What have we been up to? Since we launched sunPress last October, we’ve been pretty quiet here, keeping our heads down. Even our Barbados incentive was pretty much left in the hands of those lovely people at Affiliate Future.
Well, we have been keeping ourselves busy, here’s a few of the things we’re working on - Read the rest of this entry »
As a keen reader of Travolution online I signed Chris Brown and myself up for the Travolution Summit 2009 which was on the 21st April at the Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel in London.
I arrived very early at the venue having arrived via the Sleeper and settled down with the delegate pack, mentally marking down which speakers I thought would provide value. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the things I picked up from ThinkVisibility was that affiliate marketing still has a bit of a stigma from those outside the industry. “Wild West” was one of the phrases used to describe it, so I thought I’d post a showcase of how affiliate marketing looks when it’s done right.
If you’re involved in affiliate marketing, the goto place is the afilliates4u forum. One of the busiest threads of late involved Frank Paul (smingle) giving advice on domains and SEO for newbies and old hands alike. Frank has been involved with affiliate marketing for over 4 years, and this week just launched his new site underwear.co.uk after many months of development.
Frank bought underwear in Dec 2008 for an undisclosed sum (a respectable 5 figure sum I believe!), recognising the potential of the domain as a “niche killer”. With a plethora of underwear merchants to choose from, the site currently has over 10,000 products listed, with another 10,000 or more still to go on. Read the rest of this entry »
Back from Leeds after attending the excellent Think Visibility conference. I’m still feeling a bit incoherent after the night before the conference went on a bit too long, resulting in me missing the first three sessions by the time I dragged myself out of my hotel bed! Thought I’d jot down some of the highlights while I’ve still got the buzz for the event.
Arrived in Leeds, spent 40 minutes arguing with my Sat Nav about one-way streets in Leeds while looking for the Light car park. While checking-in there was an almighty clatter behind me, turned round to see Dom (@thehodge) trying very hard not to piss himself as Al Carlton (@AlCarlton) had just walked into a glass table at shin height. It sounded bloody sore and I’m sure when he sobers up he’ll find some rather nice bruising :).
Shortly after a group of 16 TV’ers met in the hotel bar before heading out for a meal. I’ve been going to affiliate events for quite a few years now, so it was kind of weird walking into a crowd and having to introduce myself. Thankfully everyone was very friendly and we were soon joined by Dave and Elaine so I was no longer the only dirty affiliate there! While hanging around here I first met Shaun Anderson (@Hobo_Web) a fellow Scot (who took about 5 minutes to work out I’m Scottish too) and an SEO, for some reason we hit it off straight away, possibly due to our shared nicotine habits.
We headed off to Wagamama’s as evidenced here - then onto the pre-conf venue, the Hog’s Head. Read the rest of this entry »
We received an email this morning through the sunshine.co.uk contact form, from Play Radio UK. They are an online radio “station” and they were asking if we’d be interested in sponsoring an upcoming Travel slot.
In keeping with such emails they also provided a few figures on their reach of audience -
Play Radio UK is the largest group of internet only radio stations in Europe and offers listeners a totally interactive experience. Our 971,927.50 UK listeners choose to listen to one or more of our expanding choice of radio stations whilst they surfing the internet. This is your opportunity to reach these potential customers whilst they are already on-line
OK, now look closely.
Nine hundred and seventy one thousand, nine hundred and twenty seven. And a half! Seriously?
Name: Chris Clarkson
Location: Strathaven, Scotland
Occupation: Affiliate Manager for sunshine.co.uk
Why This Blog?: Sometimes I have thoughts,
opinions and general ramblings that aren't really suitable for the company blog.
Why pfft?: Mostly because meh wasn't available.
Experience: This used to be me, I built
this with him and then we did this with it,
and now I mostly do this and a bit of golf.
