Prezzybox's BIG Christmas Promotion

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Hello Folks,

I hope you are well. Christmas seems to be starting earlier every year. Before you know it, the goose will be getting fat, you'll have kids carol singing on the streets and people will be going crazy buying gifts. So, in time honoured tradition (the end of September) we've thrown our hat into the veritable Affiliate ring and launched our Big Christmas plans...

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1) Competition

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As a cheeky little incentive to promote Prezzybox we have amassed an array of great prizes to give away this Christmas.

The prizes on offer to you are:

• Chelsea Football Table
• Contessa Ice Machine
• Sit on it Classic Bean Bag
• Pyramat
• Fire Pit and 2 x Olympic Torch
• 20-in-1 Games Table
• Barbados Hammock
• Wind Tunnel Experience and Sensory Pamper Treat
• Cascade Chocolate Fountain

Please note. Some of the prizes are so new and sooper dooper that they are not available yet. They will however be added to the site very soon!!!

Competition Categories

To make this fair to all of our affiliates we are going to give prizes away for the following categories:

• Top Affiliate
• 2nd Best Affiliate
• 3rd Best Affiliate
• Biggest Single Commission
• Best New Affiliate
• Home Page Link. Put a link/some creative on your home page for Oct/Nov/Dec and you'll go into a draw for a prize (email us to enter)
• Most Improved Affiliate
• Best Page using Prezzybox.com Creative (email us to enter)
• Best Cash Back Partner
• 1 Sale = entry into competition

Prizes are in no particular order and will be given for the performance in October, November and December.

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2) Creative

Ben and Bianca have been busy beavering away in their little designer den putting together a veritable cornucopia of great creative - including Banners, Content units, Gift Wizard dynamic boxes, Search boxes, Dynamic banners and much much more.

Content Units


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We have created a variety of new Content Units in a host of different sizes for use on your site. Each content unit incorporates a Christmas feel and a working search bar or gift wizard.

We have included a good range of products from what we expect to be our top Christmas sellers based on past and recent sales history.

To see all the content units then simply click here.

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Gift Wizard Search Boxes

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We have again produced some of our great Christmas Gift Wizards and search boxes which you can use on your own websites.

This form of creative is always very popular as it adds a unique feature to your site and allows your users to search for specific items or find the perfect Christmas gift in a hurry!

They come in a variety of sizes and so can be placed anywhere on your site to add value to your pages. To see all the Gift Wizard Search boxes click here.

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Interactive Creative

Our designers have also put together some interactive creative which helps to add a bit of interest to your site, combining both the gift wizard and some of our top selling lines. We've displayed some below, but to see all the Interactive creative just click here

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Last Year's Creative

And if this year's creative doesn't 'float your boat' then by all means feel free to use some of last year's creative. This is still all listed on AWIN and POR and you can find details of it by clicking here and it is in the following Christmassy theme...

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Where to find our Creative

All of the creative can be found on both AWIN and POR and is ingeniously entitled Christmas and then what it is (for example Christmas Gift Wizard Search Box).

Do you need anything specific to your site?

If there is anything you'd like us to create specifically for your site - be it a certain size, colour, with your logo or whatever, then please let us know and we'll get straight on to it.

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3) Gift Vouchers for your users and Landing Pages

From now until December we are happy to give you a branded £5 gift voucher which you can pass on to your users. This will entitle them to £5 off EVERY order with a value of £20 or more. We can also link this in with a landing page which has been working pretty well for a number of affiliates. Here's an example of UK Offer's current landing page...

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Click here to see a landing page 'in the flesh'.

If you want a branded gift voucher, landing page or both, then please let me know and we'll put something together for you.

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4) Best Sellers and hot products for this year

You can access Best Sellers lists for any period of the year through our ARC (see below). However, if you haven't got time to register, then here's a list of products that flew out of the door on Santa's sleigh last Christmas...
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Top 20 Sellers Christmas 2005
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• Cushtie Cushion
• Oidz
• Hyperflex Super Mondo Stretch Ball
• Pet Plants
• Personalised Calendar
• Snow Magic
• Chocolate Fountain
• Father Christmas Letter (coming soon)
• Antworks
• 6 in 1 Utilikey
• Tantrix Game Pack
• Oggz
• Spider Catcher
• Rouge O2
• Rainbow Maker
• Oggz
• Talking Dashboard Homer
• Nookii
• Personalised Football Team History Book
• Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit

New products that are sure to fly...

• Cascade Chocolate Fountain
• Verballs Internet Phone
• Mood Beams
• Mini Winnies
• Mopods

We've a list of approximately 200 hot new products to add to the site in October so I'll issue updates periodically of all the new goodies.

Categories that are worth promoting this Christmas....

• Football Tables
• Bean Bags
• Firepits
• Kids Discovery Zone (sell really well at Christmas!)
• Personalised Gifts
• Experience Days. I know there are a lot of good experience sites, but the benefit Prezzybox has is that we sell a lot of other products as well and customers tend to use us as a 'one stop shop' for all their Christmas gifts.

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5) Other Reasons to promote Prezzybox

We've recently introduced a number of measures which we hope will increase conversion rates.

