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Final London Marathon T-Shirt Advertising Opportunity

Posted by Paul Smith on Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I blogged a little while back about one of our team (Kelly Frew) taking part in the London Marathon, and my how time has flown, it’s only 10 days away now! So for the final time here is our plea, Kelly is running to raise money for the Cardiomyopathy Association. Cardiomyopathy, which literally means “heart [...]

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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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Grandma We Love You…

Posted by Paul Smith on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Or not in the case of this searcher who found their way onto our Gifts UK website with a cracker of a search term (click for larger image): It’s not been a bad year for the GGUK site. We built the site in late November 2008 and have left it virtually untouched until October 2009 [...]

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Archive for the ‘Retailers’ Category

Pinesolutions – Can We Help You With Content?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

It’s nice to be able to focus on the good things in the affiliate industry, and Pinesolutions deserve the Kudos given here. I give you their email: Dear Paul Smith Hope you are well and enjoying the lovely weather we are experiencing at the moment. At Pinesolutions we would like to try and make your [...]

Sometimes Saying Nothing Is A Better Idea

Monday, July 20th, 2009

When I first Started this blog a few months ago I made a post about Findel Potentially Putting Kitbag.com up for sale which was met with quite a lot of feedback from one of Findel’s employees. Said employee (Craig) decided that my post was negative to the Findel brand (which wasn’t my intention at all) [...]

John Lewis End Relationship with Vouchercode Sites

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

John Lewis have decided to cease offering online discount codes, hence terminating their relationship with online voucher code sites. In an email received late yesterday it stated: John Lewis ceased working with cashback affiliates in May 2008 in order to uphold their tradition of ‘treating all customers equally’. They still however continued to use coupons to [...]

Play.com’s Tribute To Michael Jackson – Too Soon?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I learnt on Friday that Michael Jackson had passed away when I opened an email from Play.com entitled: Play.com’s Tribute to Michael Jackson. The email was an affiliate email along with some banners and an affiliate link with my ID inserted into it all ready for me to put up on a site. At the [...]

Financial Crisis Forces Tough Decisions

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This speaks volumes! I take no credit for the above image, if you know the copyright owner give me a shout and I’ll give credit where it’s due.

Findel Puts Kitbag Up For Sale

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Just less than 3 years after the acquisition of Kitbag Ltd from European Home Retail, Findel PLC have put the Middleton-based online sportswear retailer up for sale. They haven’t done a bad job at all given that when they took control the retailer was making a loss, turning this around to a £500k profit (according [...]