Congratulations Pat and Claire of TruffleShuffle.co.uk
Many congratulations to Pat and Claire owners of TruffleShuffle.co.uk they are expecting their first baby in August, here is a selection of baby apparel you could buy them ….
Babies first Rolling Stones Romper Suit…
Educate your little ones and cement their appreciation of Rock and Roll from a young age with this super cute and stylish babygrow from Amplified Kids! With supreme rocksters the Rolling Stones taking center stage, this premium buy has also been intentionally distressed for that proper vintage feel. Treat your mini rockers now and prove that they’re never too young to be cool!
Or…
The Jam were a super-slick, cool bunch. If you know a little someone with a certain swagger and smooth temperament this Amplified Kids tee with The Jam’s classic target logo print could be their perfect match!
I think Pat and Claire will have the best dressed baby in England, be glad its 2012
Nothing like a nice pair of woolen trousers and matching jumper, hat and scarf and of course a matching pair of spats for the kid about town! too cute!
Once again many congrats from us all here and across the great divide!
We hope its twins! :0p
CityChicOnline.com 50 new summer products and Affiliate Tips
City Chic summer fashion is heating up with over 50 new arrivals.
Party season is upon us, with brighter colors and bolder combinations. On warm summer evenings, these styles can take you from day to night—time to go mad with an explosion of bright bold colors.
“This time around designers are taking bold colors to the next level by pairing them together; bold color blocking and clashing color combinations have never looked so beautiful.”
Lucy, CC Product Designer
Mad About Men
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/mad-about-men.html
Front Knot Dress $88
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/mad-about-men/knot-front-dress-merlot-xxl.html
Add this romantic Knot Front Dress to your wardrobe this festive season! Dress features a stunning front knot, optional straps, and silicon tape at internal bust for a stable strapless fit.
Brooch Melissa Dress $118
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/mad-about-men/brooch-melissa-dress-black-xs.html
This classic satin dress has contrast colouring on its wrap skirt and also around the waistband. The main feature of this stunning dress is its glamourous broach which is an optional feature. It also has soft padding on the bust and has the option for straps. Perfect for that formal occasion coming up!
Skinny Rouched Pant $68
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/mad-about-men/skinny-rouched-pant-black-14.html
SUPER SEXY is an understatement. These skinny leg bengaline pants are soft and stretchy and feature rouching detail on the outer leg from the mid thigh to the ankle. This pant has jet pockets on the front hip and back patch pockets and yoke detail. The extended waistband has 3 hidden buttons and zip closure.
New Arrivals
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in.html
Get glam this summer with our latest collection of dresses that will take you from day to night and make you look and feel fabulous
Roxanne Dress $78 (Best Seller)
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/dresses/new-dresses/roxanne-red-dress.html
This rocking Roxanne dress is perfect for any occasion, with diamante spray across the sexy mesh shoulders and our fabulous ponte fabric which will fit and flatter your curves.
SUMMER SHORTS
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/denim/denim-shorts.html
Rockerbilly Short $54 (Best Seller)
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/denim/denim-shorts/rockerbilly-short.html
These funky Rockabilly shorts are a stretchy, funky design which feature cute stitched images, heavy sandblasting & soft whisker detailing.
Affiliate Tips
Did you know you could corner the market on size18plussizeshort.com
Yup the domain name is still available and it is a search term that has thousands of women use. I heard recently that these types of long phrase search terms is becoming a thing of the past. I beg to differ, type into google plussizedresses.com what comes up as No1 (non sponsored listings). The old saying is if you don’t rank for No1 on your own domain name you have to be doing something very wrong. Now type in Size 18 Plus Size shorts into google, hey lookie here no one has the domain name. Going niche when you cant afford a generic domain name is a way forward and to be honest for me I would prefer the more targeted domain name than a generic only because I get easily distracted. Having a targeted domain name would keep me focused.
There are loads of niche domain names still to be had and if you want to keep costs low and your not technically mindind, if you register a domain name with godaddy.com and sign up with blogger.com you can map your domain name so your blog becomes www.yourdomian.com instead of myblog.blgger….
Blogging and true content, my favorite affiliates simply because I know these affiliates will rank highly in search engines, the more true content (your own words) the better off you will be. The pages you create will be cached and listed in google for a long time meaning, you may end up earning commissions years down the line from that blog review you did on that advertiser or product. If you don’t have the budget for paid search and you want to make a real living from this, blogging is one of the best ways to achieve sustainable income. But…. Be prepared to work hard, continuity and commitment is required.
For affiliates who are dabbling with mobile campaigns, now would be a good time to harvest those mobile phone numbers in addition to emails when a user has to register. Affiliate Mobile Marketing is the future and some day they may even be more valuable than an email address, make sure you allow the end user to opt out as we could see the same scenario as we do with spam ads.
