Tuesday June 22, 2010 at 2 pm EST is the first in a series of Team Loxly Webinars. This one is to introduce affiliates to our lineup of merchants, we will be doing focused webinars for each merchant over the next couple of weeks. Some will be recorded, others not. We want affiliates to be able to ask us questions about specific sites and promotion ideas that they may not want shared with the whole world

So join us, and then let us know what other webinars you would like to see! We plan some site and merchant review webinars also, as time and interest permits. Drop a message here, send a PM or email for topic ideas.

1. Please join my meeting.
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/371437498

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial 217-287-4114
Access Code: 371-437-498
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 371-437-498

More here:
Webinar Series – Who are our merchants and how can you promote them?

We have a lot going on here at Team Loxly this summer. Come meet us at Affiliate Summit East in August in NYC.

Read the original:
Welcome to Summer At Team Loxly

Here are the tentative schedules for Team Loxly, come find Deborah, Liz, or Vinny for VIP commissions, goodies and deals.

http://affiliatesummit.sched.org/loxly – Deborah
http://affiliatesummit.sched.org/vinnyohare – Vinny
http://affiliatesummit.sched.org/teamloxlyliz – Liz

Be sure to come to our MommyBloggers panel on Sunday Jan 16th at 1:30

We are announcing 2 new clients (maybe more) during the show and would love to talk to you!

Let’s get social!

More here:
Meet the Team at ASW10 in Las Vegas

We manage several merchants that will provide merchandise to appropriate Bloggers for reviews and some giveaways. Below is our list of merchants and the links to the forms to fill out to request products. Including a link to your press kit in the comments of any of the forms will also be to your advantage, all of the merchants need to choose the right bloggers and audiences to send products to. Blog reviewers that are affiliates for the merchants that they are requesting merchandise from will get higher priority, however non-affiliates are encouraged to request merchandise also. You may end up liking the products enough to *want* to promote them more and make a commission from doing so.

Shop7.com – Visit Site
Request Merchandise
Join Affiliate Program
Shop7 is looking for those that are interested in reviewing and/or doing giveaways of our handmade jewelry pieces. All items at Shop7 are $7 everyday! This is great for those of you that have bargain related blogs. Please fill out our form and we will be in touch shortly!

Loxly Gallery – Visit Site
Request Merchandise
Join Affiliate Program
Loxly Gallery is looking for those that are interested in reviewing and/or doing giveaways of prints and posters of independant photographers and artists. This is great for those of you that have blogs that are family oriented, especially if you have a home decor section. Please fill out our form and we will be in touch shortly! In addition to Loxly Gallery, we have other niche sites you can request prints from:
Cool Butterflies
Roses and Lilacs
Cool New York City Posters and Gifts

American Tea Room – Visit Site
Request Merchandise
Join Affiliate Program
American Tea Room, Your Ultimate Tea Resource, is looking for select bloggers to review their gourmet loose tea. We are specifically looking for blogs with high traffic that are family oriented with food sections or health sections. If you are interested, please click here to fill out the form.

If you want to know more about affiliate marketing and how it can help you monetize your blog, please email me at dc at teamloxly.com and also visit Affiliate ABCs for podcasts and other information on making money with affiliate marketing.

See more here:
Team Loxly Managed Merchants with Review Items Available to Bloggers

The following deals have been added to the Shareasale Deals Database, and will be included in the special Black Friday database that Sarah is putting together. We will add to this as we get deals from the rest of our merchants.

