Prezzybox.com's BIG Christmas plans for 2007

[Spreader]

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Yo ho ho. Yep, it's the last week in September and in time honoured tradition we at Prezzybox.com are putting out our Affiliate Christmas Promotion to ensure everybody maximises the months of October to December for Chrimbo (this coupled with the fact that I'm on holiday as of Monday and wanted to get it sorted before I go away).

This year has seen a lot of changes with regards to online marketing - especially with the prominence of blogs and social networking, so not only will be be giving you the usual tools to promote our gifts and gadgets, we'll also provide a raft of our newly created Vidiboxes and Prezzybox.com Wordpress Widgets which can be used to promote your sites in the festive season.

So without further ado...

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1) Competition

As always we'll be running a competition for our top affiliates giving away prizes in a number of categories. We've got some belting prizes this year including the following:

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Prizes:

• Pyramat
• Razor E300
• Ripstik
• Golf Launchpad for PS2
• Black Shadow Football Table
• Road Angel
• Philips Digital Photo Frame
• Chocolate Bean Bag
• Pyramat Entertainment Wall Projector
• Scad Diving

To make it fair on our Affiliates, and give everyone a chance of winning a prize, we are giving away prizes in the following 10 Categories:

Categories:

• Total Commission generated
• Biggest increase in sales compared to Oct-Dec 2006
• Affiliate using one of our Vidiboxes (email us to enter prize draw)
• Affiliate Using one of our Prezzybox.com Wordpress Widgets (email us to enter prize draw)
• Affiliate using a link/banner for our Personalised Calendars (email us to enter the draw)
• Affiliate generating most number of sales
• 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 prize draw)
• Best page using Prezzybox.com creative (email us to enter prize draw)
• Biggest single commission

As well as this - everyone who emails to enter one of our competitions will be sent a free Personalised Calendar (see Calendar details below).

The competition runs from the 1st October through to the 31st December. Good luck everybody.

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2) Creative

After the success of last year's creative, I challenged our designers and techies to come up with something even more innovative and interesting to promote Christmas this year.

So as well as all the usual Banners, Content Units, Search boxes and Gift Wizard Search boxes they've taken on board all of the 'noise' about social networking and blogging and have come up with a couple of winning bits of creative. Ladies and Gentlemen we introduce to you, Vidiboxes and Prezzybox.com Wordpress Widgets.

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Vidiboxes

We've got stacks of videos on the site which really help with converting sales. So, we've cunningly put these videos in to a number of content units and created our very own Video Content Units called Vidiboxes (which by our reckoning is an Industry first).


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We're really excited about these and are really keen for our Affiliates to use them on their own websites. We've now got Vidiboxes in the following sizes for a number of our best selling lines:

• 175 wide - for example Oidz Vidibox - 175 wide
• 400 wide - for example Ripstik Vidibox - 400 wide
• 500 wide - for example Testube Aliens - 500 wide

We've produced these Vidibox's for a number of our top selling goodies which have videos. You can see some examples of them and a full list of the Vidiboxes which are available so far by clicking here. If however, you want a Vidibox creating for a different product then check out this page (link to video page) as this has more of our product videos. Alternatively If there's something you're keen to promote let me know and we'll try and put it into one of our Vidiboxes for you.

Where to find them on Paid on Results and Affiliate Window:

The Vidiboxes are available in the following sizes:

• 175 by 300
• 400 by 150
• 500 by 200

And can be found under the following name: Product Videos - PRODUCTNAME xxx Wide

They are in dynamic marketing links section under "iframes"

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Prezzybox Wordpress Widgets

Equally as exciting are our Prezzybox.com Wordpress Widgets. As more and more of you are blogging it nowadays we thought it only right and proper to create some Wordpress widgets to include in your blogs as well. We've therefore produced the following creative for your Wordpress blogs.
This is how the Prezzybox Widget will look:

<img src="http://images.prezzybox.co.uk/christmas2007/widget/prezzyblog.jpg">

You can find directions of how to upload the Prezzybox.com Wordpress Widget by Clicking here

Widgets need to be requested from ben@prezzybox.com and we will send an individual zip file to affiliates with instructions of how to install them.

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Content Units

The two B's (Ben and Bianca) have put together some great new content units...

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The Content Units include a good range of products from what we expect to be our top Christmas sellers based on past and recent sales history.

You can find details of our content units by clicking here.

We have the Content Units in the following widths

• 120
• 175
• 250
• 400
• 500

and they can be found on POR and AWIN under:

Names: Christmas 2007 - Content Units xxx Wide

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Last Year's Content Units

Because we're so happy with our content units from last year and because the products are still hot sellers, then we're more than happy for you to use some of them too. Here's an example of last year's work...


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Again, these are available on both AWIN and POR and are titled accordingly.

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Gift Wizard Search boxes

Our gift wizard is one of our finest selling aids and really assists in increasing conversion. So, we've put together the Gift Wizard Search box in a number of sizes. Also - last year's are available if you prefer the designs. You can see details of our Christmas Gift Wizard Search Boxes by clicking here.

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Gift Wizard Search Boxes are available in the following sizes:

• 468 by 60
• 120 wide
• 165 wide
• 200 wide
• 350 wide
• 450 wide

and can be found under the following names: Christmas 2007 - Gift Wizards xxx Wide
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Banners

We've already got a stack of banners so we won't show a great deal here. However, what I would say is that if you need any banner putting together in any shape/size or colour and relating to ANY product then please let me know and we'll get it put together for you.

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You can see all of our banners here - Prezzybox.com Affiliates Christmas Banners 2007

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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).

