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Comment added by davidglashan on 14/04/2008 12:07:02
i am looking for help in marketing a product my wife and I invented called the itsa. I have heard about affiliate marketing but i am afraid i am a dinersaur when it comes to technology. I joined this site to hopefully gain the help and experiance of like minded individuals who wish to improve the sales of their on line shops and individuals who like the idea of making money. we are a SME that has a tight budget and scarred that we waste our money on the wrong programe, is there anyone who can advise us to try any particuler marketing company or do you think it would be beneficial to employ our own specialist? I look forward to hearing from you
Comment added by davidglashan on 14/04/2008 12:07:01
i am looking for help in marketing a product my wife and I invented called the itsa. I have heard about affiliate marketing but i am afraid i am a dinersaur when it comes to technology. I joined this site to hopefully gain the help and experiance of like minded individuals who wish to improve the sales of their on line shops and individuals who like the idea of making money. we are a SME that has a tight budget and scarred that we waste our money on the wrong programe, is there anyone who can advise us to try any particuler marketing company or do you think it would be beneficial to employ our own specialist? I look forward to hearing from you
Wow! The community has grown. Travel is a 7 trillion dollar a year business. The business world is starting to realize this. Even in this american recession you can be very sucessful in this area. Keep your chins up all you travel people. I believe steve-panting was looking for a site to find all travel. Well you can check out my site at http://weprosper.paradisenetwork.com Let me know if this helps.
Comment added by steve-panting on 11/04/2008 18:34:59
Hi
I have created a few (unsuccesful) websites with affiliate links in the past and I am now trying my hand at being a merchant.
I decided to live in the caribbean last september and wanted open-return tickets which seemed to be impossible. In the end I had to get one-way tickets here but they were considerably more than half the return fare.
I looked at a number of search sites looking for the cheapest tickets and they all wanted to know what day and time I wanted to go (which I didn't particularly care about) so I had to try multiple combinations on multiple sites (the variation in prices was amazing) and it took a long time.
Does anyone know a site where you can just give it a starting point and destination and search for the cheapest deal within a selectable time period. I'm sure it would save a lot of web traffic and a lot of time for a lot of people.
Had a look at your site and its not bad as a whole. I think you need to look more closely at your individual hotels pages (the ones organized by districts). Try not to have long menus on each page especially if those pages don't have much content. You want to have a greater percentage of unique content on these pages. Also I think you have copied your hotel descriptions and it looks like you have written some of your posts yourself. A big no no in my book. though I did have a laugh reading them
Hi everyone, I'm Gerry from www.like2stay.co.uk and am a newbie here and as an affiliate, like a new boy at school it would be nice to hear from people and have help with my way around. I have had the like2stay website for a couple of years but have only just considered doing affiliate links.
I only handle UK Holiday Camps and have joined my first affiliate today with with Warners (thanks to Kevin Sutton from DGM who was extremely helpful) but I am also awaiting answers from Haven Holidays and Pontins. I wouldn't mind teaming up with similar websites that only deal with UK Guest Houses or Hotels as we could compliment each other.
Anyone from any website or group please feel free to say Hi, I am happy with my own little corner and don't see anyone as competition, I quite happily potter along as I have done for a few years, however through Social Groups I am now learning the benefits of networking and making contacts, which is funny after keeping yourself to yourself.
A website with over 300,000 mainly ABC1 members is willing to give prominent exposure to travel industry advertisers in exchange for generous long-term voucher codes, commission increases, or to donate prizes for a competition on their site.
Please send a detailed email to results [at] azam.net . Thank you
I just want to let everyone know about a great new offer that has been posted on my blog www.travelandprosper.blogspot.com There is a place on my website where you can go and get two 2 free round trip tickets. You can use these tickets as many times as you would like in a 14 month period. This package is offered through the Thomas Cook Group exclusively through YTB RTA's of which I am. This also includes accomodations at a reduced price. This is a must get and a must get now because this offer is not going to be around forever. Go to www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper click on flights tab. you will see fly free with YTB. All the information you need will be there. Let your friends know as well. This is not something you are going to see everyday so please get you a package before you won't be able to. by the way Thomas Cook Group is the oldest travel agency in the world. This is by no means offered by some fly by night travel group. Get your tickets now!
