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LINKSHARE CHRISTMAS COMPETITION - TIS TH£ S£ASON... to earn more in Q4!!
How are you getting on?
 Many of you are busy earning points in our Christmas Competition. We now have a points calculator that allows you to look and see how many points you have accrued since the start on 1st November and lets you work out which prize draws you have been entered into.
If for some reason you haven't heard, we are running a Christmas Competition and the rules are very simple...
read more
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Take Advantage of the Annual Spike in Travel Sales - set up your links for January now
 With Christmas just around the corner, the New Year isn't far off.
To maximise your earnings in January, do take a look at our travel and travel related campaigns, and set up the links in time for the key booking period in the UK.
British Airways, Radisson Edwardian and Mr & Mrs Smith are the perfect brands for promoting both UK breaks and international travel. KAYAK helps your users search for the best flights worldwide right on your website through their search boxes, so you don’t even need to have a travel website to get your share in January.
And to complete the package, there are lots of travel related products you can promote through our merchants, such as beauty products, luggage, swimwear, or clothing. Click here to log in and view all Travel advertisers - Look out for the flag indicating UK programs and apply to any merchants you aren't yet promoting.
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LINKSHARE CHRISTMAS COMPETITION - TIS TH£ S£ASON... to earn more in Q4!!
How are you getting on?
Many of you are busy earning points in our Christmas Competition. We now have a points calculator that allows you to look and see how many points you have accrued since the start on 1st November and lets you work out which prize draws you have been entered into.
If for some reason you haven't heard, we are running a Christmas Competition and the rules are very simple...
Any promotion of LinkShare Advertisers between 1st November and 25th December 2008 will automatically earn you Christmas shopping points. You can earn points by simply being click active, but the more order active you are the more chance you have of being entered into a series of prize draws to earn cash rewards, win prizes and ultimately win an all-expenses-paid trip to the a4uexpo Europe in Amsterdam in April or to LinkShare's Symposium West in San Francisco in January!!
It's not too late to get started... Christmas shopping online in the UK is set to peak on the 8th December. IMRG and Capgemini estimate £320m will be spent on the internet on 8 December with the peak between 1pm and 2pm. So get your links up and make the most of the Christmas rush. |
Announcing Product LinkFinder
Do you use deep links and want to find specific products to place on your site? Product LinkFinder is a Publisher Dashboard tool that allows you to search for individual product links. You can choose to search by category within a single Advertiser, or across all Advertisers you have a relationship with. With Product LinkFinder, it's easy for you to find product links!
If you don't yet incorporate product links, now is the perfect time to take a fresh look!
Ian Rosenwach, Product Manager
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Do you have a WordPress blog?
If you have a WordPress blog, you can take advantage of RSS DealFeed, a WordPress plug-in for LinkShare publishers.
WordPress makes it quick and easy to create a professional looking blog, and "plug-ins" provide further enhancements once the blog is created. You can use RSS DealFeed to enhance your blog for free by simply entering your LinkShare web services token into the WordPress interface and selecting the advertiser feeds that you want to promote! DealFeed displays the RSS posts in your blog's side bar like this:
If you use WordPress, it's easy to integrate LinkShare links into your blog in one step!
Download the DealFeed plug-in and follow the instructions on this page.
Ian Rosenwach, Product Manager
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Special Publisher Training Web Seminars on LinkShare Products
You can now attend interactive Web seminars for free and learn about how to use LinkShare products to maximise your earnings! These sessions will cover Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced level training to help you make the most of your partnership with LinkShare. To see a schedule of seminars through November and early December, please visit the LinkShare Education resource centre here: http://www.linkshare.co.uk/edu/publishers/publisher_training_web_seminars/
Recordings of training sessions including one on Easy Links are available on the LinkShare website.
If you have any questions regarding the Publisher Training Web seminars, please contact:
Sylvia Kim
webseminars@linkshare.com
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LinkShare Symposium West 2009 
Our LinkShare Symposium West is taking place in San Francisco on January 21st - 22nd 2009.
It is the premiere gathering place in the US for advertisers and publishers to jump start their online initiatives for the coming year.
As a UK Publisher, how could you benefit from attending Symposium West?
- Cultivate important business relationships and foster new business development opportunities.
- Promote your site to a targeted and relevant US market.
- Gain advice on expanding into the US market.
- Consider new avenues to maximise your affiliate efforts.
There will be expert speakers and high-level networking segments which have been shown to be highly effective in forming winning and profitable alliances and building your strategies. You'll get the inside track on trends defining our industry.
Please contact uksupport@linkshare.com if you would be interested in attending Symposium West. |
Voucher Code Rules of Conduct
 LinkShare has long supported the evolution of all types of affiliate sites, including content/advice, comparison, points or cashback, and discounts, as all of these add value to the online shopper’s experience. The ingenuity of publisher sites in enhancing an online shopping path and facilitating further sales has been a key factor in the growth of online commerce.
Furthering our dedication to the rights of an online shopper to a robust but fair and clear shopping experience, LinkShare is proud to be a part of the Internet Advertising Bureau and its affiliate marketing council’s code of best practice. The code, which goes into effect on 1 January 2009 covers the following:
• Using 'Click to Reveal' when there is no valid or current code present is not permitted. This includes using 'Click to
Reveal' to show any deals/offers/sales instead of vouchers.
• Voucher code affiliate publishers must clearly detail the voucher offer that will be revealed by the click.
• A valid code is defined as a code that has been legitimately issued by a merchant for use online. This code will
have an activation date and where necessary a deactivation date.
• Voucher code directories must contain clear categorization and separation between deals/offers/sales and
discount codes.
LinkShare looks forward to the proliferation of these guidelines to the further improvement of our industry. LinkShare is available to work with any publishers using voucher codes to facilitate adherence to the code. Please contact us at UKSupport@linkshare.com to find out more.
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Publisher Promotions
Suggested Advertisers
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Get 7.5% commission on all orders you generate in your first FULL month with Cath Kidston! Normal commission is 5%.
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Make the most of Q4 - Goldsmiths is the perfect merchant to promote for Christmas! We make 50% of our annual sales revenue in November and December, so you'll find it easy to reach higher tiers and earn up to 20% commission in those two months.
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Generate 10 bookings or more to earn a £150 bonus.
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Generate £30,000 worth of sales from the 1st of October to the 31st of December and you will get a £250 bonus payment! Plus be entered into a prize draw to win a Panasonic ES8196 Shaver.
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