Archive for January, 2009

Jan31

Kieron’s R&B Mixtape Volume 1

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Thanks to my addiction to Spotify I can now share my love for R&B with everyone
From now on I plan to compile a Mixtape of my favourite R&B tracks every month and share them on this blog. If you’re a R&B lover or music lover of any kind I really hope you enjoy [...]

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Jan29

Confusion reigns as merchants go on banning spree of discount code sites

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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had communications from Comet and DRL (who manage Sainsburys Kitchen Appliances, Boots Kitchen Appliances, Next Domestic Appliances, Appliances Online and Appliance Deals) saying that they are going to stop working with “voucher code directories”. These emails were sent en-mass to all affiliates and we were told to pause [...]

Jan26

Party at the Playboy Mansion!

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It’s great when merchants and networks give away prizes to incentivise and motivate affiliates, I mean iPods and gift vouchers do come in handy. And even some of the bigger prizes have been getting better and better. But what about this? A 2 night “extravaganza” at the Playboy Mansion courtesy of AzoogleAds.
Man, I think I [...]

Jan22

My prediction comes true - Figleaves close affiliate programme

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This is what I said in a blog post on December 13th last year:
“Who wants a wager on when the programme will be closing? 1 month? 2? I give it 6 months tops before we get the closure notice email.”
Turns out I was right, a little more than a month after my original email I [...]

Jan22

My Interview with Econsultancy

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The guys over at Econsultancy asked me to take part in an interview this week, you can read it here.
I talked about how I have seen Affiliate Marketing change over the last 8 or 9 years or so, if there are still opportunities for new affiliates and are the “salad days” over?
I hope you enjoy [...]

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Jan20

10 reasons why Spotify rocks

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First of all, what is Spotify?
I always describe Spotify as a kind of cross between Pandora, Last.fm and iTunes. It’s a music application that you download and install on your PC. It does many cool things but primarily it can either (a) act like a radio station and play you random songs based on your [...]

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Jan19

Win GoneDigging.co.uk gift vouchers

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This week I’ve teamed up with GoneDigging.co.uk for a competition where I have £150 worth of gift  vouchers to give away.
So who are Gone Digging? They’re a retailer of unique and personalised gifts. Some of their products are really unique such as the Spoof Newspapers and Personalised Football Books. I gave away some of their [...]

Jan17

How not to unload your new £80,000 Aston Martin V8 Vantage

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What makes it worse is the fact that it’s white. Lush.

What I’m listening to right now: Lenny Kravitz - “Stand By My Woman”

Topics: Cars, Fun | 10 comments so far read the rest of this entry »
Jan14

So, how much money did Alexandra Burke make me?

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A month ago on December 14th 2008 I blogged about how I captured so much traffic from a blog post about X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke that it broke my server. One of the comments on my post was from Simon who said it would be a good idea to blog again in 30 days time, [...]

Jan13

Daily Mail close down Twitter parody

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Saw this yesterday written by @jemimakiss.
It seems that Twitter have caved into legal pressure from the Daily Mail and closed down a Daily Mail parody account on Twitter; NotDailyMail_UK. I urge you to read the full article here but here are a couple of juicy snippets:
Further proof, if we needed it, that the Daily Mail [...]

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