Wow Valentines Day Can Be Tough

Picture the scene, I am late home from work on the 13th February and I have not got card, flowers or anything for my girlfriend! No problem I thought, Ill just pop into a shop and pick up some flowers and card on the way home.

When I arrived at the shop the shelves where almost bare, I had to basically run to get some roses and wrestle them off some other poor bloke only to see the £40 price tag - to save face I just picked them up and went on a hunt for a card. When I reached the shelf there were no cards either so I cunningly bought a cute generic one - the day was saved and my girlfriend is happy! So this got me thinking about affiliate sales during this lucrative day for landbased retailers.

Checking my stats from the past few days and weeks I can see a peak in sales which is great but I was expecting more! This seems to be a reflection on the forums and other blogs too. So how did you all do over the past couple of weeks?

Also a quick reminder that mothers day is around the corner so now is the time to whip down those valentines day banners or ads and start promoting mothers day. From past experience I can tell you more flowers and chocolates are sold for mothers day compared to valentines day for the simple reason that there are more mothers than WAG’s. So start promoting today and capitalize on mothers day mayhem.

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Prepare For Valentines Day, An Affiliate Event Is Upon Us

For many of you this will come as no surprise and you will probably think I am going mad, but for some of you this post will hopefully be the wake up call you need to start making money today from valentines day.

Valentines day is 15 days away, so in the online world of affiliate marketing this means you have 14 days to promote the event on your site. I am talking gifts, flowers, chocolates, romantic breaks, cosmetics, jewellery, singing telegrams, balloons etc etc.

Now, you should have started these preparations a few weeks ago but it is not too late to make some affiliate income if you double your efforts today, thankfully most of the networks and affiliate programs are here to help!

I have been sent various emails from the networks with the latest valentines offers (including codes from IWOOT, bunches and flying flowers), hot items and commission increases. This info is also clearly available on the networks sites (affiliate future have a valentines sections, as do Affiliate window).

The main thing to remember is that nearly any affiliate niche can convert around valentines day, IF you pull your finger out today. If you have a retail based website of any kind then you can find products to promote - just log in to your chosen affiliate network and get promoting now before it is to late.

P.S you may find it useful to know affiliate window do have a valentines content widget ready to use.

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An Affiliate Flyer Through My Postbox

I was going through my post on Saturday and was pleased to discover a leaflet from an affiliate site specialising in insurance. They had listed all the deals from the major Insurance companies which included both their URL and offline discount codes realting to their domain.

This got me thinking about offline marketing stategies and whether they could work with any affiliate site. I could definetly imagine comparison sites using this technique and I think I may well give it a try. There are so many avenues that could be used including newspapers, magazines and even radio (this one could be more difficult). Ill let you know how I progress.

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Affiliates Cash In On Lack Of Nintendo Wii

Yes you read the title right, affiliates are actually cashing in on the lack on Nintendo wii’s this Christmas by designing their sites around the fact their are very little of them.

I have a friend who has been desperately hunting for a Nintendo Wii in time for Christmas and until Friday was failing miserably. After speaking to her about the triumphant purchase she revealed a clever little site that helped her find it. The site was called weeavailable. Their are a few variants of the site around with some different designs and variants, however one thing remains constant they all provide a service to their customers which captures affiliate leads all in one swoop.

The clever thing about these sites is that once people find their site the lead is all ready pre qualified (they want a Nintendo Wii) and assuming there is a site that has Wii’s available they are going to get a click through and more than likely a sale - this is incredibly simple and also very clever.

This type of web site only has a short life span because it relies on the product being hard to find, as soon as stocks become plentiful the site does not have such a strong advantage (unless they compare prices too). However this type of site is still a good way to rake in some good affiliate income in a short space of time.

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