Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Affiliate Stuff, Merchants No Comments »

Go on, guess by the poor pun what this post is about.

That’s right, the sunshine.co.uk affiliate promotion. I’ve been watching with keen interest the fantastic incentives put forward by the sunshine team such as the Macbook Air and now the Barbados trip. I really like their website and the affiliate area is a fantastic example of communication and tools for affiliates. It made me wish I was a good travel affiliate.

Now sunshine have started their missions, it makes me really want to get involved and I’ve decided to take the plunge with mission one, getting a domain and throwing some sunshine content on there (aswell as mission four with this blog post!).

I know that the travel industry is one of the most competitive and that one small landing page type site isn’t going to make me a millionaire. I have little knowledge of travel nor have I dabbled with travel sites.

The thing is, I love seeing little projects like this but I simply do not have the time. With my full time job, a nicely maturing discount site to maintain, an easily bored girlfriend and sleeping to do, I simply don’t have much time to create new sites and get them out there (which explains why this blog hasn’t been touched much either). I have loads of domains which aren’t even parked, let alone include content.

I don’t even want the trip to Barbados (well, that’s a little dramatic) - I’d feel out of place and undeserving of such a phenomenal prize. It’s the mere excitement of this well planned incentive and the idea of setting up a small site to add to my portfolio with motivation behind it that makes me want to do it.

I’ve bought the domain based on a destination I visited last year - Barcelona. Well, we camped on a beachside campsite there - and I’ll be developing it with a few pages of content, photos and banners at the weekend.

Massive kudos to the sunshine team - this is a brilliant incentive and you’ve got another (albeit noob) affiliate on board.

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Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Affiliate Stuff, Merchants, Networks No Comments »

Last night I signed up to a merchant on Affiliate Window. This morning I wake up to find no less than 9 e-mails from said merchant which included 2 Christmas e-mails, 3 discount codes and and a customer focussed newsletter. They tell me that they’ve created nice links for me but actually they’re in the banners section, not embedded in the e-mail. Not only that, but apparently my name is 7XXX8, which is my Affiliate Window ID. And the strangest thing is, I’m still pending approval.

I really don’t mind receiving e-mails from merchants but how about ensuring only one of each is sent out, that the e-mails are in date, that it starts with my real name or ‘Hi affiliates’ and that I’m actually approved first? And if I recieved 9 e-mails just for signing up, how many am I going to receive once I’m approved?

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