WOW - Great Getaways - 7% for Travel

[Malcolm Cowley]

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Hi all ,

We are just soft launching the great getways program today .

This program is very exciting for us and we hope it will be the start of a group of very nice programs in the travel genre.

Sales for the program are batched through to us from Great getaways and will be then uploaded into your managment areas this is for sales done online and offline .

Commission for this program is 7% - thats right 7% yesssss!

Cookie period 90 days

Average order value is £400 so thats - £28 per confirmed booking payable after the travel date, due to bonding issues.

So possibly not one you would want to heavily ppc if you have cashflow issues although :

Its weekend breaks mainly so not tied to the summer holiday season .

Self drive is really hot for them at the moment until Sept/Oct time and then its Eurostar breaks which are big .

Towards Christmas they sell a lot of New york breaks and Dubai breaks so their best to push then.

With this in mind it should not be too long from making the confirmed booking to getting the sale approved.

We will be getting reporting through from them once a week on a Tuesday starting from the first Tuesday after the bank holiday so sales will appear in your managment area on the Wednesday following this to allow for any delays.

Tracking is both online and offline and the call centre staff are trained to ask for the unique site code which is displayed when you click through one of our urls.

The site code is unique to each user who comes through the links and is also fully trackable online if the user decideds to complete the order in this way.

Wild

Any questions - send me an email or post here

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi

I forgot to mention that this beast of a program is also able to support link ids - this wont mean anything great to some people but there should be a couple reading this who are now also seeing multiple pound signs at this revelation mahahahaaaaa

lol

Mal

[drivetowin]

Hi Malcolm

Great programme

Please can you ask them for some 468x60 creative

I've also sent you an email with some specific requests

Should go well on my new site

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi Kbudden

Ive put that request in for you and ill chase it next week

If anyone has any specific requests for creative etc then let me know

[drivetowin]

Malcolm - please can you confirm something on this - if someone books a weekend break today but travels on say the 1st weekend in September - will the sale show in my stats next week and then be approved after the 1st weekend in September or will nothing show in my stats until after 1st weekend in September?

Certainly seem to be getting a fair few clickthroughs on to this one so I hope they're converting

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi Keith

When the stats copme through they will be for confirmed bookings and then when they go on hols etc then they will go from pending to approved.

Hope this makes sense

It will give you an idea of whats coming at least barring reversals

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi

Just to give you all a quick update on this program as today they sent me through the average site confirmed bookings drop out rate.

" I can report our cancellation rate is 1.5% "

So very minimal indeed - Im sure you will all agree this is very positive

Kind Regards

Mal

[drivetowin]

Hi Malcolm

Have the first stats been updated on this program yet?

Just curious to see how many of the clicks that have gone through from my site have converted....

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi

They may have been sent through to me but I have been at Cottages4u peoples place today so I wont know till tomorrow mate.

If there not there when I get in then ill ring them and get an update for you - your banner should be ready soon too :-)

The Cottages meeting went well though - I seem to remember it was you who wanted Ferry Savers at some point too , you shall have it v soon