LinkShare UK Blog

Cocosa is now live on the LinkShare UK Network!  Join their affiliate program and start promoting their designer clothes and accessories.

Cocosa.com is a fashion club which cherry-picks designer collections and offers them to its members for up to 80% off. Access to the website is by invitation only - you need a special invite code to join.

Each designer collection is announced to members in advance by email and available online for 48 hours only. Collections by Matthew Williamson, Vera Wang, Liberty, Zac Posen and Juicy Couture have all featured previously on Cocosa.

Cocosa delivers a premium service at every stage of the shopping experience, delivering beautifully packaged products within two days of purchase. Cocosa also rewards its members by offering £15 every time a member referral makes their first purchase …it’s every fashionista’s new best friend.

Cocosa Affiliate Program Structure:

• 10% commission on all goods
• £0.25 per registration
• 90-day cookie window
• Invitation code for your website’s visitors to become Cocosa members

Click here to join the Cocosa Affiliate Program today

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Marie-Chantal affiliate program on the LinkShare UK Network and invite you to join the Marie Chantal Affiliate Program Today and start promoting their fantastic range of children’s clothes.

Marie-Chantal launched her collection in 2000 after tiring of looking for clothes for her own children that were classic in design, yet comfortable to wear.

This collection of beautiful children’s clothing captures a return to a childhood of warmth and family traditions. It is classic, yet fun, colourful and happy, in short, the essence of youth.

The line offers both boys and girls clothing and accessories from newborn to 12 years. Marie-Chantal’s collection uses only the finest fabrics and maintains the highest possible quality standards. These are some of the most heavenly children’s clothes around.

Marie-Chantal Affiliate Program offers affiliates:

• 6% commission on all goods
• 30 day cookie window
• 21 return days

Click here to apply to the Marie-Chantal affiliate program.

If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to email their program manager.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

Hello everyone,

Blue Inc’s affiliate program is rapidly approaching its first anniversary and to say thank you to all current and future affiliates for making it so successful the Blue Inc team have announced a competition that they are running this Summer.

Blue Inc Affiliate Competition

As official partners of Club 18-30, Blue Inc have a holiday for you to use personally or give away on your site!

There are 2 simple ways to enter into this prize draw:

• Existing Affiliates – Increase sales across July by 50% on previous month.
• New Affiliates – Drive your first sale across July to gain entry.

The prize is a holiday for 2 people, 7 nights in any Club 18-30 resort including Ibiza, Zante, Kos and many more. You can fly from Manchester or Gatwick and the dates available are 4th September - 5th October 2009.

The Blue Inc Affiliate Program

• Commissions of 10% rising to 12% depending on sales volumes
• Cookie window of 30 days
• Product feed
• Exclusive to LinkShare
• Login to get the code for this promotion here

Blue Inc would love to hear any feedback from affiliates email Alex Holliman and the BLUE INC Affiliate Team.

If you would like to Join the LinkShare Network, please click here to follow the simple 3-step sign up and start promoting our fantastic range of merchants.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

Liane, Anthony and I have just returned from this year’s Symposium East in New York.  The event was a great success with over 400 Advertisers and Publishers congregating for a full day of intensive networking.

The day started early with general sessions kicked off with our co-Presidents Yaz Iida and Jonathan Levine welcoming the attendees.  The founder CEO of Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani, then shared how Rakuten is the leading Internet services provider in a full range products and services.

The keynote speaker Jonah Leher, Author of How We Decide and Editor at Wired, transfixed the audience with a presentation on “The Neuroscience of Online Shopping”. Put more simply, the science of how the brain handles decision-making while shopping online, which was very interesting and I will try and outline some of the highlights at a later stage.  Wendy Hutter from PSB also presented our US TrendWatch 2009 market research results on “The State of Online Shopping… From Recession Shoppers to Value Hunters.”

After lunch, Joan Rivers kicked things off with a hilarious monologue that included commentary on everything from online shopping, to beauty pageants, to the challenges of growing older in the Internet age. Many attendees were Twittering the results as the event unfolded.  Special congratulations go out to LEGO for winning the Best International Advertiser award for their US and UK programs.

A busy afternoon of networking ensued with the over 50 exhibitors at the DealMaker session. Even after 3 hours of DealMaker the room was still full at 6pm as several sponsors closed the session by raffling off some fantastic prizes including phones, software and lots of gift certificates for great products and services.

To wrap-up a fantastic day, we all gathered at the stylish rooftop barof the Gansevoort Hotel in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. The fabulous skyline views and the cool DJ vibes became the perfect ending to a great day.

It was a great day to attend and I am certainly looking forward to the planning of the 2nd Symposium UK, which is currently pencilled in the diary for April 2009, and for expanding on the UK partnermaking that was started at our inaugral event this past April.

For a full write-up of this week’s US event please see the website.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

I am pleased to announce that Shoes.co.uk is launched & live now on the LinkShare UK Network.  Shoes.co.uk are offering a generous 5-10% commission on all sales with a 30 day cookie window and we invite you to apply to the Shoes.co.uk affiliate program.

Shoes.co.uk is one of the UKs biggest independent branded footwear retailers, selling to the public through our online only website. We deal directly with all of the brands featured on the site and are therefore able to a offer a huge selection of shoes for Men, Women and Children as well as a big selection of handbags and purses. The site is owned by two shoe professionals who spent most of their early careers working for major shoe retailers and catalogue companies.

Shoes.co.uk delivers shoes all over the UK and mainland Europe. Shipping is Free for orders over £25 and rates apply for premium/next day delivery.