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Do you need any creative 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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Gift Vouchers 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. Click here an example of StudentBeans current landing page...

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Top Sellers from Christmas 2006

It's always good to know what sold well last Christmas and throughout this year, as unless they are specifically dated (for example World Cup 2006 Car stickers) then they tend to be decent sellers the following Christmas too. So, the Top 20 products last Christmas were...

• Spa Lights (Vidibox coming soon)
• Pet Plants
• Mood Beams (Vidibox available)
• Personalised Calendar
• Hyperflex Super Mondo Stretch Ball
• MoPod (Vidibox coming soon)
• Mini Winnies - Pack of 10
• Mini Flip Flap Q (Vidibox coming soon)
• 20Q
• Snow Magic - Tube (Vidibox coming soon)
• Oidz (Vidibox available)
• Aroma Home Pink Hot Sox
• Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit (Vidibox coming soon)
• Cushtie Cushion - Pink
• Electronic Test Tube Aliens (Vidibox available)
• Tantrix Game Pack
• Father Christmas Letter (Coming soon)
• Wellbeing Solutions Hot Stone Therapy Pack
• 6-in-1 Utili-Key Multi-tool

These products are all stock lines and have sold contiuously well throughout this year too. and I'm sure they will continue to do so this Christmas so are definitely worth promoting.

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New Products

There's also a whole raft of new Products that are sure to fly out this Christmas. We'll be adding these over the next few weeks so I'll keep you posted. However, some products which are live on the site and are gonna be hot stuff are:

• Sun Jar (Vidibox available)
• Mock Socks
• Razor Ripstick (Vidibox available)
• Gellibaff (Vidibox coming soon)
• Pyramat Sound Rocker (Vidibox coming soon)
• Personalised Champagne
• Spider Catcher (Vidibox available)
• Picoo Z (Vidibox coming soon)
• Razor E300
• Cranium Superfort (Vidibox Available)

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Personalised Calendars

Personalised Products are HUGE now and our Personalised Calendar is our best selling personalised product by a long way. So - it really makes sense to promote these. The way it works is simple. The customer simply adds their name to the product and we produce their name in a number of wonderful settings - be it Fireworks in the sky or Graffiti on a wall. For example:

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Not only is the conversion rate on the Calendars particularly good, but so are the repeat sales which is obviously good for Affiliates because of the longevity of our cookie length through AWIN (365 days) and our Customer Based tracking through Paid on Results. And don't forget, every Affiliate who enters one of our prize draws above will receive a FREE CALENDAR.

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Stocking Fillers

We've also launched our stocking fillers category too. This is packed full of products which simply sell by the bucket load (or stocking load) so are definitely worth getting on board. You can see our Stocking Fillers category by Clicking here.

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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, down load 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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And Finally...

If there's anything that we've missed then please give me a shout. We'll make no bones about it, Christmas is the busiest time of year for us, so we're keen to provide our Affiliates with all the tools they require to ensure it is a belter. So, if there's anything you require whatsoever, then please give me a shout and we'll get it sorted for you.

Please note. I'm out of the office for 2 weeks as of 21st Sept so if you do require ANYTHING please contact Ben on ben@prezzybox.com or call him on 0870 1221 007.

Cheers,


Zak.

[Wardy]

Absolute quality as usual. Everything there affiliates need to get promoting.
Those video boxes look smart too, great development there matey

Now I'm just going to have to try and win somehing this time!

Cheers
Wardy

[John Jupp]

That's why Zak you are probably the number 1 merchant to promote for affiliates large and small. What a wonderful creation putting together so much creative for us all to advertise you effectively. Certainly a lesson for all other merchants and a guiding benchmark as well.

Enjoy your holiday. I'll kick things off late October for you guys anyhow but wow. What a choice of material.

[purple]

Winner of post of the year again I reckon!!! Posts like this really motive me into action.
I dont do huge amounts with Prezzybox, but with all the resources available you can't fail to make some sales.

I am looking forward to trying out the vidboxes and wordpress widgits,

Nice one guys.

[Shane]

Outstanding as usual Zak

You guys have raised the bar for others to aspire to yet again !

[leec]

Another year & another great Christmas post by Zak

As always the content units & banners look great. Great work from the PrezzyBox team!

[Hero]

slacker... going on holiday now... tsk tsk tsk

[Elaine]

Well I'm going to have to get cracking - we're on holiday from the 1st October - and I've got my eye on that soooper doooper skate board thingy - young Ollie will love it

Some good stuff there, Zak

[Spreader]

Hello folks,

Thanks for your kind words!

Yep - as Hero rightly points out I'm away from Monday (going to Vegas for a Trade Show ) so if you need anything doing then speak to my able deputy (Ben) and he'll gladly assist.

Take care one and all.


Zak.

[DutchRomano]

Excellent stuff. Though I am Dutch this post is a huge inspiration to me too.

DutchRomano

[Azam.net]

Pahhh... all rubbish.

Can't you come up something innovative for a change Zak?

And, for God's sake, it is September. Why not tell affiliates about your Christmas creative on 16 December like many of the other merchants do?

[jess1]

pmsl @ nadeems post, almost as good as a certain network sending out news letters after the event!

[Bud]

Quality - as usual Zak

Nice one!

[Travel Pixel]

ive registered for the ARC but it wont let me in!

[Spreader]

Hello Mr Travel Pixel,

Thanks for your message.

Yes - people need to register to use the ARC and then we need to approve regostration.

Hopefully this should have been done for you now and you should be able to use the ARC.

If you need any further assistance please don't hesitate to give me a shout on the details below.

Cheers,


Zak.