I’ll Shut Up Now | By Paul Smith

London Marathon Sponsorship

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, February 5th, 2010

No, i’m not silly enough to dig out my running shoes and take on 26 1/2 gruelling miles of London’s streets along with a whole bunch of other like minded crazy people. That said, one of our own Miss Kelly Frew has decided that this is the year she will be taking on the challenge [...]

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Gifts Site Looking For Competition Prizes

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, September 4th, 2009

Hello Merchants
I was about to send out my usual begging letter to our featured merchants for competition prizes and thought this might be a good opportunity to build relations with some new merchants too.
The site I’m looking for competition prizes for is: Gifts Guide UK - Presents & Gift Ideas
We run competitions for one month [...]

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Please Don’t Suspend Me For Not Promoting You

Posted by Paul Smith on Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Good and generous Affiliate Gods,
Please stop the muppet merchants from suspending me for not promoting them,
It’s not that I have no love for their brand,
It’s not that we’re not working to the same cause they are,
Frankly it’s beginning to get out of hand.
We sign up to programmes with an intention to promote them,
And we’re sorry [...]

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All This Fuss Over Hannah Waterman

Posted by Paul Smith on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

If you had asked me an hour ago who Hannah Waterman was, I may have suggested she was related to Pete Waterman (you know, the music producer guy), but I wouldn’t have really knew. That was until I saw this thread on the A4U forum where msg2004 swore that the new Hannah Waterman DVD was going to be a best seller and encouraged everyone to jump on the bandwagon.

Now I often listen to random people who I’ve never met, so I took his advice and registered hannahwaterman.net. 30 minutes of Dreamweaver later and we have a one page masterpiece devoted to this young lady’s DVD. now this is an affiliate site and the links are pointing to play.com through Affiliate Window tiny URL’s (very clever btw guys).  So my maths is looking something like this:

Domain: £10
Hosting: Dumped on a server I already had.
Design Fee’s: Really not worth paying for.
Time: 30 mins at 11.30 at night whilst watching family guy, i’ll write that off as time well spent.

So at Play.com’s 2% commission rate on a DVD selling at £12.99, I need to sell a grand total of about 40 DVD’s before i’m profitable, that or hope they buy other stuff too.

I don’t think i’m going to be able to retire on this one, but it might make some extra beer money for Christmas, i’ll let you know how it goes.

Posted in: Affiliates, Business, Online Marketing, Retailers.

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One Response to “All This Fuss Over Hannah Waterman”

  1. Rob Says:

    Hi Paul, Do you have any update on how this worked out over the past few months?

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