAP09.

You can earn up to 20% commission of the total order value.

Kitbag have decided to run a great Christmas affiliate incentive - a £50 Christmas bonus for all affiliates that generate 26 or more confirmed sales on Kitbag.com between 20th November 2009 and 20th December 2009 (inclusive).

Here's the details:

Any affiliate that generates 26 or more confirmed sales on Kitbag.com between 00:01am on 20th November 2009 and 23:59pm on 20th December 2009 is eligible to receive the £50 bonus. The £50 bonus will be in addition to the normal affiliate (tiered) commission rates. Any Kitbag affiliate within Kitbag's 3 affiliate networks (Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future and Tradedoubler) will automatically be rewarded if they reach the target of 26 confirmed sales in the incentive period. Affiliates that have qualified for the £50 bonus will be advised in an email from the affiliate
network shortly after the incentive period is over. The £50 bonus will be paid into all qualifying affiliate's accounts directly as an affiliate bonus on their respective network.

Just Tech Jobs are expecting an upturn in the ITJibs market and are offering any affiliate a $10 bonus when they generate their first sale by the end of January 2010!

And finally Currys, who always do well at Christmas as people splash the cash, or at least the credit are now live on their site with a special Christmas landing page.

That's all for tonight.

George

Another Christmas Special Offer - SECRET SANTA with a Twist from Ann Summers

You know you love it....everybody does... really... Secret Santa has become a bit of an institution and no self-respecting Office Christmas-party would go without it!

YES, we're always buying the gifts last minute and YES, there's always that one person who went and bought a pair of socks... but this year will be different!

Ann Summers had the party-season in mind when they put a 3 for 2 offer on a selection of their raunchiest Secret Santa gift ideas... Just imagine the face of your colleagues /Uni mates/ Tuesday evening Yoga pals when they open your neatly wrapped parcel, expecting to find the usual scented candle, and find in its place: A Chocolate Willy, or Stress Relief Boobs, or Pecker Party Whistle, or Sculpta Sutra Set, Willy Wine Opener.

Priceless...
So get onto the Ann Summers website for a giggle, more gift ideas, and the perfect opportunity to get those Secret Santa presents wrapped up early!

10% off a £50 spend from Friday the 6th to the 13th.

Use Voucher Code: VCODES

Ann Summers, Like BeCheeky yesterday have let me know their current Best Sellers which are -
Sexy Dice £3


Show Off Mug WAS £5 NOW £3


Man Flu Pill WAS £5 NOW £2


Sparkle Gym Bracelet £8


Ravishing Solid perfume £10


Rude Doodle Pad WAS £3 NOW £2


Sexy EYE Mask


Advent Calender £6


Sexy Gone Wild Board Game £10



These are all on the 'Fun' side of rude but if you need to more more about one of the products just click the link.


I don't why the ladies undies retailers should be first off the mark with the Christmas offers but that's who has contacted me recently. Hopefully the range of offers will expand in the run up to Christmas.

Have fun with these in the meantime.


George

Another Christmas Offer

BeCheeky

Hot on the heels of the Figleaves Offer of Free Knickers I mentioned yesterday BeCheecky are offering a free thong in Gift Tin. This cheeky Lou Lou thong in a gift tin by Playful Promises as a great present for any occasion. A round metal tin with a retro pin-up design in pink and peach contains a cute and sexy translucent white thong in a hipster cut. The contrasting gathered red tanga sides have chic bows on each side, whilst the rear features a cheeky cut out teardrop shape. Finished with red bows at the front and rear, wear this thong by Playful Promises with pride!





BeCheeky have also let me know their Top Sellers for this week:



Sans Limites Open G-String Suspender Belt by Sielei: £18.00


Viola Brazilian Brief by Sielei: £10.00


Fleur Embroidered Gel Bra by Caprice: from £20.00


Fleur Embroidered Thong by Caprice: from £10


Viola Animal Chemise by Sielei: £25.00


Viola Long Robe by Sielei: £35.00


Can Can Padded Plunge Bra by Caprice: £20.00


Invisible Pleated Chiffon Babydoll by Sielei: £30.00


Invisible Pleated Chiffon Thong by Sielei: £10.00



Men’s Pro Mesh Brief by Calvin Klein: was £20.00 now £15.00




These should make for a romantic Christmas.