For information on getting items to review from *some* of our merchants: Click Here

Merchant Name: Shop7
Offer: Buy 2 Items, Get 1 Free
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23148&m=17925&u=YourSASID
Join Shop7 and Our Handmade Gifts Affiliate Program

Merchant Name: Our Handmade Gifts
Offer: 35% off all orders
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23150&m=17925&u=YourSASID
Join Shop7 and Our Handmade Gifts Affiliate Program

Merchant Name: Loxly Gallery
Offer: 50% off all orders
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23151&m=12245&u=YourSASID
Join Loxly Gallery and Cool Butterflies Posters and Prints Affiliate Program

Merchant Name: Cool Butterflies
Offer: 50% off all orders
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23152&m=12245&u=YourSASID
Join Loxly Gallery and Cool Butterflies Posters and Prints Affiliate Program

Merchant Name: American Tea Room
Offer: 10% off all orders, including already on sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23616&m=24685&u=YourSASID
Join American Tea Room Affiliate Program

Merchant Name: M-Rock Camera Bags
Offer: Take an additional 5% off our already low prices (including our 40% off clearance items!) on our top quality camera bags by shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Coupon code is 5Disc and expires 12/1/2009.
Coupon Code: 5Disc
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23617&m=8611&u=YourSASID
Join M-Rock Camera Bags Affiliate Program

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The following deals are all with the *same* merchant, see below for details!

Merchant Name: Engravable Gifts 2 Go
Offer: 10% off every order over $50 – including sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23628&m=17498&u=YourSASID

Merchant Name: The Baby Shower Gift Store
Offer: 10% off every order over $50 – including sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23629&m=17498&u=YourSASID

Merchant Name: Engraved Crystal Shoppe
Offer: 10% off every order over $50 – including sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23630&m=17498&u=YourSASID

Merchant Name: Custom Signs and Plaques
Offer: 10% off every order over $50 – including sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23631&m=17498&u=YourSASID

Merchant Name: Custom Ceramic Stoneware
Offer: 10% off every order over $50 – including sale items
Coupon Code: BlackFriday
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Code: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23632&m=17498&u=YourSASID

Join The Mail Order Shoppe Affiliate Programs – all the above sites are in the *same* great affiliate program. One sign up and you join them all.

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Merchant Name: SWAK Designs Plus Sized Apparel
Coupon code: BF35
Offer: 35% off all regularly priced items
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Link: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23734&m=12469&u=YourSASID

Merchant Name: SWAK Designs Plus Sized Apparel
Coupon code: BFSALE25
Offer: 25% off already discounted sale and clearance items
Start and End Date: November 26 thru December 1st
Deal Link: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=23735&m=12469&u=YourSASID

Join the SWAK Designs Plus Sized Apparel Affiliate Program by clicking here
Be sure to replace YourSASID with your ID number.

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Team Loxly Managed Merchants Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Affiliates to Push

Thanks to all of you we are having a *great* travel season. I’m impressed that in a downturned economy the affiliate program is still rocking. A few quick notes and then let you get back to your summer fun! And Congratulations to all of you for getting Viator in the Shareasale Top 15!

Datafeed Updated
The monthly Datafeed update has been done, please check to see if the tours you are featuring have been discontinued or if there are new ones for the destination you focus on. Here is the direct link to the Viator affiliate datafeed, be sure to log into Shareasale first.

Deals Database
Instead of coupons we have been focusing on providing deals through the Shareasale deals database, where you can download a file of all of the tours that have short term deals. These deals convert *very* well. The tours in the Deals database are *not* included in the regular database because they have defined end dates and most are short term. The dates are clearly included to help you manage keeping fresh and current deals available.

Coupon Reminder
If you have outdated or customer submitted coupons on your website you need to remove them. Use links from the Deals Database to populate your coupon or specials pages. No, we aren’t handing out coupons (stopped you before you asked! ) but some sites have coupons posted that they shouldn’t have. This causes customer service issues for both you AND us.

DTM PPC Bidding
If you are asking yourself “What’s that?” you probably aren’t doing it However, if you are marketing Viator via paid advertising in the search engines (PPC) you need to be sure to read the Viator PPC guidelines.

In no case are you allowed to link from a paid search ad directly to Viator. You need to link to a page on your website that has Viator links on it. You are not allowed to make your ad look like you are the official Viator website.

To keep abreast of the latest Viator news be sure to visit our dedicated Affiliate Forum and Support Website.