I just want to let everyone know about a great new offer that has been posted on my blog www.travelandprosper.blogspot.com There is a place on my website where you can go and get two 2 free round trip tickets. You can use these tickets as many times as you would like in a 14 month period. This package is offered through the Thomas Cook Group exclusively through YTB RTA's of which I am. This also includes accomodations at a reduced price. This is a must get and a must get now because this offer is not going to be around forever. Go to www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper click on flights tab. you will see fly free with YTB. All the information you need will be there. Let your friends know as well. This is not something you are going to see everyday so please get you a package before you won't be able to. by the way Thomas Cook Group is the oldest travel agency in the world. This is by no means offered by some fly by night travel group. Get your tickets now!
Can anybody reccommend a trustworthy affiliate programme offering extensive product in these destinations and the rest of Asia. It seems that there are a lot of cowboys out there.
I have what you need. first check out www.etravel101.com Then sign up as an RTA on my website at www.ytb.com/weprosper The first site will explain everything, but if you have any more questions, please contact me at autobd7@yahoo.com. My phone number is also on the second site. Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
P.S. if you just want to book those accommodations you can do this on my travel site at www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper
I have what you need. first check out www.etravel101.com Then sign up as an RTA on my website at www.ytb.com/weprosper The first site will explain everything, but if you have any more questions, please contact me at autobd7@yahoo.com. My phone number is also on the second site. Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
P.S. if you just want to book those accommodations you can do this on my travel site at www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper
Comment added by Amy Brown MVL on 18/02/2008 16:24:43
Hi Everyone,
Wanted to let you know about a family holiday special offer from Jet2Holidays, a leading holiday provider in the north of England, we are promoting with our programme on Affiliate Future. This offer is in addition to some great offers we have for holidays to Europe, Eygpt, and winter ski.
Offer details include:
Kids Places from £49 (kids are 12 years old and under) Prices are based on 2 adults and 1 child sharing a room
Available for bookings up to March 31st and Travel between April 1st- October 31st 2008.
Kids places at £49 are available during the t="on">lace wt="on">UKlace> school holidays.
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·All family holidays will a Family Sized Room, Accommodation close to the beach or a Kids Club.. you choose!
·Low Deposits of £50 per person. ( £50 for adults and per child.) Full payment is required for all bookings made within 10 weeks of travel
Top summer holiday destinations including the Algarve, Majorca, Costa Del Sol and Tenerife >>
With a family holiday from £449 Jet2holidays.com, are offering the whole family package for less. This offer will be available until 31st March.
I hope all is well with everyone. I created a travel blog. You can view it at http://travelandprosper.blogspot.com Please tell me what you think. I am going to add some backlinks to other blogs and hopefully generate some traffic. Your feedback would be great.
I have been viewing your content and I am very excited to be in this community. i believe i will learn alot here. I just started a travel business and it is awesome. It is good to have some seasoned veterans to get ideas from.
Shoestring.co.uk have just added it to their site to show the routes their adventure tours take. I thoughht a few of you might find it an interesting way of showing off destinations on your sites?
I would like to introduce the Insurance4car.com Affiliate programme. Some of you may already be aware of our programme as we are using the Affiliate Future network.
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Our product is an insurance that covers the excess that is payable on car rentals should something happen to the car.This is a similar product to the one that is offered by car rental companies but often works out at better value.The policies also cover damage to windows, tyres, roof and undercarriage of the vehicle that normal car rental agreements don’t cover
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We offer a wide range of products that cover both lace wt="on">Europelace> and Worldwide, for full product range please visit out affiliate page: http://affiliates.insurance4carhire.com>>
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There are a range of banners designed to suit your site and application process is simple and straightforward >>
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Our programme offers an excellent commission of 20% on annual policies and £1.30 for each daily policy that is sold>>
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If you wish to find out more about our programme you can either view our programme at www.affiliatefuture.com or contact us directly; >>
This is our site www.hostelbookers.com, we are an online budget accommodation provider (budget hotels, hostels and b&b) for independent travelers, backpackers and young people worldwide with over 10,000 properties.
What I want to propose is an affiliation CPA based.