George

Hi George Forsyth,

If you haven't already, could you please publish our latest time-limited promotions and give your visitors the chance to save £15 GBP at Forzieri.com

Please hurry up, as promotion ends next September 30th 2009:

Offer: Save £15 GBP on orders of £95 GBP or more
Coupon Code: 153C16
Expires: September 30th, 2009
URL: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=rXimpCeZM3Y&offerid=172627.10000028&type=3&subid=0


If you have any questions or feedback, then please email me at affiliate-support@forzieri.com


All the Best,

Patrick Goodfellow
Your FORZIERI Affiliate-Team


Patrick,

Consider it done.

George

How to ride out the Recession

Conventional Wisdom would dictate that during a recession, when people are supposed to be spending less an industry such as Affiliate Marketing, based as it is on commissions from other people's spending, would be hit hard.

The logic would be less spend = less commission = less income.

How wrong can you be.

The recession is of anything a boon to the Affiliate Marketing industry because people are spending their money more carefully and are taking their time looking for the best deals. So it doesn't matter whether you're selling clothes, holidays, computers or anything else the key is still to turn your visitors into customers by doing exactly what the Affiliate Industry does best, pre-selling goods so that customers want to buy.

If people are taking time to look for bargains gthey are more likely to find your affiliate site than if they just went straight to the web site of a major store or manufacturer and that's your chance to pre-sell your goods.

Also as I think I discussed previously forward thinking companies will not be closing down their advertising during the recession as it is only those that retain customers who will survive.

In order to do this the companies are competing for customers like never before. The Christmas sales seemed to run in February and the Easter sales started soon after. Then we had Spring sales and now that summer is here, in terms of BST if not the weather, expect Summer sales especially in the holiday, hotels and travel markets. It seems sales are now the norm and not the exception.

To illustrate my point Marks and Spencer has just launched their 'Back to School' sale. This is the first time this happened to my knowledge before the schools have even broken up for summer.

Crazy? Yes, but let's not waste an opportunity to sell thing even if the price is slightly less and the margins tighter than ever.

The merchants are not just competing for customers. They are also competing for affiliates with a range of bonus payments for hitting sales targets, prize draws for first sales, and holidays all currently on offer.

Now is not a bad time to be an affiliate; it is just an interesting time.

Christmas Promotions

As previously posted Christmas comes but once a year and this year it comes right in the middle of a worldwide recession. Many retailers are expecting tough times and here in the UK it doesn't look like Woolworths will make it to Christmas. The result of all this is retailers desperate to shift their stock even if it means reducing their margins.

This is all good news for affiliates as lower prices usual mean more sales and more sales mean more commissions. Some retailers have realised this and started offering affiliate incentives.

Here are some examples. I'm sure to post more through December. These are things that really should sell this season.

Customers at Play.com can save 10% off any of their fantastic clothing range which includes brands such as Quiksilver, Animal, Bench, RipCurl and more! Code: CLOTHES08 , Valid until December 22nd.

BeCheeky have opened the BeCheeky Christmas Shop and at the same time are offering 20% off Chemises and Babydolls, and FREE UK Delivery on all UK orders.

PC World have extended their 5% commission offering on all Digital Photoframes until 5pm Xmas Eve (24th December 2008) for all online sales. (Standard commission 2.5%).

Batteries.com have announced their Holiday Bonus Program. From now through December 18th, each affiliate who reaches $500 in sales will receive an additional $25 in commissions. Doesn't everything need batteries at Christmas and yet never comes with any - sales here should be good.

Throughout the month of December, WBTVShop.com is holding an affiliate contest for a chance to win a $200 gift certificate to shop any of the WB sites, including WBShop.com, MGMStore.com, CartoonNetworkShop.com, MarvelShop.com, NewLineShop.com and of course WBTVShop.com! Any affiliate who generates 50 sales combined throughout the month for any of the WB accounts will be entered into a drawing. At the conclusion of the month, a winner will be picked and they will win the $200 gift certificate to shop!

So as you can see there's lots of offers to push and commissions to make.

Nokia Comes With Music

The Carphone Warehouse has today announced that it will be offering the ground-breaking Nokia Comes With Music service exclusively on Pay As You Go, with a range of exclusive Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handsets this autumn.