• New Site Design
  We've recently launched a new site design for Prezzybox. This includes loads of great new features such as customer reviews, a gift reminder service, a wish list service and order tracking. All these will hopefully enhance the customer experience with us and improve conversion.
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• Email Vision
  We've contracted to Email Vision for the next 3 years to be our Email Service Provider. In short this means that we can be much more intelligent with our newsletters as it allows us to cleverly segment our database and be much more targeted with the customer email communications.
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• Enhanced Search Facility
  We are launching an enhanced search facility in the next couple of weeks. Adopting 'fuzzy search' technology the search facility is described by the manufacturers as "the most advanced search, navigation and merchandising solution available today" and is said to act as a live salesperson. We are hopeful therefore that it will help drive up conversion rates.
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• Customer Base and Sister Sites
  With Paid On Results we have a customer based programme. In short this means that you will get commission for EVERY sale whether there is a cookie or not. Click here for further information.
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• Sister Sites
  We've got 3 sister sites - www.itsmustard.com (gadgets), www.thedesignerbox.co.uk (designer homewares) and www.gardenbliss.co.uk (garden items) all of which are on the Prezzybox network on POR. So, if you are promoting Prezzybox then it might be worth promoting these 3 specialist sites too. Because they are programmes on the Prezzybox network you will be credited if the user is an existing customer of any of the sites under the Prezzybox umbrella.
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• Affiliate Resource Centre (ARC)
  Don't forget the ARC. It's jam packed full of great features to assist Affiliates. You can download best sellers reports, check out all of our latest creative, download datafeeds and much more. It really has proved to be a useful tool for those that have registered with it.
  
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  Click here to Register for the ARC.
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• Data Feeds
  
  We've got a datafeed for Prezzybox which is updated on a daily basis. These can be taken from both networks.

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6) And finally...

We're keen to work with all our affiliates this year, so if there is ANYTHING we can do for you, please give either myself or Ben a shout on 0870 1221 007, or email us on zak/ben at prezzybox.com.

Cheers,

Zak.

[Jason]

What can I say...

Fantastic as usual... Great line up Zak

I'm sure this will be a bumper year for all who jump on board the prezzybox xmas xpress with some great prizes to boot!

[Wardy]

Absolutly superb work Zak. Although I don't really do much with gadgets it is clear to see you are miles ahead of the competition in terms of how you treat & help affiliates!

I may try win myself a prize this year

Cheers
Wardy

[getvisible]

Simply outstanding Zak!

Note to other merchants - this is the way to give your affiliates all the tools they need to make it a very profitable Christmas for both you and them.

Think you should go into merchant training!

[renegade]

I thought you could have put in a bit more effort this time Zak

[Hero]

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you

[Spreader]

Cheers folks,

I really appreciate your comments

To be honest Ben and Bianca deserve most of the credit - I'm just the mouthpiece of the company

I'm off now for a couple of days (travelling down to the smoke to spend some time travelling up and down the Thames or something like that) so if there's anything you need doing whilst I'm away, don't hesitate to give Ben a shout.

Take care folks.

Zak.

[KieronD]

As always mate, you have everyting covered off, and everything that affiliates could possible ever need.

What never ceases to amaze me though is that despite you doing this sort of thing for affiliates for years I can't think of *any* other merchants who do anything even half as good.

[max99]

Right going to sign up very nice post and all the things you have seem superb.

Setting a landing page up ... could you pm me details on how

[Nosmo_King]

This is great but is the phone number supposed to be on everypage?

I'm deeplinking into the Prezzybox site and can't get rid of it - what have I missed?

[Azam.net]

Ab fab Zak - you guys to really blow me over.

Hope Xmas is a biggie for you and all your affiliates.

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Hello Nosmo,

This is great but is the phone number supposed to be on everypage?

In short no! The phone number should not appear at all when traffic is coming from an affiliate. It should look like this (click here) with a rotating banner in the top right hand corner and all prominent phone numbers being replaced.

Is the phone number still showing?

If so, please give me a shout and I'll get one of the techies to have a look at it for you.

Cheers,

Zak.

[loquax]

Looks good Zak, but I've got a few probs

on some of the creative there's some weird A type characters in front of the ££ signs (e.g. 120x600 on POR)?

Also is it possible to create a content unit that is 450/480 ish wide, and a search box that's 120xsomething wide (sidebar) - the creative you produce always look cool, but I find they don't always fit in so easily

Jason

[leec]

Hi Zak,

Great looking site im also having the prob with the Tel number showing as well once you click via a POR link


Cheers Lee

[ben]

Hi Everyone,

on some of the creative there's some weird A type characters in front of the &#163;&#163; signs (e.g. 120x600 on POR)?

Im going to look into this Jason for you, I didn't know they were doing this, the same html works perfect on AWIN.

create a content unit that is 450/480 ish wide, and a search box that's 120xsomething wide (sidebar)

No problem, if anyone else wants different sizes or colours just let me know. Ill get on it today and should be live by tomorrow. Would you like a plain 120 wide simple search box?

im also having the prob with the Tel number showing as well once you click via a POR link

Im going to have a word with our techie to see why this is happening. Normally if you deep link and include this internal querystring tracking
?TID=901 - For Paid on Results Links
?TID=900 - For AWIN Links
We will set a cookie on the users computer so that the rotating baner is shown on every page and the phonenumber on the homepage changes to the new arrivals image instead like Zak showed in the link above:
http://www.prezzybox.com/?TID=901

I will have a look at all of this though and get back to you all ASAP

Thanks,
Ben