The user books by paying just the %10 of the total basket value (average basket value of £85/$170) as a deposit in order to secure the property and the outstanding amount is paid by the user on arrival.
The deposit is our earnings and that is what we share with you from a 30% to a 50%; Therefore you are looking at £4.25/$8.50 revenue for you booking.
Had some problems with low conversion rates using the hostelbookers.com programme.
The main problem was that quotes for our major UK destination Newquay were in EUROS. Many young people visit Newquay each year and the cheaper accommodation available on www.hostelbookers.com would be ideal for them, however, most of them are from the UK and just wouldnt want to pay in EUROS. This led to zero conversions over 3 months.
We have now moved to hostelworld.com and are successfully making bookings. However, Hostelbookers have a better product range so I would go back if they were to extend the availability of currencies.
I beleive that it is important to choose affiliate programmes in travel that let the users book in their preferred currency or at least the currency of the destination. Ideally, the minimum available currencies should be GBP, EUR, USD, AUD.
This is our site www.hostelbookers.com, we are an online budget accommodation provider (budget hotels, hostels and b&b) for independent travelers, backpackers and young people worldwide with over 10,000 properties.
What I want to propose is an affiliation CPA based.
The user books by paying just the %10 of the total basket value (average basket value of £85/$170) as a deposit in order to secure the property and the outstanding amount is paid by the user on arrival.
The deposit is our earnings and that is what we share with you from a 30% to a 50%; Therefore you are looking at £4.25/$8.50 revenue for you booking.
Hello all. I have a website www.sunnyfuerteventura.com. I don't think I make the most of my website commercially has anyone any suggestions?
i am looking for help in marketing a product my wife and I invented called the itsa. I have heard about affiliate marketing but i am afraid i am a dinersaur when it comes to technology. I joined this site to hopefully gain the help and experiance of like minded individuals who wish to improve the sales of their on line shops and individuals who like the idea of making money. we are a SME that has a tight budget and scarred that we waste our money on the wrong programe, is there anyone who can advise us to try any particuler marketing company or do you think it would be beneficial to employ our own specialist? I look forward to hearing from you
regards
David
i am looking for help in marketing a product my wife and I invented called the itsa. I have heard about affiliate marketing but i am afraid i am a dinersaur when it comes to technology. I joined this site to hopefully gain the help and experiance of like minded individuals who wish to improve the sales of their on line shops and individuals who like the idea of making money. we are a SME that has a tight budget and scarred that we waste our money on the wrong programe, is there anyone who can advise us to try any particuler marketing company or do you think it would be beneficial to employ our own specialist? I look forward to hearing from you
regards
David
Hello All,
Wow! The community has grown. Travel is a 7 trillion dollar a year business. The business world is starting to realize this. Even in this american recession you can be very sucessful in this area. Keep your chins up all you travel people. I believe steve-panting was looking for a site to find all travel. Well you can check out my site at http://weprosper.paradisenetwork.com Let me know if this helps.
Hi
I have created a few (unsuccesful) websites with affiliate links in the past and I am now trying my hand at being a merchant.
I decided to live in the caribbean last september and wanted open-return tickets which seemed to be impossible. In the end I had to get one-way tickets here but they were considerably more than half the return fare.
I looked at a number of search sites looking for the cheapest tickets and they all wanted to know what day and time I wanted to go (which I didn't particularly care about) so I had to try multiple combinations on multiple sites (the variation in prices was amazing) and it took a long time.
Does anyone know a site where you can just give it a starting point and destination and search for the cheapest deal within a selectable time period. I'm sure it would save a lot of web traffic and a lot of time for a lot of people.
Hi,
Is anybody tell me how's the work of travel agency going in U.K.?
Please reply need your help.
Regards
Amit Kumar
i want to introduce you my site about barcelona hotels . If you want to review it and help me make it better i would it appreciate.
I'm open for getting your feedback and exchanging tips and prospecting for future collaborations.