I wonder who is already one step ahead and is developing anti mobile ad spam catcher technology, lol
Enough prattle from me, have a wonderful weekend and thank you for your continued support of CityChicOnline.com and as always, we are here for your convenience any thing you need let me know.
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CityChicOnline New in and Affiliate Tips
New in “Summer Lovin”
As the warmer weather arrives it’s time to promote shorts, tanks and t-shirts, strappy dresses and swimwear. You can send your visitors directly to the category of Summer Lovin http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/summer-lovin.html?p=2
Best sellers
Rockerbilly shorts http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/summer-lovin/rockerbilly-short.html $54.00 with free shipping
Coral Dream top http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/new-in/summer-lovin/coral-dream-top-coral-dream-xs.html $48.00 Free shipping
Strappy Ruffle Top http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/sale/strappy-ruffle-top-black-xs.html $27.00
Best Selling swimwear
The Boardie Short http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/swim/boardie-short-utility-black-xs-8064.html $49.00 Free shipping
Fastest selling item
The Roxanne Dress, http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/dresses/roxanne-dress-652.html $78.00 available in Black, Blue and red with free shipping
Don’t forget to promote the SALE category, there are bargains galore and all with free shipping
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/sale.html
Last week we encouraged you to embed CityChicTV into your blog or website. We had a great response and we have requested the flv files so we can create affiliate video widgets for you, we will let you know when they are ready.
Affiliate Tips
This week we would like to get you to focus on your traffic and if you are not doing this already then we strongly recommend you start analyzing who is coming to your website and how to funnel that traffic so you can give them a better experience by sending them to highly targeted landing pages.
There are a number of ways to see who is coming across your website. The most popular is google analytics http://www.google.com/analytics and its easy to install on your blog or website. I have chosen google analytics by way of an example but there are loads of visitor tracking tools out there. Google just happens to be free and bang for bucks you do get a lot of useful analytics. If you use blogging platforms most will have the option for you to enter the google tracking and can be set up automatically.
Once your analytics is set up, what should you be looking at? For you it would be, how many people came to my site from different countries. You would be surprised at the amount of traffic you get that is not from your country. For affiliates who are promoting to their own country only, have you thought about monetizing traffic that comes from abroad?
Affiliate marketing is global and most countries have affiliate networks that you can join without being a citizen of that country. Under the tax laws of your country, you declare non territory additional income; most affiliate networks even provide you with the necessary tax forms. How can you monetize traffic from another country?
You need to have a good two to three months of analytics data to look at in the beginning; this should be enough time to start getting a good idea where your visitors are coming from. Example you are a US Affiliate and 70% of your visitors come from the USA, 15% come from Canada, 10% from France, 5% from the UK. We commonly see some affiliates use the “throw mud at a wall and some will stick” approach. For those who want to make affiliate marketing their sole income, monetizing every inch of your website is the way forward. A simple menu link from your home page (Shop: Canada, France, UK)
You then create landing pages for your non US traffic, propagate with country specific advertisers) but don’t forget you may end up with US traffic on your non US pages, make sure to add a link back to the home page or US landing page.
Once you start creating landing pages keep the flow of visitors circulating, don’t give them an excuse to leave because they think the site is not relevant to them, and think about this, they came to your website for a reason don’t give them a reason to leave.
You can take this even further and promote by state or by region, knowing where your visitors are coming from is the first step in understanding more about how your website works, who its attracting and where they are coming from. Yes, it does take time and patience but would you rather get better conversions? Reduced bounce rate and your precious time spent on your website converting into money?
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More about CityChicOnline.com
CityChicOnline.com originates in Australia and over there, they are a top name brand for the plus size fashion sector. When CityChicOnline.com wanted to break into the US Market, one of the considerations we had to think about was how does an unknown brand compete with established brands here in the US where offline advertising is based on per state or even city and very costly.
Using the affiliate marketing route we used a combination of marketing campaigns aimed at types of affiliates. What we are seeing is a controlled affiliate program that facilitates the incentive affiliate sites, true content affiliates and PPC affiliates, we see that the natural search results and becoming nicely balanced. We still have much work to do and it’s been a long road but we estimate that by April of 2013 (will have been eighteen months from launch here in the US), citychiconline.com will be up there as one of the first destinations for American curvy girls to buy their apparel.
Another important factor you may like to know, we have been able to achieve and will be able to achieve all this just using the affiliate marketing channel. I find this is very encouraging for the industry and considering how huge America is, it’s a clear message to any online retailer that is able to ship products abroad (out of their own territory) or any online retailer here thinking you need big money to go up against your US competitors, with a little patience and a lot of hard work from us, you can come to the US or be in the US and compete using the pay on performance model. There really is no magic dust involved, but if you invest in your affiliate program as a long term marketing route to new customers then patience, consistency and flexibility will be rewarded. I’m sure there are other online retailers that are nodding their heads in agreement having used this method already. It should be noted that website conversions is the key factor in affiliate marketing.
