Archive for September, 2008
Cold Is The New Hot
Has anyone seen the TV ads, billboards and press ads stating that “Cold Is The New Hot”? That’s pretty much all the ads say apart from telling us to visit ColdIsTheNewHot.com on October 1st and all will be revealed
At the time of writing, the site is just a landing page with a countdown [...]
Congratulations to the 2 winners of the A4U Expo tickets!
On Saturday morning I used the Truly Randon Number Generator to pick a winner from the 37 blog comment entries to my competition to win 1 of 2 A4U Expo tickets.
The first winner the generator picked out was comment number 11 from Doug. As Doug is speaking on the same panel as me, he clearly [...]
LG KS360 Mobile Phone review
The LG KS360 is a cool looking slider phone with a full Qwerty keyboard as well as a touch screen. The phone is aimed at the youth market and is priced as such, you can buy it from Orange for only £59.99.
I was pleasantly surprised with the build quality and the feel of this phone. [...]
Win Fellows Hall - worth £600,000
A family not far from me in Ingleby Barwick, Stockton are giving people the chance to win their £600,000 house by entering into a raffle, with tickets selling for £25 each.
Click here to see the BBC Look North report.
Click here to buy your ticket.
BTW this isn’t the first time this has been done. A competition [...]
Sell it, give it away or keep it to yourself?
There was an interesting debate going on over at the A4U forum the other day where a user asked if people would pay “£50 to see a £50k Xmas 2007 Profit Strategy“. The post was made from a forum member called “Affi Liate” geddit? - and he seems to model himself on the Rick Jerk. [...]
Welcome to my new sponsors - Linkshare UK
I’d like to extend a big welcome to my latest blog sponsors, Linkshare UK. I’ve been using them for well over a year now and am pleased to see they have been going from strength to strength, they have an easy to use interface, some genuinely unique affiliate programmes that you won’t find anywhere else [...]
Nice one Nominet!
I sold a .uk domain name for the first time in a while last week and I was very pleasantly surprised at how easy Nominet have now made it to transfer domains away.
In the “old” days you had to complete a paper transfer form and write a covering letter and send a cheque in order [...]
Bad Lashes get through to the next stage of X Factor - supporting North East talent
Well done to fellow North Easterners, girl group “Bad Lashes” for getting through to Boot Camp on last night’s X Factor. From what I hear they are doing well even though Louis Walsh is the “groups” mentor again this year and he described them as “four hairdressers trying to be a girl band” during the [...]
Profiteering from the collapse of XL? Or shrewd marketing?
Within hours of the news that the UK’s third largest package holiday group XL, went into administration yesterday, the above sponsored ads on Google started appearing.
As well as the top 3 ads featured above there were further ads from the likes of Fly BMI, British Airways, Travel Republic and a fair few other online travel [...]
Win 1 of 2 A4U Expo tickets worth £600 by leaving a comment
To celebrate the second A4U Affiliate Expo taking place in London on the 14th and 15th October I’m giving away 2 full affiliates passes worth £299 each. As well as access to the exhibition and all of the presentations these passes will also give you entry to the 3 parties taking place too
So [...]
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.
