I’m nowhere near being a full-time affiliate dude, so I have a 9.00 - 5.30 to help me pay the rent. I’m actually a student but this year I’m on placement at a young company in the business to business sector and, as I’m the one with the strongest knowledge of the affiliate industry, I have been asked to set up a program for them! Hurrah!
I’ve done the research, proposals and all that malarkey office types like and this week I’ve been contacting the networks to see who will host our program and it’s been a lot of fun experiencing things from the other side of the fence. I had already written up a list of networks that I recommend and definitely do not recommend based on personal preference and opinion in the blogosphere/forums (can you guess who they are? ;)) but in the interests of neutrality, contacted and researched a fair few.
There will be a meeting next week to progress things further and choose the network but like I say, it’s been a lot of fun. I shan’t give away too much information nor will this blog turn into a merchant blog but I’ll let you play a guessing game.
Guess which network answered the phone immediately, were phenomenally friendly, extremely helpful and make the whole signing-up and integration process very easy and form free? And then guess which network have a barely decipherable website to try and find the right contact, didn’t answer the phone on several occasions and haven’t returned my call?
See you on the other side soon 
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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?
Tags: E-mails
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In December, Affiliate Window ran a promotion where affiliates of AW had to collect gold coins then log on to the website on Christmas Day at 3pm to claim a Christmas gift. Whilst some were not happy with this, and possibly rightly so, there were some cracking prizes to be had with all 8 coins such as an HD telly or an iPod Nano.
Well I had all 8 coins but I thought I wasn’t eligible for any prize due to the fact I hadn’t been promoting AW merchants for long, otherwise I would have hopped on to the computer at 3pm, Queen or no Queen!
Luckily for me, my flatmate logged on and managed to claim us a prize. Unfortunately the higher tier prizes had gone but I’m well chuffed with what I got; a DVD voucher from CD Wow (yes - that’s an affiliate link. Well, on the off-chance you’re browsing marketing blogs then buy a copy of 300 on DVD, I wouldn’t mind 10p or so for telling you 300 is a cracking flick on DVD!). So, Affiliate Window and CD Wow, I thank thee very much for my first affiliate prize/freebie. Hopefully there will be more to come And congrats to everyone else who got a prezzie!
Tags: Earnings, Incentives
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Friday, February 8th, 2008 
Networks 
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