Archive for May, 2007
Real life examples of business pitch emails - good and bad
After my post the other day I coincidentally received 2 emails from people interested in working with me. They were very different, take a look:
Email 1: How not to pitch for business:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope you are well. I am recruiting selected affiliates for some of the leading online merchants in the UK. I manage Bennetts, [...]
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Dan spots corruption in Affiliate Marketing
If this is what it looks like then this is what helps give Affiliate Marketing a bad name. Well done Dan for spotting it and holding back no punches in naming names.
UPDATE: Just found out that the guy who Dan mentions has recently been sacked.
What I’m listening to right now: Amy Winehouse ft Jay-Z – [...]
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How not to pitch for business - part 2
Following on from this post, here is part 2 of my occasional tips on how not to pitch for affiliate business.
Don’t send potential affiliate emails like this one:
…by signing up to crappyaffiliateprogram.com you can earn commissions simply by placing a banner on your site! You will then be associated with a top ranking website like [...]
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GettingPersonal.co.uk - thankyou
Big thanks to GettingPersonal.co.uk who sent me some goodies today including 2 personalised mugs and calendars.
Getting Personal specialise in extra special personalised gifts, i.e. like the personalise music calendar that contains 12 pictures that contain the recipients name in various settings. I.e. like the “Kieron Donoghue - Legendary” photo.
So thanks again Getting Personal, your [...]
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Toys R Us affiliate program sucks
Why? Because they only offer 3% commission in a sector where 10% is average? No, well yes but that’s not the main reason.
The main reason is the following taken from their terms and conditions:
There are also ‘currently’ strict guidelines for the pay per click channel - There is NO PPC activity allowed on this campaign [...]
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Welcome to our latest sponsors - Affiliate Boot Camp 2007
I’d like to formally announce our latest blog sponsor - Affiliate Boot Camp 2007. For anyone who doesn’t know, this is a weekend long affiliate conference help by super affiliate and consultant Keith Budden. Incidentally, also one of the nicest guys you could meet in this industry. Keith has been involved in Affiliate Marketing since [...]
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New Affiliates4u site launches Monday 14th May
The brand new Affiliates4u site is launched this Monday afternoon. I’ve tried to break it had a sneak peek and its very very cool. Kandevil has wrote a review here so I won’t go into too much detail. But I know for a fact that the “Thoughts” feature is going to be a lot of [...]
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$10m to get a top 5 position in Google for Poker
I loved this article over at PC Advisor where well known SEO Fella Rand Fiskin from search engine optimisation company, SEOmoz talks about his trip to London for the recent Search Engine Strategies conference.
Anyway, the juicy part of the story is that at the conference Rand was asked the following:
‘Can a poker site rank highly [...]
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Thanks to SitePoint
I saw a noticeable increase in traffic to this blog the other day and a quick look through my stats showed that the latest SitePoint Newsletter was the source.
It turns out they mentioned my earlier post about the guy who ripped off my Mothers Day site and pointed out that if you do a search [...]
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ShopWindow Toolset from Affiliate Window rocks
As an affiliate I’ve always kept away from datafeeds. Mainly because I hear so many nightmare stories about merchants never updating them and about them holding incorrect information and loads and loads of issues regarding category mapping and standardisation.
So I was intrigues to hear about the announcement of the ShopWindow Toolset from Affiliate Window. Now [...]
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Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
