A4uExpo reminder -October 14th -15th October

Register now to receive early bird rates.
Why you should attend, because if you don’t, you wont know what business opportunities you will have missed, its simple…
Do you want to know more about the UK Affiliate Marketing industry?
Do you want to increase your revenue?
Do you want to know why and how and who is in this space? How much its grown?

Do you want an Education?
If you have answered yes to any of the above, register now and take advantage of the early bird rates

AffiliateSummit East BOSTON 2008

Boston Affiliate Summit East Aug 10-12th
Would urge any one from the UK to register for the summit now early bird ends on 6th June.
This event is proving to be one of the most popular shows. For any UK industry folk that want to attend, I have been given a discount voucher that will help your wallet (courtesy of Shawn Collins and Missy Ward). Just drop me a line remember this is for the UK affiliates only and only applicable on early bird rates which the deadline is 6th June 08.

Affiliate Summit Agenda

Affiliate Summit Speakers

Affiliate Summit sponsorship and exhibiting

If you want to sponsor or exhibit you can contact Missy Ward missyward at affiliatesummit.com
Rates are very good and yes people do take notice and we all love to rummage through our goody bags. Like I said before on this very blog, the best freebies impo, have always been from Buy.at in terms of usefulness (excluding the beach balls,lol) can your company do better this year? Id be dead impressed to find keys to a brand new BMW in my bag, lol… ok I can dream.

Hotels are in abundance and Boston has a great public transport network.
Please please do take some extra days to explore this city, its one of my personal favourites. An APA representative will be attending and if purplebear does not go, neither will I, Kathy… no excuses hun, it’s a stones throw from Philly, you know you want to :0)

A4uAwards 5th June

A4u Awards next date for your diary.

June 5^th A4uAwards
The a4uAwards will be taking place on the 5th June at
The Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, London

You may purchase a table of 10 at a discounted rate or individual seats

Table of 10: £1,550 + VAT (£1,821.25)
Individual Places: £165 + VAT (£193.87)
Affiliates4u Offer*: £95 + VAT (£111.62)

*Affiliates who are members of affiliates4u.com can purchase individual tickets at a subsidised rate of £95 on condition that they are a registered member of affiliates4u.com with a post count of 25 or more on or before 1st March 2008. Please state your forum handle on the booking form.

The ticket price includes champagne reception, 3 course dinner, 1/2 bottle wine per person, coffee and entertainment.

Dress Code: Black Tie

If you would like to book a place or table at the awards dinner please:
Download the booking form
http://www.a4uawards.com/docs/booking-form.pdf and return it with payment to: Claire Hoyland
Events Director
Existem Ltd
4.4 Paintworks
Bath Road
Bristol
BS4 3EH

APA is on the voting panel and Catherine Dunn will be attending this event as the APA representative.
Looks like its going to be a great evening

BadBoyMMA.com Affiliate Program Live

BadboyMMA.com Mixed Martial Arts Affiliate Program The BadBoyMMA.com affiliate program has been set up & managed by AffiliateProgramAdvice.com

What is MMA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYD-j9GSvo

Commission
15% commission on all referred sales.

Cookie date
90 days.

Shipping
Ships mainly to the US and CA but they do offer international shipping as well, yes we are looking to get the non US P&P reduced :0) Shipping is calculated at check out. Carrier is UPS and ground rate starts from $4.46

Banners
We offer affiliates industry sized banners, some will go directly to the BadBoyMMA.com home page and some will go directly to the Store and some to product specific pages. (Advantages of the home page is that there is additional BadBoyMMA.com news and galleries making your visitor journey a more holistic experience) We also appreciate and expect conversions to be better if you link directly to the store. As we build up the program, more creatives will be added based on new customer incentives and customer retention.

Text links
We offer pre-constructed text links, just copy and paste, some go directly to the store, some to the home page and some link directly to products.

Data feed
We are working on the data (product feed) this will be available shortly and can be obtained directly from ourselves, we will keep you posted.

Additional Extras
We will provide monthly news and tips, we urge you to read these news letters as we don’t just help in bringing you up to speed with the BadBoyMMA.com news and products but we also provide information on how to maximise revenue. For example, free tools or resources that we have found that could be useful example, AbestWeb forum for US specific affiliate marketing or a4uforum for UK affiliate marketing and resources that offer free tools, like NetMechanics

Affiliate Sign up
We pre-approve affiliate applications, please be aware that the management of the program is being looked after from the UK so there maybe a time delay between US and UK.

PPC Policy
We have an open PPC policy which will be reviewed periodically.

Terms and Conditions.
All affiliates partnering with us will be bound by the third party affiliate network ShareASale.com’s own terms and conditions.

PPC
We have an open PPC policy which will be reviewed periodically and will be monitored, BadBoyMMA.com reserves the right to change this, but will give affiliates adequate notice if we want to make any changes.

Claw backs
We will do affiliate claw backs on fraudulent orders, we will always notify the affiliate prior to a claw back explaining why we have had to decline the sale.

Images
Affiliates may use “non product” images from the site too, but we request that you do not alter them and would prefer that you download them to your own server rather then link directly to them, BadBoyMMA.com do have copyrights and reserve the right to police the use of these images. If affiliates do use the images we request that the BadBoyMMA.com site is always referenced. If in doubt ask, contact details below.

Coupons/Voucher codes
Affiliates may not use any voucher/coupon codes without express permission from AffiliateProgramAdvice.com’s affiliate manager. Any affiliate caught promoting a coupon code who has not gotten permission from us to use this coupon, will be removed from the affiliate program and all commissions will be revoked. 

There may be occasions where by we issue a unique coupon/voucher code, the rules are, you may not display the coupon code without displaying the expiry date and a clear explanation about the type of coupon code and how to redeem it. Let’s not give our customers a reason to get upset or for you to lose out on commissions. 

Any affiliate caught using an exclusive coupon/voucher code that was issued to another affiliate for their exclusive use to promote to their own visitors, we will remove your commissions and assign them to the affiliate whose coupon/voucher code you took and you will be removed from the affiliate program.

Promoting
Affiliates are requested not to promote BadBoyMMA.com on any porn sites. Affiliates found doing this will be removed from the affiliate program immediately and commissions will be revoked.

Ethical and Fair
We run a fair and ethical affiliate program, if the above terms and conditions are acceptable to you we would be delighted for you to come onboard. Click here to join

More information

Your affiliate Manager
For the interim bedding in period your affiliate manager is Jess Luthi, feel free to contact her by email at jess at affiliateprogramadvice.com or Skype j3551car

What is Mixed Martial Arts?
This is a sport where by traditional martial arts (close contact body sport) like Judo, Boxing, karate, Jujitsu to name but a few combine certain elements to create a sport called mixed martial arts. This sport attracts a global audience and is a billion dollar industry. Mixed Martial arts is a phenomena, its huge and BadBoy.com and BadBoyMMA are official fighter sponsors and have their own range of branded Mixed Martial Arts apparel and fighter gear. New products are being added all the time. Whilst the store is very much geared up towards the US market we are already seeing interest from Europe and plans are underway to make the European shipping costs a little more affordable. Mixed Martial Arts is massive just do a google.

More resources about Mixed Martial Arts
UFC
Wiki
Defend.net
The White Haven News