This fantastic offer will attract a double commission bonus, but only while stocks last! For every
handset sold, you will receive a £5 bonus (on top of the usual £5 PAYG commission) for each
completed sale, paid as one lump sum at the end of the month.

The Nokia 5310 will be available with the unique Comes With Music service for a one-off cost
exclusively from over 805 Carphone Warehouse stores and online. Furthermore, the handset will also
be available with eight colour variants, exclusively at The Carphone Warehouse, ensuring that all
customers are catered for.

More information is available on the Insider Page;
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/commerce/servlet/gben-server-PageServer?ARTICLE=MAIN.UK.INTERNET.THEINSIDER.NEWSANDINFO.CPWNEWS.MAIN

This should sell out fast so get in on the selling.

There will lots of Christmas Offers coming soon as well.

Back to School with Mesh Computers

Mesh Computers has, over the years, put together some of the most compelling PC’s for performance & value, winning some of the most prestigious and coveted PC awards. Now, in conjunction with their education contacts, Mesh Computers have created a superb range of value PC’s and notebooks for today's student requirements.

In addition to receiving a PC with some of the latest technology, Mesh are including these items FREE of Charge*:

-Take your data back and forth from home, school or library with the FREE portable pen drive.
-Listen to audio or music with the FREE headset without disturbing other users.
-Keep in touch with family members and friends with the FREE webcam.

*desktops only



Elite IQ 2180
Starting at ... £399 (£340 ex vat)
Unbeatable Value....Unbeatable Value....
Designed for the 21st Century Student
Fantastic Spec - Latest Software
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E2180 Processor (2.0GHz ,1MB L2 Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1 - Latest updates
2GB DDR2 667Mhz Memory
250GB Hard Drive - SATA with 16MB buffer
256MB nVIDIA
8400GS Graphics (DX10)
19" Widescreen TFT Display w/speakers
+ WebCam, Headphones and Portable Pen Drive
Plus Additional Features...

Matrix 4400+ IQ
Starting at ... £459 (£391 ex vat)
Unbeatable Value....Unbeatable Value....
Designed for the 21st Century Student
Power PC - Fantastic Spec - Latest Software
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4400+ Processor - with HyperTransport™ Technology
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1 - Latest updates
4GB Memory - 667MHz DDR2
500GB Hard Drive - SATA 2 with 16MB Buffer
512MB ATI Radeon
3450 Graphics (DX10.1)
19" Widescreen TFT LCD Display w/speakers
Super Format 20x DVD Writer
Multi-format Memory Card Reader
+ Webcam, Headphones and Portable Pen Drive Plus Additional Features....

Hurry, while stocks last!!

Summer Offers

Well, the lucky people will be going away on their summer holidays soon and there's lots of promotions out there to help you help them spend their cash.

Petsmart are offering $5 off their orders of $30 or more. Just copy and paste the link below.



HansunSurf are offering an extra 10% bonus on their total commissions for the months of June, July and August and consumers can save 15% OFF their next purchase using the coupon code: LCSUMMER15.
Offer expires August 31, 2008.



It might be a bit early but the new Book by Harry Potter author J K Rowling is now available to order on the Waterstones website; The Tales of Beedle the Bard for £3.49 (RRP £6.99) and will be released on the 4th December. Time to get those pre-orders mounting up.

George

Wall-E Toys from Early Learning Centre

Timed to coincide with the release of the latest Pixar / Disney Movie, Wall - E the Early Learning Centre are offering free delivery on all sales over £75.00.

I saw the film on Sunday with my stepson and it's great. Kids will love the cute robots and adults should pick up on the basic environmental message that we create too much rubbish.

I won't ruin it by giving away the plot but for the first 15 minutes or so it looks as if they shared a set with the Will Smith film 'I am Legend'.

Kids are going to want a Wall-E or an EVE (the other robot) so you should be able to promote these toys with ease.


George

Great Offer from Play.com

Play.com whose affiliate program is available through Affiliate Window are running a great promotion that you can be part of.

Get 2 fantastic Blu-ray titles for just £25 with the new Play.com promotion! But hurry, these prices are only available until 31st July.