I also have created a community at http://www.affiliates4u.com/communities/travel_marketing/
Ontherocks,
Had a look at your site and its not bad as a whole. I think you need to look more closely at your individual hotels pages (the ones organized by districts). Try not to have long menus on each page especially if those pages don't have much content. You want to have a greater percentage of unique content on these pages. Also I think you have copied your hotel descriptions and it looks like you have written some of your posts yourself. A big no no in my book. though I did have a laugh reading them![[wink]](http://www.affiliates4u.com/system/media/emoticons/wink.gif)
Hi everyone, I'm Gerry from www.like2stay.co.uk and am a newbie here and as an affiliate, like a new boy at school it would be nice to hear from people and have help with my way around. I have had the like2stay website for a couple of years but have only just considered doing affiliate links.
I only handle UK Holiday Camps and have joined my first affiliate today with with Warners (thanks to Kevin Sutton from DGM who was extremely helpful) but I am also awaiting answers from Haven Holidays and Pontins. I wouldn't mind teaming up with similar websites that only deal with UK Guest Houses or Hotels as we could compliment each other.
Anyone from any website or group please feel free to say Hi, I am happy with my own little corner and don't see anyone as competition, I quite happily potter along as I have done for a few years, however through Social Groups I am now learning the benefits of networking and making contacts, which is funny after keeping yourself to yourself.
A website with over 300,000 mainly ABC1 members is willing to give prominent exposure to travel industry advertisers in exchange for generous long-term voucher codes, commission increases, or to donate prizes for a competition on their site.
Please send a detailed email to results [at] azam.net . Thank you
I just want to let everyone know about a great new offer that has been posted on my blog www.travelandprosper.blogspot.com There is a place on my website where you can go and get two 2 free round trip tickets. You can use these tickets as many times as you would like in a 14 month period. This package is offered through the Thomas Cook Group exclusively through YTB RTA's of which I am. This also includes accomodations at a reduced price. This is a must get and a must get now because this offer is not going to be around forever. Go to www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper click on flights tab. you will see fly free with YTB. All the information you need will be there. Let your friends know as well. This is not something you are going to see everyday so please get you a package before you won't be able to. by the way Thomas Cook Group is the oldest travel agency in the world. This is by no means offered by some fly by night travel group. Get your tickets now!
Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
I just want to let everyone know about a great new offer that has been posted on my blog www.travelandprosper.blogspot.com There is a place on my website where you can go and get two 2 free round trip tickets. You can use these tickets as many times as you would like in a 14 month period. This package is offered through the Thomas Cook Group exclusively through YTB RTA's of which I am. This also includes accomodations at a reduced price. This is a must get and a must get now because this offer is not going to be around forever. Go to www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper click on flights tab. you will see fly free with YTB. All the information you need will be there. Let your friends know as well. This is not something you are going to see everyday so please get you a package before you won't be able to. by the way Thomas Cook Group is the oldest travel agency in the world. This is by no means offered by some fly by night travel group. Get your tickets now!
Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
I am looking for hotel/hostal affiliate links for the following destinations
Bali - http://balibuzz.com
Kuta - http://kuta.org
Nusa Dua - http://nusadua.com
Sanur - http://sanur.com
Penang - http://penangbuzz.com
Bangkok - http://bangkoktravelshop.com
Chiang Mai - http://chiangmai.net
Pattaya - http://pattayhotel.net
HongKong - http://hongkonghoteldirect.com
Can anybody reccommend a trustworthy affiliate programme offering extensive product in these destinations and the rest of Asia. It seems that there are a lot of cowboys out there.
Regards
Glen
Hello Traveladdict,
I have what you need. first check out www.etravel101.com Then sign up as an RTA on my website at www.ytb.com/weprosper The first site will explain everything, but if you have any more questions, please contact me at autobd7@yahoo.com. My phone number is also on the second site. Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
P.S. if you just want to book those accommodations you can do this on my travel site at www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper
Does your product cover the European outbound market? When I looked at your site all products were priced in USD.
Hello Traveladdict,
I have what you need. first check out www.etravel101.com Then sign up as an RTA on my website at www.ytb.com/weprosper The first site will explain everything, but if you have any more questions, please contact me at autobd7@yahoo.com. My phone number is also on the second site. Yours in health and wealth,
Dana
P.S. if you just want to book those accommodations you can do this on my travel site at www.ytbtravel.com/weprosper
Hi Everyone,
Wanted to let you know about a family holiday special offer from Jet2Holidays, a leading holiday provider in the north of England, we are promoting with our programme on Affiliate Future. This offer is in addition to some great offers we have for holidays to Europe, Eygpt, and winter ski.
