Affiliate Marketing Blog by James Little

Welcome to my first edition of A Week in the Affiliate World, a new feature that I hope to do on a regular basis. If you are asking yourself what this is and the reasons for it, let me take a minute to explain.

As there are so many affiliate/search/social blogs around these days, I thought it would be a nice idea to give a bit of an overview of some of the key posts each Friday afternoon/evening - submissions are welcome but for now I’ll crack on with this weeks edition & in no particular order, here are my favourites.

Firstly a big congratulation to Fraser on the birth of Anna Edwards. Arriving with enough time for Fraser to get down to the a4uawards in a few weeks and pick up one of the awards he has been nominated for.

And talking of awards.. Super Affiliate John over at Lammo.net has launched the alternative affiliate awards, otherwise known as the aFuawards the worse campaigns and fuck ups that we have seen in 2007. I’m sure there are a few takers on this one!

Kieron has reported today that The Sun has launched a new shopping comparison site, Sun Shop, powered by Affiliate Windows new €œShop Window€ tool. It’s a big win for Affiliate Window and if memory serves me correctly will replace the site previously run by shop.com.

While we are on the subject of Kieron I would ask that if you have a few minutes to spare make sure you visit his post about the bloggers choice awards and put in your nominations.

Lee Mccoy has kept up with his blog marathon (where does he find the time to write so much?) and posted some great €œMeet the Network€ articles on Webgains and DGM.

In network news, Paid on Results have announced the launch of a new tool currently in beta testing . Similar to one that we have been developing for the new Altogether network it allows merchants to set exclusive discount codes that can be used both on and offline - kudos for being the first to do this and I’m pretty sure that other networks will be following suit.

Jason is slightly cynical about the a4uawards nominations and looks more specically at the Jessops affiliate program, asking how they were nominated for Innovation and is definitely worth a good read.

Over the over side of the water I would also like to congratulate Sam Harrelson from Cost per News on another arrival into the affiliate industry. Mary Hudson may have only entered the world a few days ago but I’m sure that the sleepness nights have already started.

If you want to forget about affiliate marketing for a few minutes then also make sure that you heard over to the person blog of James Avery. The official affiliate spokesperson for the torries has been spending far too much time watching Parliament TV but certainly has some entertaining viewpoints on some of the current failings of the Labour party.

For anyone that is interested I’m also happy to say that my Macbook is up and running again (albeit without much data) and I’ve not given up on Macs just yet!

I think that about wraps it up for now - I hope that you all have a fantastic weekend and with any luck we’ll arrive back in the office on Monday morning with news of wins for England in Rugby, Football & Cricket!