Click here to apply to the Shoes.co.uk affiliate program and start promoting great name brands.

If you need any specific banners, codes or just need some advice about the program then please don’t hesitate to contact affiliates@shoes.co.uk.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

Wyevale Garden Centres has been named best garden centre by 7,500 gardeners in an online poll by the BBC’s Gardeners’ World.

In the first Gardeners’ World Awards, Wyevale was voted top in terms of value, service, nursery choice, nursery quality and overall nursery performance.

In the overall ranking, Tesco-owned Dobbies took second place, with DIY chain B&Q coming in third, and independents Ladybird Nurseries and Hilliers taking fourth and fifth place respectively.

Congratulations to them on winning this award.

Wyevale Affiliate Program Details:

Wyevale Garden Centres is the UK’s leading specialist garden centre operator, with currently 121 outlets throughout the UK. We now offer a wide range of garden plants, accessories, gardening equipment, outdoor furniture, barbeques and garden materials, as well as homewares and many other items. Wyevale provides its customers with everything they need to live a garden life, whether they are experienced and enthusiastic gardeners or just wanting to use the garden as an extra room for sitting outside in the sunshine.

Commission Structure:

• 7% Commission
• 60 Return Days

If you would like to join the Wyevale Affiliate Program please apply here

If you have any other questions regarding the program, please do not hesitate to contact wyevale@linkshare.com

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

The Summer sales have started in full force, so I thought I would take this chance to collate some of them for you here. It’s the perfect chance to reach those looking to update their summer wardrobe, fill those last minute holiday packing requirements or simply looking for a great excuse to shop.

Please take a look at the fabulous sales that you can promote on your site now.

• Lipsy – Summer dresses from £25 Get links
• Myla – Up to 50% off selected lingerie, swimwear & accessories Get links
• Coast – Summer sale now on! Get links
• Great Plains – Save up to 50% Get links
• Oasis – Summer sale now on! Get links
• Jaeger - Summer Sale, up to 50% off! Get links
• Laura Ashley – Mega Weekend (18-21st June) 25% off everything! Get links
• French Connection – Summer Sale – Save up to 50%! Get links
• Kurt Geiger – Summer Sale up to 60% off Get links
• Shoe Studio – Up to 70% off men’s and women’s brands Get links
• Charles Tyrwhitt – Special preview to Summer sale – Shirts from £19.50 (70% off!) Get links
• L’Occitane - Save up to 50% in the L’OCCITANE Summer Sale! Get links
• House of Fraser - Save up to 50% OFF hundreds of brands Get links
• Pure Collection - Summer 2009 - Up to 50% off Everything! Refresh your summer wardrobe with hot brights in the finest fabrics Get links
• USC – Up to 50% off (Starts Monday 22nd June) Get links
• Designers Guild - Save up to 30% in the Designers Guild Sale preview AND an additional 10% off with the coupon code available to affiliates (19th-21st of June) Get link

If you would like to Join the LinkShare Network, please click here to follow the simple 3-step sign up and start promoting our fantastic range of merchants.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

Certain Publishers may have hundreds of advertiser relationships. When you are in so many programs it can be difficult to keep track of vital pieces of Advertiser information like commission terms, contact information etc.

On Friday we released a report called the Consolidated Advertiser Report in the Publisher Dashboard to help with this. This report has information on all of your Advertisers in one place.

We’ve also heard about a new WordPress plug-in from a Developer in the UK that enables WordPress users to easily include product links from LinkShare Advertisers’ on their site. It uses the Merchandiser Query Tool Web Service to pull products from Advertisers you have a relationship with. Here’s some information from the plug-in creator:

How does it work?

Simply is the answer, you download the zip file, unzip the contents and upload the linkshareplugin folder to your wordpress plugins folder.

Then, you activate it in your plugins area on your admin dashboard, and set up the parameters in your settings admin area.

Then you simply add code like this [ ls lsquery="maternity jeans" lsmid="35208" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1"]

Here’s an example page built using the plug-in. You can find more information and download the plug-in at Pan Fashion.

Ian Rosenwach, Product Manager

Our US network has announced the finalists for the 6th Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards. The awards are taking place during the LinkShare Symposium East on 23rd June in New York, and are hosted by comedienne Joan Rivers.

The awards are focussed on the US network, so I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate some of those finalists who we are also partnered with in the UK.

Firstly, congratulations to LEGO and Forzieri, who are both nominated for the International Advertiser of the Year Award.

After their hat trick at the A4U Awards Skimlinks are also up for the Best New Publisher and Technology Geniusawards, so it could be another great night for them.

However, they will have some competition for the Best New Publisher statuette from DBG Loyalty, who are also up.

Congratulations to all those who are nominated and good luck!

To see the full list of finalists, click here.

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager

Earn 10% commission on every sale with Thomas Lyte, an emerging luxury brand with a unique collection making waves in the press. Thomas Lyte has just launched their first affiliate program exclusively on the LinkShare UK network and I invite you to join the affiliate program here and make the most of their generous 10% commission rate.

Thomas Lyte is a modern, ethical, English luxury goods brand with an obsession for fine craftsmanship. Working with the finest leather and silver, the collection has evolved to feature chic and functional accessories, in a striking range of colours and displaying real attention to detail throughout.

Program Benefits:

• 10% commission on all sales referred from your site
• 45 Return Days
• High average order value of £120
• Very low return rate
• Commission payable on personalisation services
• New additions regularly added
• Free to join

Please feel free to contact affiliate@thomaslyte.com if you have any questions about the program.

Click here to apply to their affiliate program now!

Many thanks

Penny Mather, Marketing Manager