Offer details include:
Top summer holiday destinations including the Algarve, Majorca, Costa Del Sol and Tenerife >>
With a family holiday from £449 Jet2holidays.com, are offering the whole family package for less. This offer will be available until 31st March.
Come check us out on Affiliate Future or feel free to contact me directly: amy.brown@mediavest-leeds.co.uk
All the best,
Amy
Hello everybody,
I hope all is well with everyone. I created a travel blog. You can view it at http://travelandprosper.blogspot.com Please tell me what you think. I am going to add some backlinks to other blogs and hopefully generate some traffic. Your feedback would be great.
Hey Guys,
I have been viewing your content and I am very excited to be in this community. i believe i will learn alot here. I just started a travel business and it is awesome. It is good to have some seasoned veterans to get ideas from.
Hi all, just wanted to point you to a little piece I did on my blog about using Google Earth on travel sites.
http://www.stephenpratley.com/shoestring-travel-use-google-earth-to-increase-conversions/
Shoestring.co.uk have just added it to their site to show the routes their adventure tours take. I thoughht a few of you might find it an interesting way of showing off destinations on your sites?
Let me know what you think?
Sorry for the extra characters everyone!
Hi All,
I would like to introduce the Insurance4car.com Affiliate programme. Some of you may already be aware of our programme as we are using the Affiliate Future network.
Our product is an insurance that covers the excess that is payable on car rentals should something happen to the car. This is a similar product to the one that is offered by car rental companies but often works out at better value. The policies also cover damage to windows, tyres, roof and undercarriage of the vehicle that normal car rental agreements don’t cover
We offer a wide range of products that cover both lace w
t="on">Europelace> and Worldwide, for full product range please visit out affiliate page: http://affiliates.insurance4carhire.com >>
There are a range of banners designed to suit your site and application process is simple and straightforward >>
Our programme offers an excellent commission of 20% on annual policies and £1.30 for each daily policy that is sold >>
If you wish to find out more about our programme you can either view our programme at www.affiliatefuture.com or contact us directly; >>
Email: info@insurance4carhire.com >>
Tel. 020 7012 6300 >>
I look forward to hearing from those interested and any feedback is welcome. >>
Regards, >>
Insurance4carhire.com >>
Had some problems with low conversion rates using the hostelbookers.com programme.
The main problem was that quotes for our major UK destination Newquay were in EUROS. Many young people visit Newquay each year and the cheaper accommodation available on www.hostelbookers.com would be ideal for them, however, most of them are from the UK and just wouldnt want to pay in EUROS. This led to zero conversions over 3 months.
We have now moved to hostelworld.com and are successfully making bookings. However, Hostelbookers have a better product range so I would go back if they were to extend the availability of currencies.
I beleive that it is important to choose affiliate programmes in travel that let the users book in their preferred currency or at least the currency of the destination. Ideally, the minimum available currencies should be GBP, EUR, USD, AUD.
Regards
Glen
Well January is here, the Xmas equivalent for us travel affiliates. I'm surprised this community hasn't been more active.
How is everyone feeling about this coming month?
Any new merchants out there worth looking at?
Chris
"giddy" and "no" would be my answers![[smiley]](http://www.affiliates4u.com/system/media/emoticons/smiley.gif)
Still surprised how inactive it is!
I can see that a few members here attended the Affiliate Future Travel Masterclass (see my write-up and pics on this page). What did you make of it?
I knew most of the people there, but also made some valuable new contacts.
I personally think it'd be a great idea if other networks had travel-specific gatherings... it helps if everybody is in the same vertical.
hi all,
i've just joined to this great site about affiliate marketing. I have a site about barcelona hotels called http://www.cheapbarcelonahotels.co.uk/ targeted to uk citizens that want to bisit Barcelona
I have affiliated with alpharooms.com and hotels.com through tradedoubler.
My site is halway between a travel guide to barcelona, an hotel recommendations website with my favourite Barcelona hotels listed and