New creative is available NOW within your affiliate account, choose from 468x60, 120x600, 120x60, 234x60 and 100x100.


Here are a few examples of the fantastic titles on offer;



James Bond: Casino Royale
Starring - Daniel Craig, Eva Green & Mads Mikkelsen



Superbad (2 Discs)
Starring - Jonah Hill, Michael Cera & Christopher Mintz-Plasse



The Pursuit Of Happyness
Starring - Will Smith, Jaden Smith & Thandie Newton




Ghost Rider: Extended Cut
Starring - Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes & Wes Bentley

Let's get selling!!!

Boden Kid Clothes Offer

I wanted to let you know about an exciting competition Boden UK are currently running. Boden is currently in summer sale mode and orders are coming in thick and fast. The great news is they also have three sets of Boden vouchers worth £50 each to giveaway in a prize draw!

All you need to do to enter is drive an order for Boden UK between 14th July and 24th July.

To help you Boden UK have a full range of sale banners and text links.

If you haven’t already picked up the sale banners, log in and pick them up here here

If Childrenswear isn't your market don't forget Boden also supply excellent Womenswear, Women's swimwear, Menswear and Men's beachwear.


George

Afiliate Bonus from ElectricFireplacesDirect

ElectricFireplacesDirect.com offers the most extensive selection of high quality electric fireplace mantel packages, outdoor fireplaces, wall mount and freestanding fireplaces and electric fireplace inserts you will find.

ElectricFireplacesDirect have a model for every space including products from Classic Flame, Dimplex (Electraflame and Optiflame), and Napoleon. All of our featured electric fireplaces offer terrific value and will look great in every home.

Right now until July 31st, you'll earn a bonus of $5 per order* on every order generated through the ElectricFireplacesDirect.com program. So sign up now.

Now is the perfect time to post Electric Fireplaces Direct on your site as your customers are freshening up their homes this summer!

This program has a high average order size, Free Shipping, 60-day cookie duration and a comprehensive data feed of products available through the partner interface.

Affiliate Program Offers

One of the things that well run and active affiliate programs do is run short term offers. This can be because theirs is a seasonal business or because of some event like Christmas or Mothers' Day.

Normally I can't do much with these types of offers on Global Affiliate Programs as I'm trying to promote the program itself but I can add them here in the knowledge that they will eventually be archived and not be so prominent as they will be now.

To give you a flavour of the types of offers that merchants run here are a few of the offers that popped into my mailbox today.


Coral - Euro 2008 Due to the massive success of the last Football shirt campaign, we are running it again. For Every new account open during the EURO 2008 via TradeDoubler network will be automatically entered into a prize draw and there will be 50 Football/EURO 2008 Team Shirts to be won! That's right! FIFTY new Coral.co.uk players referred by YOU will win Football/EURO 2008 Team Shirts! Last campaign we saw an impressive 160% increase in Click-Through- Rate!!!! And to spice it up a little...If a player you send to us wins one Euro 2008 football shirt, you win too! It's as simple as that...everyone's winner with Coral.co.uk affiliate programme! 50 shirts to your players and 50 shirts for you!


With Euro 2008 about to kick off I expect there will be alot of promotions run by bookmakers and sports programs.


BeCheeky MensWear 25% off promotion - In light of June being Male cancer awareness month, and with Fathers Day falling on the 15^th, this week BeCheeky.com are celebrating our Men! Treat the special man in your life and enjoy a whopping 25% off all men's underwear and swimwear, including Ted Baker, Calvin Klein, Bjorn Borg, Hom, Ginch Gonch, Tommy Hilfiger and more.


Barnes & Noble - are running a number of promotions including 40% off summer reading, 3 for the price 2 on DVDs and Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida for $9.99. The are also offering 40% off the complete series of Sex and the City.

If you're interested to pushing these promotion on your site then join up now. Go to Global Affiliate Programs and find the offers for you.

I tried to blog here yesterday but I see the blog didn't appear. I don't know if the fault was at my end or at Blogger. Anyway let's see if this appears.

In the future I intend to blog some tips for would be affiliates, explore the issues of shopfronts and hopefully answer questions if anybody asks them.

The next blog might not to on-topic though as I still have the series finale of LOST in my head.