Archive for December, 2007

Dec31

Knightrider back on TV, Glaswegian car hero and the new Land Rover LRX

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A bit of car gossip for petrolheads to bring in the New Year. 
KITT is making a comeback in a new 2 hour TV movie to be shown in the US in February 2008 and this time KITT is a Ford Mustand Shelby GT500KR. Picture and teaser video below. I hope we get the show in [...]

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Dec30

2007 at Here.org.uk. The year in review

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Well, Jeremy has already beaten me to it but nonetheless I thought it would still be fun  to do a recap of 2007. Here we go…
January 2007
According to this widget my blog was worth £23,710.68 almost a year ago. Now its worth $107,827.14. Lol.
Visited Las Vegas for the first time ever to attend the Affiliate Summit conference. Had [...]

Dec26

What happened to the Christmas spirit?

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Sometimes words just fail me. I had no intention of blogging on Christmas day but the reaction of some affiliates today has really wound me up.
Over the last few weeks Affiliate Window have been running a promotion whereby they have given affiliates the opportunity to collect up to a maximum of 8 virtual gold coins [...]

Dec21

Announcing the SecretSales.com affiliate programme

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So…a few weeks back I was surfing the web and a friend pinged me telling me to have a look at SecretSales.com. She knew that I like designer clothes, especially 7 For All Mankind and True Religion jeans and she had found a place where not only can you buy them online in the UK but they [...]

Dec21

Merry Christmas and Thankyou!

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What a great year and a great Christmas its been. I’d like to publically thank the following people who have all been very very generous and sent me some fantastic Christmas gifts this year. So stand up and be counted….
Buy.at
Affiliate Future
Orange
DGM
RO Eye
Premier Affiliate Network
Equator
JackpotJoy (twice)
Webgains
Hotel Chocolat
CJ
Update: postman has just been, so thanks also to…
Altogether Ads
Update: [...]

Dec17

Communicating effectively with affiliates, more good and bad emails

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I received an email from TradeDoubler this week entitled “Halfords update and voucher codes”. Great I thought, just the job for some fresh content on my discount codes site. Imagine my disappointment when I couldn’t use anything at all from the email.
To explain why, here’s the email along with some notes I made:
Dear Affiliate,
Please find below [...]

Dec14

Affiliate Future parent company IBG sold to TMN Media

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First of all DGM have a management buyout and now IBG “merge” with TMN Media. What a busy week for the world of affiliate marketing!
IBG, the parent Company of Affiliate Future have been bought out (or merged) by TMN Media. TMN media are a huge direct marketing agency and used to be known as The Mutual.net. [...]

Dec14

Buy.at Christmas Cracker Industry Issue Panel - Notes

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A couple of weeks ago I participates as a panel member for the “Cracking (see what they did there?) Your Industry Issues” seminar at the Buy.at Christmas Cracker. I thought it would be worthwhile to put a few notes up here from the event, for those who missed it.
The panel was chaired by Tyson from Buy.at, I was there representing [...]

Dec12

DGM announce Management Buyout

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DGM UK announced today that they completed a management buyout of their UK business. Carl Davis and John Porter will lead the new UK company, although DGM PLC will retain a shareholding. In effect however, the UK business is now an entirely separate autonomous business and as such will operate individually from the PLC.
I think this is [...]

Dec12

Interviews

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I’ve been lucky enough to have been asked to take part in a couple of interviews of late, so thought it would be a good idea to list them all here. Just in case, you know, you want to see a bit more of what goes on in my head!
Podcast with Fraser - June 2006
Interview [...]

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