And click here for podcasts and information to help you run your business even better.

As always, if you need anything, contact any of you Viator affiliate team:
Deborah Carney, Vinny O’Hare and Liz Ababon

Read the rest here:
August Viator Affiliate Newsletter

The topic for this episode of Affiliate ABCs comes from a Twitter DM and from people asking “How did you get your start?”. What did you do? So your hosts Deborah Carney (a.k.a. Loxly) and Vinny (a.k.a. NYFalcon) take a few minutes and explain just how they got into this business.

Show links:
ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum
Affiliate Summit
NYFalcon Forum
James Martell
@SandwichInk

@loxly
@nyfalcon

Continue reading here:
Affiliate ABCs #13 – How Did We Get Started in Affiliate Marketing?

Team Loxly is pleased to announce they are now managing The Mail Order Shoppe Personalized Gifts Affiliate program, where you can earn 15% commission on all sales coming from your website. The following sites will all track by joining just one program:

• Engraved Crystal Shoppe – the best selection of quality crystal products that you can personalize for the special people in your life, whether it is the bridesmaids or groomsmen in your wedding or that co-worker that deserves a gift, or your Mom or Dad, or that special someone at Christmas, we have what your visitors are shopping for.
• Custom Signs and Plaques – a wide variety of personalized signs and gifts for around the house and in the office.
• Custom Ceramic Stoneware – personalized ceramic and stoneware gifts and keepsakes every family wants.
• EngravableGifts2Go.com – more variety, more personalized gifts, not limited to ceramic or crystal, but encompassing engravable personalized gifts of all kinds.

Our affiliate program is on the ShareASale network, click here to join or here for more information.

I’ve actually had a private label affiliate program for several years, but it was only for a few selected peers… people I knew personally and trusted. I am now opening my program up to a wider group of affiliates.

If you’ve read my posts on various affiliate forums, I have strong opinions about what’s wrong with our industry. And I’m frustrated that we can’t agree on what constitutes a click, what constitutes a forced click, what’s a parasite. I’m frustrated that merchants don’t think they need to pay on the 20th of the month, and feel no obligation to respond to an email. C’mon! We’ve reached the point where Staples can tell us they’ll pay us ZERO for the summer, and they are still allowed to be a merchant!!! Aargh!

So I want this program to be fun… for everyone involved. To be profitable for everyone. I want affiliates to KNOW they are considered an EQUAL partner. That every penny that comes in is due solely to their efforts. I want you to know that we’re accessible 24/7 for any questions. We’ll help with custom landing pages, custom banners, custom coupons.

So I’ve hired an Affiliate Manager to deal with any and all affiliate issues. I’ve set the commission and cookies above the industry standard. So I hope our program isn’t the typical pain in the butt program we all deal with every day.

Good luck and welcome aboard,

Billy

MY PLEDGE TO AFFILIATES

1. To treat you with respect, courtesy and as an equal partner. To show that YOU are the reason the program exists.

2. To listen to you: comments, complaints, suggestions, compliments, special needs, whatever.

3. To have the best commissions, cookies and TOS we can make.

4. To not send numerous “We’ve changed our terms again/please log in and accept” emails.

5. To make the program as personal as possible. I’ve asked my Affiliate Manager to maintain TWO mailing lists. One for people that want to be left alone. And one for people who want suggestions, tips, etc.

6. To maintain banners in all sizes and styles. To insure we always have Seasonal banners available, also in all sizes.

7. To insure the graphics in the datafeed maintain the same size, as a pet peeve of mine is merchants whose product images are all different sizes.

8. To always be parasite free and ethical.

9. I will stay out of the program personally. I don’t even want to know who my affiliates are. My Affiliate Team is charged with handling ALL affiliate matters, while I just concentrate on processing orders.

10. To recognize affiliates that go above and beyond with above and beyond commission rates.

11. To make ourselves available to our affiliates – whatever it takes.

This area is for people to post questions and comments about The Mail Order Shoppe affiliate program.