CityChicOnline.com affiliate hints, tips and now CityChic TV
CityChicOnline.com affiliate hints, tips and now CityChiconline TV.
Check out Chic TV catwalk and embed it when promoting to your visitors. Its always hard to convey the quality and the flow of a garment will look on a person. The Fashion industry has long looked at ways to show two dimensional products in a three dimensional way. Zoom images on models, front and back shots have been the standard method. We even saw one affiliate design a site where consumers could upload their own body shape and select a garment and super impose it over the body, so you had some idea of what the product would look like., unfortunately its still looked two dimensional. Until the internet facilitates virtual touch, the next best thing is to use fashion videos either done professionally by the company or to get bloggers to do their own reviews, the latter works best as endorsements are still one of the deciding buying factors from the consumers perspective. CityChicOnline.com have their own catwalk videos and we would encourage our fashion blogging affiliates to embed their catwalk TV and other branded videos to complement the clothing they are promoting. So how can you do this?
First all of CityChicOnline.com video can be found on YouTube.com
Next select the video you want to embed onto your site, click on “share”
then “embed” you will be presented with some code, it will look like this.
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/jGCQfc_cIhI” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Where it says “560″ width and “315″ height, this is the size it will display on your website which is so big, I would suggest you change those numbers to 250 width and 250 height. Next just paste that code in the HTML part of word press, blogger or website. Have a go its all good fun and may even help you increase your conversions.
New in, the Kopow collection is a mixture of sixties psychedelic, seventies retro with a modern city chic look. With free delivery and returns what more could a girl want?
CityChicOnline.com affiliate program is going from strength to strength and the above is just an example of the kind of help and advice we give to CityChicOnline.com affiliates. We have a growing list of fashion bloggers who love to promote CityChicOnline.com because we send them free products to review. Fashion bloggers get to feel the quality of the material, the style and the shipping experience. One of our top performing fashion bloggers average conversions is 4% with EPC of $22.00. Our top performing affiliate’s average conversion is 26.7% with an EPC of $232.6
With default commissions of 10% rising to 12% (case by case basis) and 60 day cookie. Affiliates overall average conversion is 7.5% in sale and an average of 3% out of sale. Average order basket is $73.00 average epc is $30.00
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A4uExpo October 16th & 17th in London, get super early bird rates
A4uExpo October 16th & 17th in London, get super early bird rates now
This super early bird offer expires 14th April.
Grab the A4uExpo super early bird rate, a saving of £50This fantastic offer can also be used in conjunction with their new group pricing saving you even more.
Where: Hilton Metropole, London UK map
When: Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th October 2012
Who Should attend: Anyone in the affiliate marketing industry or anyone looking to break into affiliate marketing, this would be affiliates, merchants and affiliate networks.
For more information about this event and other a4uExpo events contact events@existem.com or call direct on +44 (0)117 203 3010
Shareasale.com locate and connect with affiliates tool
Shareasale.com locate and connect with affiliates tool
The Shareasale.com have a great section for affiliates and merchants under the heading of Affiliate Aquarium. It’s worth shouting about as it really works. Affiliate Aquarium is about connecting affiliates with merchants and vice versa, some of the features are just awesome and completely user friendly.
We have always said that Shareasale.com knew how to create a platform to enable anyone who is unfamiliar with tech talk to use. So not only is shareasale.com cost affective but the tools they offer merchants is simple to use.
I would like to see their data feed tool for merchants modified so merchants can cross promote their products under different categories.
Rakuten LinkShare Symposium New York June 25th & 26th
Rakuten LinkShare Symposium New York
Where:
At the iconic Waldorf Astoria Hotel and see the Rakuten LinkShare Network come to life!
Who is this for?
Rakuten LinkShare Symposium events is the premier gathering place for online performance marketing leaders. Attendees have included hundreds of executives from top companies doing business online, representatives from leading and innovative publisher websites, and online marketers from Rakuten LinkShare’s client base of over 800 advertisers.
What’s the Agenda?
Although the agenda has not been finalized you can get a preview here, it is still being updated so check back regularly.
LinkShare.com Golden Link Awards
The Affiliate Marketing Oscars also known as 2011 LinkShare Golden Link Award will be held and nominations will be open in May
The affiliate marketing red carpet winners of last year can be found here.
Everything you need to know about this grand affair can be found here and its not to late to become a sponsor.
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Looks like a lot of fun amidst the opportunity to do some serious networking, thank you linkshare.com
