 | Off to Pick Claire up from the airport soon! - should I come back to work after? |
| Just 5 Affiliate Passes at £149 left for a4uexpo - be Quick! |
| a4uexpo London Registration Now Open - Save £100 on early bird! - First 50 Affiliates |
| Last day to book places at the a4uAwards! |
| Launched a Personal Blog @ http://www.woody.co.uk |
| wow 2am - time for bed! made a few changes on the forum, hopefully for the better!? |
| adding new forums to affiliates4u and deleting one! |
| Everyone, Just 1 day left to enter the a4uAwards! |
| Back and Still Knackered from a4uexpo Europe in Amsterdam! |
| Just removed nicheannihilationmethod from blog aggregator! any other spammers in there? |
| 6 Days Chris til a4uexpo Amsterdam! :-) |
| Getting ready for the big office move on Thursday! |
| Over 300 people confirmed for the a4uAwards! - Have you nominated yet? |
| a4uAwards - Nominations Now Open! |
| Awards nominations will be going live this afternoon! |
| Banned a member for life for 1st post spam! |
| Pleased award submissions are open- it's gonna rock this year! |
| Going to Amsterdam? 36 hours left to catch the early bird pricing! |
| Getting ready to head to Paris for our a4uexpo Raodshow |
| Date of Birth | 04/06/1979 |
| Type | Affiliate |
| Role | CEO, Director, Partner or Executive |
| Member Since | 05/05/2007 |
| Primary Website | http://www.existem.com |
| Status | Offline |
Biography
Catch me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/matthewwood
Back in 1999 I founded affiliates4u to facilitate relationships between members of the affiliate marketing community. A community which helped shape the industry in a positive light.
Starting like many affiliates at home, by building a vast array of websites in sectors including gaming, finance and retail, I partnered with a number of freelancers which help to build value –add websites, often working through the night whilst juggling jobs, ranging from customer service at Orange to the local abattoir!
My work included organically listed SEO driven websites which were listed well within both Google and MSN search engines. We were once listed no.1 for the terms ‘shopping’ ‘loans’ ‘flights’ ‘computers’ and ‘finance’.
Through partnerships with those who complemented my skills we also developed in-house paid search technology to facilitate automated Google Adwords activity way before the Google API was established.
After dabbling with consultancy for start-ups in Affiliate Marketing, where I helped establish the first dedicated telephone tracking solution to stop leakage in 2002 and driving affiliates sales for one business to over 70% I founded Existem Ltd in early 2003. By the end of that year we moved into serviced offices in central Bristol.
Here we developed more technology driven websites within the loyalty sector and have steadily and organically grown the team to eight in our Bristol office.
In 2006 we established our affiliate marketing agency, Existem Affiliate Management. Later that year we partnered with Mark Russell and Bruce Clayton and still hold a good investment and involvement.
In 2007 we invested a six figure sum in the launch of a4uexpo.com, Europes very own Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition. We still organise local networking events across the UK and Europe for the community, and look forward to exapnding these to Europe and possibly further afield.
As an entrepreneur and Managing Director I look after the talented team at existem who continue to develop value add websites, and are currently expanding our social networking sites across many niche verticals.
Existem Ltd
| Specialisms | Broadband, Finance, Travel, Entertainment & Music, Electrical Goods, Computers, Gifts & Gadgets, Gaming, Fashion, Food & Drink and Mobile Phones |
| Verticals | SEO (Organic), Email Marketing, Cashback / Incentive, Social Media, Paid Search (PPC) and Product Feeds |
| Territories | UK, USA, Australia and Asia |
| Job Title | Managing Director |
Company Description
existem are a specialist affiliate marketing company based in Bristol.
We have been working in affiliate marketing for over 8 years, with a track record of building website properties across many verticals using different methods including SEO, product feeds, social media, PPC, loyalty and email marketing.
We founded affiliates4u back in 1999 when we struggled to find other affiliates and merchants in the sector, and are pleased to be-relaunching the affiliates4u.com website this month.
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| 18 comments: |
Hi Matthew, I am new to the Affiliate industry and wondered if you can give me some useful hints and tips about how to best approach tackling this new marketing space.
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Great job,Metthew!!! I am Sarvesh from India. I am great believer of Affiliate Marketing as a tool to get over the gloom of unemployment around the world.I am helping friends by providing a cake walk method of earning money on internet. If you wish just see http:www.affiliate-earnings-made-easy.com I am sure,Myself, as a member and You as Creator of this platform can improve the lot of lot of people. Love you
affiliates4u v3 is looking very good - glad to see that everything is going well!
Just read this on my travels... ...Back in 1999 I founded affiliates4u to facilitate relationships between members of the affiliate marketing community. A community which helped shape the industry in a positive light. Matt. 1991? go on mate nominate yourself for man of the year and I will certainly be the first in line to vote you in. You've certainly excelled mate!!!
Great forum site and affiliate info, but don't know why I have NO Permission to reply or post in the Forum...??? Regards
Hi Matthew, I have just signed up to your site, and I must say you have some great info on here which is going to help me grow. I currently run letsgetconnected.co.uk and looking for more white label ventures if you or any members could help! I look forward to speaking with you again, take care:)
Hi Matthew, my names Chris from mobalrental.com, interesting bio and site. I'm a web developer with an interest affiliate marketing, and if our paths cross at Pubcon, then great! I know what you look like so I've got the advantage ;)
Hi Matthew, I am Valentina from IPT Smart Quotes. I will be attending the a4uexpo event on both days and hope to meet you in person. Kind regards, V.M.
great site and forum
Ha ha, no worries. I hope you're well.
Nice one Matt so much more to play with, still getting to grips with facebook and this is like the affiliate facebook top work matey.
Hi mate - great new site! Wishing you all the best for the new look forum ;)
Great new site Matthew. Keep up the good work :)
Wall virginity stolen. Oh yes. Loving the new site.